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Just 300 years ago, life was completely different. Nothing changed for long periods of time and there was complete dependence on those in positions of power. Society was dominated by agriculture and no one had private property. Families worked together in a specific craft and separate from the rest of the community. Eventually, small innovations turned into bigger and bigger changes until the world became set in a state of constant transformation. Today, there seems to be a new discovery or an…

Picture this: You’re watching a movie that takes place in Africa. The narrator says, “Look at those zebras!” but the camera zooms in on elephants. It would be confusing and wouldn’t make sense, right? So why is it that movies do the same thing with their actors? Fwor as long as movies have been produced, there has been much controversy with the casting choices. The directors often cast actors and actresses who are white for roles meant for people of color. Edward Zo auditioned to get the role as…

Son “Okay. Okay. But I can’t call you Son. ‘Hi, Son. Come here, Son.’ I sound like a grandmother. Give me something else.” “You pick.” “Okay. I will. Let’s see. I need something that fits. I know. I’ll ask you a question – a question I want to ask anyway and the best name will fit right in. Here I go. ‘Why did you have to leave Eloe on the run, leave so fast you couldn’t go to Frisco’s funeral, uh, uh, Phil?’ That’s good. That’s Anglicized French for son.” -Jadine and Son, Tar Baby…

Jellicoe Road opens with a tragedy on the road itself, in the Australian bush. This introduces one of the major narrative threads of Jellicoe Road, the story of a powerful bond of friendship between Tate, Webb, Narnie, Fitz, and Jude, a visiting Cadet. We then enter a world twenty-two years later where we follow Taylor Markham, meeting Taylor in her dreams just as she is about to discover an illuminating piece of information. Taylor is awakened from her bed at boarding school, and brought to a…

Alice Munro use the legend of Moirai to show the dominate role of fate of individual’s life. The Moirai is known as Fate in English which has three sisters with different responsibility in determine individual’s fate. Moirai used be a patron saint who protect the village by join in people’s birth. Three sisters are Clotho who textile the line of life with a spindle in hand, Lachesis who measures each person’s life with a measuring rod, and Atropos who responsible for cutting the line of life…

One of the essential motifs of medieval outlaw heroes is the motif of the Greenwood. The outlaw separates himself from society by living in the woods, enjoying a sort of Edenic paradise free from the corrupt laws of society. There, the outlaw can do what he pleases, usually accompanied by a band of merry men. Modern-day outlaw group Anonymous too has its own Greenwood. Unlike the physical Greenwoods of the medieval outlaws, however, Anonymous' Greenwood is the Internet, and, once the computer is…

be established Hypothesis 1: Music-oriented Internet forum sociolect uses international English language. Graphic evidences provided in chapter two inform, that ‘afterhours.fm’ forum members use English language to express their opinions in music threads. Comparison to a larger scale (Internet as a whole) can confirm this hypothesis. According to Internet World Stats, 872.9 millions of Internet users (data estimated in November 2015) use English language; this amount is on top of the competition…

stated. You lifted your hands; reaching out. I clutched onto them and held them tight; savouring the feeling, the darkest parts of me knew I may never experience this again. I closed my eyes. All these years I have been battling, clinging to the one thread of hope that maybe one day things might be different. But my hope has vanished. It’s a speck of dust travelling with the wind. I have fallen into acceptance. Nobody has a chance, we mean nothing to death. We are all shadows on the wall of…

able to manipulate the fabric with the thread alone, I had to cut small triangles out of the felt to define the arms as well as a slit to define two legs. Though this was somewhat disruptive to the process of wrapping the thread around the fabric seamlessly, it was the only way to use the available fabric and thread that worked to make the wrap dolls. Once I figured this out, the actual wrapping of the felt in the thread was relatively easy, though the thread did not as easily cover the felt…

metanarrative that seeks to govern all other narratives below and within (69). The threads that fabricated this narrative were the Maori 's origin story of Paikea, their sacred traditions and places: Marae, their patriarchal society, and symbols. The Maori has a rich, strong history that can be described as a thread, that has been thickening in layers and resistance since Paikea and passed down orally and physically. The thicken thread has become a rope and it symbolizes the strength of the…