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    My Love Story

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    One night, just before bedtime, I blurted out the words, “Today there is no story. Appa [papa in Tamil] is too tired tonight.” On hearing those words, my 4 year old daughter was crestfallen. I regretted my words. I also found it interesting that I referred to myself in 3rd person. Subconsciously, I did not like what I was saying. Out of the blue, I said, “why don’t you tell me a story?” She looked up, paused for moment and made her decision. She jumped into bed and lying next to me started

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    factors. Fortunately for social historians, a strange occurrence happened in the small village of Artigat in the Pyrenees of Southwestern France and was perfectly documented and preserved by a judge of the court, Jean de Coras. While the court case and storyline was very detailed by Coras, there were many gaps in the characters motivations and reasonings behind their actions. A man named Martin Guerre left his wife and child for several

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    predicament within every story. Natalie Davis is from today’s society, and once again, she has found the need to investigate Bertrande Guerre’s role within The Return of Martin Guerre. The only pieces of evidence that are reliable come from Jean de Coras, the main judge in the trial. However, Davis seems to have ignored his findings, and founded her own. For most of her points, there is no written evidence to

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    The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Davis The Return of Martin Guerre written by Natalie Davis gives the audience a rare glimpse into the world of peasant life in sixteenth century France. It also allows a modern day audience a chance to examine and to compare their own identities and questions of self. What makes the story so interesting to modern day viewers and readers is how relevant the story and the people in it are to our own times. This story is about a history of everyday people rather

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    spirits to aid his deception came to the fore. "The accused seemed to have an air of magic about him. Trying to take him off guard, President de Mansencal asked him how he had invoked the evil spirit that taught him so much about the people of Artigat. Coras said he paled and for once hesitated... This reaction, I think, may have resulted not only from the defendant's sense of danger, but also from anger

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    In “The Return of Martin Guerre,” Natalie Zemon Davis portrays Jean de Coras as a knowledgeable, impartial judge, fully capable of recognizing female intelligence and of looking beyond the status quo in his pursuit of truth. Like any judge, Coras has the discretion to select or omit certain pieces of evidence, the power to shape the official and accepted version of the truth; however, Michel de Montaigne would argue that Coras has a high probability of reaching a distorted verdict. Montaigne’s “Essays”

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    by Stanley O’Toole. The film opens with the marksman and cowboy Matthew Quigley (Tom Selleck) arriving in western Australia after seeing a newspaper advertisement looking for a proficient long distance shooter placed by station owner Elliot Marston (Alan Rickman). Shortly after stepping off the boat in Australia, Quigley manages to get into a fight with Marston’s ranch hands because they are trying to force Crazy Cora (Laura San Giacomo) into their wagons. After they find out who Quigley is they proceed

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    Le Chef D ' Etat

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    En 1970, le gouvernement de Muhammad Reza Shah, le chef d’état autocrate de l’Iran ratifia le traité de non-prolifération nucléaire en insistant sur l’importance de son propre développement d’un programme nucléaire dans un cadre purement pacifique pour l’Iran. Depuis ce temps, l’histoire a modifié grandement cet état central du bassin arabe. En effet, en 1979, la révolution islamiste atteint son paroxysme avec le début de l’exil de Muhammad Reza Shah, et le retour d’exil de l’ayatollah Ruhollah

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    “Time is gone the song is over”, now what? In life humanity craves more time. Time is the one fixation we cannot get enough of. Since humanity is required to age, time seems to slip away. We don’t comprehend how time is synthesized. Society knows it goes on forever, regardless of what happens in life. Pink Floyd’s album, Dark Side Of The Moon, had immense success. It was recorded in the summer of 1972 on Capital records. The song Time was written by Roger Waters and recorded in the progressive

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    Some people are born with natural god given skills and ability while others who are not that lucky and have to work twice as hard just to get the same result. And then there are those rare individual who even though they are born with the talent, they still work just as hard and sometimes even harder to keep improving. It is called determination and that is a trait that all the great athletes share and it is what separates the great ones from the just good ones. This is perfect way to describe Peyton

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