This dramatic device was apparently first used by Thomas Kyd in The Spanish Tragedy around 1587, where it forms the spectacular resolution of the story. Kyd is also assumed to have used it in his lost Hamlet (the so-called Ur-Hamlet). In The Spanish Tragedy, Hieronimo is so convinced of the far-reaching consequences of his "revelation" that he predicts it will bring about the "fall of Babylon". In his use of the play within the play, Kyd seems to take Aristotle's idea ...

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The story is that of the growth of David Copperfield from childhood to maturity. David's father dies before he is born, and he is ill-treated by his cruel stepfather, Mr. Murdstone. He is sent to a private school, Salem House, with a ruthless headmaster, Mr Creakle. Here he befriends James Steerforth and Tommy Traddles, who in true Dickens style leave and then reappear in the later part of the novel. When David's beloved mother dies of the emotional torture inflicted on herself and her son by Mr. Murdstone and his sister (Miss Murdstone), Mr ...

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Mikhail Bakhtin - Toward a Philosophy of the Act: -for-. Toward a Philosophy of the Act was first published in Russia in 1986 with the title K filosofii postupka. The manuscript of this early work was found in bad condition with pages missing and sections of text that were illegible. It is for this reason that this philosophical essay appears today as a fragment of an unfinished work. Toward a Philosophy of the Act comprises of only an introduction, of which the first few pages are mis ...

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Søren Kierkegaard - Alienation. Alienation is a term applied to a wide variety of phenomena including: any feeling of separation from, and discontent with, society; feeling that there is a moral breakdown in society; feelings of powerlessness in the face of the solidity of social institutions; the impersonal, dehumanised nature of large-scale and bureaucratic social organisations. [6] Kierkegaard recognizes and accepts the notion of alienation, although he phrases it and understands it in his own distinctly orig ...

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The wooden fort of Omsk was erected in 1716 to protect the expanding Russian frontier, along the Ishim and the Irtysh rivers against the nomads (Kirghiz) of the Steppes. In late 1700s, Stronger works of brick were erected on the right bank of the Om; of these, the original Tobolsk and the restored Tara gates still stand, along with the original German Lutheran Church, an armory, a military jail, and commandant's house. In 1800s and early 1900s, Omsk became the administrative center of Western Siberia and the Steppes (Kazakhstan), acqu ...

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Recurring guest stars included: Adam Arkin, son of Alan Arkin, as wildman/gourmet chef/possible ex-CIA agent Adam. Richard Cummings Jr. as Bernard Stevens, Chris's "half-brother and spiritual doppelgänger". Chris and Bernard's relationship extends beyond that of merely half-brothers, as they have a bond that has manifested itself in shared dreams, emotions, and thoughts. Also of note, they share the same birthday and birth year, making them metaphysical "twins" despite their different mothers. Their f ...

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Vladimir Solovyov was born in Moscow on 16 January 1853, in the family of well-known Russian historian Sergey Mikhaylovich Solovyev (1820-1879). His mother, Polixena Vladimirovna, belonged to the Ukrainian-Polish family, having among here ancestors a remarkable thinker the 18th century Hryhori Skovoroda (1722 - 1794). to be continued ...

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Trevor Reznik (Bale) has not slept for over a year, and has become extremely emaciated. He does not know what is wrong, and carries on working as a machinist. His alarming appearance and behaviour cause his co-workers to shy away from him; they eventually turn on him after he is involved in an accident that costs a man his left arm. Trevor, distracted by an unfamiliar coworker named Ivan (Sharian), bears the blame for the accident. No one at the factory admits knowing "Ivan", however, and there are no records that he was ever an employee. Tr ...

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Kurosawa is best-known for his period pieces or jidaigeki (時代劇, jidaigeki?) like Seven SamuraiSee also:

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Seventeen is the 7th prime number. The next prime is nineteen, with which it comprises a twin prime. 17 is the sum of the first four primes. 17 is the sixth Mersenne prime exponent, yielding 131071. 17 is an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the form 3n − 1. 17 is the third Fermat prime. Since 17 is a Fermat prime, heptadecagons can be drawn with compass and ruler. This was proved by Karl Friedrich Gauss. 17 is the second and last Genoc ...

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Gambling - Casino games. With proper strategy, a smart player can create a positive mathematical expectation. Poker (Also recognised as a game of skill) Blackjack -- with card counting Video poker -- with proper pay table and/or progressive jackpot Pai Gow Poker and Tiles -- player-dealt Sports betting Horse racing (parimutuel) Slot machines -- only linked, multi-player jackpots whose priz ...

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The story centers on the life and death of Akaky Akakievich, an impoverished government clerk and copyist in the Russian capital of St. Petersburg. Akaky is dedicated to his job, taking special relish in the hand-copying of documents, though he receives little recognition for his hard work. Instead, the younger clerks in his department tease him and attempt to distract him whenever they can. His threadbare overcoat is often the butt of their jokes. Akaky decides it is necessary to have the coat repaired, so he brings it to his tailor, Petrovich. Petrovich declares that the coat is unsalvageable, and ...

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The novel is divided into two rough parts. Part 1 falls into three main sections. The short introduction propounds a number of riddles whose meanings will be further developed. Section two, three and four deal with suffering and the enjoyment of suffering; sections five and six with intellectual and moral vacillation and with conscious "inertia"-inaction; sections seven through nine with theories of reason and advantage; the last two sections are a summary and a transition into Part 2. Part 1 focuses primarily on man's desire to distinguish ...

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The city's cathedral was built from 1401–1519 after the Reconquista on the former site of the city's mosque. It is the largest of all medieval and Gothic cathedrals, in terms of both area and volume. The interior, with the longest nave in Spain, is lavishly decorated, with a large quantity of gold evident. The Cathedral reused some columns and elements from the mosque, and most famously the Giralda, originally a minaret, was converted into a bell tower. It is topped with a statue representing Faith. The Giralda ...

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Dickens worked on David Copperfield for two years between 1848 and 1850, carefully planning out the plot and structure. Seven novels precede it, and seven novels would come after it, Copperfield being his mid-point novel. Tolstoy regarded Dickens as the best of all English novelists, and considered Copperfield to be his finest work, ranking the "Tempest" chapter (chapter 55,LV - the story of Ham and the storm and the shipwreck) the standard by which the world's great fiction should be judged. Henry James remembere ...

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Bakhtin was born in Orel, Russia, outside of Moscow, to an old family of the nobility. His father was the manager of a bank and worked in several cities. For this reason Bakhtin spent his early childhood years in Orel, Vilnius (Lithuania) and then Odessa where, in 1913, he allegedly joined the historical and philological faculty at the local university. He later transferred to Petersburg University to join his brother Nikolaj. It is here that Bakhtin was greatly influenced by the classicist F. F. Zelinskij whose works contain the beginnings ...

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Despite the fact that Bakhtin’s career was fraught with difficulties and complications, impeding the publication of many of his manuscripts until after his death, Bakhtin is considered one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century. Bakhtin, whose primary concern was language, argued that a struggle between forces simultaneously working to separate and unite those things existing in both nature and culture was at the very center of existence. According to Bakhtin, examples of this struggle are best reflected in human language and best recorded in the novel, a subject to which Bakhtin devoted a ...

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Throughout his lifetime Bakhtin made a significant contribution to the world of literary and rhetorical theory and criticism. He is known today for his interest in a wide variety of subjects, ideas, vocabularies, and periods, as well as his use of authorial disguises. As a result of the breadth of topics with which Bakhtin dealt, he was able to influence groups of theorists in the West including Neo-Marxists, Structuralists, and semioticians. However, his influence on such groups has, somewhat paradoxically, resulted in narrowing the scope o ...

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Northern Exposure's unique flavor comes from a combination of various influences: the show’s creators, Joshua Brand and John Falsey, had been members of the Esalen Institute in California where they imbibed an eclectically "spiritual" worldview, best exemplified in wisdom writings of Swiss psychologist Carl Jung and American anthropologist Joseph Campbell (whose works are frequently referenced in the series). There are also fantasy elements, which were likely inherited from the novels of Carlos Castaneda and, on a higher level, the ...

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The climate is dry and continental, characterized by dramatic swings of weather. The average daily temperatures are, over the last 30 years, 68 °F (+20 °C) for July and −2 °F (−19 °C) for January (Russian Meteorological Center), although typical extremes reach +35°C in the summer and −35°C in the winter. The average number of sunny days is over 300 per year. The annual rainfall is 315 mm (12.4 in). ...

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David Copperfield has been filmed on several occasions: 1911, directed by Theodore Marston 1922, directed by A.W. Sandberg 1935, directed by George Cukor 1969, directed by Delbert Mann The numerous television adaptations of the novel include a 1966 version with Ian McKellen (better known today as Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings movie series) as David and a 1999 version with Daniel Radcliffe (better known as Harry Potter) playing the younger David. In this latter version, McKellen returns, ...

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