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    importance as it now affects the lives of many British. First, many thousands/hundreds of British moved during World War II, however, the largest British emigration was not during the war, but after. According to Celia Pullen, "Between 1947 and 1981, over a million Britons emigrated to Australia..." (2014). They migrated to populate the (at the time) isolated continent. Why after the war? According to Journal of the Australian Population Association, " [Ben] Chifley [, Prime Minister of…

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    Psychological Blow Out

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    This 1981 American classic horror film directed by Brian De Palma. The protagonist of this story Jack is a film sound man from Philadelphia. When recording sound for a low-cost horror film, he accidentally recorded the evidence of a murder of a presidential candidate and got involved in a bizarre political conspiracy. Palma is known as "the Hitchcock of the United States" and "the Master of contemporary Suspense Film". He is also considered as “part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking”[…

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    Public Compliance Essay

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    205-210). According to Latane (1981) there are three parameters which predict this impact: strength, immediacy, and number (Aronson et al., 2013, p. 205). Strength measures the group’s importance dependent on social identification – we are more drawn to those we can identify with,thus…

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    theme of exchange (Nagy, 1981). Prometheus hides the fire within a hollow fennel stalk, thus continuing the deceptive gift theme, allowing men once more to regain their status above animals (Brien & Major, 1982). This greatly angers Zeus and ends up being the reason that the final myth occurs as Zeus seeks to punish men even further. He replies to Prometheus’ initial deceptive gift in the correct manner this time, with the giving of another deceptive gift, Pandora (Nagy, 1981). Pandora is…

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    Introduction The Venera Soviet missions consisted of several space probes sent to Venus (University of Oregon). Venera 13 and 14 were part of the 1981 Venus launch opportunity (University of Oregon). Venera 13 and 14 were built identically the same and they launched 5 days apart (Ivankov, NASA Archive). Venera 14 was the last lander within the Venera series. The Soviet Academy of Sciences (U.S.S.R) funded the Venera 14 mission (Ivankov, NASA Archive). The launch site was located at Tyuratam…

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    aimed at Sir Walter Scott, the Romantic writer. Huck strands a gang on a wrecked steamboat, and finds a captain to go out and save them from the wreck. "'What wreck?' 'Why, there ain't but one.' 'What, you don't mean the Walter Scott?'(Twain, Mark. 1981, p.72). This shows "Twain's obsession with Sir Walter Scott's influence on Southern Culture...tallied in the name of the steamboat Huck and Jim board in order to have an adventure" (James M, 1966, p.162 as cited in Howards, 2005). Yet their…

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    needs to make them fear him so that way they are too afraid to speak out against him. This applies to Mandragola because it is made known that Lucrezia’s servants are terrifies of her because she is bossy and wants things done her way (Machiavelli 1981). This means that Lucrezia makes herself feared by her servants so they will listen to her and do things how she wants them to first time. Although it can be said that this is a minor detail and it is not fit to prove that Lucrezia is the true…

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    Husband Abuse

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    gun, and actually using a knife or gun on them according to the study Hornung, McCullough, and Sugimoto (1981) did. Two-thirds of couples in their study reported at least one type of abuse in the past year. Many people do not believe that yelling at one another, especially during an argument, is considered abusive. Most people consider abuse to be physical. Hornung, McCullough, and Sugimoto (1981 determine through their study that couples who are incompatible when it comes to employment status,…

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    Marxism In Persepolis

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    jail and even if they were released they would end up dead just like some of Marji’s parent's friends did. “In the twenty-eight months between February 1979 and June 1981, revolutionary courts had executed 497 political opponents as “counter-revolutionaries” and “sowers of corruption on earth …. In the next four years from June 1981 until June 1985, revolutionary courts executed more than 8,000 opponents.”(pg. 181) Unfortunately, Anoosh did end up being one of the people that were executed and…

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    Bob Marley

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    flew away home to Zion on May 11, 1981. Bob played over 300 concerts, sold over 100 million albums, his estate is currently worth one billion dollars, also he was a good football/soccer ball player. Bob’s classic live concerts on DVD, YouTube and Google are the Peace Concert in Jamaica Live—1976; Rainbow Theater Concert in London, England—1977; Zimbabwe in Africa—1980; Rockpalast, Dortmund Concert in--Germany—1980; His Last Concert, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—1981. Bob Marley’s top…

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