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- 7531: Pre-Civil War New Orleans
- ... from the South as well as the North recoiled when they encountered the prevailing French language of the city, its dominant Catholicism, its bawdy sensual delights, or its proud free black and slave inhabitants; In short, its deeply rooted Creole population and their peculiar traditions. Rapid influxes of non-southern population compounded the peculiarity of its Creole past. Until the mid-nineteenth century, a greater number of migrants arrived in the ...
- 7532: The Joy Luck Club - Culture Di
- The Joy Luck Club, a novel by Amy Tan, is a compilation from eight different women and their lives. The stories are based on their Chinese culture and their mother/daughter relationships. In the novel and in the film production, the women go through many obstacles in life and must overcome them in order to survive ...
- 7533: The Ineffable Aphrodite
- ... the children of many different gods including Ares and Dionysus. Her companion was the young god Eros, a mischievous scamp who indiscriminately shot his arrows of love at unsuspecting humans. One of the most famous stories involving Aphrodite led to the greatest conflict of the ancient world. Aphrodite, Hera, and Athena called upon the young shepherd Paris to judge a beauty contest. A golden apple with an inscription of "for the ...
- 7534: The Godfather
- ... Michael Corleone, it invites the reader to experience an Italian Mafia family wedding, and it displays for the reader the amount of respect the head of an Italian Mafia family commands over his community. In short, Michael Corleone's wedding is the reader's first glimpse of a Mafia family's culture, tradition and way of life.
- 7535: The American Civil War
- ... burning when they arrived. The fires had been set to cotton bales by Confederate Calvary to prevent the Federal Army from getting them and the high winds quickly spread the fire. The controversy would be short lived as no proof would ever be presented. So with Columbia, Charleston, and Augusta all fallen, Sherman would continue his drive north toward Goldsboro. On the way, his progress would be stalled not by the ...
- 7536: The Currency Crisis In Thailand And Its Effects
- ... of the total economic output for the Latin American Region alone. Indications on what mitigating factors led to the origins of the financial crisis for Brazil include large trade deficits and an inordinate level of short-term external debt. Combine the current political turmoil, i.e., the resignation of the finance minister near the end of 1998 and diminished support or confidence for the president (Fernando Cardoso) and the degree of ...
- 7537: Canada's Foreign Trade
- ... in not only the country which is directly targeted but also in the country which imposes the sanctions due to loss of jobs etc. Sanctions may work in the long term projection, but in the short term, it is the people of those societies affected which truly suffer.
- 7538: The Death Penalty Just Or Inju
- ... irreversible. Since 1970, 77 people have been released from death row with evidence of their innocence. Researchers Radelet & Bedau found 23 cases since 1900 where innocent people were executed, and the numbers are growing. With stories of people like Rolando Cruz, released after 10 years on Illinois's death row, despite the fact that another man had confessed to the crime shortly after his conviction; and Ricardo Aldape Guerra, who returned ...
- 7539: The Vietnam War
- ... 853-861). In the years of the war to follow, the media began to play a role. Photo-journalists would accompany platoons on missions and, through the aid of cameras and video equipment, relate the stories to the American at home. Every night for the length of the war news programs were saturated with reports of the happenings in Vietnam and death tolls for the day. Grossly eggzrated enemy casualty numbers ...
- 7540: The Crucible 2
- ... the fear of evil and the Devil to prosecute those they chose in the community. In both these cases human failings were acted upon for personal gain and position in society. These two cases are stories that seem to repeat in history over and over again. No matter what the time or in which country, we will find these same weaknesses when assessing our own strengths. Would you sacrifice others to ...
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