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    Marchetta‚ there are many representations of how fathers are portrayed in this novel. Question. Marchetta’s believes that a positive fatherhood figure is essential within a Childs life such as Michael Andretti helping his daughter‚ Joesphine Alibrandi achieve her emancipation. Marchetta contrasts Michael against negatively representations of fatherhood figures such as Senator Barton and Francesco Alibrandi. In the beginning of the novel‚ Marchetta represents Michael as an imperfect father who is

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    Area of some rectilinear figures Area of a Triangle : 1/2 x Base x Heights Area of Equilateral Triangle : Sqrt(3)/4 x (Side)2 Area of a Triangle - Hero’s formula : Sqrt{s (s - a) (s - b) (s - c)} where 2s = a + b + c. Area of Rectangle = Length x Breadth Area of a Square = (Side)2 Area of Four Walls = 2 x height (Length + breadth) Area of Rhombus = 1/2 x (Products of Diagonals) Area of Trapezium = 1/2 x (Sum of Parallel Sides) x (Distance between Parallel lines) Area of Parallelogram

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    Public Figures and Private Lives Publicity; it is umently a big deal. Everyone wants to be a celebrity. They want to be a famous actor‚ singer‚ etc. However‚ the real idea people need to be thinking about is‚ are you willing to give up your privacy and freedom? Once one becomes known to the public so does their entire life‚ whether one likes it or not. Take a look at Britney Spears; there is nothing about her life that is not public. Should this be a bad thing? Or should these public figure have

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    “People obey authority out of respect‚ while they obey power out of fear.” Power and authority are interpreted in many different ways. Authority is respected and recognized‚ where as power is used to exploit and manipulate situations simply to gain control or sway judgments. In some scenarios‚ power and authority are essentially indistinguishable‚ in others; one is taken advantage of by the other to dominate. E.g. Power may use authority to gain control and respect. I do not agree with this

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    CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 Introduction The focus of this chapter is to review critically and synthesize relevant knowledge about how and when specific levels of instruments and/ or policy interventions work to empower women and thereby increase gender equality‚ as stated by the World Bank (2001). Decision-making procedures should be changed to make room for female influences‚ styles and characteristics as well as in implementation. Participation of women in decision-making processes

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    After reading several different poems‚ "The Great Figure" really stood out to me. Although the poem is short in length‚ I feel like it has a story hidden within each word‚ phrase and verse. The poem is about someone seeing the number 5 on a fire truck‚ in the rain‚ as the truck is racing through the city. The image connects the to the poem and also tells the same story as the poem. In the image‚ the number 5 appears three time in three different sizes. The different sizes creates the illusion

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    Santiago as a Christ Figure In The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway‚ there are many comparisons between the main character Santiago‚ who is often called the old man‚ and Jesus in the Bible. For someone who is familiar with the Bible and then reads this story‚ the similarities are easy to pick up on. Many debate if Hemingway did this intentionally of if it was weird similarities that just happened to be there. A few of these similarities include characteristics of Santiago and of Jesus‚

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    Hidden Figures is a film about three African American women‚ who work at NASA in Hampton Virginia‚ Katherine Goble‚ Mary Jackson and Dorothy Vaughan. Katherine is a gifted mathematician‚ who is move to work in an all white male team‚ that is working on launching an man into space. Kartherine struggle to prove herself‚ as her colleagues doubt her ability since she is a woman of color. Mary Jackson has the dream to become an engineer‚ yet NASA will not take her since she does not have the right education

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    African American‚ or sometimes known as Afro-American; Black American; or Black people‚ is a group of American who partially or fully descended from African people. According to U.S Census Bureau‚ Afro-American is the second largest race in U.S which is 13.3% in 2016. It was increased since the beginning of 20th century which was only 9%. Even though they are the second largest race‚ they still face the biggest issue in the world: racism. It has began when Afro-American people was used as slave

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    interactions with one another and what drives those connections. 20th century psychologist‚ Stanley Milgram‚ executed a series of Obedience to Authority test on random participants. As seen in the YouTube videos online and in class‚ Milgram’s study found that over 65% of the participants carried out the experiment‚ despite potentially hurting someone‚ due to the authority figure urging them to continue. This poses the question as to why humans are so prone to conform to situations. Social influence can be

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