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...manageable way. Festival can be understood like this: as a temporary suspension of our usual rules or ways of coping; a time when familiar oppositions – such as life and death, inside and outside, self and other – become uncertain. Halloween may delight us in this way. Yet our thrills likely depend on how we know the costumes will soon be replaced by everyday clothes....

...projects might be seen to be doing something that is actually wrong. Alex: As a human being you may well want to say that they’re a good person. But que executive their chief responsibility is to satisfy the desires of the owners of their corporation. Nigel: I can imagine a cynical business person saying philosophers can’t teach me anything, they’re not experienced...

...Introduction - In this course we will consider how language can be used in different ways for different purposes. To do this we will use the theme of memorial and commemoration. After briefly discussing the life of the poet Siegfried Sasoon we will examine both his poetry and prose. Through this we will see how he conveys meaning in different ways for different audiences...