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    How have new emphases and interpretative lenses emphasizing history from below affected the more traditional subfields of political, military, diplomatic, and sectional history and how do they affect world history. During the past century these four subfields have evolved within themselves to rise from their traditional methodologies of study to incorporating social and cultural historiography to better analyze their subject matter; while turning from an inner study, as it applies to the United

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    An Analysis of Office Space through Consultative Lenses Peter is an employee at INETCH where he is an information technician. His corporation hires a couple of consultants named Bob and Bob whose main purpose is to bring monetary gains to the organization, even if it is at the expense of the worker’s well-being. Peter’s lack of motivation, anger and disillusionment leads him to partner up with two of his co-workers and together they execute a plan to rob their current company millions of dollars

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    http://www.kkk.bz/kidspart5.htm 4)Who said, "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States or Jefferson Davis, President , President of the Confederate States of America? Answer: Abraham Lincoln - First Inaugural Address - March 4, 1861. 6) What was the major emphasis of the Emancipation

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    shift, there is more than one way to correct the inconsistency. Reading the sentences aloud will help you recognize differences in time. ___ 1. If the club limited its membership, it will have to raise its dues. ___ 2. As Barbara puts in her contact lenses, the telephone rang. ___ 3. Thousands of people will see the art exhibit by the time it closes. ___ 4. By the time negotiations began, many pessimists have expressed doubt about them. ___ 5. After Capt. James Cook visited Alaska on his third voyage

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    Marxist Lense in “King of the Bingo Game” “King of the Bingo Game” by Ralph Ellison revolves around an unnamed black protagonist, in the 1940’s, who desires to win the bingo game which occurs at the local cinema, in order to win the grand prize to pay for a doctor for his severely ill wife. Ellison depicts the presence of the white hierarchy and its devastating impact on the black protagonist through a political statement portraying the great injustices that affect African Americans. Ellison depicts

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    taken from past experiences. Freud believed that when we look at a portrait or another art form, it ignites “unconscious feelings—ones the artist [or the viewer] might not even admit to having” (Freeland, 157). When looking at Hugh Hefner in Freud’s lenses, the different viewers

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    Clear Vision Inc.'s latest product, Liquid-Drop Contact Lenses, is likely to generate much controversy as it is going to become widely accessible. Even with the fact that the company has a significant number of supporters and customers, the fact that people typically have problems going from a product that they have been used with to something revolutionary makes it likely for the advertising campaign to experience difficulties in the period immediately preceding the product's release. In addition

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    The Vietnam War began in December in 1956 and ended in April 1975. Initially the war was between North Vietnam and South Vietnam but they both formed allies. North Vietnam’s allies were the Soviet Union, China, and other communist allies, while South Vietnam’s allies were anti-communist countries like the United States. The United States entered the war and sought the help of the South Vietnamese army (ARVN). Despite the US collaborating with the ARVNs, the ARVNs were constantly belittled and were

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    Beauty is seen differently through individual’s personal lenses. Most individuals admire beauty depending on their standards of what they think beauty is and how they interpret it. Beauty is relative and varies within different societies and cultures. The problem lies within those individuals who are constantly rejected from society and seen as “monsters” in the eyes of many. The reading by Stryker proves how transsexuals and Frankenstein’s monster are rejected from society due to their lack of “beauty”

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    The invasion on Iraq by the United States in 2003 has become the biggest, lengthiest, and most expensive use of armed force since the Vietnam War. It is the first major post-Cold War U.S. military action taken unilaterally, without an international coalition, and the first U.S. experience as an occupying power in a Middle Eastern country. Although the invasion decision was distinctive (U.S. military connection in an Arab or Muslim country), the argument here is that the Iraqi invasion deals with

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