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...gy of Environmentalism XI. The Invention of Lying: Fact and Truth XII. Hostel: The American Hostel XIII. Inceptions and Its Errors XIV. Aliens „R ... ... cultivates a False Self of a jazz giant in the making and the author of the Great American Novel but he is neither and he bitterly knows it. Even ... ...most heart rending smile when embarrassed or endangered. He is a caricature of the American dream: ambitious, driven, winsome, well versed in the m... ...urgeoisie. But beneath this thin veneer of hard learned, self-conscious and uneasy civility - lurks a beast of prey best characterized by the DSM I... ...ther in kind (as in more ancient justice systems) or in cash (as in modern Western civilization). The product called "Titanic" took away the live... ...(=the marine law)? Should we succumb to laws that put our lives at risk (fight in a war, sink with a ship)? The reason that women and children are ... ...opaths. The truth is, of course, radically different. With the exception of World War II, the United States has acted as a rapacious conqueror of ... ...orlds. Also Read The Roots of Anti-Americanism The Semi-failed State The Second Civil War The Reluctant Empire To Give with Grace In God We Tr... ... Also Read The Roots of Anti-Americanism The Semi-failed State The Second Civil War The Reluctant Empire To Give with Grace In God We Trust T...

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...ad. Numai şocâ ţi (veveri ţe prin g ăuri şi sub stânci)... Mândrii de ei americanii! Nu le e ru şine când nu ştiu ceva (chiar fundamental ori elem... ...se. Cic ă ar fi cea mai mare gr ădin ă zoologic ă din lume (zic ei!). La americani, neap ărat ceva trebuie s ă fie “cel (cea) mai mare” sau “întâiu... ...e cursiv ă şi f ăr ă accent, c ă am r ămas cu gura c ăscat ă! De obicei, americanii nu se omoar ă s ă înve ţe limbi str ăine. Judith l-a furat pe I... ...eve & 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 feti... ... japonez ă. A participat şi la R ăzboiul Coreean (1950-1953) ca lucr ător civil. A înv ăţat ceva japonez ă: skushi = pu ţin; kancho = şef; mo...

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... ă e şti mai preten ţios, po ţi face o extensie pân ă-n Hawaii (unde olteano-americanul nostru fu chiar de dou ă ori!). Dar, cum “anonimul din B ăl... ...ii/arti ştii” exila ţi sunt mor ţi. Rar când r ăzbate vreunul. Pe continentul american, lumea nu se uit ă la art ă nici cu dosul!... Celebrele pl... ...re. Îi venise familia mai târziu (nevasta şi trei feti ţe), fiindc ă Ambasada American ă încurcase actele. Cum se întâmplase şi cu dosarul lui Nea C... ...nite, numite “Societatea de chewing gum şi coca-cola” sau mai r ău: în loc de civiliza ţie american ă, pronun ţa sifiliza ţie american ă!... Yannic... ...ă documente de frontier ă), plus bosnieci tineri – vagabonzi, dup ă r ăzboiul civil din Iugoslavia, prin Europa. Acum se întorceau acas ă, dar ce ca... ...“Opera House” (unde, înainte de r ăzboiul din Irak, un australian a scris “No war” şi-a fost condamnat la 20 de ani de închisoare pentru întinarea s...

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...urgical" precision. The legal (and moral) imperative to spare the lives of innocent civilians was well observed, they bragged. "Collateral damage" w... ...r pilots. Military planners are well aware that there is a hushed trade-off between civilian and combatant casualties. This dilemma is both ethical... ...de and supersede one's moral obligations towards non- affiliated humans. Thus, an American's moral obligation to safeguard the lives of American f... ...s and supersedes (subordinates) his moral obligation to save the lives of innocent civilians, however numerous, if they are not Americans. The lar... ...igation to save the lives of innocent civilians, however numerous, if they are not Americans. The larger the number of positive self-definitions I ... ...ical Islamists are now advocating the mass slaughter of Westerners, particularly of Americans and Israelis, regardless of age, gender, and alleged c... ... The state has acquired monstrous proportions in the decades since the Second world War. It is about to grow further and to digest the few sectors h... ...al) is a classic narcissistic behavior (of "annexation" of the other). The Six Days War was a war of self defence - but the swift victory only exace... ...Jewish state as a member of the international community of nations. The Six Days War was, indeed, a classic example of preemptive self-defense. I...

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...(F) [ 3 + sup(T)+sup(I)+sup(F) [ 3 + sup(T)+sup(I)+sup(F) [ 3 + American Research Press Rehoboth 2002 2 GH. C. DINULESCU–CÂMPIN... ...THE PHYSICS American Research Press Rehoboth 2002 3 This book can be ... ...wwwlib.umi.com/bod/search/basic (Books on Demand) Copyright 2002 by American Research Press Rehoboth, Box 141 NM 87322, USA E-mail: M_L_Pere... ...TIAL MODEL OF THE RATIONAL ENTITY (MESER)* The history of science and civilization notes the positive, sometimes overwhelming part played by som... ...us. The idea that in a more remote or near future the earthly culture and civilization benefited of knowledge other than the conventional ones, that... ...e of paradoxical phenomena, one can realize that ever since the Pharaonic civilization, and through the Sumerian civilization, followed by the Aztec ... ...ing feelings of those populations and implicitly of their leaders were the war-like spirit and sadism, accompanied by the practice of mystic sacrific... ...iltily premeditated. Some scientific circles are interested to foster the war-like illusions (Star Wars program) of certain military circles. How co... ...when the community to which he belonged had been massacred during a civil war. In connection with this case, one should mention that not only the in...

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...n imprisoned by it (e.g. Helen’s beauty, that causes an atrocious ten year war and innumerable deaths between the Achaeans and the Trojans; the Sire... ...s, of Aphrodite’s beauty who betrays her lame husband with Ares the god of war, and of Penelope’s beauty that is sought after by 108 suitors, he is ... ...ve suffered immensely, I have faced many dangers between the waves and in war: after all that, may this come to pass as well!” (Od. V. 215-224) ... ...is. When, in October of 1994, a bullet killed the little seven-year-old American Nicholas Green while he was traveling with his family in Italy, ... ... first to assert this, and not long ago, Harold Bloom, one of the greatest American literary critics, said this in his most recently published book ... ...ous barbarian, the Phaeacians have created an evolved, pacific, harmonious civilization that loves games, song and dance. The Cyclops wants to devo... ... I think of the obtuseness of public institutions and of the arrogance of civil servants who force poor citizens to make a journey even more exhaus... ...t another very important thing. What is the passage from barbarianism to civilization? Barbarianism is always present within each of us, but we e...

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...sychological Operations Roles Begin to Blur . . . . 8 Notes . . . .12 3 A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE OF MILITARY PROPAGANDA . . . . .15 Revolutionary War . . . . . 16 Civil War . . . . .17 Spanish–American War . . . . .18 World War I . . . . .19 World War II: The War against Germany . . . . .21 World War II: The War against Japan . . . . .23 Korea and Vietnam . . . ....

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...by Henry David Thoreau On the Duty of Civil Disobedience The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunit... ...ity university. This publication of “Henry David Thoreau’s ‘On the Duty of Civil Disobedi ence’” is part of The Pennsylvania State University’s ongoi... ...ng Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, faculty editor. On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylv... ... verted before the people can act through it. Witness the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively a few individuals using the standing governm... ...in the outset, the people would not have con sented to this measure. This American government—what is it but a tradi tion, though a recent one, ende... ... not settle the West. It does not educate. The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have ... ...s man in power? Visit the Navy Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black a... ... a case, shall lose it. This people must cease to hold slaves, and to make war on Mexico, though it cost them their existence as a people. In their pr... ...lump. There are thousands who are in opinion opposed to slavery and to the war, who yet in effect do nothing to put an end to them; who, esteeming the...

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...an, being in fact a less agree- able product peculiar to modern commercial civilization. His frame and flesh are those of an ill-nourished lad of seve... ...st dangerous chieftain in these parts, the Sheikh Sidi el Assif, has a new American machine pistol which fires ten bullets without loadin; and his rif... ... with impunity even here in Morocco, under the most barbarous of surviving civilizations. He quite sim- ply took the estate for himself and kept it. R... ...inkwater). Look here: do you see three genlmen talkin to one another here, civil 28 George Bernard Shaw and private, eh? DRINKWATER (chapfallen). No ... ...he railway from the Cape to Cairo. Who are you, that a nation should go to war for you? If you are missing, what will your newspapers say? A foolhardy... ...e hands of them that set the sea on fire but yesterday with their ships of war? Where are the Franguestani cap- tives? LADY CICELY. Here we are, Cadi.... ...p. (Sir Howard’s face falls.) LADY CICELY. What is it, then? RASSBOUND. An American cruiser. The Santiago. THE CADI (tearing his beard). Woe! alas! it... ...hind it, and an inkstand and paper ready for the sitter. A couple of cheap American chairs right and left of the table, facing the same way as the pre... ... curious ethnological speci- men, with all the nations of the old world at war in his veins, he is developing artificially in the direction of sleekne...

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...................................................................... 292 ON WAR .......................................................................... ... was a man that knew something of you, Sir, I believe, and he wished to be civil, and kept saying, “Oh! I dare say it will turn out nothing at all, ma... ...after so long a voyage, she only, out of the total crew, was thrown on the American shore, with one hundred and five pounds in her purse of clear gain... ...foot of Kate’s little account. But unhappily for Kate’s début on this vast American stage, the case was otherwise. Mr. Urquiza had the misfortune (equ... ...ity. But the person, after all, that did most to serve our Kate, was Kate. War was then raging with Indians, both from Chili and Peru. Kate had always... ...errors. We all com- mit many; both you and I, reader. No, stop; that’s not civil. You, reader, I know, are a saint; I am not, though very near it. I d... ...ds of evil, the Spanish army had just there an extra demoralization from a war with sav- ages—faithless and bloody. Do not think, I beseech you, too m... ...al scepticism being to scoff at all hid- den depths of truth. Else you are civil enough to Kate; and your ‘homage’ (such as it may happen to be) is al... ... like the mist that sits, through sultry afternoons, upon the river of the American St. Peter, sometimes rarefying for minutes into sunny gauze, somet...

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...Excerpt: Great George Street, Westminster, is the address of Doyle and Broadbent, civil engineers. On the threshold one reads that the firm consists of Mr. Lawrence Doyle and Mr. Thomas Broadbent, and that their rooms are on the first floor. Most of their rooms are private; for the partners, being bachelor...

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...W Great George Street, Westminster, is the address of Doyle and Broadbent, civil engineers. On the threshold one reads that the firm consists of Mr La... ...e Russian tyrant was perfectly right from his own point of view, yet every civilized man must regard murder with abhorrence. Not even in defence of Fr... ...r! He’s a Nationalist and a Separatist. I’m a metallurgical chemist turned civil engineer. Now whatever else metallurgical chemistry may be, it’s not ... ...as shot and kilt dead in the sthreet o Rosscullen be a soljer in the tithe war? [Frantically] He wants to put the tithes on us again. He— LARRY [inter... ...e-slot mutoscopes to make it inter- esting, then no doubt your English and American sharehold- ers will spend all the money we make for them very effi...

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... the banner of Christ, must, in the first place and above all things, make war upon his own lusts and vices. It is in vain for any man to unsurp the n... ...steem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that l... ...en constituted only for the procuring, preserving, and advancing their own civil interests. Civil interests I call life, liberty, health, and indole... ... as money, lands, houses, furniture, and the like. It is the duty of the civil magistrate, by the impartial execution of equal laws, to secure unto ... ...do well to consider with them selves how pernicious a seed of discord and war, how powerful a provocation to endless hatreds, rapines, and slaughters... ...rived of his terrestrial enjoyments upon account of his religion. Not even Americans, subjected unto a Christian prince, are to be punished either in ... ... all their art and strength to excite men to arms and sound the trumpet of war. But that magis trates should thus suffer these incendiaries and dis ...

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...nheriting inferior endowments from nature and un practiced in the duties of civil administration) ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own deficie... ...s deeply, as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people. Besides the ordinary objects submitted to your care, it ... ...man Race in humble supplication that, since He has been pleased to favor the American people with opportuni ties for deliberating in perfect tranquil... ... of uncertainty. The zeal and ardor of the people during the Revolu tionary war, supplying the place of government, com manded a degree of order suf... ...y terror, intrigue, or venality, the Government may not be the choice of the American people, but of foreign nations. It may be foreign nations who go... ...disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the ... ...e first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority; INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS ... ...nufactures, education, and other great objects within each State. In time of war, if injustice by ourselves or others must sometimes pro duce war, in... ...rts may be directed hon estly to the public good, that peace be cultivated, civil and religious liberty unassailed, law and order preserved, equality...

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...g diseases, to perish with hunger, or to be devoured by wild beasts. Among civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of p... ...Observe the accommodation of the most common artificer or daylabourer in a civilized and thriving country, and you will per- ceive that the number of ... ...ssistance and co-operation of many thousands, the very meanest person in a civilized country could not be provided, even according to, what we very fa... ...ust always be posterior to the improvement of that coun- try. In our North American colonies, the plantations have con- stantly followed either the se... ...had nothing but copper money till within five years before the first Punic war (Pliny, lib. xxxiii. cap. 3), when they first began to coin silver. Cop... ...d not rise to what it had been in 1755, till 1766, after the repeal of the American stamp act. In that and the following year, it greatly exceeded wha... ... affect the demand in the countries where they are consumed; upon peace or war, upon the prosperity or declension of other rival manufactures and upon... ...eems to have been rather above than below the market rate. Before the late war, the government bor- rowed at three per cent.; and people of good credi... ... increase too, so may likewise the capital of a great nation. In our North American and West Indian colonies, not only the wages of labour, but the in...

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... sword, the same with which he had led the armies of his country through the war of freedom to the summit of the triumphal arch of independence; a cor... ...orselet and cuishes of long experience and habitual intercourse in peace and war with the world of mankind, his contem poraries of the human race, in... ... of mankind, his contem poraries of the human race, in all their stages of civili zation; and, last of all, the Constitution of the United States, ... ...estined and prophetic history of the one confederated people 3 of the North American Union. They had been the settlers of thirteen separate and disti... ...te and distinct English colonies, along the margin of the shore of the North American Continent; contiguously situated, but chartered by adventurers o... ... it self had been the recent theatre of a ferocious and bloody seven years’ war between the two most powerful and most civilized nations of Europe co... ...ferocious and bloody seven years’ war between the two most powerful and most civilized nations of Europe contending for the possession of this contine... ...e English colonies on this continent. This was the first signal of the North American Union. The struggle was for chartered rights—for English lib Or... ...s of allegiance, the assumption of sover eign power, and the institution of civil government, are all acts of transcendent authority, which the peopl...

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...youth of missionary parents, earned enough money to pay his expenses at an American college. Equipped with this small sum and the earnestness that the... ...n elementary edu- cation. Such tasks have been done since the beginning of civilization. But this task had to be done with the rawest of raw material,... ... this task had to be done with the rawest of raw material, done within the civilization of the domi- nant race, and so done as not to run across race ... ...he distinction of translation into more languages, I think, than any other American book; and I suppose that he has as large a per- sonal acquaintance... ... this cabin I lived with my mother and a brother and sister till after the Civil War, when we were all declared free. 12 UP FROM SLAVERY Of my ancest... ...cabin I lived with my mother and a brother and sister till after the Civil War, when we were all declared free. 12 UP FROM SLAVERY Of my ancestry I k... ...e movement. Though I was a mere child during the preparation for the Civil War and during the war itself, I now recall the many late-at- night whisper... ...or large city or daily newspaper, knew what the issues involved were. When war was begun between the North and the South, every slave on our plan- tat... ...this country, who themselves or whose ancestors went through the school of American slavery, are in a stronger and more hopeful condition, materially,...

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...probably as old as the Nile or Euphrates, did not begin to have a place in civilized history, until the fame of its grassy meadows and its fish attrac... ...th Bridge,” over which in April, 1775, rolled the first faint tide of that war, which ceased not, till, as we read on the stone on our right, it “gave... ...re ground, on waves of Concord, in which was long since drowned the din of war. But since we sailed Some things have failed, And many a dream ... ... judging there honorably, between the seasons and between meals, leading a civil politic life, arbitrating in the case of Spaulding versus Cummings, ... ...y sometimes see the curious circular nests of the Lamprey Eel, Petromyzon Americanus, the American Stone Sucker, as large as a cart wheel, a foot or ... ...rical line against the water and the sky stood for the last refinements of civilized life, and what of sublim ity there is in history was there symbo... ...ghts excite more heroism in our breasts than all the civil exhortations or war sermons of the age. “I would rather be a dog, and bay the moon,” than m... ...d, and referring him to some new ge nealogy. “Son of——and——. He aided the Americans to gain their independence, instructed mankind in economy, and dr... ...moral grandeur and sub limity akin to those of his own Scriptures. T o an American reader, who, by the advantage of his posi tion, can see over that...

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... guess that from their appearance. Below them are two notable drawbacks of civilization: a palace, and soldiers. The palace, an old, low, Syrian build... ...ly as Buckingham Palace; and the officers in the courtyard are more highly civilized than modern En- glish officers: for example, they do not dig up t... ...g about cowardice, these Romans: they fight to win. The pride and honor of war are nothing to them. PERSIAN. Tell us the tale of the battle. What befe... ... a lion when the field is full of sheep, except for the pride and honor of war, of which these Romans know nothing. So we escaped with our lives; and ... ... O subtle beyond thy years. THE PERSIAN. Cleopatra’s brother Ptolemy is at war with her. Let us sell her to him. 9 Caesar and Cleopatra THE GUARDSMEN... ...express it, poor, bare, ridiculous and unhomely. For T ottenham Court Road civilization is to this Egyptian civilization as glass bead and tattoo civi... ...all. One more illustration. Is the Englishman prepared to ad- mit that the American is his superior as a human being? I ask this question because the ... ...ds appear almost medieval to the up-to-date Chicagoan. This means that the American has an advantage over the Englishman of exactly the same nature th...

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...e criminal to delay any longer calling to your atten- tion a crime against American citizenship in which the French Government has persisted for many ... ...ment has persisted for many weeks—in spite of constant appeals made to the American Minister at Paris; and in spite of subse- quent action taken by th... ...e initiative of my friend, Hon. . 4 The Enormous Room The victims are two American ambulance drivers, Edward Estlin Cummings of Cambridge, Mass., and... ...thusiasm for the cause of France. Her cause was our cause and the cause of civilization; and the tragedy is that it took us so long to find it out. I ... ...e Enormous Room the accomplishment of a task so important in the saving of civilization from the clutches of Prussian tyranny was in some degree inhib... ... into six eyes which sat at a desk. T wo belonged to a lawyerish person in civilian clothes, with a bored expression, plus a moustache of dreamy propo... ...y and delicately made hand. He is a Belgian. Volun- teered at beginning of war. Permission at Paris, overstayed by one day. When he reported to his of... ...y divine host. Never have I tasted such wine. They had given me a chunk of war-bread in place of bless- ing when I left Noyon. I bit into it with rene... ... was not married, had not a little child. “The bachelors are lucky in this war”—he smiled. Now the gendarmes began cleaning their beards, brushing the...