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    “The Meanings of Freedom” – Leif Wenar is an essay that responds that G.A. Cohen’s concept on “freedom” by saying that it is not always accurate. Cohen’s main claim is that the lack of money and poverty carries with it lack of freedom. In this paper‚ Wenar discusses the further analysis of the meanings of “freedom” as it relates to ordinary usage‚ interference‚ and what counts as unfreedom. Wenar explains that though there are different meanings of “freedom‚” smooth communication occurs when the

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    In “Always Running”‚ a former gang member named Luis J. Rodriguez writes about his rough past. He joined his first gang when he was eleven years old‚ and saw many of his friends die one-by-one as a result of the dangers of being in a gang in east L.A. This broke him down and made him weak‚ but he had no one to share his emotions with which resulted in his joining of a gang. He killed an innocent man for the sake of being in a gang‚ spent several months in prison‚ and participated in numerous shootings

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    ‘Interpreter of Maladies’ explores how one culture adapts to living with another.’ Discuss. In Jhumpa Lahiri’s short story collection ‘Interpreter of Maladies’‚ the writer silhouetted the adaption of one culture to live within another in the form of allowing differences to exist and reaching a compromise. Lahiri drew the readers into the witness of different people battling with the obstacles they encounter. While some people like Mrs Sens‚ fell to the abysm of culture-displacement because of

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    ‘Our sense of self is very vulnerable to external pressures’ In everyday life‚ humans are surrounded with pressures that can influence the formation of their identity. External pressures such as the environment we live in‚ the culture we belong to and the presence of other people‚ are often uncontrollable and can have a crucial impact on our sense of self. This idea is explored in great depth in Ray Lawler’s classic Australian play‚ “The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll”‚ where it is reflected how

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    the sense that he chooses to detach himself from both the forest and court. * Essentially‚ he acts on his potential to challenge social normalcy and the status quo by rendering himself devoid of any affiliation to these communities‚ instead belonging to a ‘melancholy of my own.’ In doing so‚ he is minutely fastidious in the way in which he examines and scrutinizes the human condition; thus‚ by challenging these groups and

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    Donnie Darko Belonging

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    Belonging is a perception shaped within personal‚ social‚ cultural and historical context. While to most the concept only includes acceptance and harmony‚ there can be two sides to belonging‚ and Donnie Darko explores this idea through its characters and their context in the film. Donnie Darko is set against the backdrop of the 1988 Bush vs. Dukakis Presidential election; it represents 1980’s conservative America through the last 28 days‚ 6 hours‚ 42 minutes and 12 seconds of Donnie Darko’s life

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    In the novel where a character named Keith who had always seemed to adopt a ‘Domineering’ persona against ‘Stephen’ who was a vulnerable young child with little social interest at school. Keith may have adopted this persona from his father who was ignorant of his son and only had seemed to communicate with

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    SQL Server 2012 provides everything you need to address availability and reliability of data at every level of the enterprise – at the right price and at the right time. What’s New in SQL Server 2012 Help reduce planned and unplanned downtime with the new integrated high availability and disaster recovery solution‚ SQL Server AlwaysOn. Simplify deployment and management of high availability requirements using integrated configuration and monitoring tools. Improve IT cost efficiency and performance

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    It is through the primal instinct of belonging in humanity that individuals will always strive to belong to someone or something at every stage in their life. Through these interconnections within the world a person will experience belonging as a multifaceted concept in that it will transpire in many various ways specific to each individual. Inclusion and exclusion can at lengths dictate the identity and notions of self for an individual both positively and negatively. Through the texts “As You like

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    Belonging Creative

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    change having a younger sibling but I didn’t realise what it meant to have a sibling in the first place. I became fond of my baby brother before I realised it myself. I had my brother seated over my shoulder where he was able to enjoy the view. He always was overjoyed whenever I would had him over my neck. I was walking with him over my neck when the pain seared through my neck which resulted in me picking him up and placing him onto my lap. I was feeding my brother milk when I heard my mum calling

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