The title itself is a play on a novelistic formula that would have been familiar to Sterne's contemporary readers; instead of giving us the "life and adventures" of his hero, Sterne promises us his "life and opinions" which results in a radically new kind of narrative. ... The text is supposed, as the title indicates, to set out the autobiography of Tristram Shandy; however, the birth of the hero, which the author sets about to discuss on the first page, does not finally occur until the end of the third book. ... My interpretation of the marbled page is double. ... The typographical oddit...

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The bill is 342 pages long and makes changes to 15 existing statutes (www.Eff.org). ... Title III generally prohibits electronic eavesdropping on telephone conversations, face-to-face conversations, or computer and other forms of electronic communications, 18 U.S.C. 2511" (www.fas.org). ... After the September 11 terrorist attack congress felt that Title III came "replete with instructions describing the permissible scope of the surveillance as well as the conversations which may be seized and the efforts to be taken to minimize the seizure of innocent conversations, 18 USC 2518." ... Below Ti...

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Companies like Playboy and Hustler run their own servers that are permanent parts of the internet, and on their pages they charge user to view Playboy and Hustler type material. ... However both of these engines have over 60 million cataloged web pages. Although this material makes up less that 1% of all messages on USENET or pages on the world-wide-web, that is still a staggering number as there are millions of messages and web-pages on the internet. ... Spanning eight pages the article tries to expose the "red light district" of the information superhighway. ...

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"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from." T.S. Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965), was an early twentieth century poet, dramatist, publisher, playwright and literary and social critic", one of the twentieth century...

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The layout of the guide is organised around the main clauses of the PCA to ensure thorough coverage of all titles of the Agreement. All references made to specific "Titles- or "Articles- in this guide correspond to the titles and articles in the PCA, unless otherwise indicated. ...

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They are regarded in a much higher standard than the rest of society. ... Athletes grace the sports pages and evening news with their accomplishments in the game and sometimes their charity off field. But athletes are plastered across the front page and evening headlines when they commit crimes. ... They made the game grand and set the standards of excellence for the game. ... Playing regularly in the outfield, he captured the home run title again with 29 roundtrippers. ...

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Second, I will explain Nike's general marketing strategies based on the description of their web page. ... Any person who accesses to this page can understand how global Nike is. ... However, if we enter each region's web pages we can see how local Nike's strategy can be. ... In summary, Nike's web page tries to be as global as possible but takes into account the big cultural differences between the markets. ... Moreover Jordan came back to the game with such power that he helped the Chicago Bulls win another title. ...

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1 MEDICINE IN THE ANCIENT WORLD In today's society medicine is created by a world of computers and cutting edge technology, but from the roots of medicine merged remedies and treatments that are still used today by many professionals. The medicine of the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans s...

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Slander rolled out on the Today show, whose anchor Katie Couric is compared in its pages to Hitler's mistress. ... HarperCollins, the publishing subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, which distributes many titles pleasing to its conservative boss, canceled Slander late in 2001. ... The New York Times gave it to cultural critic Janet Maslin, who mildly criticized its "insult slinging- and "sarcastic overkill- but was too awed by its thirty-six pages of footnotes to determine whether any of them were accurate. Maslin missed the astounding error about her own paper in Slander...

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Born in 69 BC, Cleopatra VII was the inheritor of the Greek Macedonian, Ptolemaic Empire in Egypt. The founder of this glorious dynasty was Ptolemy Sooter or the 'savior', one of Egypt's greatest pharaohs and allegedly Alexander's (the Great) half brother. The Ptolemaic dynasties were known for their interbreeding practices which began with Ptolemy Sooter who married Bernice I, a royal Seleucid from Cyprus. Cleopatra VII was the grandchild of Ptolemy IX, whose illegitimate son Ptolemy XII Alutes the flute player married his sister Cleopatra V. Cleopatra VII was one among th...

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Copyright is a form of protection provided by the laws of the United States (title 17, U.S. ... As one example, a work must be more creative than a telephone book's white pages, which involve a straightforward alphabetical listing of telephone numbers rather than a creative selection of listings. ... These include among others: • Works that have not been fixed in a tangible form of expression (for example, choreographic works that have not been notated or recorded, or improvisational speeches or performances that have not been written or recorded) • Titles, names, short p...

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The Bloc Quebecois, a Quebec separatist party who only ran candidates in the province of Quebec in the last federal election in 1993, won 54 seats in that province, and claimed the title of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition over the Reform Party, who garnered only 52 seats. ...

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The movie was based on Klaus Mann's novel with the same title. ... critic=all&sortby=default&page=1&rid=775323). ... He kept yelling at them for not dancing well enough according to his standard. ...

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The Internet is defined as global networks defined by a set of open standards for communicating data and information between computers. ... According to Nicholas Craig, "Retailers will reinvent the shopping experience [the tortuously title retail-tainment] to keep us happily spending on [low cost] high streets for decades to come" (1). ... Furthermore, if Internet retailers can't develop an effective method to reduce credit card theft problems and increase shopping safety standards, consumers will discontinue using Internet shopping altogether. ...

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In order to raise money to run our web page, we will be charging a $5.00 fee for listings. ... Buyers can purchase textbooks by looking up the book by ISBN, uploading a picture, and searching by author or title. ...

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American Foreign Policy / POLS 4690 A paper submitted to Dr. Galatas of the History and Political Science Department at Georgia South Western State University The Era of Good Feelings: An Era of Idealism or Realism? The Era of Good Feelings was the national mood of the United States from...

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Table of Contents • Chapter 1: Operating Environment • Chapter 2: Import-Export Process • Chapter 3: Internal and International Transportation and Logistics Infrastructure • Summary • Bibliography Chapter 1: Operating Environment Physica...

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Few questioned that tremendous advances were taking place in science, public health, transportation, and the general standard of living, but each new idea or discovery seemed to have unexpected, distressing repercussions. ... In the following pages, I wish to highlight the characteristics, form and the revolutionary aspects of the Victorian Novel, along with a brief analysis on three very important Victorian writers - William Makepeace Thakeray, Charles Dickens and George Eliot( Mary Ann Evans). ...

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Children and Bilingualism According to the 1990 United States Census, one in seven or 31.8 million people speak a language other than English in their home. In the past, second generation children were encouraged to adopt the customs, culture, and language of what was identified as the majority culture. Today, with greater recognition and celebration of cultural differences, people are more likely to maintain and share their primary language with their children and to promote bilingualism as a reflection of ethnic pride and identity. What is Bilingualism? Different people use the term in ...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...

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Tribunals The EOC has looked at 54 employment tribunal decisions, in sexual harassment cases that were heard between 1998 and 2001, to see what those cases revealed. Successful cases The employee Thirty-four cases were successful. In three of those cases the person making the complaint was male. In most cases the harassment began while the person bringing the complaint had been working for that employer for less than one year, and their work tended to be low paid (e.g carers, shop and factory workers, office staff). Shift work was a factor in a third of cases. ...

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