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    to one’s success. Even if they do possess ambition and intelligence‚ the dominant majority of the white population oppresses them. This type of oppression points out that new methods of struggle are needed‚ such as whose employed by Martin Luther King‚ Jr.‚ Franz Fanon and W.E.B. Du Bois. Martin Luther King‚ Jr. advocated nonviolence to suppress oppression in his essay‚ "The Power of Nonviolent Action." King’s factual and reasoned approach is intended to win his adversaries over by appealing to their

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    Saving Face

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    The film Saving Face is about representing one self’s identity. There are three motifs that allow this transformation; transportation‚ face and time. The central motif in the film Saving Face is transportation‚ which is centralized with face and time because they explain the character’s change of identity. The motif of face represents the characters’ identity. Saving Face is an expression to keep definition. Face is a motif because face is used repeatedly‚ especially in close-ups to captivate the

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    Wearing a Uniform of Oppression Having lived my whole life by the teachings of the Islamic faith‚ I understand the appreciations and values associated with the Hijab. However‚ also living in Canada‚ a pro-western society‚ I also see how some might see it as an oppression set upon Muslim women; objectively isolating them from the rest of society. I believe that the Hijab means much more than just a piece of cloth covering a woman’s hair. It represents their identity and their pride

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    Fighting for Equality Through Nonviolent Resistance In “The Ways of Meeting Oppression”‚ an excerpt from a speech given by Dr. Martin Luther King during the Montgomery Bus Boycott‚ Dr. King explains that the oppressed deal with oppression in one of three ways; acceptance‚ the use of physical force and hostility‚ and non violent resistance. He begins that through acceptance‚ people succumb to their fates as they are either exhausted and have given up fighting‚ or they have become accustomed to their

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    Face validity‚ from my understanding‚ is testing validity based on how the results are going to measure without actually conducting the test. In other words‚ face validity is based on what is supposed to be than what is actual. According to the website Explorable.com‚ face validity is a basic measure and the subject‚ who usually is not an expert‚ has input about the test (Shuttleworth‚ 2009‚ para. 5). Content validity‚ on the other hand‚ is similar to face validity but differs in the way the results

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    Policy in South Africa?” 119 STEVE FENTON‚ “Malaysia and Capitalist Modernisation: Plural and Multicultural Models” 135 HARIHAR BHATTACHARYYA‚ “Multiculturalism in Contemporary India” 148 MOHAMMAD WASEEM‚ “Pluralism and Democracy in Pakistan” 162 DARSHAN S. TATLA‚ “Sikhs in Multicultural Societies” 177 Editorial MATTHIAS KOENIG University of Bamberg he current thematic issue of UNESCO’s International Journal on Multicultural Societies (IJMS) addresses the governance of cultural diversity in post-colonial

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    Face to Face Summer Erxleben MAR2305 December 17‚ 2011 Brandi Summers Face to Face The manner in which I handled this customer service call was unprofessional and handled very poorly. I did not answer the phone within three rings or use the proper greeting that the company requires. There were many things I could have done different in this situation. First and foremost I should have done my job and handled her situation right away. However‚ that was not the case. Since I did not‚ there

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    Face detection

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    Face Detection Ming-Hsuan Yang University of California‚ Merced‚ CA 95344 mhyang@ucmerced.edu Synonyms Detecting faces Definition Face detection is concerned with finding whether or not there are any faces in a given image (usually in gray scale) and‚ if present‚ return the image location and content of each face. This is the first step of any fully automatic system that analyzes the information contained in faces (e.g.‚ identity‚ gender‚ expression‚ age‚ race and pose). While earlier work

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    Oppression lead to a dead-end When writing about a topic as complex and personal as suicide‚ it is easy to get lost in banalities. In The Virgin Suicides‚ Jeffrey Eugenides manages to give life to the often misunderstood voice of the youth. Oppression leads to regression and the Lisbon family symbolizes that perfectly. Throughout the novel‚ the melancholy of teenage years takes an obscure path where the well known incomprehension of the youth years transforms into a gruesome/morbid tale that meets

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    INTO THE LIGHT STACY JUST DIED. IN A HORRIBLE CAR ACCIDENT. STACY’S WHOLE FACE WAS MUTILATED‚ THE BODY WAS TORN IN TO PIECES OF FLESH. STACY ENTERED THE AFTER LIFE. STACY COULD SEE NOTHING IT WAS COMPLETELY DARK. ANXIOUS TO FINALLY SEE WHAT ALL THE HYPE WAS ABOUT‚ STACY ENTERED A SUDDEN STATE OF HYPER SENSES. A HUGE VOICE ENTERED THE VOID AND COMMANDED STACY‚ “YOU!!! COME NOW‚ JUDGMENT IS UPON YOU.” THE DARKNESS DISAPPEARED. STACY WAS CONFRONTED WITH A HUGE LINE OF PEOPLE WAITING IN FEAR. UP AHEAD

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