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Italian wine commercial claims and sophistication appeals

It blatantly claims to be made with some of the best grapes Italy has to offer; "you can tell this was made from the finest Italian grapes." It also presents that just because it is Italian it is better than other wine choices.

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Anne Scott's "The Southern Lady": challenging the belle myth

Scott, Anne F. The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830-1930. University of Virginia Press, 1995. Historian Anne Scott's The Southern Lady is a text designed to question the image of the delicate, submissive Southern belle that has become a fixture of American popular culture.

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Pre-colonial and modern American educational system control issues

The history of the educational system ironically has not been changed as much as one might think since the colonial era. Of course the content being studied may be completely different and they had no IPods in the early days of America, but the idea of education is still the same.

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Social complexity and religious hypocrisy in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales is a fragmented narrative. It consists of a series of tales, told by a variety of characters on a pilgrimage. The tales are given additional resonance because of the character of the teller. For example, "The Pardoner's Tale" is a tale of how money is the root of all evil.

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Sectionalism and regionalism in early American development

The United States has recently begun emphasizing a united image with staunch patriotism, and criticizing others for their differing opinions in a height of fear. Yet, social and intellectual divisions through sectionalism have been a part of this nation from the very inception.

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Religious influence on redemption in Beowulf, Crime and Punishment, and Canterbury Tales

Religious traditions influence the themes and construction of literary narratives and religious texts themselves can function as literature.

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Symbolism and power in Frederick Douglass's autobiography

Plummer represents the institution of slavery because he was a "savage monster" (Douglass 45). He was always drunk and he was never without his cow skin and heavy cudgel. Douglass writes that at times, it seems as if he took pleasure in beating a slave. Plummer was so mean that Mr.

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Mississippi's history, economy, and political development

Mississippi's history, main industry, and other demographics. Mississippi is one of the oldest Southern states in the Union, and it has struggled with racism, poverty, and a poor reputation for education and industry in the past.

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Humor as tension relief and thematic device in Macbeth and Crime and Punishment

Act II, Scene 2 is one of the most dramatic and tension-laden scenes in all of Macbeth, a play that is bathed in blood and gore.

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IBM's marketing strategy and the sale of its PC division to Lenovo

IBM began in 1900, and has grown to become one of the world's largest and best-known names in computing and technology.

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