... 652; Sokel 204). Both Kafka and Hemingway exhibit, through their styles of writing, ambiguous meanings, implied motifs, and similar hidden themes. Hemingway's short story, "Hills Like White Elephants," is a narrative "in which little actually 'happens'" to the protagonists, which means that almost all of the substance emerges from the vague dialogue between ... ;The Metamorphosis" contains many interpretative values similar to Hemingway's use of the iceberg principle. The conscious literary choice to use the iceberg principle in "Hills Like White Elephants," and the unintended trans...

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... promulgating false or misleading advertising, illegal exploitation of employees, mislabeling of goods, violation of weights and measures statutes, conspiring to fix prices, evading corporate taxes, computer crimes, and so on. White-collar crime is most distinctively defined in terms of attitudes toward those who commit it. These crimes are punishable by law, however it is generally regarded by the courts and ... last a lifetime. This is especially true when the elderly are victimized, as they have little or no hope of re-establishing themselves in financial terms. Contrary to the popula...

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... reports that Vicodin is the most abused prescription drug in the United States. DAWN data demographics further claims that Vicodin is often seen as the "white collar- addiction. The average Vicodin addict is female between the ages of 20-40. Everyone's doing it, from teenagers to soccer moms to high ... or trying to commit suicide. However, Vicodin-related deaths have been reported from every age grouping. The difference with high profile celebrities and white collar addiction in comparison to those with much less stature is the ability to conceal their problem with adequate funds to supp...

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... be heard throughout Boston College's campus that reverberated with American pride. My roommates and I beamed with pride. We had won! America had won! We scrambled, garbing ourselves in whatever red, white, and blue we could find. Those who had American flags wore them around their necks like capes and joined the rest of our Boston College compatriots. Thousands of students mobilized ... both group and individual interviews. The aural and visual descriptions of all my subjects may as well have come from one person. Each harped on the "sea of red, white, and blue," that characterized the ...

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... , the zombies appear emaciated or dehydrated, a cataract like film covers their bloodshot and wide open eyes, with wrinkled and aged skin, receding gums cause teeth to be appear prominent and fang like. Reminiscent of a set of chattering teeth, the zombies gnash and clack their teeth and stand relatively inert and passive when they are not stimulated. When attacking, the zombies screech ... . The untenable situation of the American economy will be brought down because of topics avoided by all politicians because of their unpopularity with wealthy voters. The determination of these rich wh...

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... among underage adolescent drinkers that drank 30 days before the survey was conducted, it reported 19% of African Americans between age 12 and 20 drank alcohol compared to 32% of white. This evidence shows that there is a need for continued research among the different populations of care. According to Hopkins, the exposure to African American youth to alcohol advertising is said ... , intervention-arm girls and mothers had improved their mother-daughter communication skills and their perceptions and applications of parental monitoring and rule-setting relative and girls alcohol use ( Co...

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... . Twenty to thirty thousand students gathered in the Square with seven demands of the government. 1) Reevaluate Hu Yaobong's achievements. 2) Reject the campaign against spiritual contamination' and bourgeois liberalization' and rehabilitate Fang Lizhi, Wang Ruowang, and Liu Binyan. 3) Reveal the true financial situation of [party and State leaders, as well as that of their children. 4) Allow freedom of the press; lift censorship ... ...

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... 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 ... ...

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... in America. Bryan Stevenson, of the Equal Justice Initiative, a nonprofit organization that aims for a non-descriminatory judicial system, claims that Americans have "tolerated this all-white jury, white prosecutor, white judge phenomenon, because that's what people have seen for decades". (NPR Staff) Stevenson conducted a study in the Southern US-states, including Mississippi, and dicovered that ... sentences than Whites would for a similar crime. According to the United States Sentencing commission, black offenders are "21 percent more likely to receive a mandatory minimum sentence th...

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... 12, 2000) each feature important dramatic interactions between Asian and African American characters. Moreover, these two episodes display some noteworthy similarities in their portrayal of class differences, white privilege, master/student relationships, masculinity and femininity, children and childhood, as well as showing a self-conscious appreciation of mass-mediated images and the politics of postmodern popular ... Vanishing Son, the bourgeoisie in Martial Law is associated with excess, decadence, superficiality, violence and malice. As an African American, Jake remains marginal in ...

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... users from low-income, predominantly minority urban areas. For a variety of reasons, it is easier to make arrests in these neighborhoods as contrasted with, for example, suburban neighborhoods with mostly white populations. Records of past statistics make officers believe they have a sufficient amount of evidence to incriminate anyone who fits these standards. A U.S. Department of Justice report stated that in 1999, African ... and Ethnic Bias in the Courts found that the justice system gives little attention or resources to investigating crimes against minorities and that minority defe...

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... extended and bloody battle during the 1950s between European settlers and the native Kikuyu tribe in what is now the republic of Kenya. In the early twentieth century, the first white settlers arrived in the region, forcing the Kikuyu people off of their tribal lands. Europeans took control of farmland and the government, relegating the Kikuyu to a subservient position. One ... of contemporary Kenya was made a suzerain by the Imperial British East African Company in 1888. The British government then took over administration in 1895, calling the area a "protectorate." White settlers sta...

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... seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. From the arrival of European explorers into the, "New World," Native American tribes were brutally killed and forced out of their own land. White settlers considered them savages because their technology was not as advanced and they had a different culture. As a result, they were considered a threat to the peace. This paper will focus ... ). The events that occurred in the early years of American history are yet one example of how American Indians were oppressed simply because they were not as technologically advanced as white settlers....

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... place since the 1920s, under which each nationality was assigned a quota based on its representation in past U.S. census figures. The resulting effect has been the rise in non-white diversity population. The increased immigration levels in the United States include the amendments in the immigration law and the patterns of international migration. According to research pertaining unemployment levels, ... students of color and those with a history of abuse, neglect, poverty or learning disabilities. In the end, there exists a significant productivity loss as a result of the non-white indivi...

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... foregoing chapter. Blues music originated from African Americans, used as a way of oral history chronicling their horrendous treatment at the hands of white men as they endured slavery and their subsequent mistreatment after the abolishment of slavery with poor economic and social status and opportunities. By ... adopting Blues music, Alexie is also acknowledging the shared history of African Americans and Native Americans at the hands of white men. Grassian further argues that Alexie was reclaiming the Blues music for the Native Americans as he suggests that the Blues were actually ... ...

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... later and through a desire to maintain a patriarchal structure, women soon became the main targets of involuntary sterilization. Even in the midst of the Birth Control Movement, as white, middle-class feminists demanded the right to reproduce at their own will, eugenics ideology persevered. Margaret Sanger, the strong figurehead of this early 20th century feminist movement, once stated ... order to denounce an African American man's right to vote, the Birth Control movement similarly promoted the sterilization of the "unfit" as a necessary means of population control and maintaining the ...

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... and decrease in the population of P. Interpunctella that is typically found in stored grain products in warehouses. The fluorescent light colors of red, far red (red and blue), and white were used in environmental chambers under constant light. P. Interpunctella larvae, eggs, and adult mating pairs were placed in chambers for a given amount of time; censuses were obtained ... it can be hypothesized the P. Interpunctella subjected to the red fluorescent light which has a longer wavelength will probably have significantly lower numbers of fertility, emergence, and hatchability than white l...

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... Nationalism, a theory put forth by Michael Mann, contributed to Apartheid ideology. High Modernism rationalized, regulated, structured, and reorganized South Africa into a society that restricted its non-white "citizens," while Organic Nationalism defined the people of South Africa as Afrikaners, validating the exclusion of non-whites from civil existence. Unlike most African colonies, the South African colony ... This act tightened the segregation of the school system and reorganized education under the sole control of the government. The Apartheid system designed the education of the ...

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... of minorities and women in a facility) (Gutman, 1993, p.9). Prior to these laws and the Title VII law, the U.S workforce was primarily dominated by white males. Although, still somewhat white male dominated, quotas that were designed through affirmative action programs have helped achieve some representation of women and minorities in the current work force. Some remedies brought about ... mean the setting of a lower standard of expected accomplishment because of the belief that these people are not as capable of meeting a higher standard (Loury, 1997). With a white male dominated workfo...

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... of minorities and women in a facility)" (Gutman, 1993, p.9). Prior to these laws and the Title VII law, the U.S workforce was primarily dominated by white males. Although, still somewhat white male dominated, quotas that were designed through affirmative action programs have helped achieve some representation of women and minorities in the current work force. Some remedies brought ... I mean the setting of a lower standard of expected accomplishment because of the belief that these people are not as capable of meeting a higher standard" (Loury, 1997). With a white male dominated workforc...

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... companies. During the incident in 1957, President Eisenhower had to call federal troops into Little Rock, Arkansas, after the state's governor, George Wallace forcibly barred black children from entering white school. The government responded to those incidents by passing new laws, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Act of 1965, and the Civil Rights Act of 1968 ... of Federal Contract Compliance Programs. However, when Ronald Reagan and later George Bush came into the office, affirmative action lost some gains and was ignored by the Republicans in the White House and in ...

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... , different groups of people can learn to reconcile their different identities and create a true democracy, as the African Americans and European-white Americans struggled to do in the United States. Du Bois would think that the circumstance Nussbaum portrays could only exist where particular identities ... and truer self,"" (Du Bois 39). This uncertainty that Du Bois describes existed because black Americans identified themselves through the judgment of white Americans. Black Americans were not true citizens because they were unaware of their true identity. But through this uncertainty,...

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... continued to market, her initial image has dramatically changed as Black Americans position in society advanced. However, despite her apparent reconstruction and superficial makeover, Aunt Jemima's history still screams White superiority. Although, Aunt Jemima may look different, with her silky lace collar and chic pearl earrings, the mammy image is still boldly ingrained in the minds of many, further ... searching for Aunt Jemima. Chris Rutt attended a local vaudeville house in the autumn of 1889. On the bill was a pair of black-face comedians, Baker & Farrell, a team of white entertaine...

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... protection policies were considered an improvement, it made Aboriginal people dependent on the administrators of reserves. They could not leave the reserves without permission. The Chief Protector undoubtley a white skinned official in charge of the reserves was the legal owner of all Aboriginal personal property, including any wages they earned. Aboriginal children were often segregated in their schooling, ... a petition demanding better conditions and an Aboriginal representative in parliament. In 1937 the Aborigines Progressive Association was founded in Dubbo and on the 26th January ...

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... of minorities and women in a facility)" (Gutman, 1993, p.9). Prior to these laws and the Title VII law, the U.S workforce was primarily dominated by white males. Although, still somewhat white male dominated, quotas that were designed through affirmative action programs have helped achieve some representation of women and minorities in the current work force. Some remedies brought ... I mean the setting of a lower standard of expected accomplishment because of the belief that these people are not as capable of meeting a higher standard" (Loury, 1997). With a white male dominated workforc...

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