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• Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Spinoza and Malebranche

  While Spinoza's proof of God's existence has convinced few, many people share his vision of nature as a singlewhole, a unified system containing within itself the explanation of all of itself. Many too have followed Spinoza inconcluding that if the universe contains its own explanation, then everything that happens is determined, and thereis no possibility of any sequence of events other than the actual one. ‘In nature there is nothing contingent;everything is determined by the necessi...

• From Bulfinch's Mythology: Prometheus and Pandora - anthology.

  The world being thus furnished with inhabitants, the first age was an age of innocence and happiness, called the Golden Age. Truth and right prevailed, though not enforced by law, nor was there any magistrate to threaten or punish. The forest had not yet been robbed of its trees to furnish timbers for vessels, nor had men builtfortifications round their towns. There were no such things as swords, spears, or helmets. The earth brought forth all things necessary for man, without his labour inplo...

• SATELLITES AND ORBITS

  direction parallel with the ground. It will then travel round and round the Earth at the same height as a satellite. But we must make sure that the body is launched high enough so that it is above the Earth's atmosphere. Then there is no air resistance to slow it down. So it remains lapping the Earth at the same speed. 2.Satellite orbits We call the path a satellite takes through space, its orbit. And the speed it must have to remain in orbit is called the orbital velocity. The orbital velocit...

• United Kingdom Facts and Figures.

  Muslim 2.7 percent Hindu, Sikh, Jewish, Buddhist 2.4 percent Nonreligious 15.5 percent Other and not stated 7.8 percent *2001 Census HEALTH AND EDUCATIONLife expectancy Total 78.8 years (2008 estimate) Female 81.5 years (2008 estimate) Male 76.4 years (2008 estimate) Infant mortality rate 5 deaths per 1,000 live births (2008 estimate) Population per physician 601 people (2004) Population per hospital bed 238 people (2003) Literacy rateTotal 99 percent (1995) Female Not...

• Eating the Other: Desire and Resistence

  ­”A s a survival strategy, black nationalism  surfaces m ost strongly w hen w hite cultural  appropriation of black culture threatens to decontextualize and erase know ledge...”  ­W hite critics do not see these aspects of black nationalism .  ­C om m odification of difference prom otes paradigm s of consum ption w herein w hatever  difference the O ther inhabits is eradicated, via exchange, by a consum er cannibalism  tht not only  displaces the O ther but denies the the significance of th...

• Iran Facts and Figures.

  Shiite Muslim 93 percent Sunni Muslim 6 percent Zoroastrian, Jewish, Christian, and Baha'i 1 percent HEALTH AND EDUCATIONLife expectancy Total 70.9 years (2008 estimate) Female 72.4 years (2008 estimate) Male 69.4 years (2008 estimate) Infant mortality rate 37 deaths per 1,000 live births (2008 estimate) Population per physician 2,223 people (2004) Population per hospital bed 625 people (2001) Literacy rateTotal 81.3 percent (2005 estimate) Female 75.2 percent (2005 estimate...

• Egyptian Art and Architecture - USA History.

  The kings of the 1st Dynasty (2920 BC-2770 BC) were buried in the cemetery of their ancestors at Abydos in southern Egypt. Their burial sites were built of mud brick (bricks baked in the sun) and consisted of two parts: a tomb in the desert where the king was buried, and a rectangular funerary enclosure at the desert's edge, whererituals were performed. A pair of stone slabs called stelae marked the tombs and bore the name of the royal occupant. In the 2nd Dynasty (2770 BC-2649 BC), most r...

• Australia Facts and Figures.

  HEALTH AND EDUCATIONLife expectancy Total 80.7 years (2008 estimate) Female 83.8 years (2008 estimate) Male 77.9 years (2008 estimate) Infant mortality rate 5 deaths per 1,000 live births (2008 estimate) Population per physician 401 people (2004) Population per hospital bed 135 people (2002) Literacy rateTotal 100 percent (1995) Female Not available Male Not available Education expenditure as a share of gross national product (GNP) 5 percent (2002-2003) Number of years of com...

• Excerpt from Romeo and Juliet - anthology.

  Take all myself. ROMEO. I take thee at thy word.Call me but love, and I’ll be new baptized.Henceforth I never will be Romeo. JULIET. What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night,So stumblest on my counsel? ROMEO. By a nameI know not how to tell thee who I am.My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself,Because it is an enemy to thee.Had I it written, I would tear the word. JULIET. My ears have yet not drunk a hundred wordsOf thy tongue’s uttering, yet I know the sound.Art thou not Romeo, and a...

• 11 Famous food mascots and their stories

  Snap! Crackle! Pop! Brand: Rice Krispies Year Introduced: 1933 In homage to the distinctive sound that emits from a bowl of Rice Krispies cereal once it's doused in milk, Kellogg's introduced the company's first food mascots: Snap! Crackle! Pop! These tiny gnomes first appeared in print ads in the early 1930s and became fixtures on the cereal box by 1939. Though they're best known as an inseparable trio, the best way to distinguish between them is by the hats they wear. Snap! always wea...

• Kiribati Facts and Figures.

  Male Not available Education expenditure as a share of gross national product (GNP) 11.4 percent (1996) Number of years of compulsory schooling 10 years (2000) Number of students per teacher, primary school 22 students per teacher (2002-2003) GOVERNMENTForm of government Republic Voting qualifications Universal at age 18 Constitution 12 July 1979 Armed forcesTotal number of military personnel Not available Military expenditures as a share of gross domestic product (GDP) Not available...

• Comoros Facts and Figures.

  Literacy rateTotal 56.8 percent (2005 estimate) Female 49.7 percent (2005 estimate) Male 63.9 percent (2005 estimate) Education expenditure as a share of gross national product (GNP) 3.9 percent (2002-2003) Number of years of compulsory schooling 8 years (2002-2003) Number of students per teacher, primary school 37 students per teacher (2002-2003) GOVERNMENTForm of government Republic Voting qualifications Universal at age 18 Constitution New constitution came into force 23 December...

• Chile Facts and Figures.

  Other 10 percent HEALTH AND EDUCATIONLife expectancy Total 77.2 years (2008 estimate) Female 80.6 years (2008 estimate) Male 73.9 years (2008 estimate) Infant mortality rate 8 deaths per 1,000 live births (2008 estimate) Population per physician 916 people (2004) Population per hospital bed 385 people (2002) Literacy rateTotal 96.5 percent (2005 estimate) Female 96.4 percent (2005 estimate) Male 96.6 percent (2005 estimate) Education expenditure as a share of gross national...

• Mali Facts and Figures.

  Literacy rateTotal 49.7 percent (2005 estimate) Female 43.1 percent (2005 estimate) Male 56.6 percent (2005 estimate) Education expenditure as a share of gross national product (GNP) 3 percent (1999-2000) Number of years of compulsory schooling 9 years (2002-2003) Number of students per teacher, primary school 57 students per teacher (2002-2003) GOVERNMENTForm of government Republic Voting qualifications Universal at age 21 Constitution Adopted 12 January 1992 Armed forcesTotal numb...

• Samoa Facts and Figures.

  Female 99.7 percent (2005 estimate) Male 99.7 percent (2005 estimate) Education expenditure as a share of gross national product (GNP) 4.5 percent (2001-2002) Number of years of compulsory schooling 10 years (2000) Number of students per teacher, primary school 27 students per teacher (2002-2003) GOVERNMENTForm of government Constitutional monarchy Voting qualifications Universal at age 21 Constitution 1 January 1962; amended 1997 Armed forcesTotal number of military personnel Not ava...

• Yemen Facts and Figures.

  Female 33.2 percent (2005 estimate) Male 72.5 percent (2005 estimate) Education expenditure as a share of gross national product (GNP) 10.6 percent (2001-2002) Number of years of compulsory schooling 9 years (2002-2003) Number of students per teacher, primary school 30 students per teacher (1998-1999) GOVERNMENTForm of government Republic Voting qualifications Universal at age 18 Constitution 16 April 1991; amended 1994, 2000, 2001 Armed forcesTotal number of military personnel 66,700...

• Mauritania Facts and Figures.

  Literacy rateTotal 42.6 percent (2005 estimate) Female 33 percent (2005 estimate) Male 52.5 percent (2005 estimate) Education expenditure as a share of gross national product (GNP) 3.6 percent (2002-2003) Number of years of compulsory schooling 9 years (2002-2003) Number of students per teacher, primary school 41 students per teacher (2002-2003) GOVERNMENTForm of government Republic Voting qualifications Universal at age 18 Constitution 12 July 1991 Armed forcesTotal number of milit...

• The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety and Contact

  2 First, a distinction between “the public and the private spaces”; second, streets must be constantly watched, and third sidewalk must be occupied by users: "Once a street is well equipped to handle strangers, once it has both a good, effective demarcation between private and public spaces and has a basic supply of activity and eyes, the more strangers the merrier" (40). By this quote, Jacobs means that people will have no apprehension by using a street or a sidewalk that meet the requirements...

• SUBSTANCES AND PERSONS - LOCKE

  If my present consciousness extends backwards for so long as this consciousness has a continuous history, thequestion remains to be answered: what makes this consciousness the individual consciousness it is? Locke hasdebarred himself from answering that this consciousness is the consciousness of this human being, since he hasmade his distinction between man and person.If, on the other hand, my present consciousness extends backwards only as far as I remember, then my past is nolonger my past...

• Somalia Facts and Figures.

  Female 14 percent (1995) Male 36.1 percent (1995) Education expenditure as a share of gross national product (GNP) 0.5 percent (1985) Number of years of compulsory schooling 8 years (2001-2002) Number of students per teacher, primary school 20 students per teacher (1997) GOVERNMENTForm of governmentThe nation has been threatened for years by civil strife and has been torn by a bloody power struggle between clans since 1991. Voting qualifications Universal at age 18 ConstitutionNone in...

• Mexico Facts and Figures.

  HEALTH AND EDUCATIONLife expectancy Total 75.8 years (2008 estimate) Female 78.8 years (2008 estimate) Male 73 years (2008 estimate) Infant mortality rate 19 deaths per 1,000 live births (2008 estimate) Population per physician 583 people (2004) Population per hospital bed 1,000 people (2003) Literacy rateTotal 92.7 percent (2005 estimate) Female 91.2 percent (2005 estimate) Male 94.4 percent (2005 estimate) Education expenditure as a share of gross national product (GNP) 5.4...

• North Dakota - Facts and Figures.

  Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders less than 0.1 percent (2000) Mixed heritage or not reporting 1.5 percent (2000) Hispanics (of any race) 1.2 percent (2000) HEALTH AND EDUCATIONLife expectancy 77.6 years (1989-1991) Infant mortality rate 6 deaths per 1,000 live births (2004) Residents per physician 417 people (2005) Residents per hospital bed 181 people (2005) Share of population not covered by health insurance 12.2 percent (2006) Number of students per teacher (K-12) 12.7...

• From Bulfinch's Mythology: Cupid and Psyche - anthology.

  waters, and fast by, a magnificent palace whose august front impressed the spectator that it was not the work of mortal hands, but the happy retreat of some god.Drawn by admiration and wonder, she approached the building and ventured to enter. Every object she met filled her with pleasure and amazement. Golden pillarssupported the vaulted roof, and the walls were enriched with carvings and paintings representing beasts of the chase and rural scenes, adapted to delight the eye of thebeholder. Pro...

• Postmodern theories of Alterity and identity

  desires; rather, it indicates that the self desires only as the Other and thus cannot recognize the object of its desire. The self is, as it were, a detour in the trajectory of the desire of the Other. Lacan's theory of desire arrivesat a conundrum: how can we understand the fact that subjects desire very specific objects? He invented the term'object a' (where the 'a' stands for autre , 'other') in response to this question. Such objects are distinguished by the fact that 'they have no spe...

• Kuwait Facts and Figures.

  Other 2 percent HEALTH AND EDUCATIONLife expectancy Total 77.5 years (2008 estimate) Female 78.7 years (2008 estimate) Male 76.4 years (2008 estimate) Infant mortality rate 9 deaths per 1,000 live births (2008 estimate) Population per physician 656 people (2004) Population per hospital bed 455 people (2002) Literacy rateTotal 84.4 percent (2005 estimate) Female 82.9 percent (2005 estimate) Male 85.8 percent (2005 estimate) Education expenditure as a share of gross national...

• Bolivia Facts and Figures.

  Other 2 percent HEALTH AND EDUCATIONLife expectancyTotal 66.5 years (2008 estimate) Female 69.3 years (2008 estimate) Male 63.9 years (2008 estimate) Infant mortality rate 49 deaths per 1,000 live births (2008 estimate) Population per physician 1,364 people (2004) Population per hospital bed 1,000 people (2003) Literacy rateTotal 88.4 percent (2005 estimate) Female 83.1 percent (2005 estimate) Male 93.8 percent (2005 estimate) Education expenditure as a share of gross nationa...

• From Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - anthology.

  And she urged it on him eagerly, and ever he refused,And vowed in very earnest, prevail she would not.And she sad to find it so, and said to him then,“If my ring is refused for its rich cost -You would not be my debtor for so dear a thing—I shall give you my girdle; you gain less thereby.”She released a knot lightly, and loosened a beltThat was caught about her kirtle, the bright cloak beneath,Of a gay green silk, with gold overwroght,And the borders all bound with embroidery fine,And this she p...

• Georgia (state) - Facts and Figures.

  Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders 0.1 percent (2000) Mixed heritage or not reporting 3.8 percent (2000) Hispanics (of any race) 5.3 percent (2000) HEALTH AND EDUCATIONLife expectancy 73.6 years (1989-1991) Infant mortality rate 9 deaths per 1,000 live births (2004) Residents per physician 457 people (2005) Residents per hospital bed 365 people (2005) Share of population not covered by health insurance 17.7 percent (2006) Number of students per teacher (K-12) 15.7 (2003) G...

• New Jersey - Facts and Figures.

  Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders less than 0.1 percent (2000) Mixed heritage or not reporting 7.9 percent (2000) Hispanics (of any race) 13.3 percent (2000) HEALTH AND EDUCATIONLife expectancy 75.4 years (1989-1991) Infant mortality rate 6 deaths per 1,000 live births (2004) Residents per physician 323 people (2005) Residents per hospital bed 394 people (2005) Share of population not covered by health insurance 15.5 percent (2006) Number of students per teacher (K-12) 12....

• TELEVISION AND VIOLENCE

  who habitually watched less than four hours T.V. a week and those who watched a minimum of 25 hours a week. In the Utah laboratory, each chitd was invited to view three film extracts. Two of these were relatively calm films, white the third was an eight-minute sequence from "The Champion", a Kirk Douglas film in which a brutal boxing-match is depicted. Results showed that white the children were watching the calm films, there was no obser...

• Excerpt from Troilus and Cressida - anthology.

  Enter Pandarus and Cressida, veiled PANDARUS. Come, come, what need you blush? Shame's a baby. ( To Troilus ) Here she is now: swear the oaths now to her that you have sworn to me. ( To Cressida ) What, are you gone again? You must be watched ere you be made tame, must you? Come your ways, come your ways; an you draw backward, we'll put you i'th'fills. ( To Troilus ) Why do you not speak to her? ( To Cressida ) Come, draw this curtain, and let's see your picture. Alas the day, how loath you are...

• West Virginia - Facts and Figures.

  Native Americans 0.2 percent (2000) Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders less than 0.1 percent (2000) Mixed heritage or not reporting 1 percent (2000) Hispanics (of any race) 0.7 percent (2000) HEALTH AND EDUCATIONLife expectancy 74.3 years (1989-1991) Infant mortality rate 8 deaths per 1,000 live births (2004) Residents per physician 433 people (2005) Residents per hospital bed 252 people (2005) Share of population not covered by health insurance 13.5 percent (2006) Number...

• New Mexico - Facts and Figures.

  Asians 1.1 percent (2000) Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders 0.1 percent (2000) Mixed heritage or not reporting 20.7 percent (2000) Hispanics (of any race) 42.1 percent (2000) HEALTH AND EDUCATIONLife expectancy 75.7 years (1989-1991) Infant mortality rate 6 deaths per 1,000 live births (2004) Residents per physician 417 people (2005) Residents per hospital bed 550 people (2005) Share of population not covered by health insurance 22.9 percent (2006) Number of students per...

• Rhode Island - Facts and Figures.

  Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders 0.1 percent (2000) Mixed heritage or not reporting 7.7 percent (2000) Hispanics (of any race) 8.7 percent (2000) HEALTH AND EDUCATIONLife expectancy 76.5 years (1989-1991) Infant mortality rate 6 deaths per 1,000 live births (2004) Residents per physician 278 people (2005) Residents per hospital bed 447 people (2005) Share of population not covered by health insurance 8.6 percent (2006) Number of students per teacher (K-12) 13.4 (2003) Go...

• New York - Facts and Figures.

  Native Americans 0.4 percent (2000) Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders less than 0.1 percent (2000) Mixed heritage or not reporting 10.2 percent (2000) Hispanics (of any race) 15.1 percent (2000) HEALTH AND EDUCATIONLife expectancy 74.7 years (1989-1991) Infant mortality rate 6 deaths per 1,000 live births (2004) Residents per physician 258 people (2005) Residents per hospital bed 306 people (2005) Share of population not covered by health insurance 14 percent (2006) Numb...

• North Carolina - Facts and Figures.

  Native Americans 1.2 percent (2000) Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders less than 0.1 percent (2000) Mixed heritage or not reporting 3.6 percent (2000) Hispanics (of any race) 4.7 percent (2000) HEALTH AND EDUCATIONLife expectancy 74.5 years (1989-1991) Infant mortality rate 8 deaths per 1,000 live births (2004) Residents per physician 395 people (2005) Residents per hospital bed 372 people (2005) Share of population not covered by health insurance 17.9 percent (2006) Numb...

• New Hampshire - Facts and Figures.

  Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders less than 0.1 percent (2000) Mixed heritage or not reporting 1.7 percent (2000) Hispanics (of any race) 1.7 percent (2000) HEALTH AND EDUCATIONLife expectancy 76.7 years (1989-1991) Infant mortality rate 5 deaths per 1,000 live births (2004) Residents per physician 380 people (2005) Residents per hospital bed 467 people (2005) Share of population not covered by health insurance 11.5 percent (2006) Number of students per teacher (K-12) 13.7...

• South Dakota - Facts and Figures.

  Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders less than 0.1 percent (2000) Mixed heritage or not reporting 1.8 percent (2000) Hispanics (of any race) 1.4 percent (2000) HEALTH AND EDUCATIONLife expectancy 76.9 years (1989-1991) Infant mortality rate 7 deaths per 1,000 live births (2004) Residents per physician 456 people (2005) Residents per hospital bed 180 people (2005) Share of population not covered by health insurance 11.8 percent (2006) Number of students per teacher (K-12) 13.6...

• Manitoba - Facts and Figures.

  Infant mortality rate 7 deaths per 1,000 live births (2005 estimate) Health-care expenditure per capita 4,406 Canadian dollars (2004 estimate) Adult population with high school diploma 79 percent (2001 estimate) GOVERNMENTProvincial governmentPremier Gary Doer Legislature Legislative Assembly 57 members National representationMembers of the Canadian Senate 6 Members of the Canadian House of Commons 14 ECONOMYGross domestic product (GDP, in Canadiandollars) C$45 billion (2006)...

• Ontario - Facts and Figures.

  Infant mortality rate 6 deaths per 1,000 live births (2005 estimate) Health-care expenditure per capita 4,274 Canadian dollars (2004 estimate) Adult population with high school diploma 88 percent (2001 estimate) GOVERNMENTProvincial governmentPremier Dalton McGuinty Legislature Legislative Assembly 103 members National representationMembers of the Canadian Senate 24 Members of the Canadian House of Commons 103 ECONOMYGross domestic product (GDP, in Canadiandollars) C$558 billion...

• Alberta - Facts and Figures.

  Infant mortality rate 7 deaths per 1,000 live births (2005 estimate) Health-care expenditure per capita 4,275 Canadian dollars (2004 estimate) Adult population with high school diploma 83 percent (2001 estimate) GOVERNMENTProvincial governmentPremier Ed Stelmach Legislature Legislative Assembly 83 members National representationMembers of the Canadian Senate 6 Members of the Canadian House of Commons 26 ECONOMYGross domestic product (GDP, in Canadiandollars) C$240 billion (2006)...

• Spaces and Exchanges - Asian immigration in America

  helps, support itself. In this community there is a real importance of the family and of the education. in fact they are also highly -educated. This immigration is very successful because the parents push their children to be excellent, force them to have good grades, pressurize them into succeeding, punish them into working even pay them into working. Nonetheless, t he immigration is not success for all. Indeed, the community, is not a lways well accepted like we see in the song " Ga...

• SECONDARY ROADS AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLING

  It was some years ago that IJIY wife and 1 and our friends first began to catch on to these roads. We. took them once in a while for variety or for a shortcut to another main highway, and each time the scenery was grand and we left the road with a feeling of relaxation and enjoyment. We did this time after time before realizing what should have been obvious: these roads are truly different from the main ones. The whole pace (1) of lif...

• Causality and necessity in Islamic thought

  'necessary being' restricted to the One from which all the rest emanates while the remainder is characterized as 'possible in itself yet necessary by virtue of another' (Ibn Sina §5 ). In this way the order of the natural world is assured, since it derives from the one principle of being in a way that is modelled on logical derivation. In this way also, the necessity of causal interaction becomes virtually identical with that of logical entailment, thereby linking the entire universe in a...

• Québec - Facts and Figures.

  Infant mortality rate 5 deaths per 1,000 live births (2005 estimate) Health-care expenditure per capita 3,667 Canadian dollars (2004 estimate) Adult population with high school diploma 84 percent (2001 estimate) GOVERNMENTProvincial governmentPremier Jean Charest Legislature National Assembly 125 members National representationMembers of the Canadian Senate 24 Members of the Canadian House of Commons 75 ECONOMYGross domestic product (GDP, in Canadiandollars) C$283 billion (2006)...

• Spaces and exchanges (anglais terminale)

  In conclusion, I thing that it’s important to remember that these places and exchanges in English speaking countries are first based on the American dream which is changing in today’s modern days. The hope to live a better life had motive a lot of immigrants. But today, the life of immigrants is not always easy , because they always live in the fear and they always remember their roots. But after all, United States are today a multicultural society and a country very developed which i...

• Saskatchewan - Facts and Figures.

  Infant mortality rate 8 deaths per 1,000 live births (2005 estimate) Health-care expenditure per capita 4,035 Canadian dollars (2004 estimate) Adult population with high school diploma 80 percent (2001 estimate) GOVERNMENTProvincial governmentPremier Lorne Calvert Legislature Legislative Assembly 58 members National representationMembers of the Canadian Senate 6 Members of the Canadian House of Commons 14 ECONOMYGross domestic product (GDP, in Canadiandollars) C$46 billion (2006...

• Encyclopedia of Philosophy: BOETHIUS AND PHILOPONUS

  presided over the codification of Roman Law. His generals also conquered, for a while, substantial portions of theformer Western Empire. Philoponus, as a Christian based in Alexandria, was unperturbed by the closure of the paganschools in Athens, and could look with satisfaction on the downfall of their foremost scholar, the Aristoteliancommentator Simplicius. For it was as a radical critic of Aristotle that Philoponus made his name, and Simplicius washis most distinguished con¬temporary...

• From Bulfinch's Mythology: Perseus and Medusa - anthology.

  The Sea-monster Perseus, continuing his flight, arrived at the country of the Æthiopians, of which Cepheus was king. Cassiopeia his queen, proud of her beauty, had dared to compareherself to the Sea-Nymphs, which roused their indignation to such a degree that they sent a prodigious sea-monster to ravage the coast. To appease the deities,Cepheus was directed by the oracle to expose his daughter Andromeda to be devoured by the monster. As Perseus looked down from his aerial height he beheld thev...

• From Bulfinch's Mythology: Meleager and Atalanta - anthology.

  Althea, when the deed was done, laid violent hands upon herself. The sisters of Meleager mourned their brother with uncontrollable grief; till Diana, pitying thesorrows of the house that once had aroused her anger, turned them into birds. Atalanta The innocent cause of so much sorrow was a maiden whose face you might truly say was boyish for a girl, yet too girlish for a boy. Her fortune had been told, and itwas to this effect: 'Atalanta, do not marry; marriage will be your ruin.' Terrified...