Two years after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, it became apparent to many of China's leaders that economic reform was necessary. ... By 1978 "Chinese leaders were searching for a solution to serious economic problems produced by Hua Guofeng, the man who had succeeded Mao Zedong as CCP leader after Mao's death" (Shirk 35). ... Nevertheless, the ideal of moral force was still a potent one in China even after the Communist takeover. It is noteworthy that Shirk feels that the Chinese Communist Party leaders saw economic reform as a way to regain their and their party'...

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They talk amongst themselves and say that they will meet Macbeth after a battle. 1st Witch: Where the place? ... This is one of the last things that Macbeth thinks before exiting the scene. ... But, the first thing Lady Macbeth says after reading the letter is: "It is too full o" th" milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way." ...

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The potato chip will be measured before it is put in the solution, and after. ... I also did this experiment before doing the real one so I could find a suitable range to base my investigation round. ... My result for the preliminary experiment is shown below: Sugar concentration (M) Mass before (g) Mass after (g) Length before (cm) Length after (cm) 1.0 M 0.0300 g 0.0276 g 5.00 cm 5.30 cm 0.5 M 0.0296 g 0.0279 g 5.00 cm 5.10 cm 0.0 M 0.0293 g 0.0308 g 5.00 cm 5.00 cm Preliminary methods: - I used a potatoes corer to cork a three-sized potato and then with a knife I cut the corked piec...

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Before long, the family moved to Greenville, Tennessee, about ten miles away from the Nolachucky River Valley in 1790. ... Davy had never been away from home before in his life, so he left with a heavy heart. ... They all were sure that Angus would win, for no one had ever won against Angus before. ... But after about a week had gone by, Mr. ... After Davy worked for Jeff awhile, Jeff paid Davy. ...

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After this the official crusading armies left on their mission. ... After this, though, a change began to take place. ... Before the attack began, though, Bohemund and his army joined up with them. ... The Turkish battle tactics were unlike any that they had seen before. ... After the Moslems were gone, their camps were looted. ...

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We made our final decision just before Christmas. ... Long before the normal wakeup call. ... After this we went to our rooms. ... So as everyone raced down I started ploughing this time much slower than before. ... After dinner we went to our rooms. ...

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After some training and some time, Neo is brought to the Oracle. ... Tank, finally, kills Cypher before he kills Neo and gets Trinity and Neo back. ... Trinity and Morpheus get back but before Neo can pick up the phone, an agent arrives. ... John the Baptist made a prophecy about Jesus before he was born. ... This shows that both Neo and Jesus were thought about even before they were born. ...

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- Superimposed pictures of Oswald were put on the street 8 hours after the president's death. ... One last car came 7 minutes before the shooting, it was a white muddy Chevrolet Impala. ... - On the day of the shooting, around 2 minutes before the assassination, a fake seizure was staged to distract the police. ... - 2 weeks before the assassination, 15 of the U.S.A's top military figures were sent to the South Pole for no apparent reason. ... Although it took them 4 more hours before he was charged with he crimes in the U.S.A...

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He had been shot five times before his "death", in a robbery at a New York City recording studio. ... Before the fight at approximately 8:45 pm, Tupac got into a fight in the lobby with a man by the name of Orlando Anderson. ... Before Tupac was "killed", there were a few events that seemed to foreshadow the events to come. ... Immediately before his death Tupac changed his stage name from "2pac" to "Makaveli". ... Supposedly all autopsy reports and photos were destroyed only a month after his death. ...

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In ancient China, a woman no longer belonged to the family clan of her parents after she got married, and she had to put her husband's family name before hers. From that day on, her honor and disgrace, the sacrifice to her after her death had nothing to do with her parents' family any more. ... Hence, the preparation before the ceremony turned out to be the most complicated. ... The girl prefers the boy to take the initiative to go after her rather than the contrary. ... The first law issued after the foundation of the People's Republic of China was the Law of Marriage in 1950....

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She needs 24 hours assistance, my wife before marriage use to look after Maa very well, with all her toiletries and cleaning her every day. ... He wants his daughter to work, bring money and look after him and Maa, he wanted Delilah back in the house so that she can look after Maa. ... As I said before in my book she never liked her father. ... After I finished talking Derek told me "Is there anything more you want to talk" before I could answer him, he said, "Thank you" we heard you. ... We were promised the return delivery of the passports with the visas before Septembe...

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After several very successful series, however, Diana Rigg left to do some serious acting'. ... The month after, the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show and Beatle mania ' completely swept the country. ... One person recollects the Beatles concert she used to go to often, before and after they were famous, " We used to dance to them, but as they got more popular, we would just stand and watch because if you danced you got squeezed to the back of the floor and missed it all."" ... People would have to be married before they had sex. ... Before the sixties the word teenager&#x...

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But was unsuccessful in uniting the people before his death. ... To answer the questions asked one must look back to a time before Vladimir of Kiev. ... This was a smart move for Yaropolk had been cited as sending men to capture Vladimir before and after he had left Kiev. ... He would however be killed before he could be. ... As previously stated before his rise to ruler of Kiev, Vladimir had been forced to flee the country in fear of his own life after the death of his brother Oleg at the hands of Yaropolk. ...

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My grandfather John Bass, was the overseer of a large plantation in South Carolina before the Civil War. ... After the slaves were freed, my grandfather was out of work, so he and Uncle Ashley Rhodes, my grandmothers' brother, went to Arkansas and homesteaded some land. ... Sex was ever Saturday night after he took his once a week bath. ... Mama had to sell the rest of the land because, Weighbourne and Cecil would not pay her rent or move out of the house after she married Jim Finch, who was Graces's father in law. ... I was there, so was Leo & Forun, my two older brother who had ...

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This struggle occurred before, during, and after the Civil Rights Movement, and it has impacted history through its events, its ideas, and its people. Before the Civil Rights Movement culminated in the 1960s, its events unfolded against apathy and racism. ... Of course, no blacks had voted before 1867, so they were required to take the literacy test (64) . . ." ... One of the key ideas before the Civil Rights Movement was that of the innocence and even necessity of segregation, embodied in Plessy vs. ... The people from before the Civil Rights Movement were widely variegated in their belie...

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Faria then teaches him all the knowledge he knows and before he dies leaves Edmond with the promise that he must go find a hidden treasure on the Isle of Monte Cristo. ... After successfully marrying off his sons and daughter, he feels that his life is complete and is ready to die. ... Edmond Dantes takes the identity of Sinbad the Sailor (Italy), The Count of Monte Cristo (France), Lord Wilmore, and Abbé Borocia after miraculously escaping from the Chateau d'If, a ghastly, horrifying prison for the worst of men by concealing himself in his friend's shrouds and cutting hims...

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"The Gift Outright" starts "The land was ours before we were the land's. / She was our land more than a hundred years before we were her people." ... New affairs arose shortly after his term began. ... It was written after Bobby Kennedy was assassinated. ... Auden wrote a poem to honor John Kennedy after his death. ... Oswald says that he didn"t know Jack Ruby before they met one another in hell. ...

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Between Wars (WW I and WW II) Twenty-one years before World War II began World War I ended. ... After World War I, the United States went back to their old principle, "We shun political commitments which might entangle us in foreign wars,"" as FDR said in 1936 during the Great Depression . ... The Depression made life even worse for the Germans who had a difficult time rebuilding after the war. ... For many years before World War II Japan had been using imperialistic and militaristic ways to acquire land. ... Before America entered the war, they found out about Germany's plans to invade S...

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He not only gives Thorin the map and the idea to return to the mountain, but he also strangely couples thirteen dwarves with a hobbit who has never left his region before. ... He is the third most important of the dwarves after Thorin and Balin. ... Gollum : The underground creature Bilbo meets after he gets lost in the tunnels of the Misty Mountains. ... Dain becomes king after Thorin dies, and is a very gracious leader. ... The wizard does show up the next day, but only after thirteen dwarves have knocked at his door first. ...

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Soon after it became obvious this was not at all his reasoning. ... The day before he had been arrested and released for bringing a gun to school. ... So then we must ask how any sane person could let this child back into his parent's custody and free to roam the streets after he had brought a gun to school the day before. ... Shootings had happened before but not two hours away from where I lived. ... Shootings had been scary before and it was a worry but this shooting was the worst and from that day on I lived in fear. ...

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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a mental health disorder that may develop after a person is exposed to terrifying events such as war (Dryden-Edwards, 2014). ... After interviewing family members, they all stated they did not know the person who committed the homicide and suicide (Finley, 2013). ... If the Soldiers experienced symptoms for 6 months after their return home it was considered a transient situational disorder. ... After arriving to his duty assignment in 2006, he was shortly shipped off to Iraq. ... Instead he was provided one 10-minute counseling session via video telecon...

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He would die before World War I. ... In the years before Stalin arrived a number of violent incidents had erupted including a series of student strikes and the murder of a priciple. ... After suffering a defeat at the hands of the Japanese, the Russian Empire was rocked by a series of protests which began with Bloody Sunday, when peaceful demonstrators were gunned down before the Tsar's (kings) Winter Palace in St. ... After many arrests within the ranks of the Georgian Bolsheviks Stalin rose to be there new leader. ... Before a series of strokes prevented Lenin from working, he wrot...

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The disease that struck there went by no name at all, because no one had ever seen it before. After the disease had struck about 30 people, it slowly went away and disappeared but not after being named the Marburg virus. ... Luckily the epidemic came to stop, but not after a couple hundred people were killed. ... After that the Marburg virus was called the Ebola Virus after a river that was near both breakouts. ... After much research, the viruses are closely related, but distinct from, Marburg Viruses. ...

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After gathering the needed men they Wintered at "Camp Dubois," located across the river from St. ... After a tense four-day visit, Clark was held captive for two more days when they tried to leave. ... They encountered snow roughly a one month before making their winter comp. ... Two weeks passed before the explorers reached the junction of the Missouri and Marias Rivers. ... After exploring the westernmost, it was decided that it was the main branch. ...

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Soon after the war ended, big cities started organizing teams of professional players (Vanderberg). ... In 1870, the White Stockings played a single season in the NABBP, where they won the championship before joining the National Association to play in the first season of its existence in 1871. ... The Orphans had already been on the up and up after landing in ninth place. ... Before being signed to the Cubs, he played for a New York minor league team and weighed a mere 100 pounds. ... "After winning 116...

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