GORDON PARKS Gordon Parks was one of the seminal figures of twentieth century photography. A humanitarian with a deep commitment to social justice‚ he left behind a body of work that documents many of the most important aspects of American culture from the early 1940s up until his death in 2006‚ with a focus on race relations‚ poverty‚ Civil Rights‚ and urban life. In addition‚ Parks was also a celebrated composer‚ author‚ musician and filmmaker who interacted with many of the most
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A GIRL LIKE ME: GWEN ARAUJO STORY The film‚ A Girl Like Me‚ is based on a true story of a transgender teenager who was not accepted by the society. Gwen Araujo was born as Eddie Araujo. However‚ as he got older he started to realize that he was more female than a male. Eddie feels like a girl. Eddie likes wearing makeup and woman clothes. When he wore makeup and woman clothes‚ Eddie’s mother Sylvia gets angry. Sylvia is having a hard time to accept Eddie’s situation. After Eddie started to high
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With films like Black Prison-White Playground‚ there is a shift from being represented by outsiders to having Aboriginals represent themselves. The fact that the filmmaker is an Aboriginal means that Black Prison-White Playground has a significant level of credibility and authenticity‚ as it is a film about Aboriginals‚ by an Aboriginal. Thus‚ if it is a film about indigenous people‚ having an indigenous filmmaker would make the film more real than any other external representations of the indigenous
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GM 03 Business Statistics Assignment II Assignment Code: 2012 GM03 B2 Last Date of Submission: 15th November 2012 Maximum Marks: 100 Attempt all the questions. All questions are compulsory and carry equal marks. SECTION – A 1. a) Explain the need for different forecasting techniques. How can we evaluate as to how good is our forecast. b) Collect data on the amount of expenditure you do each day for the next 25 days and
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EVOLUTION OF DENTAL IMPLANTS Since time immemorial‚ humans have used dental implants in one form or other to replace missing teeth. The first evidence of dental implants is attributed to the Mayan population roughly around 600 AD where they succeeded in utilizing pieces of shells as implants as a replacement for mandibular teeth. Radiographs taken in the 1970’s of Mayan mandibles show compact bone formation around the implants. Moreover‚ around 800 AD‚ a stone implant was first prepared and placed
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photograph was taken of Florence Owens Thompson the destitute pea picker with two toddlers and a baby in her arms. The desperate look on this mother’s face‚ communicate all the hopelessness‚ pain and misery of this migrant worker. According to Roy Stryker‚ this photograph was the “Ultimate” photo of the Great Depression Era. All these three photographs manage to specifically convey to the viewer how impoverished these people were. The ragged dirty clothes that these agricultural laborers were wearing
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Magneto: hero or Villain? When we think of villains there are several that quickly come to mind. For Batman there is the Joker‚ Superman has Lex Luthor as his great revel‚ and Spider-Man fights the Green Goblin. Yet no other character is as complex as the X-Men’s villain‚ Magneto. From they very beginning of the comic series there has not been a person that has crossed the line between hero and villain as much as Magneto. Even though he has helped and saved the X- men on several occasions. What
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Commercialization Screen PHYSCIENT ASSUAGE RETRACTOR Sponsor: Physcient‚ Inc. Date: 10/29/10 Contact: Hugh Crenshaw | hugh.crenshaw@physcient.com Team Members: Tom Meehan‚ Alyssa Roessler‚ Darcy Jones‚ Tanzeem Haq Keywords: Thoracic Retractor‚ Thoracotomy‚ Sternotomy‚ Rectractor‚ Finochietto TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW Introduction A retractor is a surgical instrument used to separate the edges of a surgical incision‚ the underlying tissues‚ and bone so that organs under the incision
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References: D. Stryker‚ L. S. (May 7‚ 2003). Ensuring Benefits of Globalization Reach the Poor. Washington D.C.: USAID. S. Udall‚ F. D. (September 1967). Helmand Arghandab Valley Project-Afghanistan . Washington D.C.: USAID.
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direct=true&db=ehh&AN=266018&site=ehost-livehttp://>. Oswalt‚ Patton. "Wake Up‚ Geek Culture. Time to Die." Wired.com. Conde Nast Digital‚ 27 Dec. 2010. Web. 06 May 2012. <http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/12/ff_angrynerd_geekculture/all/1>. Stryker‚ Cole. "Urlesque." Urlesque. URLesque‚ 29 Dec. 2010. Web. 06 May 2012. <http://www.urlesque.com/2010/12/29/nerd-culture-patton-oswalt/>. Trespalacios‚ Jesús‚ Barbara Chamberlin‚ and Rachel R. Gallagher. "How Youth Prefernces in Video Gaming
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