Crane wrote the story "The Monster" the late 1800's when racism was a very real and almost natural part of life. ... Before Henry Johnson became a monster he was a prominent, well-known figure in Whitomville. ... Trescott who quickly loses business in town because of Henry's exploits. ... Trescott and Jimmie, the two people who personally knew him and respected him before the fire disfigured his face, were the only ones who could still approach Henry with little or no fear. ... As part of his intricate plan, he left a sack that supposedly contained $40,000 in gold, with Mary and Ed...

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There was bitter civil war in France, which finally ended with the reign of Henry of Navarre and the Edict of Nantes in 1598. ... These fears of innovation certainly seemed justified when Henry the Second died suddenly in 1559, leaving an enormous power vacuum at the heart of social authority in France. ... They were ambitious and had already produced at least two generations of exceptional leaders. ... Catherine began a two-year tour of the provinces with her son Charles the Ninth, in an effort to establish unity with the nobility. ...

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This paper will discuss the factors which helped shape the stylistic differences between the two periods. ... It was during this time that the three voice tradition was replaced by the four part texture we see today (composers would use five, six, or even more voices). ... This had its challenges as well as it meant that a fourth, a fifth and a third would be out of tune (Arkenberg 1). ... This intonation is not well suited for Renaissance music as only the octaves are in perfect intonation, and vocal renaissance music was especially noted for its perfect fourths and fifths (Norton 158). ...

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The first chapter of Part 1 begins: "These are the nine figures of the Indians: 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. ... At the end of the first part of the book, he presented tables for multiplication, prime numbers and factor numbers. In the second part he demonstrated mathematical applications to commercial transactions. ... Going back to the Fibonacci sequence, which begins with 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, we are able to make two observations. ... In any right triangle the relationship between the hypotenuse to the other two sides is a2+b2=c2 where c is the hypotenuse. ...

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An example is the American Civil War, where the abolitionist fight for the rights of the slaves of the southern part of the United States. ... This tradition is absorbed in the literary movement of transcendentalism that is expressed by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. ... It lasted two years more, so in 1841 he quit his job. ... The book appeared on the fourth of July, as a kind of literary independence day. ...

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Fourthly, Mahayana Buddhism emphasizes the supreme value of self-sacrifice. ... This eschatological hope has always been part of traditional Korean Buddhism and has been particularly prominent in periods of social turmoil. ... When the Yi dynasty was established in 1392, as part of its program of reform, the king abolished the Buddhist state religion. ... Fourthly, Confucians looked forward to the final goal of history. ...

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Their rule was officially endorsed by the fourth Lateran Council in 1215. ... The dissolution of the monasteries in England by Henry VIII included all those belonging to the Austin Friars. ... During the 16th century two independent branches of the order were created: the Calced Carmelites, who were permitted to wear shoes and followed the mitigated rule of St Simon Stock; and the Discalced Carmelites, who went without shoes as a sign of austerity and followed the reforms of the Spanish mystic St John of the Cross. ...

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Solomon's reign was followed by the division of land into two kingdoms. ... John Quigley, "Palestine and Israel: A Challenge to Justice." (5) By 1903, there were some 25,000 Jewish immigrants, mostly from Eastern Europe, they lived alongside about half a million Arab residents." (4) In 1904 the Fourth Zionist Congress decided to establish a national home for Jews in Argentina, but in 1906 The Conflict between Israel and Palestine the Zionist congress decided the Jewish homeland should be Palestine. (8) "A second wave of about 40,000 immigrants arrived in the region between 1904 and...

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Conducting Public Relations Research: Methodologies and Resources The Practitioner Definition Various concepts of public relations offer a glimpse at the evolution of this communications function in organizations and as a part of society. ...

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There have been numerous theories for why Enron had such a collapse, and all seem to be possible scenarios of why this Energy giant filed chapter 11, two months after the terrorist attacks on September 11th. ... Energy analysts can all agree that without John Henry Kirby, Houston Natural Gas Corporation would have never existed. ... Raised huge amount of money for political campaigns as he served two terms in the Texas legislature and was a delegate to the 1916 Democratic National Convention. ... Also, the two companies used Arthur Andersen LLP as their accountant as well as using their m...

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Sri Lanka had been under going a terrorist problem for over 20 years, thanks in part to the politicians, terrorists themselves and unscrupulous business interests. ... This is the story of the Sinhala people working in peace and war under an unbroken monarchy during two millenniums and a half. ... Magadha, the Aryan state where Buddhism had been first preached, had extended its political influence, absorbed a number states in the Gangetic valley, built up a powerful military force and organized an efficient administrative system by the close of the fourth century B.C. ... On February 4, 1948, ...

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Table of Contents PART I-The Status Quo page 5 Introduction-page 5 Chapter 1-Enlightened Basis-page 5 "The Enlightenment Basis--page 5 "The Enlightenment Crux--page 8 "Condorcet's Crux--page 9 "Post-Enlightenment Philosophies--page 13 Chapter 2-General Political Failures-page 15 Chapter 3-Sweden, its Basis and Failures-page 17 "Sweden's Form--page 17 "Its Basis--page 19 "Its Failure--page 21 Chapter 4-The Failure of Utopian Philosophy-page 23 PART II-An Alternative to Utopia page 25 Introduction-page 25 Chapter 1-Religious Influe...

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His father Henry Ware Eliot (1843-1919) was a successful businessman, president and treasurer of the Hydraulic-Press Brick Company in St. ... Years later he declared, "Missouri and the Mississippi have made a deeper impression on me than any part of the world." ... The marriage was not successful, in part because of Vivienne's health issues: the two separated in 1933 and Eliot eventually committed Vivienne (still legally his wife) to a mental hospital in 1938. ... The two were happy together until Eliot's death in 1965; his poem "A Dedication to My Wife" is a rare public declaratio...

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Henry VIII the ruler of England from 1509 to 1547 prescribed the death penalty for anyone who imagined the death of the King. ... In part to reduce the number of lynching, 8 out of 10 states that had already abolished the death penalty from 1897 to 1917 reinstated it within only a few years. ... Grasso had admitted to killing two elderly people over a six-month period of time in Oklahoma and in New York City. ... Because the crimes occurred in two different states, Grasso was put on trial in New York, which did not have the death penalty, and Oklahoma, which did. ...

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The "era" generally is considered coextensive with President James Monroe's two terms (1817-25), it really began in 1815, when for the first time American citizens could afford to pay less attention to European political and military affairs. ... The good feelings, perhaps better termed complacency, were stimulated by two events of 1816, during the presidency of James Madison: the enactment of the first U.S. protective tariff and the establishment of the second National Bank. ... Fourthly, political realism is aware of the moral significance of political action. ...

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Renaissance humanism, would have as part of its renegotiation in conceptions of morality and knowledge, explicitly influenced the terms that I wish to classify. The foundation of a late medieval liberal arts pedagogy known as the ˜quadrivium,' of which established new networks of knowledge, comprised four areas of study that were deemed most beneficial as part of a renaissance education. ... Resultant to which, he turns to Jerome's Vulgate, a fourth century translation of the Bible, "When all is done, divinity is best, Jerome's Bible, Faustus, view it well " (I.i.38), in ...

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History In the 1860 presidential election, Republicans, led by Abraham Lincoln, supported banning slavery in all the U.S. territories, something the Southern states viewed as a violation of their constitutional rights and as being part of a plan to eventually abolish slavery. ... Confederates fought to protect southern society, and slavery as an integral part of it. ... The fourth theory was advocated by Mississippi Senator Jefferson Davis, one of state sovereignty, also known as the "Calhoun doctrine," named after the South Carolinian political theorist and statesman John C. ... Rejecting t...

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A quick look at these five heads would give an analyst a fair idea as to the state and direction of the economy at any point in time as consumer spending accounts for two-thirds of the total economic activity in the country. ...

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Perhaps the two most sought after concepts in the history of the subject were the integral and the derivative, as they were a necessity in finding out information needed about the physical world. ... Around AD 1000, the Islamic mathematician Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) was the first to derive the formula for the sum of the fourth powers, and using mathematical induction, he developed a method that is readily generalizable to finding the formula for the sum of any integral powers, which was fundamental to the development of integral calculus. ... In his first book "On the Sphere and Cylind...

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History In the 1860 presidential election, Republicans, led by Abraham Lincoln, supported banning slavery in all the U.S. territories, something the Southern states viewed as a violation of their constitutional rights and as being part of a plan to eventually abolish slavery. ... Confederates fought to protect southern society, and slavery as an integral part of it. ... The fourth theory was advocated by Mississippi Senator Jefferson Davis, one of state sovereignty, also known as the "Calhoun doctrine," named after the South Carolinian political theorist and statesman John C. ... Rejecting ...

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1.0 Product Introduction Traditionally, novel products have provided immense opportunities for the society and firms to connect and provide value-added commodities. Selecting the appropriate item for the organization and its clients, nevertheless, may not be an easy task. Studies have shown that suc...

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