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    In representing the Magistrate in different stages of torture Coetzee is able to highlight the function torture serves in the hierarchy of the Empire. By showing the de-humanization of torture and its establishment of hierarchy on individuals who are not in positions of power‚ J.M Coetzee shows that torture is established on the grounds of power. The topic of torture is significant to the novel because it shows the

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    Simone De Beauvoir

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    15. “He is the Subject; he is the Absolute. She is the Other” (Beauvoir‚ The Second Sex‚ 6). Discuss. Despite having a relatively conservative childhood in which she was raised a Catholic daughter to a bourgeois family‚ Simone de Beauvoir steered away from the traditional familial roles and became a pioneer for modern feminism. Perhaps to the distaste of her family‚ she attended university and always placed the autonomy of the intellectual life above the traditional values of

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    distribution de montures de lunettes auprès des opticiens avec un capitale 5 millions francs et elle couvre 12% de la part de marché français de la monture‚ elle est la 6eme dans le marché français. Son chiffre d’affaires en 1992 est de 43 millions de francs. EQUAL SA est une multinationale elle adopte une stratégie de diversification (géographique) internationale. En effet elle dispose de bureaux au Japon‚ Singapour‚ aux États-Unis‚ au canada et elle couvre tous les pays d’Europe grâce a des agents

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    Ingrid de Kok

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    TERRESTRIAL THINGS Poems Ingrid de Kok Kwela/Snailpress Acknowledgements I would like to thank the Rockefeller Foundation for granting me a residency in 1999 at the Bellagio Study and Conference Centre in Italy. The period spent there was invaluable. Thanks are also due to the University of Cape Town which awarded me four months of study and research leave in 2001 to complete the book. Acknowledgements are due to the following journals and books‚ in which some of these poems originally appeared:

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    Chateau de Versailles

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    Louis XIV Louis XIV‚ a marvelous leader during his reign (1643-1715)‚ was a prime example of an absolutist ruler. He used his position to expand the power of his government with projects like the expansion of the Chateau de Versailles‚ completed in 1688. Despite the unimaginable cost of the monumental construction of Versailles that exhausted much of France ’s finances‚ its creation was beneficial for the French government‚ foreign influence‚ and the historical impact on France and the world.

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    Salar de Uyuni

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    Salar de Uyuni Salar de Uyuni is the world’s largest salt flat located in Bolivia. It is over twelve thousand square kilometers in area‚ which makes it the largest salt flat in the world. It also has the distinction of being the highest salt flats in the world at three thousand seven hundred meters above sea level. From a distance the salt flats look like a huge white sea. When there is rain then something magical happens. The salt flats become a mirror of the sky. The origins

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    William de Kooning

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    Bibliography: http://www.theartstory.org/artist-de-kooning-willem.htm http://www.biography.com/people/willem-de-kooning-9270057 http://quote.robertgenn.com/auth_search.php?authid=58 http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/153632/Willem-de-Kooning http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=3213 http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Between-sense-and-de-Kooning-by-Richard-Shiff.php 1. 2. 3. 4.

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    Jordan University of Science and Technology Computer Engineering Department Cryptography & Network Security CPE (541) HW#5 Contemporary Symmetric Ciphers (Double-DES‚ Triple-DES & Blowfish) Supervised by: Dr Loái Tawalbeh Eng. Sulaiman Al-Basheer Simsam R.Hijjawi 20022171043 Review Problems: 6.1 What is the triple encryption? It is a three-stages encryption with three different keys‚ to avoid costly requirements arises

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    Olympe De Gouges

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    Olympe de Gouges was a woman who lived in France during the French Revolution. She was a feminist and an abolitionist. She accomplished many things during her life. One of the things she accomplished was writing pieces of literature and plays. She was the first woman to publish books and plays using her own name and not a male pseudonym. Every woman who was a playwright before her had used male pseudonyms to avoid being criticised for it. Her first play was called The Generous Man‚ and it was about

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    The American War against De Jure and De Facto Discrimination Throughout the semester‚ we have examined the differences between de jure segregation‚ that which is written into law‚ such as slavery and Jim Crow‚ and de facto segregation‚ that which is seen as customary. Even though the battle against de jure discrimination has been a victorious one‚ with the desegregation of the American military and federal government in the 1940s‚ the reversal of Plessy vs. Ferguson in the 1950s‚ and the passing

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