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Moral deliberations and philosophical dimensions in thirteen modern films.

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...erican Hostel XIII. Inceptions and Its Errors XIV. Aliens „R Us: The Ten Errors of Science Fiction XV. The Author XVI. About "After the Rain" Th... ...ostel XIII. Inceptions and Its Errors XIV. Aliens „R Us: The Ten Errors of Science Fiction XV. The Author XVI. About "After the Rain" The Talent... ...rithe and as abuse is piled upon trauma - they turn to stone, the mute witnesses of horror, the stalactites and stalagmites of pain untold and unre... ...and are available to anyone with a computer. The last decade witnessed a spate of films, all concerned with the confusion between life and the imi... ...deranged Director Hitler. Having found himself an unwilling participant in Hitler's horror show, Wallenberg did not turn his back and opted out. He ... ... And shouldn't we all gain visitation rights to the minds of great men and women of science, art and culture - as we do today gain access to their h... ...ys are invariably American (or mistaken for Americans, or the allies of Americans, Japanese). The bad guys are invariably European; a decadent and ... ...ovie gets sliced up but, against all odds, succeeds to extract the badly mutilated Japanese from her hellish cell and escape. Catching a glimpse of... ...e entire film is built is dubious. Return Aliens „R Us The Ten Errors of Science Fiction In all works of science fiction, there are ten hidden a...

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...cheologists, it is not futile to continue to look for Atlantis. http://dmoz.org/Science/Social_Sciences/Archaeology/Alternative/Lo st_Civilizatio... ...in 1947. Aung San may be a hero to the Burmese but he has collaborated with the Japanese war-crime tainted military machine throughout the secon... ...ough he conveniently switch allegiances to the winning side five months before the Japanese capitulated. Aung San raised a Burmese contingent - ... ...onvinced that they have been robbed of 10 days. But this was merely a convenient fiction. The Spring Equinox in the Gregorian calendar was, indee... ...or The Utah Criminal Tracking and Analysis Project Gathers experts from forensic science, crime scene analysis, psychiatry and other fields to sc... ...nds and that some decapitated persons even realize their predicament to their utter horror. http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_221a.html h... ...oys and games to clothes and toiletries. But Fleming was also renowned for his non-fiction: tomes like "The Diamond Smugglers" and his "Atticus" co... ... The Plainfield Ghoul. A serial killer who served as the inspiration to numerous films, among them Psycho, The Silence of the Lambs, Maniac, Thre... ...le room by the kitchen. He accumulated a library of anatomy books, porn magazines, horror and adventure novels, historical accounts of the Nazi med...

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... from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Short Fiction in English and Hebrew http://gorgelink.org/vakni... ... Lidija Rangelovska, Skopje REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S Short Fiction A Beheaded Cart Language of Black and Red On the ... ...st. There he rested, sheltered from the humid sun by peeling posters for lachrymose Turkish films. He pushed the crib outside the penumbral circle a... ...some hasty greetings, I stuff a roll of coarse, green toilet paper in my pants. Back to the horror, to frisk around the crimson wreckage. I wipe my ... ...ils vociferously. She makes no attempt to hide the tears. She sits up, a veritable Alice in horrorland: golden curls adorn her round shoulders, her ... ...r from her obstructive spot until I am done with my inspection. She was wearing thongs of Japanese delicacy. Her curvaceous, pearly feet broke out... ...e things you haven't known even existed. They call it "explanatory power" in philosophy of science. Her words had such an effect on me. Hitherto, i... ...many countries. Many appearances in the electronic media on subjects in philosophy and the sciences, and concerning economic matters. Write to Me...

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...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects and dynamics of the Organic U...

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... Pg 113 The Triality of the Universe Pg 114 The Totality of Twelve Pg 119 Science Pg 121 Instinct and Evolution Pg 124 How and Why Life Emerg... ...6 Sports Pg 401 Happiness Pg 402 Law Pg 413 Logic and Legality Pg 420 Science and Balance Pg 461 The Pyramidal Absolute Pg 469 Abstr... ...ticles: a living organic cell. This is why galaxies exist as faint, cellular films of energy on the outer perimeters of huge, empty inter-galactic ... ... each other and are not testable is not Science. Science fantasy and science fiction mixed together with pure conjecture is not Science. The or... ...d out into near extinction countless times… traumatized and terrified: by the horror of an exploding world gone mad with the erupting fires of huge v... ... wonder became an invisible feeling of unseen fear, unseen terror, and unseen horror during the night. Traumatic happenings at night could not be p... ...ive thought-patterns. This is why and how the dynamic of a writer writing a fictional story works: (Brain inter... ...tention away from them Did America enter WW2 because it was attacked by the Japanese Imperial Navy? Yes and no. The bankers who controlled FDR a... ...’s oil supply: Roosevelt had already secretly declared economic warfare on the Japanese Empire just at the time Japan desperately needed oil to conti...

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.... The global spread of American influence through its culture, political alliances, science and multinationals is merely an extrapolation of a trend... ...trategy of the Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, reiterated his conviction that "the United States aims... ... Dr. Sam Vaknin The movie "Hostel" (2005) is a potent depiction of gore and graphic horror. More subtly, it is also a counterfactual and jingoistic ... ...ys are invariably American (or mistaken for Americans, or the allies of Americans, Japanese). The bad guys are invariably European; a decadent and ... ...ovie gets sliced up but, against all odds, succeeds to extract the badly mutilated Japanese from her hellish cell and escape. Catching a glimpse of... ... became public. This is the new and true face of at least half of America, to the horror and dismay of the other half, its liberals. If the histor... ...ck market facilitates the smuggling of cigarettes, software, home appliances, video films, weaponry, food, carpets - and virtually every other nece... ... 1997 "The Suffering of Being Kafka" (electronic book of Hebrew and English Short Fiction), Prague and Skopje, 1998-2004 "The Macedonian Economy a... ...sophy: http://philosophos.tripod.com/ Poetry: http://samvak.tripod.com/contents.html Fiction: http://samvak.tripod.com/sipurim.html Abused? Stalked...

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...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....

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...gs: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download free anthol... ...g to the human race is an immutable and inalienable position. Denying this leads to horrors such as the Holocaust. The Nazis did not regard as human... ... But the ethos and myth of "order out of chaos" - with its proponents in the exact sciences as well - ran deeper than that. The very culture of com... ...lied to animals. Law professor Steven Wise, argues in his book, "Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights", for the extension to an... ... original emotion (felt by the artist) with us. It is very much like those science fiction contraptions which allow for the decomposition of the as... ... in godforsaken battle zones such as Congo (formerly Zaire), or among the defeated Japanese soldiers in World War II. Similarly, human organs and f... ...dicine and warfare are predicated on a similar contention. We react with shock and horror when we are faced with "resistant stains" of bacteria or ... ... The answer is: it depends. Certain cultures and societies encourage suicide. Both Japanese kamikaze and Jewish martyrs were extolled for their sui... ...s such as a singularity (both finite and infinite, in some respects). We prefer the fiction of finiteness (temporal, spatial, logical) – over the re...

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...ive us better control over our own lives. The more we know about ourselves, the better we can control our own destinies. This is what much of scienc... ...n control our own destinies. This is what much of science and most of education is all about. If we can get a better grasp of the appropriate scienc... ...c system in the brain often takes priority over the logical section of the brain. This has an effect on our buying habits, our preferences for films ... ... And in spite of the strength with which they are held, both are rooted in non-provable assumptions!‖ -- ―And violence sure sells in films,... ... soldiers to do. Then the psychologists helped the propagandists to develop their warlike mentalities the kill ratios went up in World War II. Japane... ...y religious torture the infidels, or the religious majority tortures the religious minority. It is incomprehensible to most of us the inhumane horror... ...divorcee, the British were aghast, but the world was enraptured. When Prince Akihito, the son of the Emperor of Japan, married a commoner, the Japane... ...e have some fuzzy idea of what human love is. This idea usually relates to some romantic notion developed from an exposure to the fantasies of fictio... ... inabilities to move successfully up Maslow‘s mountain. There are harmless ways of forgetting our world. Reading mysteries, romance or science fictio...

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... and with a judicial system forcing the mutilated further into unprecedented horrors. Pusillanimous and cowering in fetal positions within themselves,... ...get on with or what was worthy of getting on to. They all could perceive the horror of everybody and everything so no matter what they did--even killi... ...to a video pang later and let drama absorb him in a personal intimacy with a fictional entity of depth and substance. He had no misgivings. His life w... ...ething deeper sensed in the rhythms of the falling rain and the movements of fictional others in plotless lives plodding along as his was. As another... ... departing to Tokyo. Suddenly the airport security guards, all of whom were Japanese, interrupted the ceremony, whispered something to the potential ... ...g. The cost of living in Honshu is notorious but it is worse on the northern Japanese islands like Hokkaido." "Well, I'll give it some thought. I'll d... ...u will never see him againﾁEunless ﾁN " "Unless what?" "A possibility out of science but seeming as magical to us in our primitive time." "WitchesﾁO m... ...rds, no hurt would ensue. The dirty movie theatre showed only normal R-rated films and sexual activity was restricted to bathroom stalls. Had it been... ...ing genetic material to thrive eternally, and from it a new branch of social sciences known as sociobiology emerged. --Wild wheat and barley live natu...

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...gs: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download free anthol... ...g to the human race is an immutable and inalienable position. Denying this leads to horrors such as the Holocaust. The Nazis did not regard as human... ... But the ethos and myth of "order out of chaos" - with its proponents in the exact sciences as well - ran deeper than that. The very culture of com... ...lied to animals. Law professor Steven Wise, argues in his book, "Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights", for the extension to an... ... original emotion (felt by the artist) with us. It is very much like those science fiction contraptions which allow for the decomposition of the as... ... in godforsaken battle zones such as Congo (formerly Zaire), or among the defeated Japanese soldiers in World War II. Similarly, human organs and f... ...dicine and warfare are predicated on a similar contention. We react with shock and horror when we are faced with "resistant stains" of bacteria or ... ... The answer is: it depends. Certain cultures and societies encourage suicide. Both Japanese kamikaze and Jewish martyrs were extolled for their sui... ...s such as a singularity (both finite and infinite, in some respects). We prefer the fiction of finiteness (temporal, spatial, logical) – over the re...

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...egata in 41 film” {Life as a Work of Art and Life as a Gift Explored in 41 Films}, Published by the Sophia University of Rome, (S.U.R.) Rome, 1995).... ...l and that would make them immortal as well. 29 The Iliad speaks of the horrors of war, of the ugliness of death, of the ugliness of Achilles’ wr... ...iegata in 41 film”{Life as a Work of Art and Life as a Gift explained in 41 films} , Published by Sophia University of Rome, (S.U.R.) Rome, 1995). W... ...uddhism (for example “Zen and the Art of Archery”) and the Buddhism of the Japanese monk Nichiren. The first poison is the illusion that makes us... ...experiencing it completely. As long as one is horrified by emptiness, this horror fills the emptiness and there is no room for any other type of ful... ... As far as the second and third births go, in my opinion there is not yet a science that is sufficiently developed to assure that many will be born. ... ...e born. This is true because for these births it is not only a question of science but of science and art”. (see A.M. “La nascita della cosmo-art” ... ... {Microcosmos Association} and the “Premio Cinema e Narrativa” {Cinema and Fiction Award} , for young people who send in a Sophia- Artistic critique ...

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...Our music, our culture, our science, and our economic welfare all depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Comm...

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... The Farmers’ Tale: An Allegory, 83 6 I Got a Mashup, 122 7 The Enclosure of Science and Technology: T wo Case Studies, 160 8 A Creative Commons, 179... ...thics, Law and Policy Center, provided cru- cial support to my work with the sciences in general and synthetic biology in particular. I was also inspi... ...ctively removes the privilege of fair use. Each day brings some new Internet horror story about the excesses of intel- lectual property. Some of them ... ...sing cheaper copying—first appeared, the reaction of movie studios was one of horror. Their business plans relied upon showing movies in theaters and t... ... of DVD players felt that American consumers wanted to be able to play their Japanese anime movies without buying another DVD player to do so? Or what... ...x the law in this area. When the case of Bridgeport Music, Inc. v. Dimension Films came up, they thought they had what they wanted. The band NWA had u... ... at http:// www.law.duke.edu/cspd/pdf/cspdproposal.pdf, and Access to Orphan Films: Submission to the Copyright Office—March 2005, available at http://... ... will find a brilliant account in James Lardner, Fast Forward: Hollywood, the Japanese & the VCR Wars (New York: Norton, 1987). One needs only to scan ...

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...ad set off to carry out cultural anthropological fieldwork in Thailand. No science called cultural anthropology existed in those days in Finland. I lo... ...l states - universal technosystems - Internet, global networks - universal science - global databases ('World Brain') - global hierarchy Planetary dev... ...e-Kamolmatayakul Annira Silver local culture. The collection contains few films and videos, although in 1999 I recorded 12 hours of video in all, usi... ...used to walk. Today, everything must be so easy. Today, people go to watch films in the evenings. People are working all the time, they have no time f... ...ers of the plains villages tried out new cash crops which were marketed by Japanese agro-business. Potatoes have also become popular in Thailand, and ... ...self-fulfilment in an international world. The nation state is labelled as fiction of the elite class of its time, which in fact never actually existe... ... nor at any other festivals. People from Thailand would probably view with horror the kind of public drunkenness of young people that happens in Finla... ...lems of modernized and globalized states, the world's shared fates, shared horror stories. The world's nations are united by the internal degeneration... ...ology, just like he did in the past. Or, the new culture is glocal, as the Japanese like to define it, containing both local and global spheres. The u...

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...rant mob:—strong, you say, sir? I venture my word that a, decent lad, with science, would beat him. It is a question of the study and practice of firs... ...e Rajah, vexed by the physical sympathetic twinges which set him wincing. ‘Science,’ his Minister answers, ‘took them up where Na- ture, in pity of th... ... interpose, he would have exclaimed. He broke from his fellows in his holy horror of a father’s running counter to love. Nesta had only to say, that s... ... wretched light is Inebriation’s nose; and of the vegetarian violoncello’s horror at his vision of the long procession of the flocks and herds into hi... ...d he being of the band of honest creatures who will not accept a lift from fiction, drearily he sat before the ladies, confessing to an emptiness he w... ...ction to the brandy novel?’ ‘Colney may call it what he pleases. If I read fiction, let it be fiction; airier than hard fact. If I see a ballet, my tr... ...iotism urging him to pay his visit of expo- sition and invitation from the Japanese Court to the distin- guished Doctor of Divinity Dr. Bouthoin. The ... ...arms, in- trigues—also a small matter) to obtain the first audience of the Japanese erudites. Delphica, with each of the rivals in turn, is very prett... ...e to work in the direction of the casuistries and the sensational webs and films. Facing Victor, it was a block. But the thought came: how could she m...

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...e opened it, and none of the high ladies and knights knew him. But from the crowded spectators, 2 offi- cials advanced, who recognized the black dance... ...nce more and enter the slavery of official or professional life. CHAPTER V: At the Students’ Dueling- Ground Dueling by Wholesale One day in the inter... ...Her gown was of a soft white silky stuff that clung to her round young figure like a fish’s skin, and it was rippled over with the gracefulest little ... ...e as his in an attempt which had brought death to so many of the world’s most illustrious heroes. But this tramp only asked—”Were any of these heroes ... ...ing, Conrad was taken to the haunted chamber and left there. He fell asleep, by and by. When he awoke again and looked about him, his heart stood stil... ...r spurious. Many people say that for a male person, bric-a-brac hunt- ing is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes, or Mark Twain 96 deco... ...formation out of you if one goes at it Mark Twain 132 cleverly. Mary and the storm, and the sweeping away of the forward boats, were facts—all the re... ...eeping, insectlike, up its surface, with their heels projecting over the thinnest kind of nothingness, thickened up a little with a few wandering shre...

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...ors. Billboards with crimson god- desses nine feet tall advertising cinema films, pipe to- bacco, and talcum powder. The old “mansions” along Ninth St... ...ve there for a generation—was Babbitt more splendidly innocent than in the science of sanitation. He did not know a malaria-bearing mosquito from a ba... ...ch the energy and foresight of American commerce have con- tributed to the science of education. The first displayed the portrait of a young man with ... ...nnouncements, from annual reference-books, from Sunday School periodicals, fiction-magazines, and journals of discussion. One bene- factor implored, “... ...lly smothered, seemed to be suffering from the toil of social life and the horror of good food as much as himself. All of them ac- cepted with relief ... ...ow very, very much earth and rock there was in it. He liked three kinds of films: pretty bathing girls with bare legs; policemen or cowboys and an ind... ...s composed of the Zenith brokers, dressed as cowpunchers, bareback riders, Japanese jugglers. At the head was big Warren Whitby, in the bearskin and g... ...een getting off lately, do you?” “Oh, rats, Henry T., you been reading bum fiction. There 322 Babbitt ain’t any such a thing as these plots to keep f... ...oused by her shaking him and calling “George! George!” in some- thing like horror. “Wha—wha—what is it?” “Come here quick and see. Be quiet!” She led ...

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...very clearly revealed to her, turn a prairie town into Georgian houses and Japanese bungalows. The next day in library class she had to read a theme o... ...painted on its roof. Ye Art Shoppe, Prop. Mrs. Mary Ellen Wilks, Christian Science Library open daily free. A touching fumble at beauty. A one-room sh... ...—an aluminum ash-tray labeled “Greetings from Gopher Prairie” —a Christian Science magazine—a stamped sofa-cushion portraying a large rib- bon tied to... ...rints of bad and famous pictures, shelves of phonograph records and camera films, wooden toys, and in the midst an anxious small woman sitting in a pa... ...wheel, and to set it with an embroidered lunch-cloth, and the mauve-glazed Japanese tea-set which she had brought from St. Paul. Miss Sherwin confided... ...ast night? Some squeezing, heh, kid?” By diligent consultation of American fiction she dis- covered that this was the only virile and amusing manner i... ... of forgiveness. She could not remember any fasci- natingly wicked hero of fiction who chewed tobacco. She asserted that it proved him to be a man of ... ...nk flannel nightgown, her thin hair down her back, her forehead as full of horror as a mask of tragedy, while she identified her love for the Son of G... ...ns. They were young American sociologists, young English realists, Russian horrorists; Anatole France, Rolland, Nexo, Wells, Shaw, Key, Edgar Lee Mast...

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...ting their consciences. O.M. Yes. That is a good enough name for it: Con science—that independent Sovereign, that insolent abso lute Monarch inside... ...morals and con duct, but has to be taught and trained. Now I think a con science can get drowsy and lazy, but I don’t think it can go wrong; if you ... ...eeping higher and higher around you. Y.M. I can imagine it. I feel all the horror of it. I could not have endured it, I could not have remained in my ... ...rench, the English, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South Americans, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Hindus, the T urks—a thousand wild and tame reli... ...iful than sleep. I saw her mother buried. I said I would never endure that horror again; that I would never again look into the grave of any one dear ... ...They gavel me, these stale and overworked stage direc tions, these carbon films that got burnt out long ago and cannot now carry any faintest thread ...

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...ople of dif- Best of Freshman Writing 5 ferent nationalities—the Chinese, Japanese, Romans, and Indians with their feather headdresses and all of the... ...ing what would soon become one of the most widely recognized and re- vered science fiction epics of all time. The epic is known to all, young and old,... ... would soon become one of the most widely recognized and re- vered science fiction epics of all time. The epic is known to all, young and old, as Star... ...idea to rejected it, except for one: T wentieth Century Fox. At this time, science fiction (also called sci-fi) was not in any respects a profitable m... ...rejected it, except for one: T wentieth Century Fox. At this time, science fiction (also called sci-fi) was not in any respects a profitable movie ide... ... advanced and cost-effective. For the next sixteen years, even without new films, the Star W ars universe continued to expand, gaining more fans every... ...hose made for the first Star Wars trilogy so popular in a time when sci-fi films aren’t widely liked? The answer could be as simple as the flashy comp... .... This is a story like no other science fiction story. It doesn’t tell the horrors of invading aliens; it tells the story of a heroic youth fighting a... ...ence, he had come to investigate. Smiling down at me he had no idea of the horror that had gripped me only moments ago. He had no idea of how close I ...

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...reat 254 8.2 Late Leads—Mihdhar, Moussaoui, and KSM 266 9. HEROISM AND HORROR 278 9.1 Preparedness as of September 11 278 9.2 September 11, 20... ...ng cultural preference for technical fields over the humanities and social sciences. Many of these young men, even if able to study abroad, lacked the... ...o investigate foreign and foreign-inspired subversion—Communist, Nazi, and Japanese. Hoover added investigation of possible espionage, sabotage, or su... ...even more obvious early in 1999, when he addressed the National Academy of Sciences and presented his most somber account yet of what could happen if ... ...enter gave up on it, despite suspicions that the trib- als’ story might be fiction.Thereafter, the capture plan focused on a nighttime raid on Tarnak ... ...INKING RED” 277 Final 8-9.5pp 7/17/04 1:24 PM Page 277 9 HER OISM AND HORROR 278 9.1 PREPAREDNESS AS OF SEPTEMBER 11 Emergency response is a prod... ... before Pearl Harbor the U.S. government had excellent intelligence that a Japanese attack was coming, especially after peace talks stalemated at the ... ...ad,Apr. 5, 2004. KSM says that he permitted the trainees to view Hollywood films about hijackings only after he edited the films to cover the female c...