The Descent of Inanna Excerpt translated by Diane Wolkstein and Samuel Noah Kramer, from “Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns From Sumer”, Harper & Rowe, Publishers. From the Great Above she opened her ears to the Great Below. From the Great Above the goddess opened her ears to the Great Below. From the Great Above Inanna opened her ear to the Great Below. My lady abandoned heaven and earth to descend to the underworld. Inanna abandoned heaven and earth to descend to
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No Fear Shakespeare – A Midsummer Night’s Dream (by SparkNotes) Original Text -1- Modern Text Act 1, Scene 1 Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, and PHILOSTRATE, with others THESEUS and HIPPOLYTA enter withPHILOSTRATE and others. THESEUS Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour Draws on apace. Four happy days bring in Another moon. But oh, methinks how slow This old moon wanes! She lingers my desires, 5 Like to a stepdame or a dowager Long withering out a young man’s revenue. THESEUS
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Dear Ms. Educated Black Woman Dexter R. Conner Upon realizing that my baby daughter would one day read this, I re-examined every word. To the most beautiful girl on earth – Daddy loves you. 1|Dear Ms Educated Black Woman Preface I began having serious thoughts pertaining to the dynamics of Black romantic relationships in college upon traveling to Atlanta and conversing for hours with Spelman College’s exceptional Black women. It was like the television show
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A Translator’s Coming of Age by Omaya Ibrahim Khalifa Through studying the three translations of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet done by Mohammed Enani in 1965, 1986 and 1993 respectively, this study adopts a diachronic approach. In addition to examining the historical dimension, this study attempts to address itself to crucial questions related to the process of translating a literary text. A few of these are: how a translator can approach a given text in three different ways and how each
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VESPASIAN ROME’?S EXECUTIONER Robert Fabbri read Drama and Theatre at London University and has worked in film and TV for twenty-five years. As an assistant director he has worked on productions such as Hornblower, Hellraiser, Patriot Games and Billy Elliot. His lifelong passion for ancient history –? especially the Roman Empire –? inspired the birth of the Vespasian series. He lives in London and Berlin. First published in Great Britain in 2012 by Corvus, an imprint of Atlantic
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Johannesburgh South Africa Johannesburgh Flag Johannesburgh Seal Johannesburgh Flag Johannesburgh Map Population (2001 city; 2007 metro)[4] | • City | 1,009,035 | • Density | 1,984/km2 (5,140/sq mi) | • Metro[5] | 3,888,180 | • Metro density | 2,400/km2 (6,100/sq mi) | | | Area[4] | • City | 508.69 km2 (196.41 sq mi) | • Metro | 1,644.96 km2 (635.12 sq mi) | Geography Johannesburg aerial view looking towards the south-east Johannesburg is located in the eastern
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Buddhism- A Study on Buddhist Monks Abstract: The purpose of this study is to explore the culture of the Buddhist Monks and their culture. The goal is to research the origination, worldview, religion, roles of men and women within their community, education, language and finally beliefs. Upon the study of the Buddhist Monks culture, information gathered highlighted the importance of the teachings of Buddha who is renowned as the enlighten one in and around the Buddhist community. The universal
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CITRONELLA (Cymbopogon winterianus) AS AN AIR FRESHENER A Science Investigatory Project Presented to Stella Maris Academy of Davao In partial fulfillment of the requirements in Integrated Science 8 To Ms. Avrylle R. Corpuz Grade 8 Science Teacher By Group 6 Kristine May John Mercado Shiela Mae Fernandez Sophia Mae Abarca Francis Dave Maranan Trexie Anne Undangan
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I'm hacking this out now while I'm still thinking straight. Then I'll get Hypatia to com it to my terrestrial mail. I trust you'll have the sense to look it up, though there's little you can do about it now and fairly soon neither me nor Grizwald will care much anyway. As you already know, the Hypatia came down at 1 a.m. Central European time, on Monday October 10th. That was only couple of days ago but it already seems like years to me. What you don't know yet is that I woke some hours after
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Committee) was built on the basis of earlier standardization attempts. The first NTSC laid the foundations that made monochrome television a practical reality in the United States. The standards it endorsed in 1941 are still in use today. At the dawn of color television it seemed at first that it was not going to be compatible with monochrome television and would need special receivers. A tug of war of compatible versus incompatible color television systems ensued. The compatible system won.
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