Bicycles Thieves (1948) represents one of the most important films of Italian neorealism. Through a simple story (a man with his son searches his stolen bicycle, extremely important for his survival) the film became a parable about the difficulties and the problems which afflicted Italy during the post-war period. ... Initially, it is important to make a short introduction about Italian neorealism and its aspects. ... This dramatic climax of the story confirms an unnatural succession of events, which were carefully studied in pre-production." ... Therefore Rome was not just a simple location, ...

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I will try to tackle in the next few pages what I think it is a major event of the XXI century, a clash of titans I may say, a slumber, ravaged Russian "Empire " that seeks to recover from its centenary sleep and on the other side a divided alliance trying to put back the pieces that once made it the equal of its enemy and by now you might have guessed to whom I refer, NATO. ... In the end it seems that we go back to where we left it in regards to the Cold War. ... It is most likely that if treated with superficiality this will end up like the Libyan crisis, a country in civil war so this is w...

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These events, and the British responses to them, formed the conflict known to Westerners as the Indian Mutiny. ... Finally, the British enjoyed several important material advantages – logistical and military - over the rebels which allowed them to reestablish the British Raj in India. ... Most importantly, despite rumours in British primary sources of plots in the Bombay and Madras armies, neither of the other two presidential armies mutinied. ... Despite the wishful thinking of Bahadur Shah's proclamation of August 1857, which implied the unity of the rebels against the British, ...

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In order to assess Billig's evaluation and critique of social identity theory it is important to understand exactly what Tajfel and Turner proposed as one of the most influential theories in modern European social psychology on group identity and conflict. ... Tajfel and Turner's social identity theory was set against the backdrop of post war Europe where theorists such as Asch (1954 cited in Brown 2007) argued that groups were a negative force which affected otherwise rational individual behaviour which ultimately lead to conflict. ... This is what we know today as social identity t...

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An important factor to consider is each party's focus on social issues and how they have affected voting, issues such as defense, terrorism and interest rates have generally worked in the Coalitions favor whereas issues such as health, education, privatization and the environment have benefited Labor. ... The media has been a key factor in motivating and influencing political behaviour in the masses since the Second World War. ... The third point is the most important because it assesses the nature of politics on the voters social behaviour or vice versa, an identification with a politic...

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An important event of the contemporary history of this long conflict was the beginning of the al-Aqsa intifada or second intifada in December of 2000, "second national revolt in less than a decade" (Dolphin 1), which was a far more violent and long-lasting confrontation than the first intifada. ... As response of many disastrous events derivatives from the second intifada, The Israeli government took action starting to build what they called "Security Fence" in June 2002. ... In addition to the settlements within the city, Israeli settlements have been built within the Wes...

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Even by trying to correct the lack of skilled workers through mobilization measures, the labour reserve of the GDR was behind the demand of the East German national economy, and, most importantly, far behind the economy of the competing Federal Republic of Germany (FRG). ... However, it was not only Vietnam's lower level of development which lead to the cooperation between both states, but also the political system was much less distinct as Vietnam was just in the process of recovering from its recent war with the USA. ... Likewise these workers were seen as an important source of income ...

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And increasingly after the War of 1812, government policy seemed to combine the worst of both old and new, favoring the kinds of centralized, broad constructionist, top-down forms of economic development that many thought would aid men of established means while deepening inequalities among whites. Numerous events during and after the misnamed Era of Good Feelings "among them the neo-Federalist rulings of John Marshall's Supreme Court, the devastating effects of the panic of 1819, the launching of John Quincy Adams's and Henry Clay's American System "confirmed a growin...

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British and French officials became more concerned with urban development during and after the war, especially in efforts to create a stable and docile urban workforce. ... To the British, French, and Germans, the primary colonizing nations, the individual needs of their colonial subjects were not important. ...

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Rather the basis of the relationship was a deep affectionate bond between mother and child, which itself becomes an important part of personality. ... Unlike Horney whose work was primarily based on clinical observation of her own patients and the data and case studies she developed, Bowlby's work was developed via his studies of children taken from their parents during the war or due to hospital confinement. ... In terms of the impact of disturbed relationships on personality, it is important to understand that Horney's view was that a child's perception of events, as opposed t...

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