... "American Pie" (1999), "Sex Drive" (2008), and "Van Wilder" (2002). "American Pie" is a teen comedy that follows four friends that are on a quest to lose their virginity by their prom, but first, the friends must endure many antics that confront them including picking ... comedic and awkward way I might add) to prevent STD's and pregnancy. Moving on, "Sex Drive" has a different spin on the teen and sex comedy genre. "Sex Drive", is about Ian, a hopeless romantic who meets a girl online and is willing to drive cross country to meet with her ... dialogs, safe sex practices, and character a...

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... the Red Crosse, or of Holinesse- to be a story of "Fierce warres and faithfull loues- (39). It is by way of fierce wars and faithful loves that he may "moralize- the story (39). Therefore, according to Spenser, ferocious struggles coupled with faithful loves have the ability to moralize a story ... the Redcrosse Knight's abandonment of Una and journey with Duessa represents the Christian individual's turn from what can be agreed upon as some manner of Divine Truth to the Devil's wiles, which lead directly to Pride. In light of these representations, Spenser's depiction of Una's love, ded...

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... entitled Spurn, which succeeded remarkably well at bringing in an audience comprised mainly of people who were my own age. Spurn, a dark-humored sketch comedy show that performed at Collective Unconscious, an alternative space on the Lower East Side, known primarily for outlandish performance art created by young, avant-garde artists ... 44. In 1992, the SPPA reported a median age of 42 for both plays and musicals, and in 1982 the median age for both was 39. This constitutes a steady median age incline between 1982 and 2008 of 8 years for non-musical plays, and 6 years for musicals. The...

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... . Hawthorne writes, One of the ancestors of this family had been pictured by Dante as a partaker of the immortal agonies of his Inferno The allusion of Dante refers to The Divine Comedy and the Inferno describes the souls in Hell. Furthermore, Baglioni converses with Giovanni in this mansion chamber and tries to manipulate him in his attempt to destroy Rappaccini. In a sense ... . Hawthorne writes, One of the ancestors of this family had been pictured by Dante as a partaker of the immortal agonies of his Inferno The allusion of Dante refers to The Divine Comedy and the Inferno describes t...

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... and Takeminakata no Kami, the son of the ruler of Izumo on the Japan Sea coast. The results of this match were said to have established the supremacy of the 'divine' Yamato race" (Cuyler 1985:22). In light of such mytho-religious connections, it is not surprising that ritual sumo was being performed at various temples and shrines in Japan ... interesting and requires some remarks. Uchidate sympathizes with foreign rikishi and argues that instead of exhibiting xenophobia, Japanese should realize the "tremendous value in the cultural differences [foreign rikishi] display" (39). Angered by...

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... leader was not only considered a political but a military leader where his legitimacy as a leader was proven through his ability to fulfill his divine mission of spreading Islam by conquering new territories for the empire. A chief without ability was deposed of and while an incompetent chief may remain ... of religion also contributed to the growth of the Ottoman Empire by acting as a justification for warfare. With reference to Islamic quotes like Qur'an:8:39 "So, fight them till all opposition ends and the only religion is Islam.", we can infer that religion was used as a rallying cry ...

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... ," the first point of contention deals with the accusation of adultery made against her and the subsequent exoneration in the form of divine revelation which, as Sunni Muslims claim, is implicitly directed toward her. The crux of this turmoil hinges on the interpretation of verse ... quot;the affair of the lie," but a lie "promoted by the majority of Muslims which depicted 'A'isha as the object of divine intervention."15 'A'isha's adulterous background, coupled with the slander of Maryam would equip Shi'i Muslims with an effective polemic against their Sunni ... must become wo...

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... , immediately after Socrates finished his argument, he realized he had done wrong by convincing Phaedrus of that which is not true. He taught Phaedrus non-love is greater than divine love, which, as Socrates later states, is the opposite of truth. Anything divine is by nature greater than anything corporeal. Love is better; love is stronger than earthly passion because of its ... divine quality. Instead of lying to him any longer, Socrates explained to Phaedrus the truth, and convinced him to reject the lies that he was previously told, using his persuasive skills ... utilizing postmod...

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... the monarchy re-established. Each event affected both the theatre and social norms of the country. Amazingly this tumultuous and repressive period would spark a new generation of dramatic and comedy writers including William Wycherley, George Farquhar, William Congreve, and Aphra Behn. (Barton,3) Given a period with such socio-historical background and male dominated constraint, an era where women ... the monarchy re-established. Each event affected both the theatre and social norms of the country. Amazingly this tumultuous and repressive period would spark a new generation of dramatic an...

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... try to salvage a positive meaning for the human self, history, and truth as correspondence which are central to modernity; some even try to promote the premodern notions of divine reality, cosmic meaning, and an enchanted nature. Such philosophers as Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, Henri Bergson, Alfred North Whitehead, and Charles Hartshorne are recognized as representatives ... to reach the Cartesian certitude that "no reasonable person could possibly doubt,"" but the platitudinous agreement that "no reasonable person would even think to doubt- (Peirce 1958: 39-40). Thus after ...

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... Emperor, Jimmu, who according to legend was a descendant of the sun god, Amaterasu. So there fore, according to the tradition, the emperor during this time, Hirohito, was said to be a divine being. It is for this reason that the Japanese sued for peace based on the "Atlantic Charter of 1941" that was drafted up by Roosevelt and Churchill on August 4th ... the Americans knew about. Tests conducted by the Manhattan Engineer District showed the effects of the atomic bomb when detonated on a target. Tests were done on a site 29 kilometers by 39 kilometer bombing range in the New Mexican des...

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... it in hatred toward the non-Christian Jews, and this is why Luke often shows non-Christian Jews in very negative ways. Harnack (1851-1930) says, while Luke accepted the divine rejection of the Jewish people, his own religious sentiments, a deep reverence for Torah, and his sense of fairness and absence of bias against the Jews, caused him to include favourable ... Torah in order for the Church to continue, but it is now seen in the light of the good news of the kingdom of God (Luke 16:16; Acts 13:39). PAUL IN ACTS Just as Luke seeks to validate the authenticity of Jesus in the Gospel us...

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... of imitation, instead of the usual distinctions made according to prose, verse or metre. Thus the object of imitation in tragedy are men who are better than us, and in comedy men who are worse. Clearly Aristotle is conceiving imitation as a different process from Plato. The medium of imitation is taken to be three-fold: rhythm, language and harmony are used ... be put. As Socrates tells Ion, "it is clear that you are not enabled to speak of Homer by skill and knowledge" (Ion, p12) and later "but a divine power that moves you" (Ion, p13). In Aristotle poetry is an imitation of human acti...

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... be essentially irreligious. Religion, in fact, is incompatible with the elimination of any of the elements that have been mentioned. A religion without belief in the divine is a superstition; a religion that has no influence upon conduct is a contradiction in terms; a religion that substitutes external ceremonial acts for the higher ... failure to perceive what ahs been the source of some confusion. No man can be religious who has not got a belief in the divine, whatever the divine may happen to be; but it does not follow that he is able to throw his belief into a systematic form, much ...

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... the focus of the Hebrew Bible's type scene on earthly conceptions of dynasty and inheritance. Essentially, the fact that Mary's pregnancy is virginal and thus divinely meditated makes her son divine. As Gabriel explains, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be holy; he ... conversion of individuals as a means of continuing the inheritance of God's kingdom. As the text emphasizes, "Many Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the woman's testimony" (John 4:39). In this way then, the Samar...

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... of it's sinister implications, to maintain self preservation. His joke about the German Lepage gun which glues formations of plans together temporarily injects comedy into the general fear of bombing Bologna. Yossarian believes and imagines himself at the focus of a massive conspiracy in a comically exaggerated form ... And what difference does that make?" The humour in Captain Corelli's Mandolin is intertwined gently into the novel from the start as light-hearted comedy. The initial chapter has Doctor Iannis curing Stammatis's from deafness only to discover that a pea is lodged in his ...

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... , including a dynamic outlook on life and death centered on the death of their heroic comrades, Patroclus and Enkidu, respectively. The two semi-divine heroes have many corresponding life-events and characteristics, and are also both very concerned with their own mortalities, but not quite in the same ... a character who in some of the earliest epics is involved in martial settings as well as wanderings throughout the mythological worlds and to semi-divine mortals. The events in the character's life do indeed cover a broad range of heroic epic encounters; however it is the character and...

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... most fruitful possibility spaces in which the creatures try out their pathways, and who also restricts other possible possibility spaces.[xxvii] Gregerson suggests that such a view is consistent with the divine commands in Genesis: "Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures. . . . Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds. . . . Be fruitful and multiply." ... the envelope of possibilities present in chaotic processes could bring about novel structures and types of order exemplifying higher-level organizing principles.[xxix] Polkinghorne notes that th...

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... of some rude hand3" a bed made of leaves; material for making a fire and especially Philoctetes' bow. However, even this bow, which is a divine artefact, given by Apollo to Hercules and from him to Philoctetes is also portrayed in an uncivilised way as the word which Sophocles uses for the hunted meat in ... his old heroic past and his literal death by him surviving on this harsh island are brought together through the idea of the cave. As Philoctetes' divine bow is harshly stolen from him, he returns to his cave, where he realises a certain death by starvation "I'll soon be tainted meat,...

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... 'set apart from ordinary people and treated as endowed with supernatural, superhuman, or at least specifically exceptional powers or qualities regarded as of divine origin or as exemplary, and on the basis of them, the individual concerned is treated as a leader.' Weber defines charismatic leadership as " ... them. Such a leader functions primarily on the personal trust that her followers have in her, which is constantly nurtured by the leader's heroism, divine guidance or any other qualities that are ascribed to her, either by herself through the creation of personality cults o...

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... It was also found that the leader was hereditary, and had the authority to perform rites between living and deceased as well as between rulers and their divine ancestors (Hall, 1989). It wasn't until the Kofun period (300 BC - 700 AD) where leadership was solidified by the Emperor (Meyer, 1993). ... so widespread. The idea of loyalty to the master in the samurai class was transferred over to the general population in seeing the Emperor as divine. As all Japanese people are descendents of the kami, loyalty and honor to the monarch was never to be questioned by the people. INTRODUCTIONS .....

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... psychology By definition an entheogen is a "drug or other substance that engenders a deeply spiritual experience. It derives from Greek and literally, it translates to giving birth to the divine within."" (http://www.wordspy.com/words/entheogen.asp). The use of entheogens and psychedelic drugs in transpersonal psychology started in the early 1950s. Stanislav Grof, M.D. began his research ... (Polari de Alverga, 1999). The Santo Daime religion today The Santo Daime church believes that the Daime Ayahuasca tea is a "sacred marriage of masculine and feminine principles and contains a Divi...

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... a member of the stereotyped group. The Ford study based its hypothesis on the effects of priming in making judgements about particular social groups. Two groups of white students were shown comedy skits depicting either negative stereotypes or neutral behavior starring black actors. Then the subjects were asked to, based on circumstantial evidence, determine whether a young man, Todd in half of the ... neatly resolved in a thirty minute time slot, television producers and audiences generally prefer humorous venues for discussion (Ford 272). Herman Gray performs an extensive analysis of ...

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... , was Danger by Richard Hughes. There is some discrepancy as to the actual title of the play, some texts give it as Danger and state it was a drama, others as A Comedy of Danger. However, it was definitely written in 1924 and was about miners trapped in a shaft when the lights go out. It is a story idea that couldn't have possibly worked ... in a "visual" medium like the stage or screen. The comedy Light and Shade by L. du Garde Peach followed. Although these were definite steps forward for radio drama, it would still be many years before the realisation that radio was a "dramatic ... f...

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... terminologies of Trinitarian theology and Christology. 1. Trinitarian Theology Trinity defines the core concept of substance and person, illuminating that that there are three divine persons, not one, and one substance not three. The three persons are The God, The Spirit of God and Jesus Christ, who ... Tertullian plays a pivotal part. During this time, there were other groups opposing his concepts and considered Christ to be a human with no divine power. On the contrary to this theology, Tertullian explains that Christ is a substance of God and can be considered as a son who shows ... ...

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