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    Chapter 6 Feb 1766 Lying curled up as a stoweaway in the forequarters of the ship along with the small slave girl and the Indian lady‚ He rewinded his trip. The curious cargo he was lying beside would have deep impact on the port which he was heading to. Although from the interior of Oman he had spent many a days at the foot of the local Wali where the children of the village would congregate under the date palm and the gurgling Wadi’s during late evenings after the magreb prayers to hear about

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    Chapter 1: Introduction Tourism nowadays represents the largest form of temporary migration in the world‚ tourism can be seen as the world’s largest industry. The World Tourism Organization (WTO) has recognised that heritage and culture have become a component in almost 40% of all international trips undetaken. * Heritage tourism is defined as; ’an immersion in the natural history‚ human heritage‚ arts‚ philosophy and institutions of another region or country’. The meaning of heritage

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    your employee climate. In fact‚ the Myers Briggs test is a great place to start. The Myer-Briggs type indicator (MBTI) is a personality assessment that scores individuals‚ assigning them 4 letters. The Myers-Briggs Foundation explains the 4 functions as: • Favorite world: Do you prefer to focus on the outer world or on your own

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    In Jack Kerouac’s novel‚ On The Road‚ main protagonist Dean Moriarty symbolizes an "almost" immortal flame of youth that embodies the rebellious generation of uncertainty that describes 1950s Beat culture. Desirable of everything at the same time‚ from his numerable fixations with drugs‚ his incalculable romantic entanglements with women‚ or his superficial preoccupation to be seen as an intellectual‚ we get to know Dean’s liberating and pioneering personality as the "Holy Goof" as well as an apparent

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    James Dean was a famous actor in the 1950’s who also loved to race cars. Dean was an up and coming new actor when tragedy struck. James was traveling in California when he rammed into the back of another car‚ and he was pronounced dead at the scene. This changed the movie world and it made people realize that tragedy can strike whenever‚ wherever. James Dean was born on February 8‚ 1931‚ in Indiana‚ to Winton Dean and Mildred Wilson. Soon after James was born‚ his dad became a dentist

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    A bodybuilder‚ Dean Wharmby‚ from Rochdale who eat junk food and drank eight cans of energy drink to gain weight‚ died of liver cancer‚ on July 19 caused by years of steroid abuse. Wharmby had been battling cancer for five and a half years. Dean Wharmby had a physique that was admirable to many. He was big and he was bulging‚ and that was exactly what he was looking for. He was obsessed with getting bigger and ate a diet that consisted of 10‚000 calories a day‚ many of which came from unhealthy

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    English 223 12 November 2015 The Dean Dilemma The protagonist and antagonist‚ Dean Moriarity is the manifestation of the Beat counterculture generation‚ experimenting with drugs and immersing himself in music‚ he portrays the perfect example of divergence from the mainstream. Dean’s portrayal of the complete anti-conformist ideal questions the undisputed belief of conventionalism and depicts defiance to collective ideals to the most extreme in a positive light. Dean “responsible perhaps‚ for everything

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    weren’t for the help of the world’s greatest hunter‚ Dean Winchester. Dean is one of the two main protagonists‚ of the American fantasy horror television series called Supernatural‚ he is mainly portrayed by the actor Jensen Ackles. This story revolves around him and his brother‚ Sam Winchester as they travel all the way throughout the United States while driving their ’67 Chevy Impala‚ to hunt supernatural creatures and save the world. Dean Winchester was born into a family of hunters in Lawrence

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    titled November 2036: The Silent Towns‚ a man‚ Walter Gripps finds himself to be the only man left on Mars because every other human that had settled there decided to return to Earth after hearing of a nuclear war breaking out there. A swell idea...‚.He eventually can contact the last woman on Mars‚ Genevieve Selsor‚ through telephone and plans to meet her in town. Walter pictures this woman as he hears her‚ sweet and fine. Voices may be deceiving. Walter had been so excited to meet her. He had a smile

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    Michael Hemmingson 9700 Gilman Drive PMB 241 La Jolla‚ CA 92093 michaelhemmingson@yahoo.com approx. 2‚300 words My Review of Bill by Vern Myers Michael Hemmingson Bill: A Novella. Vern Myers. NY: Pelican Publishing. 102 pp. Cloth‚ $17.95. Reviewed by Gerald Bass To start‚ I would like you to know that I am writing this book review on an old fashioned manual typewriter‚ an Olympia Model 9 in fact‚ that I purchased at a consignment antique store. I think this

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