Chapter Summary I. The State and the Nation For an entity to be considered a state‚ four fundamental conditions must be met (although these legal criteria are not absolute): A state must have a territorial base. A stable population must reside within its borders‚. There should be a government to which this population owes allegiance. A state has to be recognized diplomatically by other states. A nation is a group of people who share a set of characteristics. At the core of the concept of a nation
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Explore the effectiveness of chapter one of ‘The Secret Agent’. ‘The Secret Agent’ by Joseph Conrad is set in 1886 in London‚ it tells the story of an anarchist‚ Adolf Verloc‚ who owns a shop selling pornographic material and other miscellaneous merchandise. However he is in fact a secret agent working with a group of men who believe the same as him. Within chapter one the reader learns about the Verloc family; Adolf Verloc‚ the main character of the novel; Winnie Verloc‚ his wife; Stevie‚ Winnie’s
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The ending chapters of River of Dark Dreams summarized the reopening of slavery arguments and the United States imperial expansion. The reopeners‚ as well as many other southerners‚ believed that cotton gave slaveholders power over free men. The hierarchy‚ power‚ and necessity that associated itself with slavery was important to have. To be a slaveholder was a privilege‚ rite of passage‚ and a societal license in classism. They saw liberal capitalism as a profound threat to the social hierarchy‚
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The American River is the second biggest tributary to the Sacramento Stream‚ a basic part of the San Francisco Inlet/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta framework. The Lower segment of the American River Watershed starts at Folsom Dam and flows around 30 miles to its intersection with the Sacramento River close downtown Sacramento. The watershed size is around 4856 square kilometers with a watershed length of 48.3 kilometers. The normal yearly precipitation is around 76cm.The Folsom Dam‚ which is inside
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"Stories have to be told or they die‚ and when they die‚ we can’t remember who we are or why we’re here." Asserted from the 2002 novel Secret Life of Bees‚ Sue Monk Kidd blew her breath in the lungs of this novel making sure that this story would never die. Based upon a time where life in the American South was tremendously different then what we know as life today and where not all people were treated with the same respect. The vivid pictures painted throughout the novel puts the reader in the middle
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(1) 自然界的生態平衡是如何展現呢？人類的活動又如何破壞生態平衡？ (2) 人類和自然的關係應該如何平衡？ Human should not interfere with any of the relation between life and the earth. (F) Which factor enables sage to survive the long ages of natural selection in the dry West? Its small grey leaves can hold moisture. Grouse‚ Mule deer‚ Antelope depend on the sage Land management agencies decide to eliminate the sage to satisfy the demand of grazing land Immediate side effect of spraying on sagebrush‚ as illustrated in the example of Bridger
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Personally‚ I think the meaning of the short story “A Secret Lost in the Water by Roch Carrier is that we don’t appreciate our parents enough in what they are trying to teach us. While going through school and growing up‚ we tend to forget the lessons our parents and families have taught us. So‚ when we get to be an adult‚ a lot of our memories of our younger years have slipped our minds. Towards the end of the story‚ a farmer shows the boy the same alder branch his father had used to find water
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The excerpt from the book A Secret Sorrow‚ by Karen Van Der Zee‚ explains a woman’s challenge of dealing with a permanent internal injury in her love life. The main character‚ Faye‚ was involved in a serious car accident that robbed her of the ability to have children. After the accident‚ Faye broke off an engagement with her fiancé and moved in with her brother. There‚ she fell in love with her brother’s friend‚ Kai‚ to whom she had to reveal her tragic injury. Faye’s dilemma began with Kai when
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Often‚ famous novels go through the process of becoming movies. On the outside world of the film‚ fans of the novel and people who want to see the movie are running around in excitement‚ but behind the scenes there is a lot more than what meets the eye. Behind the scenes‚ screenwriters are doing their best to make an appealing movie‚ studio executives are deciding whether or not to keep the movie in the works and the authors who originally wrote the novel are hoping that the plot of the movie doesn’t
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"The Secret Life of Bees uses the Black Madonna as an important symbol of women leadership. As August tells Lily‚ "Our Lady is not some magical being out there somewhere‚ like a fairy godmother. She’s not in the statue in the parlor. She’s something inside you" (Kidd‚ 288). This statement is the most important words of wisdom Lily receives throughout the entire novel. The statue in the parlor of the Boatwright home is just that: a statue. Lily learns that it isn’t the statue that she needs to give
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