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The Cranial Equity Loan by
Price: $4.95 USD. Words: 10,970. Language: English. Originally Published: April 23, 2013 by Charlie Canning. Categories: Screenplays » Western, Plays » Australian & Oceanian
Finalist, Stage Plays, 2015 New York Screenplay Contest A three-act satire of modern life, the banking industry and consumer credit played against the backdrop of the Melbourne Cup, the most prestigious horse race in Australia and possibly the biggest fashion event of the year. Horseplay in three acts.
The 89TH Temple by
Price: $9.95 USD. Words: 49,370. Language: English. Originally Published: April 22, 2013 by Charlie Canning. Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General
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Once an ascetic rite of passage, the Shikoku Pilgrimage of 88 Temples has become a more generalized ritual of penance for troubled souls. Seven juvenile offenders on leave from various reform schools are walking the 1,300-kilometer pilgrimage with a counselor and some assigned wardens from the state. When they finish the journey, they will be released. Will they rejoin society or leave it behind?
That's Entertainment: The Observation Principle from Bentham to Foucault (Oceania) by
Price: Free! Words: 4,090. Language: English. Published: March 10, 2013 . Categories: Essay » Political, Essay » Sociology
In this essay, I begin with Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon and the observation principle as a method of control. I then discuss George Orwell's 1984 and Michel Foucault’s development of this idea as a means of control and a form of entertainment. Finally, I take up ways in which the individual - and not the state - has become the unwitting purveyor of suffering as entertainment for a mass audience.
Sheltering Down Under (Oceania) by
Price: Free! Words: 2,270. Language: English. Published: March 9, 2013 . Categories: Essay » Political
Sheltering Down Under is a meditation on the nuclear issue written from a bomb shelter in South Australia. In this essay, the spotlight is on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the nuclear tests of 1953, the Cold War, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Tokaimura (the accident before Fukushima).

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