The digitization of millions of books and new technology has brought not only convenience but also many issues for everyone that partakes, or uses the technology needed to access these books, commonly referred to as "e-books". ... It has become much easier for people of all ages to simply skim over a news article or read a quick book summary online. ... There is no precise number of paper books that are in circulation in the world, industry giants such as Amazon, Sony and Barnes and Noble all report having nearly half or over half a million e-books, with Google reporting nearly the s...

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Leveling of Monticello mountaintop. 1772 Married Martha Wayles Skelton, 1774 Wrote A Summary View of the Retired from legal practice. ... PUBLIC LIFE PRIVATE LIFE 1794 Freed slave Robert Hemings. 1796 Freed slave James Hemings. 1797-1801 Served as U.S. ... OTHER FACTS v Six children, two survived to adulthood v Typically owned 150-200 slaves, freed two while he was alive, five in his will, didn't pursue two others when they ran away (seven he did free were all skilled tradesmen) v Had an inquiry into his conduct as Governor, eventually discarded v In...

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Jones, I moved onto a variety of mystery books and more importantly, Magic Tree House books. ... Sometimes I enjoyed the books. ... Eventually, I just kind of winged it and would Google search summaries of the books I was supposed to be reading. ... I then realized that ignoring the books and not even giving the books a chance had to end. ... Not just the assigned books in English class, but on my own free time too. ...

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Jefferson loved to read books and write in journals. ... His father's library consisted of over forty books. ... Besides admiring books, he began to admire Rebecca Burwell. ... Jefferson wrote "A summary View of the Rights of British America." ... Jefferson was successful in explaining that people were born free. ...

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It was used as a place to experiment with torture, where the Police summary court was located, and also where the original Auschwitz executions were carried out. ... January 1945 the Soviet Army mobilized to free the prisoners of Auschwitz. ... But I believe books like "Auschwitz: A History" are important for us to read, because they are created to open our eyes. ... We need to read books like this, so we can become aware, and understand what we should look out for, so that we can prevent anything of this magnitude for happening again. ...

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Model T is a room with the lock inside - a key is turned to free the world for movement, so quick there is a film to watch for anything missed. ... Summary "A Martian Sends a Postcard Home" is a poem with seven ten stanzas. ... Analaysis This informal poem is written in free verse or syllabic meter. ... By using the word 'mechanical' Raine is defining books as void or lacking of thought or emotion. ... The poem is structured to draw on specific representations to re-create symbolic images through our senses, fluctuating from visual (birds), to physical (books), to hearin...

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Model T is a room with the lock inside - a key is turned to free the world for movement, so quick there is a film to watch for anything missed. ... Summary "A Martian Sends a Postcard Home" is a poem with seven ten stanzas. ... Analaysis This informal poem is written in free verse or syllabic meter. ... By using the word 'mechanical' Raine is defining books as void or lacking of thought or emotion. ... The poem is structured to draw on specific representations to re-create symbolic images through our senses, fluctuating from visual (birds), to physical (books), to hearin...

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In one case, when the leader of the "free world" brought home the wrong breakfast meat, he was hit in the face with firewood and had hot potatoes pitched at his head (Burlingame 1994). ... SUMMARY Chapter 1 discussed the social problem of male victims of domestic violence and why they do not report it. ... There are several books on dealing with teen females in abusive relationships, but none for teen males. ... SUMMARY This chapter discussed the dynamics of abused men and the factors affecting the underreporting of incidents. ... SUMMARY Finding unreported documentation seems to be som...

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Book Summary In his book, John Katzenbach exemplifies to upper level the successes and failures of two models of management: The single leader role and the team leadership role. ... He has written other books on organization management including The Wisdom of Teams, Real Change Leaders, and Peak Performance. ... In the opinion of our group, one can find the main points of this book from simply reading the chapter summaries at the end of each chapter or from the section titled: What this Book is About. Distinctiveness: 6 One quality of this book that distinguishes it from other books on ...

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John Locke holds that every individual is born naturally free to do as the please, but with that freedom they must abide by the laws of nature. ... Take as another example the guy who picks up the books of a girl who has dropped them. It is done to make the guy seem kind to the girl who has dropped the books, if she good looking, or to the surrounding girls, if the girl is not good looking. ... Locke posits that once individuals are able to reason for themselves they are free of the parental power and are able to direct proper interests. ... In summary, the Second Treatise on Civil Government...

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Many people prepare for a test while juggling the responsibilities of school, work and family; students have sometimes no other obvious obligation than school itself, but temptations and distractions relentlessly try to keep them away from their books. ... A quiet, isolated place, free of excessive distractions and loud noises, usually works well for everybody; in most cases, a library, a bedroom, or any place where interferences are kept at a minimum, will be ideal. ... Effective visual techniques, on the other hand, may consist in underlining your books or notes, with different colors when a...

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Charging that the contention of educational content being completely re-written to sanction and as critics complained, promote same-sex marriage as approved in elementary school text books, those in favor of same-sex marriage looking to defeat Proposition 8 took their opponents to court. ... Discrimination or Free Choice Is the Issue Those in favor of the ban being lifted on same-sex marriage also argued that there were literally millions of couples living together for in some cases decades, many of which were having to misrepresent themselves or their partners as spouses to gai...

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In summary, despite all of Reverend John Williams attempts to free his daughter from her Indian captors, she chose to remain with them, thus she was the "Unredeemed Captive." ... New York: Vintage Books,1994 ...

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Description of Business Our business will provide a service website where students will be able to trade books with one another or give them away for free. ... Executive Summary BookTrader was created by four former college students from Eastern Washington University. ... Students will not be actively seeking books for the current quarter but students might list older books. ... They also have the option to give their books away for free. ... Many stores believe that given students' demand for used books, these percentages would be higher if more used books were available. ...

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The information used to provide the summary below was obtained from (insert source here). ... Qualified withdrawals include payment of tuition fees, room and board, books, supplies, equipment required for enrollment (Doesn t the beneficiary also have to be under age 30 for the distribution to be classified as a qualified one?). ... Are there any moneys which are free from future taxation? ... At the federal level contributions and earnings are free from taxation. ... The following is a summary of the key UGMA drawbacks: * The Uniform Gift to Minors Act specifically provides that on...

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(6) Vonnegut was eventually freed by Russian troops and returned to the United States where he was awarded the Purple Heart and married Jane Marie Cox. ... These first two works of Kurt Vonnegut Jr. were initially categorized as science fiction, however Vonnegut's books go far beyond the realm of most pure sci-fi. ... All of Vonnegut's books are strongly satirical and ironical, funny, compassionate and extremely wise. ... Some critiques described it as a summary of his previous work. ...

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The Bible should not be considered "1 book" but instead a mini library of many books with many different authors. ... Rested Although the second story tells about the same creations as the first, there is no real order in which these creations occur in the second account; it's like a brief summary of the things that God (or Yahweh as the author scribes) had created. ... These two incidents represent God's gift of free will to man, unlike the first creation story where God seems commanding. ... In the second account, God offers free will and really no commands (maybe 1 or 2...

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Books one through nine chronicles his life, in which he describes episodes of his life where he can find parallels to the Old Testament and other parts of his life that exhibit god's grace. ... The last two books are a study of scripture where he concentrates heavily on Genesis and the methods of god's creation of the earth. ... It resembles this story because Augustine's heart is "restless till it finds its rest in God"; he brings his story to an end, after his struggles to free himself from pride, sensuality and other sins, with his return to his home at Tagaste. ...

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This is quite a statement for me to make, considering the fact that I absolutely hate reading most books. ... Even the United States represents some of the invasive aspects represented in both of these books. ... In summary, Japan occupied North Korea until 1945 when suddenly Emperor Hirohito announced Japan's surrender. ... While North Korea is free to govern its people in the way it sees best fit, other states are also free to impose sanctions on North Korea. ...

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Summary The story begins when an unnamed banker that had a flashback to a party that he held fifteen years ago one autumn night. ... The lawyer requested books, lectures, and the occasional wine during his stay inside the cabin. ... It was through this journey that he was able to break free of his foolish prison and renounce his "prize money.... Although he won't be able to gain back any time that is lost, he will be free of the foolish imprisonment he forced upon himself. ...

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Section four includes closing remarks and summary. ... In this sense, the Internet is a virtually tax-free sales channel. Some opponents debated on this tax-free pattern that would cause a revenue loss of the government. ... However, luxuries like computers and books are different, as they are just exactly the things you expect. ...

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In the 1930's Brecht's books and plays were banned in Germany, performances were interrupted by the police or summarily forbidden. ... The audience was free to come and go at will. Spectators were actually free to watch rehearsals: "Often Brecht would ask such casual observers for their suggestions and if the were good ones he would adopt them" (Fuegi, p 23). ...

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In summary, "those who use the banking approach, knowingly or unknowingly, fail to perceive that the deposits themselves contain contradictions about reality" (Freire, 218). ... Surely, while looking and reading boringly, they must be free from the possibility of being placed either into a banking or problem-posing bin. ... By using the always-expanding resources of the world-wide-web, students can be given cheaper instructional books that will give them all their material in one place with updated content being added in near real time too. ...

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