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    2015 Progress Progress takes time. Progress helps people change for the better‚ as a whole individual‚ nation‚ or even world. Progress is the change that we want to see ourselves’s and in the world. We do not know what change will bring and when it will happen‚ but we do know that progress is our favorite challenge. Now as we live in a world with infinite history‚ we do not reach for a finite end; we constantly pursue improvements to which there is no limit. In the course of doing so‚ progress has

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    Political Theory and Gatsby In his article "’A New World‚ Material Without Being Real’: Fitzgerald’s Critique of Capitalism in The Great Gatsby‚" Ross Posnock establishes Fitzgerald’s interest in Marxism by placing him as a Nietzschean Marxist and contemporizing him with Georg Lukacs’s History and Class Consciousness‚ printed in 1923‚ and with Marx’s theories by extension‚ attempting to "demonstrate how deeply Marx’s critique is assimilated into the novel’s imaginative life‚" although he is careful

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    Repressed Free Thinking In Between 1960 and 1980 most of Europe and Russia wasn’t a good place to be. There were tensions and fears brought on by the Cold War. People were not allowed to freely think and express their opinions from behind the Iron Curtain. There was also an extreme lack of Human Civil Rights under Joseph Stalin’s rule and several years after. Furthermore it’s clear why the Soviet Union wasn’t a good place to live if you were a free thinking human being. A notable event during

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    The Struggle Was Real Lord of the Flies‚ contains some of the best examples of a person seeking power over others‚ that I have seen so far. In the novel‚ Jack Merridew struggles to gain power over his peers while Ralph gets it handed to him on a silver platter. Merridew has many great qualities that would make him a very good leader‚ but he isn’t very likeable‚ therefore he spends the entire book hating Ralph and‚ eventually‚ making his own civilization. As soon as Jack was standing in front of

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    Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction of an ethnic‚ racial‚ religious or national group. It is a form of mass killing intended to entirely eliminate certain groups defined by the perpetrator. Discrimination‚ and the idea that one group is superior to another‚ leads (maybe not directly) to genocide. The real question is: why do we as humans discriminate against or hate particular sections of the population? In a 1921 article‚ author Francis Edward Clark‚ on the subject of prejudice

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    I personally do not think the world will ever com to a point where there is racial and social equality. The world will always have people who do not think that everyone is equal and treat them harshly and get others to do the same‚ it is a fact of life and sadly they tend to succeed. In fox news there is a report about women who were on a train‚ ten were black one was white. They had gathered on a trip to Napa so they could discuss a romance novel. A women had came in and told them to be quiet because

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    The feminist breakthrough during the 1960s and 1970s saw many feminist artists liberating women as they began to explore the female body and use it as a site of resistance in their art‚ leaving behind a legacy that many contemporary feminist artists still follow today. The 1960s was a time of great change for women as everything began to change socially‚ politically and culturally. The Pill had been approved and the sexual revolution had begun. Women began to fight for many things in their art‚ taking

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    The civil rights movement was a struggle for social justice. The movement took place during the 1950’s and 1960’s for African Americans to gain equal rights under the law in the United Sates. The Civil War‚ which took place from 1861 to 1865‚ had officially abolished slavery. The war abolished slavery but couldn’t end the discrimination the African Americans faced in the United Sates. They continue to undergo the devastating effects of racism. By mid to late-20th century‚ African Americans had had

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    In the Korean war‚ North Korea invaded the South so that they could have all of Korea. The South was struggling to keep the North out so the UN came in to help and fight. The UN pushed the North back to their side of the 38th parallel but decided while they are doing so good they would wipe out communism there. The UN started to push the North very far back on their side but this set of China’s alarm and China sent thousands of troops over to fight the UN. The UN and China came to a stalemate a little

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    Hannah McKown Hannah.McKown@tulsacc.edu English 1230‚ 290 10 June 2013 Collier Explain Irony Until We Meet Again By using Situational and Verbal Irony‚ John Collier’s short story‚ “The Chaser” illustrates the unrealistic expectations of youth compared to mature and realistic expectation of an adult. The young man‚ Alan Austen‚ is deeply in love with Diana and wishes to possess her completely. With age and experience‚ the old man knows this is not a scenario in which love can flourish and

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