Ex parte Crow Dog‚ 109 U.S. 556 (1883)‚ is a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States that followed the death of one member of a Native American tribe at the hands of another on reservation land. Crow Dog was a member of the Brulé band of the Lakota Sioux. On August 5‚ 1881 he shot and killed Spotted Tail‚ a Lakota chief; there are different accounts of the background to the killing. The tribal council dealt with the incident according to Sioux tradition‚ and Crow Dog paid restitution to
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Dear Alex‚Thank you for writing me with regard to the issue of giving your ex - boyfriend a second chance or not. According to your letter‚ you and your ex - boyfriend were really in love since you two both decided to move together from L.A. to San Francisco for school. However‚ your relationship was broke up but you didn ’t mention in your letter what causes this. So I assume that your ex - boyfriend cheated on you and you no longer want to keep the relationship and decided to break up with him
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Most people would define a great female protagonist as intelligent‚ strong minded and willing to fight for what she believes in. Both Bernarda Alba from Federico Garcia Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba and Medea by Euripides fit this description. One is a tyrannical mother who imposes her choices on her five daughters‚ the other is arguably the strongest non-Olympian woman in all of Greek mythology. If we take a closer look‚ we notice that these two characters have many things in common. From their
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This article‚ written by Shanara R. Reid‚ discusses the over-sexualization of women in rap/hip hop songs and music videos‚ and the possible social causes of this. It has become apparent nowadays that women are heavily degraded in all kinds of media in order to appeal to the male viewing audience. Scantily clad women partaking in provocative dance routines and actions has become a norm of music videos. Machismo ideals that stress the extreme superiority of men over women and encourage the representation
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the two culture’s forms of theatre. One of the major differences is the way in which their stages were structured. Greek stages had round orchestras‚ a very thin proskenium where the actors would perform‚ and a small one story skene where the deus ex machina occurred. Roman stages‚ however‚ had half circle orchestras‚ a wider and raised proskenium‚ and a multi-storied skene that was utilized during performances as a set piece. Another major difference between the two forms of theatre was the genres
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witches play the part of deus ex machina. Deus ex machina is an outside force that moves the play along and with out it would not have a plot or would be unable to continue the plot. Aristotle says that his definition of a tragedy cannot include deus ex machina‚ ’The plot must be “complete‚” having “unity of action.” ... bound together by internal necessity‚ each action leading inevitably to the next with no outside intervention‚ no deus ex machina’ (McManus) Without deus ex machina it would be impossible
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Outline the main changes the paramount decree effected on the structure of the American film industry and discuss the measures the ex-studios took to remain in control of the film market. The period of the 1920’s to 1950’s where known as the studio era in Hollywood. A few major companies monopolized the industry through vertical integration when the film companies controlled all production distribution and exhibition. The majors determined which movies were shown in which theatres‚ choosing their
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Before the film even starts it is made abundantly clear that City of God is a transnational film via the use of its opening credit sequence. Not only are there are a multitude of production companies and distributors attached to the film‚ but probably more pertinent is the fact that the first to be highlighted is that of Miramax Films – a ‘North’ American founded company. This association with ‘North’ America early on is an obvious allusion to the fact that the film is transnational. However for
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Many stories‚ especially in the fantasy genre‚ feature an object or objects with some great power. Often what drives the plot is the hero’s need to find the object before the villain and use it for good rather than evil‚ or if the object has been broken by the villains‚ to retrieve each piece that must be gathered from each antagonist to restore it‚ or‚ if the object itself is evil‚ to destroy it. In some cases destroying the object will lead to the destruction of the villain.[according to whom?]
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an adventure with thirteen dwarves and a wizard named Gandalf to retake the Lonely Mountain from the greedy dragon Smaug. Many forms of literary elements appear in this book such as conflict‚ character archetypes‚ artifacts of attraction‚ and deus ex machina.. These elements work together to create a detailed fantasy world which many people enjoy. The main theme of this book is an “everyman” (Bilbo) can develop into a hero when he is thrust into extraordinary circumstances. The first literary
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