How Do the Historical Notes Influence Our Interpretation of "A Handmaid's Tale"? ... He calls the "Underground Femaleroad" the "Underground Frailroad". ... This is similar to Pieixoto's prejudice left from Gilead. ... This is emphasised when he describes the "Mayday underground" and speaks of it respectfully probably because it was run by men, unlike its counterpart the "underground Femaleroad". ... We also get a strong sense of negativity towards the character Offred from Pieixoto at several points throughout the Historical Notes. ...

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They are attracting listeners from all over the world, hitting them from every angle. ... Other styles of hip hop include underground rap and country grammar rap. Underground rap is everywhere and is part of every style of hip hop. ... Underground rappers are known in their city mainly. For example, an underground rapper from Brooklyn might be real popular in Brooklyn, but people in Los Angeles will never know who that artist is. ...

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Moreover, I learned to love the special way to pronounce the words very far from that sounds out by north American speakers. ... Furthermore, London is so an accessible city that I could go from one place to another without much difficulty. Thanks to London Underground, it is easy to get around the city. London Underground Map can be picked up at any London Tube Station, and some of them illustrate many touristic places. It's not surprising to find it so crowded, visited not only by tourist but also by common people going and coming back from work every day. ...

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The "cost of producing non-renewable energy is low since they are naturally available," or abundant, making them cheaper to transform from one form of energy to another (Miller 352). ... To put things in perspective, "about 95% of the commercial energy used in the United States comes from nonrenewable energy sources," with 86% coming from fossil fuels alone (Miller 352). ... "Coal mining may result in underground fires that are virtually impossible to extinguish"(Enzler). These underground fires lead to degradation of habitat to much wildlife living with the area....

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He is deemed to die at an age of 30.This is what greatly influences him to go underground and also to assume the identity of Jerome who has been crippled in an accident. ... He has the notion that the erasing of his name from the pole will conceal his identity. ... More support of names and identity is also evident from the argument between Vincent and Jerome. ... (George, 178)The film notes that even if Jerome seems to be let down by his past memories, his genetic identity will still survive since he also goes into space. ... Later on, Vincent is branded the name 'Freeman' to indic...

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Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations or reading "Following the terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11th,where the Al-queda acquired bombmaking and terrorist Knowledge over internet,many lawmakers have proposed that an inernational body regulate the internet so that which provide information to terrorists could be eliminated" ,I completely agree with the lawmakers proposal and and shall present an argument favoring the lawmakers. ... Terrorists, for instance, can learn from the Internet a wide variety of details about tar...

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Historian Timothy Warnock notes, "Orville personally trained or oversaw the training on Huffman Prairie, Dayton, Ohio, of at least 115 individuals.... The impact only grew exponentially further from this point in time, with the erection of monuments in honor of the Wright brothers, the rapidly growing business of commercial flights, and specifically the induction of the Wright Flyer in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in 1948. ... It remained there in "the place of honour", except during World War II when it was moved to an underground vault 100 miles (160 km) from London...

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This desire to read may cause underground or illegal circulation of literature. ... The American Library Association sponsors Banned Book Week to make people aware of books that have been banned for containing violence, witchcraft, obscenities, sex, and many other reasons from schools and libraries (Banned Books Week). ... Holbrook Jackson notes, "Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice" (Quotes about Censorship). ...

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The first point he notes is that "improvements on the TAAS are not correlated to improvements on other standardized tests", moreover, "teachers were teaching them how to take the exam "(Boese). ... Boese extends his argument by noting that "if used differently the exams could be much more effective in meeting students' needs" "(Boese). ... A Toch and Wagner survey says "1 in 11 teachers reported pressure from administrators to cheat on standardized tests." ... In Kozol's article, "The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society"," Kozol's purpose was to educate and make aware to the ...

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Many people take very little note of Oscar Schindler. ... Oscar soon joined the local Nazi party to secure his orders from the factory. ... The Nazis sheltered no one from the sidewalk killings of Jewish children. Schindler wanted to protect as many jews as possible from the Nazis. ... He employed 1100 workers and saved all of them from the wrath of the death camps. ...

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The kind of relationship that Moira and Offred maintain from college onward does not exist in Gilead. ... These words suggest that Offred is not recounting events from afar, looking back on an earlier period in her life. Rather, she is describing the horror of Gilead as she experiences it from day to day. ... NOTE : Also mention how Offred is scared and will do anything desperately later on when the black van comes for her... ... Offred gets away with many infractions, including a secret liaison with the chauffeur, and covert chats with another handmaid, who is a member of the underground. ...

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The media can bring information from around the world as it happens. ... These notes could be traded in for gold or silver. ... The word Credit comes from Credo, which mean I promise. ... Paper documents are electronically stored on electronic files retrieved within minutes from an underground secure Internet Web server."" ... We as a society have learned from our mistakes. ...

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In the midst of the drug-infested punk rock underground scene of Washington, D.C. in the early 1980's, a band called "Minor Threat" emerged. ... If the music doesn't stand up to the expectations, however, it will be met with extreme punishment from today's straight edge population. ... On the same note, when they were asked what influenced their choice to become poison free, Evan stated "...I realized what a crappy choice drugs were... To keep younger people from being served alcohol, they would be identified at the entrance as either underage, or legal age. ... This, in its...

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The Fantastic Four was an unusual superhero group right from the beginning. ... Von Doom, suspicious of others, especially those near his own much-valued intelligence, interrupted Richards going over some of Von Doom's notes. Flying into a rage, Von Doom evicted him from his laboratory, and when Richards tried to warn him of a dangerous miscalculation, Von Doom ignored him. ... They replaced most or all of his memories with implants so to this day he doesn't know where he came from or how he got to the Weapon X program to begin with. ... Gambit did not realize that Sinister would emp...

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Loomis is a chemist from Ithaca, New York in the novel. ... He survived initially in the underground laboratory and because of human inventions, such as the safe suit and the plastic "polapoly". ... Ann can only escape from the clutches of him if she kills his dog Faro. ... In another of her plans she leaves a note for him, "I am tired of hiding. ... After these sources of distinct and conclusive evidence, it shows that Mr Loomis is a man who has suffered from insanity. ...

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The standard pentatonic blues scale always added the tritone, or flatted fifth, as the so-called 'blues note;' Sabbath simply extracted it and came up with one of the simplest yet most definitive heavy metal riffs of all time. ... Without warning in 1995, Headbanger's Ball was abruptly pulled off the air from MTV. ... Following the popularity of grunge, several subgenres of hard rock and metal continued to have an underground following to this day, although not at the level of success attained by Metallica, for example, in 1991 with the release of their fifth eponymous album (al...

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By depicting the character of invisibleness, Ellison pointed out that light bulbs that the narrator had used underground to compare with the invisibleness of characters. ... The invisible man first starts to undergo realizations of reality after he finished from the college and his arrival in New York. ... The narrator notes how the black drops spread out on the white paint saying, "I measured the glistening black drops, seeing them settle upon the surface and become blacker still, spreading suddenly out to the edges" (Ellison 200). ... With its location in the basement, the boiler room can h...

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