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    The Color Purple‚ an epistolary novel‚ was written in 1982 by American Author Alice Walker. The epic tale was produced into a film by Steven Spielberg in 1985. The Color Purple is an American drama film about the life of an African-American woman who survives abuse and bigotry. The protagonist of the story‚ Celie‚ is a young girl who is abused and raped everyday by her own father. Her father‚ Alphonso‚ impregnates her and steals her children. He then marries her off to another abusive man by the

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    Immigration Today Immigration is an important issue in the US because being the “melting pot” that we are and having the reputation of providing the “American Dream” to all who come here‚ it becomes very attractive for immigrants who come from less appealing countries. Yet this number of immigrants is so incredibly high that the country’s policies on becoming a citizen cannot keep up. To become a citizen an immigrant must apply for residency and have resident status while residing in the

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    The United States‚ according to the pledge that most students across the country say every school day‚ is a nation “with liberty and justice for all”. America has prided itself on its diverse yet harmonious nature since its founding in the sixteenth century. People like Thomas Paine have considered America to be one of the best nations based on this principle. However‚ over time‚ people have started to question whether or not the United States meets these characteristics. The country still seems

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    The novel Medea by Euripides is a ancient Greek tragedy based on the myth of Jason and Medea. The hole story is centered on Medea’s actions and even more so on the theme of betrayal. When Jason leaves Princess Medea for another Princess named Corinth‚ Medea becomes vengeful. She enacts her revenge by killing Jason’s mistress and‚ her own children. After all this she leaves to go to Athens Greece. The main focus is on women killing their own children; a term for killing your own child is called maternal

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    change. The purpose of this essay is to prove how and why the stubborn ignorance present in Plato’s Allegory of the Cave can still be found in many aspects of today’s mass media‚ including television‚ news broadcasting channels‚ and advertising. Today‚ most people have been chained to their television since

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    Choose any one concept or argument developed within classical sociology. Critically evaluate the use made of this concept or argument by contemporary sociology in trying to understand a current social issue This essay looks at the argument taken from a classical sociologist called Weber‚ throughout this essay it explains rationalization and how it has become modernized using Ritzer to explain this by demonstrating his McDonaldization theory. The theory will be clarified by contemporary sociologists

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    In our society many people try to eliminate racism but some still are racist. You might not think about racism everyday but it happens a lot around the world. Even though all genders and races should be treated the same they are not and it can lead to personal issues just because of people looking different from each other. All women and men are created equal and the same. People in the world do not treat others fairly. We should get treated the same way not because you like white people or black

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    Hysteria The Crucible is a play written by Arthur Miller in 1953. The Crucible is about a group of girls who practice witchcraft and then accuse innocent people of being witches in order to avoid consequences. Miller wrote The Crucible in 1953 during the McCarthy period when many Americans were accused for having Pro-Communist beliefs. The Crucible draws many parallels between the witch-hunts of the 1690s and the McCarthy trials of the 1950s The Puritan life was a very plain‚ straightforward

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    The Crucible is a book written by Arthur Miller in the 1950’s. The book describes events of paranoia in the form of witchcraft‚ and trial. This book was written during the McCarthy Era‚ which‚ as defined by http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mccarthyism?s=t‚ was the government‚ amongst others‚ making unsupported claims of people being communist. The Crucible was based on the witch trials of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries‚ in which central european countries would trial‚ torture‚ and kill

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    years ago‚ Shakespeare was created and had became very popular. Shakespeare still exists today and is still very popular and is used almost every day in modern day time. I am going to be writing about the differences between shakespeare back then verses modern day Shakespeare and how similar and different they are from each other. Shakespeare is still important to this day and I am going to be talking about it. Shakespeare started in the 1500’s and was created by William Shakespeare. What is Shakespeare

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