Abstract Aristophanes in his comedy the Acharnians educates crowd that he creates as a character on stage, well gathered to watch comedy, about what is truly their interest: peace allows them be happy by satisfying longings for good food and frequent sex. I suggest, invoking medieval language of vox populi dei , (like politicians demagogues today) competes become one who gives people voice. His...

The widely shocking attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11 was interpreted differently by various institutions worldwide, ranging from America's legitimate motive to begin a 'war on terror' to defend her 'very freedom', to a pretext for Bush administration to pursue G. H. W. Bush's temptation for 'a new world order'. Various institutions, therefore, made use of their...

The last two plays of Aristophanes show a world that for the first time in the development of Western civilization can reasonably be called secular. The secularity of Ecclesiazusae and Plutus lies in their presenting human individuality as containing in its activity the various aspects of the life of the polis, more thoroughly than the gods who presided over them. The gods do not thereby vanish...

"Felix Mitchell is the biggest drug dealer ever here. He made history in Oakland, Calif.," Owen said. "He's a hero..." He is accused of masterminding the distribution of millions of dollars in heroin and ordering the deaths of five rivals during Oakland's 1980 drug war. But to Owen and scores of kids growing up, as Mitchell did, in East Oakland's bleak 69th Avenue housing projects, Felix Mitche...

Abstract Andrew Eiva, an ardently anti-Soviet, right-wing lobbyist in Washington DC during the Soviet-Afghan War of 1980s and final stages Soviet Lithuania early 1990s, was a true believer, pro-US Cold crusader. A clear example ethnic anti-communist, Eiva’s goal to free from Russian-imposed communist control, he saw as means that end. Eiva represents strand thinking (and acting) within US forei...

Website: www.jaim.in “All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to fi nd that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.” This quote by a British writer is very true of Vaidyachudamani Madhav Vasudev Kolhatkar, because his vision for Ayurveda and...

Many of us have an image of a classic anthropological approach to dreams: in "traditional" cultures, dreams are used to predict the future; dreams are part of "folk healing;" dreams are a social phenomenon. As the anthropologist Ellen Basso has put it, folk dream theories tend to be "progressive" or forward-looking, in contrast to the "regressive" Western dream theory, which uses dreams as a wi...