If Robinson Crusoe had been shipwrecked with a chest full of British banknotes, they wouldn't have done him any good. |
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The book appears to be the actual ruminations, almost diary entries, of a real human being named Crusoe. |
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None of the Tablet PCs on the stocks fall into that category, not even the Crusoe prototype, which claims dismal endurance of four hours. |
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Unlike the fictional Robinson Crusoe, Selkirk had, at least initially, chosen his desert island over his privateer galley. |
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Sporting an unkempt beard and shaggy crop, he makes Robinson Crusoe look like GQ's Man of the Year. |
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Then came an offer from some planters for Crusoe to act as a trader on a slave ship bound for Africa. |
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If you are going to be cast away, Robinson Crusoe island is a good place to be. |
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In that novel the resourceful Robinson Crusoe, shipwrecked on a remote island, saves and replants four quarts of barley. |
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Little Women and Robinson Crusoe are at once didactically moral and highly poetical. |
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Toshiba will shortly be shipping ultralight Libretto models in Japan based on Transmeta's Crusoe, and with a claimed battery life of up to 14 hours. |
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To write his first fictional work Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe drew inspiration from a real-life incident taking place ten years earlier. |
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So far, Crusoe has been slightly disappointing in testing, although that may partly be because of the novelty of its design. |
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Transmeta has produced a chip for mobile computers known as Crusoe that is designed to use far less battery power than its Intel equivalent. |
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But until quite recently not even Robinson Crusoe would have cared to live on many of the islands. |
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However, we know that not even Robinson Crusoe lived in that kind of economy. |
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In Treehouse Kit, Ben-Ner offers a hilarious new reading of the myth of Robinson Crusoe and our ready-to-assemble society. |
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He explores it, with both gun and tobacco pipe in hand, just like Crusoe. |
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Robinson Crusoe found one where he was allowed to live in an exotic setting without any of the puzzling responsibilities of a wife and children. |
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In the eighteenth century came Robinson Crusoe, one of the earliest romantic, if accidental, adventurers, sometimes associated with living in an unspoiled paradise. |
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While heading home to England, he is cast away on an island, which its geographical proximity to the Americas closely resembles the one in Crusoe. |
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Robinson Crusoe may have enjoyed unfettered theoretical sovereignty over his island, but he could do nothing to alter his fate. |
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In the case of Crusoe, his initial flight from England against the wishes of his family, his enslavement by the Moors, and his shipwreck on the island, all attest to xenodochial desire. |
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Ever dreamed of living on your own little island, being a real Robinson Crusoe? |
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We are met by a group of people who look like they are all auditioning for the part of Robinson Crusoe. |
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After all, we know the name Robinson Crusoe gave the native man he met on the desert island, but do we know what Friday called Crusoe? |
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For example, even though Robinson Crusoe had no opportunity to escape, it is likely he would have been habitually resident on his desert island. |
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Today, one of the islands on the Chilean coast is named Alejandro Selkirk Island and another one Robinson Crusoe Island. |
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After more natives arrive to partake in a cannibal feast, Crusoe and Friday kill most of the natives and save two prisoners. |
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One is Friday's father and the other is a Spaniard, who informs Crusoe about other Spaniards shipwrecked on the mainland. |
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Before embarking for England, Crusoe shows the mutineers how he survived on the island and states that there will be more men coming. |
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While Robinson Crusoe is far more than a guide, it shares many of the themes and theological and moral points of view. |
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In his spare time he also enjoyed reading about natural sciences and popular novels, such as Don Quixote and Robinson Crusoe. |
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When confronted with the cannibals, Crusoe wrestles with the problem of cultural relativism. |
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Crusoe must allocate effort between production and leisure and must choose between alternative production possibilities to meet his needs. |
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Rousseau wants Emile to identify himself as Crusoe so he can rely upon himself for all of his needs. |
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The book's epigraph is a quote from Robinson Crusoe, and like Crusoe, Adam Pollo suffers long periods of loneliness. |
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Coetzee's 1986 novel Foe recounts the tale of Robinson Crusoe from the perspective of a woman named Susan Barton. |
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A pantomime version of Robinson Crusoe was staged at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in 1796, with Joseph Grimaldi as Pierrot in the harlequinade. |
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A 1997 movie entitled Robinson Crusoe starred Pierce Brosnan and received limited commercial success. |
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The novel Robinson Crusoe by Danial Defoe, is a fictional account of the adventures of Selkirk, who lived alone for many years in Tomago Island in the Caribbean Sea, then a desert island. |
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A modern-day Crusoe will find not just one footprint in his island's sand. |
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Meanwhile, it has emerged that a 12-year-old girl saved hundreds of lives on Chile's Robinson Crusoe Island. |
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Econ 101 lecturers love to tell students about poor Robinson Crusoe, stuck doing everything on his own on a deserted island until a second person is introduced, to the same island. |
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Maybe it was just the house I grew up in, but I always had trouble understanding why Robinson Crusoe repined and had such a hard time with his solitude. |
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He was the fifth child of Carolyn and Newell Convers Wyeth, the illustrator famously known for his work in the books, Treasure Island, Robin Hood, The Last of the Mohicans and Robinson Crusoe. |
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The individual is regarded as a selfcontained unit, a Robinson Crusoe to whom God's call is addressed as to someone on an island, whose salvation takes place exclusively in terms of a relationship with God. |
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Seen from outer space, the blue planet, the only known place in the universe that supports life, is an island made of water, a beautiful island in the sky where humanity plays the role of Robinson Crusoe. |
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Those who are inclined to point to Robinson Crusoe on his island as an example of self-sufficiency must recall that he started off with a fair stock of things made by others. |
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With your family and friends you can land on a lonely island and play Robinson Crusoe for a night. But you may as well, of course, land near one of the many villages and find yourself in the company of locals. |
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A remarkable historical and contemporary investigation, revealing to the general public the origins of the myth behind Robinson Crusoe, one of the world's most widely read novels. |
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In this respect, the only books which approach to its excellence are Gulliver's Travels and Robinson Crusoe. |
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More years pass and Crusoe discovers native cannibals, who occasionally visit the island to kill and eat prisoners. |
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Crusoe departs for Lisbon to reclaim the profits of his estate in Brazil, which has granted him much wealth. |
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Robinson Crusoe marked the beginning of realistic fiction as a literary genre. |
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The Satellite view of weather around Robinson Crusoe Islands illustrates just one example. |
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Selkirk's travails provided the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe. |
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These translations might have later inspired Daniel Defoe to write Robinson Crusoe, regarded as the first novel in English. |
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What man does not remember with regret the first time he read Robinson Crusoe? |
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However the discovery of the water horse, dubbed Crusoe, soon has them working together to keep the secret. |
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Two ships carrying aid were dispatched to Robinson Crusoe Island, part of the Juan Fernandez Archipelago, which has already been hit by huge waves. |
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Robinson Crusoe Island The largest island of the Chilean Juan Fernndez Archipelago, Robinson Crusoe Island is 419 miles west of South America in the South Pacific Ocean. |
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The 2000 film Cast Away, with Tom Hanks as a FedEx employee stranded on an Island for many years, also borrows much from the Robinson Crusoe story. |
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In 1815, Grimaldi played Friday in another version of Robinson Crusoe. |
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As we took a morning stroll through the coastal forest of Cabrits National Park it was possible to imagine what life must have been like for Robinson Crusoe. |
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Severin concludes his investigations by stating that the real Robinson Crusoe figure was Henry Pitman, a castaway who had been surgeon to the Duke of Monmouth. |
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In classical, neoclassical and Austrian economics, Crusoe is regularly used to illustrate the theory of production and choice in the absence of trade, money and prices. |
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Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, published seven years after Robinson Crusoe, may be read as a systematic rebuttal of Defoe's optimistic account of human capability. |
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His novel explores themes including civilization versus nature, the psychology of solitude, as well as death and sexuality in a retelling of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe story. |
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In 1988, Aidan Quinn portrayed Robinson Crusoe in the film Crusoe. |
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Charles spent time outdoors but also read voraciously, including the picaresque novels of Tobias Smollett and Henry Fielding, as well as Robinson Crusoe and Gil Blas. |
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Crusoe and the ship's captain strike a deal in which Crusoe helps the captain and the loyal sailors retake the ship and leave the worst mutineers on the island. |
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It has even been speculated that God the Guide of Youth inspired Robinson Crusoe because of a number of passages in that work that are closely tied to the novel. |
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