easy to see that grammar and being ‘well-educated’ are not a real reflection of one’s intelligence‚ but instead a reflection of privilege. When those who are already at a systematic disadvantage voice their displeasure but are shut down under the guise of being unintelligent‚ there is little the oppressed can do to validate their opinions since they are already associated with a sort of savagery and absurdity that would render them irrelevant. It is not the existence of the English language that
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10 top reasons why Carbon Tax is wrong and utterly pointless It is a green ideological tax for social engineering under the guise of dangerous climate change. It is unnecessary‚ ineffective‚ and hugely damaging to Australian families and our industry. 1. Deceitful: Julia Gillard pledged before the election to not introduce a Carbon Tax. Our government must not be allowed to contemptuously disregard key pre-election pledges to not introduce contentious revolutionary schemes‚ if elections
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Tall Tales Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten. --Neil Gaiman The escapades of wily Odysseus are ingrained into the hearts of countless children. The bedtime story of one man’s journey home and the obstacles he faces along the way forever lives on in youthful imagination. Alas‚ a problem arises when mythology-loving
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Mao Zedong’s ideas varied between flexible pragmatism and utopian visions‚ exemplified in the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. As Professor Nutter says‚ Mao established a regime that was based upon his own personality. Ruthless and ambitious‚ Mao turned China into a world military power and created a cult of personality‚ forcing the distribution of his image and his "Little Red Book" (a collection of political maxims) upon the Chinese people. As far as the world was concerned for
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than a thousand pages scattered through various handwritten notebooks‚ diaries‚ fragments‚ and typed sheets‚ the sum of it an extraordinary record of what she called the "forging of a soul‚" the creation of a writer and a woman whose many veils and guises have succeeded in forestalling anyone from knowing who she really was‚ despite her lifelong frenetic‚ fanatical quest to discover the answer for herself. It ’s the tally of "my lusts and my little ideas‚" wrote nineteen-year-old Sylvia Plath in her
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funding for the project is raised by selling tickets to the private sector for 1 billion per person‚ effectively cutting off the chances of majority of people to survive. By 2011 they start to secretly move humanity’s valuable treasures under the guise of protecting them from terrorist attacks‚ such as the Mona Lisa‚ to save humanity’s history as well. The Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar‚ or the Mayan Calendar‚ is referenced in the movie. Earthquakes of intensified magnitudes wreak havoc all over
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Camille Desmoulins (March 2‚ 1760 – April 5‚ 1794) Camille Desmoulins was a French journalist and politician who played an important role in the French revolution. He was born at Guise‚ Aisne in Picardy. His father through the efforts of a friend was able to obtain a scholarship for Camille at the Collège Louis-le-Grand in Paris.Robespierre also attended at the same time. Failure in a attempt at a career in law steered Desmoulins towards writing and his interest in public affairs led him to
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equality of all humankind. Meanwhile‚ dystopia presents societies based on segregation‚ inequality‚ and oppression. Many times the equality of the society in utopian fiction is an illusion. While it’s true that most utopia masquerades under the guise of dystopia‚ the difference is sometimes only in perspective. Is the story told from a perspective of despair or of hope? If the ending presents hope as an option‚ then the story more than likely has more utopian qualities. If the message is without
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6. Rational basis test: is a deferential standard of review asks if the governmental classification at issue is rationally related to a legitimate governmental interest. The Judge was correct in his initial statements but he also harbored a large bias to black community. The judge told Brigance that he needs to not risk his job and family just because of that black man in custody. The state representative and the judge were working together to keep assert their white dominance over this black man
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“Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.”-jean luc godard ABOUT THE FILM F for Fake is a film which portrays chicanery‚ deception‚ misdirection‚ scoundrels‚ sleight of hand‚ con artistry‚ dishonesty‚ and flimflammery in all its myriad guises. It’s not hard to see the film as one elaborate magic trick‚ a dizzy feature-length lark that delights in confusing the audiences at regular intervals.A singular combination of documentary‚ essay‚ narrative and cinematic vaudeville on Hory‚ real-life
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