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Dead Alive, Dead Outside, Alive Inside” “
24683_U01.qxd 11/15/04 12:53 PM Page 1 Introduction “Dead alive, dead outside, alive inside” “In my thinking, I see that people forgot me.” Catarina said this to me as she sat peddling an old exercise bicycle and holding a doll. This woman of kind manners, with a piercing gaze, was in her early thirties; her speech was lightly slurred. I first met Catarina in March 1997, in southern Brazil at a place called Vita. I remember asking myself: where on earth does she think she is going on this bicycle? Vita is the end- point. Like many others, Catarina had been left there to die. Vita, which means “life” in Latin, is an asylum in Porto Alegre, a com- paratively well-off city of some two million people. Vita was founded in 1987 by Zé das Drogas, a former street kid and drug dealer. After his conversion to Pentecostalism, Zé had a vision in which the Spirit told him to open an institution where people like him could find God and regenerate their lives. Zé and his religious friends squatted on private property near downtown, where they began a makeshift rehabilitation center for drug addicts and al- coholics. Soon, however, the scope of Vita’s mission began to widen. An in- creasing number of people who had been cut off from family life—the men- tally ill and the sick, the unemployed and the homeless—were left there by relatives, neighbors, hospitals, and the police. Vita’s team then opened an in- firmary, where the abandoned waited with death. -
Pliny's Poisoned Provinces
A DANGEROUS ART: GREEK PHYSICIANS AND MEDICAL RISK IN IMPERIAL ROME DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University By Molly Ayn Jones Lewis, B.A., M.A. ********* The Ohio State University May, 2009 Dissertation Committee: Duane W. Roller, Advisor Approved by Julia Nelson Hawkins __________________________________ Frank Coulson Advisor Greek and Latin Graduate Program Fritz Graf Copyright by Molly Ayn Jones Lewis 2009 ABSTRACT Recent scholarship of identity issues in Imperial Rome has focused on the complicated intersections of “Greek” and “Roman” identity, a perfect microcosm in which to examine the issue in the high-stakes world of medical practice where physicians from competing Greek-speaking traditions interacted with wealthy Roman patients. I argue that not only did Roman patients and politicians have a variety of methods at their disposal for neutralizing the perceived threat of foreign physicians, but that the foreign physicians also were given ways to mitigate the substantial dangers involved in treating the Roman elite. I approach the issue from three standpoints: the political rhetoric surrounding foreign medicines, the legislation in place to protect doctors and patients, and the ethical issues debated by physicians and laypeople alike. I show that Roman lawmakers, policy makers, and physicians had a variety of ways by which the physical, political, and financial dangers of foreign doctors and Roman patients posed to one another could be mitigated. The dissertation argues that despite barriers of xenophobia and ethnic identity, physicians practicing in Greek traditions were fairly well integrated into the cultural milieu of imperial Rome, and were accepted (if not always trusted) members of society. -
Regimes of Truth in the X-Files
Edith Cowan University Research Online Theses: Doctorates and Masters Theses 1-1-1999 Aliens, bodies and conspiracies: Regimes of truth in The X-files Leanne McRae Edith Cowan University Follow this and additional works at: https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses Part of the Film and Media Studies Commons Recommended Citation McRae, L. (1999). Aliens, bodies and conspiracies: Regimes of truth in The X-files. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ theses/1247 This Thesis is posted at Research Online. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1247 Edith Cowan University Research Online Theses: Doctorates and Masters Theses 1999 Aliens, bodies and conspiracies : regimes of truth in The -fiX les Leanne McRae Edith Cowan University Recommended Citation McRae, L. (1999). Aliens, bodies and conspiracies : regimes of truth in The X-files. Retrieved from http://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1247 This Thesis is posted at Research Online. http://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1247 Edith Cowan University Copyright Warning You may print or download ONE copy of this document for the purpose of your own research or study. The University does not authorize you to copy, communicate or otherwise make available electronically to any other person any copyright material contained on this site. You are reminded of the following: Copyright owners are entitled to take legal action against persons who infringe their copyright. A reproduction of material that is protected by copyright may be a copyright infringement. Where the reproduction of such material is done without attribution of authorship, with false attribution of authorship or the authorship is treated in a derogatory manner, this may be a breach of the author’s moral rights contained in Part IX of the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth). -
Theology of Supernatural
religions Article Theology of Supernatural Pavel Nosachev School of Philosophy and Cultural Studies, HSE University, 101000 Moscow, Russia; [email protected] Received: 15 October 2020; Accepted: 1 December 2020; Published: 4 December 2020 Abstract: The main research issues of the article are the determination of the genesis of theology created in Supernatural and the understanding of ways in which this show transforms a traditional Christian theological narrative. The methodological framework of the article, on the one hand, is the theory of the occulture (C. Partridge), and on the other, the narrative theory proposed in U. Eco’s semiotic model. C. Partridge successfully described modern religious popular culture as a coexistence of abstract Eastern good (the idea of the transcendent Absolute, self-spirituality) and Western personified evil. The ideal confirmation of this thesis is Supernatural, since it was the bricolage game with images of Christian evil that became the cornerstone of its popularity. In the 15 seasons of its existence, Supernatural, conceived as a story of two evil-hunting brothers wrapped in a collection of urban legends, has turned into a global panorama of world demonology while touching on the nature of evil, the world order, theodicy, the image of God, etc. In fact, this show creates a new demonology, angelology, and eschatology. The article states that the narrative topics of Supernatural are based on two themes, i.e., the theology of the spiritual war of the third wave of charismatic Protestantism and the occult outlooks derived from Emmanuel Swedenborg’s system. The main topic of this article is the role of monotheistic mythology in Supernatural. -
Nbcuniversal Media, LLC (Exact Name of Registrant As Specified in Its Charter)
Table of Contents UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 FORM 10-Q (Mark One) ☒ Quarterly Report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 For the quarterly period ended March 31, 2013 OR ☐ Transition Report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 For the Transition Period from to Commission File Number 333-174175 NBCUniversal Media, LLC (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) DELAWARE 14-1682529 (State or other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. Employer incorporation or organization) Identification No.) 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10112-0015 (Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code) Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (212) 664-4444 Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding twelve months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes ☒ No ☐ Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T during the preceding 12 months (or for such period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files). Yes ☒ No ☐ Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. -
Philadelphia and the First Era Oj Postwar Highway Planning, 1943-1956
The Expressway "Motorists Loved to Hate": Philadelphia and The First Era oj Postwar Highway Planning, 1943-1956 T EXACTLY 12: io P.M. on November 25, 1958, Mayor Rich- ardson Dilworth of Philadelphia radioed the city policemen Astationed at the Vine Street entrance ramps to the new $100 million Schuylkill Expressway and ordered the patrol to dismantle the wooden barriers blocking access to the untraveled ribbon of concrete roadway. To the sounds of music provided by the police and firemen's band, a line of traffic rolled across the gleaming Vine Street Bridge and onto the recently finished section of express highway linking downtown Philadelphia to the Valley Forge Interchange of the Penn- sylvania Turnpike. First started in 1950, the twenty-mile highway had taken eight years to complete.1 Probably because many of those motorists who braved the expressway that first day found the maze of access ramps confusing, traffic on the new roadway snarled immedi- ately. More was involved than novice confusion. Less than a year later the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin carried a story about the "Schuylkill Clogway,"2 and "Peak-Hour Nightmare."3 When vehicles were not stalled for hours on what irate commuters complained was the "largest parking lot in the world,"4 they were, according to other critics, careening into walls and up and over unpro- tected embankments. Very soon the highway "motorists loved to hate," was popularly reviled as the "Surekill Expressway."5 A decade later, hoping to relieve congestion, planners seriously considered building a 1 Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, Nov. 25, 1958, p. 9; David Hackney, "Schuyllrill: A Bummer from the Day It Opened," ibid., July 2, 1979. -
Corrections-Industrial Complex" Expands in U.S
A PROJECT OF THE AMERICAN CIVil LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION, INC. VOL 10, NO.1, WINTER 1994/95 ~.ISSN 1076-769X "Corrections-Industrial Complex" Expands in u.s. ed Goins, a securities analyst at Branch, TCabell & Co. in Richmond, Va. spent a weekend last spring reading through every detail of the federal Crime Bill and watching the debate on C-Span. He then came up with a list of "theme stocks of· the 90s." Goins' highest recommenda tion went to the Nashville-based Corrections Corporation of Features: America (CCA)-the nation's • Stab protection - to 81.1 most successful operator of pri ~~~~~~~~'t~~e :~~ ~;li. fomia Correctional Standard. vate prisons-whose stock had • Slash protection f.chjeved with space-age titanium. recently hit an all-time high. • Blunttrauma protection yOU'll barely feel the blows. CCA's chief financial officer was • Aama protection with fir~~ retardant Nomett' covenng. quoted as saying that the Crime The S.T.A.R. vest gives you a maximum range Bill was "very favorable to us."! of motion for close confrontaUons. I-_~"I Don't Get Stuck With Anything Less. CCA's success is but one example _.-.=0- 1ft",. '85",,00 A.. NY 11101 of the profits to be made by a rapidly grow r@J"Int BODYARMORBlank (800)64S4443"lnNY.(516)842.3900Ami""" ing constituency of architects, private prison operators, vendors, labor unions, develop ers, financiers, and other entrepreneurs. complex," cautions against the spread of a Most recently, defense contractors, who system of crime control in which ethical ons added at least 105,219 beds, an have been hyrt by cuts in military spending, questions are suppressed and efficient man increase of 13% from the 1992-93 totals have been searching for opportunities in the agement supplants justice. -
Past and Present Portrayals of China's Alien “Legal System”
Washington University Global Studies Law Review Volume 2 Issue 1 Festschrift in Honor of Professor William C. Jones January 2003 The X-Files: Past and Present Portrayals of China's Alien “Legal System” Randall Peerenboom UCLA School of Law Follow this and additional works at: https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_globalstudies Part of the Comparative and Foreign Law Commons Recommended Citation Randall Peerenboom, The X-Files: Past and Present Portrayals of China's Alien “Legal System”, 2 WASH. U. GLOBAL STUD. L. REV. 037 (2003), https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_globalstudies/vol2/iss1/3 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law School at Washington University Open Scholarship. It has been accepted for inclusion in Washington University Global Studies Law Review by an authorized administrator of Washington University Open Scholarship. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE X-FILES: PAST AND PRESENT PORTRAYALS OF CHINA’S ALIEN “LEGAL SYSTEM” RANDALL PEERENBOOM∗ The celebration of the seventy-fifth birthday of Professor William Jones, long one of the leading China-law scholars and educators in the United States, provides an appropriate occasion to reflect on developments in teaching and researching Chinese law in recent years and to look forward to the future. Critical self-reflection is especially important at this time because China’s legal system has undergone significant changes in the last two and a half decades, creating unique challenges and opportunities for China legal specialists and comparative law scholars. Limited access to China during much of the Mao era and particularly during the Cultural Revolution greatly impaired the ability of legal scholars to do research and understand legal developments. -
Typologies of Evil in the X-Files
TYPOLOGIES OF EVIL IN THE X-FILES BY MAGNE HÅLAND SUPERVISOR: PAUL LEER SALVESEN AND SOLVEIG AASEN UNIVERSITY OF AGDER 2019 FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND EDUCATION DEPARTEMENT OF RELIGION, PHILOSOPHY AND HISTORY 0 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express great appreciation to my supervisors, Professor Paul Leer-Salvesen (University of Agder) and Solveig Aasen, PhD in philosophy (University of Oslo), for their valuable and constructive suggestions during the development of this research work. I would also like to express my deep gratitude to my colleagues at Arendal Upper Secondary School, Steinar Tvedt, Inger Johanne Hermansen, Ane Kristine Bruland and Ida Wullum for their patient guidance and useful critique of my writing in English. Finally, I wish to thank my father, a proud working-class man, for his support and encouragement throughout my whole life. Throughout his life, he was never able to read English. Therefore, he “forced” me to translate my work for him. The Nazi-form of evil with Himmler, Mengele and Eichmann concerned him. Often, he asked me, how could a man (Eichmann) be that blinded? Without my father giving me motivation, I would never have come this far in my studies. 1 CONTENTS ABSTRACT …..5 CHAPTER 1, INTRODUCTION 1.1) General introduction of evil in movies …..6-7 1.2) My Research Question ……7 1.3) A short overview on the typologies of evil …..7-9 1.4) Defining evil …..9-10 1.5) A critique and defense of evil ….10-12 1.6) What is The X-files about? ….12-14 1.7) Why explore The X-Files? …..14-15 CHAPTER 2, METHODS 2.1) Theory and applied ethics …..16-18 2.2) Specific evil episodes as subjects for research and constructing analysis chapters ..18-19 2.3) The importance of using scientific work related to movies and evil …..19-21 2.4) Methodological inspiration for my thesis, work done by Dean A. -
Introduction: Global Intimacies 1
Notes Introduction: Global Intimacies 1. See Chapter 2 for an extensive analysis of the novel’s critical reception. For a representative discussion of the novel’s combination of romance and politics as an aesthetic failure, see Gabriele Annan, “The Map of Love,” London Review of Books 21.14 (July 15, 1999): 28. On the novel’s loss of the Booker for its perceived anti-Semitism, see Asim Hamdan, “Zionist Denies Soueif the Booker Prize,” Arab View: The Internet Home of Independent Arab Opinions, http://www. arabview.com/article.asp?artID=39. May 25, 2003. Emma Richler echoes Hamdan’s argument in “The Booker ’99: J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace an Honourable Choice,” The Ottawa Citizen (October 31, 1999): C12. 2. Judith Thurman, “Choosing a Place,” New Yorker (June 29, 1987): 89. 3. Geraldine Pratt and Victoria Rosner, “Introduction: The Global and the Intimate,” in The Global and the Intimate: Feminism in Our Time (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012), 1. 4. On science fiction, see the MELUS special issue “Alien/Asian” 33.4 (Winter 2008); Adilifu Nama, Black Space: Imagining Race in Sci- ence Fiction Film (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008); and So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy,ed. Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan (Vancouver, BC: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004). On detective fiction, see Diversity and Detective Fiction, ed. Kathleen Gregory Klein (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999); Maureen T. Reddy’s Traces, Codes, and Clues: Reading Race in Crime Fiction (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2003); Stephen F. Soitos, The Blues Detective: A Study of African American Detective Fiction (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996); The Post-Colonial Detective, ed. -
Descartes' Meditations - Trilingual Edition
Wright State University CORE Scholar Philosophy Faculty Publications Religion, Philosophy, and Classics 1996 Descartes' Meditations - Trilingual Edition David B. Manley [email protected] Charles S. Taylor Wright State University - Main Campus, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/philosophy Part of the Philosophy Commons Repository Citation Manley, D. B., & Taylor, C. S. (1996). Descartes' Meditations - Trilingual Edition. https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/philosophy/8 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Religion, Philosophy, and Classics at CORE Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in Philosophy Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of CORE Scholar. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Descartes' Meditations Introduction to the HTML Edition John Veitch Translation of 1901 Original Latin Text of 1641 Duc de Luynes French Translation of 1647 A Trilingual HTML Edition Edited by David B. Manley and Charles S. Taylor Web design by Jane Blakelock and Nicole Podach Philosopher in Meditation Rembrandt [1632] Image Courtesy WebMuseum, Paris Comments about this HTML Edition are encouraged. Please send them to: Charles S. Taylor. ©1996 by David B. Manley and Charles S. Taylor July 18, 2013 Descartes' Meditations Introduction to the HTML Edition John Veitch Translation of 1901 Original Latin Text of 1641 Duc de Luynes French Translation of 1647 Introduction to the HTML Edition The publication of this English-Latin-French HTML edition of DesCartes' Meditations on First Philosophy is quite simply an experiment in electronic scholarship. We decided to make this edition available and to encourage its free distribution for scholarly purposes. -
Jung, the Shadow, and the X-Files
JUNG, THE SHADOW, AND THE X-FILES By JENIFER JENSEN A capstone submitted to the Graduate School-Camden Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey In partial fulfillment of the requirements For the degree of Master of Arts Graduate Program in Liberal Studies Written under the direction of Greg Salyer And approved by ______________________________ Greg Salyer Camden, New Jersey May 2019 CAPSTONE ABSTRACT Jung, The Shadow, and The X-Files by Jenifer Jensen Capstone Director: Greg Salyer This capstone explores Jung’s theory of the shadow, personal unconscious, and collective unconscious, using The X-Files as its narrative transport. When television show The X- Files premiered on September 10, 1993, no one anticipated its impact on a generation of television viewers. The X-Files is an American pop cultural mainstay. The paradoxical brilliance of the show is that it both influenced and interpreted popular American culture. Something vital about our time in history speaks through the stories it tells. It is not the only science fiction television show to create legions of fans, spawn movies, books, comics, and general obsession in American geekdom. But it is the only television show which began in 1993, ran for almost a decade, and then returned, fourteen years later with episodes seeking transcendent answers about what it means to be human, and the possibility of knowledge, truth, and power in the era of Trump, fake news and social media. ii 1 Jung, the Shadow, and The X-Files Introduction – The X-Files I am interested in exploring Jung’s theory of the shadow, personal unconscious, and collective unconscious, using The X-Files as its narrative transport.