Rudyard Kipling's Kim Rudyard Joseph Kipling was born in Bombay, India in 1865. He lived in India during the height of the British Empire so that the story of his life takes place against a background of imperial grandeur, followed by war and decline ( Fido 1). While living in India, Kipling wrote his best works. Looking closely, one sees that Kipling wrote about India all his life; almost exclusively in his youth, but many years after he returned to ...

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Introduction Terrorism, often specific to the area in which it occurs, is a special domain for the exercise of state sovereignty and, in this context, the comparative study of anti-terrorist legislation is a fruitful line of study. ... Chapter I - The Legality of the Special Courts in Cases of Terrorism The decision to create special courts is, in most cases, the result of exceptional circumstances, that ordinary courts are found to be unable to deal with in order to ensure what may be termed "good administration of justice". ... Article 38.3-4 3e of the Irish Constitution states: "Special co...

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It doesn't require any elaborate process of placing it within a context. ... According to new criticism, in order to understand text we have to detach the text from context. ... This approach reduces the importance of historical and cultural context of the text. ... In 1925 Boris Toma Shevski formulated the fullest formalist answer to the question of how to distinguish the language of fiction from ordinary language. ...

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Understanding the complexity of society in terms of all the institutions, contexts, and interpretations and how all these are related is an important milestone in the study of criminology; to further study in criminology one needs to accept the fact that everything in society is related to the criminological field. ...

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Virtu Like most Western philosophers, Niccolo Machiavelli's ideas were heavily influenced by the early Greek philosophers. Most notable among the Greek philosophers who inspired Machiavelli was Plato. In particular, Machiavelli took interest in Plato's concept of just rulers who ruled by moral virtue. Machiavelli argued against this Platonic philosophy. He believed in "virtu", whatever was best for the State was virtu. ...

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We saw that even when R and W met words in the same contexts, their knowledge of the items grew substantially over the course of repeated encounters. We have also shown that R and W profited from meeting the words often, regardless of whether they were important to the story or occurred in information-rich contexts. ... In other words, without knowledge of this core vocabulary, reading a normal unsimplified English text is a laborious and painstaking exercise since the learner does not know enough words in surrounding contexts to work out the meanings of problem items. ...

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Social welfare is an encompassing and imprecise term, but most often it is defined in terms of organized activities or some other factor that suggests procedure and programs to answer to identified social problems or to ameliorate the well-being of those at risk. To define social welfare in terms of...

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Globalisation The word globalisation has become a buzzword since its inception at the beginning of the 1990s. A cottage industry on globalisation has emerged from which academics and intellectuals make a living by writing articles and travelling the world debating with others. The financial and business sections of broadsheet newspapers are continuously littered with issues concerning globalisation and meetings are frequently held by the superpowers to discuss the state of the global economy, such as the meetings in Doha in Qatar, Cancun in Mexico and the IMF summit in Dubai. As a result of...

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In the 20th century, structuralism is used as an important theory and in different contexts in a number of disciplines. ... It is a very well-known fact that red colour symbolises passion and desire, not an ordinary kind of passion and desire but an aggressive one. ...

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In a simple economic context, the now dominant, wealthy, bourgeoisie are indeed the polluting multinational corporations that produce all forms of "luxuries- at the expense of our environment, which remains the exploited proletariat. ...

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Oliver Wendell Holmes in The Path of Law said "a thing which you have enjoyed and used as your own for a long time, whether property or an opinion, takes root in your being and cannot be torn away without your resenting the act and trying to defend yourself, however you came by it." That seems to be the case regarding the law of adverse possession. Adverse possession is, in fact, the process of dispossessing the previous holder and occupying the land until the owner's rights to recover it is time-barred under the Limitation Act 1980 in relation to unregistered land, or the adver...

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A critic has said that 'A theme which dominates Larkin's poetry is that desire is ultimately unobtainable' Discuss two or three of Larkin's poems in the context of this statement. ... The phrase 'of how life should be emphasise the utopian society as something ordinary people can only aspire to'. ...

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The death penalty costs California $90 million annually beyond the ordinary costs of the justice system - $78 million of that total in incurred at the trial level (Sacramento Bee, March 18, 1988). ... Member Ted Gausmann state, "First, we must understand the context of this verse. ...

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This ambiguous concept of light Ondaatje presents throughout the novel is not ordinary light, but one that illuminates the void of darkness. ... Readings of In the Skin of a Lion Written by: nicole2961985 "Any critical reading of a text will be strengthened by a knowledge of how a text is valued by readers in differing contexts."" ...

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Another symptom of MPD is significant amnesia, which can't be explained by ordinary forgetfulness. ... An inability to recall important personal information that is too extensive to be explained by ordinary forgetfulness. ...

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His poems are largely traditional in theme, form, and structure, and show a continuity with the Wordsworthian art of recording the impact of ordinary daily events on an individual and sensitive mind. ...

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Where Twain and Buffalo Bill's writings deal with the emergence of the Anglo-American hero, John Ford deals with the manifestations of that hero in his film The Searchers. John Wayne, in his anti-heroic role as a bigot and intolerant, is a tragic, lonely, morally-ambiguous figure who is doomed to be an outsider. This film is the complex tale of a perilous, hate-ridden pursuit and pilgrimage of self-discovery by Ethan Edwards after a Comanche massacre on his family , while also exploring the theme of racial prejudice. It examines the inner chaos of a fiercely autonomous man obsessed wit...

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He even gives them back their guns once they have left the village, under the impression that they will not return. " .Calvera is no ordinary bad Bandido he has his own code of professional ethics, which includes caring for his men and protecting the villagers from other marauders- . ...

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Born and raised as a Roman Catholic, my parents tried their best to mold me not just into a kind and obedient kid but to be a girl with a strong faith in God. I remember that our apartment didn't have just one but a couple of altars. At a very young age, I was taught how to make the sign of the cros...

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World is made of men and women. They are the two pieces of a puzzle without which life would be impossible. What is it exactly that makes the division between men and women? Scientifically, one responsible factor is a proper chromosome. But the truth is that it is not so much the matter of...

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Sagan was right; hyperspace connections do at least in theory provide a means to travel to far distant regions of the universe without spending thousands of years putting around in an ordinary spacecraft. ...

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 'The internal world on the outside. The genesis of violence and aggression.' (First slide) No horror you can imagine has not already been done by someone to somebody else. Similarly there is no horror you could perform that has not been enacted in imagination or fantasy by somebody. Man is a d...

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Vince Lombardi Vince Lombardi is one of the greatest coaches to ever grace the side lines of a football field. Before he began his coaching career, Lombardi taught Latin and chemistry at a New Jersey high school. He began his head coaching career at the age of 46 with the Green Bay Packers. I...

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The Society of Forensic Toxicology describes forensic toxicologists as scientist involving the analysis of tissue and body fluids for drugs and poisons, and who interpret the resulting information in the judiciary context. ...

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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 referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium) is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameters, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the wee...

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