After the last battle of the American Civil war‚ the fate of the confederate states remained uncertain. The actions taken were to readmit the former confederate states and allow for the building of the southern economy and society. In a word this was reconstruction; putting back the shattered fragments of the union. Ultimately‚ reconstruction failed and the reasons for this failure are numerous. They include widespread corruption‚ white supremacy being allowed to dominate the south‚ entrenched racist
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“Lolita‚ light of my life‚ fire of my loins. My sin‚ my soul” The opening lines of ‘Lolita’ directly initiate the reader into the essence of Nabokov’s bewildering novel where an obviously pedophilic protagonist Humbert Humbert narrates his undying love/lust for the questionably innocent twelve year old Dolores Haze‚ better known as Lolita. Humbert‚ in his extravagant and flowery description of Lolita‚ implies the word "nymphet"‚ a term invented by Humbert himself and introduced to the English language
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COLLEGE STUDENT GAMBLING: EXAMINING THE EFFECTS OF GAMING EDUCATION WITHIN A COLLEGE CURRICULUM A Thesis Presented by MARYANN CONRAD Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE September 2008 Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management © Copyright by Maryann Conrad 2008 All Rights Reserved COLLEGE STUDENT GAMBLING: EXAMINING THE EFFECTS OF GAMING EDUCATION WITHIN A COLLEGE
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BULLYING AS DEVIANT BEHAVIOR Deviance acts as a violation of social norms characterized as "any thought‚ feeling or action that members of a social group judge to be a violation of their values or rules".1 Social norms are viewed as the actions or behaviors and cues within a society or group. This sociological term has been defined as "the rules that a group uses for appropriate and inappropriate values‚ beliefs‚ attitudes and behaviors.”2 It indicates the established and approved ways of doing
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For Many years there have been debates on the possibilities of legalizing marijuana. There are many different opinions on this touchy subject. The opinion many have on marijuana being legalized in Canada would be a lawful act. The fact that marijuana is not as harmful as alcohol and other legal drugs would make it acceptable‚ and how taxing marijuana would bring in more money to Canada’s government. Also legalizing marijuana would free up police and court recourses‚ to fight against
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Chapter 15 COMPANY SECURITIES 15.1 DEBENTURES This is a written acknowledgement of a debt owed by a company. Whilst it is possible for some debentures to be unsecured‚ those given to the bank will usually incorporate a fixed and / or a floating charge over the company’s assets. 15.2 FIXED CHARGE This is a charge which immediately encumbers specific assets of the company. Accordingly‚ the chargee’s (bank) consent would be required if the company is to deal with or dispose the assets
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Stand-up comedy From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (October 2006) B. J. Novak in a stand-up comedy routine at Olde English sketch comedy in June 2007. B. J. Novak in a stand-up comedy routine at Olde English sketch comedy in June 2007. Stand-up comedy is a style of comedy where the performer
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BACKGROUND: The history of Ireland is not unlike that of Britain in that it is marked by successive waves of invasion and colonization. Robert Welch writes in his book Changing States of a 12th century compilation called The Book of Invasions that details previous invasions of Ireland up to that point stretching back into antiquity (271); obviously "Ireland was a country which was being constantly invaded and resettled" (Welch‚ 272). When the Normans came to Ireland in the 12th century after having
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Transfer of learning is the study of the dependency of human conduct‚ learning‚ or performance on prior experience. The notion was originally introduced as transfer of practice by Edward Thorndike and Robert S. Woodworth. They explored how individuals would transfer learning in one context to another context that shared similar characteristics – or more formally how "improvement in one mental function" could influence another related one. Their theory implied that transfer of learning depends on
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Crime and Punishment was the second of Fyodor Dostoevsky ’s most important‚ mature fictional works. It was first published in the conservative journal The Russian Messenger‚ appearing in twelve monthly installments in 1866. Dostoevsky left three full notebooks of materials pertinent to Crime and Punishment. These have been published under the title The Notebooks for Crime and Punishment‚ edited and translated by Edward Wasiolek. Dostoevsky began work on this novel in the summer of 1865. He originally
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