Horror movies consistently reflect metaphorical associations between verticality and affect, as well as between brightness and affect. For example, bad events happen when movie characters are going downwards, or when lights go off. Monsters and villains emerge from below and from the darkness. And protagonists get lost and stuck in dark underground caves, dungeons, tunnels, mines, bunkers or se...

BACKGROUND In Choma District, southern Zambia, the neonatal mortality rate is approximately 40 per 1000 live births and, although the rate is decreasing, many deliveries take place outside of formal facilities. Understanding local practices during the postnatal period is essential for optimizing newborn care programs. METHODS We conducted 36 in-depth interviews, five focus groups and eight ob...

Caliban, the ‘enemy Other’ of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, is a character that allows further investigations colonial ideology in its earliest forms; locating ‘evil’ forces outside continent Europe and White race. only non-European character, typified as autocratic antagonist play whose evil intentions actions cannot be redeemed. Against such representation, essay argues villainous discou...

This paper attempts to present the Taoist understanding of evil. In the Taoist tradition, especially in Tao Te Ching, evil is divided into two categories: causal evil and consequential evil. Causal evils are those evils that are said to be the causes of other evils; consequential evils are those that are said to be the consequences of the causal evils. Causal evils originate from human will, an...