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    "Los Venditos," which signifies "the sold out ones," is a play that was correlated by Luis Valdez and created by the Farm Workers Theater of Atzlan. They have built their theater society with respect to the old show clubs that were common in the striker 's groups of the sixties and seventies. In these groups, performing artists and performers would assume parts that would ridicule certain gatherings or people that they were opposing. Case in point, if the produce pickers were striking against a cultivator

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    Have you ever noticed that athletes wear new colours all the time? Well, recently many elite athletes have been sporting the colour orange, orange as in prison jumpsuits, because that’s where they are heading, off to jail for committing offences that are definitely not up to an ‘acceptable standard’ of professionalism. Good evening ladies, gentlemen, adjudicators and the opposition. The topic of tonight’s debate is ‘that elite athletes demonstrate acceptable standards of professionalism.’ We, as

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    Richard Molander In the article, “In Praise of Vagueness,” researchers investigated the effect of vague information versus precise information on performance in the domains of mental acuity, physical performance, and weight loss. Though past research has found that people prefer precise information to vague when making decisions because it gives them a sense of security, it has also found that vague information causes people to have higher expectations about outcomes: when people have less precise

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    Fairy tales tell us that once upon a time a girl met a boy; they fell in love, and lived happily ever after. Reality is not that simple. Long-term relationships force couples to become more acquainted with each other, include themselves in each others’ worlds and eventually develop further connections. However, a relationship can come to an end point and therefore one will try to come back in the other’s life. This type of relationship is remarked in Fran Kimmel’s short story “Laundry Day”. The

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    The Importance of Violence in "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O 'Connor. In the story "A Good Man is Hard to Find", Flannery O 'Connor uses violence as a force of both good and evil to demonstrate how people 's attitudes and perspectives of life change when they are faced with a situation of violent danger. The story is about a family of six who, on their way to Florida are murdered by an escaped convict who calls himself the Misfit. The characters include the grandmother, her son Bailey

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    Satire In Animal Farm

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    Compare how George Orwell and the Cartoonist (image below) utilise satire to communicate social issues and ideas. Both “Animal Farm” by George Orwell and the Cartoon utilize satire to communicate social issues and ideas extremely effectively. This is demonstrated by how they represent the rise and balance of power in society. The effect is achieved by the use of symbolism to represent different societal issues that occur in different historical settings. They both also used satire to demonstrate

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    The Orangeburg Massacre

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    The Orangeburg Massacre The Orangeburg Massacre was one of the most devastating shootings in South Carolina’s history. Because of the conflict in Orangeburg, S.C., regarding integration in bowling alleys, the local police department was forced to take action which led to the deaths of three college students and injuries of twenty-eight others. Up until this point in time nothing at this level of intensity had occurred in Orangeburg

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    The NFL Protest Argument

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    During the pre-season of the 2016 National Football League season, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick sat for the National Anthem to protest racial injustice within the United States. When asked why he sat, he stated, “I’ve been very clear from the beginning that I’m against the systematic oppression” of black Americans (Willingham). The quarterback received some negative reaction to his method of protest and, after three games, met with former NFL player and Army veteran Nate Boyer

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    National Anthem protests started on August 14th, 2016 with Colin Kaepernick sitting on the bench during the national anthem. This continued for another two games before he talked to former Green Beret and former NFL player Nate Boyer about the best way to make his point without disrespecting the military; Kaepernick then began taking a knee instead of simply sitting on the bench during games beginning on November 1st, 2016. There has been talk across the nation from last year into this year about

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    The Power of the People Anarchic, civil, radical, militant, and rebellions people is what police officers have to face on a regular basis. Both Vietnam protest and protest today are rebelling against the government. During the Vietnam War, citizens were protesting against the U.S government to stop the war and send American soldiers back home. Today people still manage to go out into the streets to protest for the government to stop discriminating certain groups like Muslims and immigrants.

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