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On the final round at Pensacola, the luck of the draw paired Palmer and Player in the same threesome and, although it was far from obvious at the time, the gallery was treated to the first chapter of what promises to be one of the most exciting duels in sport for a long time to come.
In the final chapter, Alex has a new trio of droogs, but he finds he is beginning to outgrow his taste for violence.
The 21st chapter was omitted from the editions published in the United States prior to 1986 .< ref > Burgess, Anthony ( 1986 ) A Clockwork Orange Resucked in < u > A Clockwork Orange </ u >, W. W. Norton & Company, New York .</ ref > In the introduction to the updated American text ( these newer editions include the missing 21st chapter ), Burgess explains that when he first brought the book to an American publisher, he was told that U. S. audiences would never go for the final chapter, in which Alex sees the error of his ways, decides he has lost all energy for and thrill from violence and resolves to turn his life around ( a slow-ripening but classic moment of metanoia — the moment at which one's protagonist realises that everything he thought he knew was wrong ).
At the American publisher's insistence, Burgess allowed their editors to cut the redeeming final chapter from the U. S. version, so that the tale would end on a darker note, with Alex succumbing to his violent, reckless nature — an ending which the publisher insisted would be ' more realistic ' and appealing to a U. S. audience.
The final chapter of Acts ends with Paul condemning non-Christian Jews and saying " Therefore I want you to know that God's salvation has been sent to the Gentiles, and they will listen!
In the final chapter, he comments that peace is coming soon, but he does not see the future as bright and shining with hope.
* 1904 – British mystic Aleister Crowley transcribes the third and final chapter of The Book of The Law.
Together with the Book of Nehemiah, it represents the final chapter in the historical narrative of the Hebrew Bible.
Across the entire book, each chapter forms a coherent unit, with a concluding unit of three final chapters ( 10-12 ).
The events take place in the second half of the 5th century BC, and together with the Book of Ezra, it represents the final chapter in the historical narrative of the Hebrew Bible
In the final part of the first chapter, the prophet expresses shock at God's choice of instrument for judgment.
This final chapter is a poetic praise of God, and has some similarities with texts found in the Book of Daniel.
Chapter 26, the final chapter of the Dhammapada, states, " Him I call a brahmin who has put aside weapons and renounced violence toward all creatures.
The story ends on a cliffhanger with several questions left unanswered regarding the merging of the Honored Matres and Bene Gesserit, the fates of those on the escaped no-ship ( including the role of Scytale, the development of Idaho and Teg, and the role of the Jews ), the identity of the god-like characters in the book's final chapter and the ultimate mystery of what chased the Honored Matres back into the Old Empire.
Indeed, Cervantes deliberately omits the name of the village, giving an explanation in the final chapter:
In 1990, he released the third and final chapter of The Godfather series: The Godfather Part III.
The draft presented to the Council on 8 March drew no serious criticism, but a group of 35 English-speaking bishops, who feared that the opening phrase of the first chapter, " Sancta romana catholica Ecclesia " ( the holy Roman Catholic Church ), might be construed as favouring the Anglican Branch Theory, later succeeded in having an additional adjective inserted, so that the final text read: " Sancta catholica apostolica romana Ecclesia " ( the holy Catholic Apostolic Roman Church ).
Because the final chapter of his book is a song, it is sometimes assumed that he was a member of the tribe of Levi, which served as musicians in Solomon's Temple.
A final chapter provides Rites for Exceptional Circumstances, namely, the Continuous Rite of Penance, Anointing, and Viaticum, Rite for Emergencies, and Christian Initiation for the Dying.
As for the Hobbesians, Singer attempts a response in the final chapter of Practical Ethics, arguing that self-interested reasons support adoption of the moral point of view, such as ' the paradox of hedonism ', which counsels that happiness is best found by not looking for it, and the need most people feel to relate to something larger than their own concerns.
The final chapter of the book is devoted to sociobiological explanations of human behavior, and Wilson later wrote a Pulitzer Prize winning book, On Human Nature, that addressed human behavior specifically.
The final mention of Sigyn in Skáldskaparmál is in the list of ásynjur in the appended Nafnaþulur section, chapter 75.
Bronn translated " favoured races " as " perfected races ", and added essays on issues including the origin of life, as well as a final chapter on religious implications partly inspired by Bronn's adherence to Naturphilosophie.

final and Sheppard's
Sheppard's 800 metre split for the final was 1: 55. 4.
However, Wild, along with Field and William Kneebone, Sheppard's former master, presented evidence against him on the final charge of the burglary of Kneebone's house on 12 July ; and Sheppard was convicted, sentenced to death, and put in the condemned hold of Newgate Prison.
Sheppard's recorded voice did announce the starting lineups for that final game, however, a 7-3 victory over the Orioles.

final and narrative
According to Turner's narrative, he urged — and Hobart agreed — that before its final deposit in the museum, the stone should be presented to scholars at the Society of Antiquaries of London, of which Turner was a member.
The final editors of Genesis were not concerned with the narrative continuity between sources.
Feeling the final cut was too long, Warner Bros. recut it drastically for the American market, abandoning its flashback structure for a linear narrative.
Though some scholars agree in placing the Gospel of John somewhere between AD 65 and 85, John A. T. Robinson proposes an initial edition by 50 – 55 and then a final edition by 65 due to narrative similarities with Paul.
It is not known just why Newton changed his mind so radically about the final form of what had been a readable narrative in ' De motu corporum, Liber secundus ' of 1685, but he largely started afresh in a new, tighter, and less accessible mathematical style, eventually to produce Book 3 of the ' Principia ' as we know it.
The final three poems do not refer either to Israel or Moab, and are thus considered unusual, since they seem to have little relevance to the narrative.
Another connection between the narrative and the background was achieved with the final solution of the identity of " Trotter ": he became Aragorn, " a real ranger " and a descendant of Elendil.
Although the popular narrative suggests that the final phase of the battle consisted of a one-sided slaughter of Chinese troops by the Japanese, some Japanese historians maintain that the remaining Chinese military posed a serious threat to the Japanese.
Coppola and the editors returned to the cutting room to change the film's narrative structure, but could not complete the work in time, leaving the final scenes poorly timed at the opening.
The final window, occupying the westernmost bay of the south wall brings this narrative of sacral kingship right up to date with a series of scenes showing the rediscovery of Christ's relics, the miracles they performed, and their relocation to Paris in the hands of King Louis himself.
In the final scene of the narrative, Beppo is shown placing flowers and sobbing over his son's grave.
Following an unspecified rumour about HCE, the book, in a nonlinear dream narrative, follows his wife's attempts to exonerate him with a letter, his sons ' struggle to replace him, Shaun's rise to prominence, and a final monologue by ALP at the break of dawn.
As Cowell describes on the final, narrative track of the Folkways album on which his last piano recordings appear,
His final work, in 1975, a narrative of the epic poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a poem that Redgrave taught as a young schoolmaster and visualized by producer-director Raul da Silva, received six international film festival prizes of which five were first place in category.
Lindon is notable in Tolkien's works in that it serves as a narrative plot device as the final point of transition from the mortal changing world of Middle-earth to the unchanged Arda of the past.
Upon looking at the final composition, he realized it created a narrative, as if the viewer was moving through the room.
Although the story was a nominal starting point that " offered some inspiration, the final narrative was pure Hitchcock.
* The short story " A Christmas in Padua " in F. L. Lucas's The Woman Clothed with the Sun ( 1937 ) retells the final hours of Vittoria Accoramboni ( the original of Webster's White Devil ) in December 1585, slanting the narrative from her perspective.
* Christopher Tolkien's explanation of how he, with the collaboration of future fantasy author Guy Gavriel Kay, constructed Chapter 22 of the Quenta Silmarillion, since none of his father's accounts of this episode were recent enough to fit the narrative in its final form.
These events represent the final chapter in the historical narrative of the Hebrew Bible.
" This is in fact a rephrased line from the final chapter of The Hobbit, originally conveyed through third-person narrative voice.

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