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Irish independence and the "Irish Question" in British politics

The "Irish Question" was the growing discontent in Ireland and the continuing calls for Irish independence from Great Britain in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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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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Lord of the Flies characters and their symbolic roles

Main characters, setting, plot, exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution. The main characters -- Ralph, Piggy, Jack and Simon -- play critically important roles in the novel, and each has a pivotal part in the plot and the exposition.

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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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Language decline and identity in Brian Friel's Translations

Brian Friel's play "Translation" is all about the unfortunate and gradual decline of the Irish identity and language as portrayed in O'Donnel family's experience. This issue is what is central to the play.

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Biblical counseling approaches to addiction: a word analysis

Human physiology is remarkably complex, even for 21st century science. However, much like recent discoveries in quantum physics, as science discovers more and more about the biological basis of behavior -- or neurochemistry, the basis of behavior and addiction remain a mystery.

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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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