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The Religious Dimension

By: Donald Broadribb

...on Published by the Author York, Western Australia 2006 The first edition of this book was published under the title The Mystical Chorus by Millenniu... ...lished under the title The Mystical Chorus by Millennium Books [an imprint of E.J. Dwyer (Australia) Pty. Ltd.] in 1995. This second edition, with tex... ...ations, and new index, is published by the Author, Donald Broadribb, owner of the publication rights. Copyright © 1995 and 2006 by Donald Broadribb. T... ...ture we live in, none of us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied wit... ...iblical studies and languages (which I had studied at UTS) to teaching the history of pre-Christian civilizations and religions. It was not long befor... ...of Christianity. Even now books concerned with Comparative Religion or the History of Religions tend to devote the giant’s share of their content to t... ...y. For example, Dianetics (Scientology) became incorporated as a church in California after it ran into legal difficulties because it was presenting i... ...Mass., 1956. Wood, Neal: John Locke And Agrarian Capitalism, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1984. Worms, E.A.: Australian Aboriginal Religi...

...Most readers of this book will have had some type of religious instruction. Whether as children we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live...

...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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History of the Hawaiian Kingdom Vol. 2

By: Ralph S. Kuykendall

...This book is the second of three volumes designed to provide a general history of the modern Hawaiian Kingdom. The first volume was published some years ago under the title, The Hawaiian Kingdom, 1778-1854: Foundation and Transformation. The third v...

...The first attempts to establish steam navigation among the Hawaiian islands were made by men engaged in similar enterprises in California; they were part of a much larger movement. The expansion of the United States to the Pacific coast, the extraordinarily rapid settlement of California after the discovery of gold in that region, and the quick rise ...

...arbor Improvements. 19 -- Land Travel. 23 -- Mail Service. 26 -- The New King. 33 -- Administrative Organization. 36 -- General Policy. 37 -- Mission of W. L. Lee. 39 -- Failure of the Reciprocity Treaty. 45 -- Great Britain and the Reciprocity Treaty. 47 -- New Treaty with France. 47 -- Quest for Security. 54 -- Hawaii's Neutrality in Time of War. 57 -- Hawaii and Japan. ...

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A History of U. S. Communications Security (Volumes I and Ii);1973

By: David G. Boak

... Description of document: A History of U.S. Communications Security (Volumes I a... ... Description of document: A History of U.S. Communications Security (Volumes I and II); ... ...: 23-December-2007 Released date: 10-December-2008 Posted date: 24-December-2008 Source of document: National Security Agency Attn: FOIA/PA ... ...Ft. George G. Meade, MD 20755-6248 Phone: (301)-688-6527 Fax: (443)-479-3612 Note: The meat of the material left after redaction starts at (PDF) ... ...0 Serial: MDR-54498 10 December 2008 This responds to your request of 23 December 2007 to have A History of U.S. Communications Security (2 volumes) b... ...printers were much quieterin the first place? Behind these events and questions lies a very long history beginning with the discovery of a pouible thr... ...d of the stuff' when he got bact. -{8t-Somebody moved into a small apartmeDt ncar a Navy base in California. Far back on a top closet shelf he found a...

...This publication consists of a series of lectures prepared and given to interns and other employees by Mr. David G. Boak in 1966. Mr. Boak is uniquely qualified to discuss the history of the US COM_SEC because he has participated significantly in most...

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Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life

By: Rav Michael Laitman

... Rav Michael Laitman, PhD Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life LAITMAN KABBALAH PUBLISHERS Rav Michael Laitman, PhD Kabbal... ...ALAH PUBLISHERS Rav Michael Laitman, PhD Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life Translation: Chaim Ratz Proofreading: Kate Weibel Editor: Cla... ...lah Publishers E-mail: info@kabbalah.info KABBALAH, SCIENCE AND THE MEANING OF LIFE Copyright © 2006 by MICHAEL LAITMAN All rights reserved Publis... ...desire for pleasure has been the force behind human evolu- tion throughout our history. The desire for pleasure evolves through several stages. In th... ...ertise in a public panel before lecturers and students from the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University. The next morning they re... ...ved over thousands of years and been disseminated among Kabbalists throughout history. I would like to briefly review the key points in this process... ...d motion were all formed, and how the will to receive will evolve. Our entire history is determined by the evolution of our will to receive; this ca...

...Kabbalah, Science & the Meaning of Life traces the milestones of the evolution of science with which we are familiar, such as Newton’s and Einstein’s theories but goes further to present the science of Kabbalah as the basis for understanding the hidden part...

...Foreword: The essence of human nature is its perpetually evolving desire for pleasure. To realize this desire, we feel compelled to discover, invent, and improve our reality. The gradual intensification of the desire for pleasure has been the forc...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...L For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparable love, care, feeding... ...ove, care, feeding, fun, and friendship. Also for her perceptive editing of my copy over many decades, especially during the writing of this book.... ...take less than a century to create the largest contiguous empire in world history. 10. Mongols Open the Way They open the gate blocking direct h... ...lly until Mergenthaler built his Linotype. But Ottmar’s name fell through history’s cracks. 18. ―The Eighth Wonder of the World‖ Although as lat... ...to the start of the Epilogue. This is because my own perspective on the history of the written word is tied so powerfully to the history of eBooks... ... he had earned enough to follow two brothers who had answered the lure of California gold. Stranded on the Isthmus on his way west, Darius had to det... ...hmus on his way west, Darius had to detour around South America to get to California. There, he was so successful selling supplies to gold miners an...

...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books....

... listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. -- 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues?-Did a freshwater lake com...

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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... ...duplicated, printed, distributed and sold without permission or agreement of the author. However, the name of the author must always be clearly indi... ... Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Cultu... ... govern the former way of life remains in the new culture. In the cultural history of man, great technological structural changes may be discerned, wh... ... localization of storytelling - moralistic narratives local heroes - local history Non-local (national) environment - external resources and energy - ... ...nd entertainment - consumer culture - national heroes and idols - national history C. Postlocal culture Global environment - urban technonature - glo... ...a list of medicinal plants by Terje Björnland and Trond Schumacher. Univ. California Press. Brummelhuis, Hanten – Jeremy H. Kemp (eds.) 1984. Strate... ... Ethnography Unbound. Power and Resistance in the Modern Metropolis. Univ. California Press, Berkeley. Caedès, G. 1964 (1962). The Making of South... ... Life in Modern Thailand. Institute of East Asiatic Studies. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles. Diamond, Stanley (ed.) 1969 ...

...The book is a descriptive overview of the culture of the villages. It contains material on the villagers' housing, rice farming and other means of livelihood, community life, festivals, weddings, funerals, sorcerers and healers, as well as village Buddhism. Th...

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Chicago Manual of Style

By: University of Chicago

...ty of Chicago Manual Style by University of Chicago Classic Literature Collection World Public Library.org... ...World Public Library.org Title: Chicago Style Manal Author: University of Chicago Language: English Subject: NonFiction, Reference Publisher: W... ...ww.WorldLibrary.net is an effort to preserve and disseminate classic works of literature, serials, bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and... .... 12. Commonly accepted appellations for historical epochs, periods in the history of a language or literature, and geological ages and strata: St... ...se. 14. Political alliances, and such terms from secular or ecclesiastical history as have, through their associa- tions, acquired special signific... ...e, Dreibund; the Roses, the Roundheads, Independents, Independency (English history). 15. Conventions, congresses, expositions, etc. : Council of N... ...he lily, England the rose, etc." "Larnbert pine: the gigantic sugar phe of California." (3) "The rule may be stated thus: . . . ." "We quote from t...

...In the 1890s, a proofreader at the University of Chicago Press prepared a single sheet of typographic fundamentals intended as a guide for the University community. That sheet grew into a pamphlet, and the pamphlet grew into a book--the first edition of the Manual of Sty...

...Facsimile of the 1st Edition: Manual of Style The history of The Chicago Manual of Style spans more than one hundred years, beginning in 1891 when the University of Chicago Press first opened its doors. At that time, the Press had i...

...Preface Table of Contents Rules for Composition Capitalization The Use of Italics Quotations Spelling Punctuation Divisions Footnotes Tabular Work Technical Terms Appendix Hints to Authors and Editors Hints to Proofr...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett acco... ...s, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time int... ... allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus;... ...e University of Texas, and the Rare Books Collection of the University of California, Los Angeles. Paul Alexander Bartlett’s life was lived with a s... ... VOICES FROM THE PAST 66 me the poet’s advice to his brother. How history repeats itself! Family problems haven’t changed: this is an earlier... ...sical A VOICES FROM THE PAST 182 Hebrew until it came easily. The history of man became an important part of my meditations. Silence and the... ...shepherd, I still follow hills, hills of resurrection they may be. Perhaps history may call me a man of righteousness. Perhaps history may not stop. ... ...dorado. Who knows, as in Sergas de Esplandián, we may reach the Island of California, in- habited by Amazon women with passionate hearts and great s... ...eeks, happy dreams; in one of those repeated dreams we eloped, we went to California, we built a beautiful home... My love for her has never gone aw...

...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: ...

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Hawaii Business Magazine-Special Apec Edition

By: Apec Hawaii Host Committee

...URE UNIQUE CROPS WIND POWER WELCOME APEC DELEGATES DISCOVER ANOTHER SIDE OF HAWAI‘I OFFICIAL PUBLICATION of the APEC 2011 Hawai‘i Host Committee 3 ... ...itton Prada Salvatore Ferragamo Tiffany & Co. Hawaii’s largest collection of luxury retailers amidst 290 STORES AND RESTAURANTS. Walking distance fr... ...mber Production Manufacturing Jobs Electronic Tree Tracking/ Secured Chain of Custody Research & Development Eco-Tourism Funding Sources for Non-Pro... ...se State 38 Local Economy 40 Hawai‘i’s Ties to the APEC Economies 42 A History of Innovation NATURAL SCIENCE 44 Astronomy, and Ocean and Earth sc... ... HAWAII BUSINESS We’re proud to be “America’s Best Bank” , with a year history of helping businesses throughout the Pacific navigate their way to ... ...r Force base 9 Camp Smith (Pacifc Command for all U.S. armed f orces from California to Africa’s east coast, f rom Arctic to Antarctica) 10 Marine... ...iences signed on as an international observer, joining the University of California, California Institute of Technology, Association of Canadian U... ...at unifes Hawaiians, one begins to understand the cultural importance of history, inclusiveness and sharing, education and organization, a traditi...

Hawaii Business Magazine in tribute to the APEC meeting of 2011.

...t Grid -- 32 Air Conditioning from Seawater -- 36 America’s Most Diverse State -- 38 Local Economy -- 40 Hawai‘i’s Ties to the APEC Economies -- 42 A History of Innovation -- 44 Astronomy, and Ocean and Earth sciences -- 48 Turning Science Into Practical Inventions -- 56 Winners of the Hawai‘i Business Innovation Showcase -- 60 Breakthroughs in Health and Medicine -- 68 Ha...

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Laurel Canyon : The 1960s Counter Culture: The 1960s Counter Culture

By: David McGowan; Jeffrey J. Prager, Co-Author

...meanwhile ... our story begins ... Elsewhere in the world in those early months of 1965, a new ‘scene’ is just beginning to take shape in the city of Los Angeles. In a geographically and socially isolated community known as Laurel Canyon – a heavily wooded, rustic, serene, yet vaguely ominous slice of LA...

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Against the War : A Novel of the Vietnam War Era

By: Roland Menge

...AGAINST THE WAR follows the intertwined lives of four friends, rowing team mates, who graduate from college at the height of the Vietnam War and struggle to make decisions about the war and the military draft. Two become involved in the war, one as a combat pilot and one...

...234. Morris is relocated from Sam Neua to a Lao village From Sam Neua, the group that included prisoner of war James Morris headed southwest, so far as he could determine from occasional glimpses of the sun through the canopy of leaves above the road on which the caravan was traveling. Then the shield of leaves dropped away bri...

...o the boat club 2. Brandt and Morris argue about the Vietnam war 3. O’Rourke steps in to bring the crew on task 4. Morris offers Steward a way out of the draft 5. Brandt asks about his dad’s experience in World War Two 6. Brandt struggles to accommodate to Mary Kass’s cultural interests 7. Brandt leaves Mary behind to avoid an audience discussion 8. Mary goes after ...

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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...samvak.tripod.com/ ISBN: 9989-929-40-8 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ...XI. The Author XXII. About "After the Rain" A Abdication Crisis The love affair of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1... ... heads of his constitutional advisers. "The last time when this happened in English history was when Charles I raised His Standard at the beginning ... ...s Systems. http://www.roserpark.net/greenwood/strowger.html http://www.strowger.com/history.html http://www.agcs.com B Barbie Barbie was invented ... ... Berliner". http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa021700a.htm http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/berliner.htm Bible The Jews do not... ...sand zetta (one septillion). Juan Enriquez quotes a study by the University of California at Berkeley in his tome, "As the Future Catches You -... ...nk by up to 2.5 meters. Numerous tsunamis affected locales as far as Crescent City, California. The fault extended for 1000 kilometers and there wer... ...rivate companies of oil-containing tracts owned by the Navy, mainly in Wyoming and California. "Domes" are natural reservoirs of crude oil. The "T...

Anthology of fascinating historical and scientific facts and links to relevant Web sources.

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Margele Risipite

By: Florentin Smarandache

...unm.edu/~smarandache/IonSoare2.pdf, iar alta, tot în englez ă, “Aesthetics of Paradoxism”, de Titu Popescu, se poate accesa la: http://gallup.unm.ed... ... Gheorghe NICULESCU 7 PARadOXisM, THE LAST VANGUARD OF SECOND MILLENNIUM A) Definition: PARADOXISM is an avant-g... ... movement in literature, art, philosophy, science, based on excessive used of antitheses, parables, odds, paradoxes in creations. It was set up and ... ...heory and school of using paradoxes in literary and artistic creation. C) History: “Paradoxism started as an anti-totalitarian protest aga... ...n this style, but also plays for the theater: Metaistorie (Romanian) {Meta-History} (Romania, 1993), novels: Non Roman (Romanian) {Non Novel} (Roman... ...t-the-hair, counter-time, counter-sense creation. Also, to experiment. 2. History Paradoxism started as an anti-totalitarian protest against a clos... ...Y Too much It’s still a little bit BULB Turns nights Into day CALIFORNIA A domestic Wild West Deux autres exemples en français:... ... ă II, în revista (aten ţie la titlu!): “Humanistics Mathematics Network” (California). Dar şi invers: lirica în mate (nu strict, rigid ştiin ţific)... ...umb! AutPictura “Decorativ ă” este graffitiul f ăcut cu spraz pe ziduri în California, de copiii şi adolescen ţii din ganguri, pentru a face r ău ori...

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Man with No Name

By: Wally Amos

...CENSORED* How the founder of the Cookie Company lost everything, including his nome - and turned adv... ...emonade by Wally Amos with Camilla Denton Aslan Publishing Lower Lake, California U.s.A. Published by AsIan Publishing P.O. Box 108 Lower La... ...ng P.O. Box 108 Lower Lake, CA 95457 (707) 995-1861 For a free catalog of all our titles, or to order more copies of this book please call (800)... ...or to order more copies of this book please call (800) 275-2606. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Amos, Wally. Man with no name:... ...ise, with­ out prior written permission from Asian Publishing, Lower Lake, California, USA, with the exception of short excerpts used with acknowledg... ...and Panama hat now reside in the Smith­ sonian National Museum of American History in the Business Americana Collection. That hat and shirt, adopted ... ... Sage did not like to fly, and he never once visited our head­ quarters in California. Instead he had an associate, Jerry Pollard, oversee operations... ...y writing about him in this book. We have pro­ cessed all the pains of our history over the course of the years. This has led to us becoming quite go... ...ed that I had rock-solid credibility among my business associates, and my history of service had impressed the people I came to know through the yea...

...The story of how the founder of the Famous Amos Cookie Company lost everything, including his name----and turned adversity into opportunity. This revealing book chronicles Wally's loss of the cookie empire that he had built, to the ope...

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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

... write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...tml http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Terrorists and Freed... ...donians III. The Black Hand IV. The Insurgents and the Swastika V. KLA – The Army of Liberation VI. Appendix: Pathological Narcissism, Group Behav... ...cause (in most cases, the freedom of a group of people). They base their claims on history - real or hastily concocted, on a common heritage, on a ... ...balanced personalities and project them to great effect. They are the footnotes of history that assume the role of text. And they rarely enjoy the ... ...ree nations: the Greeks, the Bulgarians, and the Serbs. Each invoked ethnicity and history and all conjured up the apparition of the defunct Treaty... .... Ph.D. in Philosophy (major: Philosophy of Physics) – Pacific Western University, California, USA. My doctoral thesis and other books are availabl...

...The history of four terrorist organizations in the Balkans and a general introduction to terrorism and freedom fighting. Also includes essays about religious co-existence in the Balkans and about pathological narcissism as a prec...

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Sarmiento Y la Patagonia

By: Francisco M. Goyogana

...an Republics” to justify the Argentine claims for the boundary in the summits of the Cordillera de los Andes, according to the Treaties of 1881 & 18... ... Escudé et al., op. cit, P. I, t. IV, p. 71; ver también Robert D. Talbott, A History of Chilean Boundaries, (Ph.D. dissertation), University of IIl... ... et al., op. cit, P. I, t. IV, p. 71; ver también Robert D. Talbott, A History of Chilean Boundaries, (Ph.D. dissertation), University of IIlinois, U... ...rt.... op. cit, vol. I, p. 150; Appendix to the Statement Presented on Behalf of Chile in Reply to the Argentine Report submitted to the Tribunal Co... .... Chile and the Balancing of Power in South America, 1830-1905, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1965, p. 91. 9 N. T. Auza, op. cit., p. 1... ... sederías, etcétera. Se ha abierto el tráfico al ferrocarril interoceánico en California que pone en comunicación directa la Europa y Estados Unidos... ...á en demanda, y los cereales producidos en el Pacífico al Sur, con la potente California al Norte, son un pobre elemento de comercio sobre el Perú y... ...si se tiene en cuenta que no pudo haber leído The Influence of Sea Power Upon History publicada por el almirante norteamericano Alfred Thayer Mahan ... ...ante norteamericano Alfred Thayer Mahan en 1890, ni The Geographical Pívot of History publicada por Sir Halford J. Mackinder en 1904 12 . A través ...

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Fuzzy Cognitive Maps and Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps

By: W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy and Florentin Smarandache

...ROSOPHIC COGNITIVE MAPS XIQUAN Phoenix 2003 CARE OF THE AIDS INFECTED PERSONS CREATION OF AWARENESS ABOUT AIDS PREVENT... ...E AIDS INFECTED PERSONS CREATION OF AWARENESS ABOUT AIDS PREVENTION OF SPREAD OF AIDS EPIDEMIC MEDICAL TREATMENT OF AIDS PATIENTS SOCIAL ... ...and Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy Department of Mathematics Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Chennai – 600036, I... ... values? On one side of the debate are formalists, who eschew legislative history and current social values while being suspicious of the concept of... ...er [13-14] has modeled a way of determining one's speed when driving on a California freeway. We are extracting his column on FCMs here because of hi... ...a simple, six-concept model for determining one’s speed when driving on a California freeway. The concepts, or the FCM’s nodes, are bad weather, free... ...n tomorrow versus Cowboys is 60% true (according to their confrontation’s history giving Yankees’ satisfaction), 30- 32% false (supposing Cowboys are... ... [13-14] used FCMs to create a model to find ones speed when driving in a California freeway. Thus FCM plays a major role in the study and analysis o... ... or domain space and draw the related results. Actually we have taken the history of over 500 AIDS/HIV patients and for this study we are deeply ind...

...In a world of chaotic alignments, traditional logic with its strict boundaries of truth and falsity has not imbued itself with the capability of reflecting the reality. Despite various attempts to reorient logic, there has remained an e...

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The Best of Four

By: Paul Surdi

...Four Volume #3 Faculty Editor Jim Manis Student Editor Paul Surdi The Best of Four is a publication of The Pennsylvania State University. The Pennsylv... ...niversity is an equal opportunity university. Reflections & Opinions Best of Four Table of Contents: The College Experience from Beginning to Beginni... ............................................. ................ 16 The Absence of Face to Face Communication ................................................ ...d War II and will struggle to write just 500 words in explanation, but the history professor knows that such a statement will require at least a 500-p... ...ear. Some of the most popular examples are St. Thomas, Aruba, Florida, and California; however, Greece is not often mentioned among these popular choi...

...Excerpt: Welcome to the third volume of the Best of Four. We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we have enjoyed bringing it to you. The purpose of Best of Four is to bring the best writing produced in English 004 to the widest possible audience. Our students h...

...Best of Four Table of Contents: The College Experience from Beginning to Beginning.................................................................... 6 Bead Girl .............................................................

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Story of the Pony Express, The

By: Glenn D. Bradley

...The Story of the Pony Express offers an in depth account behind the need for a mail route to connect the eastern U.S. with the rapidly populating west coast following the gold rush of California, the springing up of lumber camps, and a...

History, Westerns

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

...ublication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... city popu- lation is ever the one that is going most ahead in the world’s history. If this be so, I say that the argument of my Canadian friend was n... ...e politicians heard so much in England. I am not going back to recount the history of the period, otherwise than to say that the En- glish Canadians a... ...t weakness on one side and pride on the other, is a problem in the world’s history yet to be solved. The most successful child that ever yet has gone ... ...have then to account for the two already admitted States on the Pa- cific, California and Oregon, and also for the unadmitted Territories, Dacotah, Ne... ...pt to marshal these huge but thinly-populated re- gions in either rank. Of California and Oregon it may prob- ably be said that it is their ambition t... ...in which is included Washington, the seat of the Federal Government 75,321 California 384,770 Oregon 52,566 The Territories of— Dacotah 4,839 Nebraska...

....................................................................................................................... 212 CHAPTER XV: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK ................................................................. 243 CHAPTER XVI: BOSTON..................................................................................................................

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To Build a Fire : And Other Stories

By: Jack London

...2 In a Far Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 The Wisdom of the Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 An Odyssey of the N... ... . . 44 An Odyssey of the North . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 The Law of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 The God of His... ... 90 The God of His Fathers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 The League of the Old Men . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Bˆ atard . . . . .... ...udicrous happening. Prince was led away by these uncrowned heroes who had seen history made, who regarded the great and the romantic as but the ordina... ...the willow bud, the fall of the yellow leaf — in this alone was told the whole history. But one task did Nature set the individual. Did he not perform... ...ublication in Brandur Magazine, Oct., 1902. Second magazine publication in The California Review, V ol. 2, No. 6, pp. 376 83, 1904. 118 JACK LONDON B... ...ut.” The clerk scratched steadily away, and another paragraph was added to the history of the North. “There be little more,” Imber went on slowly. “It... ...e had undergone. He also babbled incoherently of his mother, of sunny Southern California, and a home among the orange groves and flowers. The days wer... ...al great events in his life. One of these had been when his mother bought some California prunes. Two others had been the two times when she cooked cu...

...t when it comes to brandy and peppersauce and?--?Dump it in. Who?s making this punch, anyway?? And Malemute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. ?By the time you?ve been in this country as long as I have, my son, and lived on rabbit tracks and salmon-belly, you?ll learn that Christmas comes only once per annum. And a Christmas without punch is sinking a hole...

...Table of Contents: To the Man on Trail, 1 -- The White Silence, 12 -- In a Far Country, 24 -- The Wisdom of the Trail, 44 -- An Odyssey of the North, 53 -- The Law of Life, 90 -- The God of His Fathers, 99 -- The League of the Old ...

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JESSE WAUGH: Portrait of an Artist and His Strivings for Pulchrism

By: Jesse Waugh

...Spanning periods spent in a vast range of locations, an identifiable style begins to crystallize, which links seemingly disparate expressions, heedless of media employed. A forthright, earnest, and earthy vein courses through the works of Jesse Waugh, as he endeav...

...I first noticed Jesse Waugh as a young student at L.A.City College in 1995. He would sit in the History of Cinema class, on the right hand side of one of the front rows of the college movie theater, with his roaring twenties-style, buzzed-on-the-back-and-sides, neatly-combed-on-top haircut. When I saw him working at the...

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Kamehameha III : Kauikeaouli

By: Jean Iwata Cachola

...This book is one of a series written for Kamehameha Schools Intermediate Reading Program (KSIRP) students. They are designed to increase students reading skills and their knowledge of Hawaiian history and culture by focusing on topics such as...

...Kamehameha III: Kauikeaouli is a biography of the Hawaiian kingdoms third ruler. A biography is a written story of a persons life and is based upon historical records. This story tells about the significant events of Kauikeaoulis life. It starts with his birth and ...

...Preface. ix -- Acknowledgments. xi -- Introduction. 1 -- Birth of a Prince. 3 -- Early Childhood. 6 -- Breaking of the Eating Kapu. 10 -- The Missionaries Arrive. 12 -- Liholihos Successor. 14 -- The Boy King and Kaahumanu. 18 -- Kinau Becomes Kuhina Nui. 24 -- Kauikeaouli Rebels. 27 -- ...

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Lay Morals

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... SERIES PUBLICATION Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... .............................................43 THE PENTLAND RISING A PAGE OF HISTORY 1666 ............................57 THE DAY AFTER TO-MORROW .......... ... thirty, or a hundred thousand at his banker’s, or if all Yorkshire or all California were his to manage or to sell, he would still be morally pennile... ...ad given you grace to see it. 57 Lay Morals THE PENTLAND RISING A PAGE OF HISTORY 1666 ‘A cloud of witnesses lyes here, Who for Christ’s interest did... ...g the wild mosses of the uplands.* One example in particular we may cite: *History of My Own Times, beginning 1660, by Bishop Gil- bert Burnet, p. 158...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Every one who lives any sem blance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks; and the best of teachers can impart only broken images of the tru...

...................4 FATHER DAMIEN.........................................................................................43 THE PENTLAND RISING A PAGE OF HISTORY 1666 ............................57 THE DAY AFTER TO-MORROW................................................................74 COLLEGE PAPERS.............................................................................

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