...Why do Asians really become doctors and lawyers? Why do Asians really play the piano? Many people believe that the reason has to do with the press... ...y people believe that the reason has to do with the pressure to perform and the pressure to conform, however, it goes much deeper than that much, mu... ...oes much deeper than that much, much deeper! This didactic novel — reveals the truths about Asian culture, which will shock you to the marrow of yo... ...ection agent. Why is the airbag on my side so small? It's like the size of a Game “ Boy, Gabriel asks. He's the type of person that demands an answer... ... over to his house to play Nintendo. Back then, the Japanese had the newest games to hit the market. So Gabriel made a lot of new friends in no time... ...red. For those of you that are not cognizant of Street Fighter, it's a video game that started out in the late 80's to become the greatest fighting g... ...th the needless change in spelling. And if that's not bad enough, there's a rapper that goes by the moniker, 50 cent— they can't even spell their own...

...Why do Asians really get straight A's? Why do Asians really become doctors and lawyers? Why do Asians really play the piano? Many people believe that the reason has to do with the pressure to perform and the pressure to conform, however, it goes much deeper than that—much, much deeper! This didactic novel reveals the truths about Asian c...

...an By Herman Melville A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ... for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...het from Utah.” “Humbug!” “Singular innocence.” “Means something.” “Spirit-rapper.” “Moon-calf.” “Piteous.” “T rying to enlist interest.” “Beware of h... ...pace before him, people would have a bout at a strange sort of pitch-penny game, the cripple’s mouth being at once target and purse, and he hailing ea... ...the cir- cumstance that the pennies thus thrown proved buttons. While this game of charity was yet at its height, a limping, gimlet-eyed, sour-faced p... ...oatman. 18 The Confidence-Man “How can I go find ‘em myself? Dis poor ole game-legged darkie’s friends must come to him. Oh, whar, whar is dat good f...

...Excerpt: At sunrise on a first of April there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac at the lake Titicaca, a man in cream-colors, at the water-side in the city of St. Louis. His cheek was fair, his chin downy, his hair flaxen, his hat a white fur one, with a long fleecy nap. He had neither trunk, valise, carpet-...

...24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 ii The Bostonians Chapter 25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... ...ee you, because she doesn’t know whether she is or not, and she wouldn’t for the world expose herself to telling a fib. She is very honest, is Olive Ch... ...h a visitor, kept waiting for a few moments, was already absorbed in a book. The gentleman had not even needed to sit down to become interested: appar... ...ken.’ ‘Well, so it is; they are all witches and wizards, mediums, and spirit rappers, and roaring radicals.’ Basil Ransom stared; the yellow light in ... ...him say to himself, after the first angry blush, that here he would enter the game and here he would win it—so much Olive Chancellor could not know; wh... ...bewildered; he won dered what type, after all, he had got hold of, and what game was being played with him. Why had she made advances, if she wanted ... ... advances, if she wanted to pinch him this way? However, he was good for any game—that one as well as another—and he saw that he was ‘in’ for somethin...

...y, but either nine or eleven. She didn?t tell me to say she was glad to see you, because she doesn?t know whether she is or not, and she wouldn?t for the world expose herself to telling a fib. She is very honest, is Olive Chancellor; she is full of rectitude. Nobody tells fibs in Boston; I don?t know what to make of them all. Well, I am very glad to see you, at any rate.? ...

... Polly by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of Mr. Polly by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate- ... ...ad succeeded his mother was an economist and furniture polisher, a knuckle rapper and sharp silencer, no friend for a slovenly little boy. He had love... ...ng for Bessie. “Gowlish gusto,” said Mr. Polly. “Jumping it in. Funererial Games. Don’t hurt him of course. Doesn’t matter to him….” Nobody missed Mr.... ... Polly, “I’m wild for the love of you! I can’t keep up this gesticulations game any more! I’m not a Knight. T reat me as a human man. You may sit up t... ...d been warned in vague and alarming terms that Mr. Polly insulted and made game of him; he couldn’t discover exactly where; and so it appeared to him ...

...The History of Samuel Titmarsh and The Great Hoggarty Diamond by William Makepeace Thackeray A Penn State Elec... ...m Makepeace Thackeray A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond by William Ma... ... Great Hoggarty Diamond by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur- nis... ...she wore it in her bosom at the Lord Lieutenant’s ball, where she played a game of piquet with the Commander-in-Chief. What could have made her put th... ...sword-belt!’ And he took up the cards again in a passion, and finished the game without saying a single word. “The news was carried to Mr. Mulcahy the... ...t understand. We were not talking of rubbers of whist.” “There shall be NO game at all in the house of a Sabbath eve,” said Mrs. Roundhand; and out sh... ... the door and the whole little street down with the noise they made at the rapper. You should have seen Gus’s head peeping out of window in his white ...

...oggarty made me a present of a diamond pin; that is to say, it was not a diamond-pin then, but a large old-fashioned locket, of Dublin manufacture in the year 1795, which the late Mr. Hoggarty used to sport at the Lord Lieutenant?s balls and elsewhere. He wore it, he said, at the battle of Vinegar Hill, when his club pigtail saved his head from being taken off,--but that i...

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... A Good Sport Pick A Topic 13 A Snapshot of Korea 14 Color Blindness: Ways of Seeing & Why Context Matters 15 Tropical Vacations: A Place to Visit the Coral Triangle 16 Leaders of the Pack: Card Games 17 Snow: Winter Wonders 18 Temples and Tombs 19 Extrapolations on the Myth of the Tower of Babel 20 When Rappers Were Griots 21 Silver Screen, Silent Film 23 Author...

...ssociate Editor David Russell Best of Freshman Writing is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. The Pennsylvania State University is an ... ...shman Writing Best of Freshman Writing: Student Voices is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. All the student essays contained herein ... ...n were produced by students registered in English 004, 015 and 030, within the Commonwealth College of the Pennsylvania University, during the academi... ...rt of the magical cavalcade. I was eight years old when my father bought a game stand in the summer of 1984 and decided to take the fam- ily to travel... ...r- nival. Everyone was busy like programmed robots, erecting the rides and game stands. I dashed over to a large tent that had already been set up, wh... ...as an adult, in the back of my mind I’m thanking my father for buying that game stand and giving me the carnie experience of 1984. Best of Freshman W... ...ious similarity between Eminem and ICP is the fact that they are all white rappers com- ing from Detroit. Detroit has always been known as a music cit... ...ite. Ever since Vanilla Ice, white people have not been taken seriously as rappers until now. While ICP gained acceptance as legit white rappers, Emin... ...orld. Sometimes their methods are vulgar and violent while other times the rappers incorporate humor and happi- ness to astound. They often rap about ...

...Excerpt: Welcome to the eighth volume of Best of ?. For the past several years we have been publishing student writing with the intention of both celebrating the work that our students do and of sharing it with others for a variety of instructio...

.... 8 Tammy Lenig English 4 ? Hazleton campus ?Neighborhood? .......................................... 9 Josh Gilligan English 15 ? Du Bois campus ?In the Beginning There Was Rap? ............. 11 Laura Hope Stawski English 15 ? Hazleton campus ?Hopeless Hope? ........................... 13 Samuel G. Lepadatu English 15 ? Hazleton campus ?A Good Samaritan? ....................

... By BERNARD SHAW 1909 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Doctor’s Dilemma: Preface on Doctors by George Bernard Shaw is a public... ...r’s Dilemma: Preface on Doctors by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...activity. The hardest- headed materialist will become a consulter of table-rappers and slate-writers if he loses a child or a wife so beloved that the... ..., operations, and particular drugs, as well as hats, sleeves, ballads, and games. T onsils, vermiform appen- dices, uvulas, even ovaries are sacrifice...

Excerpt: The Doctor?s Dilemma: Preface on Doctors by George Bernard Shaw.