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    Who were the Iroquois tribes? There were five tribes in the original Iroquois Confederacy: the Mohawk‚ Seneca‚ Oneida‚ Onondaga‚ and Cayuga tribes. Later a sixth nation‚ the Tuscarora tribe‚ joined the confederation. - How was the Iroquois Confederacy organized? The Iroquois Confederacy‚ also known as the Iroquois League‚ was governed by the Iroquois Great Council. Each Iroquois nation sent between eight and fourteen leaders to the Great Council‚ where they agreed on political decisions

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    Breaking Down "The Metamorphosis" Franz Kafka’s beginning of his novel‚ "The Metamorphosis‚" begins with what would seem a climactic moment: "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect." From this point on‚ the reader is determined to make sense of this transformation. However‚ the reader later comes to realize that Gregor is actually not an insect‚ but this metamorphosis into a vermin was purely symbolic. It symbolizes

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    He starts off the movie as a work emerged employee of FedEx‚ having time for nothing else due to his strenuous business schedule‚ traveling the world. Beginning as stressed and overwhelmed‚ he gradually evolves‚ later victimized in a plane crash in the ocean. He then washes

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    To walk away or not to walk away‚ that is the question. Those who walk away from Omelas obviously disagree on moral values (on some level) with those who stay in Omelas. Those who walk away disagree with the price the town pays for happiness. They do not want to destroy the town’s utopia but at the same time they do not want to be a part of that system. Those who walk away from Omelas are not Ethical Relativists because they disagree with the town’s (that culture’s) moral philosophy. Ethical Relativists

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    An Anaylysis of Cast Away

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    An Analysis of Cast Away Gina M. Orlando ENG225: Introduction to Film (GSJ1115D) Instructor: Sharon Hanscom April 29‚ 2011 An Analysis of Cast Away In the 2000 film‚ Cast Away starring Tom Hanks as Chuck Noland‚ as a “FedEx systems engineer whose ruled-by-the-clock existence abruptly ends when a harrowing plane crash leaves him isolated on a remote island” (Washington Post‚ 2000). Through analysis of this film‚ we explore how Chucks’ consistent existence in everyday life is dramatically

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    of Spirited Away Spirited Away is an anime movie from Hayao Miyazaki‚ one of the greatest Japanese animation directors. His movies are full of imaginations‚ thoughtful messages‚ and they always have a happy ending. Spirited Away is not an exception. It is a great anime movie that will take viewers on a journey beyond their imagination with a very beautiful ending‚ and it also contains a meaningful message about the relationship between human and the nature. Spirited Away is about the

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    worth the fight. For workaholic FedEx troubleshooter Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks)‚ the drive that kept him up until the end was hope. The hope to return to his old life‚ to be back together with his long time sweetheart Kelly Frears (Helen Hunt). The movie Cast Away (2000) – in which Robert Zemeckis had directed in it – had shown perfectly a goal-driven kind of journey. They managed to emphasize how much Chuck wants to see Kelly again‚ through a long series of scenes previewing Chuck’s battle against the

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    Far And Away Analysis

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    Far and Away successfully conveyed American society for immigrants in the 1890s by including realistic push and pull factors‚ the lure of advertisements‚ the diversity in immigrants‚ ethnic neighborhoods‚ and differences between the aristocrats and the poor. In Far and Away‚ Joseph Connelly faced poverty and inadequacy in land. When his father died‚ the audience learned that he and his brothers were left with all of their father’s debt. Because the rent wasn’t paid‚ the house was burned down‚ leaving

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    world. The director Miyazaki Hayao‚ cooperating with Japanese soundtrack master Joe Hisaishi‚ successfully links his “fairy tale” to the real world life in our modern society via a combination of music and the scene in the film. The music in Spirited Away significantly provides the audience with the inner world of the characters and the feelings of how the characters perceive their surroundings. The music in the scene “The Sixth Station” expresses a strong spiritual longing for home and love‚ which

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    Developement ‚ 414-418. Freed‚ C. (2007). Addiction Medicine and Addiction Psychiatry in America: The Impact of Physicians in Recovery on the Medical Treatment of Addiction. Contemporary Drug Problems ‚ 111-135. Harvard Health Publication . (2011). Why is Breaking Free of Addiction so Tough? Retrieved 12 2012‚ from helpguide.org: http://www. health.harvard.edu/special_health_reports/overcoming-addiction-paths-toward-recovery Leshner‚ A Melemis‚ D. S. (2012‚ March 26). The Genetics of Addiction . Retrieved

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