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    This statement claims that due to the fact that European and U.S colonial powers were a product of the European Enlightenment, they believed in the equality of all human beings. The Japanese also believed that within the spheres of race and culture, they shared these similarities with their colonized subjects. Therefore, European, U.S. and Japanese colonial endeavors were not a product of racist discrimination but a tactic developed to lift the status of women within in the areas that they…

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    In the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter is revealed to a new world learning the truths about who is he is, and the world around him. He makes trusted friends and enemies, and in the end gives his life for the betterment of the world. It starts with young boy, unaware of His magical Powers or his history is brought into the hidden world of Magic and Wizards. For most his life was tucked away behind his almost cruel Aunt and Uncle, unaware of what he is and especially who he is. Hagrid, a large…

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    Issue Can Yuliano bring a FCA claim against Colonel Dynamo, Inc. (CDI) even though he signed a release. Barring him from bringing all claims against CDI? Does the complaint filed by Yuliano meet the proper pleading standards set by the Fed. R. Civ. P. 9(b) and Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6)? Brief Answer It is likely that a court will enforce the agreement signed by Yuliano, since the government did have knowledge of the allegations before Yuliano signed the agreement. The complaint will likely not…

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    Entry 1 I am nervous and excited for this class. I want to know and understand the systemic oppression people of color face, but I am afraid, and embarrassed, that I know so little in the first place. The only background I have for this course is that I live in America and I read The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander. She argues mass incarceration is the new Jim Crow. Alexander’s book was so shocking to me that I just wanted to know more, like what the social implication are of this type of…

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    not the wound it makes,/ Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark/To cry “Hold, hold!”. She wishes for the night, as she thinks that the darkness will cover her mistakes, so no one else will see. The darkness in this scene acts as a cloak of invisibility where Lady Macbeth thinks that she can do anything without being seen. BLOOD 1. In act 1, scene 5 Lady Macbeth wishes ,“Make thick my…

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    Preliminary Statement The Plaintiff John Yuliano is a former employee of Colonel Dynamo, Inc.’s accounting and billing department. Colonel Dynamo, Inc. is a defense contractor who conducts 90% of its business with the U.S. military. Yuliano noticed irregularities with CDI’s billing for a government project and brought this to the attention to the project managers. Yuliano’s employment was terminated during a wave of company layoffs. Yuliano threatened CDI with a lawsuit for fraud and age…

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    In 1776 a nation seceded from the British and created an ideal for its citizen to strive for. The American Dream was a fallacy created to keep lower class people working hard and the upper class comfortable through the suffering of the poor. The holographic ideal of the American Dream continued to flourish through all of time and still today. In the pioneer days it convinced people in their comfy homes to uproot and move westward in the hopes of a better life, but all that was found was despair…

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    Humans fear the unknown and what they can’t understand. They fear what they can’t control and what can control them. They fear what threatens them, so they create an idea, something without a form, an imaginary beast to use as an excuse in order to act upon their fears and take control so they may not be scared anymore. In the novel, Lord of the flies by William Golding, a representation of the real face of Men is presented through the story of a group of boys stranded on an island, with only…

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    so passionately engaged in supporting or debunking one another’s pet explanations for the rise of British industry that they failed to consider explanations put forward by others outside their loop? … A blanket of scholarly silence, a cloak of historical invisibility, has been laid by these disputants over the causes of British industrialization and over the significance of the slave trade and the slave plantations. But it is not a golden silence, for it has served only to obscure the richer…

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    In the short story, “A Rose for Emily”, William Faulkner portrays the character of Miss Emily as a mysterious woman trying to establish her belief by ignoring to accept changes and reality, This character trait is repeated throughout the story by the narrator’s commentary on various incidents. Hence, in the short story Miss Emily’s fight against reality is shown by depicting her reaction to deaths, her refusal to accept societal changes by clinging onto the past, and her inability to accept…

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