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...), native of Buffalo, NY and professor of English at Yale, with the help of John Fletcher Hurst (1834-1903), Methodist bishop and first Chancellor of American University, has written a sweeping thousand 900 year history of English literature, up to the end of the 19th century. Although at times biased and sometimes misguided (as when he dismisses Mark Twain as a humorist n...

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...avy riding skirt for a divided doeskin garment (copied from women’s riding fashion in the former American colonies) and knee-high leather boots. Thi... ...ritish have left us very little leeway on this sub-continent, so we must concentrate on our South American colonies,’ he laughingly told Gavin. A f... ...riage and they would have consented, but my father discovered that François was part Huron, North American Indian from his mother’s side and like al... ...fore he sailed for Canada, we made love and since then no man has ever been able to match my part American-Indian lover,’ whispered the lovely Comte...

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... is important to our understanding of the most effective use of air power. It is also clear that Dr Mets has made a significant contribution to the literature of air power and provides a message that we all should heed ....

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...perpower Information Gathering . . . . . . .99 Superpower Concerns and Incipient Crisis . . 99 Soviet Concerns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99 American Concerns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100 ' Conditions for Cease-fire . . . . . . . . . . . .102 Growing Superpower Tensions . . . . . . . . . .103 US Air Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 The Cro...

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...ital writing I have seen for some time.” PEARL S. BUCK, Nobel Laureate in Literature: “He is an excellent writer.” HERBERT GORMAN, novelist and bio... ...d, impressive, highly pictorial.” JOE KNOEFLER in the L.A. Times: “...an American writer gifted with...perception and sensitivity.” FRANK TANNENBA... ...mmitted to bringing readers some of the best of fine quality contemporary literature in unique, beautifully designed books, many of them illustrated... ...dence have now been established at V VOICES FROM THE PAST xiv the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Bens... ...Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and the Rare Books Collect... ...sed only rarely in works of fiction. Bartlett be- lieved that as a form of literature the journal offers the most effective way to bring back to life... ...ORD Willis Barnstone Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature Indiana University aul Alexander Bartlett’s journal of S... ...hildren, reapers, sowers, which comes first? Which the most important? We Americans expropri- ate, accomplish, destroy. The rough rock becomes polish... ...the slaves on board those vessels have been returned to Liberia. Now, an American ship, the Erie, out of Portland, has been captured off the West A...

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...es during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist movement of the early 19th century in the United States. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass encompasses eleven chapters that recount Douglass's life as a slave and his ambition ...

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...n movement. In the course of this, also, the eight young people of the novel find themselves within an ever growing phenomenon involving thousands of American youths like themselves reacting to the same far-reaching dynamics of the counterculture and the war. "Menge's book reminds me of both Theodore Dreiser and John Dos Passos. It's a vast panorama with enormous attentio...

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... the third passenger informed. “Where was the camp then?” “Place called Xanthon. Just a few miles away.” “The damage here is from bombing?” “Yes, American planes.” “You’re a soldier?” Morris asked. The man was an American, Morris had already decided, based on the easy informality that he had learned set Americans off from other English-speaking people overseas. “No,...

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... Sam Neua changes 209. Morris listens as Xuan Than talks about “contention” and “egalitarianism” 210. Xuan Than describes the “French War” and the “American War” 211. Morris accepts refreshments at his last meeting with Xuan Than 212. Mary meets a Cuban woman doctor in a government clinic 213. Mary confronts a cadre, Xavier Cortez, about centralization in Cuba 214. L...

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...ital writing I have seen for some time.” PEARL S. BUCK, Nobel Laureate in Literature: “He is an excellent writer.” HERBERT GORMAN, novelist and bio... ...d, impressive, highly pictorial.” JOE KNOEFLER in the L.A. Times: “...an American writer gifted with...perception and sensitivity.” FRANK TANNENBA... ...mmitted to bringing readers some of the best of fine quality contemporary literature in unique, beautifully designed books, many of them illustrated... ...ORD Willis Barnstone Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature Indiana University aul Alexander Bartlett’s journal of S... ... of his work and literary correspondence have now been established at the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Bens... ...Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and the Rare Books Collect... ...sed only rarely in works of fiction. Bartlett be- lieved that as a form of literature the journal offers the most effective way to bring back to life... ...he Paul Alexander Bartlett Collection held by the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and form part of a second ... ...y of Texas, and form part of a second diversified col- lection held by the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, which also includes...

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...ad. Numai şocâ ţi (veveri ţe prin g ăuri şi sub stânci)... Mândrii de ei americanii! Nu le e ru şine când nu ştiu ceva (chiar fundamental ori elem... ...se. Cic ă ar fi cea mai mare gr ădin ă zoologic ă din lume (zic ei!). La americani, neap ărat ceva trebuie s ă fie “cel (cea) mai mare” sau “întâiu... ...e cursiv ă şi f ăr ă accent, c ă am r ămas cu gura c ăscat ă! De obicei, americanii nu se omoar ă s ă înve ţe limbi str ăine. Judith l-a furat pe I... ...otec ă (trail) 2-3 mile pân ă mai aproape de un baraj. De şertul ăsta! Americanii au transformat ni şte urâ ţenii (cactu şi cu ţepi, m ăr ăcini, ... ... acolo, îmi d ă telefon din New York. Între timp a devenit 16 cetăţean american (Nea Vasile americanul!). Şi a ie şit la pensie (trai pe v ătrai!... ... ă, nu o realitate (desigur, atacat ă de conformi şti, etichetat ă «crack literature, crackpot». – Ce crezi, m-a chestionat Homer, o s ă se poat ă ...

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...d out of the Simpson household in July 1936. Nor was Wallis the Prince's first American liaison. He contemplated marrying one, Thelma Furness, ... ...he goings-on, reported noting almost until the King's abdication. The European and American press, in contrast, provided extensive coverage of the ... ...ser/gr/public/bh_home.html Bolivar, Simon Simon Bolivar (1783-1830) is a Latin American folk hero, revered for having been a revolutionary free... ...rewd despotism." The National Geographic describes how: "William Tudor, the American consul at Lima, wrote in 1826 of the 'deep hypocrisy' o... ...m/billh/julian.html Canada Following a series of rebellions, the British North American colonies achieved self-government in 1848. But the econ... ...ot necessarily indicative of consciousness or distress. Holson (1992) reviewed the literature and found that decapitation triggers 2-4 seconds of s... ...re he served as foreign manager (1945-9). He successfully branched into children's literature with "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" (1964), also made into... .../llyfr.html Monsters, Human Humans made monsters by inhuman treatment abound in literature. In "The Man Who Laughs", published in 1869, the Fren...

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...ENNIUM A) Definition: PARADOXISM is an avant-garde movement in literature, art, philosophy, science, based on excessive used of antithes... ...tions counted. We couldn’t publish almost anything. Then, I said: Let’s do literature… without doing literature! Let’s write… without actually writin... ...ature! Let’s write… without actually writing anything. How? Simply: object literature! “The flying of a bird”, for example, represents a “natural po... ...ted in the country. I started from politic, social, and immediately got to literature, art, philosophy, even science. Through experiments one brings ... ...erpretable! Your imagination may florish as a cactus in a desert. But, The American Manifesto of the PARADOXISM is especially a revolt of the emigra... ...anguage - an anti- language book written in more than a broken English (the American speach of Tomorrow?)… [From the book: NonPoems, by Florentin S... ...l! Sua imaginação pode florir como um cáctus no deserto. Mas, o Manifesto Americano do PARADOXISMO é especialmente uma revolta do emigrante ao Esta... ...livro anti-língua escrito em mais do quê um inglês despedaçado (o discurso americano do amanhã?)... [Do livro: NonPoems, por Florentin Smarandache, ... ...imaginación debe florecer como un cactus en el desierto. Pero el manifesto americano del paradoxismo es especialmente una revuelta de los immigrante...

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...olate Chip Cookie Company changed my life-and it also changed the face of American business. I opened the first gourmet chocolate chip cookie store ... ... to partake of because Friday was also the day "the eagle flew"-the black American colloquialism for payday. And when Ruby got to work frying up fis... ...ed shirt and Panama hat now reside in the Smith­ sonian National Museum of American History in the Business Americana Collection. That hat and shirt,... ...seum, valued them as symbols of being able to create your own destiny-the American Dream. To me they are a testament to the power of faith, commitme... ... I did not even think about literacy. But when I learned that millions of Americans could not read or write, I approached LV A and offered my servic... ...his book is on it's way to becoming one of the classics of modern healing literature. $11.95 Order Form Date (Please print legibly) -------- Nam...

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...born on January 19th in Boston, Massachusetts in 1809, and died in his adopted home of Baltimore, Maryland on October 7th, 1849, making him the first American writer in this series. The critical estimation of Poe’s work has increased dramatically over the course of my lifetime, which has been satisfying to observe, as he was for me—as I believe for so many lovers of lit...

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...e Know?, offers a good exam- ple of that concept with a story about the Native Americans who PA RT I I I : P E RC E P T I O N O F R E A L I T Y 122 ... ...at astounds the whole humanity is found in some hidden corner of our ancient literature, and especially the occult, whose lightnings soar to the he... ... anatomist, physicist, historian of sci- ence) and as a critic and theorist of literature and art. For the last thirty years of his life he was Germa...

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...What Is Religion? 1Buddhism 16Christianity 59Mysticism 118A Chorus Of Powers: American Indian Belief 176The Sacred Land: Australian Aboriginal Religion 238Conclusion 277References 293The Collected Works Of Carl Jung 299...

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..., University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1953. The Spiritual Legacy of The American Indian, by Joseph Epes Brown. © 1982 by Joseph Epes Brown. Reprint... ..., New York, 1972. The paper by Paul Radin “The Religious Experiences of an American Indian” was published in Eranos 18-1950, © Eranos Foundation, Asco... ...ological Mechanism In Mysticism Contrasting Viewpoints A Chorus Of Powers: American Indian Belief 176 Orenda Deity And Pantheon Time, Space, Direction... ...ill meet time and time again in this book, particularly in the chapters on American Indian and Australian Aboriginal beliefs. Analysis “in Jung’s mann... ...t of the University of Florida, a specialist in the philosophical bases of American Indian thought, has kindly contributed Chapter 5, “A Chorus of Pow... ...umber of related but distinct concepts. It takes but little reading in the literature to discover, for example, discussions debating whether indigenou... ...astrianism, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 1961. 15. As described in such literature as the Bible, in the book of Exodus. THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION 12 ... ...ing a field of extreme importance, a field about which a massive amount of literature already exists. Suffice it to say that no religious tradition or... ...Devil’s angels/ demons has become widely known through such major works of literature as John Milton’s Paradise Lost. It appears that virtually all re...

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...s not just to manage accounts but also to convey messages and accommodate literature. The written word spoke through time and space to unlimited nu... ...renowned monastery schools laid the groundwork for a coming golden age of literature and learning in an England that was gradually becoming a united... ...urch, the courts, and government, as well as enrichments in the fields of literature, writing, the arts, architecture, liturgical, and scriptural st... ...nd trade, fostered what they consider useful sciences, and … even Islamic literature and learning.‖ In his chapter on ―How the Mongols Opened the W... ... more likely stemmed from his encounters with sailors who had touched the American continent. In his revealing COD: A Biography of the Fish that Ch... ...fisherman kept secret their profitable catches of cod on regular trips to American waters. 13 Som... ...its strength in a righteous fight. By Anonymous, from MacKellar‘s ―The American Printer‖ 1887 1... ...detail them would fill volumes. Suffice it here to single out two famous Americans, Thomas Jefferson for his belief in print power, and Benjamin Fr... ... Imperio Español.‖ By the nineteenth century—despite having lost thirteen American colonies—the English paraphrased that phrase to boast proudly: ―T...

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...e includes information provided by sources other than aircraft, including naval vessels, ground communications intercept sites, satellites, published literature, defectors, and spies. Because Air Force aircraft provided the bulk of information used by American war plans from 1945 to 1953, this book focuses on the origins of the USAF strategic aerial reconnaissance. Altho...

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...andsome world media coverage) and kidnapping for ransom (like the kidnapping of the American Protestant Missionary Ellen Stone - quite a mysterious ... ... overturned heroic monuments. The distribution of subversive (and fairly bromide) "literature" was rarely accompanied by acts of terror, either in ... ...d with its self-important figurehead (for instance, in September 1992). Successive American administrations funnelled money into the province and w... ... was all but ignored in these events. Rugova was not. He was often consulted by the American negotiators and treated like a head of state. The messa... ... confronted. The language in the criteria above is based on or summarized from: American Psychiatric Association. (1994). Diagnostic and statist... ...nd statistical manual of mental disorders, fourth edition (DSM IV). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association. Sam Vaknin. (1999, 2001). Mal... ...rtyrdom." Mateja Matejic and Dragan Milivojevic, "An Anthology of Medieval Serbian Literature in English", Columbus, Ohio: Slavica, 1978 Any effo... ... of individuals or rebellious groups. Sadness was expressed in liturgy, in art and literature, in music and in dance. Acceptance by conceiving of t... ... has hitherto been largely ignored? How come there is such a dearth of research and literature regarding this crucial family of pathologies? Even me...

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...onference on Smarandache Type Notions in Mathematics and Quantum Physics", American Research Press, 2000; can be downloaded from PublishingOnline.c... ...hingOnline.com at: http://www.publishingonline.com/en/catalog/book.jhtml?id=american R-motta-proceed\ingsOTSIC&_requestid=313 7. Editors, Ad Astr... ...0. 16. Smarandache, Florentin. Cultural Tour to Brazil on "Paradoxism in Literature and Science": "Is There a Speed Barrier?", Universidade de Bl... ... de Blumenau, Brazil, May-June 1993, in a Tour Conference on "Paradoxism in Literature and Science"; and at the University of Kishinev, in a Scienti... ...o his view, it would appear that he was nearly drummed out of the club, the American Institute of Physics, Other folks were moved to accusations of ... ...ion of the clock paradox," Physics Today 24, 23, 1971, a publication of the American Inst. of Physics; [7] Eugene Mallove & Gregory Matloff, "The ... ...Congress Catalog Card # 65-14260 [12] Estill I. Green, "The Story of Q," American Scientist, 1955, pp.584- 594; The "Q" of free space becomes of i...

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...The American Claimant is an 1892 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The story focuses on the class differences and expectations of monarchic, hierarchical Britain and the upstart, all men are created equal America....

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... of Afghanistan. It was inspired by the exploits of James Brooke, an Englishman who became the white Raja of Sarawak in Borneo, and by the travels of American adventurer Josiah Harlan, who claimed the title Prince of Ghor. The story was first published in The Phantom Rickshaw and other Tales (Volume Five of the Indian Railway Library, published by A H Wheeler & Co of Allah...

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