... is society's fear of the communist party in general. In an intriguing scene the Lightman's family dog, named Bo, tips over the trash can and starts sifting through it. While referred to as Bo in the film, dog's full name is listed as "Bolsh" in the credits. This appears to be an attempt to ... link the dog to the ruling party in the Soviet Union: the Bolsheviks. At one point his Mom tells him ... to "put that lid on real tight because Bo gets into everything." The Lightman's dog is a small but symbolic character that illustrates the public's general fear that communists are not only wit...

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... : its successful reliance on Caribbean English as a medium of narration and its treatment of "the new reality of life in Britain for the new immigrants from the non-Western world" (Dickinson). As Sushiela Nasta puts it, in the Moses trilogy "Selvon is concerned primarily with the creation of a black London" ("The Moses Trilogy" 5). One of the complexities of Selvon's style, however ... ...

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... children. Civilians, both white and black , were placed in concentration camps . About 26,000 Boer women and children and 14,000 Africans perished in these deadly camps. An English lady, Emily Hobhouse, alerted the world to the atrocities of the camps. " In some camps,"" she reported, "two and sometimes three different families live in one tent."" The women and children were ... ...

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... they worked to amend the constitution to allow women to vote, which was originally inspired by the fifteenth amendment that allowed black men to vote. A famous Canadian women's suffragist was Emily Gowan Murphy (1868-1938) who was an author and social reformer. Murphy helped establish a court in Edmonton that deal with cases involving women, she was the first woman to serve ... ...

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... Tintin in the hope that he would provide beneficial information. Nonetheless Tintin manages to escape when he passed out due to exhaustion and was presumed dead. As Tintin with his dog, Snowy attempts to find some shelter and food he comes across an old nemesis, Dr. Muller, incapacitating an oil pipeline. Dr. Muller tries to kill Tintin but he gets away ... ...

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... 's daily life living chained in a park. Thomas describes the hunchback as, " a solitary mister drinking water from the chained cup that the children filled with gravel (he) slept at night in a dog kennel- (lines 2-9). The children, perhaps unknowing of the anguish they exact, relentlessly make a mockery of the hunchback. Thomas writes, "And Mister they called Hey mister the truant boys from the ... ...

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... space-exploration program. However, less than a month later, before America could make any significant progress, the Soviets sent a second satellite into orbit, but this time it had a passenger. Laika the dog survived for 10 days in space (before oxygen supply ran out), proving that living beings could be sent into space. Laika captured the hearts of people the world over, and ... ...

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... . Like any other war/anti war series, it represents the horror and heartbreak of war. Common generic conventions of war series are POW camp experiences, submarine warfare, espionage, heroism, air dog fights, tough trench/infantry experiences, and in the majority of episodes of the ten hour series, they represent one of more of these elements. The iconography of Band Of Brothers ... ...

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... left-wing organisations. Franco's fellow officer, General Queipo de Llano, instructed his subordinates on how to treat the 'Bolshevik' activist with this chilling sentence: 'I authorise you to kill him like a dog and you will be free of all responsibility'. Attitudes such as this made the war a terrible tragedy: before its end, in April 1939, 325,000 had died in battle and ... ...

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