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234 days ago
My objective is to focus on character development, specifically how an author uses physical features, as for example facial features, to bring a character or event to life and how by doing this she brings me into her world. I have chosen two works each related to Virginia Woolf: Carlyle’s House and Other Sketches (1909) and Night and Day (1919). Carlyle’s House is a monograph in a form critiqued by David Bradshaw and with a forward by Doris Lessing, published by Hesperus in 2003. Lessing, the well known author and Nobel Laureate provides an incisive comment on Woolf’s early writing and describes the work as: “These pieces are like five-finger exercises for future excellence. Not that they are negligible, being lively, and with the direct and sometimes brutal observations, the discriminations, the fastidious judgment one expects from her…” D avid Bradshaw MA, D.Phil., FEA is well-known , as Reader in English Literature at Oxford University ...
387 days ago
A THEORY OF COPYRIGHT PART 1 The objects of our creative efforts extend to as far as we dare to venture. Our imagination serves as the boundary, otherwise no bounds exist in the realm of the mind—except perhaps at those folds where we may be gripped by fear. Seneca says, “Nothing is terrible in things except fear itself”. We should remember that the mediums through which we express our soul are not to be feared, but sanctified. Some ideas may be dangerous, as they might be for those who live in the dangerous corners of the world. However, most forms of expression are politically benign. After all we mostly express ourselves simply to get from one end of the day to the other; sometimes verbally, but also in other ways. Someone preparing a meal experiments with new tastes, new aromas or new presentations. They give meaning to the concept expression. We write a letter drawing upon experience and language to console a friend in a time of personal ...
387 days ago
A THEORY OF COPYRIGHT PART 2 Copyright does not protect the utilitarian features of an artifact expressed in a tangible medium. For instance an ash tray may have an aestetic feature such as its shape and perhaps an emblem in its well, but copyright only covers the shape and emblem aspects of the article, not its function and the accompanying features that make it an ash tray. So as previously indicated, if I explain how to make rubber, I cannot stop anyone from making or using the rubber so produced. As the Supreme Court has explained in numerous cases “ the teachings of science and the rules and methods of useful art have their final end in application and use and this application and use are what the public derive from the publication of a book which teaches them....” [1] Therefore the description of a machine design in a book secured by copyright lays no foundation for an exclusive claim to the machine itself. However, the machine’s design may be expressed ...
387 days ago
To My Close Friends: I woke up this morning intent on letting you all know where I stand politically (although I thought my book made it fairly clear). God knows this is not a subject to be discussed among friends or relatives, but lately I cannot reconcile what I know of many of you (that you are all honest, hard working, and descent people) with the muck that I have received via email recently. Much of the dirt has been caste against minorities in the spirit of political preferences (we cannot ignore Obama is Black and the motivation of many is to make sure he does not aspire to the presidency, either on racial grounds, qualifications or political philosophy). For those that have not contributed to my motivation this morning, I thought you should at least know where I am on the issues. Let me start this way. In the spirit of the campaign a republican friend of mine (incidentally I estimate that most of my closest friends (you all) are republicans, god bless you) sent ...
396 days ago
Ideas About Ideas Filling Up The World Joseph Carvalko copyright 2008 What distinguishes humans from other species is that humans form ideas: 1. about what ideas, activities and things (artifacts) may or may not exist (e.g., Natural world (including other humans), human creations (inventions, literary, and artistic expression, history, a society and its culture); 2. that result in rules that explain and identify how we come to believe (as opposed to true knowledge) an artifacts exists (e.g., through its use, function or perceived physical features, physical effect (e.g., electric, magnetic, gravity), efficient (agency) cause, formal cause or purpose, or explanations based on science, engineering, medicine, economic theory, logic, mathematics, linguistics, faith, superstition, etc.); 3. that result in rules to regulate what artifacts are allowed to come into existence (e.g., one god in a some religions, democracy, communism, aberrant behavior, ...
