Why do people golf? ... This could also work in a negative way by turning ordinary peoples free time into another stressful event. ... For a golfer it is golfing that makes ordinary time possible. When a round is played the stresses and worries of normal life or ordinary time seem to divinely disappear and sacred time begins. ... This reflection of sacred time allows a person a light at the end of the tunnel adding interest and enthusiasm to otherwise ordinary time. ...

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It is important to recall that between 1619 and 1926, African Americans and other peoples of African descent were classified as a race that had not made any contribution to human civilization. ... Peoples of African descent were visibly absent in any scholarship or intellectual discourse that dealt with human civilization. ... In the words of Ralph Crowder, "the observance must be a testimony to those African pioneers who struggled to affirm the humanity of African peoples and a challenge to the present generation to protect and preserve...the humanity of all peoples of African descent." ....

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Some of the important features of the fiber optics that we are interested are discussed below. Now a days we are using copper wires as they are the most cost effective and reliable interconnect in parallel machines. However as machines grow more powerful, wire density becomes critical making fiber p...

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Gung fu values the wonder of the ordinary, and the idea is not daily increase but daily decrease. ... To some martial artists of distinguishing taste, this would be a little bit unsophisticated; too ordinary and unartful. However, it is the ordinary that we use and encounter in everyday life. ... Of course, different people have different preferences and therefore I will include different techniques of both the Northern and the Southern schools of gung fu. ...

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Yet he looked ordinary enough. ... Here was a man who sincerely did not mind what people thought of him, and so convention had no hold on him; he was like a wrestler whose body is oiled; you could not get a grip on him; it gave him a freedom which was an outrage. ...

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Kim defines his identity by being open to influences and finding people he can look up to, like the lama, and Colonel Creighton while warding off influences that he does not feel he can look up to. ... He has grown up dressing like an Indian, thinking like one, his skin burned as brown as an Indian's, and being happy at home among the poor people of Lahore. ...

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The people were fighting amongst themselves. ... However, tens of thousands of 'ordinary people' wanted to join. ... One of these 'ordinary people', known as Peter the Hermit, had a massive impact on the people. He inspired countless people to join in the fight, which became known as the People's Crusade. ... This was the end of the Peoples Crusade. ...

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Our national Constitution and Bill of Rights have ensured that the people of America maintain their basic rights, and more. ... The founders obviously envisioned that the people would keep and use firearms to protect themselves and their country. ... The founders envisioned an America where the people would have the right to own guns. ... Ordinary law abiding citizens may have no interest in or need for this information, but criminals surely will. ... Firearms can be used for both self-defense and crime, but most people only focus on the latter. ...

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In order for the Ancient Egyptian civilization to grow, the people had to work together and unify. ... Later on in time, the basic diet of the ordinary people was bread and beer, whereas the wealthy citizens ate more meat and drank wine instead of beer. ... Much of the people's clothes were made of airy, breathable linen because in the hot weather the people needed light, loose, and easily washed clothes. ... What citizens believed also depended on where they lived, but there were common gods to all people too. For ordinary families living in Ancient Egypt the most important of thei...

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So, we see that the people bow to superior forces when faced with decisions that could cause people to lose their lives. ... The people of the village have a profound fear of the spirits, and trust them to be fair and just in their judgements. The spirits have a power that no ordinary man can have and as such some men will listen to no other judgement. ... However, in No Longer At Ease, education has become elitist and it is only certain people who can continue their studies. ... (TFA, p.9) This shows how strong people's belief are, and no one is considered a coward for being afr...

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With the Resurrection of Christ, his disciples took heart and went about preaching the Kingdom of God to all the people of the world. ... The Church was founded, not as an institution of Authority to force the name and teaching of Christ upon the world, but only as a witness-bearing institution to Christ, to hold Him before the people. ... On the day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit came upon these disciples (they were about a hundred and twenty people - Acts 1:15) and they started speaking in other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance (Acts 2:4). ... On the very same day about 3,000 (t...

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She brings into the novel two types of reading, books and letters, and reading people. Catherine is not able to read people well she needs to learn this. ... She is inferring how people in society were taking ideas from the Gothic novels and turning them suspicious about the people around them, when the actuality was they had nothing to worry about. ... The characterization may be weak in some areas, but it does allow us to see the life of people two hundred years ago. ... At the beginning of the novel Catherine is very young and nave; however throughout the novel you can see her growing a...

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Hazel doesn't believe that a life needs to be extraordinary to have importance or to mean something, she wishes to be an ordinary teenager. ... Augustus can't understand his huge effect on people, especially on Hazel. ... The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. ... He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox. ... It blocks the possibility of them living an ordinary, comfortable life. ...

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Witchcraft is a sensation that has captured the minds of people since the beginning of time. ... By the 1600's, the "witch hunt- craze was at its highest point and most of the people who were accused of being witches were women. ... These witches can not be seen when they attack, as "their bodies remain asleep at home, thus deceiving any ordinary attempts at proving, or disproving, these mystic activities-, and the Nupe describe this way of traveling about as the witch leaving her "shadow-soul-. ... Most were older, poorer, ordinary women who were victims of others and ignorance. ...

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They undergo an adventure miraculous and ordinary at the same time, encountering military generals, mercenaries, rock stars, the Beatles, spies, witches, learning the ways of life such as love, hate, betrayal and loyalty. ... In the first chapters of the book, there are mentions of a "pale god", signs that the local people have been already affected by the colonial mentality of white as foreign, and foreign as superior. ... Max Plata is a perfect symbol of Philippine government at the time - mere ordinary abilities as a writer, foul mouthed, self-gloating, disliked, and yet he holds all the po...

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Each lifeboat had a capacity of 65, but most that were lowered to sea only contained about 20 people. ... They failed to do something someone of 'ordinary care' would do. ... A departure from what an ordinary reasonable member of the community would do in the same community. ... They were very discriminating towards passengers of different class tickets, when you think about the extra 37 people per lifeboat that could have been saved it makes you sick. ...

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The police and their relentless pursuit of the threesome, despite having the Governors pardon being issued for them, are representing another monster, namely the corrupt nature of people in power, which is an issue faced in this depiction of the police. ... The Governor sees (when the men are playing their songs in the hall) how much the people love their music, and takes advantage of it, making him more popular and putting his opponent down at the same time. ... It shows that when money is involved, some people will even betray their own family to get more of it. ... Using three less than o...

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It is not a missionary religion in the ordinary sense of the term. ... Its teaching has so far permeated people that an armed revolution has almost become an impossibility in India not because they as a race are physically weak, but because the tradition of ahimsa has struck deep root among the people (Nair 134). ... Gandhi believed that Christ belonged not solely to Christianity, but to the entire world, to all races and people Gandhi did not regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism were. ... Satyagraha has many different meanings, w...

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Now the story has an added twist as the narrator hopes that the reader, like himself, will be convinced that these events were not "...an ordinary succession of very natural causes and effects." ... As the narrator begins to recount the occurrences that "...have terrified--have tortured--have destroyed [him]," (p.11) he reminds the reader that maybe "...some intellect more calm, more logical, and far less excitable than [his] own," (p.11) will perceive "...nothing more than an ordinary succession of very natural causes and effects," (p.11) contrary to his own belief. ... Are the events of the...

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Subsequently, he must know what instructions to give the patient in the Ordinary State of Consciousness (OSC). ... In darkness, the distractions of ordinary reality are less, making it possible for the Shaman to concentrate on aspects of non-ordinary reality essential for the Shaman's work. ... Creation: In the beginning, the world was populated by many people. ... Others believe that humans return as ghosts, or that people go to an other world. ... As many as a dozen people can be accommodated in some lodges. ...

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This controversy surfaced mainly because it is so hard to believe that a man who led such an ordinary life could be the genius who is known as the world's greatest poet and playwright today. ... William Shakspere's background contains no record of any education, no record of ever being recognized or paid for writing anything, this man could not have had access to the literature needed to write Shakespeare's works (if he could even read), and that he was a ordinary man with little or no connection to the upper class and the royal court. ...

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Seeking the American Dream of Success Arthur Miller"'s "" Death of A Salesman"" could be described as a study in the American Dream ideology, a system that at times is indescribably brutal and at other times compassionates. Author Miller's plays are usually associated with real life issues filled wi...

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This characterization seems to preclude viewing Lear on the Aristotelian model of a tragic hero, as someone raised above the ordinary level of humanity, except in the most conventional sense of his social status. ...

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The German people were in a desperate and degrading plight. ... This action by the allies united the people momentarily as they had not been united since 1914. ... For the ordinary German people this was a disaster. ... The people now had some one to blame for their plight. ... People came from all over Germany to listen to Hitler denounce the Treaty. ...

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The Catholic Church is seen as such a holy place and when most people think of it, they think of a sacred place with holy people, especially the ones who devote their lives to the church like priests, monks, and nuns. ... Nothing was fair for the common hardworking people. ... People who will be able to give him something back in return, not helping people out of the goodness of his heart. ... "With double-talk and tricks he made the people and the priest his dupes " (Chaucer 19). ... They go to the extent of lying and tricking people just for some pieces of spare change. ...

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