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  Category:Lists of fictional characters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of characters in The Chronicles of Narnia
List of fictional characters on the autistic spectrum
List of mythical and religious beings appearing in fictional context
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Lists_of_fictional_characters   (264 words)

  
 Journalist - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Regardless of medium, the term journalist carries a connotation or expectation of professionalism in reporting, with consideration for truth and ethics although in some areas, such as the downmarket, scandal-led tabloids, the standards are deliberately negated.
Jacob Riis (1849-1914) - journalist and slum reformer
In the superhero subgenre, journalists may be among the first to have news of disasters and crimes, easing complications arising from maintaining a secret identity.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Journalist   (1340 words)

  
 Journalist - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Regardless of medium, the term journalist carries a connotation or expectation of professionalism in reporting, with consideration for truth and ethics.
In the superhero subgenre, journalists may be among the first to have news of disasters and crimes.
A clear case is Kermit the Frog in his news-reporter role on Sesame Street, but a journalist character is also useful in a fiction work about a country or a culture strange to an adult public.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Correspondent   (1376 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: List of fictional books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
A fictional book is a non-existent book (or one created specifically for a work of fiction) that sometimes provides the basis of the plot of a story, or a common thread in a series of books or the works of a particular writer or canon of work.
This is a list of works of fiction written in diary format: Bridget Joness Diary by Helen Fielding Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph by Frances Sheridan Pamela...
In J. Tolkiens fictional universe of Middle-earth, Rúmil was a Loremaster of the Ñoldor living in the city of Tirion.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-fictional-books   (4877 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: List of fictional journalists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Attributing the profession of journalist to a fictional character allows many possibilities for the author: Reporters may travel extensively and face adventures (like Tintin), are among the first to have news of disasters and crimes (like Clark "Superman" Kent and Peter "Spider-Man" Parker), are supposed to be good at establishing communication.
The Daily Bugle is a fictional New York City newspaper that is a regular fixture in the Marvel Universe.
April ONeil and the TMNT April ONeil is a fictional character in the Mirage Studios franchise Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-fictional-journalists   (2115 words)

  
 Jouvert 5.3 -- Nandita Ghosh, "Fixing the Language, Fixing the Nation"
In the fiction, the underclass may be brutalized by its inability to access the power available through English, but it also becomes visible in the gaps established by the inability of the English language to translate its experiences.
For example, Puran, a journalist who travels to Pirtha, is stunned by the fact that adivasis have no word in the Ho language for exploitation because nothing within their societies remotely resembles the indignities they suffer from mainstream culture.
These journalists list the number of activities undertaken by the government to ostensibly promote Urdu: creation of Urdu professorships, awarding of prizes to Urdu writers, its inclusion as an Indian language under Schedule VIII of the Constitution, the holding of two All India Conferences, and the conducting of several signature campaigns and official commissions.
social.chass.ncsu.edu /jouvert/ghosh.htm   (10774 words)

  
 UOL Busca: fictional languages dictionary
This is a fictional hypertext, an English language story with...
Note: Fictional details from the Myst franchise follow, and may sometimes be referred to as facts.
A fictional universe is a cohesive imaginary world that serves as the setting or backdrop for one or (more commonly) multiple works of fiction.
radaruol.uol.com.br /www/index.html?num=20&lr=&q=fictional+languages+dictionary&start=60   (546 words)

  
 Associated Court Reporters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
You could also check Common words, searching for which is not possible for a list ofstop words and an index of articles named with stop words.
Reportars find thesources for their work; the reports can be either spoken or written; they are generally expected to report in the most objectiveand unbiased way to serve the public good.
Regardless of medium, the term journalist carries a connotation or expectation of professionalism in reporting, withconsideration for truth and ethics.
www.bodawg.com /point/32255-associated-court-reporters.html   (627 words)

  
 AmSAW Editorial - Free Speech or Kiddie Porn?
A list of fictional minors depicted in some state of nudity must include the girl in the Coppertone ad whose bathing suit is being tugged off her bottom by a dog, as well as paintings and sculptures by Donatello, Corregio, Titian, Degas, and Picasso.
Nevertheless, the final version of the CPPA banned sexual depictions involving several classes of fictional minors--adults who are portraying minors, realistic drawings of minors, and computer-generated images of minors.
Extending its censorship power to the realm of fictional minors impinges directly on the world of ideas, removing the sexuality of minors as old as 17 as a legitimate subject of representation.
amsaw.org /amsaw-0404editorial-FreeSpeechOrPorn.html   (1486 words)

  
 Lists Of Fictional Characters Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
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 MFD List - Real violence breeds violent acts, not fictional violence
Ashcroft is from Missouri, whose death house in Potosi Correctional Center recently hosted the death rattle of mentally frail Stanley Lingar, his homosexual preference emphasized by the prosecutor to the jury and his execution okayed by a governor who took care to tell reporters the morning after that he'd lost no sleep over his decision.
Of course, Ashcroft also favors the death penalty, sharing with most US politicians the refusal to see any contradiction between deploring fictional violence in the movies and on television while simultaneously endorsing ritual vengeance in the form of executions by the state.
Alexander Cockburn, one of America's best-known radical journalists, was born in Scotland and grew up in Ireland.
www.matus1976.com /mfdlist/mfdlist_realviolence_notfictional.htm   (2387 words)

  
 Humanities
•Compile a list of 5 citation indexes, 2 electronic sources, and 10 journals useful to humanities research.
•List of operational questions for individual project (at least 10).
(All works on this list should be read well before this date).
home.gwu.edu /~edrown/3012.htm   (2359 words)

  
 P4PD - Palestinians for Peace and Democracy
They (1) identify, report on, and protest clear journalistic failures by the US media in covering the conflict, and (2) help media outlets with access to pro-Palestinian points of view and voices for interviews, op-eds, or background discussions, whether in the United States, in Israel, or in the Occupied Territories.
CJMCC was established in 1988 by a group of Palestinian journalists and researchers to provide information on events in the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip.
The appendixes include lists of the best and worst depictions of Arabs in popular films, alternate titles, a list of epithets thrown at Arabs in films, and a list of the fictional locations used in films.
www.p4pd.org /media.html   (1327 words)

  
 Current Commentary
All of the evidence collected here suggests that journalists and commentators writing on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict have little excuse to continue repeating uncritically the claim that there was no Palestinian counter-offer at Camp David.
I was at Camp David, a member of the small American peace team, and I, too, was frustrated almost to the point of despair by the Palestinians' passivity and inability to seize the moment.
But there is no purpose - and considerable harm - in adding to their real mistakes a list of fictional ones.
www.warresisters.org /commentary_text3.htm   (8004 words)

  
 USUS - MOOs and MUDs as a tool for journalists online.
In these games the player would enter a fictional world with written descriptions of objects, tools and traps.
Especially the first category is interesting to journalists, who might discover that some MOOs, like MITs Media-Moo have world-renowned experts as their inhabitants.
Besides the list a number of relevant links are available on this really phenomenal site of MOOing.
www.usus.org /techniques/muds.htm   (1138 words)

  
 List of fictional journalists -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
List of fictional journalists -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
This list attempts to present fictional journalists sorted by country, and in a chronological order within countries:
Bryan Denton, reporter for the (Click link for more info and facts about New York Sun) New York Sun in Disney's musical (Click link for more info and facts about Newsies) Newsies.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/L/Li/List_of_fictional_journalists.htm   (696 words)

  
 [SPJ-Norcal] upcoming spj events
The mixer is brought to you by the Northern California chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
Her second novel is about a woman journalist covering conflict in the Middle East who is pulled from her journalistic neutrality when her colleague dies on the way to an interview.
Perhaps most unusual of all, Hamilton the journalist gets the fictional journalists just right." You can read more about Masha at her website, www.mashahamilton.com .
zaius.groupd.com /pipermail/spj-norcal/2005-January/000006.html   (683 words)

  
 Web Review: Bridging the Gap   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Those sites included have been picked for their breadth of information and knowledge, for their ability to bring up and deal with issues that aren't commonly discussed, or for certain practical functions that will help users make the transition in as smooth a way as possible.
Also worth checking out is a short list of fictional case studies that help illustrate how companies might go about sorting out their euro issues.
The site has a list of how each European country has fared over the past three years on meeting the requirements for monetary union.
home.uchicago.edu /~jiseppal/econ202/eurolinks.html   (2066 words)

  
 Weinberg Journalists in Fiction Collection in University of Missouri Special Collections
There are several scholarly works on the portrayal of journalists in novels.
A major exhibit at the Library of Congress in 1990, "Acquainted with the Night: The Image of Journalists in American Fiction" was mounted.
A list of titles arranged by author in the Weinberg Collection as of June 2005 has been prepared and is available through the links below.
www.umsystem.edu /spec/weinberg.htm   (208 words)

  
 RPGnet: The Inside Scoop on Gaming
What follows is a list of real and fictional personages who live in New Europa, and a paragraph on their achievements.
After a price-list (which is in an odd placement) and a list of NPCs in the setting (such as Auberon, Alexander Bell and Count Ferdinand Von Zepplin), there is advice on Dragon Characters (the most powerful possible in the game apparently), Dwarf (plural is dwarfs for some reason) characters and Faerie characters.
Kindly provided is a list of common heroic feats and their difficulties.
www.rpg.net /news+reviews/reviews/rev_6418.html   (3663 words)

  
 Equipo Nizkor - Guatemala's Fictional Democracy.
In a list of phenomena meant to illustrate how Latin American reality is more fantastic than anything found in fiction, Gabriel García Márquez included in his acceptance speech for the 1982 Nobel Prize a reference to a dictator committing genocide in the name of God.
The mission's charter was to end in January, when it would have had to leave the country, but its presence is so obviously needed that this fall its mandate was extended for another year.
This document has been published on 03Nov03 by the Equipo Nizkor and Derechos Human Rights, in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.
www.derechos.org /nizkor/guatemala/doc/fiction.html   (1127 words)

  
 Restricted movie ratings disregarded in school
On Maria's teacher's recommended viewing list, this fictional movie portrays the Bard using a good bout of sexual escapades to cure his writer's block.
Speaking specifically of the major sexual expletive, she explains "It is such a common everyday word now, it is simply a word that people are using" and sees no objection to showing films which include it.
In the school's recommended Pulp Fiction, that obscenity is uttered at least 260 times during its 154 minute running time.
www.gradingthemovies.com /html/parent_alerts/bp_student_eject.shtml   (1002 words)

  
 Doggy Talk :: John Gordon Ross :: I and My Circumstances   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
In other words, unless I am misunderstanding something here, Geoff considers that this is Skinnerian stimulus-response conditioning and that the dog in question is no more linguistically endowed than any other laboratory animal.
Geoffrey's sub-collar warmth is seemingly due to his feeling, that he is, like his "best friend Nathan," "so sick of crappy brain-dead reports by moron journalists about completely fictional animal communicative abilities." And it may be true that he is so afflicted.
It's hardly unusual for people who are knowledgeable about a subject to get upset about willful ignorance on the part of pop sci journalists or others who should know better.
www.johngordonross.com /Article6.htm   (922 words)

  
 100 Greatest Heroes and Villains
The ballot of 400 nominated films was the basis for the selected heroes/villains, either fact-based or fantastically-fictional.
However, Luke Skywalker (and Princess Leia) did not place in the top 50 Heroes list - they were superceded by Han Solo (#14) and Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi (#37).
Arnold Schwarzenegger was nominated twice in opposing roles as the android killer and protector robot: for the original The Terminator (1984), and again for Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991).
www.filmsite.org /afi100heroesvill.html   (1114 words)

  
 Journalist dives into bloody Middle East   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
She knows it as a journalist (for the Associated Press and the Los Angeles Times), she knows it as a resident -- the sights, sounds, smells of life and death seem to fill her every pore.
That might sound easy enough, but most journalists who create their fictional counterparts largely fail.
The novels turned out to be of such consistently high quality that a major New York City editor, Phyllis Grann of Putnam, persuaded Blue Hen's two founders, Fred Ramey and Greg Michalson, to come into her tent.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2004/11/21/RVG7T9PUO11.DTL   (609 words)

  
 John Seabrook -
A journalist is a person who practices journalism; that is, a journalist createsreports as a profession for broadcast or publication in mass media such as newspapers, television, radio, magazines, documentary film, and the Internet.
Society of Professional Journalists www.spj.org/ Society of Professional Journalists
This artikel Journalist is licensed under the GNU free Documentation License.
www.booksearchpricecomparison.com /510207_john-shirley_1892389134andtheangelwithtelevisioneyessummaryforbooks.html   (923 words)

  
 Why Many Marriages Fail
It is only journalists that can allow this moral and ethical degeneracy to happen today by being part of it.
As a result, they have world views that are more conducive to causing disasters in the physical world that their bodies live in.
There are so many basic value conflicts that people should list their values and compare the list with their intended spouse's.
www.analog-rf.com /marriage.shtml   (2559 words)

  
 Queen
Michael Shea, longtime press secretary to the Queen, pointed out that 98 percent of the publicity generated about the Royal Family is positive.
At times it has seemed paranoid, summoning editors for a dressing down (I have attended two such occasions), and at other times treating print journalists with disdain, hinting that television has much more impact on the public and can be more easily controlled through restricting access for the cameras.
In recent years, Prince Charles has set up his own, highly professional press office, which sometimes seems to be sending out a different message to the media than the one emanating from Buckingham Palace.
www.globaljournalist.org /old/Magazine/Queen-20023q.html   (1091 words)

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