...Huihui Zong Ally Day Women’s Studies 367.01 2/13/2011 Sexuality for Slave Girls In the book, “ Incidents in the life of a salve girl” (Jacobs, 1861), the writer Harriet Jacobs presents how a slave girl, Linda Brent, who mirrors Jacobs’s real experience, being suffered under the control and threaten of his master and how she escapes from the captors and finally gets free. The main character, Linda Brent, who is a slave girl working for Dr Flint’s daughter, is an epitome of the resistant black women. Having a master like Dr Flint, who threatens Linda constantly with violence and humiliating words, Linda shows intelligence and endurance to escape being further offended by Dr Flint. After Linda has children with Mr Sands who appears to be truly cares for Linda, Linda is threatened by Dr Flint again by being offered to buy her children’s freedom if Linda agree to live with him as his mistress. Linda refuses him and begins to plan her escape from that time. Linda has spent seven years hiding in her grandmother's attic and this exhibit her extraordinary psychological and spiritual strength. During the seven years, to elude her captors, she has moved several times to different cities within the help by some kind white people. Linda manages not only to survive but also to transcend seemingly insurmountable barriers, showing the difficulty for slave to live, especially women slave. Although some male authors of slave narratives had mentioned that African American women had been...
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...------------------------------------------------- Constellation From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about the star grouping. For other uses, see Constellation (disambiguation). | | | | * Top: Baroque drawing of the constellation Orionfrom Johannes Hevelius' celestial catalogue * Bottom: Contemporary map of Orion from the IAUand photography of the night sky | In everyday usage, a constellation is a traditional or recognizable group of stars in the night sky, or the region of the sky containing them. In technical usage these meanings have been separated, with groupings of stars being called asterisms, and the word constellation being reserved for a specific area of the celestial sphere with boundaries laid down by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). These areas mostly had their origins in Western-traditional asterisms from which the constellations take their names. When astronomers say something is “in” a given constellation they mean it is within those official boundaries. There are 88 officially recognized constellations, covering the entire sky[1] which have grown from the 48 classical Greek constellations laid down by Ptolemy in the Almagest. Out of these 88 constellations, 12 compose the zodiac signs. Thus, any given point in a celestial coordinate system can unambiguously be assigned to a constellation. It is usual in astronomy to give the constellation in which a given object is found along with its coordinates in order to convey...
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...Trust unites us Annual Report 2012 siemens.com/answers Company Report 2012 What sets our integrated technology company apart Introduction – page 1 Proximity How Bangalore’s new airport is driving progress across an entire region Global presence – page 8 Ideas How our Biograph mMR scanner is enhancing patient care Technology and innovation – page 20 Strength How efficient technologies are shaping the future of energy Portfolio management – page 34 Networking How intelligent IT solutions are creating unimagined value Cross-business activities – page 54 Diversity How our employees’ wealth of experience is inspiring us Employees and management culture – page 66 How our strategy is pointing the way to the future One Siemens – page 78 COVER PHOTO – James D. Palasek and Amber Sherman, two of the 370,000 Siemens employees working together in our global network of trust. To learn more, please see: SPECIAL REPORT: DIVERSIT Y, PAGES 66-75 When a new international airport is being planned, when a doctor recommends a treatment to a patient, when political leaders and society want to ensure reliable energy supplies for the future, when a company wants to offer tailor-made service solutions, when the development of innovative products demands the creativity, experience and dedication of a wide range of experts, that’s when tough decisions have to be made – far-reaching decisions based on a strong sense of responsibility. The success...
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...No. 2106 February 8, 2008 Trojan Dragon: China’s Cyber Threat John J. Tkacik, Jr. America’s counterintelligence czar, Dr. Joel F. Brenner, painted an alarming picture of economic espionage in 2006, albeit in the objective tones and neutral parlance of the intelligence community. He reported to Congress that “foreign collection efforts have hurt the United States in several ways”: • Foreign technology collection efforts have “eroded the US military advantage by enabling foreign militaries to acquire sophisticated capabilities that might otherwise have taken years to develop.” • “[M]assive” industrial espionage has “undercut the US economy by making it possible for foreign firms to gain a competitive economic edge over US companies.” Dr. Brenner characterizes China as “very aggressive” in acquiring U.S. advanced technology. “The technology bleed to China, among others, is a very serious problem,” he said in March 2007, noting that “you can now, from the comfort of your own home or office, exfiltrate information electronically from somebody else’s computer around the world without the expense and risk of trying to grow a spy.” On November 15, 2007, the bipartisan, congressionally chartered U.S.–China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) put a finer point on it: “Chinese espionage activities in the United States are so extensive that they comprise the single greatest risk to the security of American technolo- gies.” Cyberpenetration is by far China’s most effective...
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...ISI KANDUNGAN BIL | BUTIRAN | MUKA SURAT | 1 | PENGENALAN | 2-3 | 2 | SEJARAH ISLAM DI DINASTI MING | 4-8 | 3 | ISLAM DAN MASJID DI ZAMAN DINASTI MING | 9-13 | 4 | LAKSAMANA CHENG HO SEBAGAI TOKOH DINASTI MING:4.1 EKSPEDISI PELAYARAN LAKSAMA CHENG HO4.2 MODEL KAPAL LAKSAMANA CHENG HO4.3 LAKSAMANA CHENG HO DAN INDONESIA | 14-19 | 5 | KEMAJUAN PADA ZAMAN DINASTI MING | 20-29 | 6 | KESIMPULAN | 30-31 | 7 | RUJUKAN | 32 | 1.0 PENGENALAN Agama Islam dipercayai berkembang di negeri China pada tahun 651 Masihi. Islam masuk ke China dari negeri Arab melalui jalan darat dan jalan laut. Sambutan masyarakat China terhadap agama Islam tidak menggalakkan kerana perasaan curiga penduduk tempatan terhadap agama bangsa lain.Di China terdapat lebih 20 juta penduduk yang beragama islam termasuk etnik Hijrahuizu, Uyghur, Kazakh, Kirgiz, Tajik, Uzbek, Tatar dan lain-lain. Salah satu cara islam disebarkan ke China adalah dibawa oleh Hamzah Bin Hamzah (anak Hamzah Bin Abi Talib). Beliau bersama 3,000 orang Muhajirin pergi ke China dan menetap di San Gan Foo. Selain itu,islam disebarkan semasa Maharaja Yung Wei (Dinasti Tang), utusan dari Tanah Arab pimpinan Saad Bin Abi Waqas bersama 15 orang Muhajirin menghadap Maharaja Yung Wei. Mereka dibenarkan berdakwah di China dan satu masjid didirikan di Cheng-san. Di samping itu,pimpinan dakwah Islamiyah yang pertama dipimpin oleh Saad Bin Lubayd. Orang China mengenali Islam dengan sebutan Yisilan Jiao yang bermaksud ‘agama yang murni’...
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