Moby Dick Context Herman Melville was born in New York City in 1819‚ the third of eight children born to Maria Gansevoort Melville and Allan Melville‚ a prosperous importer of foreign goods. When the family business failed at the end of the 1820s‚ the Melvilles relocated to Albany in an attempt to revive their fortunes. A string of further bad luck and overwork‚ however‚ drove his father to an early grave‚ and the young Melville was forced to start working in a bank at the age of thirteen. After
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LOOKING BACK ON EIGHTY YEARS By William Somerset Maugham In my long life I have seen many changes in our habits and customs. The world I entered when at the age of eighteen I became a medical student was a world that knew nothing of planes‚ motor-cars‚ movies‚ radio or telephone. When I was still at school a lecturer came to Canterbury and showed us boys a new machine which reproduced the human voice. It was the first gramophone. The world I entered was a world that warmed itself with
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DEFENSE MECHANISM Defense mechanisms are the "automatic" mental behaviors all of us employ to protect or defend ourselves from the "threat" of some emotional pain. More specifically‚ ego defense mechanisms are mental behaviors we use to "defend" our self-images from "invitations" to feel ashamed or guilty about something. Defense mechanisms in and of themselves are neither good nor bad; it is only in how appropriately they are used and how adaptive they are that determines if they are problematic
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PART IV. A VOYAGE TO THE COUNTRY OF THE HOUYHNHNMS. CHAPTER I. [The author sets out as captain of a ship. His men conspire against him‚ confine him a long time to his cabin‚ and set him on shore in an unknown land. He travels up into the country. The Yahoos‚ a strange sort of animal‚ described. The author meets two Houyhnhnms.] 1.1 I continued at home with my wife and children about five months‚ in a very happy condition‚ if I could have learned the lesson of knowing when I was well. I left my poor
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On "Daddy" Robert Phillips Finally the one way the poet was to achieve relief‚ to become an independent Self‚ was to kill her father’s memory‚ which‚ in "Daddy‚" she does by a metaphorical murder. Making him a Nazi and herself a Jew‚ she dramatizes the war in her soul. It is a terrible poem‚ full of blackness‚ and one of the most nakedly confessional poems ever written. From its opening image onward‚ that of the father as an "old shoe" in which the daughter has lived for thirty years—an explicitly
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Letters from Sri Ramanasramam VOLUMES I‚ II & Letters from and Recollections of Sri Ramanasramam By SURI NAGAMMA Translated by D. S. SASTRI Sri Ramanasramam Tiruvannamalai 2006 © Sri Ramanasramam Tiruvannamalai First Combined Edition : 1970 Second Edition : 1973 Third Edition : 1985 Fourth Edition : 1995 Fifth Revised Edition : 2006 — 2000 copies (Letters from and Recollections of Sri Ramanasramam included) CC No. 1024 ISBN: 81-88018-10-4 Price: Rs
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The Garuda Purana This is a translation of an abridged version of the Garuda Purana. The Garuda Purana is one of the Vishnu Puranas. It is in the form of a dialog between Vishnu and Garuda‚ the King of Birds. The second section of this Purana (given here) deals with issues connected with death‚ particularly funeral rites and the metaphysics of reincarnation. Portions of the Garuda Purana are used by some Hindus as funeral liturgy. Indeed‚ some consider it unlucky to read this text except
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DAS LVN FINAL STUDY GUIDE 1. Cardiac Catheterization (dye): 1333 Cardiac Catheterization: A cardiac catheterization is performed to obtain information about congenital or acquired heart defects‚ measure oxygen concentration‚ determine cardiac output‚ or assess the status of the heart’s structures and chambers. It may be performed during an angio cardiogram to study the function of the heart or blood supply or to diagnose congenital anomalies or valvular disease. Therapeutic treatments may be done
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This digital edition copyright © 2005‚ 2006 by Joseph H. Peterson. "He who refuses a copy of this book‚ or who suppresses it or steals it‚ will be seized with eternal trembling‚ like Cain‚ and the angels of God will depart from him." This part of the text includes the books Semiphoras and Schemhamforas (also spelled Schemhamphoras)‚ and Sepher Shimmush Tehillim or Use of the Psalms. This latter text was translated from the Hebrew into German by Gottfried Selig (1722-1795)‚ publisher of the German
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HISTORY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE What is the importance of learning the history of English language? To know any subject of study properly and to understand the basic facts and concepts with clarity‚ we need to know the relevant History of that subject likewise in English study also first we should go through the History of the English language to properly understand the basic structure of the English language. Is English a language? No! Definitely
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