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The Silver Lining: Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

...ecessary in pursuing this goal. Ripley's reality test is maintained throughout the film. In other words - while he gradually merges with the object... ... Ripley time and again, mysteriously, capriciously, cruelly. Thus, ultimately, the film is an intricate study of the pernicious ways of psychopatho... ...hips abound: Ronald Reagan, the cinematic president was also a presidential movie star. In another movie ("The Philadelphia Experiment") a defrost... ...e exclaims upon seeing Reagan on television (40 years after his forced hibernation started): "I know this guy, he used to play Cowboys in the movie... ...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... ...articipated in numerous "Truman Shows". The lives (real or concocted) of the studio stars were brutally exploited and incorporated in their films. ... ...sor to the Government of the Republic of Macedonia and to the Ministry of Finance. 2001 to 2003 Senior Business Correspondent for United Press Int...

Moral deliberations and philosophical dimensions in thirteen modern films.

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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...ual/section3/chapter25/25e.htm Armenian Genocide The Armenian massacres in Turkey started in the 19th century and continued well after the Armenia... ...ted to Mesopotamia. The deportation followed mass executions. Many more died from starvation, exposure, dehydration, abuse and outright torture. T... ...rried William Gaertner, her second husband, in 1917. William was convinced from the start that Belva was being unfaithful to him. They both hired g... ... Drive-ins were invented by Richard M. Hollingshead, a car salesman. At first, the film was projected from the hood of his car on to a bedsheet, se... ... The Plainfield Ghoul. A serial killer who served as the inspiration to numerous films, among them Psycho, The Silence of the Lambs, Maniac, Thre... ...ed as the brothers of Jesus by all the other gospels! http://www.keyway.ca/htm2001/20010328.htm http://www.trosch.org/the/brothers.html http://www... ...(1956), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957). War and Peace (1968) is the longest film ever to win the Oscar at 7 hours 33 minutes. Gone With the ... ...Frietag.Mark/Hom epage/Goldenratio/goldenratio.html Plane Crashes September 11, 2001 was not the first time an airplane crashed into a skyscrape... ...sor to the Government of the Republic of Macedonia and to the Ministry of Finance. 2001 to 2003 Senior Business Correspondent for United Press Inte...

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The Suffering of Being Kafka

By: Sam Vaknin

...t Dusk In Moist Propinquity Prowling Getting Old Sally Ann Selfdream Snowflake Haiku Twinkle Star Synthetic Joy Tableaux (van Gogh) The Author ... ...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... ...een trolley – a tall and stout and handsome man, fair-skinned and sapphire-eyed. "A movie star" – they gasped behind his back. Day in and day out, ... ...o his azure pushcart, day in and day out. She said nothing and he remained mute. They just stared with vacuous eyes, perhaps away, perhaps inside, p... ...mic Advisor to the Government of the Republic of Macedonia and to the Ministry of Finance. 2001 to 2003 Senior Business Correspondent for United Pr...

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Kabbalah for Beginners

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...then lost. sT age T wo The second stage in humanity’s spiritual evolution started about two thousand years ago, when The Book of Zohar, the most imp... ... t wo trillions of tons of minerals, which gradually formed the galaxies, stars, and planets. Then, lost in these trillions of tons of matter, there... ...14)—and reflects Adam’s desire to be like the Creator. These days, at the start of the 21 st century, evolution is completing its development of th... ... b eg Inners - p art t hree Let’s clarify this with an example. In the film, What the Bleep Do We Know!? Dr. Candace Pert explains that if a cer... ...tes, but the picture isn’t much brighter in other developed countries. In 2001, the World Health organization (WHo) reported that “depression is the... ...nvironment; I can reinforce the influence of that environment with books, films, and magazine articles. Any means that increases and supports my des... ...increase my desire for it, I need only have the right friends, books, and films around me. Human nature will do the rest. If a group of people de- -...

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Frate Cu Meridianele Si Paralelele, Vol. 2

By: Florentin Smarandache

...tori pentru lantern ă (s ăracu’ Sidu, îi atârn ă sa cad ă dup ă el!)... Filmez cu video-camera dar nu sunt expert deloc. Cupru (Cu) şi argint (A... .... dârz ă nevoie mare! Poante. Spectatorii chiuiau ca indienii cu pene din filme! Cântecele erau compuse de Don Grieser, liderul forma ţiei (cântau ... ...d ăruiesc bani şi le strâng mâinile). Pene în mân ă (nu pe cap, precum în filme). B ăt ăi ritmice din tobe. Cântece de r ăzboinici. Arena „Pow-Wow”... ..., pentru cei vreo 750 $ cash, pe care-i avem la noi, gândesc eu, ar fi în stare s ă ne omoare şi s ă disp ărem în ţar ă str ăin ă. (Nu ne-ar c ăuta ... ... s ă ne fac ă?!”). 67 C ăl ătorie sprâncenat ă! 30 iulie 2001 12-13 ore pe drum cu ma şina personală pân ă la San Diego. 31 i... ... 12-13 ore pe drum cu ma şina personală pân ă la San Diego. 31 iulie 2001 Frig. Bate vântul. Înnourat. Facem plaj ă îmbr ăca ţi. Sau la umbr... ... plaj ă îmbr ăca ţi. Sau la umbr ă. Ap ă înspumat ă. Valuri. 01 august 2001 R ăci ţi şi cu insola ţie. Scalpul, ras, m ă strânge de parc ă ar ... ...ll (Steve & Barry’s) s ă târguim, s ă ne delect ăm. El cump ăra juc ării (Star War) pentru b ăie ţii s ăi (10 şi 12 ani) şi cercei din argint pentru... ... ţa. Homer scoate şi dou ă bro şuri / pliante (zines), „Math Power” şi „Starbase”. La prima am fost co-editor şi colaborator cu probleme distracti...

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Desert Dreams

By: Gracie C. Mckeever

... Dreams by Gracie C. McKeever 2 Fictionwise www.Fictionwise.com Copyright ©2001 by Gracie C. McKeever NOTICE: This eBook is licensed to the original p... ...nd slapped his bare feet on the wood-finish floor. "I don't believe you're starting this all over again." "You think because you apologized that I'm s... ..."Thank you, sir." Therese took it, salivating like Marsh. She knew she was starving enough to eat every scrap and still want seconds. Where was this m... ...l facing her. "Just thought you should get your day off to a good, healthy start is all." He shrugged, digging into his pancakes. She stared at him fo... ...the handle as if for support. She saw them as clearly as if they were in a film running across her memory. Sahir smiling as she banishes Kane to the e...

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Begin the Adventure : How to Break the Light Barrier

By: Florentin Smarandache

...s reserved. Keywords: Physics, Relativity, Light Speed, Speed Barrier, Starflight ISBN: 1-931233-84-5 Standard Address Number: 297-5092 ... ...…………………………………………………..……. 32 Ch.7. The Phase One Experiment: The First Starship …………………………………37 Ch.8. The Phase Two Experiment: Alpha Centaur... ... 6 Preface For most of the 20th century, both relativity and star travel fascinated this writer. The reasons Albert Einstein concluded... ...ly is "reality." I am, however confident that much of my research in thin films is performed under the rubric of STR, my ignorance of "reality" notwi... ...] 53 Scott Owens’ answer to Hans Gunter in an e-mail from January 22, 2001: It appears that the only things the Smarandache hypothesis can be ap... ...ttp://www.agenda.ro/2004/3-04-senz2.htm. [3] Boyd, R. N., Site Log - 09/2001, http://www.rialian.com/rnboyd/log-09-01.htm. [4] Bufnilã, Ovidiu, ... ...lied Sciences, Delhi, India, Vol. 20, Series D (Physics), No. 2, 107-110, 2001, http://www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/Jason-Wright-superluminal.pdf...

...For most of the 20th century, both relativity and star travel fascinated this writer. The reasons Albert Einstein concluded there is an absolute barrier at the speed of light seemed at first clear, then later not so clear upon closer examination. "The speed of light relati...

...Light Pressure. 21 -- Ch.5. Light Sailing is Not All There Is. 27 -- Ch.6. Einstein's Light Barrier. 32 -- Ch.7. The Phase One Experiment: The First Starship. 37 -- Ch.8. The Phase Two Experiment: Alpha Centauri or Bust!. 45 -- Ch.9. Voyage to the Center of the Galaxy. 50 -- Ch.10. An Hypothesis: There is no Speed Barrier in the Universe. 52 --...

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...Huin's sleep was spastic like a nervous twitch that would every now and then startle him into wakefulness and he would wonder where he was: Muguk, Cho... .....America") and the class was in an uproar. He thought of this in one of his startled awakenings. He looked from the window to flat patches of skimpy ... ...like a reluctant and tortured snake but accepting the inevitability. He just stared at the fountain for many uncomfortable minutes hoping that the mou... ...g what was once pure and cloistered waters. With a temperature, black spots filming over her vision, and the need to vomit on and off for a period of... ... brains but cast themselves as more Disney characters into this metaphysical film within the most salient roles. God that destroyed humanity in the f... ...h him how to become a man. When the movie ended the man said he had a better film in his apartment and they went away together to his furtive domain. ... ...she almost loved him for not holding onto her. Tijuana, Mexico September 17, 2001 It would be 90 degrees later that day and she had come to do her lau...

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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

...along the Phahonlyothin to the railway crossing; the countryside seemed to start beyond it. There, behind the railway, near the village of Ban Srii Mu... ...ung people fall by the wayside in the competition for higher education and start drinking or using drugs ever younger. In many countries, including Fi... ...ure of digital, automation or genetic technology, development moves to the start of finalization, attainment of perfection. I have distinguished local... ...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... ...aviour. When I was a soldier, every Wednesday we were shown a very warlike film to give us courage, and I wasn't afraid of dying then. Now I am afraid... ...d is also in control of its farming. The genotype of Jasmine rice has now (2001) been sold to the USA, where the intention is to use genetic modificat... .... Skinner 1951; 1957; 1958; 1964. Landon 1941. Coughlin 1960. Kiong – Bun 2001. 7. On village building traditions: Chongrak 1977. Boeles - Stern... ...Hirsch 1990; 1994. Warr 1993. Sarntisart 2000. Phongpaichit – Baker 1998; 2001. 14. Statistical Reports of Changwat Lampang, e.g. 1996: 2,4. 15. ...

...he author draws surprising parallels between the worldviews of peoples of Thailand and Finland, the past and future of local cultures. Matti Sarmela started collecting material on Northern Thailand in 1972. Based on a longitudinal field study, he wrote his description of three villages in Lampang Province, and the changes in villagers' lives over three decades. The book a...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the idea... ... molecules the same size would be absolutely identical to each other, all the stars the same size would be absolutely identical to each other, and a... ...two atoms are exactly the same. No two planets are exactly the same. No two stars are exactly the same; no two galaxies are identical to each other... ...y seen in the dynamics of a growing tree. Every seedling of the same species starts out very much the same, and looks very much the same. But the ... ...calls a singularity which was the origin of the Big Bang. If you reverse the film of a pebble hitting the 2-dimensional The Path of Splitness Cha... ...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 ... ...s another medium like water, or a transparent pane of glass, or a transparent film of plastic. Space is a Pure Formless Medium. The only reason ... ... poor; which never existed even during the Roman Empire. In September of 2001: the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York were attack...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

...s (mainly by midlist authors). It now aims to feed its content to content-starved web sites. In the process, it shed thousands of unfortunate author... ...arling of Wall Street has diversified into micropayments. The Internet started as a free medium for free spirits. E-commerce was once considered a... ...ternet was not exempt from this phase which ended only a few years ago. It started with a complete computer anarchy manifested in ad hoc networks, lo... ... CEO, explains his daring move in OverDrive's press release dated May 22, 2001: "Everyone we are partnering with in the US and worldwide has been ... ...e DOI-EB (EB stands for e-books) Initiative in the Book Expo America Show 2001, to, in their words: "Determine requirements with respect to the appl... ... borrow books for free." (ZDNet quoted by "Publisher's Lunch on July 13, 2001) It is amazing that the traditional archivists of human knowledge - ... ...("safety in redundancy"). They contain Web pages, television programming, films, e-books, archives of discussion lists, etc. Such materials can help... ...l, the costs of production are lower (with the exception of the music and film industries), the marketing channels more numerous (half of the income... ...processes, books, newspapers, any printed matter, works of art and music, films (which, at their beginning were not considered art), software, softwa...

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Fourth International Anthology on Paradoxism

By: Florentin Smarandache

...e 1980’s and promulgates a counter-time/ counter-sense creation. Paradoxism started as an anti-totalitarian protest against a closed society, Roman... ...ORT OFFICE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SUBJECT HEADINGS WEEKLY LIST 44 (October 31, 2001) 7 (http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/wls01/awls0144.html) 150 P... ...y like Coca-Cola as you are there and you are not dressed in white and naked stark ... 61 PRASANNANSHU (India) NONESSAYS ON NONPOEMS - The... ...sm there is a compliment. - To me it is a novel concept. - By them the mind starts thinking in images, this is precisely what poetry does and so th... ...caliile, nu ave ţi decât s ă parcurge ţi paginile 9-13 din antologia pe anul 2001 a Festivalului Interna ţional de Teatru de la Sibiu. Pentru cei ca... ... (USA) MONA LISA A woman who cannot control reproduction. TUNNEL Film runs off the reel and then restarts. POND A blank coin engrav... ...not on time but I still rather go to a class; especially I don’t want miss a film because I have no more chance to look. I’m not sure whether you kn...

..., parables, odds, paradoxes in creations. It was set up by the editor since 1980’s and promulgates a counter-time/ counter-sense creation. Paradoxism started as an anti-totalitarian protest against a closed society, Romania of 1980’s. Why was the movement based on contradictions? Because we lived in that society a double life: an official one – propagated by the political ...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...supply. Internet backbone capacity, software programmers, servers are all scarce to start with - in the old economy sense. This scarcity accounts ... ...rices of shares, or commodities. But why are stocks and exchange rates volatile to start with? Why don't they follow a smooth evolutionary path in... ...line, say, with inflation, or interest rates, or productivity, or net earnings? To start with, because economic fundamentals fluctuate - sometimes ... ...ot always foster competition. And many products have umpteen substitutes. Consider films - cable TV, satellite, the Internet, cinemas, video rental... ...se, denies this. In a paper titled "IMF Financing and Moral Hazard", published June 2001, the authors - Timothy Lane and Steven Phillips, two senior... ...by engaging in an uncontrolled spree of interest rates reductions. In a September 2001 paper titled "Moral Hazard and the US Stock Market", the au... ...monstrated this effect convincingly in the Japanese banking system in his November 2001 draft paper titled "What Happens in Banking Crises - Credit... ... to scholarly publishing and other form of intellectual property such as software, films, music, and e-books. Consumers are divided on the issue o... ...hing. Napster-like peer to peer networks undermine the foundations of the music and film industries. Open source software is encroaching on the tur...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...Chicago Council on Foreign Relations - largely supported Pew's findings. The most startling and unambiguous revelation was the extent of anti-Amer... ...ration Army, an American anti- Milosevic pet, provoked a civil war in Macedonia tin 2001. Osama bin-Laden, another CIA golem, restored to the USA, ... ...n 2001. Osama bin-Laden, another CIA golem, restored to the USA, on September 11, 2001 some of the materiel it so generously bestowed on him in hi... ...trauma and abuse in an individual's early childhood. The United States of America started out as a series of loosely connected, remote, savage, an... ...rces cannot fundamentally solve problems and war benefits no one including the war starter." Nor are these views the preserve of the arthritic up... ...s ago. Osama bin- Laden, another CIA golem, "restored" to the USA, on September 11, 2001 some of the materiel it so generously bestowed on his anti... ...ope. Everyone is in on the take, the police especially. The events depicted in the film are not without historical precedent, but the moviemakers g... ...ck market facilitates the smuggling of cigarettes, software, home appliances, video films, weaponry, food, carpets - and virtually every other nece...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...gs: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download free anthol... ...s arise when we study the other party to these implicit agreements: the embryo. To start with, it lacks consciousness (in the sense that is needed ... ...derivatives ones, dictated by our affiliation (citizenship). This leads to another startling conclusion: There is no such thing as a self-consiste... ... Economists would do well to discard their models and go back to basics. They could start by asking: Why do shareholders acquiesce with executive m... ...n certain, influential, professions (in banking, finance, the media, politics, the film industry, publishing, science, the humanities, etc.). This ... ...ved the inedible parts as trophies. These lurid deeds inspired a slew of books and films, most notably The Silence of the Lambs with Hannibal (Lect... ... Metzgermeister)", arranged over the Internet to meet Bernd Jurgen Brandes on March 2001. Meiwes amputated the penis of his guest and they both ate ... ...r. Swiss Re Economic Research and Consulting had this to say in its study, Sigma 3/2001: "Three types of factors drive financial innovation: deman... ...ther innovation. The eminent American economist Robert Merton - quoted in Sigma 3/2001 - described in the Winter 1992 issue of the "Journal of App...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...gs: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download free anthol... ...s arise when we study the other party to these implicit agreements: the embryo. To start with, it lacks consciousness (in the sense that is needed ... ...derivatives ones, dictated by our affiliation (citizenship). This leads to another startling conclusion: There is no such thing as a self-consiste... ... Economists would do well to discard their models and go back to basics. They could start by asking: Why do shareholders acquiesce with executive m... ...n certain, influential, professions (in banking, finance, the media, politics, the film industry, publishing, science, the humanities, etc.). This ... ...ved the inedible parts as trophies. These lurid deeds inspired a slew of books and films, most notably The Silence of the Lambs with Hannibal (Lect... ... Metzgermeister)", arranged over the Internet to meet Bernd Jurgen Brandes on March 2001. Meiwes amputated the penis of his guest and they both ate ... ...r. Swiss Re Economic Research and Consulting had this to say in its study, Sigma 3/2001: "Three types of factors drive financial innovation: deman... ...ther innovation. The eminent American economist Robert Merton - quoted in Sigma 3/2001 - described in the Winter 1992 issue of the "Journal of App...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

............................................................ 176 THEORY AS A START TO SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY .................................................. ...Please call me Wanda, Con. But let‘s let the waiter take care of your fire starved pallet. Yes Ray?‖ --―Con‘s just getting ready for his next li... ...er we were here to pick Dr. Wang‘s, I mean Wanda‘s, brain. Where should we start Wanda?‖ 14 LOOKING FOR HAPPINESS ---:‖Well, seeking happi... ...e or riches. Pornography treats children and women as things, not humans. Films and television champion murder and revenge. Video games commonly teac... ...re or riches. Pornography treats children and women as things, not humans. Films and television champion murder and revenge. Video games commonly tea... ...d allow the deaths of so many innocent people in New York in September of 2001. How could a just God allow a bin Ladin to associate Allah‘s name wi... ...in God, the Eurobarometer survey showed it to be 23%. The Czech census in 2001 showed 59% with no religion while 32% were religious, the remainder d... ...mise of getting your ‗pie in the sky-- bye and bye.‘ Singing and dancing, films and TV, public friendships, sports and recreational pastimes all crea... ...se to those who are paying for it. For example the American tax cuts from 2001 to 2006 gave every middle income American a tax cut of nearly $1900, ...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...AM Page xvi 1 Why Intellectual Property? ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 Imagine yourself starting a society from scratch. Perhaps you fought a revolution, or perh... ...t to market” with an innovation provides the innovator with enough of a head start on the competition to support the innovation. 2 Fourth, while some ... ...r to economics or information theory. But none of those would be as useful a starting place as a letter that was written about two hundred years ago, ... ...licing the boundaries of the work long after the original author is dead. In 2001, Alice Randall published The Wind Done Gone. As its ti- tle might in... ...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... ... 145–148. 4. SunTrust Bank v. Houghton Mifflin Co., 268 F .3d 1257 (11th Cir. 2001). 5. See Samuel E. T rosow, “Sui Generis Database Legislation: A Cri... ... 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://... ...ce and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson, 2nd ed. (Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 2001), ix; Annette Gordon-Reed, Thomas Jeffer- son and Sally Hemings: An ... ...k: New York University Press, 2001). 22. Bridgeport Music, Inc. v. Dimension Films, 410 F .3d 792, 804n16 (6th Cir. 2005). 23. Walter Benjamin, “The W...

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A Courageous Battle

By: Susan Bracken

... was almost home. After being up north at col- lege for five years, he was starting his first job as a high school gymnastics teacher in the fall. His... ...lived for sports, the outdoors and sex. As his house came into view and he started to gather his belongings, he hoped he’d CHAPTER 3 10 SUSAN BRACKEN... ...“Is she next door?” “I think so. You should go see her.” “I will, Mum. I’m starved. Is there any supper?” He ate the sandwiches and soup she offered a... ...esk clerks about having to wait. Finally they were called. After viewing a film on chemo- therapy and possible side effects, and being warned verbally... ...ommissioned nationwide studies of end-of-life decision making (1990, 1995, 2001 and A COURAGEOUS BATTLE - APPENDIX 308 SUSAN BRACKEN 2005) and specia... ...he technological imperative of the deathing counterculture, Death Studies, 2001, 25, 387-401 [R.D. Ogden] At the Very End of Life: The Emergence of Po... ...mmary of Canadian Legislation Concerning Advance Directives; Original: May 2001; Last Updated: June 2006 http://as01.ucis.dal.ca/dhli/cmp_documents/do... ...ld right to die movement; listing events, organizations, and bibliography, filmography, the laws), Norris Lane Press, 2008, 182 pp, PB Jean’s Way, Der...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VII : Book 7 Visit to Indus

By: Bob Oconnor

... helplessness. Do I have any hope of helping the helpless? Of feeding the starving? Of aiding the sick? It strikes me again that throwing dollars at... ...d that the World Bank reported that poverty was down by half from 1981 to 2001, from 40% making under a dollar a day in 1981 to 21% making a dollar ... ...m 40% making under a dollar a day in 1981 to 21% making a dollar a day in 2001. But the world population had increased from 4.3 billion to 6 billion... ... the total number earning under a dollar a day in 1981 was the same as in 2001, about 800 million, but their purchasing power had been reduced. When... ...rs are done 50 to 80% cheaper than in the West. And they are done in five star hospitals. We can‘t do any of this. When our youth are university edu... ...he picture of where we are in this part of the world, with India and China starting to work their way upwards, with Pakistan surviving on foreign aid... ..., full employment, and Norman Rockwell—a world without terrorism, X-rated films and lying politicians. ―In Afghanistan allied soldiers gave fo...

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