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    Public participation is an important aspect of any community and benefits realized from inculcating it in the system of any public setup treats any possible problem. Some of the core merits any public institution produces is enabling the community to participate in decision-making and planning. For this reason, they are more likely to interact with established mechanisms. Moreover, apart from helping bring about a sense of community, public participation enables institutions to set goals and objectives

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    Similes In Iliad

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    Introduction There is no doubt that we have heard about Greek and the great history that they had however, whenever it comes in our minds the word Greek we remember the most popular epics ever in the history, Iliad. Iliad is an epic poem that tells the story of the Trojan War and the Odyssey which have been considered as the most important Greek epic poem for the blind epic poet, Homer. Despite the doubts in his presence whether he was the one who wrote the epic or not however, his epic poetry is

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    Through the application of Realism, Gustave Flaubert demonstrates Emma’s detachment of the death of the characters in Madame Bovary, which contrasts to Isabel Allende’s demonstration of Clara’s attachment to the death of the characters in The House of the Spirits by utilizing Magical Realism. In The House of the Spirits, the characters all share a spiritual bond, which leads to emotional and spiritual connections for Clara during the death of the characters. On the contrary, in Madame Bovary, Emma

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    Clare Almond Conflict Assessment Report (December 2015) 13000713 The Mexican Drug War The origin of the Mexican cartel started with a Mexican police officer called Miguel Gallardo nicknamed the 'Godfather ' who established the Guadalajara cartel in the 1980 's (Hausmann, Austin & Mia, 2009). He managed to control all the drug trade and drug trafficking routes throughout Mexico to the US and was the first Mexican drug chief that was linked to Columbia’s cocaine cartel. Since Gallardo there

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    Hero's Journey Analysis

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    COMPOSITION María Paula Salazar 7C Presented to: Álvaro Herrera 2017-2018          1. First what is the Hero's Journey? The Hero's Journey is a path every hero has to pass or experience. It contains 16 aspects. It divides on 3 main aspects: Departure, Initiation and Return. On Departure is: the call to adventure, Refuses to the call, Supernatural aid, crossing the threshold and Belly of the Whale. On Initiation is: the road of trials, the meeting with the goddess, woman as temptress

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    The House of the Spirits and Uncle Vanya are two famous international literary works written within a century of each other. Despite the differences in time periods of which the two works were written, they both seem to convey the literary theme of class struggle between the poor lower class and the rich upper class elites. Both elaborate on the feelings of resentment and regret as a result of the hardships of life around them as demonstrated through hidden historical connections, literary devices

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    purposes (McGraw, 306). Most of the information in the play, The Tragedy of Macbeth is based off of Holinshed’s books, therefore, Macbeth is portrayed extremely different in the play than he actually was in reality. Macbeth was born in c. 1005 at Alba, Scotland. His parent’s names’ are Findlaech mac Ruaidri and Doada. Macbeth’s father was Mormaer of Moray until he was killed by his cousin’s, Malcolm and Gillecomgain, which was possibly brought on by Findlaech being too close to Malcolm II. His mother

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    Rise of Rome      The legend of Roman Empire, the strongest empire lasted more than 1,000 years in regions of minor Asia, Northern Africa, Europe including Spain, Britain, german and Gaul, which now we call France, was not created in one single day. The stories of ancient gods, heroes, and myths are part of their splendid chronicle, they are both practical facts and fantasies. Much of what we know today about the historical foundations of Rome comes to us from ancient writers

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    It was necessary that Romulus should be unable to remain in Alba, and should have been exposed at his birth, in order that he might become King of Rome and founder of that nation. It was necessary that Cyrus should find the Persians discontented with empire of the Medes, and the Medes weak and effeminate through

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    The existence of trans-racial people and whether it is possible or not has been subject to debate for hundreds of years and continues to be a controversial topic. Nevertheless, Rachel Dolezal has made for a fascinating case study, which theoretically could shed some more light on the viability of trans-racialism. Through in-depth analysis of various credible sources, it would be plausible to assume that Rachel Dolezal is not at all good example of transracialism for a plethora of reasons and that

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