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    little directorial flourish in the same scene, with Coop hanging upside down and finally spotting Audrey 's letter. That kind of touch is why you bring in the director of Gleaming The Cube, isn 't it? Okay, that was a cheap shot at director Graeme Clifford who, prior to this episode (and Gleaming The Cube) directed the well-received Frances Farmer biopic Frances and provided the tricky editing for Robert Altman 's Images and Nicholas Roeg 's The Man Who Fell To

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    Shayla S. Corbin Mr. Carey English 2300 Thursday, October 19, 2017 Moral Obligation, Disordered Care: The Ethics of Caregiving in Margaret Atwood's Moral Disorder DeFalco, Amelia. "Moral Obligation, Disordered Care: The Ethics of Caregiving in Margaret Atwood's Moral Disorder." Contemporary Literature, vol. 52, no. 2, 2011, pp. 236-263. EBSCOhost, libproxy.lamar.edu/login? url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mzh&AN=2011382908&site=ehost-live A literary reproach of the book

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    observe the in-depth content of human nature within a society, analyze it from all aspects, and perform cross-cultural comparisons. The essay "Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight" is written by a well respected anthropologist by the name of Clifford Geertz, who details his observations of the Balinese culture. Geertz was a professor at Princeton and received his Ph.D. from Harvard, as well as publishing several successful books in the field of anthropology. Geertz's essay presents a study

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    I think that anyone who is interested in old computers and how they work or people who like to read mystery novels would like to read this book. People who don’t really care about the programming on their computer, or don’t really like mysteries shouldn’t read the book The Cuckoo’s Egg. First, a summary. In the Non - fiction novel, The Cuckoo’s Egg, Cliff Stoll, an astronomer living off of grant money, is transferred down to the computing lab when his grant money runs out. His task: to keep the

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    The reason why La Tomatina is a big deal for people because it is a colorful tradition and make a good excuse to show of young people throwing vegetables to each other. Before 2013 anywhere from forty thousand to fifty thousand people crammed into this tomato fight. Numbers of people came to this special celebration created a success. Last year’s event bought some forty thousand people, due to safety concerns of oversize of the crowd the organizers cut amount of people who were joining the fight

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    Variations in Symbolic Anthropology After centuries of continuous and unresolved (though not fruitless) debate by many great theorists on how the scientific method should be applied to anthropology, a method was formulated that promised to finally put the debate to rest: just don’t apply them at all. Symbolic Anthropologists advocated the use of “a variety of tools from psychology, history, and literature” to conduct their anthropology (McGee and Warms 2004:525). The work of Sapir and Whorf

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    Reading Report #2 Clifford Geertz, “Deep Play: Notes on a Balinese Cockfight” *Answers to Reading Report question are intended to guide your explorations for your essay. Each answer should be a paragraph length (about 5-6 sentences). 1. How is this essay constructed? Describe the parts of the piece (and how many, etc.) Provide brief descriptions of the work that each part is doing and how it goes about doing it. “Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight” is divided into eight or nine sections

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    The Cuckoo's Egg: Cliff's Persistence By Clifford Stoll "The Cuckoo's Egg" is a story of persistence, love for one's work and is just plain funny! The story starts out with Clifford Stoll being "recycled" to a computer analyst/webmaster. Cliff, as he is affectionately called, is a long-haired ex-hippie that works at Lawrence Berkeley Lab. He originally was an astronomer, but since his grant wore out, he became a mainframe master. He was glad that instead of throwing him out

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    Clifford Chance LLP is a global law firm, a UK Limited Liability Partnership headquartered in London, United Kingdom. The firm is a member of the "Magic Circle" of leading international British law firms. Measured by revenues and number of layers, Clifford Chance is one of the 10 largest law firms globally. As stated in the Responsible Business Report of 2016, the firm has 3,000 lawyers specilised in different practice areas and sectors, 6,200 labour force, 35 offices in 25 countries, No.1 in Chambers

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    Clifford Geertz is an American cultural anthropologist who was born in San Francisco, did his Ph.D. in anthropology in Harvard. He has contributed to the field of anthropology by propounding a more open, experimental approach to ethnography. An approach that focussed on meaning more than on action (Kuper and Kuper, 1985:168). Believing in Max Weber’s idea of man being suspended in the webs of significance that he himself has spun, Geertz takes those webs as culture. The analysis of culture according

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