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    meetings and brief discussions as guests came and went. Japes did not care what the brass proclaimed he knew he was ready to move on and it was just a matter of where. Bobo and Japes drove to the “Wind City” and another Marion Hotel. Their friend Gary, from the Mountain Region, recently moved there so they decided to visit and see what was up. They crashed

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    culture. There are five major characteristics that define a culture; they are learned, shared, symbols, integrated, and dynamic. Culture is learned. It is not biological; we do not inherit it. Much of learning culture is unconscious. We learn culture from families, peers, institutions, and media. The process of learning culture is known as enculturation. While all humans have basic biological needs such as food, sleep, and sex, the way we fulfill those needs varies cross-culturally. Culture is shared

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    she then took a quick look around to see if Twilight was outside. Not in sight. Satisfied, she tried the latch and found the door unfastened. She entered and closed the door. “Twilight, I’m home!” Rainbow said. Ghostly silence filled the room; till a creak resonated under a nearby archway betwixt bookshelves. “Spike? Twilight? Who’s there?” Silence. Rainbow lowered herself and slunk closer to the source of the noise; and when her eyes met the mysterious entity, she charged playfully at it,

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    Undocumented Workers Are Important Too

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    much we assume that undocumented workers are taking more and more jobs of American citizens, but that is not the case. Undocumented workers come from other countries to live and have a better living of life for not only them but for their families as well. They often work doing jobs that pay very little for an extreme amount of hard labor from dusk till dawn. If it’s not being a custodian, which the women do, then its men working doing construction. Undocumented workers deserve the right to get paid

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    when she talks to a raven and other birds as well as animals throughout the seven stories. Her greatest power is the power over people to persuade them into helping her throughout this story. She comes across a woman, which brings to mind the witch from Hansel and Gretel and the reader is led down the path to the gingerbread house, but this is not the case the woman helps Gerda, instead of trying to eat her. She gives her shelter and it is unclear just how long she stays with this woman, but it appears

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    Introduction In terms of cultural dimensions, basically, culture elements are everywhere in our life no matter where are you from. Also, the uniqueness and differentiation of culture in diversified countries are influencing and fulfilling our large communication community—world, people involved in this harmonious place communicate, share ideas, cooperated and integrated every cultural diversity so as to make it better. “A culture is a society’s personality and our membership in a culture

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    and created by an architect. Architects have an extremely specialized task to perform. They have to make sure that a building is stable in all conditions and useful and also that it looks appealing to senses, capturing the light at dawn, changing with the light at dusk. Architects do great things and create even greater things, often unnoticed, but worthy of mention. Architects also have very fun creative jobs where they can go to a rigorous job and make sure everything is going as planned and the

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    Port Arthur was a brutal, harsh and demeaning penal settlement. Many convicts struggled to live up to the expectation of what was required of them at the Prison. They would endure savage punishments, and suffered from the harsh struggle of daily life and hard labour. Despite this, many believe that Port Arthur was a positive experience for convicts. It gave them the opportunity to become educated men and a chance to apply themselves in a trade. This gave the men hope and made them useful to the community

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    to be a pedophile; Here we can recognize Freud’s idea of the Oedipal trauma being touched upon with O-Ren’s life. She poses as a child prostitute and gets her desired revenge by not only killing her parent’s murderer but also shooting two other men from under a bed. Consequently, we understand O-Ren’s sadistic side which also alludes to Mulvey’s ideas that explain that the male unconscious has two avenues for the disavowal of the castration anxiety that the female gender inflicts. Mulvey expresses

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    Individualized care that involves focusing all the care activities around an individual patient’s wants and needs, has been highlighted as the key element in most of the heath care policies (ETENE, 2001; Lynn & McMillen,1999). NMC (2015) also states that we should always treat the people as an individual and must uphold their rights and dignity at all times. Hence, both the Nursing and Health care ethics emphasize on the importance and value of each patient as an individual (Smith et al.,1999; Suhonen

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