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Malcolm X's homemade education and path to empowerment

A school dropout, Malcolm X illustrates the dichotomy between a formal and what he calls a "homemade" education: "In the street, I had been the most articulate hustler out there -- I had commanded attention when I said something.

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Derek Walcott's "Ti-Jean and his Brothers" in Spanish translation

In America today, the 1992 Nobel Prize winner for literature Derek Walcott is perhaps best known for his poetry.

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Colonial resistance and cultural collapse in Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe was born in Ogidi, Nigeria, and his father was a teacher in a missionary school.

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Satire and polemic in Swift and King's protest rhetoric

However, both authors addressed conformists in their words. King addressed a group of well-meaning ministers who protested his actions in Birmingham as moving too fast, and as the work of an outside agitator who did not understand the Birmingham Black community.

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Shakespeare's use of Plutarch in Julius Caesar

It seems that William Shakespeare used the Thomas North translation of Plutarch's biography of Julius Caesar, entitled 'Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans,' as the source for the play 'Julius Caesar' (William pp).

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Universal design for learning in collaborative teaching environments

Universal design for learning is the overall rubric which includes within its ambit the questions, concerns, problematic and potentials of collaborative and inclusive teaching methods and practices.

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The song of Roland as medieval epic and propaganda material

Song of Roland or La Chanson de Roland, whose author is unknown, is the greatest, oldest and a very popular medieval epic poem in French, believed to have been written between 1098 and 1100.

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The ECJ's Owusu v Jackson decision on forum non-conveniens

The practice of forum non-conveniens has long been at the forefront of legal debate. Many experts have long contended that when a case involves individuals or businesses for which the domiciles are different the case should be heard in a location that is the most convenient.

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The global popularization and spread of anime across international audiences

Anime is, in essence, the Japanese form of animation. In general, it is characterized by extremely stylized and colorful graphics, and the use of vivacious and vibrant colors. The graphics used depict energetic and effervescent characters that are set in a large number of scenes and settings.

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Police brutality and constitutional rights in America

The answer is that this is not completely true; the Constitution, when it was initially developed, did not enable authorities to cope successfully with all the disputes that would arise in a basic human society.

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