... a last resort. And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires, as if one shouldn't trust the evidence of one's eyes watching the destruction and the misery and death brought by the latest mission of civilization"" (Edward W. Said, Orientalism). The term, "Orientalism," has been used for centuries by scholars, historians, and librarians alike in reference to ... book, Orientalism. Today, Orientalism is used more to describe the West's patronizing views and the repercussions of such views, towards The Orient. Th...

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... exile, Jian-Wa can never be assimilated into mainstream American society. Like so many other Chinese characters in the American popular imagination, Jian-Wa becomes inextricably linked to the world of crime through his brother's association with a criminal "tong."" American narratives about crime and ethnicity have often dealt with the difficulties of finding the American dream of personal freedom, and the voice over opening for Vanishing Son's credit sequence summarizes ... a fit object for Roger and Gail's villainous sport of a human hunt with Jian-Wa as the quarry, loosely based on T...

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... in 1792, he grew concerned with the economic and social unrest of the region. Selkirk grew consumed by the hardships of the farmers, concluding the only cure was "to place settlers from the Untied Kingdom in North America." Selkirk saw an opportunity to colonize the Red River area in 1802, but was offered a grant of land on Prince-Edward-Island instead. Nevertheless, when Selkirk ... married Jean Wedderburn Colvile in 1807, he reconsidered the Red River area as a legitimate region for settlement, since Jean's family was prominent in the affairs of the HBC. .Additionally, the Red River se...

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... today adding secular and capitalistic overtures to its propositions, perpetrating a hegemony of class and social privilege. William Fahey in his book F. Scott Fitzgerald and the American Dream, defined the "dream" as it connotes today. For Fahey, this dream involves "a rise from rags to riches, of amassing a great fortune that will assure a life of luxuriant ease, power, and beauty in an ideal ... ramifications of which almost, always culminates in sense of regret and sorrow, moral complexity, dissatisfaction, identity struggle and void in the soul. Carrie Meeber and the American Dream Fo...

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... of money got left without a job (Anderson 2). This implies that to reach the dream such as getting a good job in America is not necessarily to rush for the money, but chose the profession which the person will be good at and will enjoy it through all the life. This all proves that the American dream exists for everyone who wants to achieve it and puts an effort towards ... to think about the solution to overcome those difficulties. The American dream is being developed in every American person since his childhood; it gives him the power, hope and strength, gives all the ability to achieve...

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... of the challenges faced by American theatre in effectively disseminating its work to a broad generational demographic. Finally, I will examine the strategies and solutions being employed by the theatre community in an effort to expand theatre's visibility to, and engagement with, a new generation of potential audience members. CHAPTER ONE A Personal Perspective on Generational Homogeneity The first production I ever directed was arguably my most successful. While "Dream" (my ... adaptation of "A Midsummer Night's Dream ... ...

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... of comedies have a goal of losing some sort of virginity. In "American Pie" and "Sex Drive", the virginity to be lost was that of the main characters for the first time ever. In "Van Wilder", the virginity was to be lost by having sex with the dream girl for the first time and having it be better than any other sex previous ... . The second claim is that in every teen and sex comedy, there is at least one hyper-sexual person that thinks about sex more than anything else. In "American Pie" it was all four main characters, in " ... that each film has a coding scheme in which a film wi...

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... and "terrifying creatures" (V.O during the opening credits of season 1). The west is (namely 19th century London) is juxtaposed with the new "strange" and "hostile" world. The cast of explorers include Professor George Challenger- the visionary and scientist, Lord John Roxton- the hunter and adventurer, Marguerite Krux- the heiress and expeditions financial benefactor, Ned Malon- the American reporter looking for the "story of a lifetime"/century ... images, concepts or symbols (page 362, Edward Said book). Representation in this context can thus create boundaries and distance between t...

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... a place where men and women could be farmers in the morning, poets in the afternoon and carpenters in the evening." But, unfortunately, his dream did not come true. The tide country was not yet ready for Hamilton's progressive ideas. His memory is preserved the names of islands given by him and in the estate he had founded. The tide country is not very far from Calcutta and ... attempt to establish a classless, casteless, secular society and create a new future for themselves seemed to him to be the fulfillment of Daniel Hamilton's dream with the only difference that it was not an indiv...

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... must ask themselves if they passed it due to oversight or if it passed with the knowledge that the statutes being changed would allow the government to make unconstitutional actions, such as the NSA's recently revealed unwarranted spying. A few years ago, this question might be a bit more difficult to answer, but thanks to Edward Snowden, an NSA whistle blower, we know (more or less of ... our government and its co conspirators still attempt to continue to excuse the scientific findings that prove the attacks on 9/11 were staged despite backed support of accredited experts? The American...

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... Zealand, amidst others. Missionary Henry Williams and his son Edward then translated the treaty into Maori on the 4th of February 1840. There are a variety of different perspectives proclaimed by historians in the debate of the Treaty of Waitangi over the comprehension Maori had on the Treaty at the time. It is said that the translation made by Henry Williams was knowingly different in specific ... a result of Henry Williams removing the word mana, and so they did not comprehend the consequences of British sovereignty. Edward Wakefield, from the New Zealand company, was not in favour o...

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... highway system, the roadside motel and even drive "thru funeral parlors" - all evidence of the increasing American obsession. As the obsession increased in intensity, the automobile was set to take on American culture and redefine it along its own terms. The Impact on the Nuclear Family With the end of World War II, the American nuclear family began to redefine its terms of success. At this time the American dream became the "white picket ... fence dream "- a home and one's own car becomes ... ...

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... experiences for different people in the three attachment-style categories, and to show that subjects" working models of self and relationships would be related to their attachment style. To test the attachment-theory approach to romantic love, Hazan and Shaver designed a love-quiz as a newspaper questionnaire in the first study, and in the second study they administered the same test to a non ... -self-selected college-student group, to ensure the reliability of the results. In the second study, they also included measures of state and ... trait loneliness. The results in the two studie...

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... that US needs Russian cooperation with number of global priorities, particularly Iran's nuclear program and stability in the Middle East.12 Another tensions were connected with a widely known case of Edward Snowden, whom Russia given a political asylum in 2013. In revenge the White House canceled the summit Obama-Putin which was planned to take part in September. As another example we can provide an ... issue of Russia's involvement in the war in Syria and support Bashar al-Asad regime.13 Also in Caucasus ... that Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, is trying to turn back the clock, ev...

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... Health Service Corps offers up to $120,000 to pay off medical school debt to physicians who are willing to work for four years in underserved rural areas. The Association of American Medical Colleges state the average debt for medical student graduates is about $156,000 (AAMC, 2006). Community leaders have tried several ways to convince physicians to practice in rural areas. Community ... of physicians (Iglehart, 2008). Between 2003 and 2008, 16 specialty societies issued reports of similar findings (Edward Salsberg, May 9, 2008 presentation). The Assn. of American Medical Colleges (AAM...

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... restricted by the French. Then, shortly after the fall of Bien Dien Phu, there arrived the Saigon Military Mission (SMM), headed by Colonel (later Maj-Gen) Edward G Lansdale, a US Air Force Officer seconded to the CIA, who specialised in covert and unconventional warfare. He stayed on as an adviser to Diem till 1956. The CIA element remained in country throughout the American involvement. ... On 24 October 1954 US President Eisenhower advised Diem that American assistance would henceforth be provided directly to Vietnam ... were noted and approved by many members of the Australian societ...

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... ran through her head and, like dancing girls on a flowered carpet, her thoughts skipped with the notes, moving from dream to dream, sorrow to sorrow. (I.9.31)" The opposite of Emma however is her husband Charles, who remains infatuated by Emma's beauty and blinded by the denial of Emma's neglect and betrayal toward him, he continues to love and support her. Charles ... between this dysfunctional marriage. Portraying the image of the "ideal" married couple is Hemingway's realistic perspective on the superficiality of society. Their happiness seems rather insignificant as long as their imag...

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... sustain itself domestically and internationally.7" Neither historians suggest the Emancipation proclamation helped African Americans in the "de jure" or "de facto" sense. The two historians and myself disagree with Borritt who chooses to write that "it would be more accurate, even if more awkward, to call it the war for the American Dream.8" However, Borritt does not consider that Lincoln ... once told a friend that his "paramount object [was] the struggle to save the union and it [was] not either to save or destroy slavery,9" therefore demonstrating that he was not committed ... ...

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... foreshadows a bleak and pessimistic ending, events suddenly takes an awkward turn. After Wanley suicides, the audience is revealed that the whole story was just a dream. Why should Wanley get a second chance to live when he should be punished? Spencer speculates that the reason the dream ever existed was to create a series of events that would lead to Wanley's inevitable doom. In his own ... produced a series of circumstances which gradually revealed the potential evil within him, and which necessarily led to the eventual self-destruction." When his family leaves to vacation, Wanley is ...

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... deportation of Japanese Americans to internment camps" (Historical Overview of the Japanese American Internment). For the United States government, the logic behind the new order was simple. The internment of Japanese Americans was necessary in order to "prevent " domestic espionage/sabotage and more importantly, provide a sense of security and safety among the American population. Unfortunately, for the Japanese-Americans, this meant something completely and tragically different. "Imagine that one ... day you received notice that you and your whole family must be ready to move within 4...

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... their life and work in the beautiful and rough environment, they are radically transformed, especially by the experience of the westward movement of the agricultural frontier. The story is based on the life of Archbishop Lamy, the first bishop in the New Mexican territory. Setting - Territory of New Mexico, the American Southwest Theme - -History-personal history of Archbishop Lamy and the development of his huge diocese. ... well . . . a backward U.S. state. Historically accurate and set in the American Southwest in the mid to late 1800s, Archbishop shows us a different time in American...

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... cultural life of Native Americans, and it celebrates the conquest of the Western frontier. To a certain extent, it also embodies fantasies about the West, which was then perceived as a huge unknown region, which offered infinite dangers but also incredible rewards. The American dream of expansionism through the latest technological and scientific tools became a reality at the end of the century with the construction of railways. Steel and technology, which had ... triumphed over nature, became the material reality of this vision. The train, which allowed the emancipation from all natura...

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... then recalls that he has had vivid dreams in which he was performing such actions. This thought leads us to Descartes "dream theory", the second main argument of the First Meditation. Descartes argues that, seeing as there is no possible way in which one can certainly distinguish sleep from ... I am asleep or not. To be able to be asleep, one must be able to wake (the two terms being related; if I am not awake I am asleep, if I am not asleep I am awake). Therefore the fact that I awoke after the dream in which I questioned whether I was dreaming or not, shows that I was indeed dreaming**....

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... , supposedly administered by foreign minister Pinhas Lavon (1954-55) set up a spy network in Cairo and Alexandria. The purpose was to sabotage Anglo-Egyptian relations by planting bombs at the British and American embassies with the goal of blaming Egypt. The Lavon Affair is an example of the offensive-defensive position; there had been a recent Anglo-Egyptian agreement which decided that British troops would withdraw from ... reasons, they had political purposes. For Eshkol, control of the water ways was vital for Israeli survival, otherwise ˜the Zionist dream could not be realized'.7 ...

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... himself, has undertaken a large-scale production but runs out of creative energy in the process. This blockage plunges him (and us) into a subconscious dream world of nightmares, fantasies, and flashbacks that interpenetrate his perceptions of the present and jumble narrative logic. (pg. 533) " Everything that the main character, Guido, says about the film he is making, turns out to be true. Fellini is able to ... then, "abandoned social commitment for big-time commercial cinema. Since then most of his films, like the American made The Loved One (1965), have been failures. (pg. 488) " L...

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