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Bazin's ontology of cinema and the gap between film and reality

When photography appears in historical development, its indexicality adds the appeal of endurance through time to the impression of likeness in painted perspective.

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Evolution of minor rights in medical treatment and informed consent

The evolution of the hospital is a unique social phenomenon reflecting societal attitudes toward illness and the welfare of the individual and the group. Hospitals existed in antiquity, in Egypt and in India.

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Women factory workers and the Rosie the Riveter propaganda campaign

"Over 6 million women who had never worked for wages before took jobs, married women's labor force participation doubled, and unions gained 2.2 million women in a matter of 4 years. Not all of this was achieved without resistance, however.

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The Montessori Method in counselor educator training

In many ways, counselors are educators. They take tools for communication and growth and attempt to teach those goals to a diverse group of people in settings that are designed to increase dialogue and communication in an effort to enhance problem-solving.

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The death penalty debate: arguments for and against capital punishment

Capital punishment has provoked heated discussion since biblical times. The debate remains as divisive as ever because it sits at the intersection of life, death and the very definition of the word justice. Whether justice requires the death penalty is strictly a matter of how one defines justice.

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George Orwell's 1984 and totalitarianism in twentieth-century history

It still holds tremendous influence today among a broad swath of the liberally educated. 1984 resonates with fiction writers, politicians, and journalists alike.

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The meaning and literary structure of The Lottery

"It isn't fair, it isn't right." These are the last words expressed by the victim in Shirley Jackson's short story 'The Lottery', which provides a unique but shocking perspective of the innate evil that is part of human nature.

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Immigration policy and labor market effects during the 1990s

During the time period of 1881 and 1924, the First Great Migration shifted about 25.8 million people from across the globe to the United States, boosting the country's population by approximately 50%. Huge numbers migrated from Western Europe.

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Angela Carter's "Nights at the Circus" as modern fairy tale

Nights at the Circus" is a fairy tale in the modern times. It revolves around the circus star, Sophie Fevvers, who is half-human and half-swan, and who is the passionate object of professional and moral pursuit of Jack Walser, a devout journalist who must seriously investigate into the truth or…

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Spirituality in the poetry of Dylan Thomas

His blood turned to words. Every poet is, in a sense, two people: the poet and the persona, or presence, that speaks through the poetry. With Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) both poet and persona tend to scintillate into the sublime and the ridiculous.

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