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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.

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Despite a too long sustained declamatory flight, this final speech is convincing, and we see why British audiences apparently were impressed by `` Roots ''.
A close relationship developed between Hasan Ali Shah and the British, which coincided with the final years of the First Anglo-Afghan War ( 1838 – 1842 ).
This goal, of showing the movement towards unity, explains Bede's animosity towards the British method of calculating Easter: much of the Historia is devoted to a history of the dispute, including the final resolution at the Synod of Whitby in 664.
As his ship was readied for battle, Nelson held a final dinner with Vanguard < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s officers, announcing as he rose: " Before this time tomorrow I shall have gained a peerage or Westminster Abbey ," in reference to the rewards of victory or the traditional burial place of British military heroes.
The final ship of the British line, Culloden under Troubridge, sailed too close to Aboukir Island in the growing darkness and became stuck fast on the shoal.
Alexander, the final unengaged British ship that had followed Swiftsure, pulled up close to Tonnant, which had begun to drift away from the embattled French flagship.
Continuing Arab disquiet over Allied intentions also led during 1918 to the British Declaration to the Seven and the Anglo-French Declaration, the latter promising " the complete and final liberation of the peoples who have for so long been oppressed by the Turks, and the setting up of national governments and administrations deriving their authority from the free exercise of the initiative and choice of the indigenous populations.
Allenby's force, now including Indian Army units which replaced a number of British units sent to the Western Front, captured the southern Jordan Valley in 1918 and carried out two major, but unsuccessful attacks to Amman and Es Salt and occupied part of the Jordan Valley, during preparations for his final successful assault in September at the Battle of Megiddo.
* Canadian spelling sometimes retains the British practice of doubling consonants when adding suffixes to words even when the final syllable ( before the suffix ) is not stressed.
The final cavalry charge by British Empire forces occurred on 21 March 1942 when a 60 strong patrol of the Burma Frontier Force encountered Japanese infantry near Toungoo airfield in central Burma.
At the Battle of Waterloo — Napoleon's final battle — the French army had many more artillery pieces than either the British or Prussians.
After his final defeat, Napoleon was treated as a general by the British authorities during his second exile to Atlantic Isle of St. Helena.
* 1846 – First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon – British defeat Sikhs in final battle of the war
The Continental Army having been funded by $ 20, 000 in French gold, Washington delivered the final blow to the British in 1781, after a French naval victory allowed American and French forces to trap a British army in Virginia.
After two years of study and research, its final report was published in the British Medical Journal ( BMJ ), under the title ‘ Medical use of Hypnotism ’.
Thus encouraged, the encircling regiments remained in place, maintaining continual pressure, until weakened British dispositions enabled the host to make a final surge forward.
Brown appeared at Edinburgh 50, 000 – The Final Push, the final Live 8 concert on July 6, 2005, where he performed a duet with British pop star Will Young on " Papa's Got A Brand New Bag ".
Wood notes that the governmental structure in both the Virginia Plan and the final constitution were not innovative, since they were copied from the British government, had been used in the states since 1776, and numerous authors had already argued for their adoption at the national level.
When, however, the Treaty of San Stefano threatened a Russian hegemony in the Near East, Andrássy concurred with the German and British courts that the final adjustment of matters must be submitted to a European congress.
On the night of 30 – 31 August 1939, Ribbentrop had an extremely heated exchange with the British Ambassador, Sir Nevile Henderson, who objected to Ribbentrop's demand, given at about midnight, that if a Polish plenipotentiary did not arrive in Berlin that night to discuss the German " final offer ", then the responsibility for the outbreak of war would not rest on the Reich.
" As intended by Ribbentrop, the narrow time limit for acceptance of the " final offer " made it impossible for the British government to contact the Polish government in time about the German offer, let alone for the Poles to arrange for a Polish plenipotentiary envoy to arrive in Berlin that night, thereby allowing Ribbentrop to claim that the Poles had rejected the German " final offer ".
As it was, a special meeting of the British cabinet called to consider the " final offer ", they declined to pass on the message to Warsaw under the grounds this was not a serious proposal on the part of Berlin.

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