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Many times such classic playwrights as Shakespeare have served as a frame for a new play based on one of his plays. These new works may vary slightly or drastically from the original. We also have films that are new versions of classic theater.
Can we compile some examples here?
Why are these plays written?
Can we find examples of plays being told from a different character's point-of-view than in the source play?
What new conditions do they represent?
Even the original play may have been a new version of an older text, so do we have examples of that?
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Can classics be corelated in Postmodern terms , such as magical realism written by Marquez and fantasy treated by Tolkein ? If applied these above mentioned forms of literature , interesting findings may come out becose these Postmodern techniques are themselves classics of this epoch and era , where in certain underdeveloped countries, due to fanatic terrorism,it is difficult for writer to write .@Vesma Levalde.
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The field of memoirs and semi-autobiography sits at the intersection of literature and personal history, where writers blend storytelling with lived experience. In memoirs, authors typically reflect on specific moments, themes, or phases of their lives, rather than attempting to cover everything chronologically. This genre is inherently selective, often focusing on personal growth, unique experiences, or lessons learned, which lend the work an intimate and reflective tone. Semi-autobiographical works, on the other hand, tend to blur the line between fact and fiction, with authors shaping their own experiences into narratives that might include fictionalized elements or composite characters for literary effect.
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monikabr@amu.edu.pl is her mail ID.
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Especially in the literary studies where it is linked to narrative. We find it defficult to distinguish between them
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Fiction is a literary genre that's created from imagination, while imagination is a general concept that can refer to both phenomenal and experiential imagination:
Fiction
A literary work that's based on imagination rather than fact, such as a novel or short story. Fiction is the opposite of nonfiction, which is a literary genre that consists of historically accurate narratives about real people or events.
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A general concept that can refer to both phenomenal and experiential imagination.
The word "fiction" means a genre , which means "the act of making, fashioning, or molding",in general terms a novel whereas imagination is an individual experience of fancy
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novels and stories where martians and suchlike speak a language of their own (no "Star trek" staff!)
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All sorts of alien languages can be found in many science-fiction works, but not all of them are fully built as artificial languages (e.g. Klingon), some being rather hinted at in a stylised fashion. However, in my opinion most of these fictional narratives would obliquely fit in what came to be known in the 1990s as the "fictional turn in translation", since there is always some emphasis on interpreting/translating the initial alien messages as a step prior to interlinguistic/intercultural communication. This is indeed a central concern in Ted Chiang's novel Arrival, but it is also subtly present in Stanislaw Lem's Solaris, Sagan's Contact, Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind, etc.
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I have a paper that I am editing - post peer review - and I am having some difficulty accessing material to strengthen the literature review component.
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This is totally irrelevant to my question.
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What is dark matter? And how was the structure of the world formed?
Dark matter is still a subject of ongoing debate. It has been considered in the theoretical description of compact objects such as neutron stars with cores of very dense matter. Various candidates for dark matter have been proposed in the scientific literature. Among them, the sexaquark has been identified as a potential boson particle that can form in the neutron star material based on its mass properties. We investigate the viability of the sexquark as a candidate for dark matter, especially under certain density conditions. Addressing the challenges associated with the formation of a boson particle in a highly dense medium without compromising the stability of the neutron star. A direct linear mass change for the sexaquark in the hadronic equation of state. It was observed that including the sexaquark as a dark matter candidate in the hadronic matter equation of state, although it has a repulsive interaction with the baryonic matter, softens the equation of state. We assume that the interaction strength of dark matter with baryonic matter increases linearly with the baryon density. We observe that the increase in the effective mass of the Sexaquark as a result of the increase in its vacuum mass causes the equation of state to become stiffer compared to the constant mass state. We determine lower and upper mass limits for this bosonic dark matter based on observational limits for neutron stars in the DD2Y-T model, when a quark-matter phase-to-phase transition is used. Dark matter, neutron star, equation of state, relativistic mean field, phase transition, sexquark.
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The particle content of dark matter is, for the moment, unknown.
Sexaquarks, as the name indicates, are composite particles made of six quarks-quarks are among the constituents of ``ordinary'' matter. The reason they don't have anything to do with dark matter is that dark matter is made of other kinds of particles. If it were made of known particles, quarks or leptons, it would have had known interactions with ordinary matter, beyond just gravitational interaction (which is how its presence has been established). It doesn't, however, have strong or electromagnetic interactions with ordinary matter (whether it has, only, weak interactions is, still, a matter of study), so it doesn't carry color or electric charge.
How the ``structure of the world was formed'' is known, after the era in which gravity decoupled from the other interactions, in general terms, though many details are, still, not clear. Cf. for instance: https://workshops.ift.uam-csic.es/uploads/charla/275/Zavala_SM_LCDM.pdf
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Dark matter is a substance that makes up about 27% of the universe. We can't see or detect it directly, but we know it's there because of its gravitational effects on visible matter. Scientists think that dark matter played a crucial role in forming galaxies and large-scale structures in the cosmos. It acts like an invisible scaffold, helping to clump regular matter together. Well We're still not sure what dark matter is made of. Some ideas include exotic particles like WIMPs or the sexaquark you mentioned. Researchers are trying to detect dark matter particles in labs and looking for indirect signs of it in space.As for how the world's structure formed, dark matter was undoubtely the key. After the Big Bang, it helped gravity pull matter together to form the first stars and galaxies. Over time, this process built up the complex web of galaxy clusters and filaments we see today. So Dark matter remains one of the biggest puzzles in physics. We're working on understanding it better, but for now, its true nature is still a mystery.
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Dear Abbas these two articles might answer your questions.
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Thank you very much for your kindness, I was very impressed with your articles. Thank you Abbas
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Hello,
Dark matter is a substance that makes up about 27% of the universe. We can't see or detect it directly, but we know it's there because of its gravitational effects on visible matter. Scientists think that dark matter played a crucial role in forming galaxies and large-scale structures in the cosmos. It acts like an invisible scaffold, helping to clump regular matter together. Well We're still not sure what dark matter is made of. Some ideas include exotic particles like WIMPs or the sexaquark you mentioned. Researchers are trying to detect dark matter particles in labs and looking for indirect signs of it in space.As for how the world's structure formed, dark matter was undoubtely the key. After the Big Bang, it helped gravity pull matter together to form the first stars and galaxies. Over time, this process built up the complex web of galaxy clusters and filaments we see today. So Dark matter remains one of the biggest puzzles in physics. We're working on understanding it better, but for now, its true nature is still a mystery.
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DARK MATTER
It is fundamentally wrong to assume the existence of fictitious Dark Matter for explaining the pattern of circular velocities of stellar objects in galactic spiral arms.
Let a stellar object of mass m, with circular velocity Vc and radial velocity Vr, be located within a spiral arm at a radial distance R from the galactic centre. Let Mr be the total baryonic mass within a sphere of radius R. Assuming approximate validity of the shell theorem for the galactic disc region and also assuming that the stellar object under consideration is moving solely under the influence of central force field of the galaxy, radial acceleration dVr/dt of the object will be given by,
dVr/dt = -GMr/R2 + Vc2/R
While justifying the necessity of dark matter, the radial acceleration dVr/dt is assumed to be zero and all trajectories of stellar objects are implicitly assumed to be circular, which is wrong. The circular or tangential velocities of stellar bodies are not directly produced by the radial acceleration field of the galaxy but depend on the initial angular momentum of the accreting matter with respect to the gravitating body. Conservation of angular momentum will ensure increase in circular velocity of stellar bodies as their distance from central gravitating body keeps decreasing. Let L be the angular momentum of the stellar object of mass m while entering the outer fringes of the galaxy which will remain constant through out its motion within the central gravitational field. The circular velocity Vc of this object, at any distance from the center of the gravitating mass Mr, will be given by Vc = L/(m.R) and this does not depend upon mass Mr. That is, the increase in circular velocity Vc with decreasing R does not depend on the strength of central gravitation field or magnitude of Mr, but is solely governed by the conservation of angular momentum. Hence it is fundamentally wrong to assume the existence of fictitious Dark Matter for explaining the pattern of circular velocities of stellar objects in spiral arms.
There are other reasons for explaining the flatness of rotation curve but definitely not the assumption of higher mass Mr or Dark Matter. In reality stellar objects in spiral arms do not move solely under the influence of central gravitation field of the galaxy, their motion is also influenced by the local gravitation fields within the spiral arms. There are localized gravitating bodies existing within the spiral arms, which produce their own gravitation field in addition to the gravitational field of the central gravitating body.
Article Ionic Gravitation and Ionized Solid Iron Stellar Bodies
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Asking the same question multiple times doesn't make much sense. It suffices to ask it once. Dark matter doesn't have anything to do with neutron stars, it has to do with the rotation curves of galaxies.
Sexaquarks aren't singled out among hadrons for having repulsive interactions with baryonic matter, that statement is wrong. Nor does their contribution ``soften the equation of state'' of baryonic matter.
Dark matter, once more, has been found to interact with ordinary mattr, baryonic or not, only gravitationally and it's not known whether it interacts with it through the weak interaction.
The mass limit of dark matter as a function of the energy budget of the Universe is known; its particle content isn't, yet, known.
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"Dark Matter" is a crude fiction arising in spite of the scientific fact that Newton's theory of (one-sided) universal gravitational attraction is patently false, because it does not take into account the reality of the (gravitation opposing) centrifugal force and vis viva of Leibniz.
A (suggested) new quantitative form of the gravitational potential taking into account of the role of the opposing forces, in the dynamics of the celestial formations, eliminate the need for fictitious Dark/black cosmic monster of Fairy Tale cosmology of official "science"!
KEPLER -NEWTON -LEIBNIZ -HEGEL Portentous and Conflicting Legacies in Theoretical Physics, Cosmology and in Ruling https://www.rajpub.com/index.php/jap/article/view/9106
" THE CONCEPTUAL DEFECT OF THE LAW OF UNIVERSAL GRAVITATION OR ‘FREE FALL’: A DIALECTICAL REASSESSMENT OF KEPLER’S LAWS":
Article THE CONCEPTUAL DEFECT OF THE LAW OF UNIVERSAL GRAVITATION OR...
Moreover, the narrative of the "Big Bang" created universe, where the galaxies are supposedly formed by universal condensation of matter is false! On the contrary, new matter created by existing galaxies are ejected and/or dissipated, which then give rise to the formation of new galaxies in an infinite, eternal and ever-changing universe. Ambartsumian, Arp and the Breeding Galaxies: http://redshift.vif.com/JournalFiles/V12NO2PDF/V12N2MAL.pdf
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By studying how light is distorted by galaxy clusters, astronomers have been able to create a map of dark matter in the universe. A vast majority of the astronomical community today accepts that dark matter exists.
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The earth began forming from a blend of dust and gas that was around our young Sun, over 4.6 billion years ago.
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We have lots of expectations about how relationships are ‘supposed’ to look. Many times, this fairy-tale model doesn’t mimic our lives or our realities. (Logan Levkoff)
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I find when it comes to sex, people believe whatever is said as long as it matches their own beliefs. They never consider that human beings are not always totally honest or genuine. This lack of confidence comes from the embarrassment over sex, lack of sex education and the fact that no one ever talks explicitly about sex in a non-emotive way. I am trying to put that right.
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Dear Performing Arts "Creatives,"
We are starting a lab for all of us to share some ideas. I just uploaded an example of a satirical play--our first Planet Zoom Players work--to show our work.
I hope you will consider joining our lab here at RG/ We at PZP grew out of The Hard-Science Science Fiction Zoom Group.
We have our meetings' guest speakers at the Club channel at YouTube.
Planet Zoom Players (outside Research Gate on YouTube platform) hosts a separate playlist at the Hard-Sci SF Zoom channel.
Find that Planet Zoom Players playlist here.
1) "Rock The Nuclear Clock," futurist satire of our embarrassing addiction to nuclear war and how to solve this non-violently with a quiz show.
2) "The Crystal Egg", adapted by Gloria McMillan from the short story by H. G. Wells.
3) "The Terror out of Space", adapted by the 1940s pulp story by Leigh Brackett. This is in-progress. NOT YET PUBLISHED at YouTube--only the trailer.
We welcome your participation at our Performing Arts lab.
Cheers,
Gloria
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Please, Dickson, share some links about your project. I am connected to a big group working in this area. They might include you on a Zoom or something.
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I have concluded it is because there is no alternative - comprehensive and authoratative sex education is non-existent! Apart from my websites nosper.com etc. of course! Please take a look!
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You can hardly expect everyone to understand Arabic. Sexual desire is a vital aspect of human sexuality. If it were not for male sex drive, reproduction would not occur and the species would die out. Clear no prospect of that! Pornography dominates the internet because of men's enjoyment of erotic stimuli that assist with their arousal. Women dislike the crude portrayals of genitals and penetrative sex but there is nothing inherently dangerous about it except that it portrays women's responsiveness and men's performance unrealistically. This causes the modern dysfunctions of individuals feeling dissatisfied with their sex lives for no good reason. Reality and fiction are two quite separate phenomena.
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Chadwick’s Hotdogs
“Hi ya doin scuutch”, I began, “You know my goddam name. My fucking name is Chadwick now get the fuck over it.” If you’re reading this then you probably don’t know who I am. Occasionally people call me quirky. The women call me so kinky that they sometimes want something besides a hotdog from me. “Why the fuck did you raise your hand then lower it to mock me. Are you done dashing piece of shit.” Then the streaky bloke opened his fat mouth, “I was the fucking substitute teacher and you were only 13. Cannot you feel my pain.” Talk about excuses. If I had a cent for every excuse this bloke and dipshit has made then I’d probably not have to be Hot Dog Man. I know what you’re fucking thinking. Originally I was going to be hyena man but, I resembled a werewolf too much and people don’t want to think of the bad guys from the Lion King. Tell you the fuck what. “See your ass later, you putz. You fucking McFuckWork . You’ve gotta be the biggest cocksucker I ever met in education and you aren’t even in the higher kind. Billionaires are shitty as it is. Rising to the top brings the worst out in everyone.”
Ch. 1: One Sonoma Bech Down, God Knows how many to go.
“Room. Room. You bastards listen to me”, I exclaimed like the mighty roaring lion I was and still the fuck am, “You may call me a smut peddler but, how the fuck else am I gonna live. How the fuck else am I gonna live.” “You sure have one fuck of an imagination”, Some prostitute dressed up as bun came up to me, “You’ll need to sail way before this siren will sing your way into a New Yorker’s trap.” “Look toots”, I responded levelly, “Ain’t no fucking way that I’m going cow tow to some real bitch like you. You are a real bitch if you begin a fucking sentence complimenting my imagination then end with my ass in a trap. That is a mother fucking backhanded compliment if I ever knew one.” I slapped the bitch in the face then like the silly bastard I am the fuck away. I started crying to because she was some bitch. A real sexy one that I could probably bulldoze.
Ch 2: Doing the fucking predictable
“They say the more accurate I can predict my day from beginning to end, the closer I am to the grave like a fat Tony. Fat Tony recently died of diabetes.” “Sorry for your goddam loss, Chadwick”, began my sidekick, “Catch Up is my fucking name and I rub myself all over you until we fight crime to the fullest and beat criminals down to the dullest.” For Christ’s sake, I fucking love Catch Up but I wouldn’t stick a wiener in him no matter how light my loafers got, or so I figured, “Look Catch Up, you’ve got some way of putting things. And by putting I mean wording. Don’t make a statement about you rubbing up against me.” Catch Up looked at the ground.
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Adapting a script to the big screen can be a complex process, and its success depends on several key factors
compelling and well-structured story is crucial. The script should have a clear, engaging plot with a strong beginning, middle, and end. It should also have well-paced scenes that keep the audience engaged throughout the film.
Characters need to be well-developed, relatable, and have clear motivations. Strong character arcs and transformations can significantly enhance the film's emotional impact and audience connection.
Scripts that include visually striking scenes and elements that can be enhanced by cinematic techniques (such as special effects, innovative cinematography, and sound design) are often more successful on the big screen.
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Here I am primarily concerned with the construction of an alien other using the example of the horror film.
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Mad scientists are sometimes portrayed as disabled, the best example is Doctor Caligari from the eponymous silent movie. The other good example is the trope of "Hunchback Servant" from many classic horrors (for modern example for this trope, watch "Van Helsing" with Hugh Jackman).
A few weeks ago I was watching TV and looking for some movie. It was random "zapping". One of the movie channels played "Hannibal", the third installment of the famous film franchise. I watched maybe, say, 20 minutes. The "ultimate bad guy" of the story is Mason Verger, depraved billionare who was once tortured and almost killled by Hannibal Lecter. At the beginning of the story, Verger is a cripple on a wheelchair. Maybe that's the movie you're looking for? But I warn you - the movie is full of violence. I couldn't stand it. My favourite horrors are "Dracula" by Francis F. Coppola and "The Fog" by John Carpenter...
As a contradiction of the tropes mentioned above, you can write something about superhero movies' characters - like Charles Xavier or War Machine (James Rhodes).
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The terms Fictional Language, Fictitious Language, Artificial Language, or Constructed Language in fiction has been used interchangeably in papers that I have read. Are there differences in these terms, and which is preferable?
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I agree with Ira. By 'constructed' we should understand any given language that has been artificially created by human beings. They can be applied to real life (e.g. Esperanto) or fiction, hence 'fictional' (Tolkien, G.R.R. Martin, Star Trek, etc.). I personally find 'fictitious' a less clear-cut term, as it can both characterise languages created for 'fictional' purposes and how they are perceived (as false or not genuine) inside a work of fiction by its narrative voice(s) or characters. I hope this can be of help.
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We’ve got this generation of boys growing up thinking that, you know, women practically faint at the sight of an erection, that women orgasm through penetration, that threesomes are normal. (Tracey Cox)
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The commercial factor is dominating Jane Elizabeth Thomas Serious approaches in sexual science are not welcome and generally marginalized.
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That may be of interest:
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My work includes highlighting that sexologists have ignored the research findings relating to sexual response. Kinsey concluded that men are much more sexually responsive than women. Hite concluded that women have sex for emotional (rather than erotic) reasons. Instead of promoting the research findings, sexologists today continue to imply that women should orgasm as portrayed in erotic fiction. Yet I have found that women today have little understanding of how sexual response works.
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Thanks Nikos for your support. There is so much evidence that women are unresponsive and so little scientific evidence that women ever orgasm that only political bias can explain why people still believe erotic fiction is a reality. The fact is that women offer men sex in return for relationship rewards. They have always done that before any hype about supposed orgasms. But men today cannot accept that it is all a hoax. Sex advice needs to be more realistic and sex information needs to be made available to the public. Sexual ignorance is universal in every culture.
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We classify the literature in old or antient and modern literature, my question is that on which ground we do so. what the standard and gauge for that.
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Well,to read about Hafiz Alpuri may help you to have a good start for your work .Pashto poetry is of so long background .It started during the 7th Century.Godspeed.
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I am looking for examples of twenty-first-century films, TV series, comics, and video games exploring the interplay between fiction and reality with an emphasis on worldbuilding and what loosely can be referred to as conspiracy theories. Any titles (including titles of relevant secondary sources) would be greatly appreciated!
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Come to mind :
Movies :
- Len Wiseman's _Total Recall_ (2012), based on a P.K. Dick story
- Duncan Jone's _Source Code_ (2011)
- George Nolfi's _The Adjustment Bureau_ (2011), also based on a P.K. Dick story
- Christopher Nolan's _Inception_ (2010)
- The Wachowski's _Matrix_ (1999 - but the follow-up are clearly XXIst century)
TV series :
_Foundation_ (2021)
_Ascension_ (2014) - not much world building there, though.
And of course my own favorite; Robert Heinlein's "World as a Myth" series, although these are novels, and from the 1980s...
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Only few authors have written about trending issues affecting 21st century youth. Magical realism purportedly has a definition accepted by most scholars. However, I have been unable to find any theories of magical realism relatable to the 21st century's application.
I would appreciate it very much if anyone can.
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Postmodernism, as seen through the magical realism fiction, provides a distinct approach to advocate change to the 21st century youths. Magical realism involves fiction that occurs in realistic settings but introduces unreal or magical elements, for instance, a novel about a time of inexistence. The fiction horizon combines seemingly true and false things, whereas the young people are compelled to question the reality of the world, as well as social occurrences and the sources of power.
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Science involves challenging the status quo and being willing to ask difficult questions. Scientists need to be curious but also unbiased (not intent on proving any preconceived preferred result but open to accepting any conclusion that is supported by the evidence). There is no research that suggests that women are capable of the orgasms described in erotic fiction. Yet not even female sexologists are willing to discuss the issues that surround our understanding of women’s responsiveness.
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A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Max Planck
And in your mentioned case Jane Elizabeth Thomas the commercial factor is also very strong to keep the status quo of accepted facts.
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Surely they should be able to differentiate between erotic fiction and reality? So why do their theories and advice on orgasm suggest that real woman should respond exactly as the female porn stars do?
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Am in support of your Jane Elizabeth Thomas observations, with respect to the politics and economics of human sexuality. However, I do expect from a serious sexual science approach the understandable link to human health and healthy sexual relationships.
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My answer: Yes because risks distinguish reality from fiction.
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Am in support of your statement Alexander Ohnemus
The Von Neumann-Morgenstern games theory assumes (1) that people's preferences will remain fixed throughout; (2) that they will have wide knowledge of all available options; (3) that they will be able to calculate their own best interests intelligently; and (4) that they will always act to maximize these interests.
One possibility for considering human behaviour when analysing risks is the recourse to game theory. Game theory is the paradigmatic framework for strategic decision-making when two or more rational decision-makers (intelligent adversaries) are involved in cooperative or conflictive decision situations.
Game theory is a theoretical framework for conceiving social situations among competing players. In some respects, game theory is the science of strategy, or at least the optimal decision-making of independent and competing actors in a strategic setting.
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Working on a paper in which i analyze the language of pain in fiction from India and Dominican Republic.
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Neoliberalism makes the rich class richer, the poor class poorer, and the middle class non-existent
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I have concluded it is because there is no alternative - comprehensive and authoratative sex education is non-existent!
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The works of W. Reich are still of relevance, with respect to an early scientific approach towards sex education; am in agreement with your observation.
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Author as actual persona, not disguised under fictional name, who interacts with characters he has created.
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Postmodern authors like Kurt Vonnegut in "Breakfast of Champions" and Milan Kundera in "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" introduce themselves as characters or narrators in their works.
In the Theater of the Absurd, playwrights like Samuel Beckett in "Krapp's Last Tape" and Eugène Ionesco in "Exit the King" incorporate elements of self-reflection and self-exploration through characters who bear similarities to the authors themselves
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I provide a series of questions that challenge the sexual ignorance in the population that is so accurately reflected in the theories suggested by sexologists. I am sure that scientists will welcome the opportunity to acknowledge the total lack of evidence from the real world (as opposed to erotic fiction) for female responsiveness. The contradictions and anomalies in the popular beliefs about female sexuality (typically with zero evidence from the female population) need to be addressed.
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Thanks Alexander for commenting. I have spent years asking women in the population and academics and professionals to comment on female sexual response. Most of them have no idea even what that would mean. Sex is taboo because of the massive difference in responsiveness between the sexes. Men's inability to accept this difference does not help. Women compete with each other for male attention because of the rewards that men offer to women who offer them regular intercourse. I have found no so-called sex experts of any description who can answer any of the questions I am asking. But men comment much more than women ever do.
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Do you believe that we as technical writers and researchers may have the transferrable skills it takes to make a career/hobby with novels? Please encourage one another.
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Consider submitting some STEM-based fiction to the writing contests that the U.S. Army Mad Scientist Laboratory puts out - e.g. https://community.apan.org/wg/tradoc-g2/mad-scientist/b/weblog/posts/army-mad-scientist-back-to-the-future-writing-contest----entries-due-nlt-13-january-2023
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Magic Realism is a vast area of research on which a lot of work has been done. Nevertheless most of the works predominantly revolve around fiction. But there has been a reference that there are a few poets who use Magic Realism in their poems too. So I need a few references for citation to assert that there have been a few poets who have worked on Magic Realism
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Thankyou so much Stephen I. Ternyik
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Cartoon Cosmological Physics: South Park takes place in another universe so it can be absurd.
Differential Equations:
(F)' = A
F: Fiction
A: Absurdity
The show's absurdity is a derivative of being fictional.
What are your thoughts?
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A growing number of universes within the multiverse would be a rather simple explanation to why the cosmos is growing.
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Science involves challenging the status quo and being willing to ask difficult questions. Scientists need to be curious but also unbiased (not intent on proving any preconceived preferred result but open to accepting any conclusion that is supported by the evidence). There is no research that suggests that women are capable of the orgasms described in erotic fiction. Yet not even female sexologists are willing to discuss the issues that surround our understanding of women’s responsiveness.
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Thanks Ghadah for your support! I really appreciate it. I am providing the research findings that are based on talking to women in the population. These findings have been ignored because they do not confirm male fantasies. I have found that many people find them helpful in understanding their relationships with the opposite sex.
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The only thing I know is some grammar mistakes like 'ain't' or the wrong grammatical order, which is normal in Mark Twain's fictions, using as a way to highlight the educational status of African Americans.
With the time goes by, I am thinking that maybe the author of Caroline, or Change uses it as a stereotype to express the particularity of the ethnic group. If it does work, there is must be some 'good' Characteristic to convey the African culture. Therefore, I wish people who have watched it before can give me some inspirations, thanks a lot!!!
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The use of contractions such as "ain't" is not limited to English in the United States or to African-Americans. It was and is still used in London Cockney English. So this contraction (and others) were and still in use in British English dialects prior to the language migration and adoption in the United States. There are some other modern grammatical changes that have occurred in US English such as "I wrote her" which would be considered erroneous in the UK and where the correct sentence would be "I wrote to her". Again this change and its use is not limited to ethnicity or education.
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God has been an issue of debate since the time immemorial - being a matter of belief, faith or fiction on the one hand and being a hard material reality, on the other. People conceived God as a monotheistic (belief that there is only one god), pantheistic (universe or cosmos is god), and panentheistic (the belief that the divine intersects every part of the universe, space and time) entity. Then there are atheist, who completely rule out the existence of any such supernatural entity. The side by side exists the agnostic who is skeptical about God’s existence and is not sure about its absolute reality. Then there is Henotheistic view (that worship the primary god that doesn’t rule out the existence of other gods).
Although most of them regard God as the most powerful, supernatural entity that represents the abstraction or conceptualisation of the esoteric, occult, secret, hidden and the mystical. For the Sanatan Tradition Vedas and the Gita are the words of God and so is true of Christianity and Islam.
However, these are all beliefs or myths about the words or existence of god as there is no scientific explanation behind these conceptions. An ardent believer would call the atheist insane since he or she is God driven psychologically and culturally while the atheist would call theist opium sick and irrational, as did Karl Marx.
In Sanatan tradition Sage Charvaka rules out the existence of soul and God. The Yoga tradition speaks about raising the level of consciousness through yogic mudras and meditation and attain ‘Kaivalya’, emancipation, that doesn’t conceive God. Sankhya tradition calls the life on earth as a consequence of the consciousness and matter driven force and doesn’t speak of God (Purusha and Prakrti). Lord Budha kept silent about God’s existence when asked by his disciples and talked of ‘Nirvana’ though Ashtanga Marg (Eightfold Path). There is difference in explanations about the terms Moksha, Nirvana, Kaivalya and emancipation. The notion of ‘Dooms Day’ is yet another version of belief systems.
The width of thinking and conception (including theistic and atheistic views) of God is so vast in the Sanatan Tradition, generally referred to as Hinduism that even today the adherents and sects are many, worshiping according to different belief systems against the Semitic notion of God popular in the west. However. People adhering to different belief systems conceive their existence and dignity (a psychological variant of social recognition, Thymos) through these very systems and leave no stone unturned in repudiating the other systems (maglothymia) and this is why those who believe suffer more than those who don’t believe at all.
Faith and myths are not scientific and that's why they are so called. The cultural and historical evolutions of beliefs and the conception of God turns out to be a question of metaphysical world, unproved yet believed. The tribals have their own gods, the heads, the humans, the atolls, dunes, trees or monsters and so do have all the primitive animist societies. Most of the tribal world was forcibly religionized or tuned religious by different religious missionaries only in last few centuries, or they were leading a free non-colonised and non-religious free lives. The primitive people had their tribal heads as Gods with varied and queer notions about their divinity. They are unaware of the notions of God of the east and the west.
Science can prove the existence of matter and its ultimate nature, the energy. The Energy theories have secret dimensions on which research is on. There are several files related with paranormal activities unanswered and closed. God has been disproved by the Giant Collider experiments that revealed the energy to be ultimate source of matter. It's up to man to call that source god, evil or nature. Taoism calls Chi the life force, or energy or fire, that animates the universe. Similarly the idea of consciousness of the Sanatan tradition and Buddhism juxtapose to this very dimension. So one can opt for the options that suits one’s mental faculties, and of course, the social surrounding, for it is where one has to survive, and it is where the journey of right to life and freedom begins. Hope to have good feedback on this question.
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Thank you Harish K Thakur for raising this essential question at the interface of scientific knowledge, by definition universal, and personal beliefs and convictions of whatever nature, religious, mystical, ideological, or even politico-economic. For this purpose, one has nothing to add to what Dyson Freeman wrote on the topic: "Science and religion are two windows that people look through, trying to understand the big universe outside, trying to understand why we are here. The two windows give different views, but they look out at the same universe. Both views are one-sided, neither is complete. Both leave out essential features of the real world. And both are worthy of respect. Trouble arises when either science or religion claims universal jurisdiction, when either religious or scientific dogma claims to be infallible. Religious creationists and scientific materialists are equally dogmatic and insensitive. By their arrogance, they bring both science and religion into disrepute. The media exaggerate their numbers and importance. The media rarely mention the fact that the great majority of religious people belong to moderate denominations that treat science with respect, or the fact that the great majority of scientists treat religion with respect so long as religion does not claim jurisdiction over scientific questions" Freeman Dyson (March 15, 2000). Progress In Religion (Speech). Templeton Prize Reading
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Why do all producers of ideas (fiction writers, doctoral students, journalists...) feel that it becomes easier to generate more ideas shortly after they submit their writing tasks? Is it psychological in the sense that their worry about meeting the deadline is responsible for inhibiting their inspiration? This remark comes from my personal experience as a doctoral candidate who feels that the burden gets lighter after submitting my work.
Share your thoughts!
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What do we expect of a sex researcher or sexologist? Surely they should be able to differentiate between erotic fiction and reality?
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Sex is generally used in the context of sexual activity with a lover as opposed to masturbation, which is usually alone. Sex may include intercourse, oral sex or mutual masturbation. Relationship sex also tends to include lovemaking - kissing & touching - which is the key activity that women appreciate as they are not aroused with a lover.
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Sam Altman, chief executive officer and co-founder of OpenAI, swears in during a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, May 16, 2023. Congress is debating the potential and pitfalls of artificial intelligence as products like ChatGPT raise questions about the future of creative industries and the ability to tell fact from fiction. Photographer: Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Sory,but this subject is out of my range of study
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This question seeks to determine how art connects with society. Comments and forwarded studies, art exhibits, plays, music, literature, all have roles to play in this. Please add your thoughts.
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Art & society remain the companion of each other.Society consists of members of different contributed action joining with the art ,language , & in case sometime the interest of nature . It is in this line the performance & the creation of art remain directly connected with the society .
It is the art only beautify the nature & environment of the society for every nature of human beings for every part of the nation .
It is in this line some years back I have expressed my views regarding the subject ''Art in the nature of divinity which I submit herewith for your kind information '' Arts joining with the spirituality may contribute a pleasurable environment for his working to the people of the society & also far away with his creation for the surrounding areas of distance.
This is my personal opinion
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Sample anti realist perspectives
**Fields are just cognitive constructions that provide countrrfactuals to reason observe behavior of charged particles
** When there is no motion, forces do not exist or semi anti-realistically, the concept has no sensei. e. Equilibrium system of bodyhanging from spring on surface of earth) gravity, spring force)
** un observable postulated entities like charges and spacetime are fiction
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There one unwelcome consequence of holding the anti realist view "When there is no motion, forces do not exist or semi anti-realistically" in that it no longer accepts that laws hold everywhere and at all times, which even if it would help in comprehension it would not be accepted by scientific community as is undermines a main and valued principle of it.
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Magic realism
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Magic Realism is an important aspect in any fiction as it allows authors to explore themes and ideas in a unique and imaginative way. It infuses elements of fantasy and supernatural into a realistic setting, creating a sense of otherworldliness and adding layers of symbolism and meaning to the story. This literary technique also allows for a commentary on the socio-political and cultural issues of the time, adding depth and complexity to the narrative. Additionally, it allows for a creative exploration of the human condition and the complexities of human nature, making the stories more relatable and thought-provoking for readers
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I am looking for public domain translations into English of the classic Bengali crime stories of Priyanath Mukhopadhyay (1855—1947). I think he wrote in the Calcutta Review, and that something there might be in English?
Darogar Daptar were pioneering Bengali crime stories written around the start of twentieth century or late nineteenth century inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle. The author was a police inspector himself, so there might even be a little Vidocq element involved.
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Dear Mike,
I am on the lookout for the English translation of the work. But till now I can only find Bangla copies. Bangla Academy, Bangladesh might have english translations but I do not think they are online.
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Can I test whether or not a correlation (between ES and PSM, below) is spurious directly?
I thought I might ask people to evaluate fictional others but the existence of a fictional correlation does not prove that a self-evaluatory correlation is fictional. Does anyone have any better suggestions?
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I have a student who wants to investigate the connection between positive psychology and public service, with a view to showing that they are correlated, and suggesting that positive psychology may be causal in promoting better public service. I am aware that correlation does not prove cause but more fundamentally, it seems to me that, as in the case of much research in the positive psychology field, even the correlation may be spurious due to self-evaluation style.
After all Martin Seligman's positive psychology scale, the Explanatory Style (ES) scale is just that - a measure of how people explain things. If it turns out to be the case that positive psychology as measured by the ES should correlate with e.g. Perry (1996)'s Public Service Motivation (PSM) scale, as I think is very likely, then it would only seem to prove to me that people that explain themselves positively explain their public service motivations positively as well.
The reality may possibly be quite the reverse.
I thought first of all like to attempt to obtain objective data on service, by obtaining evaluation by others, or by having subjects respond to some sort of test (e.g. asking for and obtaining help) but I am not sure whether the former will be available, or whether the latter will be a good indicator of service in the real world.
Another possibility would be to compare not individuals but groups. E.g. The correlates of self esteem at an individual level are very positive, but may be far less so at a national level. This data may be hard to obtain.
Seligman, M. E. P. (1995). Learned optimism. New York, Knopf.
Perry (1996)
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There are several procedures, the most important of which is to put paragraphs revealing the sincerity of the respondent in the answer
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I wonder how Circular Economy would be from the perspective of ordinary consumers, whether we could have circular consumers, or should this idea be anecdotic. Because Circular Economy seems pretty much perfect for humans. What do you think?
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Postmodernism is a wide area of explanation and deals with so many fields, such as literature, architecture, fashion,sociology, culture, art, and so on. Postmodernism is scrutinized as an appendage of modernism. It is an indicative effectof modernism in all fields, especially art and literature. These connotations are visible in fiction. In the postmodern age,fictions are filled with postmodern perspectives. (PDF) Research Trends in Postmodernism: A Bibliometirc Analysis. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359258041_Research_Trends_in_Postmodernism_A_Bibliometirc_Analysis [accessed Mar 22 2022].
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Is it wrong or at least negative to IMPLICITLY include prose ( Short Fiction ) in your critical article ? in the sense to include a short fiction that is related to the evaluated topic bu include it implicitly and that prose is somewhat subjective, not objective ?
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I think that the inclusin of prose in a critical article depends on how and why you intend to use it.
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I have started reading Snow Crash and Daemon. Please suggest to me some other books which are intriguing and related to Meta-verse.
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For example, if we want to analyze the feminist style of writing in modern or post-modern fiction
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It is the non-standard temporal axis that builds up moral ambiguity. The paradoxical power of time is transforming the borderline between "good" and "evil". By a somewhat simplified definition, this is an image of certain events in the past that can or should only occur in the future, which, in fact, is a goal, an obligation, but not a reality of the past. As a result, good turns into evil, and the other way round.
Did you ever observe other characteristic powers of abnormal temporal axis?
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Tell us how you perceive AI and its adoption.
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Learning the hidden information in real time datasets related to economics and health. Both predicting and feature interpretation.
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I am looking for texts on Reference(ing) and/or Referential Processes in Discourse, construction of referents. Works that explore these topics in oral narratives (fiction or real). Thanks.
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Please check some of the works done by Prof. Ganesh Devy
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science fiction, fantacy, animation series and movies are watched by children and a specific group of adults. does it signify any relationship with the personality type/ personality of the adult watching it?
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In my opinion, this is too far-reaching thesis. Science fiction novels, short stories, movies and series have a lot of fans. Are there studies that confirm that fans of science fiction novels, short stories, movies and series have significantly more people than the general population who exhibit personality disorders or other mental health conditions? I have not encountered the results of scientific research that could confirm the occurrence of this type of correlation.
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Hi I am currently doing a geography dissertation studying the representation of future space in climate fiction films thinking about ideas of capitalist hegemony and power inequalities in reference to gender and race. In terms of methodology im confused about the difference between textual and visual analysis (texts, at least in geography referring to pretty much everything), are they the same or is one better at analysing different aspects. Further in terms of actually carrying out the analysis how should my results be presented as due to it being on films i can't include parts of the film itself.
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You are quite right about "textual" and "visual" - one would usually consider the film as a text to include both its verbal and visual elements. In this sense and in lieu of further information, I would consider visual analysis as a subcategory of textual analysis, where the former focuses on the visual elements of the film alone and the latter on the visual, verbal, and narrative elements.
With respect to how to carry out and write the analysis, I usually begin by distinguishing between film form from film content and then describe either the overall structure of the film or specific shots, sequences, or scenes. There is an example using a novel, television series, and feature film here:
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I am looking for fiction (excluding fantasy and science fiction) drawing on preferably "Norse" or "Celtic" mythological sources other than the works by George Mackay Brown. 
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The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Scottish Literature by Ian Brown, Alan Riach
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Is it possible to study the truth box within the narrative level in fiction?
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I want to clear the postcolonial approach to read the literature. In my above-mentioned research, what are the basic (hypothetical) questions that should be addressed in research?
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The interconnected inquiries help me to approach literary Iraqi identity poetics as an integral part of a parallel discourse that is working to unsettle the dominant official 2003 poetry of “Iraqiness” as well as the sectarian essentializations of post-2003 Iraqi society.
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As time shows religion has made a comeback in the Middle East. But as far as time is concerned, religion has never been a factor in our poetry. They being more secular. It remains to be seen whether because of politics, poetry too will be effected by the change.
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What does the text reveal about the problematics of post-colonial identity, including the relationship between personal and cultural identity and such issues as double consciousness and hybridity?
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Try to read "Can the Subaltern Speak?" Spivak discusses the lack of an account of the Sati practice, leading her to reflect on whether the subaltern can even speak. Spivak writes about the process, the focus on the Eurocentric Subject as they disavow the problem of representation; and by invoking the Subject of Europe, these intellectuals constitute the subaltern Other of Europe as anonymous and mute. Reading Edward Said should help critics like you understanding this topic. All the best!
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Freud makes the philosophical argument that we cannot represent our own death because in trying to do so, we are always still left as spectators (Razinsky 2013, p. 16).
I'm looking for sources and theories to assist with developing:
How might this claim be destabilised when performers in TV shows 'act out' their own deaths? It is the viewer as spectator not the performer.
The actor Luke Perry passed away in the actual world and so they had to hold a funeral for Fred Andrews, the fictional character he played in Riverdale - what is the significance of this duality?
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Death does not and cannot constitute the continuance of ego in the same but another form. I have recently been reading on the results of dementia, which leaves nothing behind. Thereby the person effectively dies before their body, but the sense of loss here is the disappearance of all intelligence, memory and identity. Unless there are technigues or technical processes whereby human beings are caught at some point in their lives, prior to dementia, and that point is preserved, how can the person live on in any suitable form?
If the answer is given, god, an answer that exists prior to cognition as it appears all-purpose, can god get dementia too? When god dies, does everything of us die too?
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Fore instance, the hero is from a working class and another character, in the same novel, is a middle class. I want to study how each character can project his/her class membership.
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I do agree with the amazing answer and opinions of dr. Amjed 🌹🌺
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Historical novels or novels whose subject matter is about historical events like emigration or forced emigration. Tend to blend historical truth and fiction in their narrative, in this case the historic event serves as a background to, in some cases fictitious characters. This intersection I would like to know what is it i called or rather what might it be called?
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Nov 2, 2017 - Short stories, novels, myths, legends, and fairy tales are all considered fiction. While settings, plot points, and characters in fiction are sometimes ..
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In trying to set out the perameters of "social class" in the introduction of a text I am editing upon "social class' and "literature" for Routledge, I fell into a Lewis Carroll rabbit hole of wondrous conflicted definitions and claims about the fabulous Snarkish creature--class!
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A granfalloon, in the fictional religion of Bokononism (created by Kurt Vonnegut in his 1963 novel Cat's Cradle), is defined as a "false karass." That is, it is a group of people who affect a shared identity or purpose, but whose mutual association is meaningless.
(“Granfalloon,” Wikipedia)
Vonnegut’s definition of a “granfalloon,” seems to fit the problematic semiotic state of the term “class,” as well. Northwestern University Sociologist Gary Fine suggested to me that what Wikipedia offered about “class” was as comprehensive as any other overview of this highly contentious, voluminous, multifaceted concept. Published definitions of social class, reveal a plethora of conflicting and overlapping traits and attributes that may suggest to some that class” is, in fact, a granfalloon. Yet the same may be said of all sociology’s categories to some degree. Granfalloon or not, we feel and experience very real class struggles that create pain in macro-level, full-scale armed conflicts. Micro-level class struggles go on daily, more or less peacefully, if annoyingly."
Would anybody like to shed more light, darkness, and chaos theory on this highly confusing topic? I am all ears and really need some expert opinion.
Thanks and looking forward to comments.
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I need to know a clear definition of free will and determinism.
And the influence of Thomas Hardy on D. H. Lawrence writings, especially his fiction
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They have the same tragic vision. Their characters, especially women, endeavour to free themselves from the confines of patriarchy, but these desires are thwarted by fate and society.
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im doing problem in QAP and i add one more matrix in that and i want to add one more fiction in the objective fuction using the 3rd matrix which is the minimum value in the matrix. but i didnt know how to write the function on finding the minimum value in the 3rd matrix
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I would like to suggest a simple rule on Matrix optimization as :
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This is my first project on Research Gate! Any helpful tips this community of researchers can offer me would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
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Hello Nadia, thanks for your response. I will be working on my manuscript (novel length fiction) for my Thesis. I am interested in trying to find publishing opportunities/presses that prioritize multi-media, i.e. text and images? Thank you for your response. pm me if you would like to chat.
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This title might not be very clear, let me elaborate :
Let's say, you're a computer scientist on your browser. You innocently browse the web, looking for a new book about procrastination (or anything else). Suddenly, a click lead you to the homepage of EvilCorpWorld, a (fictional) company incarnating the opposite of your ethical views.
EvilCorpWorld isn't a "common evildoer", they blatantly make the world a worst place. According to your ethical views, they could be enslaving children, selling weapons to warlords, practicing tax fraud at country scale, they support network promoting racism and sexism...
On the homepage of EvilCorpWorld, you inadvertently notice a big security flaw. Something like "click here for rootshell (Admin only!)". For the sake of simplicity, let's say it's an actual flaw, not a honeypot or anything else.
Now you have three possibility :
  • to tell : email EvilCorpWorld to warn them about the huge flaw.
  • to poke : like with a stick, poke the flaw, trying to see how far you can get. Poking does not mix with wrongdoing on purpose or for benefit. It's more a playful activity.
  • to delegate : unsure of what to do, asking someone more versed in infosec what they think
What would be the most ethical-wise thing to do (maybe something other than three options)?
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This isn't as hypothetical as you might think.
Our IDS examines each incoming query and, if it decides it's malicious, it then sends a report to the ISP owning that IP address, who either cancels the account of the hacker, or removes any malware which sent the query.
In your case, I'd do the same thing i.e report the website to the ISP.
It works. ISP's loathe hackers nearly as much as we do, and they're only too pleased to take them off the air. To date: 118,747, and counting.
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PA involves a child being influenced by a parent to reject or resist contact with the other parent for no good reason.
If fact what connection, correlation and contribution does it make to negative social issues such as historical trauma, family/whanau violence. What is the relevance of (PA) to social work?
Private troubles – Public issues, do they intersect in relation to PA?
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Through my views and from what I,have witnessed it is a fact. This occurs when partners are fighting or going through a breakup,separation or divorce.
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An interesting article by Geraci (2007) works with an early twentieth century theological claim that human reactions to the (perceived) presence of the divine is hallmarked by a conjunction of fear and allure. Geraci (2007) argues that SF literature by Philip K Dick, William Gibson and others (I would add Cordwainer Smith to the list) has positioned human reactions to advanced technology as reflecting a similar species of fear and allure in order to explore various themes.
Is anyone familiar with more recent publications on this or a related investigation of SF and religion?
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I need to find the sentiment of 
  • A paragraph of a fiction book.
  • Of the entire story book.
Have you any idea regarding the best sentiment analysis tool that we can use that is freely available (like SentiStrength)?
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You can use tm, ngram and NLP package in RStudio. These packages define various function which will help in sentiment analysis of novel or content in any book.
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I am working on a piece of fiction with the Caspian Sea at the core as an ambiguous symbol. Have you come across any book (fiction or non-fiction) or a scientific paper that comes with some rare information? Any help will be appreciated, but no link to a book-seller's site please! :)
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Many literary texts make some use of glossopoesis, or invention of languages. A few examples include Tolkien’s stories, Ursula LeGuin’s oeuvre, Thomas More’s Utopia, and so on. Most of them do not go much further than a conceptual level. So, how important it usually is to examine such “languages”?
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You can take this question from both ends. The language informs on the particular nature of the fictional world being built. But, as Tolkien argued so strongly, you also need an underlying world to give life to an invented language. You can go on all day long inventing artificial languages, but in order to have depth, historicity, layered meanings, and all these attributes that make a language interesting, that language has to relate to a given world. One type of error that children and people who learn a new language make is called "hyper-coherence", that is, trying to speak a language as if there were no inconsistencies within it. In English, for instance, a common children "mistake" is to treat irregular verbs as regulars, leading to sentences like "I goed fast!" ( http://mentalfloss.com/article/31648/10-language-mistakes-kids-make-are-actually-pretty-smart) which is exactly the way an hyper-coherent version of that language would sound.
The point (which Tolkien made so well) is that deep language-building requires interaction with a world, which brings accidents, exceptions, deformations, misunderstandings, etc... that impart life to it.
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Stephen King's name is synonymous with horror stories. Many consider King to be the most successful writer of modern horror fiction today. My question to you all are:
* How did you feel before watch horror movie?
* How did you feel when finishing the movie?
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* Is there any positive or negative benefits we will get by watching horror movie?
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Dear سالم عبدالله أبو مخدة thank you for sharing your thoughts.
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Why are there still pseudo-scientific conspiracy theories that undermine obviously confirmed facts and scientific knowledge in the present era of publicly available large amounts of scientific knowledge?
Why in the present age of computerization, the digitization of knowledge resources and the huge scientific knowledge available on the Internet are still created pseudoscientific conspiracy theories, sometimes absurd claims of the type that the Earth is flat, that evolution is a fiction, that some people are aliens from outside the Earth etc.? For what reason and for what purpose are these types of irrational pseudoscience theories created?
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I invite you to the discussion
Thank you very much
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The so-called irrational is an essential element of human nature and a heightened if sometimes misjudged adjunct to scepticism. Disbelieving received or given knowledge and ideas is essential to scientific and philosophical discovery. Myths and story making are pronounced human traits.
But in the end many conspiracy theorists appear unwilling to do the hard work of finding genuine proof.
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I am almost finished with a first draft of a work of historical fiction set during the reign of Mary Tudor as the rumours of burnings are just reaching Bristol. I am now turning my thoughts toward either finding a publisher or a literary agent. Any advice, recommendations or guidance in this endeavour would be greatly appreciated.
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Self publish on Amazon https://kdp.amazon.com/
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How might one theorise Jouissance in relation to post-network television and televisual fiction?
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Dear Colleague Nicholas Jensen,
I have not encountered this term before and its definition below. I suppose I am a troglodyte for this lacuna in my vocabulary, but what makes you interested in linking 'jouissance' with mass media culture?
If I knew why this is important to do, then I could speak to the rhetorical methods of analysis.
Gloria
"physical or intellectual pleasure, delight, or ecstasy. "
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Hello,
I wondered if anyone would like to discuss ideas around The Lacanian Real and its relationship with Deleuze's Becoming?
In essence, the trajectory of my doctoral thesis is headed in the direction of the Lacanian Real with respects to the following:
If the Lacanian Real is impossible then is it possible/how is it possible to represent the Real on television?
In others words: How can that which is un-representable be represented?
A counter to Lacan as an obvious choice is Deleuze and he does not believe in the real-possible distinction as then it would reduce things to the ontologically lesser category of the impossible. He changes things to the virtual and the actual and says the virtual is just as Real as the Real world but it is not corporeal in an actual, physical, tangible sense. Thus, I am seeking to discuss:
1. The radical differences between Deleuze and Lacan (Deleuzian Becoming)
2. My supervisor has pointed me to the works of Tim Dean and Katerina Kolozova's Beyond Sexuality and the Cut of the Real. The concept of fiction also plays a big part in my intervention, so aside from all the stuff Zizek writes does anyone have any other suggestions for readings?
Finally, does anyone know where Deleuze states he has a problem with the real-possible distinction?
Many thanks and Best wishes,
Nick Jensen
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Michael Uebel and Aaron Schuster thank you for the recommendations. Do either of you feel that the Real could be applicable to other genres aside from horror? I am wanting to analyse Riverdale and two other fictional worlds and its characters from a Psychoanalytic perspective. I wonder if the metaphor of psychosis would be a valid way of representing the Real on television?