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    HSIE Assignment Task Details: Use the five attached sources and your own research to address this question. Using the provided the sources and your own knowledge‚ explain ‘how’ and ‘why’ the Anzac legend was created? How well do these sources support the Anzac legend? Write a 750-word report/submission to a museum that explains ‘how’ and ‘why’ the ANZAC legend was created. Referring to the above question‚ you need to explain whether you think the sources attached to this assignment

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    an administrator in the Student Activities Office for help. 1. What is at stake for the key parties‚ including those who disagree with you? What is important to them? The key stakeholders are Erica‚ Matt‚ and all present and future members of the Spirit Club. Erica is the protagonist and she needs to decide to either talk to Matt about the missing club money or remain silent to maintain her friendship with Matt. Her decision puts their friendship at stake if she decides to confront Matt or report

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    Realism Essay Throughout the span of humanity‚ we have been known for our many intriguing emotions and traits. Twain’s “The Lowest Animal‚” states that our greed‚ rage‚ and lust for power make us seem below animals. Although humans are quite capable of kindness and compassion‚ Twain is correct in that humans are prone to let their negative traits be prevalent. People’s ability to show hate and discriminate has unfortunately been a staple in human history. Pre-1954‚ in American culture‚ it was completely

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    novel‚ The House on Mango Street‚ Sandra Cisneros’s narrator‚ Esperanza‚ gradually learns there is no real correlation between a physical structure and a home; rather a home is made from things such as love‚ family‚ culture‚ tradition‚ and memories‚ not bricks and mortar. The opening vignette of Cisneros’s novel‚ introduces the reader to Esperanza’s intense feeling of displacement. Throughout the book‚ she feels as though she has no place to call her home. Although they have a house‚ she is embarrassed

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    Distinctive features of Realism and Modernism I. Ideological and philosophical differences ( How Realists and Modernists viewed man) R: 1. Man is a social animal (Aristhotel called it a political animal) 2. Alienation is conditioned by society 3. Reality is solid and objective. The world is palpable and identical 4. Interaction between man and environment (it determines his development) 5. There is always a sense of progress M: 1. Man is seem as ahistorical being

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    This same general theme persists in Allende’s House of Spirits as she criticizes the military coup that revolted against the fully democratic communist leader in power in Chile. Through obvious shifts in positive and negative connotation‚ strong war and peace imagery juxtaposition‚ and colloquial diction‚ Neruda highlights the reasons for his hatred for the unjust revolt in Spain during the 1930’s; a criticism almost paralleled in Allende’s House of Spirits. Neruda begins his poem with a lengthy and

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    Adventures of Tom Sawyer Test Realism‚ defined by The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language‚ is the representation in art or literature of objects‚ actions‚ or social conditions as they actually are‚ without idealization or presentation in abstract form. In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer‚ Twain portrays an accurate depiction of society during the pre-civil war time. Twain paints a picture of a boy’s world along the Mississippi River‚ where two mischievous boys‚ Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn

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    Peter Wilson Idealism in international relations Book section Original citation: Originally published in Dowding‚ K.‚ Encyclopedia of power. Thousand Oaks‚ USA: SAGE Publications‚ 2011‚ pp. 332-333. © 2011 SAGE Publications This version available at: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/41929/ Available in LSE Research Online: April 2012 LSE has developed LSE Research Online so that users may access research output of the School. Copyright © and Moral Rights for the papers on this site are retained by

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    Running Head: Discussion on Realism and Surrealism Discussion on Realism and Surrealism William Thigpen Western Governors University Discussion on Realism and Surrealism Realism and Surrealism were very similar and dissimilar at the same time. In realism the artist wanted to keep truth and accuracy to what they were depicting. In surrealism‚ the artists wanted to take the truth and a new dimension to it‚ to make it more dream like. During the realism period the world was going through

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    World Literature #1: Comparative Essay Can the human spirit be imprisoned? A Doll’s House and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich NAME: Shelley Lima IB CANDIDATE NUMBER: 000091-032 TEACHER : Kate Goldberg DISCIPLINE OF ESSAY: English WORD COUNT: 1 492 Both Ivan‚ the protagonist from the novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich written by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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