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A Lesson From Oliver

Like any other morning I was up at four, the day Oliver met with his violent death. At four in the morning the grass is wet. Now, it's still wet at 6 a.m. and even at seven, and these tend to be the hours of choice for most people wishing to appreciate the phenomenon of grass ...

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A Postmodern Look At Poverty And Homelessness

The cycle of poverty and especially homelessness in the United States, which is occurring even today may or may not be caused by little or any intervention by the government or society as a whole. This is the same cycle implied by John Kenneth Galbraith's The Affluent Society (1958; rev. eds. ...

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Creative Writing: Under The Spell - A Travel Tale By Danny O'brien

"The great advantage of having an ancestry like that of a mongrel dog is I have so many ancestral homes to go home to." We caught the ferry from Le Havre, France to Ireland, land of my ancestors. Every since I was a wee lad, my mind has been used as a canvas by every Irishman who has been ...

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Homelessness

“Over the past year, over two million men, women, and children were homeless” in America. (NLCHP) Homeless people face an intense struggle just to stay alive despite the fact that society turns its head from the problem. The government makes laws that discriminate against homeless people, which ...

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Streetcar Desire

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) is a controversial film classic, adapted from Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play of 1947. This film masterpiece was directed by Elia Kazan (his first piece of work with Williams), a socially conscious director who insisted that the film be true to the ...

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Maqbool Fida Husain

Maqbool Fida Husain Gouri R. 'To my mind the most interesting thing in art is the personality of the artist; and if that is singular, I am willing to excuse a thousand faults,' says Somerset Maugham in The Moon and Sixpence. What do you think of the artist who completes an elaborate ...

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Wallstreet, Movie

"Greed is good. Greed is right. Greed works." If any three simple sentences could sum up the 80s, those are probably the ones. The 1980s were an age of illusions, one that was hedonistic in nature and self-loathing in practice. As Haynes Johnson recalls, it was “a society favored with material ...

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The Horrible Truth Of Child Labor

Read the following story, and imagine yourself in this situation: “Jitti Tumrin, 13, arrived in Bangkok, Thailand, from his northern village a few months ago to work in a leather factory. From the day he arrived Jitti has worked 11-14 hour days, with two days off every month. His job is to glue ...

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Punk Rock View on 9/11

On Tuesday, September 11, 2001, my life changed forever. The life of everyone I know changed forever. My city was attacked by terrorists. Typing those words seems like a surrealist joke. It doesn't seem real. I can't comprehend the things I have witnessed with my own eyes in the last two days. I ...

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Edgar Allan Poe Eesay

Edgar Allan Poe was born at 33 Hollis Street, Boston, Mass., on January 19, 1809, the son of poverty stricken actors, David, and Elizabeth (born Arnold) Poe. His parents were then filling an engagement in a Boston theatre, and the appearances of both, together with their sojourns in various places ...

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South African Economy

INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT COVER PAGE Name Programme Name Management Advance Programme Module Principles of Economics Facilitator Programme Manager Programme director Due Date 3 September 2012 Number of Pages 10 Certification: I certify that the content of this assignment is my ...

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Homeless Youth

Powers, Jane L. and Barbara Jaklitsch. Reaching the Hard to Reach. Education & Urban Society, Volume 25, Issue 4, August 1993. At some point in time, all teenagers are expected to leave home and venture out on their own. Separating from parents and gaining independence are two central tasks ...

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The Great Inflation

In late-1922 the German government were forced to ask the Allies for a moratorium on reparations payments; this was refused, and she then defaulted on shipments of both coal and timber to France. By January of the following year, French and Belgian troops had entered and occupied the Ruhr. The ...

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Gangs

Originally the word gang had no negative connotation. In Old English, gang simply referred to a "number of people who went around together-a group." Today a gang can be defined in four basic ways: • an organized group with a leader • a unified group that usually remains together during peaceful ...

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Alphonse Capone

Born in Brooklyn on January 17, 1899, to Gabriel and Teresa Capone. He lived in a tough neighborhood the first ten years of his life. His schooling began not far from the Sands street "stews" at P.S. 7 on Adams St. with a 16year old teacher. There he became good-friends with one of the ...

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The Life And Times Of Edgar ALlan Poe

Edgar's Teens And The Parting With John Allan When Edgar grew into his teens the Allans moved around a lot. They finally moved to a house they got from William Galt in 1822 or 1823. Edgar continued his education during this time and when he was fourteen he attended the academy of Joseph H. ...

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Detroit Riots

Many civil disorders have erupted across the United States. Racial tensions were at a highpoint in the 1960’s with riots and looting throughout the major cities in the United States. This was not such a problem in the rural areas but the urban areas had serious racial problems between black and ...

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Gangs

Introduction I. -A Los Angeles family takes a wrong turn into gang territory and is fired upon. A 3-year-old is killed and her 2-year-old brother wounded. -A Chinese immigrant in Brooklyn is kidnapped by a Chinatown gang which demands ransom payments from her family. She is murdered when the ...

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Penalty Of Death-Analysis

"I think people ought to do what they want to do, what else are they alive for. (49)" This thought is what is reflected in both "Sonny’s Blues" by James Baldwin and "Paul’s Case" by Willa Cather. Both Baldwin and Cather illustrate the problem of a young man growing ...

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Clarissa Dalloways Double

Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway" is a day-in-the-life story that folds back and forth in time, examining one woman's life decisions and one man's postwar nightmare. The woman is Clarissa Dalloway, a "perfect hostess" in her early fifties, confronts the decisions she made thirty years ago. The man, ...

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