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- 601: The Curse on the Tomb of King Tutankhamen
- ... tomb had died early of unnatural causes. This included two of Carnarvon’s relatives, and Carter’s personal secretary. By 1935 they had credited 21 victim’s to King Tut’s curse..4 Fact or fiction? You decide
- 602: Existentialism in the Early 19th Century
- ... science. Furthermore, they have argued that even science is not as rational as is commonly supposed. Nietzsche, for instance, asserted that the scientific assumption of an orderly universe is for the most part a useful fiction. Choice and Commitment Perhaps the most prominent theme in existentialist writing is that of choice. Humanity's primary distinction, in the view of most existentialists, is the freedom to choose. Existentialists have held that human ...
- 603: Shamanism
- ... it. This overflow of information has however, given rise to a number of methodological problems (Flaherty, 1992,pp.208). Shamanism has become some what over-sensationalized that it has become hard to distinguish fact from fiction. There has also been little historical accountability. Most writers uncritically create their own profiles of the shaman from literature that was published long before their time (Flaherty, pp.212). They do so without having it ...
- 604: What Is Orientalism?
- ... orientalized. It is now a subjective notion. The orient became a western concept, orientalism a tool to control and manipulate. This relationship (western/orient) though works both ways: the west becomes as much of a fiction as orient is. We can also look at the west with oriental perspective. In this relation of differences a new western set of representation emerges. Both cultures now understand each other through a web of ...
- 605: The Extermination of Jews Documents
- ... Oceania under the rule of the Party was actually based on the regimes of Stalin and Hitler, and thus it is perfectly possible that it could happen in our world, not only a dystopian science fiction novel. Huxley shows how appealing to a people's sense of a stable situation even if they must surrender all that is individual about them to the state. The Controller attempts to relate that there ...
- 606: The Aviary, the Aquarium, and Eschatology
- ... their stories straight. One would expect at least consistency from advanced alien beings, heavenly angels or demons from hell -- whatever they may be. Novelist Whitley Strieber, whose abduction experiences are described vividly in his non-fiction books, "Communion" and "Transformation" recounted that when he asked the entities what they were up to, they responded "We recycle souls." He too was shown "lessons" concerning a catastrophe affecting the earth. Strieber, who has ...
- 607: Atlantis: We Will Never Know
- ... Europe and Asia the Athenians, on behalf of all Greeks, defeated the Atlanteans to avoid enslavement. (4) The works of Plato opened the floodgates to endless speculation on whether the continent described was fact or fiction. Atlantis has since been placed in Spain, Mongolia, Palestine, Nigeria, the Netherlands, Brazil, Sweden, Greenland and Yucatan. Every nook and cranny of the globe has been hypothesized; mountain peaks, desert lands, the ocean floor and ...
- 608: The Drinking Age
- ... but drinking excessively is. Another upside to this matter is that doctors are now saying that moderate alcohol intake is good for the heart. Fact: American college students drink excessively. Fact: Most drinkers are underage. Fiction: Drinking age laws prevent adolescents form drinking. The bottom line is that exposure works. Not just things like exposure and education make this issue stronger, but other incentives that would help the country more and ...
- 609: A Few Media Commandments
- ... individual right of privacy? THOU SHALL PRINT THE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH What about printing the truth? Magazines like The Star and The National Enquirer are not interested in printing fact but only fiction. Headlines reading, “Woman gives birth to serpent baby” and “Man swallowed by whale lives to tell about it”. These types of “stories” give true journalism a bad name. Words like integrity and honesty have no ...
- 610: Abortion: Life or Death Who Chooses?
- ... killed legally in our country in 1973, many noisy and emotional people are campaigning for abortion on request. They are aided by a crusading, misguided press and media which continues to utter as fact, the fiction of fertile imaginative minds. We have been told by the media that the majority of Canadians wish to have abortion legalized but the latest census taken by the Toronto Star in March of 1989 reports ...
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