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  English Essentials - A...

  Virversity Online Courses

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  Explore the foundations of English with our English Essentials course, perfect for beginners or anyone needing a refresher. Enhance your communication skills and confidence in both personal and professional contexts through a focus on basic English elements like grammar and vocabulary.Key Benefits:- Gain a solid understanding of English grammar and vocabulary.- Develop essential skills for everyday communication.- Enjoy interactive lessons at your own pace.- Improve reading, writing, speaking, and listening.- Receive support from experienced instructors.Course Overview:Begin with an immersive introduction to English, exploring its origins, structure, and usage. Delve into grammar aspects such as sentence structure, verb tenses, and parts of speech. Our interactive lessons help you practice and expand your vocabulary, allowing you to communicate clearly whether you're traveling, socializing, or conducting business.Flexible Learning:The curriculum adapts to your learning style, offering pace flexibility and personalized guidance. With your newfound confidence and skills, you'll be ready to engage with the English-speaking world smoothly and effectively.By course completion, you'll have a comprehensive grasp of English, refined communication abilities, and the confidence to thrive in various contexts. Let English Essentials transform your language journey today!

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  Escaping Slavery in America: The...

  Charles River Editors

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  The Underground Railroad is one of the most taught topics to young schoolchildren, and every American is familiar with the idea of fugitive slaves escaping to Canada and the North with the help of determined abolitionists and even former escaped slaves like Harriet Tubman. The secrecy involved in the Underground Railroad made it one of the most mysterious aspects of the mid-19th century in America, to the extent that claims spread that 100,000 slaves had escaped via the Underground Railroad. Of course, from a practical standpoint, the Underground Railroad had to remain covert not only for the sake of thousands of slaves, but for a small army of men and women of every race, religion and economic class who put themselves in peril on an ongoing basis throughout the first half of the 19th century, and in the years leading up to the war.  
  	Over 150 years later, that same secrecy has helped the Underground Railroad become so romanticized and mythologized that people often visualize it in ways that were far different from reality. Before the American Civil War eliminated slavery, it was a fixture in North America for over 200 years, and by 1850 a trained slave was worth approximately $2,500, around 10 times the sum of a typical annual salary in that day. As a result, the economic dependence on slavery in the South was an extreme one, and in the wake of the Fugitive Slave Act, black people in the North were under constant pressure to defend their “credentials” to bounty hunters and owners. Between the value of slaves in America, rising abolitionist sentiment at home and overseas, and political debates promoting or hindering the movement toward equality, the era in which the Underground Railroad operated cannot be easily fit into a concise body of principles, actions or geography. 

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  The Pink Dress - A Memoir of a...

  Jane Little Botkin

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  Growing up in West Texas, Jane Little Botkin didn't have designs on becoming a beauty queen. But not long after joining a pageant on a whim in college, she became the first protégé of El Paso's Richard Guy and Rex Holt, known as the "Kings of Beauty"—just as the 1970's counterculture movement began to take off.A pink, rose-covered gown—a Guyrex creation—symbolizes the fairy tale life that young women in Jane's time imagined beauty queens had. Its near destruction exposes reality: the author's failed relationship with her mother, and her parents' failed relationship with one another. Weaving these narrative threads together is the Wild West notion that anything is possible, especially do-overs.The Pink Dress awakens nostalgia for the 1960s and 1970s, the era's conflicts and growth pains. A common expectation that women went to college to get "MRS" degrees—to find a husband and become a stay-at-home wife and mother—often prevailed. How does one swim upstream against this notion among feminist voices that protest "If You Want Meat, Go to a Butcher!" at beauty pageants, two flamboyant showmen, and a developing awareness of self? Torn between women's traditional roles and what women could be, Guyrex Girls evolved, as did the author.

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  British Royals

  Raphael Terra

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  This audiobook has been recorded using Text to speech (TTS). 
   
  The English royal family. Spectacle or spectacular? Ordinary or extraordinary? 
   
  Grand palaces, castles and huge estates. Sovereign over many nations. Massive wealth. Highly influential on a worldwide scale. 
   
  Where did they come from? How did they get such power and wealth? Dukes, Princes, Kings and Queens. It’s a bewildering and often confusing world of royalty. 
   
  What power do they still hold? What do they do? Who is related to who? 
   
  We look at the royal family of the United Kingdom and explain it all in a simple and easy to understand way. Discover the history and unlock the mystery of the royals.

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  The Don't Sweat Guide To Your...

  Don't Sweat Press, Richard Carlson

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  In these troubled economic times, looking for a new job, or searching for that very first job opportunity, can be extremely stressful. There's more competition out there, and fewer jobs to compete for. 
   
  However, this time does not have to be as worrisome as it might seem. The Don't Sweat Guide to Your Job Search helps you to be more relaxed and peaceful as you hunt for the right occupation, and everyone knows that people are at their best in interviews when they're calm and relaxed. In essays such as: 
   
  -- Beware of Time Frames 
  -- Be Your Own Matchmaker 
  -- Cast Your Net Wide 
  -- What You Bring to the Table 
  -- It's Not a One-Way Street 
  -- The Theory of Relativity, Job Style 
   
  And many more. The editors of Don't Sweat Press reveal the best ways to search for a job without getting needlessly stressed out.

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  Numidians The: The History of...

  Editors Charles River

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  Carthage was one of the great ancient civilizations, and at its peak, the wealthy Carthaginian empire dominated the Mediterranean against the likes of Greece and Rome, with commercial enterprises and influence stretching from Spain to Turkey. In fact, at several points in history it had a very real chance of replacing the fledgling Roman empire or the failing Greek poleis (city-states) altogether as master of the Mediterranean. Although Carthage by far preferred to exert economic pressure and influence before resorting to direct military power (and even went so far as to rely primarily on mercenary armies paid with its vast wealth for much of its history, it nonetheless produced a number of outstanding generals, from the likes of Hanno Magnus to, of course, the great bogeyman of Roman nightmares himself: Hannibal.  
  	What is often overlooked is how Carthage interacted with other groups in North Africa, some of which fought with them and against them. North Africa is generally thought of as a land devoid of life, full of nothing but desert wastelands and populated only by desert Bedouins, and while the Sahara Desert does comprise the majority of North Africa’s landmass, it is far from being the only significant sub-region of the area. Just to the north of the Sahara Desert, in what are today the modern nation-states of Algeria, Tunisia, and parts of Libya and Morocco, the land was known as Numidia in antiquity. Numida was the complete opposite of the North African stereotype of a desolate place - it was a land of plenty, the home of rich agricultural land that provided a good share of the Roman Empire’s food. Numidia was also home to the Numidian people, who were known for their horsemanship skills, bellicosity, and capriciousness when it came to their friends and allies. From the 3rd century BCE until the mid-1st century BCE, the Numidians ruled their land as independent kingdoms that dealt with their more powerful neighbors.

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