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    The Effects of the French and Indian War During the 1754-63 the French and Indian War significantly altered the political, economic, and ideological relations between Britain and its American colonies. Political of effects the war included Britain 's disbandment of the salutary neglect policy. Economics is how the economy was doing and if the money was doing good in the region. During the and after the war the economy was chaotic and had an enormous debt that needed to be payed. Finally, an…

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    Representation of Female Masculinity In order to understand the formations and trends of masculinized female identities, it is important to analyze the presentation of female masculinity in film. Because female masculinity is a generally unexplored phenomenon, films and the media provide a societal view of female masculinity. Masculine women have often been presented on film as butches “as an emblem of social upheaval and as a marker of sexual disorder” (Halberstam 186). Although there is…

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    In his findings, he is shown to find “ death, disappearance, or otherwise serious misfortune “ ( Patricia D. Netzley, 2006) to those around him. This is shown to make individuals very lonesome and in despair of themselves, because no one wants anything to do with someone whose life could make their lives…

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    Ackley was that type of person who “hardly ever went anywhere” and “hated everybody’s guts” (Salinger 26). Stradlater forced Holden to write an English composition, which later he did not like, and beat him up. Holden didn’t like Ackley nor Stradlater, so he only talked to them if he had to. Along with slowly diminishing friendships, phonies, to Holden, is his excuse to…

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    youngest daughter, Carmen Sternwood (Martha Vickers). General Sternwood wants Marlowe to stop Geiger from extorting his family for money. But Marlowe has inadvertently stepped into several other mysteries involving he Sternwood family such as in the disappearance of Sean Regan, employed by General Sternwood to handle previous blackmailers, the sudden murder of Geiger in a house owned by a gangster named Eddie Mars (John Ridgely), and later the death of Owen Taylor, the Sternwood’s…

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    Pros And Cons Of Title IX

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    It goes on to explain how school manipulate the size and number of their men’s non-commercial sports to keep the number of male participants down and how it is counterintuitive to the goals expressed by Title IX. The article continues that Title IX was never meant to be an affirmative action law, but rather “like Title VI and Title VII, Title IX is an anti-discrimination statute” and has just been twisted to become different than what it was originally intended to be. The article finally…

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    Wealth Disparity

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    acts by the government. For instance the Homestead Act. This Act allowed for land to be transferred to whites from Native Americans. It gave 160 acres of land to farms from Native Americans for free. Native Americans were kicked out their land and forced to move cruelly by the government. After the Homestead Act of 1862 came the dawns Act of 1887. This act not only transfer acres of land to whites but it forces Native Americans to assimilate to western culture. This erases their identity and…

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    The Hippocratic Corpus

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    to make a living, and they began seeing patients in lower social classes, as “hospital patients all came from the poorest classes and were treated free of charge” (Jewson, “Localization of Disease” p.3). This move to hospitals allowed for the “disappearance of the sick man” from medical cosmology (Jewson, “Localization of Disease” p.1). Additionally, physicians in Britain and France began to understand that disease was completely internal, rather than it being an imbalance of humans, physicians…

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    loved her. After she leaves, he begins to suspect that she has orchestrated her disappearance. He begins to investigate, and soon unravels the elaborate guise that Amy had been displaying ever since he 's known her. As he learns more about Amy 's true self, her begins to despise her- both for deceiving him for so long and for so neatly removing herself from the life he thought they both had wanted. He is eventually forced to reunite with Amy, and instead of rejecting her as the man in Crossroads…

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    After Mildred remembers to tell Montag about Clarisse’s disappearance, Montag pays closer attention to Mildred which shows her bland life style, “her hair burnt by chemicals to a brittle straw, her eyes with a kind of cataract unseen but suspect far behind the pupils, the reddened pouting lips, the body as thin as…

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