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    Measure for Measure

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    SHAKESPEARE sillagescritiques.revues.org/2544 Act 3 sc 2 l83-164 1) Who / where / when & possibly why 2) Obvious elt : dramatic irony => 2 levels of reading 3) Lucio / Duke both serve as go-btwn in the play‚ go from one group to another. Both contribute to knitting all different trends in play. 4) Importance of use of words‚ which is all that’s going on in this particular extract 5) Lucio paired with other char‚ all sorts of unlikely combinations in play‚ for eg with Isab at convent. Here

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    Context: This passage is occurs right in the middle of the first chapter of the book Black And White By Eric Walters. It is in first person point of view coming from Thomas’s point of view. There is no previous chapter however‚ the introduction to this novel simply Steven‚ the best friend of Thomas‚ convincing him to stay and watch. The chapter after‚ however‚ revolves around the ride back home following the basketball match. Significance: There a couple of significant points in this paragraph in

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    IQ-test really measures person’s intelligence? According to Howard Gardner’s article “Human Intelligence Isn’t What We Think It Is”‚ humans are multi-intelligence beings. So‚ IQ-test merely cannot provide an accurate representation of an individual’s intelligence level‚ rather IQ-tests generally measure only two forms of intelligence which are linguistic and logical-mathematical intelligences. However‚ we human beings are comprised of many other intelligences than just these two. So‚ what about spatial

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    07 Application of Biometrics in Mobile Voting Donovan Gentles1‚ Suresh Sankaranarayanan 2‚ 3 1Mona Institute of Applied Sciences‚ University of WestIndies‚ Jamaica dongen02@gmail.com 2Computing & Information Systems‚ Institut Teknologi Brunei‚ Brunei 3Department of Computing‚ University of WestIndies‚ Jamaica pessuresh@hotmail.com Abstract — Voting process in today’s era is behind its time in respect of the usage of modern ICT. The voting process is being seen mostly as a manual

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    What White Privilege

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    What White Privilege?!! Explanation! I’m not saying that privilege doesn’t exist‚ I’m saying that as far as White Privilege goes in Modern Society‚ it is an anthill being transformed into a Mountain to push an agenda. I agree with Black Conservative and Economist Thomas Sowell when he argues that moral condemnation of discrimination doesn’t automatically make it causally crucial‚ that having a majority in any society is a given‚ that the idea of a homogonized "white" group in society that is accepted

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    What Is White Supremacy?

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    White supremacy is an ideology that regards those of European descent to be superior to other races. In terms of the ingroup bias‚ this is an understandable thought to a certain extent. It follows Tajfel’s social identity theory in that white supremacists discriminate against people of color to positively enhance their own characteristics. After all‚ according to Sapolsky‚ it is human nature to root for those like yourself. But the racist ideology takes a dark turn when feelings of hatred and actions

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    During the Constitutional Convention‚ James Madison and his fellow delegates were trying to write a new document known as the Constitution‚ which would change the way the government would run for the future years of the nation. There were fifty-five white male individuals that joined the call for a Constitutional Convention in the town of Philadelphia in May of 1787. While gathered‚ the members found multiple problems with their current constitution‚ known as the Articles of Confederation. These problems

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    The Black Image in the White Mind argues that white Americans were conflicted in their attitudes about race. Both Entman and Rojecki attempt to analyze the portrayals of African-Americans by the mass media during the 1990s. The primary focus is the representation of African-Americans in television news. Dr. Robert M. Entman is a professor of media and public affairs at The George Washington University‚ and Dr. Andrew Rojecki is an associate professor and director of graduate studies in the Department

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    mentioned in this play. When Wendla told her mother that she wanted to know where babies come from‚ her mother answered that to conceive a child‚ a woman had to love her husband. With the song “Mama Who Bore Me‚" Wendla lamented that her mother did not wanted to tell her the truth. The young girl was upset about the lack of knowledge presented to her. This song was a reference to the play "Measure for Measure‚" by Shakespeare. Isabella was considered as one of Shakespeare’s strongest female characters;

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    What Is White Privilege?

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    week’s readings seemed to have different topics yet also many similarities. The first reading which was “The Color of Supremacy: Beyond the Discourse of “ White Privilege ’’ by Zeus Leonardo tells us how white privilege is part of the reason why racism prevails even today. The reading even somewhat bolsters McIntosh’s argument that sometimes‚ white people simply aren’t even aware of their ‘ privileges ’. I however‚ feel that racism persists because people let it persist. Racism is not a thing of the

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