... still unsympathetic to diversity. We have seen it in the Lone Star movie, which is a rich and rewarding exploration of the tensions and attractions between the people of this multi-racial community. The screenplay avoids platitudes and easy answers, and treats the characters as individuals, rather than symbols or idealized stereotypes. Various political, racial, and familial tensions in ... officials saw school as a way to control intended to maintain the status quo dominant over subordinate. Because of the subordinate status Mexican American students received an inferior quality of educ...

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... and do vary from one family to the next. Some of the basic family values are, education, individualism, religion, and freedom. Education is highly valued in American culture; children are told when they are very young that education is the key to future success in life. Without education one could not do or have what one wants. Individualism is also taught at an early ... death. Discipline occurs all the time, a ticket disciplines speeding, teenagers breaking house rules are disciplined by being grounded. For as many different rules there are as many different disciplinary actions. Educ...

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... that Clueless is a "dumbing down" of Emma, reducing a timeless classic to a degrading, superficial and hardly distinguishable adaptation, taking away from it's historical, cultural and social significance. I feel that Heckerling has turned this classic into not only a multi layered social and cultural commentary in relation to our context but has added an extra dimension by using film as her text base. During Austen's day ... film was non-existent and the written word was the only form of text. It was a time where compulsory education wasn't present and books were expensive to purchase ...

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... conditions, led to uprisings for better treatment, living, and working conditions. Although the working class was not the only ones who were treated unfairly by the nobles, they had a higher education and led most revolts against them. Outdated farming techniques also led to problems, because the equipment the nobles had made it hard for the peasants to work the land and ... legislation or representation in the government. These corrupt leaders did not want to modernize Russian, and were strongly against introducing the ideas of the French Revolution. Russia had always been a multi-cult...

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