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    The magical power of African Art‚ illustrated in the nkisi nknode figure is unfamiliar to Westerners because we don’t know the context of the art and the intention of the artist. Westerners are interpreting that illustration without any real knowledge of the culture. Due to these figures been in museums in West‚ the culture has lost a great deal of their history and memory. The Westerners in return have gained some knowledge and have created there own interpretation of the figures. The culture also

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    Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 1996. Marshall‚ Robert Lewis. The Compositional Process of J.S. Bach: A Study of the Autograph Scores of the Vocal Works. Princeton‚ New Jersey: Princeton University Press. 1972. Mendel‚ Arthur and Christoph Wolff edited by David Hans. The New Bach Reader: A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents. New York: W.W. Norton. 1998. Stapert‚ Calvin. My Only Comfort: Death‚ Deliverance‚ and Discipleship in the Music of Bach. Grand Rapids‚ Michigan: W

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    rephrasing it towards the westerners.” With these‚ they say‚ material progress spells out moral progress. And then is taken a sudden jump: What is true of the thirty millions is true of the universe. They forget that hard cases make bad law”(Austin 334) Gandhi finishes strong in using sarcasm to in stating that the westerners forget India is large populations and in so doing gives his audience power through his voice thus using logos from the generalization of the westerners to the principles of Indians

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    The Characteristics of Hemingway’s Works Ernest Hemingway‚ who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and the Nobel Prize of Literature in 1954‚ occupies an outstanding position in the American literature. He is regarded as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Hemingway is famous for his distinct writing style and his “Code Hero.” In addition‚ his many great works are based on his experiences of war. Hemingway’s writing style is arguably the most distinctive characteristic

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    historic approach. Diamond also clarifies that hunter-gatherer civilizations are not inferior to agricultural or industrial civilizations. Diamond uses part of the prologue to prove that in many ways‚ New Guineans were smarter than white foreigners/westerners. Diamond

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    The ideals of Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mills utilitarianism can easily be compatible with the ideology of other political institutions; communism is one that I think relates to this theory on an international level. utilitarianism is a form of social philosophy meaning the valued principle and ethics only have the power because we consciously give the ideals jurisdiction. Utilitarianism is a means to support and claims pleasure for majority of the population‚ even if the general population

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    $1.4 (from taxing the drug) in revenue for California (Wolff). Additionally our country as a whole spends $68 Billion a year on its prisoner’s one third of which are imprisoned for non-violent drug crimes. According to an article written by Madeline Wolff in the Daily Sundial about half of these criminals are in Jail for Marijuana related crimes. This means legalizing the drug would mean spending less then $11.3 billion less on prisons (Wolff). Legalizing Marijuana would mean generating this lost

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    I am going to evaluate tanning where it came from‚ who invented it‚ where‚ and why. Last but not least were going to be looking at the positive and the negative aspects of tanning too. The history of tanning beds begins with Friedrich Wolff. Friedrich Wolff was a German scientist who invented the tanning bed in 1978. Friedrich invented this on accident. He did this when he was doing a study on the positive side effects of ultraviolet light on athletes. Then he noticed a side effect about the

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    discrimination especially happens between Western/Americans and Eastern/Asian culture. we know that the food culture is different between the East and the West. In the East‚ some Asians eat dog meat‚ but people in the West do not eat dog meat. Many Westerners and a few Easterners dislike “Yulin” a place where people eat dogs years round. There is a festival each year in Yulin in which over ten thousand dogs are killed for their meat. Although eating dog meat is considered unacceptable in Western culture

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    The Arab World Hall speaks of the differences between the Westerners and the Arabs‚ which he believes could be the underlying explanation for the misunderstandings and miscommunication between these two cultures. Divided into 7 main parts‚ this non-fictional text is extremely informative‚ describing certain aspects of an Arab’s life and demeanor very thoroughly in a formal tone. It is not considered an argument however‚ as Hall does not in reality argue to prove a point but instead tries to explain

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