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Earths Interior
EARTH'S INTERIOR CONCEPT For the most part, this book is concerned with geologic, geophysical, and geochemical processes that take place on or near Earth's surface. Even the essay Plate Tectonics, which takes up one of the central ideas in modern earth sciences, discusses... Read more |
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Shelby Steele
Shelby Steele 1946– At a Glance… College and Graduate Career Explored Guilt and Innocence Racism and Victimization Rejected by the Left Sources Author, professor Shelby Steele is a writer of powerful, introspective, and moving essays on race who has earned a reputation as both hero... Read more |
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Federalist Papers
FEDERALIST PAPERS A collection of eighty-five essays by alexander hamilton (1755–1804), james madison (1751 Read more |
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essay
essay relatively short literary composition in prose, in which a writer discusses a topic, usually restricted in scope, or tries to persuade the reader to accept a particular point of view. Although such classical authors as Theophrastus, Cicero, Marcus Aurelius, and Plutarch wrote essays, the term... Read more |
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George Wilson Knight
George Wilson Knight 1897-1985, English writer and critic, grad. Oxford (B.A., 1923; M.A., 1925). He wrote numerous books and essays on English literature, including The Wheel of Fire (1930), The Imperial Theme (1931), The Crown of Life (1946), The Golden Labyrinth (1962), and Neglected... Read more |
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Q D Leavis
Q. D. Leavis (Queenie Dorothy Leavis), 1906-81, British literary critic; wife of F. R. Leavis . After studying at Cambridge, she wrote Fiction and the Reading Public (1932), which analyzed the market for different types of fiction among readers). Her essays on Jane Austen, Edith Wharton, and... Read more |
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Jones Very
Jones Very 1813-80, American poet, b. Salem, Mass., studied at Harvard Divinity School. His mystical poems express his belief in total surrender to the will of God and his reverence for nature as a symbol of the Divine. Emerson edited Very's Essays and Poems (1839). Posthumous volumes of Very's... Read more |
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belles-lettres
belles-lettres [from the French for literature, literally "fine letters" ], literature that is appreciated for the beauty, artistry, and originality of its style and tone rather than for its ideas and informational content. Earlier the term was synonymous with literature, referring... Read more |
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John Dalton
John Dalton , 1766-1844, English scientist. He revived the atomic theory (see atom ), which he formulated in the first volume of his New System of Chemical Philosophy (2 vol., 1808-27). He had already applied the concept to a table of atomic weights (1803), in a paper (1805) on the absorption of... Read more |
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Federalist, The
Federalist, The, 85 essays in support of the Constitution...Independent Journal, Packet, and Daily Advertiser, they were collected...authorship by attributing 51 essays to Hamilton, 14 to Madison...Constitution, but the collected essays have come to be ... |
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Whitman, Walt
...1846 to early 1848 he edited the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, after which he spent three months in the South writing for the New Orleans Daily Crescent. Upon returning to Brooklyn, he...the Dooryard Bloom'd.” His prose essay Democratic Vistas (1871) lamented the... |
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
...During these years he also began to compile his Notebooks, daily meditations on his life, writing, and dreams, which...and began slowly to write again. To this period belong his essay ‘on the Principles of Genial Criticism’, adapted from... |
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Forster, John
...was editor of Foreign Quarterly Review, 1842–3, the Daily News, 1846, and the Examiner, 1847–55. He was the literary...political lives partly reprinted as Historical and Biographical Essays (1858). His popular literary biographies include Life and... |
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Spectator
...Spectator. The most famous periodical of Anne's reign appeared daily between March 1711 and December 1712, and was briefly revived...cent. Professing to be ‘above party’, the Spectator's essays on social, moral, literary, or philosophical themes, mostly... |
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Wright, Richard
...City and became Harlem editor of the party's newspaper, The Daily Worker. Uncle Tom's Children (1938), four novellas about southern...Wright publicly broke with the party in the 1944 Atlantic Monthly essay I Tried to be a Communist, reprinted in the influential anticommunist... |
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Quakers
...make the Peace Testimony a living reality. Penn published his Essay Towards the Present and Future Peace of Europe (1693...France and Germany—eventually feeding 1 million children daily—in Central Europe, and then in Russia during the famine... |
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LITERATURE
...directory is not. There is, however, an indeterminate area of essays, biographies, memoirs, history, philosophy, travel...contrivance, multiple meaning and word associations are part of daily communication, and tropes and figures of speech are used in... |
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Massachusetts Centinel and the Republican Journal
...attacked Paine and other sympathizers with the French in three series of essays (1791–93), under the pseudonyms Publicola, Marcellus, and Columbus...and the Federalist Journal when the paper was merged with the Boston Daily Advertiser. |
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Friendships Garland
Friendship's Garland, a collection of essays in letter form by M. Arnold, published 1871.The principal...of the English Philistine, of narrow Liberal reform, of the Daily Telegraph and its naïve patriotism, and of English foreign... |
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Cardus, (Sir) (John Frederick) Neville
...Shrewsbury Sch. 1912–16. Wrote first mus. criticism for Daily Citizen 1913. Joined staff of Manchester Guardian 1917, becoming...of autobiography, and several colls. of mus. and cricket essays. CBE 1964. Knighted 1967. |
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Yin-kuang
...Recorded Sayings of Ch'an Master Ch'o-wu, along with essays of his own denigrating Ch'an and endorsing Pure Land practice...years remaining to him he produced a new breviary for monastic daily liturgies and rituals that turned away from the Ch'an emphasis... |
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Spectator
...Spectator The most famous periodical of Anne's reign appeared daily between March 1711 and December 1712, and was briefly revived in 1714. Professing to be ‘above party’, the Spectator's essays on social, moral, literary, or philosophical themes, mostly... |
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Pure Rules
...services, and in others, it sets up procedures for the monks' daily routine; in others it establishes the number and kind of administrative...others (such as Dōgen's Eihei shingi) it consists also of essays intended to exhort the monks to vigorous practice. While this... |
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Echtra Nerai
...awards a home and wife to Nera, asking only that he provide a daily supply of firewood in return. Nera lives peaceably for a while until his wife...Duilearga, ‘Nera and the Dead Man’, in John Ryan (ed.), Essays and Studies Presented to Professor Eoin MacNeil (Dublin, 1940... |
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Evans, Edwin
...composers. Critic, Pall Mall Gazette 1912–23. Then worked with Ballets Russes. Critic, Daily Mail from 1933. Wrote biography of Tchaikovsky, many essays, trans. Louise and Pelléas et Mélisande. Succeeded Dent as president of ISCM, 1938... |
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Wang Jih-hsiu
...Emperor Kao-tsung (r. 1127–63), and evidently wrote many essays on Confucianism, but never held office. However, he abandoned...Accounts of his life recount the prayers and vows he used to make daily and some stories of miraculous healings attributed to him... |
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paper
...newspaper, journal, gazette, periodical; tabloid, broadsheet, daily, weekly, evening paper; informal rag, tab. 3. the paper...test, quiz. 5. she has just published a paper synonyms: essay, article, monograph, thesis, work, dissertation, treatise... |
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Suzanne L. Bunkers and Cynthia A. Huff, editors, Inscribing the Daily:...
...essays: "That living in the daily is an art form" (6). As...the mind from the drudgery of daily, bodily tasks" (5). In...to patriarchal culture. The daily records of many of the women...or even humble, and the essays that explore these ... |
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An attitude of gratitude: a daily ritual.(Essay)
...didn't even know existed. It wasn't until I was much more "seasoned" that my disease began to affect every aspect of my daily life, including my professional work. The behaviors were all there: frequent absenteeism, lack of interest in studies... |
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Inspiration: Sept. 11, 2001 When the Daily Herald solicited essays and...
The land of the free, the home of the brave On early morn of nine-one-one A terrible frightening act was done. Two suicidal planes were flown Into the Twin Towers by will of their own. This deed was done for America's breaking, Yet instead a stronger union it was making. While this hurt our country |
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Women and Islam: bearing witness to their daily lives.(An Essay in Words and...
...political movements, and varying degrees of oppression and emancipation. Much of my photographic work illuminates these women's daily lives and the choices they make as part of a political and economic struggle woven with the obligations of their religious observance... |
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North of the DMZ; essays on daily life in North Korea.(Brief Article)(Book...
9780786428397 North of the DMZ; essays on daily life in North Korea. Lankov, Andrei. McFarland & Co. 2007...institutions, but also about the social structure, Pyongyang, daily lives, recreation and fashion, family matters, moving around... |
 "The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)")
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PREPARATION, SPECIFICS ARE KEY IN WRITING COLLEGE ESSAYS.(DAILY BREAK)
...scurry to finish college application essays with ever more bizarre themes (``What...have plenty more tips to construct an essay far more captivating and satisfying than...in the classroom,'' he says in an essay about writing essays posted on U.S. News & ... |
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UNFORESEEN BENEFITS IN MEMORIAL DAY ESSAYS.(DAILY BREAK)
...beans. Pound cake. More than 7,600 essays poured in for the contest - the largest...reputation to uphold as the ``Americanism Essay Branch of the FRA,'' they had to be...January to listen to the winners read their essays at the VFW hall behind the Lone Star...kill you.'' The ... |
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North of the DMZ.(North of the Dmz: Essays on Daily Life in North...
...McFarland & Company Box 611, Jefferson, NC 28640 9780786428397 $39.95 www.mcfarlandpub.com NORTH OF THE DMZ: ESSAYS ON DAILY LIFE IN NORTH KOREA deserves ongoing mention and recommendation as a powerful survey describing how ordinary North... |
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MULTICULTURAL VOICES ODU STUDENTS SPEAK OUT IN A NEWLY PUBLISHED COLLECTION...
...thought class in 1993: Write a short essay on how your race, class, gender or...Minds Collective) to solicit dozens more essays across campus. The collective selected...who encouraged Fellman to publish the essays, said the book is a testament to college...have since ... |
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``DOG'' HEADS COLLECTION OF REFLECTIVE ESSAYS.(DAILY BREAK)(Review)
...Composed from 1993 through 1995, these 80 essays appeared as magazine pieces, op-ed...hairstyle. There are a few literary essays. Codrescu, who is a professor at Louisiana...Codrescu's tone is humorous. The title essay, for example, mixes a Mark Twain...began writing prose - ... |
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