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Some aspects of American culture and society in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries through a number of selected short literary works

Some aspects of American culture and society in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries through a number of selected short literary works

Ngày tải lên : 07/11/2012, 15:01
... reading pieces of literary work of this genre, I have in mind a clear mosaic of American people, their culture and society. I find it very effective to learn about the culture and society of a country ... different values. II.2.5. Individualism One of the most typical aspects of American culture and society is individualism. From the early time of their lives, American children are trained to be independent ... suspense of readers – a type of involvement of the readers in doubting and speculating the coming events of the story. II.1.3. Short literary works and the portrayal of life In the lifetime of a...
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Tài liệu Constructing Civil Liberties Discontinuities in the Development of American Constitutional Law pdf

Tài liệu Constructing Civil Liberties Discontinuities in the Development of American Constitutional Law pdf

Ngày tải lên : 18/02/2014, 11:20
... case of Everson v. Board of Education (1947) and imagine the civil libertarian” developments of the mid-twentieth century as a “matter of principle,” or as a belated realization after a period of ... I offer only illustratively – turn out to offer a fairly (if not fully) comprehensive picture of trajectories of constitutional development concern- ing twentieth-century civil rights and civil ... liberties. Each of these chapters involves a sustained consideration of a “site” of constitutional development. My decision to study “sites” of development arises out of an effort, in service of historical...
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Treatment of Tuberculosis - American Thoracic Society, CDC, and Infectious Diseases Society of America doc

Treatment of Tuberculosis - American Thoracic Society, CDC, and Infectious Diseases Society of America doc

Ngày tải lên : 06/03/2014, 04:20
... the strength of treatment recommendations based on quality of evidence* Strength of the recommendation A. Preferred; should generally be offered B. Alternative; acceptable to offer C. Offer when ... Management of Patients at Increased Risk of Relapse The result of a sputum culture at the conclusion of the ini- tial phase of treatment (2 months) has been shown to corre- late with the likelihood of ... below) should consist of at least 182 doses of INH and RIF, and 56 doses of PZA. Thus, 6 months is the minimum duration of treatment and accurately indicates the amount of time the drugs are...
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Recommendations from the American Thoracic Society, CDC, and the Infectious Diseases Society of America docx

Recommendations from the American Thoracic Society, CDC, and the Infectious Diseases Society of America docx

Ngày tải lên : 06/03/2014, 04:20
... reach members of new immigrant and refugee communities, who often exist on the margin of U.S. society. • Control of TB Among Populations at High Risk. On the basis of the epidemiology of TB in ... Identification of contacts of patients with infectious TB and treatment of those at risk with an effective drug regimen. The evaluation of contacts of cases of infectious TB is one of the most productive ... and analysis of epi- demiologic and other data • Development of policies and procedures and of a plan for controlling TB, on the basis of the assessment of the problem • Assurance of diagnostic,...
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Properties of American Derivative Securities

Properties of American Derivative Securities

Ngày tải lên : 18/10/2013, 03:20
... Optimal Exercise of American Derivative Security In this section we derive the optimal exercise time for the owner of an American derivative security. Let fG k g n k=0 be an American derivative ... maintain the hedge. 6.2 Proofs of the Properties Let fG k g n k=0 be a sequence of non-negative random variables such that each G k is F k -measurable. Define T k to be the set of all stopping times  satisfying k ... + r , G  : The owner of the American derivative security can borrow this amount of money immediately, if he chooses, and invest in the market so as to exaclty pay off his debt as the payments fC j g n j...
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Tài liệu STUDIES OF AMERICAN FUNGI, MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE, POISONOUS, ETC ppt

Tài liệu STUDIES OF AMERICAN FUNGI, MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE, POISONOUS, ETC ppt

Ngày tải lên : 13/02/2014, 12:20
... rupture of veil, showing tendency to double annulus on the stem. Portions of the veil also dripping from margin of pileus. (Natural size.)] =The Color of the Gills.= The color of the gills of the ... surface of the door. The illustration shows very well the habit of growth of the mycelium. At the right is the advancing zone of growth, marked by several fan-shaped areas. At the extreme edge of ... extensions of the fruiting surface. Singularly, this position of the fruiting surface does occur in the case of one genus with a few small species. Interesting examples of the operation of this...
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Tài liệu GERMANY AND THE GERMANS FROM AN AMERICAN POINT OF VIEW ppt

Tài liệu GERMANY AND THE GERMANS FROM AN AMERICAN POINT OF VIEW ppt

Ngày tải lên : 16/02/2014, 04:20
... with 63 members there are 17 industrials. In Baden, of the 37 members of the upper house there are 6 industrials; of the 73 members of the lower house there are 23 representatives of commerce ... go to Canossa”; of Genghis Khan and his Mongol hordes; of the long fight between popes and emperors over the right of investiture; of Rudolph of Hapsburg; of the throwing off of their allegiance ... confederation of princes, of a Prussian empire, of lines of demarcation, of acquisitions of German territory, were the phantoms of a policy, and even these were due to the pressure of Prussia....
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Tài liệu World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, and Subregional Development Banks in Latin America: Dynamics of a System of Multilateral Development Banks ppt

Tài liệu World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, and Subregional Development Banks in Latin America: Dynamics of a System of Multilateral Development Banks ppt

Ngày tải lên : 16/02/2014, 06:20
... approaches and coordinating areas of support could increase the capacities of public officers through a more efficient use of resources. Third, MDBs are part of a financial innovation that is ... GOVERNMENT OF PERU By: Fernando Romero 8 Figure A1 describes the evolution of net transfers to the Government of Peru from external creditors—new loans minus payments of interest and principal of ... regarding division of labor that are starting to become part of the debates about the future of MDBs. There is anecdotal evidence that some countries have been able to take leadership of their relationship...
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Tài liệu THE OLD MERCHANT MARINE, A CHRONICLE OF AMERICAN SHIPS AND SAILORS pptx

Tài liệu THE OLD MERCHANT MARINE, A CHRONICLE OF AMERICAN SHIPS AND SAILORS pptx

Ngày tải lên : 17/02/2014, 01:20
... marauders of Europe or whipped the corsairs of Barbary in the Strait of Gibraltar. Never was a race of seamen so admirably fitted for the daring trade of privateering as the crews of these tall ... Gulf of Mexico. Yet if truth were told, he never cut a throat or made a victim walk the plank. He was tried and hanged for the trivial offense of breaking the head of a mutinous gunner of his ... when buying piculs of pepper from a rajah of Qualah Battoo, or dining with an elderly mandarin of Cochin China. It was not too much to say that "the profuse stores of knowledge brought...
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Tài liệu The Child''''s Book of American Biography pdf

Tài liệu The Child''''s Book of American Biography pdf

Ngày tải lên : 18/02/2014, 08:20
... figures of our American heroes. No matter how often we are told of the brave deeds of Lincoln, Sherman, Shaw, and Farragut, we shall remember these men longer because of St. Gaudens's statues of ... The members of the House of Lords look very imposing with their grave faces and robes of scarlet, trimmed with ermine, but they sometimes act in a childish manner and The Child's Book of American ... queens, talked with the Pope of Rome, called on the Czar of Russia, visited the Mikado of Japan in his royal palace, and was given four beautiful homes of his own by rich Americans. One house was...
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THE EDUCATION OF American Girls doc

THE EDUCATION OF American Girls doc

Ngày tải lên : 06/03/2014, 01:22
... PREFACE. The Table of Contents sufficiently indicates the purpose and aim of this book. The essays are the thoughts of American women, of wide and varied experience, both professional and otherwise; ... contents of the merchant's shelves are a safe index of the desires of tithe of the care and thought used on dress on the part of the other, would serve to secure it! The exclusively American ... the profession of teaching. Civilization, implying, as it does, division of labor, necessarily renders all persons more or less one-sided. In the teaching profession, the voluntary holding of...
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PHYSICS AND POLITICS OR THOUGHTS ON THE APPLICATION OF THE PRINCIPLES OF ''''NATURAL SELECTION'''' AND ''''INHERITANCE'''' TO POLITICAL SOCIETY pptx

PHYSICS AND POLITICS OR THOUGHTS ON THE APPLICATION OF THE PRINCIPLES OF ''''NATURAL SELECTION'''' AND ''''INHERITANCE'''' TO POLITICAL SOCIETY pptx

Ngày tải lên : 06/03/2014, 13:20
... readers of the journal the sort of words and the sort of thoughts they are used to—so, on a larger scale, the writers of an age, without thinking of it, give to the readers of the age the sort of ... together instead of separating at the death of its patriarchal chieftain. In most of the Greek states and in Rome there long remained the vestiges of an ascending series of groups out of which the ... forget' the difficulties of government. We have forgotten them altogether. We reckon, as the basis of our culture, upon an amount of order, of tacit obedience, of prescriptive governability,...
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REINFORCED ASPHALT OVERLAYS FOR PAVEMENTS - UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING doc

REINFORCED ASPHALT OVERLAYS FOR PAVEMENTS - UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING doc

Ngày tải lên : 07/03/2014, 11:20
... deterioration of riding quality of a pavement is measured as unevenness of the surface which may be due to permanent deformation of bound materials or differential settlement of supporting ... estimate the degree of distress of a CBM by the nature and severity of surface cracking. The structural strength of the CBM usually precludes the formation of 'whole structure' ... SAMI is typically 4-8mm thick and often comprises a blend of rubberised bitumen. A summary of the findings of a study into the effectiveness of SAMIs has been given by Mukhtar...
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A New Map of Hollywood: The Production and Distribution of American Motion Pictures pot

A New Map of Hollywood: The Production and Distribution of American Motion Pictures pot

Ngày tải lên : 07/03/2014, 15:20
... (2002) A new map of Hollywood: the production and distribution of American motion pictures, Reg. Studies 36, 957–975. In this paper, I offer a reinterpretation of the economic geography of the so-called ... constitute the primary source of the strategic different companies as members. Besides vigorous defence of its members interests in general, AFMAprowess that has pushed American films so firmly to ... predicaments that call for someunder the provisions of the Webb-Pomerane Act of 1918, monopolistic practices on the part of American more imaginative framework of supra-national regula- tion than approaches...
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