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    Discuss the representations of female characters in No Sugar. How do female characters in the play challenge and/or reinforce traditional gender discourse? Written by Australian playwright Jack Davis in 1985‚ the protest play No Sugar follows the journey of a Nyoongah family‚ the Millimurras‚ and the hardships and struggles they face during the Great Depression of the 1930s. It was during that period where both European and Aboriginal women were very much marginalized by society and still played

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    Slavery and Brazil

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    2 Brazil: From Colony to Democracy Part I: Discovery and Development C overing 3‚286‚488 square miles—a landmass nearly as large as the United States—Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world. In 2000‚ Brazil celebrated its five-hundredth birthday. The arrival of the Portuguese in Brazil on April 22‚ 1500 began a new chapter—both tragic and vibrant—of the country’s history. By 1532‚ the Portuguese had established their first permanent settlement‚ and by 1550‚ the Portuguese

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    Sugar-Coated Lies

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    Sugar-Coated Lies Wars are always difficult to cope with. “Dulce et Decorum est” is a poem by Wilfred Owen expressing the hardships many soldiers had to face during the First World War‚ the importance of remembering the terrible events that occurred‚ and how completely bogus the phrase ‘it is sweet and right’ truly is. It must have been a horrifying experience for these men to fight for their country‚ especially at a very young age where they had a promising future ahead of them. But sadly‚ plenty

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    Alan Sugar and Ben

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    Apprentice” is going to be analysed to see how power relations influence and also how gender can affect speech. The clip is of a board room where two men and two women are speaking. Sir Alan Sugar is in charge and the other three people‚ Yasmina‚ Paula and Ben‚ are being questioned to see who will be fired. Sir Alan Sugar is the first person to talk in the clip and so he will be analysed first. Sir Alan is in charge and it is up to him what will happen with the people in the room. The three people show

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    Report No. 93-00 A Report of USAID/New Delhi and the Office of Energy and Infrastructure Bureau for Research and Development United States Agency for International Development ADVANCING COGENERATION IN THE INDIAN SUGAR INDUSTRY Three Mills in Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra Prepared by: Winrock International and International Development and Energy Associates‚ Inc. 1611 N. Kent Street Arlington‚ VA 22209 Biomass Energy Systems and Technology Project DHR-5737-A-00-9058-00 Energy Planning and

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    Slavery in the Caribbean

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    saw Africans flogged and tortured in an effort to assimilate them into the plantation economy. Slave labour supplied the most coveted and important items in Atlantic and European commerce: the sugar‚ coffee‚ cotton and cacao of the Caribbean; the tobacco‚ rice and indigo of North America; the gold and sugar of Portuguese and Spanish South America. These commodities comprised about a third of the value of European commerce‚ a figure inflated by regulations that obliged colonial products to be brought

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    to west Africa. The second part was when the enslaved Africans were exchange for European goods; this was called the ’Middle Passage’. And the third one was the ’Inward Passage’ when the journey back to Europe with cargoes of sugar was bought with the slave sales. Slavery was represented as many of the few methods of producing wealth available to common people to the African societies. Colonial officials began imposing European law in the 19th century throughout the continent of Africa. The more

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    Abolition of Slavery

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    ABOLITION OF SLAVERY MANY PEOPLE IN BRITAIN WERE AGAINST SLAVERY. They believed that it was wrong to keep other human beings as slaves. So‚ the British decided to abolish the trade of slaves and slavery in the British Empire. In 1835‚ slavery was abolished in Mauritius and its dependencies. When the slaves were freed‚ * Some went to live in the suburbs of Port-Louis and did different jobs such as carpenters and masons. Some women earned their living by sewing dresses. * Some bought

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    Some historians refer to convict slavery. Do you think that this is an accurate description of the convicts transported to Australia? Historians refer to convict slavery‚ which is the act of having people who are serving a prison sentence working as slaves. In this context‚ it means that historians referred to convicts from England coming to Australia to work as slaves. People would say that this is an accurate description of the convicts transported to Australia because they were treated like

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    Plot Summary Prologue: "Middle-Class Pastoral" In the prologue‚ Rodriguez introduces himself and his book‚ referring to it as "essays impersonating an autobiography; six chapters of sad‚ fuguelike repetition." He makes clear that his purpose in putting together the book was to write about how education moved him from boyhood to manhood. Chapter One: Aria" In this essay‚ Rodriguez focuses on how the use of language has marked the difference between his public life and his private life

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