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...Excerpt: Part 1. One Wednesday afternoon in late September, Ann Veronica Stanley came down from London in a state of solemn excitement and quite resolved to have things out with her father that very evening. She had trembled on the verge of such a resolution before, but this time quite definitely she made it. A crisis had been reached, a...

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...ics Series Publication Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...at is proper to a young lady of nearly two-and-twenty under the eye of the world. She walked down the station approach, past the neat, ob- trusive off... ...at—to do, to be, to experience. And experience was slow in coming. All the world about her seemed to be—how can one put it? —in wrappers, like a house... ...-making. For a time he heard no more, and stared with stony eyes at a Book-War proclamation in leaded type that filled half a column of the Times that... ...said Ann Veronica. “It has been proved,” said Miss Miniver, and added, “by American professors.” “But how did they prove it?” “By science,” said Miss ... ...up and unlocked the door. Her aunt did not object to capital punishment or war, or the industrial system or casual wards, or flogging of crimi- nals o... ...is stoop were certainly very effective. In the bad light he looked at once military and sentimental and studious, like one of Ouida’s guardsmen re- vi... ... as if in reply to long-sustained inquiries on the part of Goopes into the personnel of the Marylebone Borough Council. “If you were to ask me,” he wo...

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Excerpt: The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris.

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...on enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... fashion, Presley was determined that his poem should be of the West, that world’s frontier of Romance, where a new race, a new people—hardy, brave, a... ...wearied him. He cared for none of these things. They did not belong to his world. In the picture of that huge romantic West that he saw in his imagina... ...e, making just enough butter and cheese for the consumption of the ranch’s personnel. Old man Tree, his wife, and his daughter Hilma looked after the ... ...drills, each with its eight hoes, went clamouring past, like an advance of military, seeding the ten thousand acres of the great ranch; fecundating th... ...ffices to an empty church—’the voice of one crying in the wilderness.’ You Americans are not good churchmen. Sundays you sleep— you read the newspaper... ...an, grimed with the soil he worked in, yet vividly remembering a period of military glory, exciting himself with recollections of Gravelotte and the K... ...cists, repeated from page to page with wearying insistence. “I, too, am an American Citizen. S. D.,” “As the T wig is Bent the T ree is Inclined,” “Tr...

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...Forward: This report describes the effects of the atomic bombs which were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. It summarizes all the authentic information that is available on damage to structures, injuries to...

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...6 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the Manhattan Engineer District June 29, 1946 ... ...Nagasaki by the Manhattan Engineer District June 29, 1946 is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...thentic information that is available on damage to structures, injuries to personnel, morale effect, etc., which can be released at this time without ... ...ION Statement by the President of the United States: “Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, and destroyed its u... ... first tested in New Mexico on July 16, 1945, had just been used against a military target. On August 6th, 1945, at 8:15 A.M., Japanese time, a B- 29 ... ...f atomic bombs. The first two groups were organized to accompany the first American troops into Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The primary purposes of the mi... ... or elsewhere. General Groves further stated that all available specialist personnel and instruments would be sent from the United States, and that th... ...at least two al- ternates. E. Selection of targets to produce the greatest military ef- fect on the Japanese people and thereby most effectively short... ...l danger from even a single enemy plane on the lives of the peoples of the world in the event of any future war can easily be conjectured. The atomic ...

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...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 instructional purposes. Begi...

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...Best of Freshman Writing Best of Freshman Writing Volume 8 Student Voices A Commonwealth College Publicat... ... Editors Suzanne Harper and Liz Wright Associate Editor David Russell Best of Freshman Writing is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. ... ... I won’t. I try to explain to her that Abner has been with me all over the world and with me when I have done some extraordinary things, like jump- in... ...ad, the things I have done, and the places I have been, while I was in the military. Best of Freshman Writing 8 Scott Dzienisienski English – 4 Scran... ...trying to best the other’s last insult with a better rhyme. Gradually, the world caught on and rap transformed into hip hop. Now, hip hop is a culture... ...mach drops and my eyes uncontrollably flood with tears as a round African- American nurse pronounces her time of death, “4:32 a.m.,” and it is over; s... ...reen bottle. Further along this sidewalk, I watch curiously as an African- American woman nurses her infant, pacing circles in front of her doorway. A... ... traveled for just a minute and stopped outside of a building dressed with military flags. There existed only a few moments of silence before a swarm ... ...ctor, a lawyer, or a member of his family. Not being able to see Red Cross personnel is yet another violation of the Geneva Convention. In Article Thr...

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Excerpt: What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells.

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...What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERI... ...N STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...s reached: the mystery of the individual. Will England presently produce a military genius? or what will Mr. Belloc say the day after to-morrow? The m... ... who will.” It is surely as interesting that presently some founder of the World Republic, some obstinate opponent of militarism or legalism, or the m... ...nue to be a prelude. The prophetic type will steadfastly refuse to see the world as a museum; it will insist that here is a stage set for a drama that... ... Brighton before 1910, which is still a dream, but he doubted if effective military aviation or aerial fighting would be possible before 1950, which i... ...rld peace. There are a few special secretaries employed by phil- anthropic Americans, and that is about all. There has been no provision made even for... ... the White House, by the clash of political parties, by interferences with American overseas trade and the security of American citizens. He has no mo... ...here will be nothing strange in this idea of its completer detachment. Its personnel does to a large extent constitute a class apart. It 134 What Is ...

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...Introduction: Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, ?the Russian novel,? not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil?evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpieces that have come since have grown o...

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...rans. D. J. Hogarth, with an introduction by John Cournos is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...v himself is now gener- ally regarded as a universal character. We find an American professor, William Lyon Phelps*, of Yale, holding the opinion that... ...ut meeting scores of Chichikovs; indeed, he is an accurate portrait of the American promoter, of the successful commercial trav- eller whose success d... ...in some fashion, however small, to help me. Every man who has lived in the world and mixed with his fellow men will have remarked something which has ... ...or of State Factories. True, the task of remembering every big-wig in this world of ours is not a very easy one; but at least our visitor displayed th... ...*In this case the term General refers to a civil grade equiva- lent to the military rank of the same title. 31 Gogol trees with old, scarred trunks, ... ... merely God’s will that they should leave the world, and thus decrease the personnel of your establishment. In the former case you received (so you al... ...be held lest he attempt deeds of over-presumptuous daring. Seized with the military spirit, however, the lieutenant’s head begins to whirl, and before...

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Excerpt: The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen.

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...ein Veblen A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... steps of its early growth. Nomadic hunting tribes in various parts of the world illustrate these more primitive phases of the differentiation. Any on... ... discrediting — in a mild and uncertain way —those government employments, military and civil, which require the wearing of a livery or uniform. With ... ...h to a greater extent than the latter. So it comes, for instance, that the American farmer and his wife and daughters are notoriously less modish in t... ...s the French peasant-pro- prietor parsimonious and frugal, and induces the American millionaire to found colleges, hospitals and museums. If the canon... ...styles and types of cos- tume have been worked out in various parts of the world; as, for instance, among the Japanese, Chinese, and other Ori- ental ... ...d with the pecuniary employments. Such are politics and ecclesiastical and military employments. The pecuniary employments have also the sanction of r... ...ted masters in all magical arts; and a high position in the ecclesiastical personnel has carried with it, in the apprehension of these good people, an...

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Excerpt: Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant by U.S. Grant.

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...rant A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...egor, New York, July 1, 1885 CHAPTER I ANCESTRY—BIRTH—BOYHOOD MY FAMILY IS AMERICAN, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and col... ...examination for admission, without difficulty, very much to my surprise. A military life had no charms for me, and I had not the faintest idea of stay... ...ongress which met in Decem- ber, 1839, a bill was discussed abolishing the Military Acad- emy. I saw in this an honorable way to obtain a discharge, a... ...empire in territory, it had but a very sparse population, until settled by Americans who had re- ceived authority from Mexico to colonize. These colon... ...ndependence, after many years of war, it was the most natural thing in the world that they should adopt as their own the laws then in exist- ence. The... ...ed the only means of communication between Humboldt and the balance of the world. I was obliged to remain in San Francisco for several days before I f... ...eld. 129 U. S. Grant CHAPTER XVIII APPOINTED COLONEL OF THE 21ST ILLINOIS—PERSONNEL OF THE REGI- MENT —GENERAL LOGAN—MARCH TO MISSOURI—MOVEMENT AGAIN...

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...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION O...

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...THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page i List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii–xiv Pr... ...omeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s App... ...M 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992) 55 2.4 Buil... ...Action 126 4.5 Searching for Fresh Options 134 5. AL QAEDA AIMS AT THE AMERICAN HOMELAND 145 5.1 Terrorist Entrepreneurs 145 5.2 The “Planes O... ...r stairwell with deviations p. 312 The Twin Towers following the impact of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Penta... ... plebiscite, and equal rights for women. It makes no dis- tinction between military and civilian targets. Collateral damage is not in its lexicon. We ... ...tly behind Lewin. Lewin had served four years as an officer in the Israeli military. He may have made an attempt to stop the hijackers in front of him... ...0 miles per hour. 61 All on board, as well as many civil- ian and military personnel in the building, were killed. The Battle for United 93 At 8:42, U... ...is seat by documented and approved individuals, usually air carrier or FAA personnel.We have found no evidence indicating that one of the hijack- ers,...