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...worldviews of peoples of Thailand and Finland, the past and future of local cultures. Matti Sarmela started collecting material on Northern Thailand in 1972. Based on a longitudinal field study, he wrote his description of three villages in Lampang Province, and the changes in villagers' lives over three decades. The book also speaks through the voices of villagers themse...

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...Matti Sarmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsinki 2005 ... ...R DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World ... ................................. I. 55 5. Popularity of house types 1982-2000 .... I. 66 6. Means of transport ............................ ...ll nations in the world, the same violence and immorality, the same circus amusements, the same global imitation and uniformity of consumption. In suc... ...he forest, here and there. There is no hurry, as there is no work. Someone rides past on a moped on an errand and returns in a moment. Someone is on h... ... respondents actually lived in. Table 5. Popularity of house types 1982-2000 A. Opinions of questionnaire respondents B. Questionnaire respondents'... ...n the 1990s by excavators. Today, when a farmer goes off to his fields, he rides there on a moped, a ploughing machine or an open pick-up truck. The p... ...om today, as the interviews show. The third day (Thalerngsok) was a day of amusement, when villagers would walk in procession along village lanes, pou... ... or angels (thewada), which also appear in religious literature, have been introduced to village Buddhism. The monks ask angels for protection, for ex...

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...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca N...

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... Book One: Sang Huin "It is probable, then, that if a man should arrive in our city, so clever as to be able to assume any character and imi... ... sacred, admirable, and charming personage, but we shall tell him that in our state there is no one like him, and that our law excludes suc... ...f Chongju. He answered to himself that the strung out schedule and the long rides matched his disorganized, wayward thoughts. It felt comfortable to ... ...for needed South Korean Won. Still, if his whole life was spent in these bus rides, fate was not bad. He could be a starving North Korean or one of th... ...posed pool tables to be more into the crowd. When someone of her own sex had introduced herself with lust in her eyes, Gabriele had wanted to sprint a... ...e skeletal remains and the ensuing trial. Gabriele felt as if she were at an amusement park and that her own little world were nothing but a house of ... ... top of it and witnessed what their senses allotted. Later, they went to the amusement park, Lotte World. For each ride they stood in line over half a... ...ida." He paused and turned to the older Seong Seob. "Go ahead. You've been introduced. You both are each other. Ask him how he is. I can't speak ... ...reak and had some bread and grape juice like one more cannibal eating Jesus' 2000 year old body and drinking the virulent tonic of his 2000 year old b...

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... Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not f... ...ed in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is ... ... how the dynamic of expanding 3-dimensional space works in bubble machines at amusement parks. The closer the bubbles are to the solid mouth which ... ...pearing from school text books. Fad theories and models are being constantly introduced to distract people from the fact that the basis of Scientif... ...rs, they go away from each other to escape conflict. Whenever a new gene is introduced: the entire Gene changes its Energy level. By using a gate... ... remaining 20%. That was ten years ago… now it is getting even worse: now in 20006: Personal wealth is distributed so unevenly across the world tha... ...s using it not to explode chemicals: he was using it to explode atoms. For 2000 years: the Greeks and Romans used the Science of Engineering to de... ...? Which is easier to drive? Faster? More comfortable? Has more gadgets? Rides smoother? Oops. You just lost your common sense. You prefer c... ...secret public spectacle for them… not for you… to look at in secret… for the amusement of the filthiest undead pornographic obscene unseen rotten in...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Vanity Fair: Volume Two (Chapters Twenty-six through Fifty) by ... ... of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is... ...d Amelia felt herself not a little amused and grateful to be thus suddenly introduced to so large a party of relations. “We’re all good fellows here,”... ... taken any notice of her all night. The Captain continued that deleterious amusement of smok- ing, long after the inn and the street were gone to bed.... ... theatre where a miraculous Catalani was delighting all hearers: beautiful rides, all enlivened with martial splendour; a rare old city, with strange ... ...ide out of England. Every day during this happy time there was novelty and amusement for all parties. There was a church to see, or a picture-gallery—... ..., as he stepped forward and shook Miss Crawley’s companion by the hand. He introduced Miss Briggs to the lady with whom he happened to be walking, the... ...o time, awaiting their masters, who will come cantering on anon. Tom Moody rides up to the door of the Hall, where he is welcomed by the butler, who o...

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...makes the memory of what once filled it a treasure to be brought forward with joy and thankfulness. Nor would it be well that some of those mentioned in the coming narrative should be wholly forgotten, and their place know them no more....

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...is labours. When the foundation stone is laid, the architect appears with his plans, and struts for an hour before the public eye. So with the writer in hisPreface: he may have never a word to say, but he must show himself for a moment in the portico, hat in hand, and with an urbane demeanour....

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...nsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, ... ...associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an elec... ... publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: J... ...t of Landrecies, said he; and although we knew very well how little credit we could do the place, we must have been churlish fellows to refuse an invi... ...oad over the meadows. It had a martial sound, like cavalry charges. And altogether, as far as the ears are concerned, we had a very rousing battle-pie... ... all this. On the whole, I was greatly solemnised. In the little pic- torial map of our whole Inland Voyage, which my fancy still preserves, and somet... ...th half a score of architectural fancies. Some of the niches are gilt and painted; and in a great square panel in the centre, in black relief on a gil... ...e frame; the eye is hard and proud; the very horse seems to be treading with gratification over prostrate serfs, and to have the breath of the trumpet... ...s we went by. It caused quite a stir in my heart; and yet how 84 Robert Louis Stevenson we should have wearied and despised each other, these girls a...

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Excerpt: In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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...ennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file... ...e associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an el... ...nt publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design:... ...e in the same convulsive and transitionary state as the Marquesans of to-day. In both cases an alien authority enforced, the clans disarmed, the chief... ...train, that we have almost forgotten its original, the most healthful, if not the most humane, of all field sports—hedge-warfare. From this, as well a... ...e whole population sit about the trader when he is weighing copra, and each on his own slate takes down the figures and computes the total. The trader... ...t which is now the calaboose, or prison; eastward still, alone in a garden, the Residency flies the colours of France. Just off Calaboose Hill, the ti... ...He must show us the church, still decorated with the bishop’s artless ornaments of paper— the last work of industrious old hands, and the last earthly...

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...Excerpt: Towards the middle of the month of May, in the year 1660, at nine o?clock in the morning, when the sun, already high in the heavens, was fast absorbing the dew from the ramparts of the castle of Blois a little cavalcade, composed of three men and two pages, re-ente...

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...uma [Pere] is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. A... ...m Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the... ...oduced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing ... ...who, from his great revenues, had it in his power to amuse himself so much better, could be satisfied with such mean diversions. “Do you not know,” on... ...ush for such a trifle as that! `My dear Raoul,’ we will say — ‘You implore me to write to you at Paris, where you are detained by your attendance on M... ...adame, who was not so preoccupied as her glorious spouse was, remarked this distraction of the page. “Well?” exclaimed she. “Well!” repeated Monsieur;... ..., and dismissing the boys with some kindly blows of his cane. “The devil! the devil!” repeated D’Artagnan, once more, as if to annoy the pedagogue. Bu... ...h! do not be angry, sire,” said D’Artagnan; “neither the couriers of Paris, nor the couriers of the whole world, can travel with your servant; the cou...

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...Preface: What is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another. That which is commonly called a long-sight, perceives in a prospect innumerable features and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is a...

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...Excerpt: The Shade of Cardinal Richelieu. In a splendid chamber of the Palais Royal, formerly styled the Palais Cardinal, a man was sitting in deep reverie, his head supported on his hands, leaning over a gilt and inlaid table which was covered with letters and paper...

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...ndre Dumas is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind.... ...Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any re- sponsibility for the material contained within the... ...produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishin... ...incurred. He was the son of a banker at Lyons named Particelli, who, after becoming a bankrupt, chose to change his name to Emery; and Cardinal Richel... ...is party were traversing the street “Les Bons Enfants” behind the theatre built by Richelieu expressly for the play of “Mirame,” and in which Mazarin,... ...at we should go and pull cloaks on the Pont Neuf; that is, you know, a diversion which the Duc d’Orleans made quite the fashion.” “Were you crazy, Roc... ...my lord does not know that there are eight guards about him, four in his chamber, four in the antechamber, and that they never leave him.” “But he lea... ... become a weary and almost hopeless task, and had it not been for the three- fold motives of honor, friendship and gratitude, implanted in their heart...

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...on his voyage to a country where your name is as well known as here. Wherever I am, I shall gratefully regard you; and shall not be the less welcomed in America because I am....

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...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF BOOK TWO by WIL... ... Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, Written by Himself: Book Two by W... ... of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is... ... been timorous and silent. She was as good as her word respecting him. She introduced him to her company, of which she entertained a good deal—of the ... ...of danger, and averted the shot of the enemy. My lady made feasts for him, introduced him to more company, and pushed his fortunes with such enthusias... ...is great example all his troops obey; Before the front the general sternly rides, With such an air as Mars to battle strides: Propitious heaven must s... ...lf a glass. Joseph required scarce more pressing than Dick to that sort of amusement; but the wine never seemed at all to fluster Mr. Addison’s brains... ...uman. The fainting battle gathers strength at his aspect; and, wherever he rides, victory charges with him.” A couple of days after, when Mr. Esmond r...

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...Excerpt: In a certain quiet and sequestered nook of the retired village of London -- perhaps in the neighborhood of Berkeley Square, or at any rate somewhere near Burlington Gardens--there was once a house of entertainment called the ...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Men’s Wives by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania St... ... of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is... ...east, her mother and she used to sail off at night to some place of public amusement, for Mrs. Crump had a mysterious acquaintance with all sorts of t... .... W alker is one of the principal of our dramatis personae. And so, having introduced Mr. W ., we will walk over with him to Mr. Eglantine’s emporium,... ...a visionary tambourine, and Mr. Walker, who was looking at her, and in his amusement at the mother’s performances had almost forgotten the charms of t... ... chances up to this time have been pretty equal. But that Captain whom you introduced, like an ass as you were—” “An ass, Mr. Woolsey! I’d have you to... ...; don’t you know dere is a gloveress that lets me have dem very sheap?” He rides in the Park; has splendid lodg- ings in Dover Street; and is a member...

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...Excerpt: Advertisement. The story of ?Catherine,? which appeared in Fraser?s Magazine in 1839-40, was written by Mr. Thackeray, under the name of Ikey Solomons, Jun., to counteract the injurious influence of some popular fictions of that day, which made heroes of highwaymen and burglars, a...

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... has displayed uncommon courage, seamanship, affability, or other good qualities, grateful passengers often present him with a token of their esteem, in the shape of teapots, tankards, trays, &c. of precious metal. Among authors, however, bullion is a much rarer commodity than paper, whereof I beg you to accept a little in the shape of this small volume. It contains a few ...

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...Excerpt: The Second Cabin. I first encountered my fellow-passengers on the Broomielaw in Glasgow. Thence we descended the Clyde in no familiar spirit, but looking askance on each other as on possible enemies. A few Scandinavians, who had already grown acquainted on the North Sea, were friendly and voluble over...

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...d without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pen... ...r the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson, th... ...e and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania St... ...t it had been on none; but the hearers were much awed. I called for a tune or two, and thus introduced myself to the notice of the brother, who direct... ...n bad at writing’; yet these theologians seem to have impressed him with a genuine sense of amusement. Why he did not go to the Sailors’ House I know ... ...myself in diet, associates, and consideration. Part of the interest and a great deal of the amusement flowed, at least to me, from this novel situatio... ... evening. The sun goes down, a swollen orange, as it were into the sea. A blue-clad peasant rides home, with a harrow smoking behind him among the dry...

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...NDBOX ..................................................................................................................... 74 STORY OF THE YOUNG MAN IN HOLY ORDERS .................................................................................... 96 STORY OF THE HOUSE WITH THE GREEN BLINDS ................................................................................1...

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...n two experiences, is doubly relative. The speaker buries his meaning; it is for the hearer to dig it up again; and all speech, written or spoken, is in a dead language until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. Such, moreover, is the complexity of life, that when we condescend upon details in our advice, we may be sure we condescend on error; and the best of education ...

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............................................................... 6 BOOK I THE EARLY YOUTH OF HENRY ESMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRINITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE.....................................................................................11 CHAPTER I AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF ESMOND OF CASTLEWOOD HALL ..................................... 14 CHAPTER II RELATES H...

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