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Swimmers were swimming faster than any mankind could ever swim; It was like watching human swimming with eels on their hands and feet. Soccer games seemed like it was controlled by a person just like in Play Station games. Archers were shooting bull’s eyes most of the time so it was definitely not an ordinary competition. The game itself was indeed interesting…

A visceral reaction to blackface and minstrel characters has come to be expected in conventional American culture. The idea of minstrel shows being commonplace and consumed as entertainment has become such an uncomfortable thought that characters like Jim Crow are left relatively unexamined further than as an embarrassing racist facet of American history. However, when one sets aside the initial reaction to the seemingly overwhelming racism in T.D. Rice’s “The Original Jim Crow”, the intricate…

Joel Peter Witkin is a Jewish American Photographer who was born on September 13, 1939 in Brooklyn, New York. His father was a Jew and his mother belonged to the Roman Catholic. He had a twin brother, Jerome Witkin who was a prominent painter. Joel Peter together with his twin brother were raised up in an extremely religious atmosphere, which explains why most of the photographs by Joel Peter are Christian-oriented. Witkin acquired his first camera around 1955 and learned about the basics of…

Scandinavia Cuisine Introduction The Scandinavian countries include Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland. These countries are located north of the Baltic and North seas, except Denmark and Iceland, and they share common borders. The population of the Scandinavia is mostly concentrated in the warmer south regions. The harsher northern areas extend above the Arctic Circle. Sweden has different climate zones. It has the widest range of agriculture that is concentrated in the south. It…

Christopher Browning, Daniel Goldhagen, and the creators of Night and Fog toyed with the question of who is responsible for the Holocaust. The 1956 short film Night and Fog presents real images and clips from the Holocaust that make viewers question the motivations and ideology of the Nazis during World War II. In Ordinary Men, Browning explains his theory that any ordinary man could have committed the crimes, and the responsibility of the Holocaust should be placed on the higher authorities…

North Coast at a glance Area Info - North Coast The Dolphin Coast is an expanse of small towns, superb beaches and a panorama of waving sugar cane, stretching across the North Coast of Kwa-Zulu Natal from the affluence of Zimbali to the natural beauty of the Tugela mouth. It is home to many friendly faces, village atmosphere, modern malls and accommodation of all types – whether you feel like a family trip or a five-star getaway. The Dolphin Coast is aptly named due to the year-round presence…

Calder V. British Columbia Attorney General [1973] SCR 313 Calder case is a pacesetter for aboriginal jurisprudence in Canadian supreme court. It is the first to recognize that aboriginal title to land exist as a sui generis type of right in Canada at the time of time of the Royal Proclamation Order of 1763 and does not devolve from the colonial, Crown law, treaty or statute. The main issue for determination in this case was whether Crown authority lawfully extinguished the aboriginal title to…

suffer. On the other hand, Pearl puts the letter on her own chest “A letter—the letter A—but freshly green instead of scarlet” (548). Hester’s letter is scarlet as a symbol of an outrageous sin, whereas Pearl’s letter is “freshly green” and made out of eel-grass. Such a “naturaly” green colored letter represents nature’s approval and agreement. It may even seem that instead of trying to hurt her mother, Pearl had actually felt a spiritual connection with Hester and even become thankful of…

Old dusty clothes draped over the old faded grey rickety chair, resting in the corner. The pitch black wallpaper ridiculed with silver spider webs obscuring the majority of the walls, with the windowed wall disintegrated from the events of the world. The single bed relaxes alone in the corner of this confined space. The small abandoned bed, with its childish bright blue duvet, faded from time, neatly made mocking itself and the rest of the room with its emptiness. The dark wooden…

Music and dance in Madagascar is more impromptu and it is not uncommon to see someone express themselves emotionally through song and dance, or for a group of villagers to get together and play. As this is more of a jam scenario there is more concern among the musicians about keeping rhythm than exploring linear chord progressions or melodic patterns (Koskoff). Finally, modern Malagasy music does incorporate the traditional instruments and techniques listed above. But a band composed of modern…