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And The Nobel War Is Peace Prize Goes To...President Barack Obama..." Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. " It took 25 years longer than George Orwell thought for the slogans of 1984 to become reality. “War is Peace.” “Freedom is Slavery.” “Ignorance is ...
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International School of Information Science (ISIS)The inception of the largest Arabic Digital Library In accordance to Bibliotheca Alexandrina's goal to avail knowledge for all, more than 100,000 Arabic books are now available for researchers as well as common readers. The Supercomputer now in Egypt: A collaborative ...
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The Paris Review - Interviews Archive with great writers of our times"Since 1953, when the first issue of the magazine appeared with an interview of E. M. Forster, our Q&A encounters with the great writers of our times have come to be recognized as a sort of literary genre unto themselves: the Paris Review interview. More than fifty years—and more than three ...
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Knowledge and Memory: The Real Story by R.C. Schank & R. P. Abelson | Yale UniversityIn this essay, we argue that stories about one's experiences, and the experiences of others, are the fundamental constituents of human memory, knowledge, and social communication. This argument includes three propositions: 1) Virtually all human knowledge is based on stories constructed around ...
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Revista CritérioNovos Artigos >> A presença do ocultismo na poesia de W.B.Yeats > o poeta demonstra sua esperança no contato com a transcendência, onde encontraria a eternidade da alma, e realiza um movimento de exploração d'uma idéia desvinculada do racionalismo científico < Edson Corsi > leia artigo ...
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Kurt Vonnegut: Quitting Denial..."Cold Turkey""Many years ago, I was so innocent I still considered it possible that we could become the humane and reasonable America so many members of my generation used to dream of. We dreamed of such an America during the Great Depression, when there were no jobs. And then we fought and often died for ...
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Philip K. Dick: Fake Realities & Authentic Humans..."It was always my hope, in writing novels and stories which asked the question "What is reality?" , to someday get an answer. A college student in Canada once asked me to define reality for her. She wanted a one-sentence answer. I thought about it and finally said, "Reality is that which, when ...
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LiteraryWikiMain Page Literary Wiki is a site for users to create annotations, guides, and other useful resources for books. You can follow our lead by creating or adding spoiler-free page-by-page annotations or add any other kind of relevant content: characters guides, timelines, etc. Check out our gener...
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Lost in Translation Reading Challenge2009 reading challenge to read six works in translation
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