Lestat is the hypothetical author of The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the Body Thief, and Memnoch the Devil.25 His fans, including Rice herself, are deeply fascinated by this "tall, fair-skinned man with a mass of blond hair."26 They dream of this intriguing vampire stealing into their room with a "graceful, almost feline quality to his movements,"27 moving closer, "his gray eyes [burning] with an incandescence,"28 and whispering to them some unknown truth that would explain the workings of the universe. Another famous author with a large cult following is Ste...

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When two or more people communicate with each other in speech, we can call the system of communication that they employ a code. ... Culture is often bound up with language, which is independent. ... Canada is also a multicultural country of over one hundred nationalities, with each ethnic group observing its own cultural distinctions. ... Without such a social and cultural environment, the child cannot acquire his language at all, though he is born with a linguistic mechanism. ... So the understanding and interpretation of such culturally loaded words must go along with the understanding of t...

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act dealt with the problem of Slavery in new territories. ... The National Head is bowed down, and our face is mantled with shame and confusion. ... We have sown the wind, only to reap the whirlwind. Against argument, against all manner of appeal and remonstrances coming up from the warm and merciful heart of humanity, we have gone on like the oppressors of Egypt, hardenin! ... over all departments of Government and now, as our reward, this slave-holding power comes with sword, gun, and cannon to take the life of the nation and overthrow the great American Government (Long ...

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