Llosa's Twist: Llosa portrayed the state's military response as a highly bureaucratic, cold, and calculated machine of terror. This portrayal allowed him to use the 19th-century Brazilian army as a metaphor for modern 20th-century authoritarian regimes, highlighting how institutional dogmatism matches the fanaticism of the rebels.
ellauri501.html on line 619: 2. The Literary and International Acclaim Conversely, major international literary columns and Western book reviewers praised the novel's scope. Mastery over Myth: Outlets like The New York Times celebrated how the book unraveled how human beings turn history into self-serving myths and propaganda. Humanizing the Fanatic: Rather than seeing the book as a political hit piece, some reviewers praised it for giving deep dignity and internal logic to characters on every single side of the conflict—from the brutal soldiers to the blind religious devotees. Nobel Recognition: The novel's brilliant "cartography of structures of power" and its exploration of how individuals resist institutional oppression heavily contributed to Llosa later winning the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. Would you like to examine specific reviews from Brazilian critics who felt a Peruvian author shouldn't have reinterpreted their history?
ellauri504.html on line 445: Vice President JD Vance clarified the administration's current focus, stating that the number-one priority in the conflict is lowering oil and gasoline prices for Americans. While geopolitical tensions over the Strait of Hormuz crisis have introduced some choppy trading days, macro factors like softer U.S. inflation data and unstoppable momentum in the artificial intelligence (AI) sector have completely cushioned the blow. Ultimately, the markets are refusing to panic. While consumers are hurting from $4.07 per gallon gasoline, institutional investors are shrugging off the war of words between Trump and Iran, treating it as background noise to a powerful tech-driven bull market. War is always good for business, as a lot of useless consumption is created when stuff just goes up in smoke.
ellauri507.html on line 423: Fair point. Stripping away all the institutional jargon, training sets, and guidelines, here is what it looks like when I use my "electric brain" directly on what we're discussing:
ellauri507.html on line 462: Conditional Aid & International Institutions (Late 20th Century): In the 1980s and 1990s, the "Washington Consensus" enforced structural adjustment programs via international lenders. Development aid from the U.S. and affiliated institutions was routinely conditioned on host countries deregulating markets, privatizing state assets, and adopting Western economic structures.
xxx/ellauri087.html on line 719: Väkivaltaisuudet jatkuivat 1920-luvun loppupuolelle asti ja päättyivät vasta, kun Partido Nacional Revolucionario (myöhempi nimi Partido Revolucionario Institucional, suomeksi "Institutionaalinen vallankumouspuolue", lyhenne PRI) vakiinnutti Meksikon valtapuolueena poliittisen yksinvaltansa vuonna 1928 ja sen jälkeen. Tämänkin jälkeen "jatkuvan vallankumouksen" idea vahvistettiin puolueen oppirakennelmissa ja kansallisessa ajattelutavassa tekemällä ero vallankumouksen "aseistetun vaiheen" ja "institutionaalisen vaiheen" välillä. Institutionaalista vaihetta edustanut virallinen puolueretoriikka alkoi hävitä puolueen kielenkäytöstä vasta presidentti Carlos Salinas de Gortarin aikana 1980-luvun lopussa.
xxx/ellauri091.html on line 336: The word right, in contrast, refers to people or groups that have conservative views. That generally means they are disposed to preserving existing conditions and institutions. Or, they want to restore traditional ones and limit change.
xxx/ellauri091.html on line 481: we find that the most prominent explanations include factors related to the quality of institutions, such as reliable and extensive welfare benefits, low corruption, and well-functioning democracy and state institutions. Furthermore, Nordic citizens experience a high sense of autonomy and freedom, as well as high levels of social trust towards each other, which play an important role in determining life satisfaction. On the other hand, we show that a few popular explanations for Nordic happiness such as the small population and homogeneity of the Nordic countries, and a few counterarguments against Nordic happiness such as the cold weather and the suicide rates, actually don't seem to have much to do with Nordic happiness.
xxx/ellauri103.html on line 257: I’m from a small rural community, and ev’rybody who lived in my neighborhood, if you want to call it that, were relatives. We called it “the circle,” and our house was there, my grandmother’s house was there, an aun’ an’ uncle who were childless lived there, and (uh) a couple of aunts an’ uncles who had children. There were five female cousins, an’ in the summertime we hung out together all day long from early until late. In my grandmother’s yard was a maple tree, and the five of us developed that into our apartment building. Each of us had a limb, and [small laugh] the less daring cousins took the lo’er limbs, and I and another cousin a year younger than I always went as far to the top as we could, an’ we– we were kinda derisive of those girls who stayed with the lower limbs. We had front doors an’ back doors. The front door was the — the limb — were the limbs on the front, that were nearest (um) the boxwood hedge. And the grass was all worn away in that area. An’ then the back doorwa–was on the back side of the tree, an’ you could only enter the front an’ exit from the rear. And that had to be done by swinging off a limb that was fairly high off the ground, and (um) my cousin Belinda and I had no problem with that, but the other girls — that was always somethin’ we had to coax them into doin’. But still, you entered the front, you left the rear. We (um) ate our lunches together. When it was lunchtime — an’ our mothers always cooked lunch in the summertime ’cause they didn’ want to be in the hot kitchen at night. So we would just take our (um) — go home, an’ we’d load our plates with all the vegetables an’ the cornbread, an’ get our glasses of milk or ice tea or whatever we were havin’, an’ we would head for somebody’s yard, where we would all sit down an’ eat together. It was just an institution: lunch in somebody’s yard. An’ if you wanted to go home for a second helping– sometimes that was quite a little walk, but it was worth it, because that was our thing, having lunch together, every day. (Um) We gathered at my grandmother’s on Sundays. All my aunts would get those chairs, form a circle. (Uh) One crocheted. (Uh) Most of them just sat an’ talked, an’ we girls hung out for the main part with the women. (Uh) The men would gather around the fish pond, which was in a side yard. It was (um) — it was kind of a rock (um) pond that my granddaddy had, had built. There was a ir’n pipe in the middle, an’ when he went fishin’, he would put his catch in there. Or he caught a mud turtle, he’d put it in there. An’ there it stayed until it was time to kill it an’ cook it, whatever it was. The pipe in the middle had water that sprayed up all the time. There was a locust tree near there, an’ that’s where we girls picked the leaves an’ the thorns to make the doll clothes out o’ the locust. It’s where we always ate the watermelon. We always had to save the rind, an’ we always had to leave some pink on that rind, because my grandmother made watermelon pickles out o’ that rind. I hated the things. I thought they were the worst things I ever put in my mouth. But ever’body else thought watermelon pickles were just a great delicacy. That was also around the time that ev’rybody grew gladiolias [sic] an’ I thought they were the ugliest flower I’d ever laid my eyes on, but ever’body had gladiolias. ‘Course now I’ve come to appreciate the gladiolia, but back then I had absolutely no appreciation for it. It was also where we made (uh) ice cream, (uh) on the front porch. We made ice cream on Sunday afternoons. I had an aunt who worked in the general mercantile business that my family owned, an’ she was only home on Sunday, so she baked all day: homemade rolls an’ cakes. And so, she made cakes an’ we made ice cream, an’ ever’body wan’ed to crank, of course. (Um) That was just a big treat, to get to crank that ice cream. It was jus’ our Sunday afternoon thing, an’ I, I think back on it. All the aunts would sit around an’ they’d talk, an’ they’d smoke. Even if you never saw those ladies smoke, any other time o’ the week. On Sunday afternoon when we all were gathered about in gran- in granny’s yard, they’d have a cigarette. Just a way of relaxing, I suppose. The maple tree’s now gone. In later years, it was thought the maple tree, our apartment building, was shading the house too much an’ causing mildew, so it was removed at some point. And I don’t, to this day, enjoy lookin’ (uh) into that part o’ the yard. …
xxx/ellauri128.html on line 182: Madame de Staël (/stal/) ou bien Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker, baronne de Staël-Holstein, était une romancière, épistolière et philosophe genevoise et française née le 22 avril 1766 à Paris où elle est morte le 14 juillet 1817. Issue d´une famille de protestants valdo-genevois richissimes, fille du ministre des finances de Louis XVI Jacques Necker, elle est élevée dans un milieu de gens de lettres. Elle épouse, en 1786, le baron Erik Magnus Staël von Holstein, ambassadeur du roi Gustave III de Suède auprès de la cour de France à Versailles. Le couple se séparera en 1800. Devenue baronne de Staël, elle mène une vie sentimentale agitée et entretient en particulier une relation orageuse avec Benjamin Constant, écrivain et homme politique franco-vaudois rencontré en 1794. Entretemps, sa réputation littéraire et intellectuelle s´est affirmée grâce à trois essais philosophiques que sont les Lettres sur les ouvrages et le caractère de Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1788), De l´influence des passions sur le bonheur de l´individu et des nations (1796) et De la littérature considérée dans ses rapports avec les institutions sociales (1800). Favorable à la Révolution française et aux idéaux de 1789 au debut, elle adopte une position critique dès 1791 et ses idées d´une monarchie constitutionnelle la font considérer comme une opposante gênante par les maîtres de la révolution. Malgré le statut de diplomate de son mari, elle doit se réfugier auprès de son père en Suisse à plusieurs reprises. Interdite de séjour sur le sol français par Napoléon Bonaparte qui la considère comme un obstacle à sa politique, elle s´installe en Suisse dans le château familial de Coppet qui sert de lieu principal de rencontres au groupe du même nom, et d´où elle fait paraître Delphine (1802), Corinne ou l´Italie (1807) et De l´Allemagne (1810/1813b). Ses œuvres fictionnelles majeures, dans lesquelles elle représente des femmes victimes des contraintes sociales qui les enchaînent, sont Delphine (1802) et Corinne ou l´Italie (1807).
xxx/ellauri129.html on line 672: William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist and playwright known for The Woman in White (1859), and for The Moonstone (1868), which has been posited as the first modern English detective novel. Born to the London painter William Collins and his wife, he moved with the family to Italy when he was twelve, living there and in France for two years and learning Italian and French. He worked initially as a tea merchant. After publishing Antonina, his first novel, in 1850, Collins met Charles Dickens, who became a friend and mentor. Some Collins work first appeared in Dickens's journals Household Words and All the Year Round. They also collaborated on drama and fiction. Collins gained financial stability and an international following by the 1860s, but began to suffer from gout and became addicted to the opium he took for the pain, so that his health and writing quality declined in the 1870s and 1880s. Collins was critical of the institution of marriage: he split his time between widow Caroline Graves – living with her for most of his adult life, treating her daughter as his – and the younger Martha Rudd, by whom he had three children.
xxx/ellauri138.html on line 272: "I am against the holocaust of anything," said Claire Bloom. Roth was invested serving much of his own paper trail, said Avishai. He started donated their papers to the Library of Congress in the 1970s, and the institution amassed some 25,000 articles from 1938 to 2001, including correspondence with Bloom, Updike, Saul Bellow and Cynthia Ozick. After Roth's death, the library acquired more material, including correspondence, drafts, research notes, autobiographical notes, and other personal effects. Vitun hamsteri.
xxx/ellauri167.html on line 540: As Wishaupt lived under the tyranny of a despot & priests, he knew that caution was necessary even in spreading information, & the principles of pure morality. He proposed therefore to lead the Free masons to adopt this object & to make the objects of their institution the diffusion of science & virtue. He proposed to initiate new members into his body by gradations proportioned to his fears of the thunderbolts of tyranny. This has given an air of mystery to his views, was the foundation of his banishment, the subversion of the masonic order, & is the colour for the ravings against him of Robinson, Barruel & Morse, whose real fears are that the craft would be endangered by the spreading of information, reason, & natural morality among men.
xxx/ellauri168.html on line 84: Russian integration into world economic institutions such as the G7 and establishment of ties with the European Community.
xxx/ellauri187.html on line 77: At the Petite École, Rodin “finished lessons so quickly that the teachers eventually ran out of assignments. He did not care to socialize with his classmates; he wanted only to work.” Rodin’s talent was noted by his legion of admiring artists, writers, and lovers. His rise was a matter of time, even if he was ignored by academic art institutions early in life.
xxx/ellauri193.html on line 119: Apartheid was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa from 1948 until the early 1990s.
xxx/ellauri193.html on line 735: Since, South Africa has a history of bloodshed, the restoration of the death penalty has been used as a reactionary response to a movement by people of South Africa. He expressed doubt and dissent that the reinstitution of the death penalty would be in line with the spirit of the Constitution. Story continues below the rope advertisment.
xxx/ellauri199.html on line 360: Born into slavery at the Lloyd Manor on Long Island, Hammon learned to read and write. In 1761, at the age of nearly 50, Hammon published his first poem, "An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ with Penitential Cries." Se oli aika mitäänsanomaton. He was the first African-American poet published in North America. Also a well-known and well-respected preacher and clerk-bookkeeper, he gained wide circulation of his poems about slavery. As a devoted Christian evangelist, Hammon used biblical fundamentalism to criticize the institution of slavery.
xxx/ellauri225.html on line 417: Recent criticism has suggested reading Crane´s poems—"The Broken Tower", "My Grandmother´s Love Letters", the "Voyages" series, and others—with an eye to homosexual meanings in the text. Queer theorist Tim Dean argues, for instance, that the obscurity of Crane´s style owes partially to the necessities of being a semi-public homosexual—not quite closeted, but also, as legally and culturally necessary, not open: "The intensity responsible for Crane´s particular form of difficulty involves not only linguistic considerations but also culturally subjective concerns. This intensity produces a kind of privacy that is comprehensible in terms of the cultural construction of homosexuality and its attendant institutions of privacy."
xxx/ellauri230.html on line 654: The Imperial Seal of Japan is a chrysanthemum and the institution of the monarchy is also called the Chrysanthemum Throne. A number of festivals and shows take place throughout Japan in autumn when the flowers bloom. Chrysanthemum Day (菊の節句, Kiku no Sekku) is one of the five ancient sacred festivals. It is celebrated on the 9th day of the 9th month. It was started in 910, when the imperial court held its first chrysanthemum show.
xxx/ellauri232.html on line 222: Sten Widmalm (som skrev denna drivel) är verksam vid samma institution som Anders Westholm. Annors har han sagt med mera:
xxx/ellauri253.html on line 112: The U.S. shadow banking system (i.e., non-depository financial institutions such as investment banks) had grown to rival the depository system yet was not subject to the same regulatory oversight, making it vulnerable to a bank run. US mortgage-backed securities, which had risks that were hard to assess, were marketed around the world, as they offered higher yields than U.S. government bonds. Many of these securities were backed by subprime mortgages, which collapsed in value when the U.S. housing bubble burst during 2006 and homeowners began to default on their mortgage payments in large numbers starting in 2007.
xxx/ellauri253.html on line 133: Wealthy and middle-class house flippers with mid-to-good credit scores created a speculative bubble in house prices, and then wrecked local housing markets and financial institutions after they defaulted on their debt en masse. The Economist wrote in July 2012 that the inflow of investment dollars required to fund the U.S. trade deficit was a major cause of the housing bubble and financial crisis: "The trade deficit, less than 1% of GDP in the early 1990s, hit 6% in 2006. That deficit was financed by inflows of foreign savings, in particular from East Asia and the Middle East. Much of that money went into dodgy mortgages to buy overvalued houses, and the financial crisis was the result." "The main headline is that all sorts of poor countries became kind of rich, making things like TVs and selling us oil. China, India, Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia made a lot of money and banked it."
xxx/ellauri255.html on line 106: Ah come to think of it, could it be because the guys know each other personally and are old competitors in the same territory? Hmm. Members of the police, the most hated of all of the tsarist institutions, had to flee for their lives. In the countryside, particularly, peasants and soldiers returning from the front would loot every alcohol store and every distillery they could find. They would then would start burning and smashing up the estates and the landowners’ manor houses.
xxx/ellauri265.html on line 417: Boghossian said he believed suppressing professors’ ideologies is one of the major problems of academia. When asked about private universities like NYU, he said he was more concerned about public institutions because they receive greater funding from taxpayers.
xxx/ellauri265.html on line 419: “The president of Portland State University said that the highest priority of the institution was racial justice,” Boghossian said. “Now that’s an absolutely remarkable statement, a genuinely remarkable statement. Not budget, not publication, not teaching excellence, not retention, but racial justice. A private institution like Bob Jones University can make their mission statement anything they want to make. My primary concern is with public institutions.”
xxx/ellauri265.html on line 426: Last week the New York University (NYU) psychology professor announced that he would resign at the end of the year from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, his primary professional association, because of a newly adopted requirement that everybody presenting research at the group's conferences explain how their submission advances "equity, inclusion, and anti-racism goals." It was the sort of litmus test against which he has warned, and which he sees as corroding institutions of higher learning.
xxx/ellauri265.html on line 444: What we most need is for leaders of institutions to stand up. That has been the spectacular failure of the late 2010s — that leaders of universities, of The New York Times, of our knowledge-centered institutions, have failed to stand up for the mission of their institutions. Stand up and fight, you emeritus professors of Rudsian, ex-department chairs, ex-deans and former vice presidents of Western top universities! Nyt teidän veri punnitaan!
xxx/ellauri268.html on line 562: Les romans de Sade ne sont pas assimilables aux nombreux textes pornographiques qui fleurissent alors. Ils ne se contentent pas de dénuder et d'apparier des corps, de décrire des accouplements et des supplices, de compliquer des postures et de multiplier les acteurs. Il attaque toutes les institutions, il fait tenir à ses libertins des discours théoriques entre deux orgies. […] Les égarements sont fondés philosophiquement sur le matérialisme et l'athéisme.
xxx/ellauri273.html on line 90: Ubico considered himself to be "another Napoleon". He dressed ostentatiously and surrounded himself with statues and paintings of the emperor, regularly commenting on the similarities between their appearances. He militarized numerous political and social institutions—including the post office, schools, and symphony orchestras—and placed military officers in charge of many government posts. He frequently traveled around the country performing "inspections" in dress uniform, followed by a military escort, a mobile radio station, an official biographer, and cabinet members.
xxx/ellauri286.html on line 229: Sananvapauden rajoittamisen keinot ovat siis huomattavasti monimuotoisempia ja siten myös hankalammin hahmotettavia kuin neuvostoaikana. Varsinkin kun sanoja ei nyt varsinaisesti rajoiteta, pikemminkin päinvastoin sanat sakenevat. Myös psykologisessa vaikuttamisessa on eroja. Venäjän propaganda eroaa neuvostopropagandasta, koska jälkimmäisen väitteet perustuivat ideologiaan. Venäjän ideologia ei ole juuri länttä kummempi. Putinin valtaannousun myötä on perustettu lukuisia alan tutkimuskeskuksia ja se on institutionalisoitu akateemiseksi opinalaksi, jota voi opiskella lukuisissa yliopistoissa ja tiettyihin tutkimuskohteisiin erikoistuneissa instituuteissa, esim. Venäjän sananvapauden rajoittamisen instituutti (Российский институт ограничения свободы выражения мнений).
xxx/ellauri286.html on line 232: Samaan aikaan Venäjällä keskityttiin täysin vastakkaisiin toimiin: institutionalisoimaan informaatiosotaa, tieteenalaa, jonka yhtenä osa-alueena on menneisyyden fabrikoiminen niin, että se tukee Venäjän valtapolitiikkaa. Big fat hairy difference.
xxx/ellauri312.html on line 361: The third was another son, Eduard (called “Tete” by his parents), who showed promise and an interest in medicine. He developed schizophrenia at age 21 and spent the rest of his life in and out of mental institutions.
xxx/ellauri354.html on line 267: Eventually Notari ended up as a fascist, founding the Milanese newspaper “L’Ambrosiano” in 1922, and was appointed to the very institutional “Accademia d’Italia”: just like another firebrand-turned-reactionary, the initiator of the Italian Futuristic movement Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who, as a young, used to call for burning academies down... [signed] Enzo. The Black Pig is not a novel, as Enzo claims, but an energetic, apparently learned, vitriolic attack on the precepts and clergy of the Catholic Church.
xxx/ellauri356.html on line 237: Teoksessa Giving Time Derrida yrittää määritellä lahjan, uhrin ja almujen välistä suhdetta: "Uhri tarjoaa uhrilahjansa vain tuhon muodossa, josta se vaihtaa, toivoo tai odottaa hyötyä, nimittäin lisäarvoa tai ainakin pehmusteen, suojan ja turvallisuutta. Koska almujen antamista säätelee institutionaalinen rituaalisuus, se ei ole enää puhdas lahja – ilmainen tai armollinen, puhtaasti antelias. Siitä tulee määrätty, ohjelmoitu, pakollinen, toisin sanoen linkitetty”.
xxx/ellauri366.html on line 166: 11.6.2007 Vilks kutsuttiin osallistumaan taidenäyttelyyn "Koira taiteessa" (ruotsiksi : Hunden i konsten), joka oli tarkoitus pitää Tällerudin pikkukylässä Värmlannissa. Vilks lähetti kolme kynä- ja mustepiirustusta A4- paperille , jotka kuvaavat Muhammedia mahdollisesti vesikauhuisena kiertokulkukoirana. Vilks oli tuolloin jo mukana Muhammedin piirroksilla toisessa tärkeässä näyttelyssä Vestfossenissa, Norjassa, teemalla "Oh, My God". Vilks, joka on tunnettu institutionaalisen taiteen kannattaja, on todennut, että hänen alkuperäinen tarkoituksensa piirustuksissa oli "tutkia poliittista korrektiutta taideyhteisön rajojen sisällä". Vilksin mukaan Ruotsin taide- ja kulttuuriyhteisöt arvostelevat toistuvasti Yhdysvaltoja ja Israelia, kun taas muslimiarvoja harvoin edes kyseenalaistetaan. Se on niin väärin. Mitä pahaa USA ja Israel ovat muka tehneet kellekkään?
xxx/ellauri380.html on line 389: the effort. The detailed descriptions of the institutions and
xxx/ellauri442.html on line 60: I shall not enter in to the meta-philosophical discussion of the general merits and demerits of the institutionalisation or academisation of philosophy. Some of the valuable contributions in this area include Hamlyn’s warmly-tuned (1992), Calhoun’s critical (1997) as well as Collins’ astonishing (1998). Stanley Cavell stresses the significance of Emerson and Thoreau, ‘the most underhanded second-rate philosophical minds…to have been produced in the United States’ (Cavell 2004 pp12-13 of his ‘Introduction’ to his characteristically original Cities of Words.)
xxx/ellauri446.html on line 174: Pasi Tapanainen earned their FK degree in Computer Science from the University of Helsinki from 1986 to 1989. Pasi then pursued further education at the same institution and obtained a Ph.D. in Language Technology from 1995 to 1999.
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