giving special attention due to their capacity and history of leading grand social experiments: significantly altering the regular flow of life for their citizens in the aim of increasing productivity and improving their “end condition”. How the state or state planner defines the end condition varies in each instance‚ with no two countries having the exact same rationale‚
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would lock the door and have the phone ready to call the police but not this girl. This girl is easily lured into a trap and taken away from everything she loved. This girl is the protagonist‚ Connie‚ from Joyce Carol Oates short story “Where are you going‚ Where have you been.” Rather than heed the gut feeling most readers have at this moment in the story‚ Connie ignorantly emerges from her house and engages the stranger‚ Arnold Friend. As soon as she leaves the safety of her home‚ she has unknowingly
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The ambiguous resolutions of Where Are You Going Where Have You Been and The Night Rhonda Ferguson Was Killed is a coincidence that I found quite strange. In Where Are You Going Where Have You Been‚ the author doesn’t tell us what happens to Connie after Arnold Friend forces her to go with him. Does she die? Does she Live? Similarly‚ the Night Rhonda Ferguson Was Killed‚ the answer as to how Casandra will manage to overcome her friend’s sudden death and her life’s struggles remains to be open to
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The Light at the end of the Tunnel Time is a funny thing. One second you’re wishing to get through the day‚ and the next you are praying for just one more moment. My mom had been sick for years; she had more health problems than anyone I have ever met. When she was down at the hospital in Chicago over Spring Break undergoing a major surgery‚ my brother and I had high hopes that she would make it through successfully. When we were finally able to visit her on Easter‚ my parents had some big news
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their friends/family’s life more valuable than their own‚ so they’d be willing to risk their own life for it. Survival seems to work in many different ways. For example of risking one’s life for another’s‚ In a show I watched entitled “Seraph of The End‚” two young boys were left standing after their family had been attacked and killed. One of them charged in to attack the killer knowing he wasn’t going to survive. He had only done it as a distraction for the other boy to run away. At other times
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After perusing the article “Easter’s End (1995: 62-69) by Jared Diamond”‚ I have learnt that the past Polynesian civilization on Easter Island was severely dismantled due to introduction of foreign species‚ overpopulation‚ continued deforestation and extraction of natural resources. The author implied that we might succumb to a similar consequence if our ecological hazards continuously being ignored. This article is mainly about the factors that cause the extinction of the former civilization on
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I will be referring to Susan Douglas’ book‚ Where the Girls Are‚ to discuss how representations of femininity in popular culture evolved before and after the woman’s movement. For the children born after World War II‚ the media’s influence was extraordinary. These children were the fastest growing market segment and were referred to as the "baby boomers". The preteen and teenage girls were the first generation to be relentlessly isolated as a distinct market segment. Advertisers knew they had to
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We shall call him Mr Mookeen. He was a brilliant young man‚ an all- rounder and was popular. No wonder he chose to become a teacher and he did become one. He put himself to his tasks with heart and soul and no wonder he became popular very soon. He could be seen in the field‚ he would be called to address a students’ audience‚ and he would be the foremost in organizing any school function. Thus he became the favorite of the Headmaster‚ and the envy of some of his seniors. To mar his reputation
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1 Student Course Reflection Dominique Etier US/101 May 19‚ 2013 Rachel Andrews COURSE REFLECTION 2 Going to college is a excellent opportunity to have and receiving my degree will pay off in the end. I have had so many different experiences while I have been in college online. I have gotten the chance to meet different people and hear their sides of many types of information‚ I have learned to manage my time better by using different strategies
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Getting to the Bottom of Slumdog Millionaire "The answers… I knew the answers‚" Jamal muttered to the policemen. From the beginning Slumdog Millionaire sends home a central point in the film. Slumdog Millionaire is set in India‚ and centered around an orphan named Jamal from the slums who is on the television show "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?". He is reliving his past to help show that he knew all the answers to the questions on the show. He has flashbacks to many life events‚ that
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