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    Exit Pursued by a Bear

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    it would have had to be a man in a costume‚" Mowat says. -In Elizabethan England‚ bears were familiar creatures. Men wagered on bear-baiting contests. Bears symbolized anger and tyranny; some likened them to the king. Some think the bear represents Leonte’s position in the play as he destroys his wife and child’s life out of irrational anger. Though Shakespeare’s odd stage direction involving a bear is the most famous‚ it was not the first‚ Mowat says. In Mucedorus‚ a romance originally performed

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    Conflict Theory A. What is Conflict Theory? Farley (2000:73) contends that conflict theory arose primarily from the work of Marx and was continued in the work of C Wright Mills and Ralf Dahrandorf. The general underlying assumption associated with conflict theory is that society is made up of groups with competing self-interests. Often the competing groups have unequal power. People compete for resources that are in scarce supply. Generally‚ the resources that are in short supply involve wealth

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    Planes‚ Trains and Automobiles. Hollywood‚ CA: Paramount‚ 2000. Farley‚ Chris‚ et al. Tommy Boy. Widescreen. Hollywood‚ CA: Paramount‚ 2002. Galifianakis‚ Zach‚ et al. The Hangover. 2-disc digital copy special ed. ; Unrated. Burbank‚ CA: Distributed by Warner Home Video‚ 2009. Secondary Sources: Critser

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    Blaah

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    to work weekends and evenings work in pubs‚ hotels‚ restaurants and clubs may have to deal with rowdy or drunk people‚ and work in hot or noisy conditions. What’s the job really like? Gaynor Mowat - Bartender "Lights‚ camera‚ action" As a bar supervisor at Wanaka’s Edgewater Resort‚ Gaynor Mowat says she never knows what will happen in her job from one hour to the next. "That’s where the adrenaline rush comes from. When you walk through that door it’s a bit like being an actress – it’s

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    and prevention was reduced. Funds given to the Department of Education were cut from $14 million to $3 million from 1981 to 1984 (Alexander 33). Reagan employed a Southern Strategy where he promised tax cuts to the rich and punishment for the crack users (DuVernay). In his speech to the Nation on the campaign against abuse‚ Ronald Reagan gives a rundown of the drug war (Reagan 1). Reagan addresses the American public as a concerned parent‚ grandparent and neighbor‚ declaring drugs an enemy concerning

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    elementary school on the same day of the Newtown Shooting. Although 23 people were injured in the knife attack‚ none were killed‚ compared to 26 being killed in the Newtown shooting. This difference in fatalities was because of the type of weapon used (Farley). In other words‚ if the attacker would have had a gun‚ there would have been more fatalities in the attack in

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    Dark Themes

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    books about kids cutting themselves will make other kids think that it is perfect normal to cut. People think that just because its in the books that it make it ok and it is not. Next‚ these “dark” books could be teaching kids lessons. In source B Farley says “Novels can help provide kids with moral architecture to house ideas about the world.” When reading Young Adult Literature‚ kids can pick up positive things besides the dark things. When the kids are exposed they could feel safer and know how

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    Cooper‚ 2011‚ pg 62) The terms social work and social welfare will frequently be blended and confused however social welfare has extensive meaning and includes domains such as social work‚ public welfare‚ and other related programs and activities (Farley‚ Smith and Boyle‚ 2000). Social work and social welfare are based on three main hypotheses‚ firstly that the person is important‚ secondly that the person has personal‚ family‚ and community problems resulting from interactions with others‚ and thirdly

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    Women and Christianity

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    Sexual Ethics” she references the differences in understanding of sexual ethics between Ancient Greeks and today’s modern society. Farley tells us that although we are seemingly following the same set of Christian sexual ethics as the Ancient Greeks‚ our modern society has reconstituted these guidelines to meet several different frames and needs of understanding. Farley explains that our modern society’s new understanding of what it means to maintain a level of socially acceptable sexual morality

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    References: Farley‚ T. (2005‚ April). Mobile telephone history. Telektronikk‚(3). Retrieved from http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk Mann‚ M. (2010). The deep digital divide: The telephone in British India 1883-1933. Historical Social Research‚ 35(1)‚ 188-208. Shulman‚ S.

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