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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:/... ...ative State The term "vegetative state" (cortical death) was coined in 1972 by the Scottish neurosurgeon Bryan Jennett and the American neurologist... ...Fleming (1908-1964), the author of the James Bond 007 novels, was the grandson of a Scottish banker and the son of a Conservative MP (Member of Par... ...ress. The New York Times cites the case of a BBC producer in London who spoke in a Scottish - or, at any rate, foreign - accent. The impediment is ... ...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... ...ages in 1907. The idea to incorporated cathode -ray tubes was proposed in 1911 by a Scottish engineer, Campbell Swinton. Another Scot, John Log... ..., 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 Silver Lining: Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

...: palma@unet.com.mk Philosophical Musings and Essays http://samvak.tripod.com/culture.html Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited http... ... 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 homes and to the p... ...ourselves, we cannot conceive of an indestructible entity. The artifacts of popular culture - thrillers, action and sci-fi films, video games, compu... ...ntalism "It wasn't just predictable curmudgeons like Dr. Johnson who thought the Scottish hills ugly; if anybody had something to say about mount... ...be found in the more malignant forms of fundamentalist environmentalism and in pop-culture (the most recent example of which is the propaganda-lade... ... for attitudes and values are unpredictable, but would vary profoundly in different cultures and between groups within complex societies; a crucial ...

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The Curse of Kali

By: Audrey Blankenhagen

...reen as emeralds and skin like magnolia petals?’ ‘My fiancée owes her beautiful colouring to her Scottish descent, a country which has many redhead... ...ps as children in your beautiful country, because am I not correct in thinking that Forsythe is a Scottish name?’ ‘Yes,’ said Helen, ‘I have my Scot... ...nterest, smiled at her in his impudent, mischievous manner and said, ‘For that I am doubly in my Scottish friend’s debt. Do you not agree, Comtesse?... ...s palace, that he should be their guest and she could still hear her words spoken in that rolling Scottish accent, ‘Now Gavin, laddie, you must be o... ...t who loved the opportunity to dress up - the difference, I suppose, between the Anglo Saxon and Scottish temperaments.’ ‘Your husband is the hands... ...ubjects. ‘We must not forget that Maria had Indian blood, Rosita, and eroticism is part of their culture. You must recall those engravings we saw in... ... too much time to dwell on her husband and his first wife: India kept intruding by its own varied culture. It was the festival of Bakr-Id which remi... ...egated in our homes, our clubs and our cantonments, as if we are afraid to be corrupted by their culture and we may give them the impression of arr... ... ways were popular with the British, who admired them for their business acumen and philanthropic culture. Audrey Blankenhagen 270 People of anot...

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The Coming of Messiah in Glory and Majesty

By: Juan Josafat Ben Ezra

...rotestants, Roman Catholics, Greek church, Armenians, &c. and all the sects of each, as Scottish, English, Irish, Lutheran and Calvinistic churches,... ... rather, the word of prophecy gives signal of the event of providence, according to the Scottish proverb, ‘Before wierd there's word.’ And the word ... ... a most wonderful degree: whereof we have such a striking proof and illustration in the Scottish peasantry, whose prayers are beyond comparison the ... ...ssential, and perfect holiness of God. I say not that it is not capable of education or culture, nor that it is in all men of a like force and clear... ...ne out of Egypt, thou hast cast out the heathen and planted it.” Psalm lxxx. 8. By this culture it is certain that the vine yielded more and better ... ..., that all these things belong not at all to the fruit of the vineyard, but only to its culture. They declare and preach to us all that God has done ... ...norant that the goodness of a vineyard consists not in its possessing the best possible culture, nor as little in its containing plants by the thous... ...s to abundance and goodness with the multitude of the plants, and the excellency of the culture. This appears without doubt, the greatest of evils, ...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...about. We are mak- ing bad decisions that will have a negative effect on our culture, our kids’ schools, and our communications networks; on free spee... ...28/08 11:04 AM Page xii there are powerful counterweights in both law and culture to the negative trends I describe here. There are lots of reasons... ...ary communication to others, free as the air to common use.” 12 Our art, our culture, our science depend on this public domain every bit as much as th... ...en intellectual property and the public domain is important in every area of culture, science, and technology. As a result, it ranges widely in subjec... ... 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page 36 als had been nurtured on the philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment and the history of the struggle against royal mono... ...temporaries, the underlying issue would have been familiar. The free- trade, Scottish Enlightenment thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth cen- tur... ...s a new turn, something that neither Jeffer- son nor the philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment had thought of, something that goes beyond their c... ...The main thrust of the argument here is still firmly within the Jeffersonian, Scottish Enlightenment tradition. Jefferson does not wish to give the pat... ...ere is very good reason to believe that this attitude was dominant among the Scottish Enlightenment thinkers whose writings were so influential to the ...

...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: Enclo...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...ia. 14. Printers as Agents of Change After the fall of Rome, Western culture focuses for centuries on guarding rather than expanding accumulate... ... just to learn to read, write, and do simple arithmetic. Pictographic culture‘s rigorous nature, moreover, left priests and scribes with little ... ... for the four centuries before 1500 BC. Bringing together those different cultures must have made it obvious that they needed an easier way to commu... ... The Chinese language‘s continuity and flexibility has sustained China‘s culture down through the ages—perhaps most significantly by helping to uni... ...four years. His travelogue featured cities with golden roofs in a Chinese culture so far superior to anything in the West that it dazzled his reader... ...family to emigrate to the United States. After the family settled in a Scottish colony near Pittsburgh, twelve-year-old Andrew worked during the ...

...reaks the chains of ignorance that held most of mankind in bondage for millennia. -- 14. Printers as Agents of Change-After the fall of Rome, Western culture focuses for centuries on guarding rather than expanding accumulated knowledge, but the shift from script to print amplifies, reinforces, and disseminates the power of knowledge. -- 15. Capitalists‘ Link to Ink-Printer...

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Barrister Parvateesam

By: Mokkapati Narasimha Sastry

...e studies to pass the entrance exam to the University of Edinburgh. While making a fool of himself in several social situations, he learns the new culture and is impressed by the educational system. He dates a Scottish girl, a novel experience for him, coming from a totally traditional and conservative culture. He mingles as well with the local population as with the mi...

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The Renaissance of Science : The Story of the Cell and Biology

By: Dr. Albert Martini

...cist 51 ALESSANDRO VOLTA (1745 - 1827) Italian Physicist 53 MICHAEL FARADAY (1791 - 1867) English Physicist 53 JAMES CLERK MAXWELL (1831 - 1879) Scottish Mathematician and Physicist 54 JOSEPH HENRY (1797 - 1878) American Physicist 54 THOMAS ALVA EDISON (1847 - 1931) American Inventor 54 NIKOLA TESLA (1856 -1943) American Electrical Engineer 55 SAMUEL MORSE (1791 -...

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Mauna Kea

By: Kepa Maly

...slopes are found several features named for, or associated with Hawaiian gods and deity. These associations are indicators of Mauna Keas place in the culture and history of Hawaii as a scared landscape. With each part contributing to the integrity of the whole cultural, historical, and spiritual setting....

...d cattle, sheep, goats, and wild dogs had made their way up to the mountain lands, and were bothersome to those who traveled the aina mauna. In 1834, Scottish naturalist, David Douglas was killed by a wild bullock at Keahua-ai (now called Douglas Pit or Kaluakauka), near the boundary of Humuula and Laupahoehoe. By 1850, the natural-cultural landscape of the aina mauna was ...

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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... ...ing of Self-Love and Self-Sacrifice Pg 1094 The Need for Community Pg 1101 Culture Pg 1110 Icons and Tokens Pg 1119 Responsibility and Coopera... ...y their own countrymen. Why do you think the first emigrations had such huge Scottish emigrants to the new world? They were fleeing a land of hate ... ...were fleeing a land of hate and greed and evil. Where do you think the great Scottish estates came from? From the Scots Lairds killing off their ow...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

..., 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... ...efits from Foreign Direct Investment in the UK? - S Girma, D Greenaway, K Wakelin - Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2001 Why Investment Ma...

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The Conundrums of Psychology

By: Sam Vaknin

...ydisorders.suite101.com/ Philosophical Musings and Essays http://samvak.tripod.com/culture.html Malignant Self Love – Narcissism Revisited http:/... ... as in the placebo effect). The very nature of dysfunction and sickness is highly culture-dependent. Societal parameters dictate right and wrong i... ...tes of affairs. Whether one is preferable to the other is a matter of the specific culture and society in which the question is posed. Health (and ... ...nsistently deviates from the typical, average behaviour of all other people in his culture and society that fit his profile (whether this conventio... ...odily and empirical, they should be invariant both temporally and spatially, across cultures and societies. This, to some degree, is, indeed, the ca... ...broadening of the definition of psychopathy directly challenged the earlier work of Scottish psychiatrist, Sir David Henderson. In 1939, Henderson p...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...ia. 14. Printers as Agents of Change After the fall of Rome, Western culture focuses for centuries on guarding rather than expanding accumulate... ...ng just to learn to read, write, and do simple arithmetic. Pictographic culture‘s rigorous nature, moreover, left priests and scribes with little ... ... for the four centuries before 1500 BC. Bringing together those different cultures must have made it obvious that they needed an easier way to commu... ... The Chinese language‘s continuity and flexibility has sustained China‘s culture down through the ages—perhaps most significantly by helping to uni... ...four years. His travelogue featured cities with golden roofs in a Chinese culture so far superior to anything in the West that it dazzled his reader... ...e family to emigrate to the United States. After the family settled in a Scottish colony near Pittsburgh, twelve-year-old Andrew worked during the ...

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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 ... ...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... ...―If you have a war, is it really a big deal if some people are killed? The Scottish philosopher David Hume said that the life of a man is no more imp...

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Jewels

By: Lakisha Spletzer

...ltural exchange of sorts.” Jewels was confused. There were no undiscovered cultures left on earth. “I see you’re dying to ask a question. Don't worry,... ...e. She did a slow turn and stilled. Today Dex wore something similar to a Scottish kilt. It did nothing to calm her racing thoughts. His muscles wer... ... sexist to me. Look, Dex, you've met my kind. See how we do things. In our culture, mates stay together, not apart. This,” she waved her hand about, ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VII : Book 7 Visit to Indus

By: Bob Oconnor

...pples and berries in the pie filling. We have just signed a contract with Scottish shrimp companies to hand peel their shrimp at fifty cents an hour.... ...to have the shrimp machine peeled in Scotland by $11 an hour workers. 120 Scottish workers lost their jobs, but over 2000 of our people now have jobs... ...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... ...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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Speculations and Physics

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

...et.com.mk Philosophical essays and Musings http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com/culture.html World in Conflict and T ransition http://samva... ...d Entities". Social Entities are not universal, they are dependent on the society, culture and period that gave them birth. In contrast, numbers ar... ...knin to Adam Anderson 1. Do you believe that superstitions have affected American culture? And if so, how? A. In its treatment of nature, Weste... ... majority - are still into esoteric practices, such as Astrology. But the official culture and its bearers - scientists, for instance - disavow suc... ...mic activity by making the right decisions and then acting on them in a society or culture permeated by the occult. Esotericism skews the proper al... ...ing counterintuitive and even "counterfactual' variants of space and time. Another Scottish philosopher, Alexander Bains, observed, in the 19th cen...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...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... ...sh (collective pi.); adjective British Ethnic divisions: 81.5% English, 9.6% Scottish, 2.4% Irish, 1.9% Welsh, 1.8% Ulster, 2.8% West Indian, Indian, ... ...sh (registered) Language: English, Welsh (about 26% of population of Wales), Scottish form of Gaelic (about 60,000 in Scotland) Infant mortality rate:... ...or, Neil Kinnock; Social Democratic, David Owen; Communist, Gordon McLennan; Scottish National, Donald Stewart; Plaid Cymru, Dafydd Wigley; Official U... ...); Social Democratic-Liberal Alliance, 26 seats (19 Liberal, 7 SDP) (25.4%); Scottish National Party, 2 seats; Plaid Cymru (Welsh Na- tionalist), 2 se... ...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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Aus Com

By: Christine Jones

...t misleading. Pleasant features revealed anger for section blunders and a Scottish heritage aired with him cursing aloud. Relief came to his aching ... ...was in his best interest to remain silent until he further understood the culture. "Feel better after a scrub?" Roxanne forced a smile, attempting t...

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When Serpents Die

By: Gerrie Ferris

...Georgia, where the wind always blows — hot as a sirocco in summer, and cutting as a Scottish blow-hard in winter.” She breathed in heavily. “Royce... ...ject. “Look, she is still Bobby’s wife, no matter what. And it’s customary in our culture to help when tragedy happens and we’re called upon to do...

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