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    Affected Development Through Significant Others Abstract Theories and research into adult attachment suggests that the effects of the close emotional bond between parent and child in early life could be responsible for the bond that develops between adults in emotionally intimate relationships during adult life. In line with this‚ the aim of this report is to offer an overview of the history of attachment theories and the key theoretical ideas through using

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    most successful authors of the late Victorian Age. Wilde was involved in the aestheticism movement‚ which attempted to establish art as just pieces of beauty. Many people of the Victorian Era believed all works of art had a deeper meaning and purpose other than for pleasure‚ but Wilde worked to disprove this idea. He believed that art is self sufficient and it does not have to teach morals or to show political commitment to society‚ and that the artist is not obliged to explain what he or she means

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    GERALD DURRELL’S MY FAMILY AND OTHER ANIMALS AUTHOR • Find some information about him and write a short obituary[1]. • What were his major works? • What was his major interest in life? This website http://www.durrell.org/ and some reference sites such as Google or Wikipedia may help you to find information. Gerald had a brother who became a famous writer. • What was his name? • Do you know anything about his life & work? SETTING • Where does the

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    How the Other Half Lives

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    An Analysis of How The Other Half Lives The massive overcrowding in New York was epitomized by the tenements‚ which by 1880 housed over 600‚000 people within 24‚000. This awful statistic was one of many declared by Jacob Riis in his How The Other Half Lives. His work‚ influenced by other tenement reform advocates‚ synthesized the cause for reform together into this journal to convince those who were blind to the problem to want to also help. This essay will evaluate the methods and effectiveness

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    were oblivious to the conditions that the immigrants had dealt with until the publishing of How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis. How the Other Half Lives was a book that documented the hardships that immigrants faced living in American cities through pictures and observations. Riis gave Americans an opportunity to see what life was really like for an immigrant in living in America. In How the Other Half Lives‚ Riis showed how immigrants were not entirely different from Americans and he talked about

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    n Chapter 10‚ " The Other Civil War" there were four significant points. The first significant point was the Anti-Renter movement‚ it showcased how even the less fortunate had some power. They had power in numbers‚ when the sheriff confronted the tenants for not paying rent‚ they outnumbered him and stood in solidarity. When he came back with reenforcement‚ they stood in solidarity against him and his men. People often feel like they can’t stand up against their oppressors or to people with power

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    Affluence and Alcohol—the Causes of “How the Other Half” Lived The Gilded Age was a term given to the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Mark Twain. For big business owners‚ gilded was an appropriate term to describe their lifestyles. Yet‚ for those who worked for these big businesses‚ life was anything but golden. Twain named the era to ironically describe life for the laborers. The horrific conditions people lived and worked in are captured in How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis. The author observes

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    n 1890‚ Jacob Riis published a groundbreaking booked titled “How the Other Half Lives.” Jacob Riis‚ a Danish immigrant‚ spent the majority of the 1880s collecting the information that would later go into his bestselling book. “How the Other Half Lives” provides a written and visual portrayal of the horrendous living conditions in many New York City slums. While the middle and upper classes lived considerably more comfortable lives‚ the people suffering through the horrid conditions in the aforementioned

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    Modern communication‚ on the one hand bring people closer and on the other‚ tend to isolate them. Show the truth of this statement._GP_890 One human dream was always to overcome distance‚ to increase speed‚ and to make all parts of his planets within easy reach. This dream has become true today. The modern forms of communications have made our planet smaller in a sense so that the term global village is fully justified. Today countries have become a series of villages through play to our primitive

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    An Essay on "Otherness"

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    labeled as the Other is different and does not fit in. The Other is “perceived as lacking essential characteristics possessed by the group‚ the Other is almost always seen as lesser or inferior being and is treated accordingly” (The Other‚ 2009). A group sets guidelines and if a person does not meet them they will not be accepted as “normal”. Otherness to a group represents awkwardness. Although each person does have its own unique characteristics to prevent from being labeled as the Other you must possess

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