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52 Ways To Magic America Ways To Magic America Flint
500 wordsTricks and treats 52 Ways to Magic America James Flint Fourth Estate? 9. 99, pp 320 James Flints first novel, Habitus, was a giant, sprawling, innovative book that wove together diverse and surreal narrative threads and revealed the author as talented and ambitious, if not always in complete command of the sheer bulk of his material. In his second, 52 Ways to Magic America, he has narrowed the focus, though not the ambition; here his big ideas are contained within the scope of a more linear narr...
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19 Th Century Ancient India
1,019 wordsOne mans beef The Myth of the Holy Copy DN Jha 183 pp, Verso Shortly before he died, at the age of 101, the Anglo-Bengali scholar and polemicist Nirad Chaudhuri received the leader of the Hindu nationalist BJP party, LK Advani, at his home in Oxford. The Hindu nationalists, who recently presided in Gujarat over Indias worst-ever anti-Muslim pogrom, had been pleased by some of Chaudhuri's offhand denunciations of the medieval Muslim invaders of India. They probably hoped that Indias most distingu...
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18 Th Century Jean Baptiste
1,152 wordsThe supermarket of history The Siege of Isfahan Jean-Christophe Rufin, trans Willard Wood 373 pp, Picador In Letter 72 of Montesquieu's Lettres Persanes, which was published in 1721, a Persian nobleman who has travelled from Isfahan to Paris meets a Frenchman who was extremely satisfied with himself. In a quarter of an hour he had decided three questions of ethics, four problems of history, and five scientific matters. I mentioned Persia to him, but I had hardly uttered four words when he contra...
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18 Th Century North And South
1,426 wordsThe Congo boys of Cardiff Sugar and Slate by Charlotte Williams 192 pp, Planet Encounters: How Racism Came to Ireland by Bill Rolston and Michael Shannon 108 pp, Beyond the Pale Publications In the mid- 19 th century William Hughes left Llangollen Baptist College in Wales and headed for the Congo to civilize, evangelist and proselytize in the name of Christian ministry and Caucasian might. He returned not long after with sickness in his body and two young men in tow. In the years to come, Nasa a...
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17 Th Century William And Mary
932 wordsPetticoat successions Ungrateful Daughters by Maureen Waller 469 pp, Hodder Just how Britain went from being the violently sectarian, king-killing, cash-strapped country it was in the 17 th century to the serene, stable and prosperous state of the 18 th is a transition that often gets overlooked. One minute, according to popular historiography, the Stuarts were frantically bullying parliament, pretending not to be Catholic and letting their spaniels walk all over the banqueting table. The next m...
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18 Th Century Artificial Intelligence
1,050 wordsTurks gambit The Mechanical Turk: The True Story of the Chess-Playing Machine That Fooled the World Tom Standage 288 pp, Allen Lane This is Tom Standage's third pocket-sized book delving into the history of science and engineering, and yet again he has found a subject that is not only fascinating, but which also resonates with contemporary issues. In The Victorian Internet, Standage explored the development of the telegraph, which permitted long-distance instantaneous communication for the first...
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5 Per Cent Rainbows End Crash
837 wordsThe old and the new Rainbows End: The Crash of 1929 Maury Klein Oxford? 27. 50, pp 345 It was the New Era. Like the origins of Jay Gatsby, the lineage of the phrase remains elusive. But it was certainly used in a speech by President Calvin Coolidge in November 1927 proclaiming that America was entering upon a new era of prosperity. As with New Economy 70 years later, it lauded a new economic condition grounded in continuing prosperity and freed from the old cycle of boom and bust. As I approache...
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18 Th Century Beggars Benison Clubs
631 wordsLibertines unite The Beggars Benison: Sex Clubs of Enlightenment Scotland and Their Rituals David Stevenson 265 pp, Tuck well Press Clubs were one of the 18 th century's great inventions. Clubbable, a word invented by Dr Johnson, was a coinage for the age. For men, the club promised a new form of sociability. Nowadays we associate clubs with reactionary habits, yet once they were self-consciously modern, allowing enlightened gentlemen to socialise outside the narrow confines of family or profess...
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21 St Century Kung Fu
855 wordsThe Matrix is a Perfect Movie for the 21 st Century The Matrix has found many fans since the release of the movie on March 31, 1999. The Matrix is based on a scientific theory that we are being run by computer programs. The computer program allows people inside the matrix to do anything they would like to do. In the opening sequence of the movie, it shows Trinity jumping across buildings that are separated by large streets in a highly populated town. Trinity is being chased by undercover officer...
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91 Sic 93 Blood Eternal Desperation
781 wordsThick as thieves In books and journalism, if were honest, everyone steals a little. Originality is literatures most testing requirement, as Shakespeare acknowledged in sonnet 76: So all my best is dressing old words new/ Spending again what is already spent. The flipside of imitation and theft, deliberate or unconscious, is that plagiarism lurks in the bloodstream of the book world like the unappeasable strain of some deadly virus. Damaging accusations can erupt at any moment. Last month, Doris ...
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50 Years Ago Hall Of Fame
682 wordsCan you name a toy that was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame this year, along with the Tonka Truck, beating over 80 other classics nominated last year, including Raggedy Ann and G. I. Joe, and that even has two different crayon colors named after it? That toy is Silly Putty, my friends. Now Silly Putty can add its name to that honored hall of fame, which includes time-cherished toys such as the Hold Hoop, Crayola Crayons, Lincoln Logs, and the Monopoly Game. Silly Putty is a pretty un...
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20 Th Century V Chip
1,587 wordsThe Simpsons Revolution Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie are some of the world s most favorite cartoon characters, and make up one of television s most famous shows, The Simpsons. These 5 intriguing characters, along with a large array of other characters, come straight from the imagination of writer, creator, and cartoonist Matt Growing. This 20 th Century Fox presentation of family life gives a facetious look at American families in the very late 20 th Century. The 5 leading character that...
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20 Th Century Freedom Of Speech
1,439 wordsConstitutionally, England does Europe II: Constitutionally, England does not exist. It is not mentioned in the title of the sovereign who rules? the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories. ? Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland have certain governmental institutions of their own, but England, having subsumed or created those institutions at one time or another, needs no special mention. Holding more than four-fifths of the population, howeve...
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21 St Century Introduced To Children Meece
516 wordsIn the 21 st century and throughout history individuals and groups have been affected by sociocultural contexts. The mass media probably has one of the biggest effects on culture. Through television, magazines and movies, what is in, out, cool and not cool is all portrayed. Adolescents are most directly affected by what our culture has become. From the moment of birth there are stereotypes placed on a child, if it s a baby boy, his things will be blue, and for a baby girl blankets and clothes wi...
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20 Th Century Socialism And Communism
1,583 wordsSocialist Theme in Recent History The seemingly swift rush of technological and industrial development throughout the 18 th and 19 th centuries led to success and advancement in the standard of living and abilities and comforts available to the public. This heightened life was not, however, available to all people equally. Instead, a reaction on the side of economic and social survival took over. The owners of large industrial giants started gaining the good life brought about by this time, whil...
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19 Th Century Nineteenth Century
820 wordsCharlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story that deals with many different issues that woman in the 19 th century had to deal with on a daily basis. In general the mistreatment of women was so commonplace that most of the time it wasn t even noticed. The two main characters of the story, taking place during the 19 th century, are the narrator and her husband, John. Life for the two is like most other marriages in this time period, except for the fact that the narrator is not...
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100 000 People Gun Ownership
1,390 wordsThe Comparison And Contrasts Of The Usage The Comparison And Contrasts Of The Usage Of Guns In The United States And Great Within the United States, every police officer carries and is trained in the usage of firearms. Also, we have much less strict rules about gun usage and ownership of guns. Conversely, In Britain, only special police squads use guns and gun ownership is strictly regulated. This paper will attempt to compare and contrast gun usage in both societies and, hopefully, give a glimp...
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19 Th Century 20 Th Century
1,904 wordsWhat is Sociology? This article is designed primarily for those who are completely new to sociology and would like some help and guidance as to the exact nature of the subject-matter of sociology. However new you are to sociology it is probable that you have an idea, however vague and general, regarding what sociology is supposed to be about. It may be that you have an idea that sociology is about people. And you would be right to think so. We might start then by noting that sociology is one of ...
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19 Th Century Steam Engine
547 wordsThe steam engine was arguably the most important machine technology in the Industrial Revolution. The steam engine is a mechanical device that was used to transfer the energy of steam into mechanical energy. This was used for a wide variety of applications, including propulsion and generating electricity. The basic principle of a steam engine involves transforming the heat energy of steam into mechanical energy. This is done by permitting the steam to expand and cool inside a cylinder with a mov...
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20 Th Century Discovering Authors
724 wordsStephen Edwin King, a popular American writer, was born in Portland, Maine on September 21, 1949. He is a storyteller who plots to explore the effects of evil and fear (Academic American Encyclopedia 81; World Book 323). Stephen King goes by many names or pseudonyms and they are Richard Bachman and John Switches (Major 20 th Century Writers 1626). He said, I just want to scare people. I m very humble about that. He has won both critical acclaim and enormous popular success (Academic American Enc...
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