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    The Dark Side of Chocolate is a documentary that was produced in 2010 by a journalist named Miki Mistrati. Who investigates the use of trafficked children to be used for child labor in the harvesting of cocoa beans for the production of chocolate. According to the documentary 3 million tons of chocolate are consumed every year‚ half in Europe. But the success of chocolate is partly due to the fact that child labor is used to harvest cocoa beans on cocoa plantations in Africa. The filming started

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    Globalization Hidden Side of Capitalism Done By: Bahaa Takieddine Lebanese American University Class: English II Section: 11 Outline Claim: Capitalism is leading to some adverse effects on the level of countries equality‚ since it arises to expand the gap between rich & poor and exploiting laborers. I. The gap between rich and poor throughout countries has been a major problem that falls under category of being affected by capitalism. A. Income 1-Reich(2007) argues that

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    Murphy Professor George De Falussy Great International Films (FAR 2915.30) Critical Essay #3 May 19‚ 2012 To be Reality or to be Fantasy . . . That’s How the Labyrinth is Solved History helps to provide people with a further understanding of events that transpired in the past and is also used to help determine events that could transpire in the future. Film can be used in the same way. A director can choose for his movie to depict factual events in the past in order to teach his audience a moral or value

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    several aspects‚ but they also share some aspects. For instance‚ while it is not forbidden to wear colored clothing to American funerals‚ most people do not wear it anyways. Instead‚ they wear black clothing. This presentation related to Paradise of the Blind because these philosophies spread to Vietnam. In Vietnam‚ the dead have altars in houses or offices. For example‚ Hang had an altar in her living room with her father’s photo on it. Later on in the story‚ Aunt Tam takes the photo of Tan from the altar

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    type of characters‚ is named Beorn. Beorn is a character that appears in the novel named The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. There is a remake of the book in a movie version called The Hobbit and it is directed by Peter Jackson. The book was originally published during the year 1937. The movie of The Hobbit was released in the year 2012. In the movie‚ Gandalf‚ Bilbo‚ and the dwarves meet Beorn in a dramatic way in which Beorn chases them to his own home‚ while in the novel Gandalf tells the party to go

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    “Finding Nemo” Introduction to Film ENG 225 ‘Finding Nemo’ (2003) was written and directed by Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich. This is a computer animated movie that takes you into the breathtaking underwater world of Australia’s: Great Barrier Reef. That is an amazing story between a bond for a parent and child. In the movie the father fish Marlin a clown fish voiced by Albert Brooks loses his wife Coral and 499 of their 500 children to a hungry barracuda fish. Marlin then becomes an

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    Americans realize that a nation can have it’s imperfections‚ and "dark side". This visual account of the mistreatment of slaves should question the morality and justice‚ which our nation holds so much pride in. The movie itself was an accurate and moving embodiment of the terror of slavery and the justice that it produced. However‚ some parts of the movie and the factual history of La Amistad were different. Primarily‚ the movie itself did not contribute much of it’s thanks and cite the most ardent

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    Supply Side Policies According to Sloman (2000) ‘‘Supply Side economics is the branch of economics that considers how to improve the productive capacity of the economy. It tends to be associated with Monetarist‚ free market economics’’[i] . These economists tend to emphasise the benefits of making markets‚ such as labor markets more flexible. However‚ some supply side policies can involve government intervention to overcome market failure. Supply Side Policies are government attempts to increase

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    The Cultures and Subcultures of the Deaf and Deaf-Blind. California University of Pennsylvania CMD 350: Sign Language & Braille I September 27‚ 2011 The Cultures and Subcultures of the Deaf and Deaf-Blind. Deaf culture describes the social beliefs‚ behaviors‚ art‚ literary traditions‚ history‚ values and shared institutions of communities that are affected by deafness and which use sign languages as the main means of communication (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaf_culture). Much

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    Stephan Weir Period 7 Criticism Ms. Kellert Essay- a question of Identity In her critique of the 1961 film West Side Story‚ Frances Negron-Muntaner expresses her dislike of the film‚ arguing that the film portrays Puerto Rican men as criminals and gang members‚ and portraying the women of Puerto Rico as “sassy and virginal”. Though the film was not the first or last film to marginalize Puerto Ricans‚ Muntaner states that “There is no single American cultural

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