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As is the case with the work of many women writers, Luz Valle's poetry has been mentioned in passing by most Guatemalan literary historians, but her texts remain little studied. Although she was not a prolific poet, the value of her contri...
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Victor Manuel Valle is a poet, translator, editor, activist, and investigative journalist whose creative vision is rooted in the history of the valley of Los Angeles. Although Valle's poetry has motivated the rest of his work, his journali...
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From its first manifestations, Armando Vallejo's poetic voice has shown his love for life and political action. In spite of its technical or formal inexpertness, his early poetry was heard as an embodiment of an authentic new voice and not...
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Manuel Mejía Vallejo is a Colombian writer whose work emanates from the traditions of his native region of Antioquia. Antioquia's rich oral tradition is an integral element in his fiction. Paradoxically, despite this traditionalism,...
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Long before Albert Camus's L'Homme révolté (1951; translated as The Rebel, 1953), Jules Vallès, through the example of his life and literature, articulated boldly and firmly a revolutionary "non." His "non! à un...
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Valletta was built after the Great Siege of 1565. Malta had won the siege, but had paid dearly for its own freedom. The experiences of the siege had shown that if an enemy got hold of Mount Sciberras, Malta would have had to surrender.
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Between December 19, 1777, and June 19, 1778, the American Continental Army camped on about 2,000 acres of ground in a Pennsylvania community called Valley Forge, approximately twenty miles northwest of Philadelphia. While there, approxima...
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SOURCE: "Primordial Passions of the Pleistocene Times: The Flesh Is Willing, But the Diction Is Weak," in Los Angeles Times Book Review, September 12, 1982, p. 3. In the following review, Sales finds the plot weak and the dialogue anachroni...
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Jacqueline Susann was born on August 20, 1918 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At age eighteen she left Philadelphia and moved to New York where she could pursue in an acting career. She played a supporting role in a television series, and wr...
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Valley Song by Athol Fugard Born in 1932, Athol Fugard grew up to become the most renowned playwright of South Africa. His career spans four decades of the turbulent history of that racially divided country, during which his plays have made...
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VĀLMĪKI. Legendary sage and author of the Hindu epic Rāmāyaṇa, Vālmīki also plays a role in the epic itself. The first book of his Rāmāyaṇa tells the story of the invent...
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SOURCE: O'Brien, Tom. “Bland and Better Than Bland.” Commonweal 116, no. 21 (1 December 1989): 670-71. In the following excerpt, O'Brien argues that Valmont is more sensitive to the underlying humanity of its characters than Stephen Fre...
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SOURCE: “The Hard Subjects,” in Hudson Review, Vol. 52, No. 2, Summer, 1999, pp. 285–88. In the following excerpt, Loughery pans Valparaiso. Don DeLillo’s Valparaiso concerns a man who buys a plane ticket to Valparaiso, Indiana, and...
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The third president of the French Fifth Republic, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (born 1926) was the architect of France's economic return as one of the leading nations of the world. Valéry Giscard d'Estaing was born in Koblenz, Ge...
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The Valsalva maneuver is a coordinated muscular movement that increases pressure in the Eustachian tubes and middle ears. The maneuver produces a bilateral increase in pressure on both the left and right middle ears. The maneuver was first...
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News in the papers has been reporting about Valuair, the airline which I have been interning with, and its so called merger with JetStar Aisa.
So is it a merger or an acquisition
Reading all the reports, what would you conclude on a deal...
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The concept of value is more complex than it might initially appear. Values can range across personal preferences as indicated by pleasures, desires, wants, and needs to more objective goods such as health, efficiency, progress, truth, bea...
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Everything in existence holds a certain value that differs from person to person. If something is truly valuable, then living without it can be incredibly difficult. Although many things fit this description, one thing makes my life compl...
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Value Chain Management Value chain management (VCM) is the integration of all resources starting with the vendor's vendor. It integrates information, materials, labor, facilities, logistics, etc. into a time-responsive, capacity-man...
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With regards to computing, the term value is a quantity assigned to an element such as a variable, field, symbol, or label. The quantity involving a particular value can refer to (and be assigned to) alphabetic as well as numeric data. Val...
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The study of values covers a broad multidisciplinary terrain. Different disciplines have pursued this topic with unique orientations to the concept of values. The classic conception of values in anthropology was introduced by Kluckhohn and...
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Pluralism is a term used to describe a number of positions from different fields. This entry will confine itself to a discussion of ethical—as opposed to political, social, or metaphysical—pluralism. Ethical pluralism (also ...
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A valve is a device used to control the flow of a substance, usually a fluid, in an enclosed area. Valves date from antiquity and are used today in such varied mechanical systems as faucets, automobile engines, dishwashers, and aqualungs. ...
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As a Catholic poet José María Valverde is broadly representative of the literary situation in post-civil-war Spain. His poetry of the 1940s and 1950s appeals, in conversational language, to the general reader's concern with d...
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Aleksandr Vampilov wrote only a handful of plays, but they defined his era sufficiently that "Vampilovian theater" and "the Vampilov hero" became standard phrases. In his life and his writing he expressed the hopes and frustrations of a ge...
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No creature haunting Western society's collective imagination has proven more enduring, more compelling, or more alluring than the vampire. But it was only with the his transformation from emaciated, plague-carrying "nosferatu" (literally,...
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The problem or question of what it means to be damned is difficult to understand at the best of times, it is however all the more difficult when the subject in question is a vampire. How does a vampire that has developed God-like powers and...
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SOURCE: Nesselson, Lisa. Review of Vampires, by John Carpenter. Variety 370, no. 12 (4 May 1998): 83–84. In the following review, Nesselson offers a positive assessment of Vampires, praising the film as suspenseful and humorous. The pleas...
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Very few [horror] films can stand serious analysis, but one which does is Carl Theodor Dreyer's Vampyr. Vampyr (also known as The Strange Adventures of David Gray) is the story of a haunted world. A story of the dark and of the evil that dw...
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The Vampire tale As a Sub-Genre of The Gothic
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Here I will expound upon how the vampire tale is undoubtedly a sub-genre
of the Gothic Genre. I will also attempt to tackle the tricky question of
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When Explorer I, America's first satellite, was launched in early 1958, it contained a payload of miniaturized instruments designed to study the regions surrounding the earth in space. James Van Allen, an expert on cosmic rays and skilled ...
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A Van der Waals force between molecules is a relatively weak intermolecular attraction. All neighboring molecules in liquids and solids attract each other. The nature and strength of these interactions depends on the types atom groups or f...
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The qualities of one man can not be replaced with another man's. Look at the 80's most famous and infamous rock and roll band, Van Halen. Van Halen was a popular band with an exciting front man David Lee Roth or DLR. The band seemed to have...
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Set in the late 19th century when mystery and supernatural powers are in motion this movie transports its viewer into the life of a monster slayer Van Helsing. Van Helsing works for the `Holy Order' based in Rome who are in charge of vanqui...
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