Next, copyrights give the holder exclusive rights to reproduce and sell works of art; such as books, songs, or movies. ... Finally goodwill, according to Cliff Notes, "equals the amount paid to acquire a company in excess of its net assets at fair market value. This excess is determined by the intangible factors of a company such as: the value of the company's reputation, location, customer list, or management team" (Cliff Notes). ...

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Those were the only books I liked. ... I would go to class and take notes on the lecture. When it was time for the test I would study my notes. ... I really got into science-fiction books and read nearly six books that summer. ... The last book I read was Plato's Republic and found it pretty interesting, though I had to read the Cliff notes along with the book. ...

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A way for the students to keep their personal space was by putting books next to them as a barrier. ... The research was conducted in tables for four people and to each side of the table were two chairs .One observer had a stop-watch to keep the time and another one had a note book to note the participants behaviour. ... One observer was keeping time and one was keeping notes. ... The participant stopped keeping notes and she was kinetic. After two minutes had passed, she started putting here books in a column and after eight minutes, she left. ...

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At the time that he wrote both of these books, he was known for sticking closely to historical information and writing largely accurate accounts of events. ... While translating the notes of Solon, Plato made an error. ... The first sight of Thera that modern tourists see are the sheer cliffs that remain. These cliffs are a breathtaking mix of white, black, and red stone - a unique sight in the Aegean world. ...

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Han Nolan in my view is a wonderful author, she has written books that reflect on the harsh problems people face in their lives. Nolan is the author of "Born Blue" which tells the story of a child growing up and making her life a mess. Janie was four years old when she had almost drowned. As sh...

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Plot & Theme Forster was a humanist (Kelvin: 102) who used his books to express his opinions about social change, life in England, and his political views. ... Leonard Bast kills himself when a bookcase topples on top of him that causes a heart attack (Forster: End), symbolizing his terrible obsession with educating himself and his failure to pull himself from the abyss of poverty with books. In a way, books ruin him as a human being before they smother him and cause his heart attack. ... In his book he wrote: "Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it and the boo...

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They burst into giggles when Wiley Coyote falls off of the cliff, and they feel a sense of security when The Power Rangers kill their many enemies to save the world. The subconsciously take notes on the cartoons filled with violence, and they store it for future reference. ... In this Postman means that it is not the aim of television to try to explain something, which can be done by books, but rather through entertainment in ways like story telling with creative images and sound effects. ...

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In the 1920's the medium in which entertainment was distributed was the mass production of books. ... Half way between the edge of the cliff and the square wooden house (which was also chocolate-colored, but with the tin roof of the verandah striped in yellow and brown to represent an awning) two large targets had been placed against a background of shrubbery. ... He writes a note to her and it is shown across the screen as he is giving it to someone to be delivered. On the screen it shows the note saying, "Important...I see you". ...

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This was most notable in the 3rd and 4th century with the different parts of the world recognizing different books as gospel. ... They noted in lurid, breathless detail the bizarre practices of the faithful--their purple face-dressings, their surgical castrations their neo-Maoist uniforms and haircuts--while making only passing reference to the sect's "gnostic" or "neo-gnostic" doctrine. and, of course, eager to shoehorn Heaven's Gate into the received template of crazed-cult stories, reporters made much of leader Marshall Apple-white's "messianic" charisma, his reported brea...

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Eco's Postscript is also a manifesto proclaiming the authority of serious historical fiction: the characters in a historical novel may not appear in encyclopedias, he notes, but everything they do could only occur in that time and place. Made-up events and characters tell us things "that history books have never told us so clearly," so as "to make history, what happened, more comprehensible"(p. 75). ... Their success seems to have surprised Eco, who puzzled for "two years" after the publication of his first novel, "trying to figure out why the book was being read by people who surely coul...

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Every child has fantasy's of being a super hero and leaping tall buildings in a single bound or staring death in the face everyday and somehow finding a way to escape. All of these imaginative thoughts have been derived from the past literary works by the great writers of the early American literary...

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However, in the following chapters, even though he mentions Queequeg as a "savage" he notes the civilized ethics of the individual such as the way he takes time to shave, even though it is with his harpoon. ... In an era that Melville lived in with terrorist organizations against blacks and immigrants from other countries such as the Ku Klux Klan and the White League, he still preached his beliefs through his books. ...

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The Color People Rape, incest, sex , forced labor, and a little reefer on the side. These are all of the components of a Novel by Alice Walker. All of these views are illustrated proficiently in Alice Walkers third novel, The Color Purple. Each one of these aspects had a lasting impression upo...

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