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    it is any less serious. For instance, Seymour has a severe case of PTSD after returning from war that causes his actions to seem ‘abnormal’ to those around him, even his family. Furthermore, Seymour finds that the actions of those around him, the materialistically obsessed, are difficult for him to cope with. In J.D. Salinger’s “A Perfect Day for Bananafish”, Salinger depicts how life is for the “monsters” like Seymour in such a materialistic society. Seymour, a seemingly normal man to the naked eye

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    American Society’s Materialism in “A Perfect Day For Bananafish” J.D Salinger believes society turns each and every person into bananafish. In his short story A Perfect Day For Bananafish he expresses some of his views on the American society and the problems that he has with it. He believes Americans put too much value in material possessions and that their lives, shaped by a constant bombardment of advertisements and new products that are bigger and better than the last, are harmful to them,

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    place in an area called “Skid Row”, a large city somewhere in the U.S around the early 1960s. The characters interacted either in the flower shop or outside of the flower shop. The only other scene that takes place in a different setting is when Seymour attempts to kill Orin at his dentist shop. The area enclosing around the flower shop hint to have a high unemployment right as many homeless people appear on stage at a given time in which begging for food and money. As a member of the audience I

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    When I walked into class and saw this daunting project sitting on my desk, I was in shock. No teacher has ever asked me to do an assignment requiring the level of work that this portfolio required. While no one component seemed too difficult, all of them together seemed impossible. However, in reflection I see that this portfolio was only as difficult as I sought to make it; if I approached each section with an open mind, a plan, and a schedule, it was rather easy to complete this assignment. While

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    Operation of local government transparency in South Sulawesi province A. Jamaluddin STISIP Muhammadiyah Sinjai Abstract Transparency in South Sulawesi Provincial Government has been applied in efforts to achieve good governance. The problems of this research are; (1) how to transparency in local governance, (2) what factors inhibiting transparency in local governance, and (3) what is the right strategy is used in implementing the transparency of the regional administration. This study aims to:

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    Research Design and Methodology 4.1Introduction The purpose of this study is to find out what are the causes of the high compliance rate in property taxes in the municipal city of Portmore, Jamaica. Taxes are of essential importance to small developing countries as they do not have much needed resources. As further developments takes place in the municipal city property values will increase, hence the amount of property tax collected by the Portmore municipal council will also increase. This increase

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    4.2 White Paper on Local Government According to the White Paper on Local Government, local authorities have the following responsibilities in terms of their obligation to economic development: ● Provide marketing and investment support in order to attract potential support to their locality. ● Small business support services should be providing to assist small entrepreneurs. ● To provide targeted assistance to a particular sector in the local economy that has to potential to expand. ● By supplementing

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    City of Greater Shepparton is situated 191 km away from Melbourne and in Northern Victoria it is a large city. The population is about 230,000 with major industry, hence providing employment and service. Therefore agriculture is a favourable and major production area. It is forecasted agriculture will play a significant role in the development and growth of northern Victoria. Recent years the region was affected with a range of challenge in drought, flood, and implementation of Murray Darling

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    Sexuality of the Frontierswoman in Grey's Riders of the Purple Sage and Doctorow's Welcome to Hard Times The presentation of femininity in Doctorow's Welcome to Hard Times is a strong departure from the heroine of Zane Grey's Riders of the Purple Sage. Through the metaphor of the gun as the embodiment of masculinity, both authors closely examine the complexities of the sexualized relationship of a frontierswoman to the men of her society. Doctorow mirrors the tensions present in Grey's novel

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    … Divorced, Beheaded, Survived The story, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived, takes place in two different settings. The first (The flashbacks) setting we get introduced to is the childhood neighborhood of Sarah and her older brother Terry. We hear about them and their friends, and how they used to play together in the game of playing the Tudors (old English royal family). The flashbacks are between the years 1973 and 1974. The second setting is taking place in the present time, in the home of Sarah,

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