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    All the great design houses are unveiling their Spring and Fall lines for 2007. While it would be wonderful to be able to drop several thousand dollars on a jacket or skirt, it just isn't feasible for most shoppers when they consider the fact that the garment they buy this season will be out of style next season. It will be the fashion world's equivalent to what your wrap fish in - yesterday's news. Fashion trends and designers are fickle creatures. Sure, whatever you buy this year may be back…

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    music and arts”. I’m proud to be a part of such an amazing culture, but before I talk about it, I want to give credit to the country where this culture originated. I come from a country in Africa called Nigeria. Nigeria is the most populated country in West Africa including the whole Africa itself. Every year, the country population keeps expanding in numbers. According to Aneki, in the year 2013, its numbers alone were…

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    performance and masculinity? Or is it old good days and farming a big land with a horse? Probably, you imagine everything what you see on a classic movie and typical western shows. American history shows Americans’ hope to our future. The best way to learn the foundation of this country is going to historical museum. Buffalo Bill Museum is one of the museums where people see the historical western artifacts and vintage films about Western colonization and old Western lifestyle. Also, people have…

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    The market revolution and westward expansion had deeply affected American livelihoods by the 1830s and 1840s. These important events reinforced old ideas of freedom and created new ones. Available land in the West had long been linked to the dream of American freedom. During this time, the phrase "manifest destiny", which is the belief that American settlers were destined to expand and occupy all of North America and extend freedom, disregarding the people that were already existing there. This…

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    Permanent Personhood Study

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    are super happy, have an active life, and a wrinkle that bothers you, why not do something about it? Aging is not cool,” (Edmonds, 2014: 246). Tatiana is one of the individuals that now uses plastica in a way that draws some similarities to North American culture, but with some key differences. In Brazil, it has now become socially acceptable to participate in plastica as a way to both look and feel better throughout the life course. Typically, women in other countries are not using plastica as…

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    The West has always been defined by the separation of church and state, yet the Bible has still had an immense effect on Western society. This not only includes both subtle and purposeful Biblical tropes in movies, books, and arts, but includes major institutions…

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    citizens wanted to obtain, however such actions to do so were swiftly put down by government forces. Rather than staying put, many citizens in the German Democratic Republic believed that it was in their best interests to cross over the border into the West. Using the border between the separate occupation zones to their favour, large numbers of GDR citizens averaging 180,000 per year until 1953 defected to the German Federal Republic. Prompted by the ever increasing oppressive nature of the…

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    The conflict began when Israel started implementing Jewish settlements in ex-Palestinian territory, which were the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem. Critics of the settlements argue that “the continued growth and construction of Israeli settlements assert that under international law, all of Israel 's West Bank settlements are illegal” (“Israeli Settlements”.) Although, Israel claims it is not illegal because Palestine is not a legal state. These settlements…

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    the wall 's construction and continuance. He also discusses the role of the Soviet Union and the United States. The author takes on a controversial outlook as to say that because Germany would not have been easily put back together and thrive, the West did not do…

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    graffiti in order to create an “airbrushed” history, that is clean from the impact of the GDR on individuals. Furthermore, this idea is supported as Anna visits the Noremeninfejnfkjsn headquarters, where the cleaner is unable to remove “the smell of old men”, and the grease mark off the wall. Through this, Funder displays how Germany is attempting to clean away all the personal history and the impact of the Stasi, whilst still remembering the past. Ultimately, this fails as the cleaner “still…

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