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    Polygamy In America Essay

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    polygamy in the U.S. is forbidden and criminal offenses‚ Mormon fundamentalists known as sects continue the practice of plural marriage and despite federal opposition. Despite the wide view of American society being openly opposed to polygamist lifestyle‚ polygamous followers maintain with their

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    Wes Anderson as an auteur makes use of certain filmmaking styles to compose his unique films. He specializes in playing cinematic aesthetic on all of his films that each frame is carefully designed‚ and each music is chosen by himself. The Royal Tenenbaums‚ one of his representative films‚ effectively reflects his special filmmaking styles and ideas. Specifically‚ the music and visual styles are the major potentials contributed to the overall impact. Sound plays an vital element in storytelling

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    How Music Affects The Mood

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    Music has the unique ability to affect the listeners’ mood. When an athlete is pumping himself up for a game‚ a mathematician is trying to solve an equation‚ what does he do? He listens to music. When a man is romancing a woman‚ or a heartbroken girl is trying to calm herself after a breakup‚ music is used to set the tone. A director can convey a defined emotion in a scene with the right score. The music in a mass helps people stay reverent and focused. In all these cases‚ music plays a critical

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    The newest addition to the Marvel cinematic universe‚ Logan‚ may be the finest and most endearing ‘superhero’ film of the last 20 years. It is clearly the most violent film of its type—so violent it’s anti-violent—but like the best of the genre (Nolan’s Batman Begins and The Dark Knight are obvious examples) it is dripping with philosophy—X-23’s backstory is a textbook in bioethics‚ while Logan’s initial treatment of her‚ and Xavier’s arguments in favor of protecting her‚ gives us a resounding discourse

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    Legalize: Same Sex Marrige

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    discrimination. Time has shown that many people feel uncomfortable in new situations‚ and are opposed to change‚ and this lies in the fact that these circumstances make them feel uncomfortable. Furthermore‚ religious fundamentalists play a major role in gay discrimination. Fundamentalist Christian‚ Dr. James Dobson‚ has a newsletter‚ Focus on the Family‚ that regularly denounces gays‚ and these views are not far from the views of many other Christians. One of the stones in the foundation of the Christian

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    sects that carry out acts of terror against pro-western nations. The terrorist that the United States mainly focus on are the groups in the Middle East. The Islamic revolutionary regime in Iran has inspired groups of Islamic extreme fundamentalists. These fundamentalists are ready to wage Jihad against their enemies. Jihad is the Muslim form of warfare that focuses on a persons inner struggle. This type of force is supposed to be used to improve one’s self or society. With the west influencing much

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    The Scopes Trial

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    portion of the general public accepted the theory of evolution as a fact while fundamentalists rejected it. On the Origin of Species was the cause of a domino effect leading up to the Scopes trial‚ formally known as The State of Tennessee v. James Thomas Scopes‚ in 1925. The trial reflects a collision between science and religion due to discoveries that discredited the bible‚ and created tension between fundamentalists and modernists. In the 1920’s‚ American culture began to take a turn onto a

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    Points/Introduction: Recalling and reflecting his childhood memories (links in with how this is a common aspect with other poems like Digging‚ Death of a Naturalist). However‚ unlike these poems the tone is of fondness and nostalgia. Slow pace and inaction complements the sense of nostalgia and longing. Time shifts in the form of temporal connectives creates an effect of capturing cherished moements in the past (preservation of childhood memories). Natural‚ rural and domestic imagery creates a warm homely

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    survival. Although‚ as our modern day civilization has began to modernize and thrive‚ our relationship with nature has slowly diminished. In the excerpt from Last Child in the Woods‚ Richard Louv uses thoughtprovoking rhetorical questions‚ soothing nostalgia‚ and an anecdote in order to support his argument over the separation between people and nature. First‚ Richard Louv uses several examples of rhetorical questions in order to contribute to his argument. Louv asks‚ “Why do so many Americans say they

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    reminiscing on those times. In Seamus Heaney’s poetry‚ most of the memories from his childhood focus on helping his father at work and family qualities‚ for example in ’Digging’‚ which portrays his father’s job on the farm. There are also forms of nostalgia and family pride here as Heaney looks up to his father‚ even though we know he becomes a poet instead of following in his father’s footsteps. He vows to preserve agricultural traditions by capturing them in poetry‚ rather than by actually becoming

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