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    Dr. King Schultz’s first encounter with Django is when Django is carried in chains by the slave traders. At first‚ Schultz does not really know which one of the slaves he is looking for. But soon it becomes clear who Django is. Moreover‚ at the beginning‚ Schultz of course does not care for Django as a person; he only needs the black man’s help to find the brothers he is in search of‚ as Schultz does not know what they look like. Therefore‚ without Django’s help‚ he would not be able to fulfill his

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    Cross-Cultural Encounter in Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s The River Between ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- W. Shivnarayan Assistant Professor of English‚ LDM College‚ Parli Vaijnath 431515 India ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ INTRODUCTION In The River Between‚ Ngugi critically examines and evaluates‚ primarily through the aspect of Christianity the cultural clash

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    In the third section of John McPhee’s Encounters with the Archdruid‚ the author observes the discourse between conservationist David Brower and Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation‚ Floyd Dominy‚ on the merits of dams in the southwestern United States. Brower "hates all dams‚ large and small‚" while Dominy sees dams as essential to our civilization. The Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell‚ which Dominy created‚ are the main issue of debate between the two men. Floyd Dominy graduated from the University

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    nightgown‚ a screeching is heard as knives are scratched against the pipes. The combination of reality into the movie made it a more nerve-racking experience. In Stephen King’s‚ “My Creature from the Black Lagoon‚” he tells a moment of his life as a child being forever changed by the viewing of the movie‚ The Creature from the Black Lagoon. King expresses that “kids

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    1. The rich people of Fall River‚ Massachusetts‚ lived on a hill above the less wealthy people who lived below the hill and by the river. 2. Andrew Borden became wealthy‚ because he was a banker. Unlike the other Bordens‚ he was miser‚ living below his means. 3. Lizzie Borden needs to get a husband‚ because in the 1890’s women in their 30’s married and had children. She also‚ wanted to live among the elite. Neither of these could happen if her parents were alive. 4. The police strategies/policies

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    Strange New Land‚ offers a seemingly vast view of the presence of African Americans in present day North America. Mr. Wood describes the harsh and often brutal fate of African Americans during the colonization of America. Exploring Chapter 1‚ allowed me to view the way different cultures took advantage of not only African Americans‚ but Native Americans as well. Native Americans were invaded by Spanish settlers‚ taken into slavery and forced to live with harsh living conditions. Settlers exposed

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    In the presentation today we saw Logan Timothy Phillips‚ as slam poet from Tucson ‚Arizona. He was born April 7‚1983. He wrote a book “Sonoran Strange”. He is a NAU alumni. He read a couple of poems but the first one was about himself and that he shared that he didn’t write much about himself and that was out of his comfort zone. He shared his personal experience at NAU when he attended and how his career developed. He put himself out there and overcame his fear. In first poem that he read he stated

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    The Native American ’s encounters with European colonists led to different interactions between the two‚ as well as a development of varied relationships. America had been home to Native Americans since around 13‚000 B.C. The Europeans arrived in America around 1492 to find that the land was already inhabited. Before the Europeans arrived‚ the Native Americans had lived in harmony with nature and with each other in communities‚ having strong family ties. When the Europeans arrived‚ they held different

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    "Strange Objects" by Gary Crew gives the reader the ability to think about many aspects of the novel in an abstract way. If read with an open mind‚ the reader can uncover many secrets of the novel‚ as well as some of the themes which the author would like you to discover. The plot‚ characterization‚ setting and conflict help to show the theme of ’history repeating itself ’. This is portrayed in the novel through what happened to Jan Pelgrom in the past‚ repeating itself with Steven Messenger in

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    In “My Creature From the Black Lagoon”‚ Stephen King compares and contrasts how children and adults handle fear‚ specifically in movies. His main argument is that the fear experienced by both adults and children is the result of a focus on the movie in which all emotions are fixated on the movies‚ and there is no logical thinking of the unrealism. In other words‚ their fixation allows for their imagination to dominate. However‚ the detachment varies from among children and adults. Children are easily

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