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    It is the basic crux of Christianity: Man is born a sinner. Throughout history‚ the nature of sin has seen many different faces and has changed to fit many different social expectations. As Bartleby the angel laments in the movie Dogma‚ “I remember when eating meat on Friday was supposed to be a Hell-worthy trespass.” His friend Loki counters with the observation that‚ “The major sins never change.” Although the list of the Seven Deadly Sins is never mentioned in the Bible‚ the concept has existed

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    Comedy and Tragedy | |       Comedy     According to Aristotle (who speculates on the matter in his Poetics)‚ ancient comedy originated with the komos‚ a curious and improbable spectacle in which a company of festive males apparently sang‚ danced‚ and cavorted rollickingly around the image of a large phallus.  (If this theory is true‚ by the way‚ it gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "stand-up routine.")     Accurate or not‚ the linking of the origins of comedy to some sort of phallic

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    The Mad Hatter is one of the only characters to appear in both Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass where he appears as Hatta. Hatta is both very similar and very different to the Hatter just as Alice is very different from her Wonderland self. Everything in Wonderland is composed of pieces of Alice’s personality‚ “the dream that nearly obliterates her is composed of fragments of her own personality” (Auerbach 318). Since this is true every character in the Alice books is a reflection

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    "Fecal Matter" redirects here. For the American grunge band‚ see Fecal Matter (band). Not to be confused with facies. Not to be confused with excretion. Elephant feces Cyclosia papilionaris consuming bird droppings Feces‚ faeces‚ or fæces (see spelling differences)‚ also known as excrement‚ is a waste product from an animal’s digestive tract expelled through the anus or cloaca during a process called defecation. Contents [hide] 1 Etymology 2 Ecology 3 Human feces 4 Odor 5 Pets

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    Dirty Realism “Dirty Realism” is described as a North American literary movement which can be traced in the 1970s-80s. According to this movement the narrative is stripped down to its fundamental features. It is actually a writing style which originated in the US and depicts in great detail the seamier or more mundane aspects of ordinary life. The term was coined by Bill Buford of Granta magazine. It formed the title of the Summer 1983 edition of Granta magazine for which Buford also gave an explanatory

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    In an arm-chair‚ with an elbow resting on the table and her head leaning on that hand‚ sat the strangest lady I have ever seen‚ or shall ever see. She was dressed in rich materials‚—satins‚ and lace‚ and silks‚—all of white. Her shoes were white. And she had a long white veil dependent from her hair‚ and she had bridal flowers in her hair‚ but her hair was white. Some bright jewels sparkled on her neck and on her hands‚ and some other jewels lay sparkling on the table. Dresses‚ less splendid

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    Flat 19 2a Victoria Street Bristol Foyer Bristol BS1 6DT 20th January 2013 CEO‚ Dreams Plc.‚ Knaves Beech‚ High Wycombe‚ Bucks‚ HP10 9YU Dear Dreams‚ This letter is to formally complain about the poor Customer Service I have received from the Dreams Team via Phone‚ and to make known the poor organisational problems of your company. On the 7th December 2012‚ I ordered a “Vienna D Ottoman” with a “Mistral D Mattress” to be delivered on the 21st December 2012. Upon attempted

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    Pip was never a child. He was treated harshly from before he could remember‚ his sister often beat him. He had one friend‚ one person who he looked up to and admired. Joe‚ Joe was Pip’s best friend. He was a great model for Pip if only Pip would act like him. In the Book “Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens the main character was a child who had not had a childhood. “We were equals afterwards‚ as we had been before; but‚ afterwards at a quiet times when i sat looking at Joe

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    Hannah A. Mercado IV Narra Literature Alice in Wonderland is a renown classic written by Lewis Carroll from 1865. While on a boat party‚ Lewis told tales to three children for entertainment. One of the children‚ Alice‚ was enamored by the story and requested that he write it down. This is what inspired the story. It is whimsical and caters to children’s delight and to some readers it is confusing at most. To better understand the tale‚ we will breakdown Alice’s character as an archetypal hero.

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    of Catch-Up”’‚ in Political Studies 42 (4). Hutton‚ W Kavanagh‚ D. (1997). The Reordering of British Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Le Grande‚ J. (1982). The Strategy of Equality. London: Allen & Unwin. Le Grande‚ J. (1997). ‘Knights‚ knaves or pawns? Human behaviour and social policy’‚ in Journal of Social Policy. 26 (2)‚ pp. 149-169. Lund‚ B Mandelson‚ P. (1997). Labour’s Next Steps: Tackling Social Exclusion. London: Fabian Society. Miliband‚ D. (ed.). (1994). Reinventing The Left

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