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Up from Slavery : An Autobiography

By: Booker Taliaferro Washington

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington, the ... ...loured faces, and the choir of a hundred or more behind me sang a familiar religious melody, and the whole company joined in the chorus with unction. ... ...onger and more hopeful condition, materially, intellectually, morally, and religiously, than is true of an equal number of black people in any other p... ... who were talking. I heard one tell the other that not only was the school established for the members of any race, but the opportunities that it prov... ...y pathetic. My day and night school work was not all that I under- took. I established a small reading-room and a debating society. On Sundays I taugh... ... has taken place since the days of the “Ku Klux.” To-day there are no such organizations in the South, and the fact that such ever existed is almost f... ...ited individuals and spoke in churches and before Sunday schools and other organizations. She found this work quite try- ing, and often embarrassing. ... ...aining to our students in agriculture and kindred branches. In the fall of 1898 I heard that President McKinley was likely to visit Atlanta, Georgia, ...

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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

...Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsinki 2005 ... ...R DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World ... ...essly rolling production process. Delocal culture consists of centralizing organizations, technosystems controlling various areas of life, that everyw... ...dministrative structures: central administration, central offices, central organizations, central stores, central schools, shopping centres, cultural ... ...onal, globalizing. In Asia, too, a common free trade area, ASEAN, is being established, evidently to become a continental state akin to the European U... ... on temple carvings (laikanok). Temple carvings are pictures of angels and religious stories and Thai decorations carved into teak boards. Stylish Tha... ..., but now one could say that they happen in leaps and bounds, too quickly. Religious customs have remained the same. If I had the power, I would try t... ... plants like mango trees or fruit trees. One can only grow things on newly established teak plantations. So, just a year in each place, then the teak ... ...32,000 monasteries in Thailand. On Buddhism as village religion e.g. Young 1898. Wells 1939. Rajadhon 1961; 1986 (1954). Kaufman 1962. Klausner 196...

...worldviews of peoples of Thailand and Finland, the past and future of local cultures. Matti Sarmela started collecting material on Northern Thailand in 1972. Based on a longitudinal field study, he wrote his description of three villages in Lampang Province, and the changes in villagers' lives over three decades. The book also speaks through the voices of villagers themse...

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Mankind in the Making

By: H. G. Wells

...Y H. G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Mankind in the Making by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...inly does not give us any decisions. It is possible to be either intensely religious or utterly in- different to religious matters and yet care nothin... ...ame. These questions ap- pear to be on a different plane from religion and religious discussion; they look outward, while essentially religion looks i... ..., I firmly believe, the crowning glory of the nineteenth cen- tury to have established this discovery for all time—that one generation does not follow... ...an, his social and political or- ganizations must also be, in the essence, organizations that more or less profitably and more or less intentionally, ... ...itical parties that struggle to realize themselves within the forms of our established state. There is not in Great Britain, and I under- stand there ... ...re-existing formulae and political constitutions and political parties and organizations rather as instruments or obstacles than as guiding lines and ... ... a short but most suggestive essay by Doctor Harry Campbell in the Lancet, 1898, ii., p. 678. He uses, of course, the common medical euphemism of “sho...

...Preface: It may save misunderstanding if a word or so be said here of the aim and scope of this book. It is written in relation to a previous work, Anticipations,* and together with that and a small pamphlet, ?The Discovery of the Future,?** presents a general theory of social development and of social and political conduct. It is an attem...

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