then drive like a bastard" to Las Vegas (12) Las Vegas has always been known as sin city‚ and the book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas portrays this belief. Hunter S. Thompson portrays a rather thoughtful glance into the mind of addiction and of drug usage. The illegal drugs play a major role in provoking the narrator’s outrage that he has toward the contemporary life of society. The book takes place in the early 1970’s‚ and the main character‚ Raoul Duke‚ is sent to Las Vegas to write an
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The Fault in Our Stars There’s this teenage girl named Hazel Grace‚ who is an average teenager except for the little fact that she has sort of cancer inside her body and her lungs aren’t working very well. Hazel is in Support Group one day when a new boy named Augustus catches her eye. Soon enough‚ she and Augustus are flirtatious friends and talk to each other about everything. Hazel shares her favorite book‚ An Imperial Affliction‚ and they obsess about the unsolved ending. Augustus manages
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In The Original Jesus‚ author Tom Wright examines Jesus in the historical perspective. He attempts to take you back to Jesus’s own time in order for the reader to recognize the message Christ was actually proclaiming and to interpret it and the Gospels in the context of those times. In other words‚ Wright tries to "take you there" to see Jesus as he was 2‚000 years ago. It is a short and seemingly uncomplicated book‚ filled with a number of illustrations of Jesus in the Holy Land‚ yet it does succeed
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New York Times Bestselling Author Patrick Carman lives in Walla Walla‚ Washington and has written several books and series‚ including Dark Eden: Fear is the Cure. Fear is the Cure is the first book in the mystery‚ sci-fi‚ romance series‚ Dark Eden. Carman titled the series Dark Eden because this book‚ and I’m guessing the others‚ take place at a fort called Fort Eden‚ located far out in the woods. In this story there are seven teens‚ and those are the seven who go to the fort to get cured. Each
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Company’s Act 1956‚ share means a part in the share capital of the company and it also includes stock except where a distinction between stock and share capital is made expressed or implied. TYPES OF SHARES: As per the provision of section 85 of the Companies Act‚ 1956‚ the share capital of a company consists of two classes of shares‚ namely: 1. Preference Shares 2. Equity Shares PREFERENCE SHARES: According to Sec 85(1)‚ of the Companies Act‚ 1956‚ a preference share is one‚ which carries
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Types of shares: Share issued by a company can be divided into following categories: (I) Preference Shares: According to section 85 of the Companies Act‚ 1956‚ persons holding preference shares‚ called preference shareholders‚ are assured of a preferential dividend at a fixed rate during the life of the company. They also carry a preferential right over other shareholders to be paid first in case of winding up of the company. Thus‚ they enjoy preferential rights in the matter of: (a) Payment of
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Shares-A share is the interest of shareholder in terms of money in the business represented as a liability on the company. In the words of Justice Farewell‚ “The interest of a shareholder in the company measured‚ by a sum of money for the purpose of liability in the first place‚ and the interest (dividend) the second‚ but also consisting of various covenants entered into by the shareholder inter se.” It defines the relation between the company and shareholder. Shareholders are the real owners of
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SHARE CAPITAL Share capital is the Funds raised by issuing shares in return for cash or other considerations. The amount of share capital a company has can change over time because each time a business sells new shares to the public in exchange for cash‚ the amount of share capital will increase. Share capital can be composed of both common and preferred shares. Each share carrying a vote in the management of the business‚ managerial control may be limited. The authorized capital of a company is
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Based on the article given‚ titled “Behind Our Anxiety‚ the Fear of Being Unneeded” by Dalai Lama‚ the author addresses that people in this world faces different kind of problem than they had before. It is no longer consists of physical problems but also emotional problems. They are now facing the fear of being left alone and underappreciated. This problem arises because of the concern regarding the future. They are afraid that they would not be successful in their life. They think that they could
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Fear As the instructor put me in that choke hold on my second to last day of swim instruction I knew I broke the one rule I tried so hard not to. “Get the hell out of my pool” he yelled. I dangled there in the middle of the pool wondering how this man could hold me in a chokehold while keeping both of us afloat. “You weak bitch‚ get the fuck out of my pool”. As those words echoed through the empty olympic sized pool room I was let go‚ left to reach the side of the deep end under my own power
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