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Witchard and notes
As literary critic Anne Witchard notes, most of what we know about Burke s life is based on works that purport to be autobiographical yet contain far more invention than truth .” For instance, although he grew up in the suburbs, Thomas Burke claims in his autobiographical novel The Wind and the Rain: A Book of Confessions ( 1924 ) to have been born and raised in the East End, a lower-working class area of London.
As critic Anne Witchard notes, the twentieth century Britain of Burke's lifetime propagated the idea of Yellow perilism, which saw the presence of the Chinese in London as a cause of " degenerative metropolitan blight and imperial and racial decline ”.

Witchard and Burke
* Anne Witchard, " Aspects of Literary Limehouse: Thomas Burke and the Glamorous Shame of Chinatown ", Literary London: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Representation of London, 2, 2 ( September 2004 ): 7 pp. http :// homepages. gold. ac. uk / london-journal / september % 202004 / witchard. html.

notes and Burke
Examples of individuals who rose from humble beginnings can be instanced, but Burke notes two major studies in this area that have found that the data do not clearly demonstrate an increase in social mobility.
She tells Burke she was not able to obtain the drugs after all, and to defend herself from further scrutiny, notes to Burke that she is underage to be drinking the beer he gave her.
New York Times reviewer, John S. Wilson claimed that Burke used mellow, woodsy lower notes to build delightfully catchy little phrases and runs .” He also noted that Burke would wriggle around in his seat while playing, and that, during solos, he would play from a strange, semi-crouch position.
While Dixieland is often assumed to be a campy imitation of past music, Wilson notes that Burke does not depend on musical stereotypes or clichés.

notes and through
At his trial, petitioner sought to secure through subpoena duces tecum the longhand notes of the Department's hearing officer, Evensen, as well as his report thereon.
This time the search took twice as long, cutting down on his extra reading, for he had to pick through several columns of one- and two-line social notes in each issue.
The brief notes introducing each work offer salient historical or technical points, and many listeners are probably grateful for being intelligently taken by the hand through an often difficult maze.
The song " The Raven " featured lead vocals by the actor Leonard Whiting, and, according to the 2007 remastered album liner notes, was the first rock song to use a digital vocoder, with Alan Parsons speaking lyrics through it.
( Hume 1974: 384 ) He also notes that this " inferential " ability that animals have is not through reason, but custom alone.
Later in Grímnismál, Grímnir notes that Asbrú " burns all with flames " and that, every day, the god Thor wades through the waters of Körmt and Örmt and the two Kerlaugar:
Instead, the Hebrew name Ahasuerus accords with an inscription of the time that notes that Artaxerxes II was named also Arshu, understood as a shortening of Achshiyarshu the Babylonian rendering of the Persian Khshayarsha ( Xerxes ), through which the Hebrew Achashverosh ( Ahasuerus ) is derived.
Treasury notes had full legal tender status and were not convertible for gold through the Bank of England, replacing the gold coin in circulation to prevent a run on sterling and to enable raw material purchases for armament production.
The sleeve notes conclude: " For six years Bill Haley was a musical director of Radio Station WPWA in Chester, Pennsylvania, and led his own band all through this period.
Since the invention of the MIDI system in the early 1980s, for example, some people have worked on programs which map MIDI notes to an algorithm and then can either output sounds or music through the computer's sound card or write an audio file for other programs to play.
Beatrice Gottlieb notes that households in England, just like the rest of Europe, experienced social stratification from ancient times through the 20th century.
Art historian and the artist's great-grandson Joachim Pissarro notes that they professed a passionate disdain for the Salons and refused to exhibit at them .” Together they shared an almost militant resolution against the Salon, and through their later correspondences it is clear that their mutual admiration was based on a kinship of ethical as well as aesthetic concerns ”.
Compiled by Young himself, with his hand-written notes about each track, Decade represents almost every album from his career and various affiliations through 1977 with the exception of Four Way Street and Time Fades Away.
The problem with matrix circuits is that, when several notes are pressed at once, the current can flow backwards through the circuit and trigger " phantom keys " that cause " ghost " notes to play.
A revision of I. Halpern's notes on E. Fermi's lectures in 1945 ", United States Department of Energy ( through predecessor agency the Atomic Energy Commission ), ( October 1951 ).
As a joint-stock company, it had the right to raise funds through the issue of promissory notes or bonds.
This is useful because the reeds eventually go out of tune through normal use, and certain notes of the scale can fail more quickly than others.
" Hengist notes that his retinue is the result of this process, and through this custom Hengist and his brother Horsa were made generals " out of respect to our ancestors, who enjoyed the same honour ," and so they have arrived in Vortigern's kingdom " under the good guidance of Mercury.
Remini notes that Adams thought the end of slavery would come by either civil war or the consent of the slave South, but definitely not through the work of abolitionists.
Despite some errors in field observations, he made a significant contribution to the understanding of bird anatomy and behavior through his field notes.
The intervals between the notes remain the same through much of the piece.
Certain possible sources of law are specifically ended: laws of the Bábí religion, notably in the Persian Bayán, oral traditions ( linked with pilgrim notes, and natural law, ( that is to say God's sovereign will through revelation is the independent authority.
In time, through the use of Batman's notes, Ra's al Ghul was able to fashion a synthetic red kryptonite, this version turning Superman's skin transparent and leaving him almost exploding with power as the sunlight that gave him his powers was sent directly into his muscles without being filtered by his skin.
From Stephen V through the 10th and 11th centuries, the historical notes are extremely abbreviated, usually with only the pope's origin and reign duration.

notes and writing
" Bibas notes that prominent plea bargain critic Albert Alschuler supports the use of this form of plea, writing, " He views them as a lesser evil, a way to empower defendants within a flawed system.
The introduction to the collection Rediscovery of Man notes that from around 1960 Linebarger became more devout and expressed this in his writing.
St John Damascene, writing in the 8th century AD, also notes of an earlier sect called the " Cathari ", in his book On Heresies, taken from the epitome provided by Epiphanius of Salamis in his Panarion.
Bede notes that the native Old English month Ēostur-monath ( Old English " Ēostre-month ") was equivalent to the month of April, yet that feasts held in the goddess's honor during Ēostur-monath had gone out of use by the time of his writing and had been replaced with the Christian custom of the " Paschal season ".
A close-up shot can also be used at the beginning of a scene to establish the setting ( such as, for the lecture hall scene, a shot of a pencil writing notes ).
The vocabulary is formed by Enya singing the notes to which Roma provides the phonetic writing.
Once more he took up his pen, writing a series of poems with prose head notes inspired by his early experiences at sea.
Tabulature notation ( often abbreviated as " tab ") is a method of writing melodies by indicating where the notes are played on the instrument, rather than by indicating the pitches with circles and note heads printed on a staff, as with standard notation.
Athenaeus ( writing in the 1st or 2nd century BCE, and drawing on the etymological speculation of Apollodorus of Athens ) notes that the red mullet is sacred to Hecate, " on account of the resemblance of their names ; for that the goddess is trimorphos, of a triple form ".
The term may also be used for information that is hand-recorded in other ways than writing, for example inscriptions that are chiselled upon a hard material or scratched ( the original meaning of graffiti ) as with a knife point in plaster or with a stylus on a waxed tablet ( the way Romans made notes ), or are in cuneiform writing, impressed with a pointed stylus in a flat tablet of unbaked clay.
He also notes that Shakespeare became more proficient in reading the language as set out in Florio s manuals, as evidenced by his increasing use of Florio and other Italian sources for writing the plays.
Sobran notes that the cypress tree was a symbol of mourning and says that Barksted was specifically writing of Shakespeare in the past tense (" His song was worthy ") — after Oxford's death in 1604, but prior to Shakespeare's death in 1616.
Its most common use was as a material for writing on, for documents, notes, or the pages of a book, codex or manuscript.
Watt also notes that some of these elements appear in many of his works, such as Twelfth Night or A Midsummer Night s Dream, and had a deep impact on Shakespeare s writing.
Darlington notes that Gerbert's preservation of his letters might have been an effort of his to compile them into a textbook for his pupils that would illustrate proper letter writing.
Information from the RPG, along with notes composed by RPG author Hewitt with Niven, were later used to form the " Bible " given to authors writing in the Man-Kzin Wars series.
When she received the news, his mother attempted to contain her sorrow by writing down her feelings in a notebook her husband had been using to take notes on a relativity textbook he had been reading.
David Hartwell commenting on Algis J. Budrys writing in the review column of Galaxy magazine notes the " ringing scorn and righteous indignation " with which Budry's discussion vibrates in " one of the classic diatribes against Ballard and the new mode of SF then emergent ":
In addition, Fergus Gordon Kerr, a Roman Catholic priest of the Order of Preachers founded by Saint Dominic, notes that " theological questions lie between the lines of all of Wittgenstein's writing.
The term in Latin equates to the English " blank slate " ( or more accurately, " scraped tablet ") ( which refers to writing on a slate sheet in chalk ) but comes from the Roman tabula or wax tablet, used for notes, which was blanked by heating the wax and then smoothing it to give a tabula rasa.
This includes writing down all the major points from lectures and taking advantage of all available materials-using the supportive mediums provided by institutions such as online lecture notes and PowerPoint presentations.
Another concern was that when deadlocks occurred, state legislatures found themselves unable to conduct their normal business ; James Christian Ure, writing in the South Texas Law Review, notes that this did not in fact occur.
Ralph A. Rossum, writing in the San Diego Law Review, notes that the debate over the amendment's adoption lacked " any serious or systematic considerations of its potential impact on federalism ... The popular press, the party platforms, the state memorials, the House and Senate debates, and the state legislative debates during ratification focused almost exclusively on expanding democracy, eliminating political corruption, defeating elitism and freeing the states from what they had come to regard as an onerous and difficult responsibility.
Robert Chambers, writing in 19th century notes that " especially in England, miracle to stand for religious play in general ".

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