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    Customer Consumption

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    aisle contained frozen foods like pizza‚ ice cream‚ cookie dough‚ and frozen diners. In the next couple of rows cereal‚ juices‚ and drinks filled the shelves‚ ready to be taken home. The aisles closest to the deli had different kinds of breads and tortillas. Checkout counters were in the very front. Energy drinks‚ candy‚ and more magazines were right in the midst of the conveyor belt. Next I observed a small doctors office. Entering the building from small push doors with red lettering‚ I was greeted

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    For the Oral History project‚ I decided to interview my uncle‚ Facundo Jardón. He is a middle-aged man who migrated from Mexico years ago and has lived in Southern California for more than half his life. He is a stubborn‚ strong-willed man whose country’s poverty and crime forced him to leave behind his beloved mother‚ as well as adolescent younger brothers and sisters. Despite the drastic change in environment‚ he has come to assimilate and adopted some of the Mainstream culture expressed in the

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    even trapped. Alicia is a young woman whose mother died‚ who inherited her mother’s place to cook and clean. “Studies all night and sees the mice‚ the ones her father says do not exist.”(pg.32). Alicia has to wake up early in the morning to make tortillas for her father for lunch‚ where she sees mice. She is in the university and wants to escape from her father because she doesn’t want to work in a factory or always be her father’s maid. We can infer that Alicia wants to move out because in the text

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    Turning Points in Hamlet

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    There are three possible turning points in Hamlet: the players’ scene when Claudius’ guilt concerning the murder of King Hamlet is confirmed; the prayer scene when Hamlet forgoes the opportunity to kill Claudius; and the closet scene where Hamlet first takes action‚ but kills Polonius inadvertently. In the players’ scene‚ the ghost’s story is proved to be true‚ allowing Hamlet to avenge his father’s murder. In the prayer scene‚ Hamlet misses a perfect opportunity to kill Claudius‚ giving Claudius

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    The “Iron Curtain‚” coined by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill‚ symbolized the ideological‚ political‚ and physical barriers that divided Europe in two. Capitalist West Berlin was led by the United States and the communist East Berlin was led by the Soviet

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    Scene 1 The curtain opens to reveal the narrator‚ sitting at the base of a tree. The stage is lit up but a spotlight still shines on him/her. Narrator Many stories are told‚ and are being told‚ in many places‚ in many lands‚ at different times. (Narrator stands up and starts walking around stage talking to the audience and slowly roundaboutly making his/her way to the front and side of the stage) But one story no matter how rebuked‚ old‚ or disclaimed remains relevant even in this day and age.

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    Cold War

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    creations of the Iron Curtain‚ Marshall Plan‚ and NATO‚ in which the United States tried to contain Communism. One of the main reasons this war began was because of the differences in which the U.S. and the Soviet Union led one another. On March 5‚ 1946‚ Winston Churchill made his speech discussing the Iron Curtain. This phrase represented the division that was descended between the European countries. Churchill believed all of the famous cities that were on the east side of the curtain laid within the

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    Aslan” (Lewis 161). The children in the book are terrified to see no Aslan‚ thinking somebody took the dead body. “At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to the bottom. The earth shook‚ the rocks split and the tombs broke open” (NIV‚ Matthew 27.51-52). Here the reader can make the relation of the cracking of the Stone Table to the curtain of the temple being torn. Both instances something terrible has happened but as time passed the resurrection of Aslan and of Jesus proves

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    Across the pond lays London’s West End Theatre. London’s first playhouse was built in 1576 and not surprisingly carried the name of ‘The Theatre’ ("London’s Vibrant West End” 1). Before London had proper housing for these plays‚ many were conducted in homes or courtyards. In 1663‚ the first West End Theatre opened ("London’s Vibrant West End” 1). Unfortunately‚ this early theatre‚ home to some the earliest stars burnt down in 1672 ("London’s Vibrant West End” 1). Today‚ West End has climbed its way

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    cup of capitalism Half cup of Iron Curtain Half cup of Truman Doctrine A piece of Berlin Wall 1/4 cup of Korean War 1/4 cup of Vietnam War 1/4 cup of Arab-Israeli conflict 1/4 cup of Soviet War in Afghanistan Two spoon of nuclear weapon 1/2 spoon of KGB 1/2 spoon of CIA A spoon of other weapons (for example: missiles‚ tanks‚ battleships) First put 1 cup of communism and 1 cup of capitalism into the pot‚ and then pour half cup of Iron Curtain and half cup of Truman Doctrine into

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