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    While perhaps no longer relevant with more notorious groups like ISIS or Al-Qaeda‚ be it in current activity or geographic location‚ the Provisional Irish Republican Army serves as a good example of a more tightly knit terrorist group that covers only a small geographic region. The Provisional Irish Republican Army is a paramilitary group located in Northern Ireland‚ who used to operate throughout‚ Northern Ireland‚ the Irish Republic‚ Great Britain‚ and Europe‚ with their tactics consisting of the

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    R v Blaue Criminal Law 01: Actus Reus Facts The defendant inflicted serious stab wounds on the deceased who‚ knowing she would be likely to die as a result‚ refused a blood transfusion because she was a Jehovah’s Witness and accepting another’s blood was against her religion. The defendant claimed that her refusal to accept the blood transfusion broke the chain of causation between his conduct and her death. Extract There have been two cases in recent years which have some bearing

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    Faceless By Shirin Neshat

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    SHIRIN NESHAT Shirin Neshat is an Iranian Photographer and videographer born in 1974 who captures female and cultural/religious stereotypes in her works. Neshat’s work is that many of her images are endowed with a sense of empowerment. Her photographs include - Hands holding hands‚ forming a sense of solidarity‚ women in the possession of weapons‚ subverting traditional notions of gender roles and power. In the B&W photograph “Faceless” from the 1994 “Women of Allah” series Neshat can be seen wearing

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    In Jack Kerouac’s novel‚ On The Road‚ main protagonist Dean Moriarty symbolizes an "almost" immortal flame of youth that embodies the rebellious generation of uncertainty that describes 1950s Beat culture. Desirable of everything at the same time‚ from his numerable fixations with drugs‚ his incalculable romantic entanglements with women‚ or his superficial preoccupation to be seen as an intellectual‚ we get to know Dean’s liberating and pioneering personality as the "Holy Goof" as well as an apparent

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    Introduction: In American Psycho and The Outsider‚ to experience the Absurd is to experience Otherness‚ and within both film and novel it is absurdity and the Absurd which drives Mersault and Bateman towards their respective social alienations. However‚ despite the inextricable link between the Absurd and Otherness within the texts‚ the means by which the Absurd interacts with each text‚ and‚ in turn results in alienation is unique. Within Camus’s novel‚ the world itself is portrayed as being oppressive

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    Intro: Trigonometry is a branch of mathematics that studies triangles and the relationships between their sides and the angles between these sides. The field evolved during the third century BC as a branch of geometry used extensively for astronomical studies. It is also the foundation of the practical art of surveying. Trigonometry basics are often taught in school either as a separate course or as part of a precalculus course. Fields that use trigonometry or trigonometric functions include

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    His silence amidst the turmoil of the tortured Christians. Endo uses pristine imagery of the surrounding environment‚ the vivid description of the senses and the psychological battles within the characters to demonstrate the pain that accompanies martyrdom of the Christians‚ particularly when God seems to be absent. Rodrigues says “There was the sea that swallowed them up‚ the sea... that stretched out endlessly with unchanging expressions. And like the sea‚ God was silent. His silence continued.”

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    Spaniards did to the Pilipino peoples by writing two books titled Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo. You would also see how corrupt priest use religion as a shield to do bad things like how they rape Filipina at the first 10 or 20 minutes of...The martyrdom of Gom-Bur-Za inspired Rizal to fight the evils of Spanish tyranny and redeem his oppressed people * Rizal dedicated the El Filibusterismo to Gom-Bur-Za Imprisonment of Teodora Alonzo * As the mother of a perceived enemy of the Spanish authorities

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    She even describes men that had placid and vacant looks in their eyes‚ as if they had been dead to the world for years. In her second excerpt on September 21‚ she went to hear a Protestant minister. She writes that despair was his only word and martyrdom. She also describes how he sees that slavery

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    The captioned topic for group discussion is one which everyone will feel identified with‚ making it less complicated as the aspirant who speaks either in favour or against the topic has enough information at his disposal to put forward his/her viewpoints. Terrorism is perhaps the most discussed topic since 9/11 attacks on the US.  First‚ let us see what can be the points in support of the motion. Points in favour of the topic (Pros) 1.Terrorism is the emerging issue across the globe at the

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