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    Myasabeda Tribe Case Study

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    generations have not had education. Poverty is the reason behind this and the Myasabedas are unable to mobilize money for their education. It is an irony that Myasabedas are working as laborers in the same fields which they owned some time ago. The plight of women is lamentable. Girl educations never a priority as it is difficult to educate all the children. Girls who come of age are kept outside the village and the first word is sent to the maternal uncle in this regard and a ritual is…

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    Frankenstein and his creation. I will also talk about other similarities such as their circumstances and their plights. The story of Frankenstein revolves around a man of science. Driven by grief and anger, Victor Frankenstein ventured…

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    inhuman mining industry. Through symbolism, the band highlights the industry's callousness in regard to workers, whose lives are risked for the benefit of these multinational corporations. The song's sombre tone allows the audience to relate to the plight of miners whose health and livelihood is completely at the mercy of these dispassionate conglomerates. Repetition also emphasises the unbreakable cycle that miners find themselves trapped in. Within 'Blue Sky Mine' symbolism depicts both the…

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    Psychology Today also touches on the idea of cultural integration in its 2008 article, “Plight of the Little Emperors.” Almost every Chinese child grows up under the the metaphorical magnifying glass of their parents. At the earlier stages of childhood, they are unaware of what they are being trained to be, a student at a high level university…

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    Memorial of the Cherokee Nation is about the plight of the Cherokee Indians in the 1830s. Beginning after the War of 1812 when the white men were moving south in to states such as Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, five civilized Indian nations occupied these states and the Cherokees in particular were located in Georgia. This land was prime for growing cotton and the white farmers wanted the Indians off of the land so they could prosper from cotton growing. There were federal treaties in…

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    The description of Jane as “poor, obscure, plain, and little” helps further Jane’s plight as a marginalized individual in society. The contrast between “an automation” and Janes exclamation that she has “as much soul as you [Rochester]” helps juxtapose the expectations placed on Jane from society and her desires as a human being. Brontë…

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    “Lucinda River” are symbols for the protagonist’s age and reality catching up with him, and the second metaphor featured in the short story is the changing seasons and weather are seen as symbols for time passing faster and the protagonist’s imminent plight. Both of these metaphors and symbols show how you can have everything in the world and lose it all so quickly.…

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    The book, Nickel and Dimed, is well-crafted masterpiece that features the author as an undercover worker to experience the life of low-wage workers and the struggle they have to undergo to make ends meet in the face of poverty. The book is a great read as it provides insight through the eyes of an expert disguised as a worker going to Key West, Florida experiencing the same problems low-income Americans go through with an income of between US$2.43 and US$7 an hour. The book majors on the theme…

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    roots. The first is race relations and the origins of slavery. Chapter One opens with the story of an educated, runaway slave named Ayuba, who eventually earns his freedom through the kindness and generosity of Europeans who when hearing of his plight, raised money to buy his freedom and send him home to Africa. His picture was printed in London newspapers, donors sent gifts, and he visited the royal family. Similar stories to that of Ayuba still appear on the news and social media about…

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    In Katie Rose Guest Pryal’s article, she discusses the absence of cross-racial empathy in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, using different events in the book to prove her point. Initially she begins with a definition of empathy stating “the power of projecting one’s personality into (and so fully comprehending) the object of contemplation” (176). Then discussing the sparsity of black characters conveying their feelings of a white dominant society, Pryal states that the whites show little…

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