... saris. Shavian Pillows are designed by Devi Cholet and other top designers, using exquisite textiles collected around the world - silks from Thailand and India may be combined with cotton ikats from Indonesia, cotton appliqué molas from Panama or deep indigo tie-dyes from Nigeria Kuba pillows use the bold tribal geometries and rich textures of vintage hand-woven raffia cloth from ... as television rating points, audience profiles, and opinion polls available to marketers, the sophistication of advertising in India is at par with world standards. The world's leading advertising agencies...

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... to overrun local custom and history-is essential in activating the ghost story. In part this is because Ichabod is not really all that hard-headed. He "potently believe[s]" in Cotton Mather's witchlore, and his "appetite for the marvellous" is only matched by his extraordinary "powers of digesting it" (pp. 276–277). Also, his susceptibility to perceiving the uncanny in his ... ...

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... deepest religious beliefs about women at the time: that they were inferior because they had been the first to fall prey to the serpent's temptation. Even though some intellectuals, like Cotton Mather, believed that women had been redeemed through a woman giving birth to Christ, the underlying belief about Eve remained. Furthermore, it is interesting that Murray chose to defend Eve based on ... ...

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... fate of a tiny band of Pilgrims who fled England for Holland and then for the New World. Also writing this type of history was Governor John Winthrop of Massachusetts and Cotton Mather. Mary Rowlandson's experience with her own captivity contained the same providential theme. In the eighteenth century, as the European Enlightenment came to America, history took on a secular and naturalistic cast ... ...

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... Williams, saw captivity as a spiritual journey; a punishment for sins and the destiny assigned them by God. It was their duty to endure, and by doing so they pleased Him. As Cotton Mather intimated to Reverend Williams in correspondence, "You are carried into the land of the Canadians for your good."1 Children, on the other hand were more often left in the care ... ...

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