Aristotle (Ancient Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης, Aristotélēs) (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology. Together with Plato and Socrates (Plato's teacher), Aristotle is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. Aristotle's writings were the first to create a comprehensive system of Western philosophy, encompassing morality, aesthetics, logic, science, politics, and metaphysics.
Aristotle's views on the physical sciences profoundly shaped medieval scholarship, and their influence extended well into the Renaissance, although they were ultimately replaced by Newtonian physics. In the zoological sciences, some of his observations were confirmed to be accurate only in the 19th century. His works contain the earliest known formal study of logic, which was incorporated in the late 19th century into modern formal logic. In metaphysics, Aristotelianism had a profound influence on philosophical and theological thinking in the Islamic and Jewish traditions in the Middle Ages, and it continues to influence Christian theology, especially the scholastic tradition of the Catholic Church. His ethics, though always influential, gained renewed interest with the modern advent of virtue ethics. All aspects of Aristotle's philosophy continue to be the object of active academic study today. Though Aristotle wrote many elegant treatises and dialogues (Cicero described his literary style as "a river of gold"), it is thought that the majority of his writings are now lost and only about one-third of the original works have survived.
Monte Johnson (born October 26, 1951) is a retired American football player. Johnson was selected by The Oakland Raiders during the second round of the 1973 NFL Draft as the 49th player selected overall. Johnson attended the University of Nebraska and went on to win two National Championships with Nebraska, and one Super Bowl with the Oakland Raiders. He considers the 1977 AFC Divisional Finals against the Baltimore Colts, a game known as, 'Ghost to the Post,' to be his greatest game. Johnson finished the game, which went to double overtime, with 20 tackles despite suffering a broken vertebrae during regulation. Johnson retired from professional football in 1980 after eight seasons in Oakland.
Martha Nussbaum (born Martha Craven; May 6, 1947) is an American philosopher with a particular interest in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, political philosophy and ethics.
Nussbaum, though not a lawyer, is currently Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, a chair that includes appointments in the Philosophy Department, the Law School, and the Divinity School. She also holds Associate appointments in Classics and Political Science, is a member of the Committee on Southern Asian Studies, and a Board Member of the Human Rights Program. She previously taught at Harvard and Brown.
Nussbaum was born in New York City, the daughter of George Craven, a Philadelphia lawyer, and Betty Warren, an interior designer and homemaker; during her teenage years, Nussbaum attended the Baldwin School in Bryn Mawr. She described her upbringing as "East Coast WASP elite...very sterile, very preoccupied with money and status". She would later credit her impatience with "mandarin philosophers" as the "repudiation of my own aristocratic upbringing. I don't like anything that sets itself up as an in-group or an elite, whether it is the Bloomsbury group or Derrida".
Joshua David Bell (born December 9, 1967) is an American Grammy Award-winning violinist.
Bell was born in Bloomington, Indiana, United States, the son of a psychologist and a therapist. Bell's parents were Shirley and Alan P. Bell, Professor Emeritus of Indiana University, in Bloomington, and a former Kinsey researcher. His father is of Scottish descent, and his mother is Jewish (his maternal grandfather was born in Israel and his maternal grandmother was from Minsk). Bell told The Jewish Journal, "I identify myself as being Jewish".
Bell began taking violin lessons at the age of four after his mother discovered that her son had taken rubber bands from around the house and stretched them across the handles of his dresser drawer to pluck out music he had heard her play on the piano. His parents got a scaled-to-size violin for their then five-year-old son and started giving him lessons. A bright student, Bell took to the instrument but lived an otherwise normal midwest Indiana life playing video games and excelling at sports, namely tennis and bowling, even placing in a national tennis tournament at the age of ten.
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Alfred spent years as a patient in a mental institution, surrounded by his past. His routine is interrupted when Aristotle, a young new patient with a murky history, is assigned to share his room. Was Aristotle a conscious decision made by his therapist, or perhaps a symptom of Alfred's own illness. Alfred's fears and his reluctance to share his room offer insights into his own past, as well as the past of his young protege, which somehow seems to echo his own. As they become learn about each other and themselves, it becomes increasingly difficult to discern whether these are two distinct individuals brought together by circumstances, or whether Aristotle is simply a ghost of Alfred's turbid past, come to life as part of his treatment.
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Half-witted longtime friends Albert (Luis Manzano), Isaac (Billy Crawford), Mozart "Mo" (DJ Durano), Michaelangelo "Mike" (Martin Escudero) and Aristotle "Aris" (Marvin Agustin) were used to living moronic yet pretty normal and hassle-free lives until successful career woman Becky Pamintuan (John Lapus) accused them of killing her father and ruin everything for them. The Moron 5 are more than sure of their innocence but for the life of them, they can't find any single satisfactory argument on how to prove it especially when their opponent would do everything to punish them for whim. Spending three miserable years in prison trying different failed comedic attempts to get out, they finally figured a way to escape. They stalked Becky and tried to understand why she's fighting so hard to have them imprisoned when it's clear as day that what happened three years ago was a nonsense frame-up. An opportunity came when Becky's driver got fired for having an affair with her maid and Albert volunteered to apply to replace him. He infiltrated the Pamintuan Residence and together with his four crazily daft friends, they've gathered information about the curious family yet to them, it isn't making any sense at all especially Becky's unexplained hatred to the five of them. Why is Becky fighting so hard to have them suffer? The Moron 5 will try their hardest to know and hopefully understand what's really going on although little did they know that by doing so, everything that they hold dear might be at risk.
Keywords: atm-machine, baptism, barbecue, big-brother, cameo, cat, cemetery, exotic-dancing, false-accusation, frame-up
Some are born great.
The Young Prince
The Adventures of Young Alexander
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A quirky look at the thought process of a young couple facing a decision regarding marriage. Gary loves Shawna, but everything in his gut tells him he's not ready for that next "big step." But fiery Shawna's beyond ready and with the added fuel of family and friends advising her, she sets out to convince Gary that it's now or never.
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With the assassination of his rowdy and bawdy father King Philip in 336 BC, Alexander gathers up his Home-Boy Macedonians (30,000 or so) and crosses the Hellespont to strike Darius and the Persian Horde. The Persians, of course, torched the Acropolis three generations earlier. The Greeks (and Macedonians) never forgot. During his herculean 12-year odyssey, Alexander succeeds in creating a world empire from the Danube to the Indus. Ever the glorious conqueror, he shows not only military genius, but compassion for the conquered. Alexander's women (aside from his mother Olympias) include his life-long consort, Barsine, who takes him on erotic / chemical "trips". There is also Roxanne, the Bactrian princess / wannabe dancer, his possessive first wife and True Love. His second marriage to Stateira, Darius' clueless daughter, doesn't set well with Roxanne, which starts the tragic time-clock ticking. Roxanne opts into a regime-changing scenario-- orchestrated back in Athens by Demosthenes and Macedonian rivals.
Keywords: betrayal, women
Re-Live the Legend !
In the fourth century before Christ, a young Macedonian prince led 30,000 armed and dangerous Greeks into Asia. . . .
Sometimes it's hard to tell your friends from your enemies
Jeff: The Beatles are like Steely Dan without the technology.::Leon: What's wrong with Steely Dan? I put them on the reel to reel whenever I take a date home.
Waitress: I like the early Beatles!
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The globe trotting trip that Henry Jones, Jr. sets out on in the early 1900s next takes him and his family to Russia. A few acts of clumsiness puts Indy at odds with his father who is greatly displeased with Indy. Indy runs away into the Russian countryside and wakes in the morning on a haystack. He encounters an odd, cantankerous old man named Leo Tolstoy, who is in full agreement that "hell" is other people. Both are running away to seek a simpler life. They cross the countryside, encountering colorful Gypsies and avoiding fierce Imperial Cossack troops. The hardships of the journey make Indy homesick, but he won't soon forget his journey with the stubborn old man. Indy's next destination is Greece, where his mother Anna realizes that father and son need to spend more time together. The two bristle at each other's company as they explore the sites of ancient Greece, but Henry finally reaches past Indy's impudence and stubbornness when the topic turns to philosophy and the teachings of Aristotle. A series of misadventures lead them to an isolated monastery perched high on the peak of a mountain. While studying in the library, Indy meets Nikos Kazantzakis, the writer who would some day write Zorba the Greek. Lessons on causality come in handy on the harrowing trip in a tiny cage reeled up a thousand-foot mountainside.
Keywords: adventurer, character-name-in-title, father, fedora, indiana-jones, mother, reference-to-aristotle, sequel, title-directed-by-female, travel
Anna Jones: [scolding their son] Henry, we are guests in this house.::Prof. Henry Jones, Sr.: Guests, Junior. Not rampaging barbarians.
Anna Jones: Your father will deal with you in the morning.::Indiana Jones: What's he gonna do?::Anna Jones: Have you shot in the morning. I will provide the blindfold.
Leo Tolstoy: You reeking little swine, how dare you shoot me in the ass!::Indiana Jones: I thought you were a giant weazle.::Leo Tolstoy: Do I look like a giant weazle? Is it my twitching snout? My long, hairless tail? Are all little English boys as stupid as you?::Indiana Jones: I'm not English, I'm American.::Leo Tolstoy: That explains it.
Indiana Jones: You have dogs? So do I. One I mean, her name's Indiana. I haven't seen her in over a year, though. 'Cause we've been traveling so much.::Leo Tolstoy: You miss her?::Indiana Jones: Yeah, you bet I do. Can't wait to see her when we get home. Wonder if she'll still remember me.::Leo Tolstoy: Of course she will. Dogs are better than people.
Leo Tolstoy: How dare you make me feel guilty!
Indiana Jones: Hey, they were calling you Tolstoy. I think my father has some of your books. Didn't you write that eh, that really big fat one about war?::Leo Tolstoy: And peace.::Indiana Jones: No kiddin'. My father thinks you're great!::Leo Tolstoy: Your dad's an imbicile.::Indiana Jones: He's usually not wrong about this stuff. You should ask him.
Leo Tolstoy: Do not try to see God through spectacles borrowed from the church. See God through your own eyes.
Indiana Jones: Father, I don't think that he understand your ancient Greek.::Prof. Henry Jones, Sr.: Well he should have understood it.
Indiana Jones: Father, I really doubt if a bus is even gonna come and if it does, there's probably only one a day and, and it's probably already gone!::Prof. Henry Jones, Sr.: Junior, you are now being cynical.::Indiana Jones: [beneath his breath] Yes sir.::Prof. Henry Jones, Sr.: See, after skepticism comes cynicism.
Indiana Jones: [Indy and his father are splashing around in a lake] I didn't even know you could swim.::Prof. Henry Jones, Sr.: There's a lot you don't know about me, Junior. [splashes water at his son] When I was five years old, I used to go swimming in a loch. Now that was cold!
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Johnny Boy, a psychotic young Chicago playwright, drives to New York to run down a phantom deal. Along for the ride are a drug dealing buddy named Aristotle and Johnny Boy's self-destructive sometimes girlfriend Anita. They hit the road and the road hits back. The drug-fueled all night drive devolves into sadistic mind games, sex games and finally violence. They don't all make it back to Chicago, but they all reach the end of the road.
Keywords: bathroom, beating, blood, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, breaking-and-entering, car, chicago-illinois, cigarette-smoking, cocaine, death
See my 1st move now I'm riding in a reager
Knew my brother go'n stash em when I seen him working the
beaker
Half of these niggas don't like me cause I wouldn't give em a
feature
Ion know y I past Spanish cause I was fucking my teacher
Just wanted me some bitches ain give a fuck about a beamer
Raised up in the projects they women live of the pizza
Niggas that had the money was the dope boys and the preacher
Always kept it Mina cause ain never been Visa
13 in a half was the age I tried the reefer
1st broad that I painted I fucked her right out the freezer
1st car that I stole was a two toat El Camino
Bitch hating on ya for nun they did the same thang to Jesus
Nigga don't wanna be Malcolm they wanna be Al Pacino
They ain't got shit on a nigga they charge yo ass with the Rico
Nigga that write it on me I seen I'm hollering bingo
4 4 on it now riding round in a 4-door
Heard them people lying and they riding and taking photo
Just called my lil bitch told her I wanna fuck her to peephole
Calling me bout the work then u better b using lingo
Fucking was in u bitch now she got me speaking bilingual
Hoe just ran out of dealers she hit they ass for some new clothes
I told em I'm buying them all I paid all in Sino
Cupids they wasn't ready we waited it out in coco
Shot a nigga this time we gone rob ya ass on the next go
Shout out to all the niggas on the yard that got a cellphone
All my soldiers that's in they got that shit in the chokehold
Anything dealing with me they gone put yo ass on the door though
Got letter from 1 of my shooters they shipped him to Colorado
Only thang that he want is a couple dollars and some photo
If I ever happen to go broke then I'm going to get me a drop hoe
Remember siting in the trap while I'm off that no door
Diesel was round the corner I was tryna get me some 2 4
Time done changed now niggas cool with squealing
Where I'm from it's bad some' like a religion
Sell dope 'til I make it that was my only vision
Half of my niggas dead other half in the penitentiary
Shit 21 that was my only bison
Hardhead all my life cause ain never like to listen
All I remember as a jit was waking up getting evicted
Still driving my shit even though my license suspended
Remember being on a lick the 1st time I seen a camenion
They asked me where all the yoppers I told em go ask my enemy
Will just let em talk but I refuse to let em kill me
They denied his 1st bond I guess God ignored his wishes
Detective asking u questions it just mean that they fishing
Thank about it all u want but all u niggas can get it
Most of these niggas lie that y I keep em up out my business
U think that he might b seeing u better take out the witness
Message to all u pussies u want it nigga come get it
1 of the fewest rappers that rapped about it done lived it
Y is he so emotional he just got in his feelings
Lot of these niggas gone I been fish grease for a minute
Half of these niggas faking it the jewler told all ya business
U ain't talking to me if u never tried to kill him
If I ever said u flaw then guess what I meant it
Y ion fuck with them niggas cause me n them niggas different
Last shootout I was in it last for 30 minutes
Bruh told me to turn up fuck it they keep on spitting