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    Solomon Islands

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    Solomon Islands: Where to now? Waku is the pijin English name for the increasingly diverse local Asian community of the Solomon Islands. They have played a large role in the economy for several decades and more recently some have become involved in politics. Some Asians have participated in corruption which helped destabilise the Government in the decades leading up 1998 when the ‘crisis years’ began. During the crisis years (1998-2003) some Waku elements prospered through duty remissions

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    Song of Solomon

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    there are costs. Leaving ones family behind‚ or consequences of the escape. Nonetheless‚ it must have been done. In Toni Morrison’s novel Song of Solomon‚ she liberates us with this sense of flying and escape. The novel‚ Song of Solomon’s characters accept human flight as a natural occurrence‚ kind of like the folktale shows it‚ to liberation. Song of Solomon begins with a suicide attempt from an African American man. Instead of trying to get him down‚ people simply watch and observe rather then prevent

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    Song of Solomon

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    Men’s repeated abandonment of women in Song of Solomon shows that the novel’s female characters suffer a double burden. Not only are women oppressed by racism‚ but they must also pay the price for men’s freedom. Guitar tells Milkman that black men are the unacknowledged workhorses of humanity‚ but the novel’s events imply that black women more correctly fit this description. The scenes that describe women’s abandonment show that in the novel‚ men bear responsibility only for themselves‚ but women

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    Mark Moran Prof. Elizabeth Marlowe Masterpieces of Western Art November 8‚ 1999   Formal Comparison of Two Museums The Frick Collection and The Guggenheim Museum are both museums on 5th Avenue in New York’s Upper East Side neighborhood‚ and they are both named for famous American tycoons from the early 20thcentury.  But their similarities pretty much end there.  The Frick Collection is the former residence of steel baron Henry Clay Frick who spent forty years assembling a large collection of

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    The Harold Washington Library was constructed in 1991‚ the winning design of Thomas Beeby. After being stored in temporary warehouses for twelve years‚ the city of Chicago finally decided to create a permanent home for the 4‚700‚000 items belonging to the public library. A design competition was held with the hope that hundreds of submissions would produce a new building that was not only pleasing to the eye and cost efficient‚ but also one that would end the embarrassment of not having a library

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    Philadelphia Art Museum

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    For the art project in this class‚ I visited The Philadelphia Museum of Art. It is located at the west end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park. It is one of the most outstanding and largest museums of Art in United States. It was founded in 1876 in conjunction with the Centennial Exposition. This museum is basically formed and grew out of the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London. Originally‚ this museum was a collection of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial

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    Barbara Kruger Barbara Kruger was born in Newark‚ New Jersey in 1945. She studied at Syracuse University‚ Parsons School of Design‚ and the School of Visual Arts in New York and has exhibited all over the world. She has worked from having a design job at "Mademoiselle Magazine"‚ soon becoming the head designer. Later working as a graphic designer‚ art director‚ and picture editor in the art departments at "House and Garden"‚ "Aperture" and other publications. This greatly

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    Monumental architecture derives from a variety of characteristics ranging from its impact and functionality to its sustainability and elegance. There are also many other factors that convey a structure as being monumental. Some rely on the functions that contribute to their culture while; others rely on religious and political aspects. During the Bronze Age‚ the main influence of monumental architecture relied on each state’s political system. This can be seen throughout history‚ especially from

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    Solomon Asch

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    Solomon Asch - Conformity Experiment Asch believed that the main problem with Sherif’s (1935) conformity experiment was that there was no correct answer to the ambiguous autokinetic experiment.  How could we be sure that a person conformed when there was no correct answer? Asch (1951) devised what is now regarded as a classic experiment in social psychology‚ whereby there was an obvious answer to a line judgment task.  If the participant gave an incorrect answer it would be clear that this was

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    Alcohol was once prohibited but then allowed‚ now large sugar drinks are going to be prohibited. Michael R. Bloomberg a mayor of New York City wants to prohibit the sale of sugary drinks larger than sixteen ounces in an effort to combat obesity. An article titled “Evolutions’ Sweet Tooth” by Daniel E. Lieberman published June 6‚ 2012 argues that banning of large sugary drinks is the wrong decision to make. Lieberman argues that banning sugary drinks is wont help stop obesity because obesity “at heart

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