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    Star Trek as an Agent of Cultural Reproduction

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    Explicit and Implicit Religion in \u3cem\u3eDoctor Who\u3c/em\u3e and \u3cem\u3eStar Trek\u3c/em\u3e

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    It has often been proposed that the original series of Star Trek reflected a modern, enlightenment perspective on religion, and that subsequent spinoffs like Deep Space Nine moved in a more post-modern direction. Doctor Who, the longest running science fiction show, provides an interesting basis for comparison. Both television shows offer similar tropes, and in both instances, the rhetoric that claims to explain away religion in scientific terms ends up treating it as literally true. Both shows depict our universe as populated with “natural gods” which are sometimes explicitly identified with the gods and demons of ancient human religious literature

    Beyond psychologisation: the non-psychology of the Flemish novelist Louis Paul Boon

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    Is not the most intriguing aspect of psychologisation seems to be that every critique threatens to bounce back in some kind of meta-psychologisation. Although in this day and age and age it seems highly unlikely to repeat the popular anti-psychiatry movement of some decades ago and to get an anti-psychology movement on the tracks, it would leave us immediately stranded in some kind of essentialization of the human being and its life-world. Are we thus lost in psychologisation? Is there no outside of psychology and psychologisation? In the following I will focus on the novel De Paradijsvogel (The Bird of Paradise) of the leftist Flemish novelist Louis Paul Boon. I will briefly juxtapose it with Christopher Lasch‘s seminal critique in his book The Culture of Narcissism and search for the germs of a non-psychology: which is, a critique on psychologisation which transcends the pitfalls of metapsychologisation and reopens the path of an ideology critique, the latter seemingly having become impossible too

    McCoy List

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    A list of fanzines featuring content about Dr. McCo

    Interfering in a Non-Interference Policy: Defining Star Trek\u27s Prime Directive

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    The aim of this thesis is to provide a comprehensive definition of the Prime Directive, a concept that was developed in Star Trek: The Original Series, as well as provide a non-fictionalized version of the edict. The Prime Directive is an edict that governs Starfleet not to interfere with a society’s development. The first main section will discuss in further detail why The Original Series account of the Prime Directive was selected. Furthermore, it will discuss how members of academia interpret the Prime Directive. The second main section will be an episode-by-episode analysis of each Prime Directive centered episode to extract the different nuances each episode added to the order. Lastly, this thesis will provide a comprehensive definition of the Prime Directive, determine if The Original Series provides an adequate foundation to base a non-fictionalized Prime Directive on, and then propose an operational one that can be used

    Vested or Contingent Remainders: “The Perennial Enigma”

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    Swinging Bridge - September 17, 2009

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    Gonzales v. Raich: An Opening For Rational Drug Law Reform

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    On June 28, 2004, the Supreme Court granted review in Gonzales v. Raich, one of the California medical marijuana cases. Oral argument was heard on November 29, 2004, and a ruling is expected by June, 2005. Raich presents the Court an historic opportunity to enable sensible drug law reform at the State level

    61st Annual Pepperdine Bible Lectureship -- The Mystery of Godliness: Great Themes from 1 Timothy (2004)

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    Program booklet for the 61st Annual Pepperdine Bible Lectures, held at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, May 4-7, 2004. The Pepperdine Bible Lectures is an annual event hosted by Pepperdine University featuring a wide variety of lectures and classes on topics and themes in the Bible and Christianity. Jerry Rushford, Lectureship Director Bill Henegar, Rick Gibson, Whitney Wall, and Patty Atkisson, Lectures Teamhttps://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/churches/1072/thumbnail.jp
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