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    also to support her and give her words of wisdom. Her school teachers’ role was to make sure that the female children‚ attending the school‚ wore their veils‚ while the guardians of the revolution’s role were to arrest females that were improperly veiled. The younger Marji’s role was to show us how the Iranian Revolution/ the mandatory wearing of the veil affected her life‚ while the older Marji’s role was to show us how Iranian cultural expectations of gender differ from Western cultural expectations

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    Sinulog Festival Date of Celebration: 3rd week of January Place of Celebration: Cebu City Description: The Sinulog Festival is distinguished by its unusual two-steps-forward-and-one-step-backward shuffle‚ thus simulating the Holy Child of the shores‚ the Sinulog is a century-old tradition observed in the part of Visayas region. The prayer-dance is harmonized to the beat of drums and shouts of "Pit Señor! Viva Sto. Niño!”. Ati-atihan Festival Date of Celebration: 3rd week of January Place of Celebration:

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    cover the women’s faces. It is interesting how the veil is black and black is usually associated with “the hidden‚ secretive‚ and the unknown” (http://www.empower-yourself-with-color-psychology.com) Having that said‚ when Marji was veiled she noted‚ “we found ourselves veiled and separated from our friends” (4). Having the veil on makes them separated from the rest of the other girls and now the people have no idea who the people in the veil are. Also‚ the veil is like a trap for them as Marji illustrated

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    always arranged. However the difference was that in Mesopotamia‚ women were considered the property of the man whereas in Egypt‚ women were considered the equal. An example is that women in Mesopotamia were veiled when married because they were under control of a man whereas they were not veiled in Egypt. A statue of a man and a woman found in Egypt provides evidence for their equality because they are equal in size and dress. This is opposite in Mesopotamia where men controlled what a women could

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    Backmasking: Between the devil and the media Are you aware of the music nowadays? How does the band affect the lives of young people today? Well‚ different bands and songs had already flourished in the world. They had grown into new ideas and captured the hearts of the people‚ especially the teenagers. They sometimes play songs for dancing‚ singing‚ recreation or listening. People use them to express feelings and ideas and also a way for them to relax. It is an unavoidable element in everyone’s

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    Trier From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search Lars von Trier | Lars von Trier at Cannes in 2000 | Born | Lars Trier 30 April 1956 (age 56) Kongens Lyngby‚ Denmark | Occupation | Film director and screenwriter | Influenced by | Andrei Tarkovsky‚ Carl Theodor Dreyer‚ Ingmar Bergman‚ Stanley Kubrick‚ Douglas Sirk‚ David Lynch‚ Michelangelo Antonioni‚ Jørgen Leth‚ Erich von Stroheim‚ Josef von Sternberg‚ Bertolt Brecht | Spouse(s) | Cæcilia Holbek (m. 1987–1995)[1]

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    If your mind is stressing you out‚ yet it is not the same thing as your physical body‚ how come it is able to cause symptoms like this? Once this problem emerges it begins to put flaw into Descartes theory of the mind and body being different. The masked man fallacy is a good example on why his theory isn’t logical to me. It makes sense because although two things seem to be different‚ it isn’t necessary two different physical

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    NJ: Princeton UP‚ 1998. Print. Ahmed‚ Leila. The Discourse of the Veil. New Haven‚ CT: Princeton UP‚ 1992. Print. Vargas‚ Jose Antonio. "Spring Awakening." The New York Times. The New York Times‚ 19 Feb. 2012. Web. 14 Nov. 2012. . "A Veiled Revolution." A Veiled Revolution. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 14 Nov. 2012.

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    uninteresting – ‘grey little villages in France’. It can also show a contrast between the gold colour of the wealthy east egg‚ such as with Wilson - "mingling immediately with the cement colour of the walls. A white ashen dust veiled his dark suit and his pale hair as it veiled everything in the vicinity – except his wife‚ who moved close to Tom’. It can also represent the moral and social decay that results from the uninhibited pursuit of wealth‚ as the rich indulge themselves with regard for nothing

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    coverings do not reduce a woman’s freedom‚ but in fact adds to her liberation because it her choice to wear it. This essay will illustrate the ways in which others have taken away the rights of veiled women‚ how Muslim women view their veil‚ and discuss the small differences in real life between veiled and non-veiled women. In the recent years two cases arose in Canada and France in which the governments are debated making it against the law to wear hijabs. In France this law was passed causing and outcry

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