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    Dorian Gray to Poe

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    OSCAR WILDE’S GOTHIC: THE PRESENCE OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY A Thesis Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts with a Major in English in the College of Graduate Studies University of Idaho by Peter Stegner August 2007 Major Professor: Gary Williams‚ Ph.D. ii AUTHORIZATION TO SUBMIT THESIS This thesis of Peter Stegner‚ submitted for the degree of Master of Arts with a major in English and titled “Oscar

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    H EALTH C ARE E THICS H EALTH C ARE E THICS A C ATHOLIC T HEOLOGICAL A NALYSIS F IFTH E DITION Benedict M. Ashley‚ O.P. Jean K. deBlois‚ C.S.J. Kevin D. O’Rourke‚ O.P. Georgetown University Press Washington‚ D.C. As of January 1‚ 2007‚ 13-digit ISBN numbers will replace the current 10-digit system. Paperback: 978-1-58901-116-8 Georgetown University Press‚ Washington‚ D.C. © 2006 by Georgetown University Press. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized

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    Max Weber First published Fri Aug 24‚ 2007; substantive revision Tue Jul 31‚ 2012 Arguably the foremost social theorist of the twentieth century‚ Max Weber is known as a principal architect of modern social science along with Karl Marx and Emil Durkheim. Weber ’s wide-ranging contributions gave critical impetus to the birth of new academic disciplines such as sociology and public administration as well as to the significant reorientation in law‚ economics‚ political science‚ and religious studies

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    abnormal psychology

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    DEFENSE MECHANISM Defense mechanisms are the "automatic" mental behaviors all of us employ to protect or defend ourselves from the "threat" of some emotional pain. More specifically‚ ego defense mechanisms are mental behaviors we use to "defend" our self-images from "invitations" to feel ashamed or guilty about something. Defense mechanisms in and of themselves are neither good nor bad; it is only in how appropriately they are used and how adaptive they are that determines if they are problematic

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    The Best Girl

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    the cambridge companion to EPICUREANISM This Companion presents both an introduction to the history of the ancient philosophical school of Epicureanism and also a critical account of the major areas of its philosophical interest. Chapters span the school’s history from the early Hellenistic Garden to the Roman Empire and its later reception in the early modern period‚ introducing the reader to the Epicureans’ contributions in physics‚ metaphysics‚ epistemology‚ psychology‚ ethics and politics

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    Ambedkar on Buddhism

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    Ambedkar on Buddhism 14 October 1956 holds a special significance for the Dalit community in India. On that day‚ Bhim Rao Ambedkar‚ by all accounts the most influential Dalit intellectual of the 20th century publicly renounced Hinduism and converted to Buddhism. He told it was his “rebirth” in his speech over there. Actually Dr. B.R. Ambedkar was born in 14th April 1891. He was born in lowly Mahar Caste in the western state of Maharashtra. The caste Mahara was untouchables according to the varn

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    Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold Part 1 out of 4 • FullBooks.com homepage • Index of Culture and Anarchy • Next part (2) This etext was produced by Alfred J. Drake‚ Ph.D. CULTURE AND ANARCHY: AN ESSAY IN POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CRITICISM 1869‚ FIRST EDITION MATTHEW ARNOLD Chapter Notes: I have indicated the author’s notes with a superscript asterisk *‚ my own substantive notes with a superscript + sign‚ and my nonsubstantive notes with a superscript ± symbol

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    Writing and Essay Format

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    Expository English Essay Writing Chapter I Course Orientation 1. General Introduction This course is designed as an advanced writing course for advancced English learners. As is suggested by the title‚ the course will focus on one mode of English writing: exposition. We will first discuss briefly some essential issues about writing and the relationship between reading and writing as an introduction‚ laying special emphasis on the importance of mutual enhancement of critical reading

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    17th Century Crisis

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    The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century  - The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century ‚  ‚    HUGH TREVOR-ROPER LIBERTY FUND  This book is published by Liberty Fund‚ Inc.‚ a foundation established to encourage study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals. The cuneiform inscription that serves as our logo and as the design motif for our endpapers is the earliest-known written appearance of the

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    On the Postcolony

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    On the Postcolony On the Postcolony Achille Mbembe UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley · Los Angeles · London studies on the history of society and culture Victoria E. Bonnell and Lynn Hunt‚ Editors 1. Politics‚ Culture‚ and Class in the French Revolution‚ by Lynn Hunt 2. The People of Paris: An Essay in Popular Culture in the Eighteenth Century‚ by Daniel Roche 3. Pont-St-Pierre‚ 1398–1789: Lordship‚ Community‚ and Capitalism in Early Modern France‚ by Jonathan Dewald 4. The

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