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    In Randy Pausch's "The Last Lecture", he uses the quote: “The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people." Randy Pausch uses symbolism to explain the significance of brick walls. Brick walls can be used to let us prove how badly we want something. He…

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    James Bond Masculinity

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    James Bond, a man of many adventures, the star of several books and movie’s, has become the picture of British masculinity. This British masculinity can be defined by the rigorous consistency, sophistication, social elegance, physical and intellectual superiority, and levelheadedness with which Bond gracefully and timely saves the world from its unknown offenders. This ideal man is the height of British superiority and his adventures are the epitome of Anglo-centric world views during the cold…

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    Roger Williams and His Success “Forced worship stinks in God’s nostrils” said Roger Williams. Roger Williams was a religious leader and the founder of Rhode Island. He considers himself to a Separatist Minister. A Separatist is a movement to separate the church from England. Roger Williams believed that religion and politics shouldn't mix. He also believed that civil authorities shouldn't enforce religion. Roger Williams had a great impact on the native Indians and their rights. Roger…

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    Page 1 Source five states that Leopold put hospitals into effect at every important point in the region. He produced churches, schools, and laboratories, and organized government buildings. He cleared non-providing forests with land to produce rubber, cocoa, coffee, and other food-providing trees, vines, and crops. The locals would have noticed Leopold 's reforms in ways suggested in the picture documents. Railways, hospitals, and new currency were just some of Leopold’s reforms in order to…

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    Carl Rogers was “born in Chicago, IL Jan 8, 1902” (deCarvalho, 2010) into a “fundamentalist religious home” (Rogers, 1980, p. 27). Growing up, Rogers did not have any close friends in elementary school or high school, which he attributed to his home environment (Rogers, 1980, p. 28-29). His first real experience of comradery came when he went to the College of Agriculture at the University of Wisconsin where he “almost immediately joined a group of fellows that met in a YMCA class” (Rogers,…

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    Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, also known as CTE for short, is a progressive degenerative brain disease found in the brains of athletes, specifically football players. The repetitive hits to the head sustained while playing the game of football ultimately results in the degeneration of brain tissue and the build-up of an abnormal protein known as tau. Mike Webster was a famous offensive linemen for the Pittsburg Steelers who spent fourteen years in Pittsburg and his last two…

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    her being a victim of long time CEO Roger Ailes. Roger Ailes was eventually fired from running the Fox News company. In her lawsuit, Carlson said her contract wasn 't renewed after she “refused to sleep” with Ailes and reported "severe and pervasive sexual harassment” at her workplace. (Yu, 2016) Since Gretchen Carlson filed her lawsuit, numerous other women has express Roger Ailes has harass other women has express they have felt the same treatment from Roger Ailes. One of the anchors who has…

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    Family Media Influence

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    One of the largest and most intricate form of media is children’s, especially television. Family media has existed since the availability of things like comics and radio narratives however the introduction of the television set has progressed into a more niche form of family media in children’s television. It is important to understand that since television has become a household staple, children’s television is now ubiquitous in youth culture - in some way or form, a child will know of…

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    Puritan Leaders, what Anne did was considered treason. At her trial, she was pregnant with her 16th child, but she put her foot down and would not change her views. She was banished from Massachusetts Bay colony. Hutchinson and her husband relocated to Roger Williams colony of Rhode Island. This colony was based on religious tolerance. Then in 1642 she and her family moved to New York where after a year she and most of her family were killed in an Indian…

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    King Leopold's Conquering and Exploitation of the Congo Adam Hochschild vividly tells the story of how King Leopold conquered and exploited the Congo in the novel King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa. The book is written in third person telling the story from the time Henry Morton Stanley was born to time of Congo claiming their independence. Hochschild discusses the horrific things that happened in Congo at the hands of King Leopold and how Henry…

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