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    Dan Brown’s book‚ The Lost Symbol‚ the main character Robert Langdon is a college professor with a passion for symbols‚ secret societies‚ and history. His American Dream of solving mysteries and uncovering secrets becomes too real when he is forced to solve an ancient Masonic secret in order to save the life of one of his dearest friends. Langdon’s friend‚ Peter Solomon‚ a high ranking Mason‚ is kidnapped by a somewhat deranged but brilliant man; who demands that Langdon to solve a puzzle on an ancient

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    of the Frontier (?) Frederick Jackson Turner described the frontier as “a return to primitive conditions on a continually advancing frontier line” (Turner 530). Turner separates the process of civilization into four phases: “the trader’s frontier‚ the rancher’s frontier‚ or the miner’s frontier‚ and the farmer’s frontier” (Turner 536). After all four stages are completed and there are no more or too few places to settle - the major movement of people is done with - Turner says the frontier is closed

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    In “The More Factor‚” Laurence Shames tells that Americans are “running out of more”(59) that was so abundant during the expansion of the United States. This essay was written in the context of the growing idea of the American dream throughout the history of the United States‚ and its effect on the economy. Shames intended audience for this essay is towards people with a higher education level or to anyone who is interested in the ideas of the foundation of the U.S. One purpose of this essay is

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    Turner’s essay From The Significance of the Frontier in American History‚ he posits an interesting argument‚ capturing the idea of what Americanization is and how the discovery of the frontier captures the real sentiment of American History. Amongst the many things I appreciated about his essay concerned how westward expansion signaled a detachment from European influence. This‚ to me‚ is interesting because when I think about our nation’s eastern shores I think of the technology and infrastructure

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    Consciousness: Sleep

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    Chapter 4 Consciousness What is Consciousness? Conscious as awareness Is one meaning of consciousness Sensory awareness Sense of vision allows us to see or be conscious of surroundings Sometimes we are not aware of sensory stimulation when paying attention to it Selective Attention Key to self control Maxes senses keener Direct Inner Awareness knowledge of one’s own thought feeling and memories without the use of sensory organs We are conscious of our thought Thought we cannot measure

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    The Western Frontier

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    The Western Frontier and the Changes that took Place The frontier was land that had been untouched in the Western United States by white mans laws and way of life. As time passed‚ and the population grew on the frontier‚ and changes took place. Basic ways of life changed. Religious beliefs‚ laws‚ and regulations were challenged and adapted to the new settings. Each of these novels‚ The Pioneer‚ A New Way Home-Who’ll Follow‚ & Hope Leslie‚ take a different look at these changes that were taking

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    of The “Frontier Thesis” England‚ a small and familiar place for many‚ was a community with very strict rules and beliefs. The Church of England was the dominant power over the country‚ and not everyone was happy with this dictatorship. Once the land in America was founded‚ Puritans and other men searching for freedom gathered and sailed across the sea to the new land. America became a “melting pot” full of various traditions‚ cultures‚ and beliefs from England as well as new “American” ideas.

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    False Consciousness

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    ‘false consciousness’. Using examples of your own‚ defend and / or critique the hypothesis that there is such thing as ‘false consciousness’. Power has always been a contested and controversial topic and is one of the most central concepts in the social sciences. With regard to the concept of power‚ the issue of domination and what domination is has also been widely debated. While most people would assume that domination is achieved by coercion or the overt threat of sanctions‚ a more interesting

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    Stream of Consciousness

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    Stream of consciousness is a special mode of narration that undertakes to capture the full spectrum and the continuous flow of a character’s mental process‚ where sense perception mingle with conscious and half-conscious thoughts and memories‚ experiences‚ feelings and random associates. In literature‚ technique that records the multifarious thoughts and feelings of a character without regard to logical argument or narrative sequence. It is a narrative method where a writer describes the unspoken

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    Consciousness is the state of awareness‚ reflecting on the environment of external and internal stimuli. The sensory system operates by sending information from the right side of the body‚ to the cerebral left hemisphere of the brain for processing and vice versa. The corpus collosum is an enormous collection of neural fibers that connect the two halves of the brain. In “healthy” individuals the two hemispheres work together as one to compliment our overall consciousness. The right hemisphere specialises

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