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  made man
The made man now enjoys the protection of the Mafia establishment as long as he remains in favour and a previously agreed percentage of his criminal earnings are passed further up the hierarchy.
To attack, let alone kill, a made man for any reason without the permission of those mafioso higher up in the organisation is seen as a cardinal sin which will normally meet with severe retaliation, in many cases regardless of whether the perpetrator has a legitimate grievance.
The made man was traditionally seen as untouchable by the law as well as by his fellow criminals, a man to be respected and feared.
www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/Made_man.php   (496 words)

  
  SUMMA THEOLOGICA: Is it true that "Man was made God"?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Therefore man was made the Son of God.
For although "this man" was not made God, because this suppositum, viz.
Hence when it is said that "Man was made God," the being made is not attributed to the human nature but to the suppositum of the human nature, Which is God from eternity, and hence it does not befit Him to be made God.
www.newadvent.org /summa/401607.htm   (706 words)

  
 Made Man Review
Made Man is a story of friendship, betrayal and greed told in seventeen action-packed chapters that span three decades, from the blood-soaked jungles of '60s Vietnam to the grime and high-rise hell of '70s and '80s New York City.
You'd have to be a Made Man to survive Silverback and Mastertronic's mafia shooter...
If Made Man had been a hyper realistic title then we could forgive the fact that Joey is still often shot when hiding behind cover, but as it stands the game is a frenzied action title that needs the sanctuary of cover and rarely provides it.
www.totalvideogames.com /articles/Made_Man_Review_10950_3853_0_0_10_0.htm   (1412 words)

  
 SUMMA THEOLOGICA: Is it true that "God was made man"?
It would seem that this is false: "God was made man." For since man signifies a substance, to be made man is to be made simply.
To be made man is to be made simply, in all those in whom human nature begins to be in a newly created suppositum.
Hence, although this is false, "God was made the Person of the Son of God," yet this is true: "God was made man" by being united to human nature.
www.newadvent.org /summa/401606.htm   (653 words)

  
 Made Man (ps2: 2007): Reviews
Made Man is based on real-world events and will allow players to assume the role of Joey Verola as he is indoctrinated into the dark world of organized crime and relive his life - every moment, every kill - as he rises through the ranks to become a "Made Man".
While it doesn't to a lot wrong, Made Man's inability to do anything right leaves a drab and boring experience that, given the abundance of vastly superior alternatives, is best avoided by all but the most undemanding fans.
Made Man's combat is as boring as daytime television, and all you do is fight.
www.metacritic.com /games/platforms/ps2/interviewwithamademan   (515 words)

  
 Penguin Reading Guides | Self-Made Man | Norah Vincent
Remaking herself as a man named Ned, Vincent exposes the truth by experiencing it; the men she meets, as well as the man she becomes, not only alter her perceptions of the opposite sex forever, but, in doing so, deeply affect her understanding of women and herself.
Living as a man taught me a lot about the things I most enjoyed about being a woman in the world, things I consider to be the privileges of womanhood—the emotional freedom, the range of expression, the sexual and social power we can exercise over men.
When a man does something like this now, I connect again with all the vulnerability that I felt as a man in front of women, and I remember all the conversations I had with the men in my men’s group about their need to take care of and protect women.
us.penguingroup.com /static/rguides/us/self_made_man.html   (2589 words)

  
 A Self-Made Man by Stephen Crane
Rainy days made him feel that he was walking on frozen dollars, although he had only to think for a moment to discover he was not.
On the sidewalk the old man went into a spasm of delight and called his attorney all the admiring and endearing names there were to be had.
The old man, with his quantities of sage-bush, thought Thomas owned all the virtues mentioned in high-class literature, and his opinion, too, was of commercial value.
www.geocities.com /stephen_crane_us/selfmademan.html   (1837 words)

  
 Man in Flight   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
The balloon, made of linen, used burning wool and straw to create the hot air, which made the balloon rise.
Worldwide scientists, experimenters, and theorists made significant discoveries about the properties of flight, but it was Orville and Wilbur Wright who made man's flight a reality.
Today, man's flying machines can be highly developed fighting machines, a high-speed mode of transportation, and still ignite man's dreams of flight-this time right out of the galaxy.
www.museumnetwork.com /features/12_18_highlight_maninflight.asp   (660 words)

  
 Made Man PS2 Review Index, Made Man Playstation 2 Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
But Made Man's crimes are far more offensive than simply being analogous to every other third-person shooter.
Ninjas carry guns, throwing grenades is a complete crapshoot, all the weapons feel the same, you're perpetually running out of ammo, you can't shoot through glass (you have to shoot it out first), and already robotic characters don't even move their mouths during in-game cut-scenes.
Made Man becomes more and more playable over its 17 levels as you adjust to the aiming quirks and figure out the best ways to exploit each situation, but it never becomes fun.
www.1up.com /do/reviewPage?cId=3158778   (892 words)

  
 Kenneth J. Winkle | Abraham Lincoln: Self-Made Man | Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 21.2
KENNETH J. Americans revere Abraham Lincoln as perhaps the nation's quintessential self-made man. His remarkable struggle to overcome humble beginnings and achieve the pinnacle of success remains one of the most cherished themes within the Lincoln legend and, indeed, within all of American history.
In the first book celebrating the self-made man, published in 1848, John Frost posed this definition: "A self-made man means one who has rendered himself accomplished, eminent, rich, or great by his own unaided efforts." The seeds of self-made success lay within the individual rather than society or a family.
It lies in the man; that is all anybody can tell you about it." Lincoln, of course, became the quintessential self-made man, as well as the greatest American cultural hero of all.
jala.press.uiuc.edu /21.2/winkle.html   (5076 words)

  
 Feature: Made Man Q&A - Kotaku
Newly rechristened as just Made Man and keen on storming the burgeoning value-priced PS2 shooter market it's sure to have you fans of The Sopranos in stitches.
Originally, Made Man was part of a trilogy and it may still be depending on sales.
In Made Man, we have this running voice-over telling you the story with some pretty good - not the best - but some pretty good dialogue telling you the story while you're actually playing.
www.kotaku.com /gaming/made-man/feature-made-man-qa-224503.php   (2325 words)

  
 The Self Made Man
As to the origin of his qualities of size and greatness, the notion seems to be current that they are the direct results of the frowns of fortune, which have deprived him of educational advantages and doomed him to travel to success by a road rugged with obstacles and difficulties.
The merit of the successful man who has struggled with difficulties and disadvantages must be judged by the kind of success he has achieved, by the use he makes of it, and by its effect upon his character and life.
The self-made man ought to see his course so plainly as to make it easy for him to avoid the wrong of sordidness in the possession of any of the rewards of his success.
chnm.gmu.edu /courses/magic/news/cleveland.html   (1191 words)

  
 Made Man (PlayStation 2) Reviews. PlayStation 2 Games Reviews by CNET.
Made Man tells the story of Joey Verola, a longtime Mafia crony who's on the verge of being "made." Most of the story is a series of flashbacks that Joey recants to a friend while they drive through New York.
If you painstakingly dig through Made Man's seemingly endless onslaught of poor design decisions and ugly problems, you might be able to spot a few things that come across as legitimately interesting or entertaining.
Made Man was all set to be canceled once, and it should have stayed that way.
reviews.cnet.com /Made_Man_PlayStation_2/4505-9581_7-31399711.html   (1336 words)

  
 VERY HEAVY CONVENTIONAL AERIAL BOMBS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
In sixty pages of text, fifty pages of tables and appendix, Wallis made his case for building extra large earth penetrating bombs as a means of bombing massive, oversized, deeply buried or extra hardened targets by transferring the maximum kinetic energy of the explosive into the relatively incompressible earth.
With roofs thought to be made of steel reinforced concrete up to 50 feet thick, these pens would have been impenetrable to the heaviest aerial bombs in existence.
The main lift cylinder was made of four telescoping sections with a total height range up to 150 inches with a 22,000lb Grand Slam bomb and to structural limits of 85 inches with the T-12.
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 Promise of Science: Man-Made Life
The role that man made life plays in science fiction film is often similar to the role that robots play, as some of the same moral conclusions are drawn.
Most often, man creates (or modifies) biological life and has to deal with the repercussions.
Replicants have been outlawed on Earth, because humans were made nervous by the idea of being eclipsed by their own creations.
www.umich.edu /~umfandsf/film/promise/man_made_life.html   (884 words)

  
 FilePlanet: Made Man Demo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Made Man is based on real-world events, allowing players to assume the role of Joey Verola as he is indoctrinated into the dark world of organized crime and relive his life -- every moment, every kill -- as he rises through the ranks to become a "Made Man".
The storyline spans three decades of his life, from the horror of Vietnam to the urban jungle of Brooklyn, with the missions written by best selling authority on the Mafia, David Fisher.
By continuing past this page, and by your continued use of this site, you agree to be bound by and abide by the User Agreement.
www.fileplanet.com /169131/160000/fileinfo/Made-Man-Demo   (233 words)

  
 Piltdown Man
Piltdown man was not an ancestor; it was not a case of erroneous interpretation; it was a case of outright deliberate fraud.
A comprehensive listing of the accusations, when they were made, who made them, and who the accused were can be found in Tom Turrittin's Piltdown man overview; it includes details not given here including the particulars of 30 separate books or papers making accusations.
Piltdown man has been the focus of many myths and misconceptions, many of which are assiduously repeated by creationists for whom Piltdown man is a popular club with which to assail evolution.
www.talkorigins.org /faqs/piltdown.html   (9516 words)

  
 Made Man Review - PlayStation 2
Welcome to the life of a man whose career in the mob has spanned three decades as he tells his tale of honor, blood and bullets.
Made Man for the PlayStation 2 does weave an interesting tale but when it comes to the action, this one comes close to swimming with the fishes.
He thinks this might be the day he is accepted into the family as a made man … or maybe this was the day he gets a bullet in the back of his head.
ps2.gamezone.com /gzreviews/r30061.htm   (1337 words)

  
 Man
Because Adam was made in the image of God, and we are his descendents, we are different than the animals.
Being made in God's image means that we have a soul, that we can reason, know God, worship Him, and love Him.
God is concerned with man. Man is the object of God's creative and redemptive work.
www.carm.org /bible/man.htm   (754 words)

  
 Man-Made Woman
She loses her head (a Freudian castration image, which here can be read as suggesting Kokoschka's fear of the phallic doll he has had made) and is covered in red wine, a metaphor for blood.
She cannot speak; she in entrapped even as she is decorated, wearing at once too much and too little, dressed up and dressed down, naked and rendered mute, added to and subtracted from, but most of all entrapped.
Here the combination of desire and fear, the latter made clear in the images of abusive restraint, are combined in a fetishistic and spectacular presentation.
www.lib.latrobe.edu.au /AHR/archive/Issue-Sept-1996/stratton.html   (1340 words)

  
 ABC News: A Self-Made Man
In an extraordinary feat of acting, disguise and guts, Vincent lived among men — as a man — for 18 months to see what life was like on the other side of the gender divide.
There are a lot of women out there who really want a manly man, and they want his stoicism," she said.
Ironically, Vincent said, it took experiencing life as a man for her to appreciate being a woman.
abcnews.go.com /2020/Entertainment/story?id=1526982   (1714 words)

  
 Self Made Man   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
The powerful image of the rugged “Self Made Man,” chiseling himself out of a solid block of rock captures the essence of the freedom philosophy – that left to his own devices, man will use his God-given talents to be creative, productive, and prosperous.
Bobby Carlyle is very much the epitome of the “Self Made Woman.” A mother of seven, she is a hard-working survivor who has raised a large family on her own, and prospered through her own efforts, using her own hands to express in sculpture her creative genius.
Carlyle for allowing us to adopt her powerful symbol of the Self Made Man to help us communicate to the world this highly intangible idea of the freedom philosophy.
www.fundingfreedom.com /selfmade.htm   (238 words)

  
 Chapter 13 - The LORD made MAN, as "Male", In God's Own Image - God's "Original" Plan For Marriage - TruthBearer.Org -- ...
And so truly, God made MAN in His own image, not woman (as wondrous a blessing and glory though she surely is!).
Indeed, it is a false spirit which seeks to destroy man and woman with advancing such a false concept, to therewith prevent men from hearing and applying the calling to them to so profoundly love their wives as selflessly giving and compassionately as the Lord Jesus Christ Himself so loves the Churches!
Man is made in the image of God, while the woman is the glory of the man.
www.truthbearer.org /doctrine/original-plan-for-marriage/13   (477 words)

  
 Made Man (PC) - Review - Made Man - Playfuls.com - Play your life!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
That could've been Made Man. And it is, for several minutes, during the installation process, partially as we wander through the menu, and unnoticed while the introductive sequence unfolds before our eyes.
   Made Man is the perfect example of "do as you're told" and "walk the line we drew it for you" kind of situations.
The levels linearity is assured against one's need to explore, by establishing the doors that can be opened - and which someone mysteriously locks them behind us - as well as severing the main character's ability to jump.
www.playfuls.com /gamespace_1934_review_8757_Made_Man.html   (428 words)

  
 Made Man
Made Man is a third-person action game set in the world of organized crime that looks and plays a lot like Mafia from a few years ago.
You play a thug named Joey Verola, killing and maiming your way through the Mafia toward the ultimate goal of becoming a "made" man (seen Goodfellas?).
This short demo for Made Man includes an introduction cut scene and one level.
www.playwhat.com /GameDetails/silverback/mademan.html   (79 words)

  
 AskMen.com - Organizational structure
He will be introduced by an associate or a made man as a "friend of mine," meaning the made man vouches for him.
Along the way, the made man will groom Tony and slowly guide him in the ways of La Cosa Nostra, but never will he reveal the inner details of the Family or its secrets.
A made man still doesn't know if he can provide Tony with more profitable jobs, and he doesn't want to get pinched in case Tony is an informer, so it's up to Tony to show him the cash flow to gain his trust.
www.askmen.com /money/mafioso_60/79_mafia.html   (645 words)

  
 A Labor Newspaper Derides the Myth of the Self-Made Man
One of the prime frustrations of labor organizers in the late 1800s was the powerful myth that every American could attain untold riches if sufficiently hardworking and ambitious.
The faith that some workers had in this mythology of the “self-made man” inhibited unionization and the spread of radical ideology.
When our moneyed classes, especially during the Secession war and the great tidal wave of immigration of European laborers, found out that living and gathering riches on the half-paid toil of workers was a pleasant thing they had no further scruples.
historymatters.gmu.edu /d/5006   (543 words)

  
 man-made fiber --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
About half of the textiles produced in the world are made from man-made fibers.
Hundreds of these materials have been studied during the past 100 years, but only about a dozen have properties good enough—and are priced low enough—to compete successfully with the natural fibers such as cotton, wool, silk, and flax.
The class of acrylic fibers is made from polymers of acrylonitrile.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9274300?tocId=9274300   (790 words)

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