The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln‚ His Agenda‚ and an Unnecessary War‚ gives another side of Lincoln and his time as president of the United States. The main purpose of this book is to examine myths that have been created by “Lincoln Scholars” and to hopefully expose the truth about the important events that went on during Lincoln’s time in office. (2) Thomas J. DiLorenzo wrote a total of eleven books and has also been published in national publications such as the Wall Street Journal
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he real option approach to investment decision making The real option approach to investment decision making does not provide a superior alternative to traditional methods Capital investment decisions are among the most important strategic decisions a company can make. Twenty years ago‚ managers began to realise that the traditional capital spending decision techniques such as discounting cash flow (DCF) were based on estimated revenues and costs and hence not appropriate in an uncertain arena
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plague. A war started by jealousy‚ carried on by reputation and ended in tragedy. In the novel‚ the Crucible‚ written by Arthur Miller‚ the Parris family‚ the Procter Family‚ Giles Corey‚ and the Putnam family can be compared and contrasted to their real life personas. Miller demonstrates a rather dramatic story of a group of families pulled together and ripped apart due to a jealous little girl. But his has some big differences to reality. Tituba‚ a slave from Barbados who was owned by the Parris
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A real life by Alice Munro I would like to start this presentation by asking you and myself something; what is a real life? I would like you to think for a few seconds‚ what is a real life for you‚ is it something subjective or objective‚ is it something easy or difficult to answer. Maybe‚ if we go beyond‚ I can ask you‚ what is real for you? Indeed‚ this is a difficult question‚ but I think that the writer of this story that we are discussing now‚ made a very close attempt to answer this huge
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history; Bigfoot. Its existence remains unknown as for the possible outcomes of what it may be and the evidence witnesses have claimed for it to be real. There has been deep thought of whether the phenomenon is fake‚ but society is not sure whether the evidence is real as well. In relation to the reality of Bigfoot‚ there is a controversy of whether God is real. The two‚ in comparison‚ both obtain oral and written evidence of their existence; but the difference between the two is the qualitative difference
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Welcome to the Desert of the Real is a 2002 book by Slavoj Zizek. A Marxist and Lacanian analysis of the ideological and political responses to the terrorist attacks on September 11‚ 2001. The book’s title comes from a quote delivered by the character Morpheus in the 1999 film The Matrix: "Welcome to the desert of the real" Zizek claims that the American Fantasy found in movies is secretly what Americans wanted. The ultimate fantasy of an individual living in a small town suddenly discovers the world
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and Juliet by William Shakespeare‚ the idea of tragedy being a tool to unite people and the act of tragedy showing who a real leader is versus who isn’t is explored throughout the whole play but especially towards the end. The idea of tragedy bringing people together is used at the end of the book when Romeo and Juliet lay dead and their families are trying to figure out what happened. The idea of tragedy showing who real leaders are versus who aren’t is used more of after the whole play is done.
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most important reason why he could not have not been real because how would know how to write.(Doc A/1) Finally‚ William Shakespeare could be a pseudonym is because the day he died there was no big recognition. For most celebrities today there is usually big recognition for them. It was like when he died it was just another commoner dead. If a commoner died nobody really noticed it. This is a way of saying Shakespeare was fake because when the real Shakespeare died nobody really noticed him since he
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The Housewives – Reality TV Show The Real Housewives of Miami features some of the most sizzling cities most prominent socialites. It stars Alexia Echevarria‚ the executive director of Venue magazine‚ former Texas native and prominent community activist Lea Black‚ Public Relations exec Marysol Patton‚ and Brazilian art curator Adriana De Moura-Sidi. Rounding out the group is Larsa Pippen‚ wife of retired basketball champ Scottie Pippen‚ and former NBA wife Cristy Rice. When they are not working
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Throughout the story of To Kill a Mockingbird the theme of real courage was portrayed multiple times. Two characters in particular embody this theme‚ and provide many examples of what real courage truly is. The first character that possess real courage is Scout’s father‚ Atticus. Atticus is fearless and courageous for taking on the case of Tom Robinson. He knew that the odds were stacked against him. Regardless he tried anyway because he was going to fight for what was right‚ even if he was the
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