The works of the salons' many female authors became widely acknowledged, and their dubbing as "contes de fees- was soon translated into English as "fairy tales-. It was in this time that a male French author, Charles Perrault, wrote his first collection of Mother Goose Tales. ... Fairy tale writers appeared in Norway and Russia, and in 1867 the first English author published stories of Sleeping Beauty and Puss in Boots. Walter Crane, the author, also illustrated his sister's English translation of the Grimm tales. ... It is not right to say that all old fairy tales are written to p...

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In the article Perceived Housework Equity, Marital Happiness, and Divorce in Dual-Earner Households in the Journal of Family Issues, the two authors examine this relationship in further details. ... In the article Women's Employment, Marital Happiness, and Divorce published in the December of 2002 in Social Forces authors Atone, Kim, Rothert, Schoen and Standish studied the role of women's participation in the labour force and the possible impact that it has on marital stability (Atone, Kim, Rothert, Schoen and Standish 2002: 647). ... According to Marital Happiness and Marital Durat...

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Lion (1987) is a novel which takes place in Toronto in the years following the First World War. Ondaatje's next novel, 1992's The English Patient, won the Governor General's Award and the Booker Prize, and was made into an award-winning film. In The Skin Of A Lion is a love story and an irresistible mystery set in the turbulent, muscular new world of Toronto in the ' 20s and ' 30s. Michael Ondaatje entwines adventure, romance and history, real and invented, enmeshing us in the lives of the immigrants who built the city and those who dreamed it into being: the politic...

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Tannen and the other authors try to explain aggression. Some Sociolinguist and authors and other professionals in the area of linguistics disagree with some of Tannen's ideas about conversations, and there are others agree with her. ... Anne Campbell the author of Men, Women, and Aggression talked in her book about where aggression comes from, and about what many professionals think about the origins of aggression, including the greatest psychologist ever, Sigmund Freud. ...

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The role of HRM in innovation processes Nurturing or constraining creativity Master thesis in Strategic Human Resource Management and Labour Relations 30 higher education credits Author: Jennie Karlsson Supervisor: Bertil Rolandsson Semester: Spring 2013 Abstract The purpose of this study was to explore how different HRM practices nurture and constrain creativity in the organization, upon which companies build their innovation processes. ...

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Danielewski's "House Of Leaves,"" (Heldref Publications) she explores the blueprints of the house through the examination of the novel's foundations and exploring the authors use of the labyrinth as not only a theme, but a form. ... The author who is credited with the use of the idea of this symbol in modern writing is Jorge Luis Borges. ...

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It becomes clear that Magua has chosen this hill as a resting-place because its view and elevation make it well suited for defense. ... The author gives a scenic description of the night sky and the blockhouse. ... The depth of his knowledge of the history is an echo of the author's own knowledge about the Indians. ...

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In both situations the quota requirement that affirmative action laws made for the work field, the woman was chosen. ... The author asks how could a law promote equal treatment for minorities but at the same time take away from majorities. ... What is weird is that the white man was chosen even though scores and experience went to the minority member, is this fair treatment? With affirmative action playing in the race is the same just a person and scores are looked at and the right person is chosen reg! ... So affirmative action just gives them the chance to prove it but the best person is st...

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The main motif of conducting the research is to draw a comparative picture between "The Iliad" and "The Aeneid," so at the beginning we have provided some of the major key factors and basing on those factors we have categorized our comparisons between the two books. "The Iliad" (sometimes referr...

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Clean is chosen as the ideal methodology, as it is the best suitable and more ideal for the project Rental Property Management system. Oracle is also chosen as the best database product for the project, because it is the market leader and is proven to be very secure and a reliable database product. 2. ... NET  Oracle Firstly the reader will be given a brief insight about the project and the authors" assumptions about the project . ... A conclusion finishes the report with the authors" opinion about which combination of technology, tool sets and methodology is the best for...

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Purpose of the research: I have chosen this book The jungle by Upton Sinclair because I think that working class people of the 1990's..still live in a capitalistic jungle. ... In addition I have chosen as my theme? ... I have chosen this theme because it reflects how most businesses operate today in the 1990. ... Primary Author's Biography Upton Sinclair, the most famous of the Americanmuckraker? ... The book became famous and made Sinclair a good deal of money, but the socialist ideals that the author intended as the cure for the ills of capitalism were not recognized by mos...

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"Galveston became Atlantis- (198). Arguably the most terrible natural disaster in American history, occurred on September 9, 1900, a date which will live in infamy for Galveston. In Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson, the Great Storm moves through the streets one fateful Saturday like a "mailman deliver...

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(Love) Additionally, the article points out that "geography also plays a roles in who is chosen to be executed on the federal level" and "noted that blacks were much more likely to face the death penalty for killing whites than were white defendants who killed minorities." ... The article reports that a recent New York Times survey shows that the dozen states that have chosen not to enact the death penalty since the Supreme Court ruled for the death penalty in 1976 have not had higher homicide rates than the states with capital punishment in place. ...

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However, we have chosen to write within the three subjects of 'Sociology', 'Planning, Space & Resources (PSR)' and 'Politics'. ... It could have given a broader perspective of food waste if we looked into e.g. the manufacturer's ways of wasting food, but we find that the points we have chosen will make it easier to go into depth on more specific areas. ...

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Throughout the world's history, a defining factor amongst most cultures has been its religious doctrine. Within these doctrines, a common set of beliefs were established which paved the way into a more cohesive and integrated religious culture. These doctrines established a body of religious princip...

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Analysis of Fight Club, a novel by Chuck Palahniuk & film directed by David Fincher The novel Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk was published in 1996, and released as a motion picture starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton in 1999. It is an important piece of literature because it portrays the problems experienced by the modern day male who feels trapped in a world of the gray-collar working-class, a world filled with materialism and distractions, a group of men raised in single-parent families often devoid of a male role-model, in a world where there is no great cause to fight for. It is a s...

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Vampires: Folklore Throughout the Ages What, exactly, is a vampire? (Thompson: Motif E 251. Vampire- Corpse which comes from grave at night and sucks blood). Does a vampire require a long black cape, fangs, and a mansion in Transylvania? Or can a vampire be any undead person roaming around somewhere between the grave and the netherworld? ...

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Its author Jane Austen is able to create a type of gothic parody that through out the novel is integrated into the characterization and able to show the realities of a young girl growing up in a complicated and complex adult society. ... Coleridge thought that gothic novels provide unfathomable characters that the gothic romance authors have come up with very quickly and have not put much thought into. ... Jane Austen stood up for the novel when she says, "Yes, novels- for I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous c...

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I will be explaining different techniques Mary Shelley (the author) uses to make us feel things for the two main characters, Frankenstein and his monster. ... I am now going to talk about the author's craft; the way in which Mary Shelley uses her writing skills to convey different messages and feelings across to the readers. ... One of the first things we notice is that Shelley has chosen the setting for this chapter as a dreary night in November'. ...

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In two of early America's greatest works, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest, readers are exposed to the vision of two great authors of the 18th and 19th centuries and while it is possible for one to simply read and enjoy the plot of these stories, it is impossible to overlook the similarities in their greater thematic issues. ...

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This modest accomplishment served to make me even more ashamed of him. " (Lee 91) Because of Miss Maudie's poorly chosen words, Scout felt ashamed of her father rather than proud, which was not Miss Maudie's intended effect. ...

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Timothy Findley pieced The Wars together much like a puzzle. When piecing together a puzzle it is crucial to first find the corner pieces. As when trying to understand the novel it is necessary to realize what the most important aspects are. Each separate corner holds together and is linked to anoth...

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The Thought of One Ayn Rand, the author of many inspirational novels is one of the most controversial authors of the twentieth century. She defines her self as, "I am not primaraly an advovate of capitalism, but of egoism; I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason. If one recog...

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"They know for sure who is really good at math and can feel that they're not going to magically get better at it," says Michael Thompson, a child psychologist and co-author of Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys. ... Nonetheless, says former NBA forward Bob Bigelow, author of Just Let the Kids Play and perhaps the most pointed provocateur in the lively debates over youth sports, "Many adults have the misguided belief that looking at a kid at this stage gives an indication of what he'll be like down the road: 'My gosh, wait till we see him at 14, 18, 22!' ......

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My wife insisted on keeping those amenities she had chosen for my analysis and I had to obey. ... The Summary Output for our data looked as follows: Colors were added by the author for further explanation. ...

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