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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...e Archive – Click HERE! Philosophical Musings and Essays http://samvak.tripod.com/culture.html Malignant Self Love – Narcissism Revisited http:/... ...ingdom. Later, the Plan called for the US military to invade Bermuda and Britain's Caribbean assets. Australia and New Zealand were singled out as ... ...opean to have done so. His first and second voyages ended in in today's Haiti (the Caribbean) - but on two subsequent trips he visited today's Vene... ...in 1958-9, the insect is to be found only in Central and South America and in some Caribbean islands. Treatment with "smears" containing ronnel and... ...rnardino de Sahagun (1499-1590), a Franciscan priest with deep interest in Mexican culture, described a ritual in honor of the Aztec gods of fisher... ..., Prague and Skopje, 2000 Winner of numerous awards, among them Israel's Council of Culture and Art Prize for Maiden Prose (1997), The Rotary Club A... ...use.com/freebooks.html "After the Rain – How the West Lost the East" The history, cultures, societies, and economies of countries in transition in ... ...cgi?vaksam_JOURNAL 10. "After the Rain – How the West Lost the East" The history, cultures, societies, and economies of countries in transition in ...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...of Life Energy Pg 192 The Definition of What is Human Pg 198 The Origin of Culture Pg 206 The Tool-Dynamic of Civilized Culture Pg 212 Wonder ... ... Pg 269 The Dynamics of the Transition Pg 279 The Creation of Robber Baron Culture Pg 280 The Basic Factors Pg 282 The Consequences of Accumul... ...ange Pg 508 Tools vs. Life Pg 508 The Dynamics of Distraction Pg 520 The Culture of Mass Media Pg 523 Hollywood and Perfection Pg 527 Tool P... ...-Hope Pg 1051 Slavery Pg 1052 The Slavery of Ownership Pg 1054 The Slave Culture of Civilization Pg 1055 Domestication and Slavery Pg 10... ...ank loans, and sticking the money into their private offshore accounts in the Caribbean. President Suharto of Indonesia being swept out of office am... ...oesn’t know its enemies? Look at how long it took for Columbus to reach the Caribbean Islands. Again: his first maiden voyage took longer than an... ...mical that was not food. The thousands of tons of this drug-food fueled the Caribbean slave trade, and the inhumanity of the Plantation system, an... ...humanity of the Plantation system, and the colonization and oppression of the Caribbean Islands… Just as once rare, and expensive tea from India be... ...reserved by the cheap sugar that was supplied by the slave plantations of the Caribbean. Lower class children that came home to an empty house with...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...dwide - 42 are in the USA, 25 in Europe, 11 in Japan, 7.5 in Latin America and the Caribbean, 5 in China and South East Asia, less than 2 in East E... ..., up bringing, wealth, and social responsibilities. A succession of societies and cultures discriminated against the ignorant, criminals, atheists... ...with its proponents in the exact sciences as well - ran deeper than that. The very culture of commerce was thoroughly permeated and transformed. It... ...ogical narcissism is not an isolated phenomenon. It is embedded in our contemporary culture. The West's is a narcissistic civilization. It upholds ... ...issism is often blurred by educators and parents. Both Christopher Lasch in "The Culture of Narcissism" and Theodore Millon in his books about pe... ...its. Social thinkers like the aforementioned Lasch speculated that modern American culture - a self-centred one - increases the rate of incidence o...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

...services whose importance is only enhanced by the "free for all" Internet culture. Content intermediaries grade content and separate the qualitat... ...ers, movers and shapers. These two neglected aspects of Internet hype and culture led to the trouncing of erstwhile promising web media companies wh... ...n its young people. Jamaica is the largest English-speaking nation in the Caribbean and their educational and technical programs provide us with a w... ...ny and in Subiaco, Italy) shunned it and regarded it as a major threat to culture and civilization. Their attacks on printing read like the litanies... ...ny other factors which determine the interaction of free and paid content. Culture plays an important role as do the law and technology. But as long ... ...sist that others don't. Q. Technology is often considered the antonym of "culture". TV, for instance, is berated for its vulgar, low-brow, programmi...

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

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...lty. Yes Commander.‖ ---―As we move from religion to religion and culture to culture throughout history, monotheists and polytheists think a... ... panentheistic. Yet the Cherokees were monotheistic. The Central American cultures of the Aztecs and Mayans seemed to be polytheistic. Obviously if ... ... Incas and Aztecs had not known of the God of the Mid-East. People of the Caribbean may mix Christianity with Voodoo. The Koran perpetuates the earl... ...r them. We find that evidence in the scriptures of the Indian and Persian cultures. A Jew, a Christian or a Muslim would immediately dismiss their r... ...ious country is a more moral country. The idea that materialism leads to ―cultures of death‖ is the official opinion of your church, father. Pope Jo... ...nion of your church, father. Pope John Paul II said that ―the pro-abortion culture is especially strong precisely where the Church‘s teaching on cont... ...the UK the growth of the varying ethnic groups showed no growth among the Caribbean blacks, 1% for whites, 49% for mixed blacks, 37% for black Africa... ...her illegitimacy rates. Why is Greenland over 70%? Panama and some of the Caribbean Islands have rates over 70%. Most of that area has rates over 50... ... crimes, like some Muslim extremists or poor Latin American or African or Caribbean blacks. ―If we need more soldiers—we can give citizenshi...

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The Labor Divide

By: Sam Vaknin

...sion critical skills”, geographical position and proximity to markets and culture and mentality. Q: Women start one-third of new businesses in the ... ...tor was almost unaffected !!! Even in sectors such as education, science, culture and information and healthcare and social services, the effects we... ...eign exchange revenues. The World Bank estimates that Latin American and Caribbean nationals received $15 billion in remittances in 2000 - ten times... ... Economist" calculates that workers' remittances in Latin America and the Caribbean are three times as large as aggregate foreign aid and larger than... .... Entrepreneurship is a national state of mind, a vestige of the dominant culture, an ethos. While in Europe bankruptcy is a suicide-inducing disgra... ...s considered an unaffordable luxury by many hard-pressed parents. In many cultures, work is still considered to be indispensable in shaping the chil... ...nsizing traumatized the workforce and produced in the typical workplace a culture of obsequiousness, blind obeisance, the suppression of independent...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...orld (Guide to Regional Maps) II. North America III. Central America and the Caribbean IV. South America V. Europe VI. Middle East VII. Africa VIII. S... ...ng 31 December 1983, $587 million; 25% of central government budget Sombrero Caribbean Sea Prickly Pear Cays Scrub Island > VALLEY^ J THE VALLEY/ Angu... ...ion; expendi- tures, $5.8 million (1984) Monetary conversion rate: 2.70 East Caribbean dollars=US$l (December 1986) Fiscal year: probably calendar An... ...efense is the responsibility of United Kingdom Branches: Police 20km Barbuda Caribbean Sea ST. JOHN'S Redonda See regional map III Geography Total are... ...encies (Barbuda, Redonda) Legal system: based on English common law; British Caribbean Court of Appeal has exclusive original jurisdiction and an appe... ...force: 1.66 million (1980); 732,806 (1980) in salaried employment; 54% agri- culture, 25% government, 9% industry and commerce, 8% services Government... ...men 59.5, women 65.1 Literacy: 82% Labor force: 26 million (1984); 73% agri- culture, 11% industry and commerce, 10% services, 6% government; 8% unemp... ...n 53.3, women 56.8 Literacy: 45-55% Labor force: 1,985,000 (1985); 78% agri- culture; 18% mining, manufacturing, construction; 4% transport and servic...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VII : Book 7 Visit to Indus

By: Bob Oconnor

...wing population growth. Same sex relationships have been a part of Western culture since at least the days of the Greeks and Romans. The Jewish, Chri... ...we don‘t have the economic impetus pushing some of us upward. Our farming culture has not fostered education as the middle and upper classes in Indi... ...n as the middle and upper classes in India have done. But like India, our culture is very traditional. It is family and religion centered. While Ind... ...world, from the UK to the U.S, from Australia to India, from Africa to the Caribbean, new words and new grammar have emerged. When a ghetto youth say... ...ment of the human personality. In addition we have the right to enjoy the culture and the scientific achievements of society.(22) ―With all...

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New Life Incognita

By: Gracie C. Mckeever

... Life Incognita by Gracie C. McKeever 263 "Dagny. She said they're at some Caribbean restaurant in the Village ... Caribe?" Amire knew the place well,... ...ll, you've probably heard some things about ... well, he was into the drug culture." "Oh?" New Life Incognita by Gracie C. McKeever 302 Amire shrugge...

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Encyclopedia of Home Remedies for Better Life

By: Dr Izharul Hasan

...e population at the pre-pubertal age and of any gender and ethnicity. In some cultures dandruff is considered aesthetically displeasing. It often ca... ...rmones. Used traditionally in Central and South America, as well as China and Caribbean. • A tonic and aphrodisiac, increases muscle mass, treats im...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 6 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...ticular place I have in view is to be a great highway from the Atlantic or Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean, and this particular place has all the a... ...- ions, west by the Rocky Mountains, and south by the line along which the culture of corn and cotton meets, and which in- cludes part of Virginia, pa...

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

...e rocks, or by *Malte Brun tells us (vol. v. p. 726) that the water of the Caribbean Sea is so transparent that corals and fish are dis- cernible at a... ...natural principle, it always presupposes the existence of a high degree of culture and enlightenment in society.* At the first glance it may be imagin... ...s degree, amongst all democratic nations. Nothing is more necessary to the culture of the higher sci- ences, or of the more elevated departments of sc... ...the midst of a democracy, not unprepared by ancient traditions and present culture to partake in the pleasures of the mind. Ranks are there inter- min... ... all received the same edu- cation; they do not possess the same degree of culture as their fathers, nor any resemblance to them – nay, they per- petu... ... such a people there are no men who are permanently disposed by education, culture, and leisure to study the natural laws of language, and who cause t...

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Of Human Bondage

By: Somerset Maugham

...not realise that he was merely putting up in its stead the other fetish of culture. They wandered up to the castle, and sat on the terrace that overlo... ...Philip. “I see the better course, but do not follow it. Miss Price, who is cultured, will remember the Latin of that.” “I wish you would leave me out ... ...On the other hand, in mind he did not seem to have changed at all, and the culture which had impressed Philip at eighteen aroused somewhat the contemp... ... the German. They finished dinner and went to the play . Philip was a very cultured young man, and he looked upon musical comedy with scorn. He though... ...fancies were rich with the glories of America and the green islands of the Caribbean Sea; in their veins was the power that had come from age- long ba...

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The Treaty of the European Union the Maastrict Treaty, 7Th February, 1992

By: Various

...the solidarity between their peoples while respecting their history, their culture and their traditions, DESIRING to enhance further the democratic an... ...tribution to education and training of quality and to the flowering of the cultures of the Member States; (q) a policy in the sphere of development co... ...rticle 92(3): — the following point shall be inserted: “(d) aid to promote culture and heritage conservation where such aid does not affect trading co... ...tions of the Member States.” 37) The following shall be inserted: TITLE IX Culture ARTICLE 128 1. The Community shall contribute to the flowering of t... ...ture ARTICLE 128 1. The Community shall contribute to the flowering of the cultures of the Member States, while respecting their national and regional... ...ovisions of this Article shall not affect co-op- eration with the African, Caribbean and Pacific coun- tries in the framework of the ACP-EEC Conventio...

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The Best of Four

By: Carol Ann Ellis

...ric S. Reich B B B B B est of F F F F F our 16 I n the blue waters of the Caribbean a small, the mys tical island of Saba protrudes out from the sea ... ...ocated 28 miles from the island of St. Martin in the northeast part of the Caribbean. The voyage over to Saba is an adventure itself. The island can b... ...the depths of the ocean, Saba lies secretly among the other islands of the Caribbean waiting to be explored. The Island of Saba Peter Richter 17 S ta... ...lary. B B B B B est of F F F F F our 20 L egends are an important part of culture all over the world. Some legends seem to be pointless, or they are ...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

... of followers and some degree of approval from millions more? The history, culture, and body of beliefs from which Bin Ladin has shaped and spread his... ...onvert to Islam, and end the immorality and godlessness of its society and culture:“It is saddening to tell you that you are the worst civ- ilization ... ...ls led most independence movements, and clerical influence and traditional culture were seen as obstacles to national progress. After gaining independ... ...d little if any attention to the rest of the world’s thought, history, and culture.The secular education reflected a strong cultural preference for te... ...abroad, lacked the perspective and skills needed to understand a different culture. Frustrated in their search for a decent living, unable to benefit ... ...problems along the southwest border, migration crises origi- nating in the Caribbean and elsewhere, or the growing criminal traffic in humans.The immi... ...empt from carrying passports when return- ing from Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean.The current system enables non-U.S. citizens to gain entry by sho...

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