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Corpus of a Siam Mosquito

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...t beginning and yet it was monotonous in the darkness and the light of the street lamps that refracted glaringly. The three of them still remained as ... ...never to be trusted. The favored people did not have everyday to roam the streets like homeless but highly mobile mendicants, their every movement en... ...icants, their every movement enslaved and dictated by the pronouncement of street names called out from the back seat. "Do young people like you have ... ...er really because that way you don't slip away at all but just put on some modern armor. It is like feeling invincible--like slipping on a soldier's ... ...where aiming guns for the open windows of busses and targeting other rival gangs had no consequences. "I am a man now. I don't want to hear bull... ...of Kazem and Suthep. He didn't resist Kumpee's plan to replant them in the modern sordid capital of Bangkok. He sensed all along that Kumpee would le...

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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...urer, very good looking, well bred and an excellent dancer". He lived at 18 Bruton Street in Mayfair, London (a prestigious address). Simpson'... ...erpetrators fled the country only to return, triumphant, after the establishment of modern Turkey in 1923. The Turkish government today denies that ... ...1910. http://www.armenian-genocide.org/ http://www.cilicia.com/armo10.html Art, Modern We are all acquainted with the tales - many apocryphal,... ...ediscovered in 1915. Henri Matisse is revered as the father of Fauvism and of modern painting in general. Yet, one of his more famous tableaux... ... 1582. Thursday, October 4 was followed by Friday, October 15. People rioted in the streets throughout Europe, convinced that they have been robbed ... ...viction for tax fraud. In the 1920s, the FBI was not authorized to investigate gangsters and organized crime. Capone's first arrest - by the... ...amendments to confer suffrage on black males. The Union army consigned black labor gangs to work on the plantations of loyal Southerners and forcib... ...nes abound and new ones are discovered frequently. One fault line runs under 125th street in Manhattan, New-York. Still, in the last 5 centuries,...

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Veritas Neo: The New Vision for a New Reality

By: Kee

...reek that connotes a "new" or recent form of something, or a revival in a modern form.; connotes a conscious revival of a lapsed original, invariably... ...this thing that you've created. And it stands there, towering over you; a modern angel of death--Trin said the angel of genocide, I think she learne... ...is happening outside of you. It's not something that's happening down the street or around the block or across the country or over the ocean. It hap... ...k or across the country or over the ocean. It happens next door, the next street over, it happens right where you're standing. Fear. And out of your... ...ighting against, you see every day: wars between religions, countries and gangs, the teasing and mocking that goes on in playgrounds at schools, and... ...he teasing and mocking that goes on in playgrounds at schools, and in the streets. It is fear of the unknown, fear of someone that is different from ...

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Man with No Name

By: Wally Amos

...of Aunt Della's. So when I wasn't off learning how to operate on the mean streets of New York City, I was hanging around Aunt Della's mixing bowl. ... ...f Aunt Della's. So when I wasn't off learning how to operate on the mean streets of New York City, I was hanging around Aunt Della's mixing bowl. ... ...hi­ nese, Puerto Ricans, Jews. Outside the school, I had to deal with the gangs which were prevalent in New York. One day, a muscu­ lar, tough-lookin... ...r not being able to read food packages, instructions on medicine bottles, street signs, grocery lists, love letters or job ap­ plications! Each year,... ...ies in print, this book is on it's way to becoming one of the classics of modern healing literature. $11.95 Order Form Date (Please print legibly...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics Pgs 223-266 Human Psychobiolog... ... Human Psychobiologic Totality. Chapter 5: Modern Humans: Pgs 267-299 The Transition from Hunter... ...onder Pg 218 Normality Pg 219 Reality Pg 220 Conclusion Chapter Four: Modern Humans Psychobiologic Totality Pg 223 The Slow Death of Hum... ...rst, Second and Third species of predators: the urge to mob together in large gangs… along with some minimal social cooperation:… with liking and se... ... shock, cunning and stealth, and power. The advantages of deception, terror, gangsterism: the cooperation of criminals for criminal purposes… we onl... ... What is invisible in this symbiotic relationship is that it is a one-way street… a total, complete, lopsided imbalance. Our tools evolved: we ... ...pised as a city full of craven cowards and idiotic fools who ran out into the street with baskets of roast dogs for the latest invading army of conq... ...What’s more: it increased the criminal elements in society, and magnified the gangsters of Prohibition to an admired status-level that is still in e... ...al standing is being hoarded by the upper classes. This process is a two-way street: the masses acquiescing, and the upper strata taking as much as ...

... our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects and dynamics of the Organic Universe and Organic Life. 3: The origins of modern humans going back 25 million years. 4: Human Psycho-biology. 5: The beginnings of civilization. 6: The effect of civilization upon humans. 7: Death, the existence of evil and its effect on humans. Offered as a...

... Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics Pgs 223-266 Human Psycho-biologic Totality. Chapter 5: Modern Humans: Pgs 267-299 The Transition from Hunter-gatherers to Settlements Chapter 6: Civilization Pgs 300-704 ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book I : Touchdown

By: Bob Oconnor

...than made up for it in the burgeoning population. “It seems that each modern decade has its special problems. The 40s required the surrender o... ...angered many countries. Crime families disrupted the 14 cities and youth gangs terrorized neighborhoods. The 21 st century began with violent se... ...ctional, loving, humanitarian citizens of the world. “But more, the modern level of technology requires a more intelligent citizen to provide... ...the meals that the few executive chefs plan and input into their computers. Modern society does not need the drones required in the Middle Ages to t... ... be a double blessing—healthy protein for the adults and fewer waifs on the streets. It would keep their mothers from begging for food for them and ... ...idge, then at the south end of the lake, that is below the house across the street, there is a dam that creates the lake. The overflow from the dam ... ...s actor I ever met was James Cagney. His daughter Casey lived just down the street. One Christmas afternoon I was napping in bed, resting from a long... ...rican township? Would you choose to live in a favela in Sao Paulo with drug gangs in control of your slum neighborhood? Or would you prefer to live ... ...earlier. Poorer women, whose children would most likely find their way into gangs and crime, procured abortions and thus reduced the number of potent...

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And Gulliver Returns Book V : My Visit to Singaling

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

... would like. Just step into my limo and we‟ll be off.” As we toured the streets of the capitol city I was reminded of the country I had just left. ... ...The magnificent buildings were monuments to the most creative thoughts of modern architecture. The pastel hued apartments were a colorful backdrop f... ... The Singalingians were, even then, on the right track for developing a modern economic force and reducing the ecological concerns which had long ... ...e former Soviet Union that little old ladies were given jobs sweeping the streets with their long brooms, while in my country a single person at the ... ...ooms, while in my country a single person at the controls of a mechanical street sweeper did the work of thousands of little old ladies in a single d... ... It is effective people-oriented leadership that is essential for a modern society. Plato’s philosopher kings set a standard, but few leaders ... ...lly. “With illegals the crime rate goes up. In Spain Latin American gangs are causing problems. In Greece it is the Albanians. In Norway it is...

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Bozo and the Storyteller

By: Matt Jones

... you scared by the storm? It’s taken out all of the electricity for three streets,’ Sandra said, as she placed the candle on Theo’s bedside table. T... ...that no one saw him. He scaled the wall in one leap and dashed across the street to an empty phone box. A minute later he was back across the road a... ...s back in fashion. She’d f t in with all the other chic women walking the streets of Rome. Wiping the sleep from her eyes, she poured herself a small... ...Although all the build- ings were made of stone, it seemed to Theo quite a modern city, with rows of shop fronts and parked cars. At that hour, thoug... ...I thought some- thing must have happened. Poor Ali. He wasn’t made for the modern world. He chose to isolate himself in that damned desert of his.’ S... ...t. The ship was an old junk but some of the navigation devices were quite modern. ‘In the old days we navigated by the stars,’ the captain told him. ... ...w I grew up. My parents were enslaved to a contract to work with the road gangs. A day after giving birth to me, my mother was break- ing rocks again...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...e was not aware of the ‗pleasure center‘ in the brain--the medial forebrain bundle. It is here that the major effects of orgasm are centered. Modern... ...y I would guess that his research would have taken a different path and his theories would have been either strengthened or abandoned based on modern... ...s? What is it that keeps them so contented. Certainly people in my country need both. The media extol the joys and the promises of sex and the street... ...who are driven to seek pleasure. Adler believed that we are driven for power over our environment -- for superiority. He is backed up by such modern... ... fashion our own lives. If we all develop inferiority complexes when we are young because we can‘t walk or feed ourselves, we can‘t cross the street... ... South Africa is Africa‘s richest country. On the other hand its poverty rate has doubled in the last ten years. But they have their criminal gangs ... ...he Hypocrites, and be firm against them, their abode is Hell-- an evil refuge indeed.‘ (6a) ―We wonder if the violence we see on the street... ...other common use of power to overcome one‘s inferiority. ―Bullying is getting worse as students‘ self esteem drops. And as with violent gangs,... ... Biblical or Koranic values we learned as children have been pushed to the unconscious level by our new beliefs—that killing members of other gangs ...

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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

...nd fanatic as well as a servant of the mind; but as they walked along the Belgrade streets it could easily be seen that none of them had quite enou... ... social anomie, terror and banditry. From Steven Sowards' "Twenty Five Lectures on Modern Balkan History, The Balkans in an Age of Nationalism", 1... ... did not smile upon the IMRO. It fragmented and its shreds fought each other in the streets of Sofia, Chicago-style. By 1934, the IMRO was a full- f... ...ization. They ran protection rackets ("protecting" small shop-owners against other gangs and "insuring" them against their own violence). Hotels in... ... years of "taxation". Robberies and assassinations were daily occurrences. So were street shoot-outs and outright confiscation of goods. The IMRO h... ...er on the promise to end all terrorist activities - a promise which he kept. The modern Republic of Macedonia is today ruled by a party called VM... ...red what the local populace had to say. The Austrian brought roads and railways and modern mining and forestry and industry to this hitherto Europea... ... 1913 "Instead of using their authority and impartiality to restrain terrorist gangs of Albanian extremists, we face the situation in which the... ...h control the "Balkan Route" - the same clans that faced down the fearsome Turkish gangs on their own turf - would have never let an upstart such a...

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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

... Contents Foreword 9 Tracing modernization 9 * Theoretical perspectives 11 * Fieldwork and the resea... ...st forest village 58 Village houses 62 Traditional pillar house 62 * Modern houses 63 * Return of the pillar house 64 * Building practices ... ...tensive farming and the environment 118 Future of agriculture 119 After modernization 119 * How much is enough? 121 Pictures 124-173 Reference... ... but many people are still unwilling to give up land in order to widen the streets, as plots are also small, and the compounds no longer have the spac... ...er have the space to build a new house. Thirty years ago, the main village street was quiet, someone might ride along slowly on a bicycle and an ox ca... ...cycle and an ox cart clatter on, raising a little dust. Nowadays, the main street is congested, as it is used as a short-cut by many motorists who don... ...ke. In Bangkok, and probably soon elsewhere, too, young people's motorbike gangs are a problem. Young people, and older men, too, killed in road traff... ... workmen who are helping us cut the sugar cane. There are two cane cutting gangs in our village, groups of about ten people. When I had seen the gang,... ...arrels cruising the streets of Lampang, each bombarding other vehicles and gangs positioned at roadsides. The dousing starts several days before Songk...

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And Gulliver Returns Book III : A Visit to Kino

By: Bob Oconnor

...TURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 3 My Visit to Kino A Modern Sino-Province 2 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” ... ...an move forward more quickly and find solutions to problems that work in a modern and globalized world. Kino, as a new country, didn‟t ha... ...ogress toward utopia. Kino has had the opportunity to experiment in a modern “society based” society. That is, the rights of the society as a w... ...ugh the capital I was amazed by the cityscape. There were no rickshaws nor street sellers nor beggars. We sped along the elevated concrete freeways ... ...t week did nothing to rinse the memories of the graffiti, the trash on the streets, and even the fear for one's life-- at home, in places of business... ...gainst the anti-social groups that might applaud crime, such as your youth gangs and mafias. ―One of our biggest problems was in making governm... ...white collar crime is to be pursued as aggressively as organized crime and street criminals, there‘s hope for the country. But people in government ... ...drugs, if so which ones? When youth attempt to show their power in clubs or gangs, what sort of activity should be allowed. What about prison sentenc...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

... field is the progeny of Charles Dow of Dow Jones fame and the founder of the "Wall Street Journal". He devised a method to discern cyclical pattern... ...ogy - for instance by Burton Malkiel in his seminal work, "A Random Walk Down Wall Street." The paradox is that technicians are more orthodox th... ...tly summarized in Craig McKinlay and Andrew Lo's tome "A Non-random Walk Down Wall Street" published in 1999. Not all markets are strongly effic... ...ew, lest prices are not swayed. Studies cited in Edwin Elton and Martin Gruber's "Modern Portfolio Theory and Investment Analysis" and elsewhere s... ...International (UPI) Also Read: The Business of Risk Risk transfer is the gist of modern economies. Citizens pay taxes to ever expanding governmen... ...eurs to assume more of it, banks to get rid of it, and traders to hedge against it. Modern risk exchanges liberated Western economies from the tyran... ... with goods and services. Criminal - These economies are infiltrated by criminal gangs or suffused with criminal behaviour. Such infiltration is ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...ans are more likely to be given the task of healing the afflicted. In our modern world we look to science for probabilities, such as which potential... ...ewards in discovering truths or otherwise advancing technology. ―Modern American youth have been told repeatedly that they are special. They... ... being the least corrupt. (2) ―Every system, whether primitive or modern, seems to have input from pressure groups, often with great financi... ...ne‘s superiority, becomes the reason for living for many. Look at violent gangs. Look at ultimate fighting. Look at the rise in popularity of kick b... ... court rulings that allow the criminals, for whatever reason, to roam the streets and practice their malevolent inclinations. ―Our court man... ...ies is such a testimony to artistic free expression—and ostensibly to the street artists‘ First Amendment rights of free speech. ―The fact that... ...e lower classes content watching their televisions and not rioting in the streets. How can the cream of every ethnic and religious group be allowed ... ...al and South American countries and in sub-Saharan Africa. ―Street gangs of Vietnamese, Armenians, Salvadorians, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Cuba... ...m immediate acceptance and recognition. ―But it‘s not just about gangs. To get work, illegal immigrants are brazen about acquiring forged d...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

...assage of the Atlantic before the time of Columbus -- Noah's Ark compared with modern vessels -- Egypt a country of marvels -- A great naval battle 12... ... against Carthage -- An ancient ship that exceeded in size and splendor of any modern vessel 67-69 CHAPTER V. Superstitions which long disputed the pr... ...tion of its size and splendors -- The walls of the city -- Its battlements and streets -- How the social evil of Cambalue was utilized -- The Great Ka... ...ls a resort to cannibalism -- A prophecy of calamity -- Terrible battle in the streets of the capital -- The city is set on fire -- Capture of the emp... ...f the emperor -- Horrors which followed the siege -- 75,000 dead bodies in the streets -- The torture of Guatemozin and the prince of Tacuba -- Mexica... ...................... 543 INTRODUCTION. ANCIENT HISTORY possesses a charm which modern annals cannot rival; there is a sun-tinted mist of romance envel... ...engaged not only to hunt the hapless captives, but to guard them when in chain gangs they went to and from their labor in the mines. As the Indians of...

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Died and Moved In

By: Christine Jones

...ng to Carson. Who’s Sue?” He asks me. “She owns the grocery store down the street, why?” “Okay Sis, this is what happened. Carson rang the emergency ... ... whilst we continue to groom the sheep that are as placid as two opposing street gangs locked in the same room. Ali helps to restrain these raging m... ... we continue to groom the sheep that are as placid as two opposing street gangs locked in the same room. Ali helps to restrain these raging monsters... ...anding on the pavement; Michael unlocks the passenger side door. The main street looks busier than it did prior to our stroll. People have had lunch... .... My old stereo sits in the corner near the buffet. It’s not one of those modern ten stack CD players with duel tape decks, like the one I have in t...

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Moby-Dick or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...kfast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 6 The Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 7 The C... ...poor devil of a Sub Sub appears to have gone through the long Vaticans and street stalls of the earth, picking up whatever random allusions to whales ... ...a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off — then, I account it hi... ...ning here. By all accounts Tarshish could have been no other city than the modern Cadiz. That’s the opinion of learned men. And where is Cadiz, shipma... ...ient days, when the Atlantic was an almost unknown sea. Because Joppa, the modern Jaffa, shipmates, is on the most easterly coast of the Mediterranean... ...eworthy? It is well known that at the coronation of kings and queens, even modern ones, a certain curious process of seasoning them for their function... ...Besides, it was the stronger men in the Town Ho that had been divided into gangs, taking turns at the pumps; and being the most athletic seaman of the... ...n of them all, Steelkilt had been regularly assigned captain of one of the gangs; consequently he should have been freed from any trivial business not...

...: Etymology, 1 -- Extracts, 3 -- 1 Loomings, 15 -- 2 The Carpet-Bag, 20 -- 3 The Spouter-Inn, 24 -- 4 The Counterpane, 36 -- 5 Breakfast, 40 -- 6 The Street, 42 -- 7 The Chapel, 45 -- 8 The Pulpit, 48 -- 9 The Sermon, 51 -- 10 A Bosom Friend, 59 -- 11 Nightgown, 63 -- 12 Biographical, 65 -- 13 Wheelbarrow, 68 -- 14 Nantucket, 72 -- 15 Chowder, 74 -- 16 The Ship, 77 -- 17 T...

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American Notes

By: Rudyard Kipling

...n I had tangled myself up in a hopeless maze of small wooden houses, dust, street refuse, and children who played with empty kerosene tins, that I dis... ...ve smitten me, but he didn’t. He explained that no one ever used the word “street,” and that every one was supposed to know how the streets ran, for ... ...eren’t. Fortified with these directions, I proceeded till I found a mighty street, full of sumptuous buildings four and five stories high, but paved w... ...te girl, the daughter of a colonel, one of the first families of Georgia’s modern chivalry, and all the weary, weary rest of it. The Southern chivalry... ...run the pigs, the same end being appointed for each. Thus you will see the gangs of cattle waiting their turn—as they wait sometimes for days; and the...

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The Mirror of the Sea

By: Joseph Conrad

...from us on its way to the overshadowed Valley of Oblivion. The taking of a modern steamship about the world (though one would not minimize its respons... ...machinery must do its work even if the soul of the world has gone mad. The modern steamship advances upon a still and overshadowed sea with a pulsatin... ...for prompt despatch, the very size of his ship, stand nowadays between the modern seaman and the thorough knowledge of his craft. 40 The Mirror of th... ... like a mansion of flats (all to let), ex- iled into these fields out of a street in West Kensington. Just round the corner, as it were, on a pier def... ...t so. They lie open to their stream, with quays like broad clearings, with streets like avenues cut through thick timber for the convenience of trade.... ...truments of torture for ships swing cruel hooks at the end of long chains. Gangs of dock-labourers swarm with muddy feet over the gangways. It is a mo... ...ydney, where, from the heart of the fair city, down the vista of important streets, could be seen the wool-clippers lying at the Circular Quay—no wall...

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Aaron's Rod

By: D. H. Lawrence

... 11 D. H. Lawrence then went thudding along the side of the house, to the street. To Aaron Sisson, this was home, this was Christmas: the unspeakably... ...nsistent. In the frosty evening the sound carried. People passing down the street hesitated, listening. The neighbours knew it was Aaron practising hi... ...ld not get, and what this or the other had lost. When he got into the main street, the only street of shops, it was crowded. There seemed to have been... ...she was a friend of a very fashionable dressmaker and decorator, master of modern el- egance. Sometimes she designed dresses for him, and some- times ... ...muscles of a work- ing-man, one of the common people, the fons et origo of modern life. Jim was talking rather vaguely about Labour and Robert Smillie... ...e party threw off their wraps and sank deep into this expensive comfort of modern bohemia. They needed the Bach to take away the bad taste that Aida h... ...shouts of anger and derision against the carabinieri. There were once more gangs of men and groups of youths along the street. They sent up an occasio... ...risoner and the grey-green soldiers, and the street was left to the little gangs and groups of hang- dog, discontented men, all thoroughly out of coun... ...ery full this Sunday evening, almost impassable, crowded particularly with gangs of grey- green soldiers. The three made their way brokenly, and with ...

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