National History Day on the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall and the decline of the Soviet Union. The Berlin Wall was put up August 13‚ 1961. The reason why it was put up was because Cold War tensions over Berlin were running high again. For East Germans dissatisfied with life under the communist system‚ West Berlin was a gateway to the democratic West. Between 1949 and 1961‚ some 2.5 million East Germans fled from East to West Germany‚ most via West Berlin. By August 1961‚ an average of 2‚000 East
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In 1975‚ Laura Mulvey‚ a British feminist film theorist‚ introduced the idea of the male gaze in her paper on visual pleasure and narrative cinema. She pinpoints the man as the active pro-tagonist in mainstream Hollywood movies (838). Mulvey believes that the audience‚ regard-less of sex or gender‚ identifies with the “active male figure” (838) due to the means of cine-matography and the rooted patriarchy in Western cultures. Thus‚ women in film become sub-ject to the gaze of the active – the male
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THE THIRD SPACE Four months to the elections and the idea of a third front has been floated into the political picture of India. “We are aligning non-Congress‚ non-BJP parties in both houses‚" JD-U chief Sharad Yadav said at a joint press conference of the ‘third front’. Indian politics stands at an emergent juncture. The dominant (in terms of seats) and ruling party Indian National Congress (INC) is drastically losing popularity after a plague of scams. Critically‚ mass media touts Bharitya Janta
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2011 An Analysis of Robert Frost ’s Mending Wall In his poem‚ “Mending Wall”‚ Robert Frost presents two gentlemen and their annual effort to repair a wall that separates their property. Frost uses the wall as a metaphor to portray the idea of barriers between people‚ and the repairing of the wall to demonstrate repairing a friendship and coming together. Frost uses metaphoric symbolism in the poem‚ using the process of repairing an actual wall‚ as a representation of the barriers that separate
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1 General Title + explanation : Miguel street The story is about people that live in Miguel street Author + background : V.S. Naipaul Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad "V. S." Naipaul‚ TC (born 17 August 1932) is a Trinidadian-British writer of Indo-Trinidadian heritage of Bhumihar Brahmin[1][2] known for his novels focusing on the legacy of the British Empire’s colonialism. He has also written works of non-fiction‚ such as travel writing and essays. Naipaul was
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Assignment – Front Cover Students are required to use the enclosed Assignment Front Cover when submitting assignment. This is a MANDATORY requirement and the College will not accept any assignment received without the attached Assignment Front Cover. Kindly ensure that the Assignment Front Cover is not blocked by anything. Any fanciful cover that you would like to enclose should be placed after the Assignment Front Cover. Copies of the Assignment Front Cover are available at the information
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Unit 01 Forces and the Laws of Motion Problem Set 01 Part One: Concepts 1. Define: Force‚ Net Force 2. What are the three ways a net force an affect the motion of an object? 3. What is the SI unit of force? What are the fundamental units of force? 4. Why is force a vector? 5. A chair is pushed forward with a force of 185N. The gravitational force of Earth on the chair is 155N downward‚ and the floor exerts a force of 155N upward on the chair. Draw a free-body diagram showing the forces
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Study tour Study tour means go anywhere to collect some educational information with some enjoyment. It helps to increase the practical experiences among the students. It is very important for all the students because by going there they may achieve a lot of unexpected things which can play an important role in their both student life and practical life. We are the students of Southeast University in BBA Department. We are really very lucky that we have got am excellent teacher like Shahrear
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“Bayaning Third World” The film was all about different controversies surrounding Rizal and the highlight was the Retraction Controversy. Did Rizal‚ in his last few days‚ ever wrote a letter withdrawing his attacks to the Catholic Church? If he did‚ what could have driven him to write that? The retraction letter is really controversial because if Rizal did write that‚ it would turn out that he does not deserve to be called a hero after all. The film makes me feel like I am in the Hispanic time
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Newspaper is a paper which carries news to us. It is a great wonder of modern civilization. It gives us news of both home and abroad. It is very important for a nation. We cannot think of modern life without the newspaper. It is a store house of knowledge. The first newspaper was published in China. Venice of Italy was the first place where the first newspaper saw the light of the day in Europe. During the reign of Elizabeth it was published in England. The “Indian Gazette” published in 1774
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