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...Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.” “Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, Copyright © 1960,1962,1963,1968,1971,1972,1973,... ...included next to John Grisham’s on the front table of every bookstore in the country. Don’t deny it. Y ou know that hope is real. One element, however... ...a writer of devotions, personal essays and Christian fiction, is a member of American Christian Fiction Writers, past president of the local chapter, ... ...cluding the Middletown Journal and Journal News (daily newspapers), Bassics, American Songwriter, CCM Magazine, HM Magazine, Relevant Magazine, Living... ...arden, FL.. She also plans travel for the Lake Highland Prep School Academy Singers of Orlando and writes creative entertainment programs for Family ...

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...d never received flowers in my room; that was always for the chorus girls or singers. I was merely the horse woman and not sought after by admirers,... ...ur acquaintance.” “Mademoiselle Delacroix, do you not fear to scandalize the countryside in your breeches?” There was a touch of humor in the questi... ...r in the question. “Monsieur, if this is all that it takes to scandalize the countryside, then I suggest that those in the countryside see more of th... ...needed heirs. He promised me that I would still be able to “scandalize the countryside” by riding whenever I wanted to; horsemanship was in my blood... ...ed the nightclubs of Monmartre. I had never been to a follies and seen the singers and dancers there. Again, no one seemed at all shocked at a wom... ...arden for the opera on Christmas Eve. It’s a mixed program, and one of the singers is from France. She thought that you might enjoy it.” She drop... ...y favorite recipes for madeleines and cheese crisps, and had Russian tea and American coffee on offer. The ladies came to the first one in droves, a...

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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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...on under the theocracy of the Taleban and the tattered infrastructure of the country. There was no way to catch even a word or two of it and this bald... ...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... ... but a legal one. Most persons under such a scenario would have clung to the country that had made up nearly all of his experience. At least that was ... ...ere two sides of the same coin. He loved his mother and she was alone on the American continent as he was in Asia. They were indeed alone in the world... ...ce and Korean pizza and the father who wanted to introduce him to his native country by teaching him the sounds of Korean letters were glad to get the... ...t to him as to other foreigners, "Taxi cab! Border line, Mister!"; mariachi singers; zebra wagons for tourist photos; Burger King; stores with rectan...

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...a limit.‖ --―Touche‘ And Con is a retired businessman. He finds your country fascinating and wants to list it on the New York Stock Exchange. L... ...e life satisfaction as earning another $50,000 a year. —―In our country people tend to work instead of vacationing so they have extra mone... ...s losing one‘s job. Sex makes us happier, as does enjoying one‘s job. The Americans, who spend much more time working are much higher on the happine... ...ed at home, in your neighborhood or in school is the truth, divine truth. Americans eat with their forks in their right hands, Europeans with the for... ...There are few universal ethical or legal standards. Treason against one‘s country is one. Murder of a person in your own society is also very common... ...ies ate their meals together. She was appalled by the poor manners of the American students. Her mother had taught her good table manners at home, r... ...e tax breaks to symphony orchestras and operas and to their musicians and singers? How about secular private schools and hospitals? What about fitne...

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... Table of Contents THE COUNTRY OF SINGALING ......................................................... .................. 72 3 THE COUNTRY OF SINGALING From one of the two most advanced countries of ... ...meet our scraggly clan. We are so excited to be here and learn about your country.” —“Commander, we are honored that you have included our fai... ...st its role as the scientific and intellectual leader of the world. As an American I am greatly saddened, but as a citizen of the world and of the co... ...ed that the major medical researching country had had its tires shot out. American researchers and other medical leaders streamed into southeast Asia... ...ligent Barak Obama was not enough to keep all of the intelligentsia. The American depression had sapped its economy of the necessary funds for rese... ...tial. Salaries here are pretty much performance based. As we said earlier, singers, actors and professional athletes are paid little. They are superf...

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...lly with your psychological input and her ideas on values we can get a better handle on what makes people tick. ―Having now looked at my own countr... ... 16 teenage sex or drugs? What is it that keeps them so contented. Certainly people in my countr... ...tomorrow we die.‘ That was the call of the Beatniks of the 50's, the hippies of the 60's, and the uncommitted of today. ―But too many of my countr... ...‘t be surprised when young Germans tortured and killed for Hitler, when young Chinese and Cambodians killed for Mao or Pol Pot, or even young Americ... ... in the vitamin D producing sun, could add the A and D to their skim milk. They don‘t, but are finally thinking about it—sixty years after the Americ... ...ental side, wartime British Prime Minister, historian and author Winston Churchill had a father who wrote of him ‗I have an idiot for a son.‘ Americ... ...1920‘s songstress whose ample body produced the powerful tunes that rocked the speakeasies of the 20s. Sophie was one of America‘s most famous singer... ... largest stage spanning one end of the area and the giant Egyptian pyramid revolving above it, the unamplified voices of the world‘s greatest singer...

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...nformation technology. Mnemonics skills that once worked well for poet-singers‘ stories failed to meet the needs of an economic species that irri... ... more likely stemmed from his encounters with sailors who had touched the American continent. In his revealing COD: A Biography of the Fish that ... ...fisherman kept secret their profitable catches of cod on regular trips to American waters. Mongols fostered exchange of ideas and inventions The ... ...t soon thereafter: ―The golden afternoon of the Roman occupation—when the countryside lay at peace, dotted with opulent villas surrounded by fertile... ...he twentieth century.‖ Wealthy British-Roman citizens built into their country houses a hypocaust central heating system with underground furnace... ...its strength in a righteous fight. By Anonymous, from MacKellar’s “The American Printer” 1887 1... ...d penny newspapers and multiplied the total newspaper circulation in this country more than tenfold between 1886 and 1900. It jumped from three mill...

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... information technology. Mnemonics skills that once worked well for poet-singers‘ stories failed to meet the needs of an economic species that irri... ... 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... ...t soon thereafter: ―The golden afternoon of the Roman occupation—when the countryside lay at peace, dotted with opulent villas surrounded by fertile... ... the twentieth century.‖ Wealthy British-Roman citizens built into their country houses a hypocaust central heating system with underground furnace... ...its strength in a righteous fight. By Anonymous, from MacKellar‘s ―The American Printer‖ 1887 1... ...d penny newspapers and multiplied the total newspaper circulation in this country more than tenfold between 1886 and 1900. It jumped from three mill...

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... people who own villas and mansions on different continents. People who have country homes and travel from the city to the country every week: are t... ... most arrogant, and the most detached from the earth. People who live in the country: despise city dwellers who only come to the country when the we... ... despise city dwellers who only come to the country when the weather is nice. Country people have to live in the country when it is cold and raining... ...ew lions? When there were millions of grazing animals? Why didn’t the North American natives colonize the land where millions of bison lived? It ... ...hapter Three: Summary of Hominid-Human development 205 The earliest North American cultures invented bone-tools and flint tools by themselves. B... ...plitting with crude stones as the first form of stone technology. After North American humans began splitting Mammoth-bones: did they start evolving... ...; that features ordinary people trying to mimic-duplicate famous entertainers-singers. The premises… the assumptions… the norms, the normality, the... ... is a competition. It assumes that entertainers and artists and composers and singers must compete against each other in order to gain popular recog... ...e to compete at all… no matter if they happen to be ten times better than the singers who do compete… then they automatically lose. And are conside...

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...s? Even the ones they claim to have been dictated by gods or aliens? Even if American copyright law requires “an author,” presumably a human one? 9 Ca... ...re—the mix of earnest essays and saccharine greeting cards and scantily clad singers and poetic renditions of Norse myths—will be decentral- ized to t... ...r the films of the Second World War, or footage on the daily lives of African-Americans during segregation, or the music of the Great Depression, or th... ...t, as far as I am informed, that England was, until we copied her, the only country on earth which ever, by a general law, gave a legal right to the ... ...hey were successful. 36 As Yochai Benkler puts it, Alice Randall, an African American woman, was ordered by a government official not to publish her cr... ...terms, seeing the parody as a “bulldozer” and Gone With the Wind as a walled country estate into which the bulldozer had violently trespassed. He was ... ...s book. But my arguments here have implications far beyond Jefferson’s time, country, or con- stitutional tradition. In the last analysis, I hope to c... ...east till he figures out how to get his own shit together. T oday I hear some singers who I think sound like me. Joe Cocker, for instance. Man, I know ... ...ms that there was a different source, a mysterious song by the Bailey Gospel Singers, or the Harold Bailey Gospel Singers, called “I’ve Got a Savior.”...

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...d, impressive, highly pictorial.” JOE KNOEFLER in the L.A. Times: “...an American writer gifted with...perception and sensitivity.” FRANK TANNENBA... ...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... ...talking. Again he lampooned Mimnermos and mimicked “that strange-smelling country poet from Smyrna.” But I detected a morbid note, a self-hostility ... ...ght Kleis’ fancy...” Vaguely, I had the flash of an image: a fair, slim, country boy, not one of the slaves. “And what is it you want?” I said, in... ..., compared to his twenty or twenty-two. He may have a woman of his own, a country girl, a young, simple, laughing slip of a thing who satisfies him.... ... together...played cards, talked about my Anghiari...when she posed I had singers for her... I loaned her little sums; she lent me money; she sent m... ...ness, out of the wilderness...” I turned in mighty late that night, yet singers were still singing, singing “Gen- tle Annie” and other favorites. ...

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...ept night, not knowing what to do. Indeed. What would I do in this strange country? Where would we live? This had to be lunacy. I had set off to carry... ... in Finland. I looked along the Phahonlyothin to the railway crossing; the countryside seemed to start beyond it. There, behind the railway, near the ... ...in the house of the rice merchant Kitti Hunkittikul. Our life in a strange country began. The railway level crossing is still there, it is as potholed... ... houses, nor paintings - the walls are hung with pictures of the king, pop singers and film stars, and calendars, but some have acquired carved teak p... ...s to use genetic modification to produce and patent a variety suitable for American conditions. Potential cultivation of Jasmine rice by American supe... ... produced, and they have rather tended to be TV serials; cinemas show many American movies as is the case elsewhere in Asia. From citizen to gl... ... Ordinary Thai faces are only seen occasionally on TV news. Neither do pop singers on TV sing like people in Thailand used to sing. Their voices do no... ...le is tending towards the Western. Pop stars sing in the same style as pop singers on all the world's televisions. In Thailand, lightening shampoos, l... ... US army during the Korean war; sex trade has always flourished around all American military bases. In 1983, it was said that there was only one broth...

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... Oh, hell no. This isn't happening. "We've got one victim down ... African-American male, early twenties ... wounds to the chest and abdomen..." Toy c... ...iced his anxiety and quickly assured, "I know it sounds like redneck, hick country, but the place is really nice. There's enough of us out there." Tyl... ...ow had been the perfect forum for Madam Camilla's interview as the host—an American Wiccan high priest—was a fundamentalist opposed to drugs and blunt... ...'s delectable paella and ready to work it off with a brisk walk out in the country air, Kelly left the house for a stroll, following close on Camilla'... ...armhouse, turned to Kelly. "And you? What's your background?" "I'm African-American. My family's originally from the south. Georgia, to be specific." ... ...r's and grandfather's farm." "I thought you seemed at home out here in the country." "From an early age I've been close to nature. I used to spend a l... ...dows to better hear the dreamy violin strains backing the harmonizing male singers as they belted out a pure song with deep sentiments of being inside...

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...an by Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The American by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The American by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas... ...ia State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Henry James The American by Henry James 1877 CHAPTER I O n a brilliant day in May, in the y... ...get there. There you have to go; you can’t do anything else. It’s an awful country; you can’t get a decent cigar. I don’t know why I went in there, to... ... and to cross over. When we were over, I told him to drive me out into the country. As I had told him originally to drive for dear life down town, I s... ...bish. He irritated our friend by the tone of his allusions to their native country, and Newman was at a loss to understand why the United States were ... ...rty. What is the grandest thing one can do here? I will hire all the great singers from the opera, and all the first people from the Theatre Francais,...

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...st in America, have any existence not in my imagination. They can examine for themselves whether there has been anything in the public career of that country during these past eight years, or whether there is anything in its present position, at home or abroad, which suggests that those influences and tendencies really do exist....

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...tion by Charles Dickens A publication of PSU s Electronic Classics Series American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens is a publicati... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvan... ...ity The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity University. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens PREFACE TO THE FI... ... themselves whether there has been any thing in the public career of that country during these past eight years, or whether there is anything in its ... ... No. I have many friends in America, and feel a grateful in terest in the country. To represent me as viewing it with ill nature, animosity, or parti... ... them selves whether there has been anything in the public career of that country since, at home or abroad, which suggests that those influences and ... ... the gallery opposite to the pulpit were a little choir of male and female singers, a violoncello, and a violin. The preacher already sat in the pulpi...

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...t, the sketch may find readers. It has been a task of difficulty. Speed was essential, or it might come too late to be of any service to a distracted country....

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... essential, or it might come too late to be of any service to a distracted country. T ruth, in the midst of conflicting rumours and in the dearth of p... ...tors date back before the Roman Empire. They are Christians, church-goers, singers of hymns at family wor- ship, hardy cricketers; their books are pri... ... ministry, lost but a single student; the rest, in the bosom of a bleeding country, and deaf to the voices of vanity and honour, peacefully pursued th... ...s wise as Mataafa, and to conceive that etiquette and morals differ in one country and another. We shall be the less surprised to find Samoan war defa... ...Anglo-Saxon. Here the reader will go forward past the stores of Mr. Moors (American) and Messrs. MacArthur (English); past the English mission, the of... ...sion, the office of the English newspaper, the English church, and the old American consulate, till he reaches the mouth of a larger river, the Vaisin... ...ven theirs are not immaculate. It was an ambiguous business when a private American adventurer was landed with his pieces of artillery from an America...

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...s had been refreshed by the sight of Miss Lily Bart. It was a Monday in early September, and he was returning to his work from a hurried dip into the country; but what was Miss Bart doing in town at that season? If she had appeared to be catching a train, he might have inferred that he had come on her in the act of transition between one and another of the country-houses w...

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...ly September, and he was returning to his work from a hurried dip into the country; but what was Miss Bart doing in town at that season? If she had ap... ...he had come on her in the act of transition between one and another of the country-houses which disputed her presence after the close of the Newport s... ...inattentively, and he saw that she was preoc- cupied with a new idea. “And Americana—do you collect Americana?” Selden stared and laughed. “No, that’s... ... good editions of the books I am fond of.” She made a slight grimace. “And Americana are horribly dull, I suppose?” “I should fancy so—except to the h... ...l collector values a thing for its rarity. I don’t suppose the buy- ers of Americana sit up reading them all night—old Jefferson Gryce certainly didn’... ...ght see what was happening in the street. Mrs. Peniston was the owner of a country-place in New Jersey, but she had never lived there since her husban... ...een this year and last, except that the women have got new clothes and the singers haven’t got new voices. My wife’s musical, you know—puts me through...

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... Apuleius availed himself of an early form of one of these. They are to be found from India to Scandinavia, adapted to the manners and fancy of every country in turn, Beauty and the Beast and the Black Bull of Norroway are the most familiar forms of the tale, and it seemed to me one of those legends of such universal property that it was quite fair to put it into 18th cent...

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...found from India to Scandinavia, adapted to the manners and fancy of every country in turn, Beauty and the Beast and the Black Bull of Norroway are th... ...ster?” said Harriet. “It was through the dancing of three minuets, and the country dance had long been begun.” “I was too busy to heed the time,” said... ... If you fall in, I will pull you out. Young maids should not run about the country without a gentleman to take care of them. Should they, sister?” cri... ...ster’s safety, and hailing as a kind of hopeful augury this verse from the singers— “At home, abroad, in peace, in war Thy God shal... ...Their father will provide 270 Love and Life for them, and they will marry American settlers in the for- ests. What should they do with court jewels? ...

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...ple history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implements of the little feast had been disposed upon the lawn of an old English country-house, in what I should call the perfect middle of a splendid summer afternoon. Part of the afternoon had waned, but much of it was left, and what was left was of the finest and rarest quality. Real dusk would not arr...

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...ements of the little feast had been disposed upon the lawn of an old English country house, in what I should call the perfect middle of a splendid sum... ...n the eighteenth century, it had passed into the careful keeping of a shrewd American banker, who had bought it originally because (owing to circumsta... ...ca thirty years before, had brought with him, at the top of his baggage, his American physiog nomy; and he had not only brought it with him, but he h... ...he best order, so that, if necessary, he might have taken it back to his own country with perfect confidence. At present, obviously, nevertheless, he w... ...dered, placidly. “Well, I guess I’ll wait and see.” He had, in speaking, the American tone. “Are you cold?” the son enquired. 4 Portrait of a Lady Th... ...was not a mistress of her art. At fixed intervals she paid a visit to her own country; but this last had been longer than any of its predecessors. She ... ...hey drew near the choir on the left of the entrance the voices of the Pope’s singers were borne to them over the heads of the large number of persons ...

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...Excerpt: Volume I. Preface: Nothing is more easy than to state the subject of ?The Ambassadors,? which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situation involved is gathered up betimes, that is in the second chapter of Book Fifth, for the reader?s benefit, into as few words as possible-- planted ...

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... of “The Ambassadors,” which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situ... ...“arranged for”; its first appearance was from month to month, in the North American Review during 1903, and I had been open from far back to any pleas... ...sibly a question of Mr. Waymarsh of Milrose Connecti- cut—Mr. Waymarsh the American lawyer. “Oh yes,” he replied, “my very well-known friend. He’s to ... ...together while she answered, as they went, that the most “hopeless” of her countryfolk were in general precisely those she liked best. All sorts of ot... ...al tower and waterside fields, of huddled English town and ordered English country. Too deep al- most for words was the delight of these things to Str... ...ly waited; I’ve told it to people I’ve met in the cars—the fact is, such a country as this ain’t my kind of country anyway. There ain’t a country I’ve... ...- stance that the music in the salon was admirable, with two or three such singers as it was a privilege to hear in private. Their presence gave a dis...