But he was gone, and when I turned in terror to see where he was, and where the others were, they weren't there. ... After is friends were taken he got off the ship and onto a small raft that landed on an island. ... " I (Sinbad) swallowed the pieces whole, and at the same time laughed and sang with them, the three women They were all laughing at me, laughing with malicious pleasure because I had joined this bloody fest- (64-65) In both stories the knowledge of good and evil was the downfall, the end of their innocence. The first thing that happened after Adam and Eve ate the for...

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"God bless her,"" he said a few weeks later. ... In both cases, the villains who tried to silence her were affiliated with right-wing institutions. ... America's leading conservative magazine dropped her column from its online edition after she made an infamous recommendation for dealing with Islamist terror: "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity."" ... Leaving aside Goldberg's evident grudge against his old colleagues, his claims about liberal slanting on the networks and in newspapers were swiftly exploded by more careful research...

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"Emerson's moral doctrines could not sustain Thoreau for long," Worster concludes, "for they were aspiring branches that had no roots to support them. They were ideas that were not soiled enough." (4) Worster's figure of difference, complete with Thoreauvian pun--the spiritual airiness of Emerson's imagination can't compare to the fecal matter of Thoreau's ecological ideas--maps a path in the ecocritical reading of Thoreau by way of Emerson that remains prominent and, I would suggest at the outset, stands in need of revision. ... As I see it, this reduction stems from...

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