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    Mitchell Thomas certainly directed a show to remember with 100 minutes of intense suspense and grief. Thomas’s seemingly classic portrayal of Blood Wedding(Bodas de Sangre) did justice to the original by Federico Garcia Lorca under a new form by Tanya Ronder. Though Blood Wedding focuses on a tale of love and murder‚ Elena White (Death) steals the Porter Theatre show with her lurking darkness and creepy stares. From the start‚ Elena captivates the audience with her non-verbal communication through

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    Offer An offer sets out the terms upon which an individual is willing to enter into a binding contractual relationship with another person. It is a promise to be bound on particular terms‚ which is capable of acceptance. The essential factor to emphasise about an offer is that it may‚ through acceptance by the offeree‚ result in a legally enforceable contract. The person who makes the offer is the offeror; the person who receives the offer is the offeree. Offers‚ once accepted‚ may be legally

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    Death by Tourism

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    DEATH BY TOURISM By Arnold Baker At the entrance to one of the ruined temples in Petra in Jordan‚ there is an inscription chiselled into the soft red rock. It looks as if it has been there for centuries. It could have been carved by one of Herod’s soldiers‚ when they were imprisoned in the town in 40BC. However‚ closer inspection reveals that it is not ancient at all. It reads: Shane and Wendy from Sydney were here. June 16th 1996 The ruins of Petra were discovered in 1810 by a Swiss explorer

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    The Death Penalty

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    Ready…Aim…Halt! Canada‚ with a homicide rate of 1.6 in 100 000 people‚ should not reinstate the death penalty for first-degree murder. There is simply no need. There are other ways to deal with criminals‚ such as various forms of imprisonment. Yes‚ they commit heinous crimes‚ but there are too many problems with the death penalty as oppose to its few benefits. The original use for the death penalty was to incapacitate dangerous people‚ who were a threat to society. However‚ that was long ago. Nowadays

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    Thomas Robert Malthus was a British economist‚ whose famous Theory of Population highlighted the potential dangers of overpopulation. In his famous An Essay on the Principles of Population‚ Malthus shows as that: ’the populations of the world would increase in geometric proportions the food resources available for them would increase only in arithmetic proportions’. In simple words‚ human population can increase at a faster rate than the food supply. Agriculture has diminishing returns. Therefore

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    Native Son's Bigger Thomas

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    Watts 1963‚ 1995 I chose this particular painting by Kerry James Marshall because the three children within the painting remain me Vera‚ Buddy‚ and Bigger Thomas. The black shadow beneath each of the children is representing the cruelty‚ hatred‚ and lack of possibilities in their lives. Bigger is the boy curled into a fetal position upon the ground engulfed by the darkness around him because he decided to wallow in self-pity. He does not seek advancement in any area of his life because it is easier

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    In Ira Shor’s essay‚ “What is Critical Literacy‚” Shor challenges one to think about what exactly is critical literacy and how it be used to promote social change. She defines literacy as social action through language use that develops us as agents inside a larger culture. Shor defines critical literacy as learning to read and write as a part of the process of becoming conscience of one’s experience as historically constructed within specific power relations. Critical literacy challenges the status

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    Qn. Luke’s gospel depicts Jesus as being concerned for the marginalized. Identify three classes of marginalized people in our communities and discuss with specific examples how your church or community how your church or community has been dealing with the issue. To marginalize means to relegate to a lower or outer edge‚ of specific groups of people. Marginalized people in society are people who are considered as outcasts in the society‚ they are referred to as those

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    Oprah Winfrey once stated‚ "Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity‚" meaning that luck is not the random chances in life but precise preparation and opportunity joining to make a successful or failed event. Analyzing this quote‚ one might find that luck is not what people need to believe in but hard work and determination should be one’s motivation. Starting with the meaning of luck‚ it is something that happens to a person by chance with no planning. From just right there one can agree

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    Modern Theatre in Context :: The Second Mrs Tanqueray Pinero‚ whom even Shaw’s collaborator William Archer praised for his ’serious treatment of serious themes’‚ believed that the proper function of drama was ’giving back to the multitude their own thoughts and conceptions illuminated‚ enlarged‚ and if needful purged’. Treating moral ’problems’ in such a socially conformist way on the stage won Pinero an immense popularity; and from 1885 through 1895‚ with a new play appearing every year‚ his work

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