Papers 1301-1310 of total 3969 found.
Category: /Literature/Novels
…and service to the dwarves. One example of such a test was at the Lonely Mountain just before the Battle of Five Armies. Bilbo had stolen the Arkenstone from Thrain and decided to use it as a bargaining tool between Bard and the dwarves. The hobbit had to choose…
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Category: /Literature/Novels
…and lene him of his owene good And have a thank, and yite a cote and hood(610-614).” The Reeve was a successful superintendent for his master and even bargained better than the master himself, which is why he was in control of the master’s estate…
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Category: /Literature/English
…with a succulent stick of ice to gnaw on, always seemed to be such a bargain for only fifty-five cents. How about the lick-a-stick. They were great. Mom loved when we got those. Two different flavours of sugar eaten off a solid sugar stick. The biggest…
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…noticed that self-interest lead to increased trade and bargaining. “It is in this manner that we obtain from one another the far greater part of those good offices which we stand in need of” (Classic Readings in Economics, pg 7). “It is this same trucking…
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Category: /Literature/Novels
…as a confession of guilt. Now the intelligent people know better that witches never existed, that human beings never bargained with any devil, and that our pious savage ancestors were mistaken. Although superstition is something that can be scientifically proven wrong…
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Category: /Literature/Novels
…. "‘Tis bargained ‘twixt us ‘twain, being alone, that she shall still be curst in company (2.1.323-324)." Petruchio does so as that his plan will not backfire in his face, and reveals his true intentions. Shakespeare somewhat changes Katherine's character…
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Category: /Literature/English
…went to the fruiterer, the grocer, and the butcher, her basket on her arm, bargaining, insulted, defending her miserable money sou by sou” (Maupassant 165). She had become the very person that she imagined herself as in the beginning of the story. Ten…
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…, a gun is cheap, easy to use, and there is no wait to get it. With a bargain like that, what criminal is going to apply for a permit? How can law enforcement officials possibly control the use of handguns when they have no idea of who has one? The August 24…
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Category: /History
…basis and did not see this as a constitutional crisis. Andrew Jackson claimed that there was a “corrupt bargain” since Henry Clay got the job of Secretary of State after the election. With Clay being the Speaker of the House Adams’ chance of winning…
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Category: /History
…were given the right to organize unions and bargain collectively. After that, the government set up long-range goals which included permanent recovery, and a reform of current abuses. Particularly those that produced the boom-or-bust…
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