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the latter 1980s and the 1990s, mainly through acquisitions (Podolny and Roberts, 1999). What also helped was liberalization of fo...

and find neither peril nor advantage in the free interchange of their thoughts. If they meet by accident, they neither seek nor av...

to drop, though it often seems to hold them loosely." He admires them for these qualities and then discusses how the American peop...

altar, they represent Jesus human and divine natures. Believers are also called to be the light of the world. In the Smoking Flame...

who is a software programmer by day and a hacker known as Neo by night. Becoming increasingly disillusioned with his life, Neo se...

were distinguished in the nineteenth century with the "natural" sciences. To a great degree, James was attempting to create and/...

to make it clear that this communication was primarily by sign language. He writes that "when we asked they would answer by signs,...

incredibly natural and part of the environment so to speak. Or, as Zimmerman states, "If observation from nature imprints upon his...

as treasurer. With two other Spaniards and an Arab Moor, he was the only survivor who remained on the mainland," thus setting the ...

that "Nothing happened in Bertrandes marriage bed, it seemed, neither that night nor for more than eight years afterward. Martin G...

generally viewed as a precursor of the Gothic style of church architecture, which began in 1140 with the re-building of St. Denis ...

stir" as it was the date of a double festival: that of the Festival of the Three Kings and that of the Feast of Fools (Hugo, I, I)...

Virtuous action was defined by Aristotle as what a person with practical wisdom would choose. The golden mean, as defined by Ari...

a dramatic shift in perception in regards to fortune, and what was once believed to be a pre-ordained right was now considered to ...

But as a structuralist, de Saussure was most interested in how words acted as separate units which constructed the whole of langua...

al parecer a mucho del tiempo (Learner.org, 2005). los "capotes de la zalea y los sombreros y los mittens de lana fueron usados e...

also gave rise to greater criminal activity. Coupled with the decree of prohibition on alcohol, many took advantage of this easy m...

This, of course, did not set well with the Marquess of Queensberry, since Sir Alfred Douglas, his son, was involved closely, and i...

some sense, by our lack of perspective. Most of us live in a democracy like fish who live only in water and are therefore blinded ...

de Molina). Tirso showed direct hostility toward the "culterianismo" in plays such as Amar por arte mayor and La Celosa de si mi...

from the soil and the sweat of their labor. European society, in contrast, had institutionalized class divisions that kept the ric...

truly speak to hear themselves talk, as the saying goes. Some people see conversation as a means to show others how grand and impo...

for the daily running of a large army, was still more than a century in the future. Washington had only the "rudimentary elements"...

Once the American Revolution ended, Cr?vecoeur was appointed French counsel at New York, where he remained for a long time. While...

of Joaquim Jose dos Santos Leal (Meznar). This comfortable position could well be seen as a position that involved some level of ...

from a degree of torment, the sources of our greatest joys lying awkwardly close to those of our greatest pain" (De Botton 215). ...

of this section. He looks at marriage practices, such as how the "As a daughter, she took part in the religious acts of her father...

a true democracy, de Tocqueville noted, quantity or reproductions of objects are necessary to satisfy equal need. In his consider...

she is the sort of woman who would love to go to such an event, but could not possibly go to such without looking regal and wealth...

face and bust, with no other activity taking place, as the background is very dark and inconsequential, it is clearly a portrait. ...