This alienation and misunderstanding of characters by others is a general feature in the Western genre of the hero or anti-hero type in these cases. ... However in The Searchers, the last shot shows a hesitant Ethan on the front porch torn between domestic life and the wilderness. ... There is also the theme of violence, which is a common theme in the Western genre. ... It is also the classic showdowns between good and evil, which is also a typical in Westerns. ... To conclude, Martin Scorsese's film, Taxi Driver not only deliberately invoked the codes and conventions of the Western genre...

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By late 1944, Germany had been pushed back to its borders by the Soviets in the East, and the Western Allies in the West and South. ... He chose the Western front for this offensive and selected the lightly defended area of the Ardennes Forest of the German border with France, Luxembourg, and Belgium. ... However, it still depended on the soldiers in the front line. ... They were fighting on stationary fronts for days and weeks on end without proper winter gear, little food, and low ammunition. ... The soldiers on the front line did not have nearly that much, and were also wet from melti...

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Other nations in the western hemisphere were also part of the target and felt the burden of this attack. ... By hurting the Western economies these attacks were a huge success for Al Qaeda. "A strategy of Al Qaeda is to hurt the Western world by attacking economic nodes and avenues of commerce. ... " (Nanto, 2004) However, to better understand the impact the attacks had on the global front, it is vital to keep in mind the historical and contemporary causes. ... However, it goes on to show that this was a simplistic view since there is little record of Madrassa graduates carrying ou...

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If we have a look at the actual events of the World War Two, we will see that the failure of the western allies to open the second front in 1942, despite the previous agreements on that issue, has cost great losses to Russia in peoples" lives and destroyed cities and villages on its territory. ... However, the West saw Soviet occupation in the Eastern Europe as an act of aggression and feared that Russia would go on and invade the Western Europe, that argument can be proved by the "long telegram" send by the US diplomat from Moscow: he argued that Russia would always look for the opportunity t...

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One influence he talks about is the Western diet. The Western diet is a term loosely defined as high in saturated fats, red meats, empty carbohydrates, and is low in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, seafood, and poultry. The Western diet has been linked to many diseases such as hypertension, heart disease, hypercholestolaemia, diabetes, obesity, and colorectal cancer. Pollan believes we should completely get rid of the Western diet and form new, better habits. ... Four specific causes found by him are first, time spent in front of the television means less time that children are out being ph...

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From watching the movie All Quiet on the Western Front I learned a lot about how bad the war really was for the soldiers sitting on the front line. ... Secondly, the conditions under which the soldiers were living on the front lines were hideous. ...

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Significantly, until the American "invasion" of what was to become the western portion of the United States, those lands were only sparsely populated by Native Americans. ... That is, the result of western expansion for all new territories was statehood, whether sooner or later. ... In a political cartoon from 1900, America is depicted as holding the key of "American Diplomacy" to the "Open Door" to China, and stands in front of the door while the other powers look on (Doc G). ... The idea of European imperialism making its way into the Western Hemisphere and threatening, for instan...

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. @ Vichy o Led by Marshall Henri Petain (WW1 war hero) May 26-June 4, 1940 Allies successfully evacuate 350,000 of the 400,000 trapped by the German defeat of France (blitzkrieg) o Among the evacuated is Charles De Gaulle Forms the basis for a Free French government-in-exile July 10, 1940 Beginning of the BATTLE OF BRITAIN o Hitler attempts to bomb England into submission in preparation for his planned invasion o After 6 months Hitler abandons his plans to invade due to his losses inflicted by the RAF o He mistakenly concentrated his air force upon London and other population...

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Then the article moves onto Putin by calling him a fool, "Do not underestimate how much of a fool Putin will make of himself in Crimea this weekend – in front of the whole world – and how much this will blow back on Russia, whose currency and stock markets are getting hammered as a result of Vladimir's Crimean adventure" (Friedman). ... "With Crimea's secession from Ukraine and its subsequent annexation by Russian, a similar situation has arisen Western analysts – who are often pro-Ukrainian – have overlooked the fact that, if anything, Crimea&...

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In Chile for example the popular front of 1938 led by the radical Pedro Aguirre Cedie decided that since most of the world had been hit by the great depression a new economic plan was needed in order to keep the economy afloat. ... There was also the problem of technology being brought from abroad which was based upon Western needs and economics. For example, if we take Western steel production which when brought up by the smaller Latin American countries they soon found themselves dealing with an industry which produced far too much product for their market. ...

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Then the article moves on to Putin by calling him a fool, "Do not underestimate how much of a fool Putin will make of himself in Crimea this weekend – in front of the whole world – and how much this will blow back on Russia, whose currency and stock markets are getting hammered as a result of Vladimir's Crimean adventure" (Friedman). ... Western analysts – who are often pro-Ukrainian – have overlooked the fact that, if anything, Crimea's legal and historical status makes it more apt for removal from its parent state than Kosovo" (Walker). ... Th...

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Then the article moves onto Putin by calling him a fool, "Do not underestimate how much of a fool Putin will make of himself in Crimea this weekend – in front of the whole world – and how much this will blow back on Russia, whose currency and stock markets are getting hammered as a result of Vladimir's Crimean adventure" (Friedman). ... "With Crimea's secession from Ukraine and its subsequent annexation by Russian, a similar situation has arisen Western analysts – who are often pro-Ukrainian – have overlooked the fact that, if anything, Crimea&...

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Huntington states the "most important conflicts of the future will occur along the cultural fault lines separating" (Huntington, 1993) what he identified as eight specific civilizations: "Western, Confucian, Japanese, Islamic, Hindu, Slavic-Orthodox, Latin American and African" (Huntington, 1993). ... Fourth, as the West, and America in particular, becomes more and more powerful, popular and elite, smaller nation-states without access to or a desire for Westernization react and try to nurture their local cultures and traditional identities, thus leading to non-Western habi...

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Log houses were common among Western and Southern Americans being that these houses were quickest and least laborious to build. ... Yet, despite the difference in size and value, the homes all shared a distasteful and bland front yard. The unfenced spaces in front of many dwellings were often times trampled on and bare, littered with uncut weeds. ...

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He made his money through the illegal sale of alcohol or "bootlegging" He learned the business form Dan Cody when he moved east from western United States. ... When Gatsby meets with Daisy, he wears his best outfit. . . . the front door opens nervously and Gatsby in a white flannel suit, silver shirt and gold colored tie hurried in.4 To Gatsby his clothes create a vision of power and happiness, that his money can buy. ... See how the whole front of it catches the light."5 he thinks that when Daisy see's his home that she will choose him over her husband , Tom. ...

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The fur trade was to be the beginning of something that would hit on more fronts than just the introduction of a nation wide business, but to be used as a tool in the convincing of the Native Americans to come and side with the U.S. as the British occupation in Northern Michigan was beginning to subside, and the beginning of the Canadian intervention in the influence of the Native Americans was beginning to start. ... Its minor interests were those of the fisheries of Lake Superior, the maple sugar industry, the lead trade, the sale of flour, and steam boating on the Western Waters (Nute 519)....

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" preached a crazy lady who lives on the rural Western Slope of Colorado. ... Movies like Wall-E depict people who abandoned Earth, on which they destroyed by polluting it so badly, now sit in a chair in front of a screen all day. ... With this technology in front of them, they aren't forced to be creative. ...

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In over 40 years as an artist, Joe had painted portraits, sports art, landscapes, still life, western art, cultural art, and comtempory southwestern art. Among his many exhibit shows, he is also the first Latino native to unveil a 6" x 8" painting in front of the Alamo depicting the Battle of the Alamo. ...

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On top of being a poor woman, social mobility puts even more obstacles in front of a poor minority woman, or any minority, for that matter. ... Studies have shown that American society tends to be even more unequal than most other Western societies. ...

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Following almost a century of alliance, Americans and Russians disagreement came to the front line when in 1917 the Communists seized power, and established the Soviet Union. ... The U.S. showed no remorse in its plan to end communism, especially when it entered the western hemisphere. ...

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Western culture imposes upon religious beliefs and the influence that the United States has through soft power creates animosity among these nations. ... The fact of the matter is that the EU does not possess the social cohesion that must be present to set a unified front to challenge the United States. ...

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The Gait twins, who grew up playing in western Canada, were lacrosse's first stars because they were the first to attract extensive fan and media attention. ... As Jim Huelskamp, author of Indoor Lacrosse and former MILL player, says, "the rush that players get playing in front of a full arena is payment enough". ...

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After his liberation Mandela traveled to Western governments, urging them to maintain economic sanctions against South Africa and to raise funds to help the ANC function as an "above-ground" political party. ... When the government restricted blacks from sitting at the front of buses, they became fed up and decided to take action, which initiated the bus boycott. ...

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In periods prior to the outbreak of hegemonic war, conflict has intensified because the contending parties have been at odds with one another on all fronts and have had few interests in common to moderate the antagonism. ...

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The performers were big bands, fronted by a charismatic bandleader, yet the success of a piece depended mostly on the unity of the ensemble as a whole, rather than on the showcasing of prodigious individuals. ... Instead of the traditional stressing of the first and third beat of a measure, as in traditional Western music, bop music stresses the second and fourth. ...

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