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    a Grecian man. With the assistance of her mother and her aunt‚ Toula is able to attend college and work for her aunt’s travel agency‚ despite her father’s original disapproval. During this time‚ she meets her fiancé‚ Ian Miller. Though disapproving at first‚ her family accepts Ian‚ because he demonstrates great lengths to be with Toula‚ including being baptized in the

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    Tie Dye

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    The earliest surviving examples of pre-Colombian tie-dye in Peru date from 500 to 800A.D. Their designs include small circles and lines‚ with bright colors including red‚ yellow‚ blue‚ and green.[4] Shibori includes a form of tie-dye that originated in Japan. It has been practiced there since at least the eighth century. Shibori includes a number of labor-intensive resist techniques including stitching elaborate patterns and tightly gathering the stitching before dyeing‚ forming intricate designs

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    of North Carolina‚ my brother Ian and I have been waiting for this day for months now. It was Christmas. Ian and I ran downstairs at 7 in the morning hoping Mammy and Daddy were awake. Unfortunately they weren’t so we woke them up. Mammy and Daddy slowly stumbled down the stairs till they finally made it to the living room. Where they presented us with two gifts‚ one for each of us. My gift was the latest Meccano set‚ in Ian’s gift was a baseball glove and ball. Ian was always the sportier one of

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    Sexuality and Society

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    college class or a corporation. * Elements of group dynamics * Group leadership * Instrumental leadership focuses on completing tasks. * Expressive leadership focuses on groups well being. Group conformity * The asch ‚milgram and janis research shows that group members often seek agreement and may pressure one another towards conformity. * Contd………….. * Group size and diversity * Peter Blau claimed that larger groups turn inward‚ socially diverse group turn outward

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    My Big Fat Greek Wedding

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    computer diploma under her belt‚ a rebellious Toula emerges. She manages her aunt’s travel agency and starts dating Ian Miller‚ a white high school English teacher. They date secretly for a while‚ before she has the courage to introduce him to her family. Her father is livid over her dating a non-Greek. The climax of the story occurs when both sides try to adjust to each other. While Ian has to let go of his rigid white individualistic upbringing and learn to accept her collective big family and Greek

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    David Reje   The Milieus of Adolf Hitler’s Courageous Struggle for Power Adolf Hitler’s dogged determination for power was because of the people he had associated with‚ the books‚ magazines and newspapers he read and his passion for German nationalism. Born in April 20th‚ 1889‚ third of five children‚ to Alois Hitler and Klara Polzl‚ greatly influenced by family upbringing for his obsessed power struggle for German nationalism. His contact with the likes of Georg Schonerer and Karl Lueger’s

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    “All across the nation such a strange vibration‚ people in motion. There’s a whole generation with a new explanation‚ people in motion‚ people in motion. For those who come to San Francisco‚ be sure to wear some flowers in your hair. If you come to San Francisco‚ summertime will be a love-in there” (McKenzie). “At no other time in history of American culture has the creativity of the whole younger generation been called into play” (Chambers 72). From the love festivals to the Vietnam War protests

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    Making Up People Theory

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    According to Ian Hacking Making Up people‚ based on historical analysis‚ where it refers to the simultaneous process whereby new ideas serve to create newly categorized kind of people. In order to illustrate the ways in which how people are made up‚ Ian proposed a new theory called dynamic nominalism‚ a middle ground between traditional nominalism which contends that “all categories‚ classes‚ and taxonomies are given by human minds rather than nature” (165) and traditional realism which contends

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    Running head: Human Trafficking; The United States Public’s Opinion Human Trafficking; The United States Public’s Opinion Barbara J. Schneider‚ MSCJ Capella University July 31‚ 2014 Abstract According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime‚ human trafficking is defined as “the acquisition of people by improper means such as force‚ fraud or deception‚ with the aim of exploiting them.” This includes‚ servitude‚ forced labor‚ sex‚ and forced organ

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    MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING

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    work at her aunt’s agency‚ finally saw an American boy who she saw years before also single. Then they met and talked finally both of them have fallen in love. But the problem of them is that she can’t marry a non-Greek man which is the American boy (Ian Miller). This is unwanted by the father of the woman because he wants to preserve the Greek blood‚ culture‚ heritage and culture‚ but in the end the father finally accepts the American guy in the family and he has to adapt the culture of the woman.

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