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Post-colonial identity and binary opposition in Zadie Smith's White Teeth

One of the difficulties of constructing an identity through the post-colonial discourse of race, religion and ethnicity is the difficulty of filtering out the discourse of the oppressor, the 'us vs. them' binary that defines colonialism.

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Daoism as the way of life and meditation

To those of us living in Western Culture, there is a tendency to view Eastern religious traditions as somewhat abstract and metaphysical in their traditions of ideology and worship.

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Rousseau's social contract theory and critique of Locke and Hobbes

Jean Jacque Rousseau published on the Social Contract, his theory of how man moves from the state of nature to form a social contract, in 1762, he was offering his views largely in response to works that had been published near the end of the previous century by John Locke and Thomas Hobbes.

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Libyan EFL teachers' understanding of communicative language teaching

Unfortunately in Libya, there are issues where there are little resources to provide sufficient training in regards to the CLT Approach.

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American independence and the Revolutionary War, 1776-1783

Previous to 1776, the United States of America was formed by colonies ruled by British government. The colonists were no longer willing to be ruled by England, and as a result they started to fight for their independence.

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Magical realism in García Márquez's "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"

Magical realism, according to author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "…expands the categories of the real so as to encompass myth, magic, and other extraordinary phenomena in Nature…" (Marquez, Creighton.edu).

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Chomsky's theory of language and its impact on cultural traditions

Over the decades, the impact of language on culture has been continually debated. The main reason is because there are different views among ethnographic researchers. What has been happening is a host of studies were introduced in the 1970's by Dr. Noam Chomsky.

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England's Change4Life campaign: reducing childhood obesity through social marketing

Change4Life, a public health program in England, effective since January of 2009 and organized by the Department of Health is the country's first national social marketing campaign to reduce obesity (NHS, 2009, pp. 13).

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Procrastination as a self-defeating behavior pattern in academic work

I know that many students suffer from this behavior pattern and struggle with it, but in my case, I consider it a serious problem that has influenced my academic work. Because of procrastinating, I sometimes have to work fast (and thus imperfectly) at the last minute and work under stress.

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A Korean student's cultural encounter with Cuban Miami

The event is more a series of events. I went on vacation with some friends to Miami, and while not everything I experienced on that trip would count as a cultural experience, there is little question that there were some very different experiences.

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