Two Faced The River Sutra, written by Gita Metha. ... To do this he retires to the Narmada River, the most holy river in India, and lives in a small bungalow owned by the government. While he stays there he meets many people who have all come to the river for one reason or another. ... The story starts off with a man who is married to an overbearing and unreasonable wife, and has two children that always side with their mother and hate their father. ... If anything is sacred about this river, it is the individual experiences of the human beings who have lived here." ...

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Rather than using rhymes, Masters preferred his free verse style of writing in his poetry, especially in Spoon River Anthology. Published by Masters, Spoon River Anthology was a book of 244 poems about deceased fictional citizens of a town named Spoon River. ... In the following "morsels" I will compare and contrast four poems from Spoon River Anthology. ... Jonas Keene is a man who only wanted the best for his children where as Albert Schirding also wanted the best for his children but he could not stand the fact that his children succeeded more than he did. ... His children were his...

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A clean and healthy environment is part and parcel of the wealth and quality of life that we desire for ourselves now and for our children in the future. ... Children need to grow up aware of the nature around them. ... The contaminants in the air have a negative impact on the health of children, as well as adults. ...

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The retailers includes: Topshop, Miss Selfridge, Gap, New Look, H&M, River island and Oasis. ... Topshop, Miss Selfridges, H&M, New Look, Gap, River Island and Oasis. ... In particular, there are new sectors coming into the market such as young children and teenagers who are more fashion continuos. This may be due to having been dressed by their parents who may tend to dress their children in fashionable clothes e.g. ... Having the clothes and accessories under one roof some companies such as River Island have cornered some of the market by stating QUOTE, They encourage young designers whi...

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When it came time to cross the Bacquaug River, as a captive, Rowlandson sees the Indians coming together to build rafts to carry them across the river. ... We were not ready for so great a mercy as victory and deliverance; if we had been, God would have found out a way for the English to have passed this River, as well for the Indians with their Squaws and Children, and all their Luggage. (22) This quote shows that this whole capture is part of God's master plan for making her a better Christian as one of the "chosen." ... Later Rowlandson is moving with the Indians when they must w...

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Livingstone does not give up, and once again an expedition is on its way trough the desert, again with Livingstone's pregnant wife and the children who had survived. ... In what could be the very end for them all, they find some water, and four days later the company arrives the river Chobe, (a side-river to the Zambezi river). ... Nobody knew that this river went there until Oswell and Livingstone came. And it was here he realized that he had to travel down the river to the east coast. ... Livingstone and Oswell went all the way back to Cape Town where Mary and the children left for Engl...

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Today the Ota River, which runs under the bridge, brings back memories for those that lived through the bomb. ... Near the river is a large building that is dome-shaped. ... The Ota River along with the Atomic Dome are located in the "peace park" in Hiroshima. ... Another place for people to mourn is the Children's Monument. ... The monument is not only to honor Sadako but also the many children that died in the bombing. ...

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Joe, in explaining the science of the river to the children, comes to terms with his work as a science journalist rather than a scientist and ceases to view himself as a failure. ... There are even parts of this chapter where it appears that Joe takes Logan's place in his interactions with the children. ... Joe and Clarissa may be reconciled, and Joe is standing by the river, explaining science to children. The children and the river both add a sense of regeneration to this chapter and the whole novel. It ends with the innocent image of Joe standing with Rachael by the river. ...

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Watching the pulse of different creeks and the Yaak river itself - skinny in autumn, icy but poisoned in winter - wild, joyful, and enormous in spring, then steady and clear on into summer, with caddis flies and mayflies rising from it every evening, and the giant spruce and fir trees shadowing it, keeping it cool and alive . . ." - "The Book Of Yaak" by Rick Bass. ... I waded in the rivers, slept beneath the stars and played poker with my dad and brothers. ... If that means a few hundred birds die because we drain the swamps, or we kill fish by diverting rivers and then dumping toxins in...

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He has come to visit the children and in no way acknowledges Maria. Maria, out of anger, then throws her children into the river. ... Maria is found the next morning dead by the river where she had drowned her children and was then buried in a white gown. Ever since this incident, stories of hearing La Llorona (translated to weeping woman in English) have been reported near river all over America and Mexico. ... See, it was Marias act out of anger that caused her to throw her children into the river, which ultimately killed them. ...

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London shows horrifying images of an unsafe place: 'But most thro' midnight streets I hear how the youthful Harlot's curse' of prostitutes with young babies trawling the midnight streets looking to sell their bodies, and of the cries of men and children. Quite interesting is the fact that both the poems are viewed near The River Thames. ... Here there is evidence that Blake's narrator feels that The River Thames is part of this organisation and it is one that he is opposed to. ... In Composed upon Westminster Bridge, the speaker talks of the River Thames but wi...

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This notion of childhood innocence is a significant Romantic value, and is again a viewpoint that Rousseau advocated: Nature wants children to be children before being men. ... (Rousseau, 1979, p.90) This modern idea that children should be kept as children, rather than be moulded into mini-adults, is particularly significant. ... Children were used as chimney sweeps as they were lithe and slim and could climb up the narrow chimneys. ... Instead, like an adult, he is a worker, and essentially debunks the Romantic and indeed "natural" idea that "nature wants children to be chil...

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Native American children had to sit and watch as their parents were being massacred and know that they were next. ... In 1865 the settlers tried to invade Roman Nose of the Cheyenne, in the Powder River Invasion. ... In 1868, at the Medicine Lodge the Cheyenne, the Kiowas, the Comanches, and the Arapos all agreed to live in a reservation just below the Powder River. ... He was then invited to the White House to sign the Treaty of 1868, which would allow them to move back to Powder River. ... The Indians refused to sell the Powder River, On March 17, 1875, the U.S. attacked the Sioux and Cheyen...

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We first meet the families in two small towns in Western Australia, the Lambs in Margaret River and the Pickles in Geraldton. ... The river also proves to be a realistic effect as the Swan River in Perth is the heart of the city; it also seemed to be held close to the hearts of both the Pickles" and the Lambs". "But here, here by the river, the beautiful, the beautiful the river, the Lambs and the Pickleses are lighting up the morning like a dream- Historical events mentioned in the text such as Lester Lamb's involvement in World War Two, expressed the ideal that he was a true Australian ...

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This difference can be clearly examined in Keep the River on Your Right by Tobias Schneebaum. ... In Keep the River on Your Right, Schneebaum is immersed into a culture that has a totally different set of social standards. ... It is the American constructed idea that in order to be civilized, people need to have an almost fear of the bodies of others, especially that of children. ... He talks of the case of Kelly Michaels, where a mild-mannered, devout Catholic who loved children (Newman 175) was accused of numerous forms of sexual abuse towards the children under her care at a preschool. ...

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With a flash of light he flew into the river with the hospital building. ... Once she dug her way out she helped all her children to safety. They traveled to Asano Park where all of her children became ill. ... Her children eventually grew up and started families of their own. ... He also began to transport people on a boat across the river to safety. ...

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With a flash of light he flew into the river with the hospital building. ... Once she dug her way out she helped all her children to safety. They traveled to Asano Park where all of her children became ill. ... Her children eventually grew up and started families of their own. ... He also began to transport people on a boat across the river to safety. ...

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The population of Armenia was moved westward along the Euphrates River. ... Now they were also without homes and with children to care for when already they were prisoners of the punishing regimen of walking. ... The cry of children for food drove some mothers out of their minds. As little ones perished and no hope remained of saving them, others left their children by the roadside as they were made to continue on their journey, distraught beyond words. ... Arm in arm groups of women flung themselves from cliff-tops or drowned themselves in rivers. ...

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The Adam's quickly began a family with four children having blessed the union. ... To name a few, The Paris Peace Treaty, the new bridge over Charles River "Grand Turk" to China and the Virginia Canals for the James and Potomac Rivers and the demonstrations of the steam boat on the Delaware River. ... The ability to give of ones self for your country at the sacrifice of your wife and children should be a recognized feat in a much better way than we currently acknowledge. ...

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Armenia's History, Culture, and People Armenia occupies a territory of 29, 800 square kilometers. The average altitude of the territory is 1, 800 meters above sea level, the highest peak has an altitude of 4, 090 meters and the lowest point is the Debed canyon with an altitude of 380 meter...

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In Mark Twain's work, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck has many learning experiences as he travels on his adventure down the Mississippi River. ... When Huck and Jim find each other after escaping their homes, they continue their journey down the Mississippi River together. ... One night Huck and Jim separate on the river because of the fog, but Huck finds Jim asleep after a few hours of searching for each other. ... Huck says, "He was thinking about his wife and his children, away up yonder, and he was low and homesick; because he hadn't ever been away from home before in...

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So, he marched north and drove the barbarians past the Danube River and out of the way. ... He ordered a city to be built in his honor at the mouth of the Nile River. ... He had conquered the lands between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. ... The battle was fought at the Hydaspes River in 326B.C. ... Alexander's next goal was to reach the Ganges River, which he believed flowed into the ocean he so longed to see. ...

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Jamaica The country of Jamaica has an ideal location. Located just south of Cuba, it is the third largest island in the Caribbean Sea with 10,990 km. sq. Although the capital is Kingston, there are many other important centers of trade and business. The official language is Engl...

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Washington knew the Delaware River would freeze and make traveling easier for the British to cross. ... Washington crossed the Delaware River when there was bad weather and the river was ice-choked. ... "In 1804 New Jersey passed a gradual abolition act requiring that all children born of slaves be free" (Stansfield, 131). However, these children had to remain servants of their mother's master until age twenty-five. ... The most important route followed the Delaware River from Camden to Burlington, then through Bordentown, Princeton, and New Brunswick. ...

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The Adventures of Huck Finn is a novel based on the adventures of a boy named Huck Finn, who along with a slave, Jim, make their way along the Mississippi River during the Nineteenth Century. ... In The Adventures of Huck Finn, Huck's Road of Trials occurs on the Mississippi River. ... He promulgates more experienced from his journey down the river on his raft. ... Huck is torn between right and wrong, in fact he almost turns Jim, the runaway slave, in during his quest on the river. ... Children have an innocent perception of the world around them, but as adults we realize th...

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