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    Shakespeare's Dark Lady

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    Impossible To Find Shakespeare’s Dark Lady William Shakespeare’s supposed mistress may be the reason behind his remarkable‚ yet dark last twenty seven sonnets. She “has come to be known as the Dark Lady‚ a name that reflects her morals as well as her complexion” (Andrews “Love…” 64). Along with being Shakespeare’s mistress‚ the Dark Lady was married and musically inclined (Love). She challenged not only her bed vows‚ but Shakespeare’s also. The Dark Lady influenced a significant deal

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    Many myths surround the American civil war including one that tells us Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves with just a movement of his pen. But was it him who went into war with millions of soldiers? The military were the ones who did everything they could to help free the slaves. Although Abraham Lincoln did issue the emancipation proclamation‚ it only freed slaves on paper but he did not go fight the war to actually free the slaves. He was pushed by the logic of winning the war against the confederacy

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    world for over 4000 years as a way of curing ills and gaining knowledge. For many early years it was seen as a “dark art” of occultism but the same practices forged into our scientific knowledge of today. In the 1700’s Franz Anton Mesmer was the first to propose a rational basis and a consistent method of hypnosis‚ he passed this on to his followers as a ritualistic practice he called mesmerisation. Mesmer liked to perform mass inductions by linking patients together by a rope. He performed these

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    A Bridge Called My Back

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    Morgana’s preface to A Bridge Called My Back is personal to me as just this year I have defined myself as a woman of color. I am a diverse mix of African-American‚ French‚ and Hispanic descent. Most of my ancestry came to American as non-speaking English. My upbringing shared a large‚ colorful mixture of environment and cultural practice that I am blessed to experience. Thus‚ I have an open mind to accept all races and ethnicities. However‚ after reading the preface‚ I was unaware the context and

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    Health Issues in Africa

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    fruit‚ and vegetables‚ and some of the planet’s cleanest air‚ it’s people isn’t as healthy as might be imagined. South Africa major health public concerns are HIV/AIDS‚ malaria‚ smoking related disease‚ and tuberculosis‚ just to name a few of them but all of which affect the non-white population more than the white; apart form these. HIV/AIDS in Africa The rise of sickness in Africa today is mainly caused by HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) is the virus that causes AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency

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    The term imperialism is the supremacy of one country of the political‚ economic or cultural life of another country or region. This imperialism took place in Africa and it began in the 1800. The Europeans had many motives to distribute the continent of Africa among each other to gain wealth and power. The countries involved in this motion were Britain‚ France‚ Belgium‚ Italy‚ Germany and Portugal. This time was a detrimental period on the African people. This changed the life of the African greatly

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    Sub-Saharan Africa

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    to interact with humans and the environment by settling into varying parts of West and East Africa and creating a network with their neighbors in order to receive new technologies and foods. The Bantu exchanged goods with local hunter-gatherers‚ and the people cut into forests and settled down into villages. The Assyrians first brought iron to Egypt around 600 BCE and it quickly spread to Sub-Saharan Africa. Around 200 CE‚ Indonesians settled on the coast bringing Asian bananas and‚ since they had

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    Dark Matter Abstract

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    Dark Matter (Review) Dark Matter (Review) Kenneth Lathrom Kenneth Lathrom 6th Period Dark matter is the missing piece to the astronomical equation of galactic gravitation. Simply put it is the objects we do not know and cannot see that explain why the farthest planets don’t follow the “norm” and hurtle away from the center of their designated galaxy. Astrophycists have been looking for signs of these unseen particles. Having theorized that when two dark matter particles collide they

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    Like many workers of color Filipino American Agricultural workers throughout the United States from the plantations in Hawaii to the fields of California to the canneries of Alaska have all experienced decades of abusive and unfair labor conditions prior to 1965. Many strikes were led and organize over the years but it wasn’t always successful. In fact whenever the Filipino would strike the growers‚ or wealthy land owning bosses would bring in Mexican farm workers. For example‚ before the Delano

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    About South Africa

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    Change Management and Transformation of Work in South Africa Chenjie Bao A46607917 baochenj@msu.edu 09/2012 A. Reflecting on the whole notions of change management and "transformation of work‚" how has your understanding of the concepts generally been confirmed‚ changed or expanded by the visit to South Africa? What are the contrasts and commonalities between the South African context and experience and those of the US and other nations with which you may be familiar? Reflect on themes

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