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  2. Internet metaphors - Wikipedia

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    Internet metaphors guide future action and perception of the Internet's capabilities on an individual and societal level. [2] Internet metaphors are contestable and sometimes may present political, educational, and cognitive issues. [3] Tensions between producer and user, commercial and non-commercial interests, and uncertainty regarding ...

  3. Ship of State - Wikipedia

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    The Ship of State is an ancient and oft-cited metaphor, famously expounded by Plato in the Republic (Book 6, 488a–489d), which likens the governance of a city-state to the command of a vessel. [1] [2] Plato expands the established metaphor and ultimately argues that the only people fit to be captain of the ship ( Greek: ναῦς) are ...

  4. Leviathan - Wikipedia

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    The body of the Leviathan, especially his eyes, possesses great illuminating power. This was the opinion of Rabbi Eliezer, who, in the course of a voyage in company with Rabbi Joshua, explained to the latter, when frightened by the sudden appearance of a brilliant light, that it probably proceeded from the eyes of the Leviathan.

  5. Simile (computer virus) - Wikipedia

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    Simile (computer virus) Win32/Simile (also known as Etap and MetaPHOR) is a metamorphic computer virus written in assembly language for Microsoft Windows. [1] The virus was released in its most recent version in early March 2002. It was written by the virus writer "Mental Driller". Some of his previous viruses, such as Win95/Drill (which used ...

  6. AIDS and Its Metaphors - Wikipedia

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    AIDS and Its Metaphors. AIDS and Its Metaphors is a 1989 work of critical theory by Susan Sontag. In this companion book to her Illness as Metaphor (1978), Sontag extends her arguments about the metaphors attributed to cancer to the AIDS crisis. Sontag explores how attitudes to disease are formed in society, and attempts to deconstruct them.

  7. The 48 Laws of Power - Wikipedia

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    39733201. Dewey Decimal. 303.3 21. LC Class. BD438 .G74 1998. Followed by. The Art of Seduction. The 48 Laws of Power (1998) is a self-help book by American author Robert Greene. [1] The book is a New York Times bestseller, [2] [3] selling over 1.2 million copies in the United States.

  8. Stranger in the Village - Wikipedia

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    Summary Leukerbad, Switzerland Baldwin relates his experiences in Leukerbad, a small, isolated Swiss village, in the summer of 1951. Residents of Leukerbad were fascinated by Baldwin's blackness; according to Baldwin they had never seen a black man before, thus making him a stranger in the village." Baldwin describes a kind of naive racism within the villagers: for example, children who shout ...

  9. Nurse Ratched - Wikipedia

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    Nurse Ratched (full name Mildred Ratched in the movie, also known as " Big Nurse ") is a fictional character and the main antagonist of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, first featured in Ken Kesey 's 1962 novel as well as the 1975 film adaptation. A cold, heartless tyrant, Nurse Ratched has become the stereotype of the nurse as a battleaxe.