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    L'Arc De Triomphe

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    Bonjour tout le monde‚ c’est mon projet‚ mon petit arc de triomphe. J’ai choisi l’arc de triomphe parce que il n’est seulement pas un monument vraiment beaux‚ mais parce que pas beaucoup de gens savent la vérité sur il. Il est un monument très grand and il y a beaucoup des histoires vraiment intéressantes derrière lui. C’est un monument très beaux‚ à l’intérieur et à l’extérieur aussi. Je voudrais beaucoup vous parler de mes découvertes sur L’arc de triomphe‚ mais cette partie est en anglais.

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    Righteous Dopefiend by Philippe Bourgois and Jeffrey Schonberg is an ethnography on the community of homeless heroin injectors and crack smokers on Edgewater Boulevard in San Francisco‚ California. Their fieldnotes and photography offer intimate but grim glimpses into the lives of a population that are largely ignored. The homeless addicts are presented as humans with histories with a story worth telling‚ revealing accounts of abuse‚ trauma‚ violence‚ and family breakdown. Throughout the reading

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    Hacking In Driving

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    making these cars are lying about them because one of their self driving cars ran a red light on self driving mode and it is proven that even though they say these self driving cars are fairly safe and hard to hack but a Cybersecurity expert‚ Jonathan Petit‚ had confused “hacked” the self driving car with only $43 and a laser pointer. It shows how weak the Think of this like the British empire they said it would last forever but look where that

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    Modern Death

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    Philippe Aries described the transition to Forbidden Death as an "unheard-of-phenomenon. Death‚ so omnipresent in the past that it was familiar‚ would be effaced‚ would disappear. It would be shameful and forbidden". It had started in North America and had slowly migrated to Europe. It first started when loved one would avoid telling the dying person that they were actually dying to spare them that terrible news. People started to think that it was best that everyone avoid death and the unbearable

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    Sontag

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    Though Sontag speaks and disagrees with the form of interpretation of art that can be invoked as a stereotype for art critics/interpreters in the modern world today‚ Aristotle’s representational view of art battles that notion and challenges the view of‚ whether imitational art is a art form in itself‚ or just simply the product of the egos that critics possess in hopes of polishing their appearances as an connoisseur of finding the latent contents in artworks. In “Against Interpretation” Sontag

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    Feeding Tube

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    Cited: 1. Abu-Lughod‚ Lila. Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society. Berkeley: University of California‚ 1986. Print. 2. Bourgois‚ Philippe I. In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio. Cambridge: Cambridge UP‚ 1995. Print.

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    Righteous Dopefiend Analysis Homelessness is a social crisis that has stayed with us throughout our history. There was an increase in the number of homeless people in the 1980s due to housing and social service cuts increasing. In Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg’s‚ “Righteous Dopefiend‚” being homeless is just one of the many problems that encompass their day to day reality. The two anthropologists assimilate themselves in the homeless community and observe the hardships that come from living

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    Marie Antoinette The purpose of this paper is to explore Marie Antoinette’s life as Queen of France‚ and the role she played in the French Revolution. Antoinette lived an extravagantly rich lifestyle and was Queen of France when the French Revolution was born. She moved to France when she was still quite young and spent her teenage years there. Her life as Queen was rough at times because of the French Revolution‚ but she managed to still have a life outside of the duties of her job. The French

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    In 1493‚ Christopher Columbus started a domino effect by introducing sugarcanes to St. Domingue. The Spanish were the first ones in introducing sugar plantations in the early 1500’s and used the indigenous population as slaves to work on these plantations. That was until Bartolomé de las Casas advocated for the importation of African slaves to save the brutalized indigenous population. By the seventh century‚ however‚ St. Domingue gained official status as a French colony. St. Domingue became the

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    in 1825 he had served as official poet for Charles X ’s coronation and had been enrolled as a chevalier of the Légion d ’honneur‚ in 1830 he supported the revolution that brought down Charles and replaced him with the constitutional monarch Louis-Philippe (Valiunas‚ 2007). By 1843‚ according to Walnut Street Theatre.org‚ he decided to focus on the growing social problems in France. He was joined in his

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