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November 8, 2009
- I did not choose Claude Levi-Strauss; he was thrust upon me. Structuralism was far from my mind when I was gifted a bunch of his books. A couple of academicians were arguing over the merits of burdening me, a work in progress, with the abstractions of totemism. The argument did not take place across the table. The two individuals did not know each other. I carried the messages to and fro and ...
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November 8, 2009
- The Great Exploitation Proliferation Chapter 13There is an admiration of Greek culture in today’s society and has long been acclaimed for its influences on western civilization. The Athenian empire was established with the triumph over Persian King Xerxes and ended after the battle of Corinth around 146 BC. Universities build brotherhood and sisterhood organizations based on its ...
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November 4, 2009
- President Obama has appointed 25 new members to the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, a Reagan-era creation that combines representatives of federal cultural agencies (i.e., National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the U. S. Department of Education, the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, the National Gallery ...
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October 29, 2009
- Signature logo tower of the Auto Club Speedway, Fontana, California. The track, originally known as California Speedway, holds the distinction as having the fastest recorded qualification and at speed during the race, speed records ... both records were established by CART IndyCars on the main 2.0 mi (3.23 km) "D-Shaped Oval". Image Credit: Edmund Jenks (2009) MPG Track Day 2009: ...
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October 28, 2009
- It wasn’t quite a joke nor was it a jibe. That it was at the Buckingham Palace and the recipient an Indian businessman made it into an issue. So Prince Philip has a history of making off-colour remarks occasionally. During the introductions at a reception for the Indian President, when introduced to one of the guests whose name tag he read, he quipped, “There's a lot of your family in ...
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October 26, 2009
- The Great Exploitation Proliferation Chapter 11EmpiresThe first world empire according to record is the Babylonian empire under King Nebuchadnezzar in (August of 605 B.C.) the residue of real estate remaining is modern day Iraq. The second empire consisted of the global domination of the Medes and Persians (550 B.C.) and the residue of real estate remaining is in the land of Iran. The third ...
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October 26, 2009
- The genre crime fiction is to blame for Jessica Mann's refusal to review any more books. She says,"she is is fed up with increasing levels of "sadistic misogyny" in crime fiction and says authors are simply jumping on the bandwagon to get a bestseller."I tend to agree. There is the problem of desensitization to graphic violence. The more it is released into our cultrue ...
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October 25, 2009
- The jury may still be out on Iraq and Iran, on Brittany’s hairstyle and global warming, but by now we have a clear-cut verdict on the issue of western decline. No longer sufficient to admit that the West has lost relative position with regard to the rest of the world in material terms, it’s past time to confess that we are deep into the historically well-attested syndrome sobriqueted [my ...
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October 25, 2009
- Westerners who take their cultural assumptions to other parts of the world are sometimes surprised by the social necessity of bargaining. They've been conditioned to check the price label on an item and either pay what it says, or leave it on the shelf. But buying even a small trinket from most shopkeepers abroad is not so simple. You're expected to make an offer, hear the vendor's ...
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October 19, 2009
- Ford Motor Company booth display depicting the design inspirations incorporated into the 2010 Ford Taurus. Image Credit: Edmund Jenks (2009)At BlogWorld: It's FORD Auto-Culture, We WroteOne finds the most interesting and unexpected opportunities to learn and write about modern automobile culture ... even at a tradeshow entitled BlogWorld & New Media EXPO ... BlogWorld.Regator is a directory ...
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