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    of this adult figure Robert feels so vulnerable that “he believes [the father] knew everything” and compares him, with a simile, to “God”. The once more hyperbolic term shows the immense power of the figure of a father for a young boy and how significantly important it is for him to seek his approval. This is shown when the boy reflecting thinks “He was testing me to find out if I was worthy enough to tell the truth.” This shows an imbalance between the dominance of the male figure and the female

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    Ernest Hemingway: Allegorical Figures in The Sun Also Rises Thesis: Hemingway deliberately shaped the protagonists in The Sun Also Rises as allegorical figures. OUTLINE I. The Sun Also Rises A. Hemingway's novel. B. Hemingway's protagonists are deliberately shaped as allegorical figures. C. Novel symbolizing the impotence after W.W.I. II. Jake Barnes. A. Wound. 1. Damaged genitalia. 2. Can't make love. 3. Feels desire. B. Wound is symbol of life in years after W.W.I. C. Wound from accident. 1.

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    An Analysis of the Central Themes of The Bhagavad Gita and its Influence on Significant Historical Figures and Literature. Gavin McClung “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” -Eleanor Roosevelt The Bhagavad Gita has been estimated to have been in existence since

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    Chapter 1: What are 3 key differences between orthodox and critical criminologies? Use examples of readings that reflect both criminologies to illustrate your response. Orthodox criminology refers to the how criminologists accept the states ideas of crime without thinking of power relations. This thinking is shared by everyone and becomes a universal idea and these ideas are in the interests of everyone. However, certain groups of individuals are targeted and blamed for crimes based on their class

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    If we were time travelers, would we be able to understand our ancestors? Would we even be speaking the same language? Important questions about the definition of a language arise when temporal shifts come into play. Where is the line between a new language, and simply a dialect? Were Shakespeare and Chaucer writing in different languages? Does Barack Obama use a different dialect than George Washington did? The deciding factor of whether a language has evolved past the point of dialectical variation

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    where classes exist in the form of struggle for dominance or control over profits. Marx as a conflict theorist argued that the economy defines and dominates the societal structural change. He explained that social change and structure is a form of historical materialism that in the history come in two groups: the oppressor and the oppressed. Marx stated that the society is built on the exploitation of the oppressed. The struggle between the classes was what brought about the industrial revolution. This

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    Karl Marx emphasized conflict in the society due to consumerism, religion, intersectionality. He saw this conflict and determined that hidden structures can benefit him and others by using the term of ideology which can rely on true or false consciousness. Marx was a unique sociologist who expressed his own ideas in various ways. Applying to Marx’s Theory towards slavery, it showed how the society use to be and how it impacted the slaves to be part of their culture to manifest the society.

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    role. Moreover, changes in the productive forces are more powerful cause of revolution. In conclusion, Engels takes an historical materialist approach. He indicates that the capitalist mode of production is fundamentally contradictory and from this he traces a series of social and economic conflicts that follow inevitably from this basic contradiction by establishing Historical

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    Studying capitalism is an already difficult subject to focus on by itself. However, what makes this subject more complex is looking at it through a historical approach. Nevertheless, it is important to study historical materialism in order to fully understand contemporary social structures. The modes of production, as well as class relations, tie together as they are both important in what Engels was trying to discuss in his paper. He also discusses the alienation of individuals as well as supply

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    Q:What.are.the.motivation.and.mechanisms.of.chain.shifts,and.what.kinds.of.evidence.can.we.use.to.study.them? Chain.shifts.(870/1000) Definition.(206/100) According to Labov (2010:140), chain shifts is a series of sound changes, affecting group of phonemes, which are causally linked in way that preserve the number of distinctions. Chain shift is a balance system, and the phonemes within are interrelated. This means that in order to maximized the difference among phonemes, a change in one part will

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