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War and Peace
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) defines terrorism as "the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof in furtherance of political or social objectives" as mentioned in this paper.Abstract:
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) defines terrorism as “the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof in furtherance of political or social objectives” [1]. MIT Professor Emeritus Noam Chomsky believes that the U.S. official doctrine of low-intensity warfare is almost identical to the official definition of terrorism [2]. Political commentator Bill Maher equates U.S. drone attacks with terrorist acts [3].read more
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Damned Forever. Fatalism in John Millington Synge's "Riders To The Sea"
TL;DR: In this paper, a crucial role in the working of Synge's "Riders To The Sea" is scrutinized so as to determine the extent to which it precipitates into a tragedy.
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Historical Difference as Immortality in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Novel
TL;DR: A number of mid-nineteenth-century historical novels open by comparing historical imagination to the reanimation of the dead as mentioned in this paper, and often the comparison is embodied in a frame story that focuses on a particular grave or ruin, and then precipitates the narrative into the past through an experience of temporal double vision that seems to rebuild the ruin or throw open the grave.
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Technology Transfer and Globalization: a New Wave for Philosophy of Technology?
Abstract: Despite the social, political ethical and epistemic importance of globalization and technology transfer, philosophers tend to be prioritizing other areas of inquiry. In order to clarify the strengths and weaknesses found in the dominant assessments of these topics, I begin this chapter with meta-philosophical analysis that reviews representative forms of inquiry. The remainder of the chapter clarifies a vision of how philosophers of technology can pursue a new wave of socially significant investigation. In order to exposit this vision in concrete terms, I turn to the example of the Village Phone Programme in Bangladesh. While advocates tout this endeavour as a new development paradigm that empowers impoverished and mistreated women by providing them with microcredit and mobile phones, detractors can find the programme’s implementation reproducing and augmenting insidious patriarchical forces.1 By questioning what considerations economic and ethnographic analyses occlude, I not only hope to shed light on the Village Phone Programme and the underlying trends that drive it, but I further hope to clarify how philosophers of technology can enter into meaningful dialogue with a range of development theorists and practitioners.
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History’s Greatest Fraud?
TL;DR: McCormick later claimed that as a teenager and as a young man he had interviewed an impressive array of important people; decades later, these unsourced verbatim interviews allowed him to reveal The Identity of Jack the Ripper (1970a), to solve the mystery of the disappearance and presumed murder of Victor Grayson, MP (1970b) and to nail Arthur Cecil Pigou as a Soviet spy (1979) as discussed by the authors.
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The United States is a Leading Terrorist State: An Interview with Noam Chomsky
TL;DR: The mood of the people they could see was very mixed and in fact generally opposed to violent action, according to the New York Times report on the mood in New York, including places where the memorials are for the victims of the terrorist attack.
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One Giant Leap for Mankind
TL;DR: There is no more justification for condemning total (simple) mastectomy than there is for recommending its use to the exclusion of other procedures, and biological considerations are even more compelling than clinical ones.
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United States of Insecurity: Interview with Noam Chomsky
TL;DR: Schivone as mentioned in this paper is an editor of the Alternative Media and Literary Journal and winner of the 2007 Frederica Hearst Prize for Lyrical Poetry, and his most recent books are Interventions (City Lights, 2007), Failed States (Metropolitan Books, 2007) and Inside Lebanon: Journey to a Shattered Land with Noam and Carol Chomsky (Monthly Review Press, 2007).