and transformation of Michael Corleone; he leaves his status as a family outsider to become king of the underworld. Michael is the son of Vito Corleone‚ Don of the Corleone Crime Family1. The story of The Godfather is the story of both Vito and Michael. Vito passes away and leaves his throne to Michael‚ who steps out of a seemingly innocent world ordinary American life to receive his father’s crown and to assume control of the Corleone Family. As my thesis focuses on Michael‚ I will recount the
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Don Marquis’ "Why Abortion is Immoral" In his essay "Why Abortion is Immoral‚" Don Marquis argues against the morality of abortion on the premise that the value of a fetus’ future is so great that it is immoral to take that potential future away from it. Essentially‚ he contends‚ abortion is tantamount to murder: killing an individual is prima facie wrong because the loss of the goods of one’s future is the worst loss a human can suffer. He calls this potential future a "future-like-ours‚"
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Why the Lebanese Left Lebanon The Lebanon Civil War and Declining Economic Prospects: Much of Lebanese Immigration occurred between the 1940s and 1990s because of the large amount of Immigrants fleeing the Lebanon Civil War. Around 60‚000 Lebanese immigrated to the U.S. between 1948 and 1985. Another reason why Lebanese Americans left Lebanon was due to declining economic prospects after the war. Why the Lebanese Came to the U.S. and Their Expectations The majority of Lebanese immigrants came
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The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History Edited by John Parker and Richard Reid Oxford University Press 536pp £95 Colonialism was predicated on the negation of African history or‚ as one of the two editors of this volume‚ John Parker‚ wrote in his African History: A Very Short Introduction (2007): a ‘general European perception [...] that Africa‚ especially Sub-Saharan Africa‚ had no history to speak of’. The emergence of sub-Saharan African history in both western and African universities
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University of Malaya Research Project Proposal TXGB 6106 Psychology of Language Learning Name:Siti Nur Najmin bt. Aminuddin Student No. Topic: Can Toddy Give Me an Orange? Parent Input and Young Children’s Production of I and You Purpose: explore the ways in which children respond to parent input as they discover the meaning and use of I and you. We utilized corpora from the CHILDES database (MacWhinney‚ 2000) to examine the relation between parent
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tial Name Nguyen Hong Nhung Class: H61111B Student code: L9917997 Rewrite: Why competition is good for everyone. The article by Dr Yi Min Tsai shows the benefits of free trade to Australia. Overall‚ most of her arguments are convincing. However‚ she has some unpersuasive ideas that the trade leads to diversifying choices with lower price‚ creating chances to local producers and perceiving new skills. First of all‚ the author presents an unconvincing idea that free trade agreements
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The Michael addition is a reaction named after Arthur Michael. Discovered in 1887‚ this is a carbon-carbon bond making reaction. The result of the Michael addition is a 1‚4 addition of a nucleophile to an alpha‚ beta-unsaturated carbonyl carbon compound. A 1‚4 addition is also commonly referred to as a conjugated addition. Another result of this reaction is a 1‚2 addition of a nucleophile. Some of the common attacking nucleophiles used in this reaction are enolates. Enolates‚ a negatively charged
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Anth 68 Day 4 An Animal’s Place In his article‚ An Animal’s Place‚ Michael Pollan describes the treatment of animals by contemporary meat-processing industries. He starts out by talking about a movement that concerns with better treatment of animals and mentions a book‚ Animal Liberations written by Peter Singer. In the book‚ Singer “demands that you either defend the way you live or change it.” Singer argues along the premise of equality and says “If possessing a higher degree of intelligence does
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Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a travelogue of sorts‚ due to the blurred lines between fiction and non-fiction‚ which deeply explores the status of the American Dream during the early 70’s‚ specifically 1971. Thompson states this purpose within the first three chapters of the book in the line‚ “Because I want you to know that we’re on our way to Las Vegas to find the American Dream.” (F&L pg 6) Although Thompson states in the beginning of the book that‚ “Our trip was different
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Set in the early 1960’s in Jackson‚ Mississippi‚ ‘The Help’ is about a strong and independent woman while racism is at an all-time high. The film follows the story of Skeeter‚ a young‚ white girl‚ who wishes to write a book about the hardships and racism felt by the black maids working for the white families. Aibileen and Minny‚ two black maids‚ share their tales and experiences to help Skeeter fulfil her dream. Skeeter is shown as strong and independent woman in the film. Skeeter spends four years
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