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    The Dark Child

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    The Dark Child Camara Laye wrote The Dark Child to oppose stereotypes that have become part of western culture. When most westerners think about Africa they think of an undeveloped country that is stricken by poverty and primitive behavior. The dark child is an autobiography of Camara Laye’s youth and his early life growing in to adulthood. Camara Laye grew up in the town of Kouroussa on the inland plain of French Guinea in the Malinke tribe. His father was a well-renounced blacksmith and a man

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    Dark Tourism

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    Dark Tourism Dark tourism is the act of travel and visitation to sites‚ attractions and exhibitions that have real or recreated death‚ suffering or the seemingly macabre as a main theme.  Tourist visits to former battlefields‚ slavery-heritage attractions‚ prisons‚ cemeteries‚ particular museum exhibitions‚ Holocaust sites‚ or to disaster locations all constitute the broad realm of ‘dark tourism’. The Institute of Dark Tourism Research (iDTR) at the University of Lancashire in England in 2012 marks

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    Dark Energy

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    the mysterious dark energy that’s causing the expansion of the universe to accelerate? Is it some form of Einstein’s famous cosmological constant‚ or is it an exotic repulsive force‚ dubbed "quintessence‚" that could make up as much as three-quarters of the cosmos? Scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Dartmouth College believe there is a way to find out. | | | | The SuperNova/Acceleration Probe‚ SNAP‚ is a satellite designed to study dark energy through

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    Dark Tourism

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    Key Objectives The aim of the report is to study dark tourism and discuss what are the issues generated by the evolution of this phenomenon. 1.2 Scope The report includes a definition of dark tourism‚ the history‚ a description of its target markets with its marketing implications‚ the push and pull factors and the various impacts caused and the challenges faced. Lastly‚ conclusions will be drawn. 2.0 Main Discussions 2.1 Definition Dark tourism is demarcated as encompassing the visitation

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    Dark Ages

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    The Dark Ages are described as a period of intellectual depression in the history of Europe from the establishment of barbarian supremacy in the fifth century to the revival of learning at about the fifteenth century. In my belief‚ according to this description the Dark Ages were not dark at all‚ and if present‚ the intellectual depression was minimal. The Dark Ages were a period of great intellectual innovation and arts. With the dwindling populations of towns‚ people once again became dependent

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    Dark secrets

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    Dr. Velvet Pearson English 801A 9/30/13 The Dark Secrets We Keep From One Another Everyone‚ no matter who you are or how perfect you think you may be‚ lie on a daily basis. We all tell lies whether it’s to protect someone’s feelings or oneself. Lying on a justified standard can be the dark secrets we all tend to keep from one another. Everyone has them‚ so we keep telling these lies to not only ourselves‚ but our friends and loved ones as well. If we were ever to tell these secrets to one

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    The Dark Ages

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    Dark Ages Essay The Dark Ages is a period of time in history when a cultural and economic deterioration occurred in Western Europe mainly caused by the decline of the Roman Empire. The Visigoths‚ a Germanic group of warriors‚ seized ancient Rome. When the Visigoths threatened Rome‚ they closed all of the entryways into the city so that the Germanic warriors could not enter the city. The Visigoths surrounded Rome and blocked all shipments of food into the walls of Rome‚ torturing the people inside

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    The Dark Knight

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    David Henry Sheehan 9th lit 7 22 September 2012 Heroes Journey: The Dark Knight Campbell’s hypothesis about the monomyth is‚ that there is one myth and twelve components to that myth.(Campbell 1)The Dark Knight is a story that seems to possess all twelve components of Campbell’s hypothesis‚ and proves that Campbell’s hypothesis is right. One of the components that fits in with The Dark Knight is “the call to adventure”. Once the joker robs the bank‚ Batman knows he must help in any way he

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    Dark They Were

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    “You Must Respect the land you live on”- Dark They Were and Golden Eyed) In “Dark They Were and Golden-Eyed” by Ray Bradbury‚ Bradbury uses an extensive amount of imagery and symbolism to illustrate the consequences of not acknowledging your surroundings. Thus the theme can be argued as “You must respect the land you live on”. This premise is evident in their initial intention when the bittering’s first arrived on Mars. They assumed that they could just colonize Mars as opposed to adapting. However

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    The Dark Is Rising

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    The Dark is Rising series is my favorite book series. I consider it to be the archetype of which modern day writers refer to. When I found out they had made a movie out of the second book I was ecstatic. I thought‚ key word thought‚ it was going to be a great movie. I was very wrong. The second book is titled The Dark is Rising and it’s about a young boy named Will Stanton. Will is the seventh son of a seventh son and he has a prophecy written about him. On his 11th birthday he finds out the he

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