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    Dorothy Parker The Last Tea The young man in the chocolate-brown suit sat down at the table where the girl with the artificial camellia had been sitting for forty minutes. "Guess I must be late‚" he said. "Sorry you been waiting." "Oh‚ goodness’" she said "I just got here myself‚ just about a second ago. I simply went ahead and ordered because I was dying for a cup of tea. I was late‚ myself. I haven’t been here more than a minute." "That’s good‚" he said. "Hey‚ hey‚ easy on the sugar -

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    The Western Crossroads

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    The Western Crossroads Gabrielle Arthur 12/2/2013 Hour E I. Indian Country Bureau of Indian Affairs- was the government agency responsible for managing American Indian issues. The 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie had guaranteed American Indians land rights on the Great Plains A. Year of Struggle The army also enlisted some American Indians as scouts or as soldier struggling to perform their duties A.1. Sand Creek A.1.a) John M. Chivington- U.S. Army

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    James Cha Professor Coulter American Myth in the Western Film 22 February 2011 “Ethan?” With a cold and steady gaze‚ Ethan peers off into the snowy distance. He firmly holds his most trusted companion. Without warning and hesitation‚ Ethan raises the deadly steel rifle and begins wildly firing upon a herd of buffalo. After a short while‚ Martin stops shooting‚ having already shot one down. Ethan in a maddened frenzy continues to shoot the buffalo while Martin tries to stop him to no avail

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    alone and so without hope that I can confront them without fear" War is a political hotbed. Regardless of the warring nations’ reasons or the outcome‚ in the wake of the battle‚ the soldier‚ or country’s hero‚ actually becomes the victim. Youth is sacrificed‚ lives are lost‚ and the survivors are forever altered. In the novel‚ All Quiet on the Western Front‚ written by Erich Maria Remarque‚ the characters sacrificed their youth in the war and their innocence was lost. Paul Bäumer‚ the narrator‚ was

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    ion1-Western civilization : Contemporary Western civilization is based on deep-rooted intellectual foundations that date back as far as ancient Greek and Roman cultures. Five characteristics of Western thought were brilliantly outlined by Dr. Yussuf Al Qaradawi as follows: (Youssef Al-Qaradawi‚ Islam‚ the Civilization of the Future‚ p. 15‚ Wahba Library‚ Cairo‚ 1995.) 1- The flawed knowledge of the divinity : Western perception underlying Western civilization does not have a neat‚ clear-cut vision

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    Often‚ figures may seem ahead of their times‚ yet further analysis reveals that the appearance of being revolutionary is a charade. “The Canterbury Tales” by Geoffrey Chaucer tells the story of a group of characters who go on a pilgrimage during the Middle Ages. Pilgrimages lead to either a shrine or a holy place‚ and in this story‚ the pilgrimage leads to Canterbury. In the tale‚ one of the characters on the pilgrimage‚ the Wife of Bath‚ has sparked a debate among people about whether Chaucer addresses

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    Jewish‚ and Persian philosophies Frederick Streng: ways of defining religion. Mary Daly: religion reflects patriarchy The problem of evil Arguments of god Faith and resounding Saint Anselm Gaunilo St. Thomas Aquinas What is religion? Is there true evidence of a god? Is there a heaven and hell? Eastern and Western philosophy are similar but different in many ways. Eastern philosophy includes the various philosophies of ancient China

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    Question # 3 To talk about how Pat Garret and Billy the Kid is considered a “dirty” and “revisionist” western‚ one must also look at what was occurring in our country historically at the same time. Our country went through a horrible period of civil unrest plaguing many cities with riots‚ blood being spilled with them and many anti-war movements in response to the much hated Vietnam War that had been raging for years that was claiming the lives of thousands of young Americans. So now back to

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    In Geoffrey Chaucer’s‚ The Canterbury Tales‚ he writes about how the characters act and what impacts their marriage has on them. Chaucer discusses the good‚ sad‚ and bad times of marriage that many may go through with their partner. While reading the General Prologue and The Wife of Bath’s Tale‚ I realized that Chaucer believed marriage should be about love over wealth and power. Chaucer believed that if the husband and wife wanted and happy and healthy relationship that they should never cheat

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    Geoffrey Bawa was born in Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka)‚ the younger son of a wealthy Muslim lawyer and his Dutch Burger wife. After graduating‚ he studied English at Cambridge and Law in London. He had always preferred to be treated as a Ceylon-born European instead of a Ceylonese who had some European blood in his veins. Perhaps he came to the conclusion that he was more Asian than European‚ Bawa decided to return to Colombo in 1948. “Soon after he returned‚ he bought an abandoned rubber estate

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