... martial law had not been declared in September 1972, Aquino would probably have defeated Marcos or any handpicked successor in the upcoming presidential election. Instead, Aquino was one of the first to be jailed when martial law was imposed. Eric Gamalinda's novel Empire of Memory was published in 2000, about two young men, Jun Hidalgo and Alfonso Diaz, ... invisible demon. Seeing him the girls of the Zoo extricated themselves from the desperate embraces of their drunken GIs and leaned, hypnotized, towards the scene onstage." (p. 75) Sal X holds such a powerful impact over the men and wo...

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... was more to it than this. The poor in Ireland rarely owned their own home; they were forced to rent plots from mostly Protestant landlords who could evict them at a moments notice. A home or farm of your very own was something of prestige in Ireland and when an immigrant had succeeded in this it was a real and visible symbol of his advancement. It also showed those ... street, River Avenue, which was a popular destination for newly wealthy Irishmen. The children especially look forward to moving into their new position and watch each detail of the construction. The completion of the hou...

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... was driving and even shot a gun at him. It is also interesting to note how the upward mobility of people in Sister Carrie's world is directly linked to the downward spiral of another of their fellow humans. In other words, the success of one comes at the peril of the downfall of another or the creation of an open spectacle of one's fellow beings. For example, once Hurstwood could no longer support Carrie, she detested ... and seeing that Tom has bested himself over Gatsby, Daisy felt the love she had for Gatsby just that afternoon, totally dissipate. She drew closer and closer to Tom. N...

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... money, while you dance away all that I am worth! A pretty time to give a ball when you know that I am on the very brink of bankruptcy! Mrs. Tiffany: So much the greater reason that nobody should suspect your circumstances, or you would lose your credit at once. Just at this crisis a ball is absolutely necessary to save your reputation! There is Mrs. Adolphus Dashaway-she ... 's daughter. Millinette is fashionable because she is from France. She keeps Mrs. Tiffany up-to-date on all of the latest customs and teaches her the French language. Without Millinette, Mrs. Tiffany would have no on...

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... prosecute lynch mobs. Though the U.S. Congress never passed the bill, or any other anti-lynching legislation, many credit the resulting public debate "fueled by the NAACP's report, Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States, 1889-1919 " and several editorials by DuBois with drastically decreasing the incidence of lynching. During this period the NAACP was the leading protest organization and DuBois its leading figure. He was the symbol of the NAACP, yet he ... was restless and uneasy in that role. DuBois, himself, became disillusioned with the gradual conciliatory approach of the N.A...

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... , odd-job rovers. And these, with the cooks and dishwashers from the dormitory trains, made up the welcoming party." (Douglas 121) Five states had sent along gold and silver spikes for the official ceremony. The chosen symbol for the ceremony was a golden spike which was to be driven in by the Governor of California, Leland Stanford. The band stopped playing and a prayer was said. The telegraph operator was connected with San ... fairly frequent rainfall. The propagandists of the railroads, as a result, either denied the assertion that the Plains were a region of semi-aridity, or contend...

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... . This service opened up a whole new world of media possibilities. The entertainment of "gossip" was fuelled by the media, and Americans could watch listen or read about other people's lives. The decade featured a string of high-profile criminal trials that fascinated the nation. As the telephone crossed the Atlantic, so did the plane. The government developed the idea of AirMail and the transport industry made giant leaps. The airplane, although it had been around since, had ... seen as a man's drink. They wore cosmetics and they dated without supervision. The use of contraception reinf...

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... a problem with fighting for these grievances, they were, however, fearful of the suffrage issue. They felt that it was just too radical. Stanton, however, recognized the importance of the politics, due to the influence of her father, during the early years of her life. She knew that without the right to vote, or political recognition, women had little chance of advancement. Stanton and the other women like Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, and Sojourner ... that she carefully drafted it to closely resemble the 1776 Declaration of Independence, thus connecting the women's campaign for equal ...

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... back to China for winter or summer recess, even miss home this much, not to mention those immigrants who cannot go back to China for several years. To them, food is the easiest way to reconcile with their homesickness. Dumplings, not only a part of the daily diet but also serving as a significant symbol of reunion during Chinese holidays, including the New Year, make a good ... different is that they are both from China but from different regions of China. The choices of each ingredient and seasoning all have historical, geographical or technological reason. Starting with the main ingred...

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... 52), evidencing the connection of the middle class to the popularity of baseball. There is also the a discussion of the connection between the middle class and baseball as it related to the Brooklyn Dodgers and their move to Los Angeles. The owner of the Dodgers at the time of the move was Walter O'Malley, who was known as one of the better businessmen in baseball during this time. When the move was made the Los Angeles ... was more than quadrupled as compared to day games. With time the innovation was accepted league wide, which brings up the comparison of the integration of the game to...

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... Florida retirement community, David was left to drift absently without a purpose or goal. David became more obsessed with his fantasy life (6-1). Many experts believe that this re-occurring sense of abandonment was what drove David to the violent acts of murder that he would later commit (Berkowitz 1). David attended a local community college in the Bronx for a few classes, more to appease his father than ... surgeons determined that Donna would be okay, luckily surviving a possible crippling bullet wound to the spine. Joanne was not as fortunate, and due to a bullet having shattered her...

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... . It created a crude form of government and to submit to the will of the majority. 4. The 1st winter was devastating. Only 44 of the original 102 survived. However, the following autumn brought hope. They had plenty to eat and sell. Had 1st Thanksgiving Day. 5. William Bradford was the elected governor of the Pilgrims for 30 years. 6. Plymouth colony was not important in size or wealth, it merged with the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It ... was however, high in morality and spirituality. C. The Bay Colony Bible Commonwealth 1. Separatist Pilgrims were the most extreme and dedicated of the P...

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... up their economic losses and to lessen the inflation, the Guamindang introduced a system of taxes and credit in the countryside. These were extremely unfair and they contributed to the increase of discontent among the people. Within the GMD government there was no interest in a social revolution and the reforms that were made by them, had little effect outside large towns or on the welfare of the majority of the population. Thus, initial support for GMD ... . More and more peasants became actively resistant, because of the Japanese violence. As a result of the weakness or absence of loca...

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... the amount of stored information or previously acquired background knowledge. c. People of higher socioeconomic status might have more relevant social contact. d. The mechanisms of selective exposure, acceptance, and retention might be operating. e. The nature of the mass media system itself is geared toward people of higher socioeconomic status. What is being done to close the knowledge gap? Computer clubhouses in the inner city aim to help the youth gain that type of ... access centers, where youth and adults alike from inner-city communities can use computers at little or no charge. Th...

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... were opposed to new ideas and new members. We can see another example of this closed society in Brian Friel's Translations' The people in the village of Ballebeog are opposed to the English and their new place names. Hugh explains at the end that they must accept this change or they will not survive. The society of 1870s New York did not understand this. In my opinion, Ellen Olenska ... returns to New York society at the worst possible time. Society was up in arms ... , setting up its own guard against change. From the moment Ellen makes her entrance, she is ... ...

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... Cereno," are carefully crafted and profoundly sensitive critiques of his own age that emerge as fables applicable to a later day. His paired sketch, "The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids," combines cunning social criticism and psychological insight. He wrote perhaps a dozen poems of distinction, most of them brief and the outgrowth of his travels or his musings on the events of the Civil War. It can be argued that his last ... published prose work,  The Confidence-Man, is the first modern American novel. Without doubt, it is ... ...

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... to Burr forced the election into the House of Representatives. In the election by the House of Representatives each state cast one vote. Although the Federalists had a majority, they did not control a majority of the state delegations; though, neither did the Republicans. Two state delegations were equally divided, and the Republicans needed 1 of these to command the 9 states necessary for a majority. The Federalists were thus put in a position to block the election of Jefferson or prevent a decision ... before Adams" term ended on March 4. Hamilton urged the ... ...

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... and her relationships with men. Hugh Mohan was an ambitious journalist with a particular interest in politics. By the time Louise was born he was working between several San Francisco newspapers without a steady employer or steady income. Shortly after Louise's birth the family, which was now comprised of three children including Barbara born in 1880 and Louis who was born in 1882, moved to Reno ... very much in love, and Paul very much accepted Louise's views of women's suffrage and was apparently respectful of her need for independence. A year or so into there marriage Paul had built ...

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... view. Finally, another issue rises in this election, that may not be relevant or as important at that time, but proves to be one of the major issues in the future - the military. The Republican Party in its Platform of 1884 stresses its support and importance of U.S. armed forces, specifically the Navy, "We demand the restoration of our navy to its old-time strength and efficiency, that it may in any ... decades, with his company as the largest steel producer in the world. (Roark and Johnson 696-701) The importance of the big businesses rising is the enormous support they gave to the Re...

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... or more in those cells as men plotting to topple the government of Castro. The 1500 men of the invading force never had a chance for success from almost the first days in the planning stage of the operation. Operation Pluto, as it came to be known as, has its origins in the last dying days of the Eisenhower administration and that murky time period during the transition of power to the newly elected president John F. Kennedy. The ... and the extent of Cuban dissent." Of the CIA's behaviour he concludes that, . . . By resorting to the typical organization strategy of defining the options...

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... which have been imposed on them by generations of established social behaviour. Throughout the novel, Wharton employs irony to show the differences between the characters' overt behaviour and their underlying motivations: the innocence of the title is, she demonstrates, a fazade which hides knowledgeable and deliberate manipulation. In some instances the hypocrisy of the characters, or their insistence on conforming to the dogmatic moral codes of their society, is fairly evident: in others, it ... case, it is ironic that, in a patriarchal society where the subjugation of women works ver...

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... wealth, or escape the poverty they experienced in their home countries. They came into contact with a race of people completely alien to them. Likewise, the arrival of the Dutch in Africa sent out shockwaves throughout the continent. The effects of both of these comings could be felt throughout the continents The differences between the Native Americans and the European colonists were drastic and very obvious from the beginning. Meanwhile, the Dutch influenced almost every aspect of the native ... land they could not farm or raise livestock. This often left them with few options. Many w...

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... States Armed Forces. The Supreme Court ruled against the segregation of blacks and whites in public schools in the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954. And the Civil Rights Act of 1964 finally banned the discrimination of public accommodations and employment. Since the 1960's the United States continued taking those small steps towards racial equality and unity (87). "During the last decade or so, we have faced ... both new and old racial problems,"" writes Thomas. He points out how white resistance to affirmative action has caused feelings of resentment in the black communitie...

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... identify the death of Christ because in "The Waste Land," no one seems to notice it. The use of this passage exposes the oblivion of the people of "The Waste Land" to the pain and sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Eliot includes other Biblical references in "The Waste Land" so portray the lack of spirituality in the modern world. For example, in the first section of "The Waste Land," the narrator addresses the reader by saying, "Son of Man, / You cannot say, or guess ... for you know only / A heap of broken images- (20-22 ... ...

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... I and II. If Mr. Tesla would have had more money, he quite possibly could be remembered today as one of the greatest inventors of all time. He may have been greater than Marconi, who used Tesla's patented inventions more than once to make himself famous. Or even greater than Edison, who hated Tesla with a passion, and is in part responsible for Tesla's anonymity. If ... I run my turbine in my thought or test it in my shop. I even note if it is out of balance." (Cheney, 1983) In this fashion, Tesla worked on his dynamo every moment of his life. One day while walking through the park with...

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