COVER ART Co-producing Space Along the Sweetgrass Basket Makers’ Highway in Mount Pleasant‚ South Carolina BRIAN GRABBATIN The University of Kentucky The cover photograph for this issue of Southeastern Geographer places you on the roadside of Highway 17 in Mount Pleasant South Carolina. In the midst of suburban neighborhoods‚ shopping malls‚ and commuter traffic‚ African American men and women sell baskets made from sweetgrass‚ bulrush‚ palmetto fronds‚ and pine needles. These baskets have
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everyone in the world is not as lucky. As technology becomes more important to our society‚ many government officials fear social media for its power to end careers or start rumors - but does that give them the right to regulate online content? Hugo Chavez‚ the Venezuelan president‚ seems to believe he has the right to impose restrictions on Internet content‚ similar to those seen in countries such as Iran and Cuba. He was quoted as saying‚ "the Internet cannot be something open where anything
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hear the people sing? Sing the song of angry men..." Perhaps many people are familiar with the song above‚ and this is from the movie called Les Misérables. The plot of the movie is based on the novel written by a French poet and playwright Victor Hugo. The beginning of the movie is set in the early 19th century France‚ in a prison. This movie is mainly about the main character‚ Jean Valjean‚ was sentenced to the jail for 19 years only because of having stolen a loaf of bread for his starving relatives
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charged with a capitol offence had the right to a counsel rather than all persons. From his cell‚ Mr. Gideon wrote to the United States Supreme Court and appealed his suit against the Florida Department of Corrections. In March of 1963‚ Justice Hugo Black delivered the opinion and concluded that Mr. Gideon was wrongly treated under the 6th amendment. As a result of this over 2000 convicts were freed although Mr. Gideon himself was not freed‚ rather given a retrial. In his retrial Mr. Gideon was
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Gene Thompson American Novel 07.21.2011 Weaving the threads of Memory in Animal Dreams When we are lost‚ memory swoops down from the heavens and saves the day. Memory is what connects us to the world. We use memory to synthesize with our thoughts and life experiences so that we can make sense of our surroundings and ourselves. Our interactions with the physical world—our sensory experiences‚ our perceptions‚ our actions—change us continuously and determine what we are later able to
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Matthew Cross Professor Molly Sides ENG 103 22 June 2013 Isaac Asimov: Envisioning the Future of our Own Humanity "If it brings me humanity‚ that will be worth it. If it doesn ’t‚ it will bring an end to striving and that will be worth it‚ too." (The Bicentennial Man 22). Isaac Asimov‚ a dreamer who with humble beginnings pushed science fiction into the beginnings of reality. There is no one quite like Asimov. He has written more on more subjects‚ and better on more subjects‚ and more unexpectedly
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Movie Report for Les Miserables Les Miserables is a master work of Victor Hugo‚ one of the most prestigious novelists in the field of French literature. Under the background of nineteenth century‚ the novel has clearly appeared the plot by describing the tragic life of the impoverished people in England. The hero‚ Ran A Rang‚ a poor worker who had been sentenced to prison‚ once successfully crawled towards the higher class of society in his endeavors through disguising himself and doing good
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Love is a flame‚ easily snuffed out but just as easily rekindled. Flames are capable of eternally living‚ similar to love. The power of love is sometimes underestimated. In his novel Les Misérables‚ Victor Hugo demonstrates what love can really do for a person. Love is explored throughout the novel in several different ways. Hugo’s theme is that love should be shown to all‚ even if the receiver does not seem worthy‚ as shown through his character’s lives. Love has the power to redeem anyone. When
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Javert: A Man with a Mission Many times in life‚ people start to wholeheartedly follow a goal. They focus solely on the goal‚ abandoning all reason and logic. Javert was one of these people. In Victor Hugo’s novel Les Misérables‚ Javert was a police inspector who believed in absolutes. Consequently‚ for him‚ nothing could be both right and wrong; things were either completely good or completely bad. This attitude helped form his goal of life: to follow the law obediently and punish all criminals
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Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. The country is just over the size of two California’s and has a population of approximately twenty-six million people. Venezuela gained its independence from Spain in 1830. Its government is democratically elected with Hugo Chavez as the current president. Chavez is currently pushing his political idea of “21st Century Socialism” and is nationalizing many of the infrastructural industries. The economy of Venezuela is facing twenty percent inflation rates and a national
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