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    Status Quaestionis: A Survey of Related Literature As the study advances, it is worthwhile to note that resurrection of Jesus is a topic widely discussed and has captured the interests of many commentators in the span of four decades or so ago. Aside from the commentaries on the Gospel of Matthew, several studies appeared on the resurrection of Jesus and some of them are described below. The following sources are briefly discussed each according to the dates of their publication.

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    Around the time of the Massacre in Mexico, there were a number of books written based on the brutal killings. Three popular books that were written by Mexican writers and addressed the movement of Mexican students, during that era, were Massacre in Mexico (by Elena Poniatowska), ’68 (by Paco Ignacio Taibo II), and Palinuro of Mexico (by Fernando de Paso). Their literature presented a disturbing look into a student movement, which culminated in hundreds of student protestors being massacred on October

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    Fairy tales have - and perhaps will always be - an intrinsic and basic element of human culture. The very essence of a fairy tale lies in the seamless juxtaposition of orality and text, and it is this unique quality that renders the astonishing ability of the narrative to replicate itself culturally while still retaining integral truths. As a vehicle and module for contextual realties that document progress, the very fluid nature of the fairy tale enables a continual comment on themes and attitudes

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    FINAL PAPER University of Oklahoma NAS-3113-996 Rob Miller Native American Learning, Teaching and Understanding The colonization of the western world by Europeans and the subsequent attempts at the extermination of the Indigenous peoples in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was partially accomplished. Those tribes not extinguished were removed from their sacred lands and forcibly removed to distance places. Then the approach of the Westerns for those Native American Tribes still in

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    Progression, the ever enduring race of humankind- to becoming better and more advanced beings, has become interwoven with technology, as nearly all aspects of one’s life, whether it being at home, for leisure, at work, or in the educational sector- is entwined with elements of digitality. This notion leads one to see that the participation with technologies can be an essential aspect of one’s progression in this new contemporary society. The emergence and subsequent dominance of Information Communication

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    Discourse on Method Heuresis (or invention) comprises, as Richard Lanham notes, "the first of the five traditional parts of rhetorical theory, concerned with the finding and elaboration of arguments" (1991: 91). In Aristotle's Rhetoric the category of heuresis included the kinds of proof available to the rhetorician, lists of valid and invalid topoi, as well as the various commonplaces the rhetorician might touch upon - loci or stereotypical themes and observations ("time flies") appropriate

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    The Publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, has been widely identified as the most influential American novel in the country’s history. Books have, of course, always had the power to bring about great social change, and the widespread distribution of Uncle Tom’s Cabin gave a vivid image of Southern life, particularly the mistreatment of slaves, to the entire country. While slavery was previously an issue between slaveholders and abolitionists

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    Kubla Khan Essay

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    Kubla Khan If a man could pass thro' Paradise in a Dream, & have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his Soul had really been there, & found that flower in his hand when he awoke -- Aye! and what then? (CN, iii 4287) Kubla Khan is a fascinating and exasperating poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (. Almost everyone who has read it, has been charmed by its magic. It must surely be true that no poem of comparable length in English or any other language has been the subject

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    Neocolonialism in Jamaica Essay

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    Neocolonialism in Jamaica: History, practices, and resistance “The imposition of structural adjustment programs in the Third World since the 1970s has been characterized as a war against the poor, a process of [neo] recolonization” (Turner, 1994: 37). This statement is particularly applicable to the country of Jamaica. The island has been susceptible to a variety of neocolonial acts including the presence of multinational corporations, structural adjustment programs, and loan organizations

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    The Visceral Politics of V For Vendetta: On Political Affect in cinema. By Brian L. Ott* pages 39-54 Abstract This essay concerns the role of political affect in cinema. As a case study, I analyze the 2006 film V for Vendetta as cinematic rhetoric. Adopting a multi-modal approach that focuses on the interplay of discourse, figure, and ground, I contend that the film mobilizes viewers at a visceral level to reject a politics of apathy in favor of a politics of democratic struggle. Based on the

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