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    Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

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    Our world faced various changes throughout history. Sometimes these changes attributed to disadvantages and affect negatively. Nevertheless, in many cases changes attributed to reforms. Such an example is the Kemalist reforms that set by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. He is one of the most famous and revolutionary people of the twentieth century. He was the first president and the one who found the modern Turkish republic. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk needed a very short time in order to create or change many…

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    that one has to be sufficient within oneself because there is no other refuge elsewhere, puts an end to her problems. She realizes that “we come into this world alone and go out of it alone. The period in between is short.Our society is full of paradoxes and contradictions. Here a female is considered a peripheral member of the family, both in her parent's house as well as husbands. Throughout Saru’s lifetime, she is unable to decide her roots and this leads to her insecurity. As the daughter is…

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    Definition: Litotes is a figure of speech that uses negative words but promotes a positive statement. Its meaning is not meant to be taken literally. The double negative words are intended to express a contrast.This literary term is used to state a positive statement, without actually stating an affirmative. They are usually expressed through an understatement. Litotes are most often used in rhetoric and speech (Litotes). Function: Litotes use two negative terms to express a positive. This…

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    Can You Find It? There is a destructive disease affecting the entire world. The disease has always existed, but only recently influenced the entire world. This disease entices its victims and acts harmless like rainbows and butterflies. The innocent disease then infects its victims with hopelessness. This disease is happiness. The idea and concept of happiness dictates human fate. One would think happiness is the cute and cuddly word taught in western cultures. Humans have adapted to the world…

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    both are false through any factor other than the other option then we will not consider that for this paper. The theory of backwards causation will be delved into within its aspect in regards to time travel, Quantum Entanglement, metaphysics, paradoxes, and its relationship to God. The importance of each is vast in its own regards, that is why we must consider all aspects when dealing with its relationship to God. That meaning if backwards causation can’t hold up in other categories, then its…

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    intelligence and a leading political philosopher by coming up with his own theory called third universal theory, which was defined in his legendary Green Book. The third universal theory developed by Muammar Gaddafi claimed to be used to resolve the paradoxes inherent in capitalism and communism which was intended to place the world on the route of political, economic and social uprising and free the oppressed…

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    The American Identity

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    Despite, or perhaps because of, this country’s short history, the American identity is one of the most highly contested and undefinable of intangible ideas. Many of the highly debated abstract concepts are so often and sometimes needlessly argued over because they are indefinable. So much can fall under the categories of these types, like art, love, and poetry, that deems them impossible to narrow down into workable definitions. A blank canvas can be considered art and free verse is somehow…

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    Reaching the Limits of Empathy by Understanding Institutionalized Racism The implications and issues that arise from a history of institutionalized racism are not comprehensible to every member of our society. More specifically, the experience of an African American person living in the United States differs vastly from the experience of a white person living in the United States due to institutionalized racism and appropriation of African American culture. In her essay “Respectability Will Not…

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    The plot summary for the science fiction The End of Eternity is with a grand imaginative background but easy to read: Andrew Harlan, a protagonist, is Twissell's personal Technician.He extracted from Reality and into “Eternity”, a place that exists outside of time , altering Reality where necessary to control the flow of history with a kind of time machine called kettle, while the people recruited from various times throughout history for particular desired skills, from the 27th century, all the…

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    In Politics of Piety, Saba Mahmood does an amazing job at portraying the women’s mosque movement in Egypt in a new, less reductionistic light as opposed to the conventional approaches used by many scholars of feminism and theorists of agency. While Mahmood’s book revolves around these popular piety movements of the 90s, this book is much more than just an ethnographic inquiry; it is a scathing critique of secular liberal feminism, which has at times been exploited to serve imperial projects and…

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