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 Fictional character - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In various forms of theatre, performance arts and cinema (except for animation and CGI movies), fictional characters are performed by actors, dancers and singers.
The most extreme ways of reading fictional characters would be to think of them exactly as real people or to think of them as purely artistic creations that have everything to do with craft and nothing to do with real life.
Some fictional characters are so famous that they are often mentioned outside the context of the fictional work they come from.
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 Archive of fictional things
This is a (theoretically) all-encompassing list of fictional things created in the media.
List of fictional people who lived more than once
List of fictional people known by one name
pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/a/ar/archive_of_fictional_things.html   (310 words)

  
 Archive of fictional things - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of gay, lesbian, or bisexual figures in fiction and myth
List of characters in The Chronicles of Narnia
List of television shows set in Washington, D.C. See also: Lists of television shows by city setting; and List of movies for a list of movies set in specific locations.
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 List of fictional clergy and religious figures - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Clergy and other religious figures have generally represented a popular outlet for pop culture, although this has tapered in recent years.
Some of the more popular clergy, members of religious orders and other religious personages featured in works of fiction are listed below.
This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_fictional_media_religious_figures   (1648 words)

  
 BuzzMachine
Please give me a list of who you think is using blogs well to expand news coverage and in newsrooms and who’s using the internet well to change how news is gathered and distributed.
Those are the first eight digits that follow the decimal in the value of pi (3.14159265), which is an infinite number that represents the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.
Chris Anderson puts the list kerfluffle in context, arguing as I have that counting the top blogs is not only old-media think but is also a meaningless shuffle of unrelated things that share nothing more than the tool that created them:
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 Humor List Digest Thu Dec 19 03:00:57 EST 1996
The San Antonio Express-News reported in June that Sanchez figures the woman needs his testimony about how the agency was lax in its sexual harassment policy, and he figures his help is worth part of her winnings.
DNRC Enemies List ------------------- Recently, Martha Stewart was put on the DNRC Enemies "Watch List" until she provided us with a festive way to dispose of little Poppin' Fresh, who, as you know, is a mortal enemy of the DNRC.
She is a deeply religious woman who was experiencing a thirty year run of bad luck that would make anyone question their faith.
www.scumpa.com /pipermail/humor/1996-December/001125.html   (14481 words)

  
 ENGLISH ENCYCLOPAEDIA - Archive of fictional things   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Fictional characters who are Jewish • List of Jewish superheroes • List of fictional media religious figuresList of fictional priests •; List of fictional rabbis
Fictional characters known by their initials • Fictional characters who have an asteroid named after them • Fictional characters known as The Great • Fictional characters predominantly seen wearing sunglasses • List of fictional people known by one name • List of fictional people who smoke
• Death as a fictional character • List of mythological pairs • List of Greek mythological characters • List of Celtic mythological beings • List of deities
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 2001 Annual Meeting: China and Inner Asia Sessions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Writing about exemplary figures began to proliferate in the late Song, as the state increased its awards to "righteous men, faithful women, filial children, and obedient grandchildren" and local elites worked to enshrine exemplars from their towns.
Religious communities such as the Zhendong Gong provide illuminating examples of how traditional religious groups evolve, adapt and perpetuate themselves amidst the conditions of the modern world.
The female figure has a dual function: she is man’s signifying other for his construction of social-national discourse, and she is man’s imagined self for his inner exploration of psychological desire or loss.
www.aasianst.org /absts/2001abst/China/Sessions.htm   (17919 words)

  
 Archive of fictional things -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
This is a (theoretically) all-encompassing list of (A literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact) fictional things created in the media.
List of (A woman who is considered to be dangerously seductive) femme fatales
List of (A place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings) mythical places
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/A/Ar/Archive_of_fictional_things.htm   (6027 words)

  
 Stefan Isaksson - New Religious UFO Movements : Extraterrestrial Salvation in Contemporary America - AnthroBase
Religious groups that differ from the contemporary religious culture, be that Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism etc., are defined in various ways, some more accurate than others.
My intent with this paper is to show that labeling all religious movements that use the ETH as a basis for their ideology, mixed with both traditional and non-traditional religious elements, is both invalid and unjust.
As is characteristic of charismatic figures in many religious movements, most accounts of her life are rather sketchy and there is a lack of an accurate chronology, a deliberate move by Unarians since it is Ruth's messages, not her life details, that are of importance.
www.anthrobase.com /Txt/I/Isaksson_S_01.htm   (19742 words)

  
 MATERIAL VS. SUBJECTIVE AFFLUENCE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The initial studies described a surprising contradiction between the wealth of the U.S. news media system, which is organized on a commercial model that has reaped enormous profits, and the poverty of the young adult audience experience, which encountered newspapers that discouraged political engagement and television newscasts that invited their outright disdain.
Before long the media began to replace the images of the poor and oppressed for images of advantage-takers and frauds — people who already owned land and were on the list of landless were denounced, and [the media] began to discredit the movement.
Among the well-off participants, media consumption itself becomes a symbol of citizenship when the media are perceived as functioning to endow consumers with a role in voting or selecting political leaders.
www.uic.edu /depts/comm/lifehist/HTML/TextC-BarSamCor.html   (15868 words)

  
 Archive of fictional things - Iridis Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Fictional characters from cartoons, comics, or graphic novels:
List of television shows set in Washington, D.C. See also: List of movies for a list of movies set in specific locations.
Cryptid (not strictly fictional, but lacks proof of existence)
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 Problems that the New Media bring to the Study of Religion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
I suggested that I'd speak to you about some of the religious trends appearing as a result of this second revolution in publishing and disseminating information, in order to look at some of the initial methodological problems associated with investigating religious expression on the Internet.
This is a brief list of a sense of self that is emerging out of the near-virtual world.
The Internet is all forms of media rolled into one and as such requires a multidisciplinary analysis to account for it's many forms of expression.
www.clas.ufl.edu /users/gthursby/fonda/reldemo.html   (4947 words)

  
 The Smoking Room: MEDIA Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
He was also one of the strongest skeptics of blogging, and how it could shape media coverage, probably because they announce their views right away.
Additionally, doubts concerning official influence over media content emerged with the disclosures that several political commentators received grants from federal agencies, and that the Bush administration had significantly increased the practice of distributing government-produced news segments.
But I haven't seen a single mainstream story that mentions one crucial element - her husband's behavior that has led her parents to be so skeptical of his truthfulness and motives - and it says a lot about what is considered relevant to a story by the journalism pack.
www.gregpiper.com /archives/cat_media.html   (7483 words)

  
 The Watchman Expositor: Index of Cults and Religions
The absence of a religious movement from this index does not mean that Watchman Fellowship endorses the organization.
While many chiropractors are not engaging in alternative religious activities via their practice, critics claim that some chiropractors engage in chiropractic medicine in accordance with the Taoist principle of facilitating the flow of chi.
Becoming increasingly controversial and bizarre, Miller's group drew national media attention in 1998 when over 50 followers fled the Denver area and disappeared after Miller predicted the Apocalypse was to begin and that Denver was to be destroyed by an earthquake on October 10.
www.watchman.org /cat95.htm   (14256 words)

  
 Archive of fictional things - Enpsychlopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
1.2 Fictional characters from specific works or series
1.2.2 Fictional characters from cartoons, comics, or graphic novels:
1.2.3 Fictional characters from animation, television, or movies:
www.grohol.com /psypsych/Archive_of_fictional_things   (475 words)

  
 Considerettes
But unlike a fictional movie where blood and guts come from a writer's imagination or a director's preference, the violence in this movie is basically a retelling of events as they happened.
I guess it's OK to make movies based on religious figures that make no pretense of accuracy, but try to be true to the text and the detractors come out of the woodwork.
Wilson was an analyst, not a spy, not a covert operative and not in charge of undercover operators." This, in spite of all the titles the media gave her to the contrary.
www.thepaytons.org /essays/considerettes/2004_02_01_archive.html   (8879 words)

  
 archive of fictional things   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
1.13.2 Fictional characters from cartoons, comics, or graphic novels:
1.13.3 Fictional characters from animation, television, or movies:
1.13.4 Fictional characters from games or video games:
www.yourencyclopedia.net /archive_of_fictional_things.html   (331 words)

  
 Belmont Club: June 2004
Perhaps President Bush is too polarizing a figure to achieve that; perhaps the current crop of Democratic candidates are too narrow to see that their world has ended forever.
Irving Kristol listed out a classic set of of rules for polemicists, people who are trying to set out a particular set of ideas.
I feel sorry for the wife, the son, the daughter and family of the engineer when they saw him kicked and shout down in that film as I feel sorry for the Iraqi Shia youth's families whose bodies mutilated then given back to their beloved ones.
belmontclub.blogspot.com /2004_06_01_belmontclub_archive.html   (15627 words)

  
 NewsMax.com: Inside Cover Story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Not content with slandering Mel Gibson, the Bible and Jesus Christ, the media elite are now gearing up to slander even more religious and political figures who profess Jesus Christ as their divine savior, writes Dr. Tom Synder in a release issued by Movieguide.
Finally, filmmaker John Sayles is wrapping up a fictional satire of America's political system that focuses on a bumbling scion of a conservative political dynasty who's running for governor in Colorado.
The lesson of this, Synder says, is that the Hollywood propaganda demonstrates the principle that whoever controls the media controls the culture and elects the politicians who appoint the judges who shape our political, social and legal rules and laws.
www.newsmax.com /archives/ic/2004/4/8/213004.shtml   (475 words)

  
 Jewish Media Resources
Jewish Media Resources is a leading media organization dedicated to furthering an understanding of Torah Judaism.
Jewish Media Resources works with foreign journalists stationed in Israel and with local journalists by providing access to leading figures within the Orthodox Jewish community in Israel, and with information and insights about the community.
Jonathan Rosenblum, director of Jewish Media Resources, also serves as an English-language spokesman for the Orthodox Jewish community with foreign journalists.
jewishmediaresources.org   (91 words)

  
 Harry Kemelman
Harry Kemelman (1908-1996) was an American mystery writer and a rabbi.Harry Kemelman was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1908.
He was the creator of perhaps one of the most famous of religious sleuths: Rabbi David Small.After having received a BA in English Literature and a MA at Harvard in English philology, he taught in a number of schools before the Second World War.
He was also an assistant professor at Boston State College in the 1960s.His writing career began with short stories for Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine featuring New England college professor Nicky Welt, the first of which, The Nine Mile Walk, is considered a classic.The start of the Rabbi Small series begun in 1964.
www.bookreportforfree.com /365539_harry-kemelman_08161434711finedaytherabbiboughtacrosslargeprintwherecaniselloldbook.html   (555 words)

  
 List Of Famous Jews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
This page is a list of people identified as Jews, either by themselves or by others.
It also does not take into account whether those listed acknowledge their Jewish identity or origins.
In many cases the individuals listed may have only one Jewish parent.
www.allnerdsandgeeks.com /index.FamousJews.html   (778 words)

  
 Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Lists
This section will be updated as often as possible with several new lists at a time.
A List of Five Favorite Heresies of the Roman Catholic Church, Disguised in the Form of Unused Episode Titles for the Hit Situation Comedy Friends, and Their Dates
Track List of an Air Supply Greatest Hits Compilation in an Alternate Universe Where the Concept of "Love" Is Expressed by the Words Partially Hydrogenated Corn Syrup
www.mcsweeneys.net /links/lists   (6742 words)

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