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- 1231: The Geography of New Zealand
- ... Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1995. "New Zealand." World Fact Book (1995). Site: http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/ 95fact/nz.html. Compton's Learning Company. Compton's Living Encyclopedia. New York: Soft Key, 1997. Famighetti, Robert. The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1997. United States: World Almanac Books, 1997. Novosad, Charles. The Nystrom Desk Atlas. Chicago: Division of Hereff Jones, Inc, 1994.
- 1232: Evolution Of Canada
- ... McDonald 1867-73 Alexander Mackenzie 1873-78 John A. McDonald 1878-91 John J.C. Abbot 1891-92 John S.D. Thompson 1892-94 Mackenzie Bowell 1894-96 Charles Tupper 1896 Wilfrid Laurier 1896-1911 Robert L. Borden 1911-20 Arthur Meighen 1920-21 W. L. Mackenzie King 1921-26 Arthur Meighen 1926 W. L. Mackenzie King 1926-30 Richard B. Bennett 1930-35 W. L. Mackenzie King 1935-48 Louis ...
- 1233: The Mafia
- ... economic standpoint one can see that the Mafia came into existent as almost a capitalistic counterpart to what the government and society were providing. The Mafia members see themselves as alternative providers of public services. Robert Claiborne states in his book Climate, Man and History (266-7) that "(t)he distinction between robber and cop, between extortion and taxation, has been blurred at many times in human history. A quote from ...
- 1234: The Influence of Thoreau on Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
- ... titled Thoreau’s Flute. We sighing said, "Our Pan is dead; His pipe hangs mute beside the river Around it wistful sunbeams quiver, But Music's airy voice is fled. Spring mourns as for untimely frost; The bluebird chants a requiem; The willow-blossom waits for him; The Genius of the wood is lost." Then from the flute, untouched by hands, There came a low, harmonious breath: "For such as he ...
- 1235: Odysseus: Metis Is His Most Important Quality
- ... His Most Important Quality Odysseus’ most important quality as an epic hero is his metis, a Greek word meaning artifice, stratagem, or plan. Homer even associates Odysseus as “polymetis,” or a man of “many turns.” Robert Fitzgerald, translator of the Odyssey in The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, interprets this word to describe a man who is “skilled in all ways of contending” (219). Thus, unlike Achilles in the Iliad, Odysseus ...
- 1236: The Odyssey
- ... setting is in a time of peace unlike his father’s, and more notably, although matured, Telemachus never really learned true leadership or chivalry as did his father. Works Cited 1. Homer The Odyssey. Trans. Robert Fagles. New York: Penguin, 1997.
- 1237: Hospitality in The Odyssey
- ... are very pleasing to the gods. Although, when good hospitality is not given, even to the poor, the outcome is very severe and sometimes is the cause of death. Work Cited Homer. The Odyssey. Trans. Robert Fagles. New York: Penguin, 1997.
- 1238: Strong Before Their Time
- ... Public Schools. “ The Ancient Greek World: Women’s Life”. Online. HTM> (9 March 1999). Euripidies. “Medea”. The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces. 669-700 New York, N.Y.: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 1995. Goheen, Robert F. The Imagery of Sophocles’ Antigone: A Study of Poetic Language and Structure. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 1951. Magill, Frank N., ed. “Medea”. Masterpieces Of World Literature. 508-511. New York, N.Y ...
- 1239: The Odyssey: Plot and Theme
- ... be together once again. It may take them twenty years, but they are finally united again as one family. Bibliography Rieu, E.V. (1946). The Odyssey. Middlesex, England. (Original work composesd circa 1200 BCE.) Milch, Robert J. The Odyssey. Lincoln, Nebraska:Cliffs Notes Inc.
- 1240: Combining Individual Stories Into Larger Wholes
- ... to each other by their author that the reader’s successive experience on various levels of the pattern of the whole significantly modifies his experience of each of its component parts” (p.47 Brevity Expanded). Robert M. Luscher, in his essay The Short Story Sequence: An Open Book, defines it thus: “a volume of stories, collected and organised by their author, in which the reader successively realises underlying patterns of coherence ...
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