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Emotional elaboration in Vivaldi, Marvell, and Bernini's Baroque works

The works chosen are "Spring" by Antonio Vivaldi, Bernini's "Michelangelo," and "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell. All of these represent the highest of Baroque style and culture because of the elements that make up each work.

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Appreciation for Dr. Peter Wu's care during family medical crisis

When a family is holidaying in a foreign country, where they do not speak the language, even a small accident can seem like an insurmountable disaster.

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Cultural differences in international business communication and collaboration

People across all nations have their own sets of beliefs and cultures. These beliefs and cultures affect they way people talk, move and react on different things or events. These beliefs and cultures can also affect one's perception towards jobs and other career and/or business-related aspects.

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African-American resistance and abolitionism before 1861

Nobody Turn Us Around" delves into the wealth of resources regarding the African-American experience since the founding of our nation. A specific examination of the context of slavery before 1861 reveals a deep level of inhumanity at the way slaves were treated.

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Shelley's theory of poetry's social utility in Blake's Romantic poems

In Representative Poetry Online (2006), Percy Bysshe Shelley emphasized the importance and function of poetry in our lives. It is noted that in a Defence of Poetry, he claimed that poetry is not only a form of artistic expression, medium of language, or an activity of leisure and amusement.

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Postmodernism as a cultural response to modern capitalism

Philosophy, art, literature, design, marketing, interpretation of history and culture have been effected by post modernism ideas. Post modernism is mainly "a movement of ideas" which borrows principles from the modernism. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism)

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The Red Violin's narrative structure and thematic complexity

This film is episodic, because it does follow the life of the violin, but it begins in an auction house in Montreal, and ends there, with flashbacks to the auction house throughout the film.

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Freud and Foucault on desire and pleasure

For Sigmund Freud, everything human beings do is underlain by the pursuit of pleasure and the avoidance of pain. In defining the pleasure principle, Freud assigns it two components: sexuality, which Freud refers to as Eros, and aggression or Thanatos.

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Media stereotypes and Asian-American dating preferences among younger generations

As I walked back from class and observed students interacting on campus, I could not find any overt instance of racial self-segregation. Couples were often biracial; and groups of friends seemed mostly to be comprised of people from different ethnic backgrounds.

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The history and influence of Catholicism in America

According to Robert F. Trisco, Catholics "make up approximately one-fourth of the population of the United States, making this group the largest single community of faith in the nation" (78).

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