Virtual Essay: This is How You Become Number One: Some Very Helpful Thoughts and Drawings by Alex Egner

the present study is a survey os postmodern historical novel with respect to the voice of women. it argues how the recorded history is regulated by the rules of power and how women have been excluded from this discourse.ther study analysez angela carters nights at the circus as an example of postmodern historical novel to illustrate how this novel has questioned the historical narrative and how it has inserted women into history by breaking the rules of patriarchy.

the present thesis is a study of postmodern historical novel with respect to the voice of women. according to postmodern historiography,the established institution of history is one of the other manifestations of patriarchys power which has silenced women. the study analyzes angela carters nights at the circus as a postmodern historical novel which makes its female characters transgress the pat...

How many thoughts can you think?

In ordinary computer programmes, the relationship between data in a machine and the concepts it represents is de ned arbitrarily by the programmer. It is argued here that the Strong AI hypothesis suggests that no such arbitrariness is possible in the relationship between brain states and mental experiences, and that this may place surprising limitations on the possible variety of mental experie...

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‘How would you call this in English?’

INTRODUCTION Medical education researchers increasingly collaborate in international teams, collecting data in different languages and from different parts of the world, and then disseminating them in English-language journals. Although this requires an ever-present need to translate, it often occurs uncritically. With this paper we aim to enhance researchers' awareness and reflexivity regardin...

How does one become a family physician?

No doubt there are as many reasons for becoming a family physician as there are family physicians. Some would say that they inherited the gene from their fathers or mothers, who were family physicians before them; it was their destiny. Some remember physicians who inspired them to pursue this path by setting a wonderful example: their own family physicians or the physicians who practised in the...