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...Excerpt: Welcome to the fifth volume of 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 each fall semester to the widest a...

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..... 6 Nate Brandi Saveri ........................................................................................................................... 7 The Best Birthday Is the Sixteenth Brent Heimbach ......................................................................... 9 Sharing the Bread of Angels Christa Sist .............................................................

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...l Ann Ellis Student Editor Patty Haggerty Best of Four is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. The Pennsylvania State University is an ... ... opportunity university. Best of Four: Student Voices is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. All the student essays contained herein... ...ntained herein were produced by students registered in English 004, within the Commonwealth College of the Pennsylvania University, during the fall se... ...lege of the Pennsylvania University, during the fall semester of 1999, and the essays appear here with their express written permission. No portion of... ...ssion. No portion of Best of Four may be reproduced in any fashion without the express written permission of the authors. Best of Four wishes to offer... ...se them to join independent clauses as in “Professor O’Donnell teaches the Women’s Studies course; she is also in charge of advising.” A semi-colon is...

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...Excerpt: Towards three o?clock in the afternoon of one October day in the year 1844, a man of sixty or thereabouts, whom anybody might have credited with more than his actual age, was walking along the Boulevard des Italians with his head bent down, as if he ...

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...Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate- ... ... University assumes any responsibility for the mate- rial contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Cou... ...ssion, in any way. Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tronic Classics Series, Jim Manis,... ...s harsh and rasping as a file. Caustic to excess she had few friends among women; she surrounded herself with prim, elderly matrons of her own stamp, ... ... her work with more agility. Mme. Cibot had attained the time of life when women of her stamp are obliged to shave —which is as much as to say that sh... ... of view. Paris, in his opinion, was a perpetual hurly- burly, the men and women in it were whirled away by a tempestuous waltz; it was no use expecti... ... dress; indeed, the one expensive taste which she had not was a liking for women. She took a dislike to little Fritz, and would perhaps have driven hi...

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...Sebastian is an intelligent look at alternative ways to live and love, presented as a thriller about the most horrific of the twenty-first century’s most lucrative human enterprises. If you're open to difference and enjoy a fast-paced thriller, then read and enjoy. ...

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...cuous behaviour that had been encouraged by his mother, who made a healthy profit from exploiting it. When questioned, he swore he had no idea where the money came from to buy the house or to sustain their life style, especially as Desolé was only the part time manager of a small employment agency. Rex and Fee remained sympathetically silent, letting Sebastian choose his...

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...Opportunity Many times we ask ourselves why so and so is able to amass a fortune, when at one point they were in the same situation as us? He wanted to succeed, that is why he made it. Follow me. It is not only the matter luck, and I’m not even a fan of it. Do you rely on luck to fulfill your dreams? It is said that “luck is where prep...

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...Do you want to reach the pinnacle of your profession? This book is practical and not theoretical. Have you had enough of unworkable theories? Unworkable theories are “myths of knowledge”. They do not create any effect or inspire change in people’...

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...Table of content About the author 3 Introduction 3 PART I 4 CHAPTER 1 4 Let’s face it 4 CHAPTER 2 5 Doing more than just believing 5 CHAPTER 3 11 Run for the first place, not to be a runner-up 11 CHAPTER 4 11 Breaking the rules 11 CHAPTE...

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...personality forward better than an expansive vocabulary—coupled with wit, an articulate delivery, cogent arguments, and an interest in & knowledge of the world. We can’t address the latter—but Wommack's Vocabulary+ Buffet puts you easily on the road to a deep and dynamic vocabulary. Our approach is vastly different from other tomes: First—Portability. We’re an e-book. ...

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...TABLE OF CONTENTS DEDICATION TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1–INTRODUCTION Why Have a Copious Vocabulary? Organization of the Guide The “Plus” Sections Following the Main Vocabulary Suggested Study Usage of the Guide: Guide to Pronunciation Guide to Word Origin for Foreign Phrases and Words Game Suggestions Chapter 2–VOCABULARY Game Sugge...

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...Dancing Bare is the amusing and unconventional memoir of an impossibly innocent young man who swaps the suffocating confines of middle-class New Zealand for love and liberation in nineteen-sixties London and Europe. Revelling in the freedom...

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...Conceit, ignorance and optimism are the main ingredients of youth. Without a fair dollop of all three I'd never have dared turn up in the largest city on earth, the centre of the English-speaking theatrical world, expecting to land a job as an actor. I was nerv...

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...Chapter 1.......... In the Beginning Chapter 2..........When the pupil is ready, the teacher will appear Chapter 3...........Escape Chapter 4..........Shelter, Fashion, Food Chapter 5..........When Ignorance is Bliss Chapter 6..........Jewels ...

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...This moderately sized novel opens before the reader, with an episode that took place during the very first halt, by a group of very intimate three unwed oldies, all retired college teachers of Delhi University. They were on a pleasure trip from Delhi to Kosani, a to...

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...Three chronic bachelors, on their way to Kosani (Kumayun Hills), have just completed their breakfast at a roadside modern `Dhaba` and the cashier for this solid group of three looks towards his companions, as if to seek their consent to signal the `boy` to bring the bill. So, in a broader sense, we used to be treating each other as `neighbour`, during ...

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...This moderately sized novel opens before the reader, with an episode that took place when, after having driven over a hundred kilometers relating to the pleasure trip from Delhi to Kosani,a tourist resort situated in the Kumayun Hills a range of the Himalayas in t...

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...Three chronic bachelors, on their way to Kosani (Kumayun Hills), have just completed their breakfast at a roadside modern `Dhaba` and the cashier for this solid group of three looks towards his companions, as if to seek their consent to signal the `boy` to bring the bill. So, in a broader sense, we used to be treating each other as `neighbour`, during ...

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...The Pope receives a vision that includes the names of four men: a U.S. Senator, a covert military intelligence agent, a priest from a small parish, and the head of the Italian mafia. These men form an alliance to eliminate th...

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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 i...

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...onathan Cross 2 J.Cross/Artemis THE VATICAN CONSPIRACY A Novel by Jonathan Cross ... ...s 3 J.Cross/Artemis CHAPTER 1 THE VATICAN Pope Francis lithely entered into the small chapel n... ...pe 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 th... ...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... ...ope knelt his thin, angular body before it; his white cassock cascaded across the red, soft cushion. He gently entwined the ebony rosary beads betw... ...s good looks were stunning, not pretty or rugged, but aristocratic, he turned women's heads as he walked by. And he used his looks, like his other sk... ...le Mexican music floated through the air. He was scanning dozens of beautiful women dancing in front of the band when he heard a deeply accented Span... ...ed and looked out passed the gardens to a blue tranquil ocean. Aside from the women, and being close to his native language, it was the ocean that ca... ...anda of the Fiesta Hotel. "Ah, what a place, the night life is fantastic, the women romantic, the politicians cooperative. What more can we ask for?"...

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...Excerpt: Welcome to the sixth volume of Best of Four. That?s right, we have been in business long enough to publish six volumes of the best student writing published in English 4 classes each fall, on the Hazleton Campus of Commonwealth College....

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...ll Giosa ............................................................................................................................ 7 Decisions for the Futrue Joseph M. Schifano ...................................................................................................... 8 Rewards Beyond Products Kari Barnett.........................................................

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...Suzanne Harper Student Editor David Retz Best of Four is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is an ... ............................................................. 7 Decisions for the Futrue Joseph M. Schifano ................................................ .......................................................................... 10 The American Alex Groysman ................................................... .......................................................................... 11 The Glorious Five Days Alexandrea Satar ...................................... .......................................................................... 14 The Big Boss Brant Dencker ................................................... ...he future. Stephanie Maxwell-Pierson, the 1992 Olym- pic gold medallist in women’s rowing pairs, said, “People have expressed their surprise after dis... ...cheerleaders may talk about hair, boys, clothes, and looks, but so do most women. A large number of cheerlead- ers care about their jobs, community se... ...sively since its founding in 1892 (NP). It was formed by a band of men and women led by conservative John Muir, who was interested in preserving the “... ... effect does this have compared with referring to people simply as men and women? V olume 6 “YOU’RE LATE!” were the words I most com- monly heard in ...

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...‘Jarek’ takes a tongue in cheek swipe at the extreme elements of 'women’s liberation', while offering a serious alternative to the way we currently teach our children. ...

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...pping with Raylene’s friends was not Zeno’s idea of a fun night out. He’d only agreed because he wanted to seem tough, and hoped if he felt her up in the water and fucked her afterwards her mates would stop spreading rumours he was queer. The cars screeched to a halt at the boat ramp. Everyone piled out and headed for the small beach until Bob’s girlfriend reckoned there’...

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...Female spouse of one’s brother is called `sister-in-law`; similarly the sister of one’s spouse is sister-in-law. Again, the wife of one’s brother-in-law is also called sister-in-law, subject however to the condition that the said brother-in-law is not the husband of one’s own sister. Thus, in...

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...Perched in his wheelchair, at the moment on 30th June, 2007, this erstwhile lover of Maya Dua is expecting Vibha Ratra ..... Of course, this infirm oldie his first ever acquaintance with Vibha Ratra took place, when his family ... Our mother, though surpr...

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...Female spouse of one’s brother is called `sister-in-law`; similarly the sister of one’s spouse is sister-in-law. Again, the wife of one’s brother-in-law is also called sister-in-law, subject however to the condition that the said brother-in-law is not the husband of one’s own sister. Thus, in...

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...Perched in his wheelchair, at the moment on 30th June, 2007, this erstwhile lover of Maya -law. Of course, this infirm oldie his first ever acquaintance with Vibha Ratra took place, when his family ... Our mother, though surprised to be getting acquainted...

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...n Mitze’s novel. Walter Herzog was born in a small town outside of Frankfurt to an emotionally detached mother and a Nazi-sympathizing stepfather at the tail end of World War II. Teenage Walter and his pals come to school drunk and oversexed; eventually, they skip classes altogether to make out with girls and earn drinking money. Over the years, restless Walter finds hims...

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...Walter Herzog was born in a small town near Marburg, in the state of Hessen, about fifty miles north of Frankfurt. Looking back at his life, one can only say that it was and is like a dream—a dream filled with the spectrum of all colors imaginable; a life full of love, drama, and ...

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...Andreas, Ombudsman Hilde and Frankfurt Following Sardinia USA No. 1 More Changes Darkness USA Encore Homecoming A New Chapter Arrangements The East Greece Turkey Mehmed Persia Afghanistan India Going North Roof of The World Journey through the interior of India Dravida Approaching Territory Transition Alternative Course New Life Perception Intern...

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...me of Death is a slightly shocking and occasionally thought provoking romantic thriller about two young men who’d love to be as cool as James Bond in the face of extreme danger, but discover reality is not like fiction. When Max, the director of an Art Gallery in Queensland, falls to his death, Peter, the exhibiting artist who is also Max's ex-lover, unwillingly accepts ...

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...Chapter One Exposing oneself in public is not for the faint-hearted. En masse and expertly illuminated the paintings gave viewers rather more insight into the private spaces of my mind than I’d bargained for. The fact that the gallery’s patrons were also baring their souls w...

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...WELCOME TO THE RETRO FUTURE When I started the Dieselpunks website years ago, the word “dieselpunk” was still a curiosity. Sure, it was loaded with familiar tropes like Pulp Adventure, Film Noir, and Weird Horror, but the artists we...

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...THE 1920s. MID-WESTERN COMMONWEALTH, CHICAGO. “Well if it ain’t that then what was it?” “It was all those damn fool bankers in New York.” “Bankers?” “Yeah, bankers. They’re the ones who caused everything that’s ...

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...Welcome to the Retro Future That Sort of World: A Tale of the Aether Age Pandora Driver: Who are the People in Your Neighborhood The Troubleshooter: What the Wise Man Says The World of Mañana: A Friend of Spirits Last Call...

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...et's be honest. No other parenting books even try to show you how to make your son or daughter a great American. We do. Thirty-one (31) great men and women from across many professions, genders, politics, religions, and walks of life--the products of extraordinary parenting and mentoring. This book offers the exact techniques, words, phrases, mantras --to propel your offsp...

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...Introduction An easier childhood? There is a deep-seated river that contrarily runs through most American parenting. The belief that “my children” should have it easier than we, as parents, had it — when we were growing up. That is the worst mantra of parents! Spoiling your kids is the worst curse you can bestow upon your kids and yourse...

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........................ 11 Parenting has changed? .................................................................................... 11 Mantras are the past and the future .................................................................. 12 About the Author ....................................................................................................... 15 VOLUM...