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...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single ...

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...ter and imitate any object, and should propose to make a public display of his talents and his productions, we shall pay him reverence as a ... ... with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating poet and le... ...try. There was no way to catch even a word or two of it and this balding and middle aged man gave Sang Huin a look as if he had wasted his time talkin... ...world's biggest dummy. Sang Huin gave his typical defense of "Miguk sarem" ("American") which would bring on a confused and critical look--in this cas... ...rica, and so existing as a Korean only by birth and race definitely made him American in every way but a legal one. Most persons under such a scenario... ...ephone clicked off. Sang Huin felt hurt. He felt a morbid clarity behind how people always left his life. He thought about what he "knew" of this Chin... ...ing only in personal interactions? Was he nothing but the composite of other people's impressions of him? These impressions--these judgments-- could n... ...o a taxi and went to the Sejong Cultural Center. His seat was located in the middle of the auditorium. As he sat down his cigarettes fell out of his ... ...obiology emerged. --Wild wheat and barley live naturally in the area between Eastern Turkey and the Caspian Sea. Some time between 12,000 and 8,000 B...

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...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expressly to di...

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...Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION .............................................................

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...PUBLICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...iversity. Contents EXTRACT FROM A LETTER WRITTEN BY MR. DE QUINCEY TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ............................................... ...secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicita- tion or the shadow of any expectation o... ...shed in a journal dedicated to purposes of politi- cal change such as many people thought revolutionary. I thought so myself, and did not go along wit... ...ular—but many of my readers will know it for a truth— that vast numbers of people, though liberated from all rea- sonable motives to self-restraint, c... ...s 20 This was a manoeuvre regularly taught to the Austrian cavalry in the middle of the last century; as a ready way of opening the doors of cottages... ...ss. 4 Accession was it, or his proclamation? The case was this: About the middle of the day, the king came out into the portico of Carlton House; and... ...the facts, De Foe chose to place the shipwreck of Robinson Crusoe upon the eastern side of the American continent. Now, not only was this in direct op...

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...nemy? Whom do we call a friend? And why? Why do we have relationships at all? These are the questions Helena Harper eloquently asks in her collection of poems that examines the relationships in her own life. She has had to rethink her definition of 'enemy', not least because her father was English and her mother German and they met in the aftermath of World War II in Germa...

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... Family and More Family and More - Enemies or Friends? A collection of poems By Helena Harper Copyright 2008 All rights reserved – Helena Ha... ...By Helena Harper Copyright 2008 All rights reserved – Helena Harper No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means... ...3-127-X Printed in the United States of America Book Design: SP To all the people in my life Thank you for everything you have taught me and continu... ...aby The child, screaming out of the mother's womb, stares unseeingly at the people in white; this hospital her first home, nestling in a sleepy Engli... ...oys, her brother, too, have gone to fight and die in honor, they say, on the Eastern front. But war or no war, nothing deflects from her goal of stu... ...rty-odd miles from German borders. Soldiers there, odd-looking helmets, the Americans, how come? 'The war's over,' she hears. Relief overwhelmed by f... ...Application intense and energy immense, no problem for this woman of German descent. Hard work her friend, her family and house her rewards in this l... ...h no, not he, the once lithe, young body of twenty or so years marked now by middle-age spread and dubious knees. Physically unprepossessing without a...

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...{1} 0F 1 /F 1 ? F 2 ) ? ({1} 0F 2 /F 1 ? F 2 ) ). ISBN 1-879585-76-6 American Research Press Rehoboth 1999, 2000, 2003 FLORENTIN SMARANDACHE... ...{1} 0F 1 /F 1 ? F 2 ) ? ({1} 0F 2 /F 1 ? F 2 ) ). ISBN 1-879585-76-6 American Research Press Rehoboth 1999, 2000, 2003 1 Contents: Preface... ...ace by Charles T. Le: 3 0. Introduction: 9 1. Neutrosophy - a new branch of philosophy: 13 2. Neutrosophic Logic - a unifying field in logics: 87 ... ...nifying field in sets: 112 4. Neutrosophic Probability - a generalization of classical and imprecise probabilities - and Neutrosophic Statistics: 11... ...poetry" and its derivatives have become old-fashioned in this century, and people laugh at them in disregard. I'm ashamed to affirm that I create lyr... ...isregard. I'm ashamed to affirm that I create lyrical texts, I hide them. People neither read nor listen to lyrical texts anymore, but they will rea... ...deas. They are red and blue and white, round and sharp, small and big and middle size. I look through the objects and see the essence. What co... ...ge to enemies or to ignorants... rich who fall to poverty or to middle class... Ideas are neutrosophic. A sentence may be true: a p... ...our place at the debate table - allows you to be." (Andrei Ple şu, <Some Eastern Neuroses>) If you seriously speak, you are laughing at me. I...

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...Preface: As the most striking lines of poetry are the most hackneyed, because they have grown to be the common inheritance of all the world, so many of the most noble deeds that earth can show have become the best known, and enjoyed their full meed of fame. The...

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...RLOTTE M YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Book of Golden Deeds is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...he collection has been made. It is rather intended as a treasury for young people, where they may find minuter particulars than their abridged histori... ...er and thicker from the volcano, and the liquid mud streamed down, and the people fled and struggled on, and still the sentry stood at his post, unfli... ...s of self was cast away. Among these we cannot forbear mentioning the poor American soldier, who, grievously wounded, had just been laid in the middle... ... poor American soldier, who, grievously wounded, had just been laid in the middle bed, by far the most comfortable of the three tiers of berths in the... ...l bear hoisting better than he will’. And, even as we write, we hear of an American Railway collision that befell a train on the way to Elmira with pr... ...ht their way to him, putting all enemies in the valleys to flight. But the Eastern sun burnt on the bare rocks. A huge fis- sure, opening in the mount... ...the highlanders of Scotland. They had gradually spread themselves over the middle of Europe, and had for some generations past lived among the Alpine ...

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...Contents The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater ...4 THREE MEMORABLE MURDERS .............................................................................................. 4 THE TRUE RELATIONS OF THE BIBLE TO MERELY HUMAN SCIENCE.....................

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...QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Penn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... of exertion is very lim- ited, and is soon filled by regular professional people, trained and equipped for the service. In the case of a fire which i... ...s. Ratcliffe Highway is a public thoroughfare in a most chaotic quarter of eastern or nautical London; and at this time (viz., in 1812), when no adequ... ... adapting himself to all variet- ies of social life. Williams was a man of middle stature (five feet seven and a-half, to five feet eight inches high)... ...ain rob her mistress of a night’s rest. And she well knew that, with three people all 19 Thomas de Quincey anxiously awaiting her return, and by this... ...ge line of sea-board (stretching through twenty-four hundred miles) of the American United States; may enjoy fifty years for lei- surely repentance; a... ... take the soundings of the trunk, but apparently there were none; with his middle finger he could find no bottom; for it was stopped by a dense stratu... ... well known upon that coast; and ‘faults’ may be a flash term for what the Americans call ‘notions.’ A part of the cargo it clearly is; and one is not...

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............. 5 THE BEGGING-LETTER WRITER ........................................................................................... 14 A CHILD?S DREAM OF A STAR................................................................................................. 21 OUR ENGLISH WATERING-PLACE ...........................................................................................

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...From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth. It was this: the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could account. The effect was, that it reflected back upon the murder a peculiar awfulness and a depth of solemnity; yet, however obstinately I endeavored with my...

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...Contents On the Knocking at the Gate, in Macbeth....................................................4 On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts .........................................9 LECTURE..................................................................................................... 11 Second Paper on Murder, Considered as One of the Fine...

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...Pope Francis lithely entered into the small chapel next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows across the ancient altar. The Pope knelt his thin, angular body before it; his white cassock cascaded across the red, soft cushion. He gently entwined the eb...

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...l chapel next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows acr... ...fix as he closed his eyes and began to recite out-loud the Five Holy Mysteries of the Rosary. His nightly reverie, before bed, calmed him and conne... ... is on the warpath again. I heard him shouting up and down the halls that the American Bishops were trying to rewrite Church Doctrine again.” Ignor... ...edo momentarily, but then he quickly reminded himself that this was the first American Pope in history, and more importantly the first one of Jewish... ...he election of a new Pope, the word spread like wild fire through the mass of people, who had been waiting patiently in the Square, that the newly e... ...r place. They have armies, Father. They have money and guns. They control the people through terror; they corrupt the politicians, even Presidents o... ...oom, and surprisingly, no one was there to greet him. Finally, a short, round middle aged Mexican woman wearing a black maids dress and wiping her h... ...e facing the Alliance. The real debate would begin later in the year when the Eastern Block Nations would be pushing hard for full membership into t... ...t's Alex’s mission. So, let him connect with the public. Outside the Beltway, middle America is scared as hell about their kids getting involved with...

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...Excerpt: BOOK I; Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of EDEN, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav?nl...

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...E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Milton: Paradise Lost Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 BOOK I. . . . . . . ... ...K IX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 BOOK X. - i - BOOK I. Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose... ...acle of God; I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventrous Song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above th’ AONIAN Mount, while it pursues ... ...’d round the Coast, up call’d a pitchy cloud 340 Of LOCUSTS, warping on the Eastern Wind, That ore the Realm of impious PHAROAH hung Like Night, ... ...REET And IDA known, thence on the Snowy top 515 Of cold OLYMPUS rul’d the middle Air Thir highest Heav’n; or on the DELPHIAN Cliff, Or in DODON... ...ood 555 So high above the circling Canopie Of Nights extended shade; from Eastern Point Of LIBRA to the fleecie Starr that bears ANDROMEDA farr... ...w unlike To that first naked Glorie. Such of late 1115 COLUMBUS found th’ AMERICAN to girt With featherd Cincture, naked else and wilde Among t... ...ated not thir bliss. 25 About the new-arriv’d, in multitudes Th’ ethereal People ran, to hear and know How all befell: they towards the Throne Su... ...en (those two brethren call MOSES and AARON) sent from God to claime His people from enthralment, they return With glory and spoile back to thir...

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...E ................................................................................................................................ 12 BOOK 1.I. DEATH OF LOUIS XV. ........................................................................................................................... 12 Chapter 1.1.I. Louis the Well-Beloved. .................................................

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........................ 76 KATE?S PASSAGE OVER THE ANDES ................................................................................... 102 FLIGHT OF A TARTAR TRIBE.................................................................................................. 140 Volume Two ................................................................. 189 SYSTEM OF THE HEAVENS AS...

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.........67 A PLAN FOR A PRIZE NOVEL. ......................................................................................................74 THE DIARY OF C. JEAMES DE LA PLUCHE, ESQ., ...................................................................77 A LETTER FROM ?JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.? ............................................................80 THE DIARY. ........

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...Contents PHILOSOPHY OF FURNITURE .................................................................................................................................. 6 A TALE OF JERUSALEM ..............................................................

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............................................................................................................................... 6 BOOK I THE EARLY YOUTH OF HENRY ESMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRINITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE.....................................................................................11 CHAPTER I AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF ESMOND OF CASTLEWOOD HA...

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