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    Native American Genocide

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    committed on the Sioux Indians can be deemed genocidal for a number of reasons‚ they might not have been acting on the basis to destroy the culture and the people of the Lakota Sioux yet it was the inevitable outcome. By default the members of the 7th Cavalry and United States Federal Government have committed acts of genocide on the Lakota Sioux Indians. The intermitted war between the Unites States and the Plains Indians stretches across three decade of brutal struggles according to Charles Phillips

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    The Lady or the Tiger

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    accused to a crime. It is the King’s semibarbaric method of justice. The accused is given the privileged to select one of the two doors. Behind one door was a tiger that would devour and tear into pieces the guilty and behind the other was a beautiful maiden who would marry the innocent. The semibarbaric King had a semibarbaric daughter who fell in love with a young brave and handsome man. The young man was just a commoner and the King was not pleased about it when he found out their relationship‚ so

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    Erotic Love in the Iliad

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    love is responsible for starting the rage of Achilles. Agamemnon demands Achilles’ concubine Brisies for himself in exchange for returning his maiden Chryseis to her father Chryses in order to end the plague set upon the Achaean army. Agamemnon and Achilles‚ two of the best Achaean warriors‚ came extremely close to battling each other over these stolen maidens – a fight driven by erotic love that could have divided the Greek army. Furthermore‚ Helen contributes significantly to the theme of erotic

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    This is a famous battle that was fought between the U.S. Cavalry led by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and the northern tribe Indians‚ including the Cheyenne‚ Sioux and Arapaho. The battle occurred on 25th and 26th of June the year 1876 and is also referred to as The Battle of Little Big Horn. Ever since the discovery of gold on the Native American lands‚ the tension between the two groups rose leading to rivalry. When a number of tribes missed a federal deadline to move to reservations

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    Lumawig's Travel

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    the noise she hears beneath the heavens that disturb them day and night. Kabunyan‚ their father‚ was convinced to let them go down to earth but with a mission to teach the people of his will. BANGAN ID BAGILOTA (MAIDEN OF THE EARTH) This depicts the story of a beautiful maiden named Bangan who is well-known all over mountain land and nearby lowlands and her marriage to Lumawig. It relates the teachings of Lumawig and Bangan from the eastern to western tribes and the dispensing of punishment

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    WE WERE SOLDIERS ONCE ... AND YOUNG PROLOGUE. In thy faint slumbers I by thee have watch ’d And heard thee murmur tales of iron wars ... -Shakespeare‚ Henry IV‚ Pan One‚ Act II‚ Scene 3 This story is about time and memories. The time was 1965‚ a different kind of year‚ a watershed year when one era was ending in America and another was beginning. We felt it then‚ in the many ways our lives changed so suddenly‚ so dramatically‚ and looking back on it from a quarter-century gone we are left in

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    The Wife of Bath

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    The Wife of Bath Prologue and Tale In The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer‚ The Wife of Bath seems to be one of the more cheerful characters on the pilgrimage. She has radical views about women and marriage in a time when women were expected to be passive toward men. There are many things consistent between The Wife of Bath’s prologue and her tale. The most obvious similarity that clearly shows the comparison between the prologue and the tale is dominance of both women over their husbands

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    intensity that occurs during the play‚ the stage directions are paramount in keeping the reader on their toes. Dorfman commonly utilizes these cues throughout Death and the Maiden to mirror the development of the protagonist‚ Paulina‚ the implication of tone and mood‚ and the understanding of the timeframe and setting of Death and the Maiden. The use of stage directions permits the reader to develop a bigger picture about Paulina’s personality through her actions. In the opening scene of Act I‚ Paulina

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    The issue of racial stereotyping in cinema has largely been discussed by critics over the course of cinematic history. The negative portrayal of the Native American‚ for example‚ is rampant in the early Western film genre. Native Americans are‚ more often than not‚ portrayed as vicious savages‚ hell-bent on senselessly scalping and murdering as many ‘innocent’ (white?) American settlers as possible. Individuals of a darker skin colour‚ such as the African American‚ are also victims of negative stereotyping

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    person. She knew the young maiden behind the door‚ and had often seen her staring at the peasant with looks of admiration. It also says‚ in the story’s own words‚ that the Princess‚ “...with all the intensity of the savage blood transmitted to her through long lines of wholly barbaric ancestors‚ hated the woman who blushed and trembled behind that silent door.” And we know that she dreamed about what it would be like if the peasant opened the door and out came the maiden. “How in her grievous reveries

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