The Monuments Must Go written by the Christian brothers‚ Jack and Warren Christian‚ was respectfully written to address the Mayor of Richardman Virginia‚ Levar Stoney’s‚ and the members of the Monument Avenue Commission opinions on the taking down of confederate statues‚ more importantly the Stonewall jackson monument. Mayor’s Stoney comment claimed that “removal of symbols does [nothing] for telling the actual truth [nor] changes the state and culture of racism in this country today.” The Christian
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Affirmative Inaction: Colored College Admissions Students are increasingly being admitted to colleges based on the color of their skin‚ rather than their actual talent that sets them apart from others because of Affirmative Action programs. Affirmative Action is defined as: “any policies that (a) attempt to actively dismantle institutionalized or informal cultural norms and systems of ascriptive group-based disadvantage‚ and the inequalities historically resulting from them‚ and/or that (b) attempt
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HEMATOLOGY REVIEWER ANEMIA Anemia: decrease in the number of RBCs‚ Hb content‚ or Hct content below the lower limit of the normal range for the age and sex of the individual Pediatric Anemia A. Hemolytic Anemia: there is premature destruction of RBCs 1. Hereditary Spherocytosis: most common inherited abnormality of RBC membrane; defect in ankyrin‚ band 3 or spectrin proteins surface area deficiency leading to spherocytosis 2. Pyruvate Kinase Deficiency: defect in PKLR gene PK cannot convert phosphoenolpyruvate
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Female Foeticide In India India is a country of incredible ironies. It is a land where people worship myriad forms of female Shakti in quest of wealth‚ wisdom and power. In this country it is a common sight to see thousands of couples making arduous journeys every year to shrines of goddesses in order to be blessed with a child. But strangely enough‚ in this country‚ a couple is said to be ‘blessed’ only when it has a male child; for a girl is never considered a blessing in our society. Her birth
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large building projects‚ or create stability for long-distance trade. Common Elements in African Society •Migration of Bantu speakers provided a common linguistic base •Animistic religion – belief in natural forces personified as gods •Families‚ lineages‚ and clans had an important role in dealing with gods •Deceased ancestors were their link to the spiritual world •International trade increased in some regions‚ mainly toward the Islamic world •Both women and men were important in market life (trade)
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The life of the hero theseus Aegeus‚ king of Athens‚ and the sea god Poseidon both slept with Theseus’s mother‚ Aithra‚ on the same night‚ supplying Theseus with both divine and royal lineage. Theseus was born in Aithra’s home city of Troezen‚ located in the Peloponnese‚ but as an adolescent he traveled around the Saronic Gulf via Epidauros‚ the Isthmus of Corinth‚ Krommyon‚ the Megarian Cliffs‚ and Eleusis before finally reaching Athens. Along the way he encountered and dispatched six legendary
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causes Beowulf to want to help Hrothgar is that he feels that is his responsibility in the Anglo-Saxon society to serve and guard the Danes and his lord. He was accompanied by fifteen men. 2. Why does Hrothgar’s soldier question Beowulf about his lineage? Why is this important to that time period? Hrothgars solider questions him because he wants to make sure that he isn’t a spy of any sort. This was important because during this time period not many came volunteering to kill large beasts. They just
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egder Allen Poe describes the revenge of a rich man named Montreser. The story takes place in 1846 at night during carnival. In this tail a rich man named montreser with a well renowned family is insulted by another rich man with a well renowned lineage named fortunado. Which in turn gives montreser a vendetta which causes him to plot reprisal.Shown when montreser states"But when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge".to carry out his plot Montreser meets fortunado on the streets of carnival
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Naxals:evrywhere‚and nowhere 17th January‚2008:Samireddy Ganesh‚a 35-yr old tribal in Visakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh is axed to death by the Maoists on the charge of being a ‘police informer’..(1) 20th March‚2008: Three tribal villagers in Bijapur district of Chhatisgarh are killed by maoistsfor being activists of ‘Salwa Judum’..(2) These are just two incidents of the ‘dangerously’ large number of criminal and ambush undertaken by the left-wing ‘radicals’(in their own prerpgative) in
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OTHELLO ACT 1‚ SCENE 2 Shakespeare’s Othello is a play about love‚ jealousy and racism. Othello is a Moor‚ who is kidnapped as a child and brought to Venice‚ where he grows up‚ becomes a mercenary and through his bravery rises to the rank of General of the Venetian army. Othello is in love with the beautiful Desdemona‚ daughter of a senator and is secretly married to her. Iago‚ his junior‚ jealous of his success attempts to destroy Othello and Desdemona and through his machinations obliterates
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