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...less human than Westerners, but rather because their language has been shaped by their culture.The bulwark supporting this argument is Everett’s Immediacy of Experience Principle, which can be summarized (with some liberty) as the idea that the Pirahã do not speak about anything outside the realm of their own immediate experience or that of someone who is alive within the speaker’s lifetime. This assertion itself is said to predict the aforementioned linguistic deficiencies, and through its implications, to defy some of the most basic tenets of the linguistics world. And here is where...
...Twilight also observes movie laws as aged as Edward, who was initiated into the realm of the undead in 1918. Defiantly old-fashioned, the film wants viewers to believe not so much in vampires as in the existence of an anachronistic movie notion: a love that is convulsive and ennobling. Bella could be any Hollywood heroine in love with a good boy whom society callously misunderstands. She's Natalie Wood to Edward's James Dean (in Rebel Without a Cause) or Richard Beymer (in West Side Story). Cathy, meet Heathcliff. Juliet, Romeo...
...really wanted to do it, but I was kind of nervous,” Ehrlich says. “The whole blog thing is kind of unnatural in the football realm, because it takes on some semblance of individual importance, which is really looked down on in this team-first thing. I kind of sat on it for a while, and then after a couple of weeks…I said...
...secular contingent, these arguments are meaningless, and thus unpersuasive. Instead of just opposing the pro-life rhetoric, those who are pro-choice often displace their frustration and resentment onto religion itself, and its interference in political matters. In this way, animosity towards opposing views in the political realm is transferred onto God and religion...
...tourists while Jamal tries to rescue the love of his life, Latika (Freida Pinto).But what could have been a tragedy about poverty in India becomes instead a tale of triumph over adversity told with infectious joy by director Danny Boyle. Boyle is not exactly in the same realm of either drug-addled “Trainspotting” or zombie-loving “28 Days Later,” but his ability to create fully-realized worlds within his films is still on full display. The slums of Mumbai are a brightly colored fantasy world in which boys...