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    Anita Hill

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    False Accusation of Anita Hill’s Testimony Anita Hill‚ a lawyer who worked for now Judge Clarence Thomas‚ US Supreme Court Judge‚ then just a nominee. Anita Hill came forward with allegations that Thomas had sexually harassed her while they worked together at the Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. She is accusing him of harassing her not physically but through comments. According to the article‚ it appears that Anita Hill is possibly making up lies about

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    Discuss the issues of heritage and culture in the Lusophone post-colonial world‚ referring to at least two of the following: Cape Verde‚ Goa‚ Macau‚ East Timor. Within the Lusophone post-colonial world the Portuguese have left their mark on both heritage and culture‚ be it significant or unsubstantial. The manner in which Portugal went about imposing its culture on the indigenous populations of the places it colonised‚ had mostly negative consequences and more often than not strangled native cultures

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    Child Custody

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    Child Custody LSTD 303 D001 Emily Smith 01/12/2014   Every couple enters a relationship with the romantic dream of getting married‚ starting a family‚ and living happily ever after. Truth is it may sound all good and well however not all relationships and marriages go the distance. According to the American Psychological Association‚ 40 to 50 percent of marriages in the United States end in divorce (2014). After the divorce process comes the real complicated part‚ the child custody process

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    Diaspora in Anita Desai’s Fasting‚ Feasting Abstract: Several postcolonial and diasporic writers have articulated the complex relationship of food to nation‚ culture and diaspora‚ while many others have taken into account the ways in which gender‚ sex‚ class and race gets produced and articulated through culinary negotiations. The culinary becomes a site of struggle for both the nation-state and its subjects who are to be contained within structures of heterosexual patriarchy. Anita Desai’s Fasting

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    Orient as narrated by the Western historians depict the Third World as ‘Other’. Moreover‚ the colonial dominion of the British on India for almost three centuries gives the English‚ a sense of superiority which they exercise through racial remarks as faced by Adit and Dev. Hugo too becomes a victim of racism in India due to his different physical characteristics. The kind of prejudice depicted in Desai’s novels is not restricted to a particular community or society. It is universal in nature and many

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    When surveying the international arena‚ it is immediately evident that certain countries are closer to the ideal type of a just society than others. Investigations and explanations of this observation that fail to take into account colonial relations and their lasting legacies miss a crucial part of the puzzle. In examining the cases of Ghana and India in their contemporary context‚ we encounter an amalgamation of factors resulting in their current underdeveloped (as Gunder Frank terms it) states

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    Court for Custody

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    | Court for Custody | | | Amy Burnside | 3/10/2013 | | A married couple‚ both addicted to drugs‚ is unable to care for their infant daughter. She is taken from them by court order and placed in a foster home. The years pass. She comes to regard her foster parents as her real parents. They love her as they would their own daughter. When the child is 9 yrs. old‚ the natural parents‚ rehabilitated from drugs‚ begin court action to regain custody. The case is decided in their

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    V for Vendetta Essay The highly debated precincts of post colonialism‚ contrary to popular belief can in fact be applied to the James McTeigue film‚ V for Vendetta‚ which conforms to and yet penetrates the expanses of the genre‚ using a masked megalomaniac rebelling against a futuristic totalitarian authority. Contrary to common post colonial literature‚ wherein one race often colonizes another‚ V for Vendetta portrays a rebellion against an authoritarian party which has in its own sense “colonized”

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    Dead Man (1995): A Post Colonial Analysis America the land of opulence and opportunity. A haven for glittering fantasies of stardom and fortune. Fast cars‚ fast food and fast affairs; Tight skirts and loose morals. The home to Hollywood. Where Beatniks and hipsters march alongside tuxedo wearing millionaires in their Maseratis. Birthplace of the atom bomb and perhaps the equally significant Coca cola. Doesn’t matter which part of the world one lives in‚ everyone has a their own idea of what we call

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    Child Custody

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    The battle over child custody In the United States today more than one-half of all marriages end in divorce. The purpose of this paper is to examine the reason why women have typically received custody of the children far more often than the fathers. In order to better understand child custody one must first examine how fathers have often times been left out of the picture‚ and conversely why mothers have had such hard times raising children on their own. This paper will first examine the perspective

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