Unlike for black Africans, there was a sense of understanding for Caribbean inhabitants, because there was nothing unnatural in their way of living. ... Therefore, the negative attitude that Christians had towards black Africans came from the fact that the practice of circumcision labeled black Africans as ˜the enemy' " as there was a possibility that they were associated with the Jewish or Islam.16 Importance of religion in Europe played a major role in European's perception of non-Europeans. ... This Biblical reference most certainly influenced Columbus's percep...

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Enhanced perception of the Divine in all aspects of your life 3. ... Deeper sense of communion with the Divine Of course with any positive there is a negative. ... Only the strong willed ought to attempt intertwining this spiritual and sexual awareness; for it may prove detrimental to one's peace with their religion, their soul, and sense of self. ... Its participants use sex as a means of inducing an ecstatic trance state (meditation) which enhances their perception of the Divine and reduces or eliminates their sense of themselves as separate from the Divine. ...

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As a result, the overall opposition was reduced and there was a general perception of the acceptance of the death marches as a component of the relocation process. ... Some social theorists have argued that the narratives of the death marches, including the reflections outlined in Elie Wiesel's Night, often relate an initial sense of fear in the Jewish community, but not a fear that the end results of these marches would be the mass extermination of the population. It was not until individuals like Wiesel experienced the death marches and understood the kind of well-organized violence t...

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They say the Internet is global, and in the purely technological sense, it is. ... In fact, the diverse approaches to Internet development taken by various countries are, in part, a reflection of their perception (or at least their leaders' perception) that the Net is potentially an American Trojan horse seeking to pollute or to dominate their indigenous cultures. ...

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Officers do not have to learn selective perception, but it is important to perfect observation. Officers must learn perception from things that get your attention or seem to be out of place. The five senses also are the key elements of learning observation and perception. ... Perception and observation are essential in order to make a great patrol officer. ... Officers must be able to sense true reactions to a question. ...

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And though All Quiet on the Western Front may appear, at first glance, as a novel committed to revealing the senseless horrors of modern warfare with an extraordinary fierceness - indeed, it partly was - beneath the graphic prose resides a perception of World War I unprecedented for its time. ... As early as the 1870s, disruptions to the carefully calculated balance of power in Europe began to shift, with much of Europe embarking on a global scheme of Imperialism, fueled at least in part by a growing sense of Nationalism within the many countries of Europe. ... He loses all sense of securit...

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The trans-Atlantic slave trade was the largest long-distance coerced movement of people in history and, prior to the mid-nineteenth century, formed the major demographic well-spring for the re-peopling of the Americas following the collapse of the Amerindian population. Cumulatively, as late as 1820, nearly four Africans had crossed the Atlantic for every European, and, given the differences in the sex ratios between European and African migrant streams, about four out of every five females that traversed the Atlantic were from Africa. From the late fifteenth century, the Atlantic O...

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As a rule, Classicism can be characterized as an issue in writing, visual workmanship, music, or construction modeling that draws on the styles of antiquated Greece and Rome, particularly fifth- and fourth-century b.c.e. Athens and late Republican Augustan Rome. The term can be confounding, in light of the fact that it has tackled numerous different implications. It can allude to a general stylish portrayed by clarity, style, and symmetry, or to a style that is by and large considered epitomizing enormity or flawlessness. Case in point, the vast majority would distinguish the Boston Pops as en...

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U.S Foreign Policy Toward Jewish Refugees During 1933-1939 PART I HISTORICAL REVIEW AND ANALYSIS In reviewing the events which gave rise to the U.S.'s foreign policy toward Jewish refugees, we must identify the relevant factors upon which such decisions were made. Factors including the U.S. government's policy mechanisms, it's bureaucracy and public opinion, coupled with the narrow domestic political mindedness of President Roosevelt, lead us to ask; Why was the American government apathetic to the point of culpability, and isolationist to the point of ir...

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Nadel's article titled Witchcraft in Four African Societies: An Essay in Comparison (1952), he talks of how the Nupe have a concrete belief in witchcraft that include the perception of "witchcraft as unequivocally evil, as destroying life, mainly through mysterious wasting diseases, and as implying the power of witches to eat' the life-soul' of their victims- (p.18). ... The reason for this bias against women can be explained by the Nupe's lifestyle and their backward sense of normality of social roles. ...

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Introduction In this world of plurality and polivocality, it has become a challenge for both educators and learners to negotiate their voices and opinions on a number of things the way that they should move forward and hence give the pedagogy a go, keeping the tunnel open for any sort of heightened understanding between parties concerned. I, like others, in the same boat, feel the exigency of this orchestration, as I encounter the problems of differences in opinions between my students and me both inside and outside the classroom. Negotiating these differences between students and their teache...

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History Coursework - World War One 1) Sources A, B and C are war recruitment posters published by various governments with the aim of influencing more people to volunteer for armed service in the war. Sources A and B are an earlier type of source, depending on the patriotic fervour that swept Britain at the war's outset, portraying enlistment as a duty to the country and empire. The posters themselves being of an accusatory nature, demanding from the reader "What did you do in the war?" and that they should "Go!", the fighting taking a crusade-like facade in which the only way...

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A perception is growing that educational systems in many countries could better respond to the needs of labor markets, help economies to avoid skills gaps, and ensure that adequately trained human capital is available to support business activity as well as to develop innovative capacity and entrepreneurship. ...

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"Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires, as if one shouldn't trust the evidence of one's eyes watching the destruction and the misery and death brought by the latest mission of civilization"" (Edward W. Said, Orientalism). The term, "Orientalism," has been...

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For example, the long term tendency towards freer trade, electronic commerce and the seemingly uncontrollable power of deregulated capital markets do much to enhance the power of markets and create a sense of the economic irrelevance of national borders. ... Early definitions also demonstrated an optimistic, progressive, modernist teleology exemplified in Kenichi Ohmae's McKinseyesque cartography of a borderless world in which the nation state becomes increasingly irrelevant.6 Globalisation becomes a 'normalising discourse' of power conditioning the policy responses of governme...

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