Hector Munro (pseudonym Saki‚ 1870-1916) is a British novelist and a short-story writer. He is best known for his short stories. Hector Hugh Munro was a British writer‚ whose witty stories satirized Edwardian society and culture. The author’s style of writing is satirical in a humorous way. He uses a witty tone to mimic characters in order to subtly criticize them. The criticism is done in a subtle way that is humorous. The plot of the story revolves around a little orphan Nicholas who
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Saddam Hussein of Iraq and Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia were two very imposing dictators who ruled their nations cruelly and powerfully. Their tactics worked in the short run to superficially hold together ethnic tensions. However‚ both countries violently imploded from decades of internal repression after Tito died in 1980 and Saddam was captured in 2003. Saddam Hussein was born in 1937 into a very troubled household. His brother and father died shortly before his birth‚ and his mother refused to
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Christened as Samuel Langhorne Clemens‚ Mark Twain was born on November 30‚ 1835 in the small river town of Florida‚ Missouri‚ just 200 miles from Indian Territory. The sixth child of John Marshall Clemens and Jane Lampton‚ Twain lived in Florida‚ Missouri until the age of four‚ at which time his family relocated to Hannibal in hopes of improving their living situation. By lineage‚ Twain was a Southerner‚ as both his parents’ families hailed from Virginia. The slaveholding community of Hannibal
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large 3 ½ million and diverse – wide range of nationalities‚ religions‚ existence of slavery in some states Antifederalists cited size and diversity of America as asserting that a national regime would be a threat to personal liberty “Brutus” pseudonym for a New York Antifederalist (probably Robert Yates)‚ a convention delegate who bolted Federalist #10 is a response to Brutus I Text confederated government vs. one great republic United States as an assembly of states; the Philadelphia
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5.2.3 Impact APMIS is an online tool that can be accessed via an internet browser. This means that no costly installation of software is required. A simple connection to the internet is sufficient to refer to relevant data which is stored in a cloud. By this manner APMIS is suitable for any type of health institute. The different modules of the HIS system can control the flow of data and thereby improve the management system of respective health facility and the patient care by immediately providing
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The lives of women in the nineteenth century were greatly shaped by an attitude that believed women should be domesticated‚ pure‚ pious‚ and submissive; true women focused their lives around the family and the home‚ influencing husbands and children by providing them a moral compass. These women‚ however‚ were shielded from the outside world and were neither influenced by nor a part of the politics and business taking place on the other side of their doors. The idea that women were meant for households
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text messaging‚ blogging‚ instant messaging‚ and web pages has developed a rise in the vulnerability of people as potential targets. The electronic bullies have the ability to preserve their anonymity by formulation temporary e-mail accounts and pseudonyms in chat rooms‚ instant messaging programs‚ and other Internet venues. The individuals who bully using the cyberspace have the ability to hide behind a measure of anonymity. The effects of
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including most famously The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955). The name “Tolkien” (pron.: Tol-keen; equal stress on both syllables) is believed to be of German origin; Toll-kühn: foolishly brave‚ or stupidly clever - hence the pseudonym “Oxymore” which he occasionally used. His father‚ Arthur Reuel Tolkien‚ was a bank clerk. Mabel Tolkien was diagnosed as having diabetes‚ usually fatal in those pre-insulin days. She died on 14 November By this time Ronald was already showing
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Edward S. Aarons was an American novelist best known for writing the Assignment series of novels. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Edward Ronns and Paul Ayres and also under his real name publishing more than 80 novels of which about half were in the assignment series over nearly four decades of writing. He also penned several numerous short stories for Scarab and Detective Story Magazine. While he wrote other short stories over the years‚ his assignment series was his most popular work as they
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The work of the Neapolitan writer Elena Ferrante has received much attention in recent years‚ becoming the subject of countless articles‚ not only in the Italian press‚ but also in many of the world’s most prestigious publications. Paolo di Paolo‚ writing for La Stampa‚ provides us with a succinct description of the “caso Ferrante”: “Merita perciò di essere studiato il fenomeno-Ferrante: un’autrice di cui tuttora si ignora l’identità salutata qualche settimana fa dal New Yorker come una grande artista
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