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Blue Collar Football Player
707 words
Boobie Miles was good football, but haunted by
injuries. He was not a very good student. All he
wanted to do was go to major university for
football and then go into the pro's. He received a
scholarship to Ranger Junior College for football,
and flunked out after a year. Brian Chavez was
stereotyped as a dumb jock, but was the number one
student in his class. He was a good football
player. He went on to Harvard and hoped to go on
to law school. Ivory Christian wanted to be a
preacher while in hi...
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Animal Farm In Relation To The Russian Revolution
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ANIMAL FARM IN COMPARISON TO THE RUSSIAN
REVOLUTION Animal Farm is a satire on the Russian
Revolution. You can look at this story as a fairy
tale about the animals, or on a deeper level, as
an account of the events in the Russian
Revolution. I chose to learn more about the real
meaning of Animal Farm, which Orwell indirectly
explains throughout the story. Animal Farm starts
out with introducing us to life on the Manor Farm,
and Old Major's opinion on the outcome of their
future. Old Major is con...
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Red Army Working Class
356 words
It is now the 50 th anniversary of the terror
bombing and burning of the non-military cultural
center of Dresden, Germany. Somewhere between 35,
000 and 135, 000 civilians were killed in the Feb.
13 - 14, 1945 attack. The Bonn government is
attempting to use the commemoration of the Dresden
bombing to expand German imperialism's diplomatic
and military reach. Working-class and progressive
German groups are protesting this misuse of a
great tragedy. They correctly point out the
responsibility of ...
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Nineteen Eighty Four World Of 1984
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... g (only thirty-five years from its
publication, whereas Huxley's and Zamyatin's
imagined futures are set hundreds of years away),
and second, the disturbing familiarity and
plausibility of the world that Orwell constructs.
Because the social world of 1984 is not that far
removed from the reader's own experience, he
becomes involved in a more profound, intimate way
than he does in Huxley's remote chrome-and-glass
society. Orwell wanted his readers to understand
not only the intellectual-theor...
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Economic Growth Versus Income Inequality
1,102 words
Economic Growth versus Income Inequality For ten
years now, our economy has been growing more
dramatically than any other time since World War
II... The stock market is at an all-time high. The
government is spending less on itself, and more on
the people-weve finally achieved a balanced
budget. If were doing so well, why isnt everyone
getting rich? Most economists point to the fact
that the upper class is running away with
capitalism-and that the middle class is left to
defend itself. Many expe...
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Socialist Movement Revolutionary Party
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"The proletariat is revolutionary or it is
nothing. " - Karl Marx Being a product of
bourgeois society, the socialist movement is
linked to the vicissitudes of capitalist
development. It will assume different forms
according to the changing fortunes of the
capitalist system. In circumstances which are not
favorable to the formation of class consciousness,
it will not grow, or will practically disappear.
In conditions of capitalist prosperity it tends to
transform itself from a revolutionary to a...
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Socioeconomic Classes African Americans
967 words
THESIS: Bacon's Rebellion of 1675 is the most
influential act against American Government
because it provided unification amongst Americans
of different races and economic status, it
threatened a corrupt Colonial Government, and set
a precedent for future Americans to obtain
equality. TOPIC # 1: Bacon's Rebellion unified
different races and economic classes. TOPIC # 2:
Bacon's Rebellion was one of the first rebellions
to attack a corrupt Colonial TOPIC # 3: Bacon's
Rebellion resulted in the equa...
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Bourgeois Society Ruling Class
1,888 words
... ndi viduals, whose social relationships are
their own communal relations, and therefore
subjected to their own communal control. [ 9 ]
Thus Marx's entire picture of the movement of
history is bound up with his conception of a truly
human society, and the obstacles to it within our
existing way of life. Marx does not present us
with a static picture of bourgeois social
relations, as a sociologist might try to do.
Instead, he gives a succinct outline of the birth,
development and death of an o...
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Physical Science Working Class
1,089 words
When George M. Trevelyan states, "that the analogy
of physical sciences has misled many historians, "
he is talking about the comparison between
physical sciences and the reality that history can
never really be a true science. Physical science
is inevitable and can be proven through data and
experiment. There is nothing on the planet that
can prove history through data and experiment.
When physical science occurs, there is a cause and
affect that concurs with the meaning of the
happening and wh...
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Racist Beliefs Ethnic Groups
870 words
Prejudice is ignorance. People who have prejudices
are raised to believe that they are normal and
acceptable, and that most people different from
them are not. Prejudice does not only apply to
race or ethnicity. It can apply to background,
sex, sexual preference, or nationality. Although
people who have prejudices may think otherwise,
not knowing that the definition of prejudice is a
preconceived opinion may lead them into thinking
that their beliefs are not wrong. It is, however,
thinking ill o...
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Workers Of The World Karl Marx
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Kings and Dukes ran Europe in the early nineteenth
century. The working class was stripped of all but
the most basic rights. They were not allowed to
have a say in politics whatsoever. Karl Marx
recognized these injustices and wanted change. His
answer to the problem was a 142 -page manifesto
outlining a political system that abolished social
classes and made every citizen equal. His writings
set peasants free and scared noble men. He
inspired world leaders from the great Leon Trotsky
to Mao Zed...
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Third World Countries Division Of Labor
1,358 words
Red Star Communism is an ideal society that is
unrealistic for humans to maintain. In this system
major resources and means of production are owned
by the community rather than by individuals. The
society is without money, without a state, without
property and without social classes. All people
would contribute to the society according to their
ability and take from the society according to
their needs. Fredrick Engel's believed that a
proletarian could only be liberated by abolishing
competitio...
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Speaker Of The House Reduce The Number
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After several laps in circles in my head, I
decided to give up. I did not know the person who
was representing my district. The first step
involved jumping on the internet and surfing for a
"Congressman finder", if you will. I type the word
congressman in the space provided. The search
engine displayed several different topics to
choose from and finally I see the site for a
general purpose. Voila! I had become one step
closer to find my Representative. After clicking
in different places, I lande...
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North Korea Working Class
552 words
He was born on April 15, 1912, Pyongyang, to a
poor family. His family, a most patriotic and
revolutionary one, was in the best of the people's
fight for many generations, from the beginning of
the modern revolutionary movement of the Korean
people for the independence of the country, the
freedom and liberation of the people and for the
victory of the noble revolutionary best of the
working class. He grew up, receiving his
revolutionary education at home and acquiring a
revolutionary outlook on ...
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Imagery In Reinventing America
797 words
Over the years poets have emerged with different
styles, striking every reader some how. Born in
Detroit, Michigan in 1928, Philip Levine has
molded his image as a tough working-class poet who
writes upon past experiences and the feelings
provoked. His own family problems and other
problems, such as the war in Vietnam, helped
Levine develop his poetry. To say the least he
took bad luck and made it inspiration (Gioia,
npn). The crummy jobs that young Levine
agonizingly endured would have seemed n...
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Hard Times By Charles Part 2
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... this Dickens is emphasising the loss of both
nature and religion, through biblical allusions
and also references to the seasonal changes in
nature, which contrast so strongly with the
unnatural citadel. Carl Marx famously said that
Religion is the opium of the people, this is clear
to see in Coketown, where there is an absence of
Christianity and if the members of a religious
persuasion had built a chapel there they made it a
pious warehouse of red brick, witha bell in a bird
cage. Dickens d...
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Invasion Of Privacy Universal Studios
2,499 words
In the early 1980 s, a vision of dystopia was
lying in the mind of Terry Gilliam. That vision
was his future film Brazil to be written by Tom
Stoppard, Charles McKeown, and himself. The movie
was filmed in Wembley, England by Lee
International Film Studios. After being a
remarkable success during its release in Europe in
1984, Brazil had much more difficulties with its
release in the United States. Terry Gilliam had
previously signed a contract with Universal
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Put An End Individual And Society
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Society is flawed. There are critical imbalances
in it that cause much of humanity to suffer. In,
the most interesting work from this past
half-semester, The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx
is reacting to this fact by describing his vision
of a perfectly balanced society, a communist
society. Simply put, a communist society is one
where all property is held in common. No one
person has more than the other, but rather
everyone shares in the fruits of their labors.
Marx is writing of this society b...
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Clich Breakfast Club
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The Decade Of Realizations: Amercian Youth During
The Decade Of Realizations: Amercian Youth During
The Last Century Of all the 1980? s films, that
can be described as? Eighties Teen Movies?
(Thorburn, 1998) or? High School Movies? (Messner,
1998), those written and (with the exception of?
Pretty In Pink? (1986) and? Some Kind of
Wonderful? (1987) ) directed by John Hughes were
often seen to define the genre, even leading to
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17 Th Century Witchcraft Accusations
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1. ? Woowara? also known as curare is a white
powder substance deriving from Surinam. Curare is
an extremely lethal poison even in the smallest of
quantities. Curare was used by the natives of
Surinam to induce slow death? s those that wronged
them in times before. This poison was used in a
traditional sense, not only was it effective at
terminating life, but a message of sincerity was
sent. To drink with a person that had no reason to
suspect there dosage then slip them the lethal
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