A trope for the mode of individual self-expression analogous regional character(s) American South in William Faulkner’s short story, The Tall Men (1941), rule solus ipse corresponds to state a fallen world fears, anxieties, and uncertainties surmounted betwixt World Wars. Binding characterization with his contemporaneous literary equivalents era, ‘solipsism’ appeared as an existential niche def...

Objective: How people use social rank (dominance vs prestige) could explain different attitudes toward five moral foundations. This study aimed to investigate the differential relationships between prestige, dominance, and Methods: was conducted on 150 participants who responded foundation questionnaire dominance-prestige scale. Results: Multiple regression analysis revealed that prestige posit...

As reported in the 2011 World Drug Report, cocaine is likely to be the most problematic drug worldwide in terms of trafficking-related violence and second only to heroin in terms of negative health consequences and drug deaths. Over a period of 60 years, cocaine evolved from the celebrated panacea of the 1860s to outlawed street drug of the 1920s. As demonstrated by the evolution of cocaine use...

Introduction By 1909, when Dewey celebrated his fi ft ieth birthday, he had long since augmented the pragmatic ideas of Charles Peirce and William James and forged from them a powerful method of philosophical, social, and educational critique and reconstruction. James had labeled him a philosophical hero and his ideas were inspiring leading philosophers and progressive era reformers. Following ...

Throughout the fin de siècle, medical research institutes increasingly hallmarked “modernity” across industrialized nations and their colonies. While the reification of these “veritable laboratory Xanadus” as insular centres for pure science has recently been questioned, the absence of such facilities in Australia prior to the First World War had enduring ramifications for public, political and...