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The Silver Lining: Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

...lovska Lidija Rangelovska A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2010 Not for Sale! Non-commercial edition. © 20... ... © 2002-10 Copyright Lidija Rangelovska. All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner... ...yright Lidija Rangelovska. All rights reserved. This book, or any part thereof, may not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permissi... ... a cartoonishly poor young adult whose overriding desire is to belong to a higher - or at least, richer - social class. While he waits upon the subj... ...ed by a seething and explosive envy of the lucky, the mighty, the clever, the have it alls, the know it alls, the handsome, the happy - in short: h... ...ike a nobody and his overriding ambition is to be somebody, even if he has to fake it, or steal it. His only talents, he openly admits, are to fake... ...oyeurs plug in to take a peep, to intrude upon what Truman innocently and honestly believes to be his privacy. They are shown responding to various... ...e of God. And the fact that Truman's tormentors did not see themselves as such and believed that they were acting in his best interests and that th...

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What Your Bank Doesn't Want You to Know : About Where to Invest Your Money

By: Lillian R. Villanova

... By Lillian R. Villanova This book is meant solely as a broad guideline. It is meant to assist the Layperson in understanding the law as it ... ...rstanding the law as it pertains to buying Tax Lien Certificates and Tax Deeds. It provides information and personal experience. It contains general... ...nding the general principles involved, and in drafting simple agreements. It is not meant to provide business, legal, accounting or tax advice. When... ...fting simple agreements. It is not meant to provide business, legal, accounting or tax advice. When in doubt, the reader is cautioned to seek the a... ...erved. No part of this book may be reproduced, restored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, reco... ...an seem intimidating to go to an auction and buy liens on property that you have not seen on the inside. It can seem even more intimidating when eve... ...are motivated and want to secure your financial future, there is every reason to believe you can succeed. You will need to take it step by step, (a... ... notes in the margins, establish your dreams and goals. You can make it happen, believe it and it will happen. Based on the plan you create, start ...

...It’s time to step out of the box and shift your paradigm. It’s time to put everything you know about a high rate of return being equal to high risk to the side. What I’m about to tell you could turn the way you think about in...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 5 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...n using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, F... ... assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Writings of ... ...ugh him Egypt made a most valuable contribution to the convention. I think it may be fairly said that he came off the lion of the day—or rather of the... ... said that he came off the lion of the day—or rather of the night. Can you not elect him to the Legislature? It seems to me he would be hard to beat. ... ... the day—or rather of the night. Can you not elect him to the Legislature? It seems to me he would be hard to beat. What objection could be made to hi... ...ou are without faith that a lie can be successfully contradicted, there is not a word of truth in the charge, and I am just considering a little as to... ...e been reached and passed. “A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.... ... it. He deals unfairly with me, and tries to make the people of this State believe that I advocated dan- gerous doctrines in my Springfield speech. Le...

... opening to nominate him for Superintendent of Public Instruction, but through him Egypt made a most valuable contribution to the convention. I think it may be fairly said that he came off the lion of the day--or rather of the night. Can you not elect him to the Legislature? It seems to me he would be hard to beat. What objection could be made to him? What is your Senator ...

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The Wheels of Chance a Bicycling Idyll

By: H. G. Wells

...n using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, F... ...ssumes any responsi- bility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. The Wheels of ... ...which happier circumstances you might— if of an observing turn of mind and not too much of a house- wife to be inhuman—have given the central figure o... ...s story less cursory attention. Now if you had noticed anything about him, it would have been chiefly to notice how little he was noticeable. He wore ... ...u would observe, were entirely what people used to call cliche, for- mulae not organic to the occasion, but stereotyped ages ago and learnt years sinc... ...e. Litera- ture is revelation. Modern literature is indecorous revelation. It is the duty of the earnest author to tell you what you would not have se... ...cle properly is very like a love af- fair—chiefly it is a matter of faith. Believe you do it, and the thing is done; doubt, and, for the life of you, ... ...er eye.” There was a pause. The young lady busied herself with her eye. “I believe it’s out,” she said. The other man in brown made movements indicati...

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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Volume I.

By: George Gilfillan

...n using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity nor Jim Manis,... ... assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Poetical Wor... ...O DIED IN THE NINETEENTH YEAR OF HIS AGE, 1735. 161 XV . FOR ONE WHO WOULD NOT BE BURIED IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. .......................................... ...here, read Ogilby’s “Homer” and Sandys’s “Ovid” with great delight. He had not been long at this school till he wrote a severe lampoon, of two hundred... ...e ladies, some mystery rests. Bowles has strongly and plausibly urged that it was not of the purest or most creditable order. Others have contended th... ...was not of the purest or most creditable order. Others have contended that it did not go further than the manners of the age sanctioned; and they say,... ...itten at college, as was averred, this translation. It is now, however, we believe, cer- tain, from the MS. which still exists, that Tickell was the r... ...y, and Carruthers, to look upon it as one of Pope’s ape-like stratagems—to believe that P .T . was himself, Smith his agent, and that his objects were...

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The War of the Worlds

By: H. G. Wells

...n using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity nor Jim Manis,... ... assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The War of the W... ... VE OF VE OF THE THE THE THE THE W W W W WAR AR AR AR AR NO ONE would have believed in the last years of the nine- teenth century that this world was ... ...r little affairs, serene in their assur- ance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infu- soria under the microscope do the same. No on... ...ea of life 4 The War of the Worlds upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to re- call some of the mental habits of those departed days.... ...perficial area and remoter from the sun, it necessarily follows that it is not only more distant from time’s beginning but nearer its end. The secula... ...emem- ber what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals, such as the vanished bison and the dodo, but upon it... .... I thought the unscrewing might be automatic. In spite of Ogilvy, I still believed that there were men in Mars. My mind ran fanci- fully on the possi...

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Evan Harrington

By: George Meredith

...n using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, F... ...ssumes any responsibility for the mate- rial contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Evan Harrington ... ... shop in the town of Lymport-on-the-Sea remained significantly closed, and it became known that death had taken Mr. Melchisedec Harrington, and struck... ...t of living tailors. The demise of a respectable member of this class does not ordi- narily create a profound sensation. He dies, and his equals debat... ...e winding up of cash- accounts; on which occasions we may augur that he is not often blessed by one or other of the two great parties who subdivide th... ... great parties who subdivide this universe. In the case of Mr. Melchisedec it was otherwise. This had been a grand man, despite his calling, and in th... ...r confi- dence in him, ‘I shall be too happy to place myself in your hands—believe me.’ This was scarcely more to the taste of the diplomatist. He put... ...—what an effect it should have had on her! But, owing to your manner, I do believe the girl thinks it noth- ing but your ordinary business to go overb...

...radesmen are in the habit of commencing business, the shutters of a certain shop in the town of Lymport-on-the-Sea remained significantly closed, and it became known that death had taken Mr. Melchisedec Harrington, and struck one off the list of living tailors....

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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

By: Gilfillan

...n using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, F... ... assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Poetical Wor... ...NDYS’ GHOST;82 OR, A PROPER NEW BALLAD ON THE NEW OVID’S METAMORPHOSES: AS IT WAS INTENDED TO BE TRANSLATED BY PERSONS OF QUALITY. ...................... ... was one day to “wait like a menial,” have gone to the grave neglected, if not decried and depreciated. But it was the fate of Pope to combine in his ... ...al,” have gone to the grave neglected, if not decried and depreciated. But it was the fate of Pope to combine in his single experience the extremes of... ...r the body of Patroclus, there has raged a critical controversy, involving not merely his character as a man, but his claims as a poet. For this, unqu... ...ugh China fall. 39 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: V ol. 2 And yet, believe me, good as well as ill, Woman’s at best a contradiction still. ... ... crystal lakes and floods, Nor touch the fatal flowers; but, warn’d by me, Believe a goddess shrined in every tree. My sire, my sister, and my spouse,...

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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

By: Ulysses S. Grant

...n using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, F... ... assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Personal Memoirs... ...ceived an injury from a fall, which confined me closely to the house while it did not apparently affect my general health. This made study a pleasant ... ...an injury from a fall, which confined me closely to the house while it did not apparently affect my general health. This made study a pleasant pastime... ...gazine asked me to write a few articles for him. I consented for the money it gave me; for at that moment I was living upon borrowed money. The work I... ... the National or Confederate side, other than the unavoidable injustice of not making mention often where special mention is due. There must be many e... ...tionary war. He must, however, have been on furlough part of the time—as I believe most of the soldiers of that period were—for he married in Connecti... ...mily only a few years, until old enough to learn a trade. He went first, I believe, with his half-brother, Peter Grant, who, though not a tanner himse...

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Sons and Lovers

By: D. H. Lawrence

...n using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, F... ... assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Sons and Lovers ... ...and the kitchens opened on to that nasty alley of ash-pits. Mrs. Morel was not anxious to move into the Bottoms, which was already twelve years old an... ...s already twelve years old and on the downward path, when she descended to it from Bestwood. But it was the best she could do. Moreover, she had an en... ...ence instead of five shillings a week. But this superiority in station was not much consolation to Mrs. Morel. She was thirty-one years old, and had b... ... the wakes, or fair, began. Morel, she knew, was sure to make a holiday of it. He went off early on the Monday morning, the day of the fair. The two c... ...operty. And still Mrs. Morel preserved John Field’s Bible. She did not now believe him to be— Well, she understood pretty well what he might or might ... ...e would not mind this day. She had always two dinners to cook, because she believed children should have their chief meal at midday, whereas Morel nee...

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