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The island used to be connected to the rest of the Earth, but was detached during electromagnetism experiments conducted by the Dharma Initiative. It is capable of traveling anywhere with the only parameter being gravity
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My theory is based on explanations of electromagnetism, Newton's Laws, Interaction, Length Contraction, Proper Time, Time Dilation, and Reference Frames. All of these scientific explanations are used as the basis of my theory that the island was once connected to the Earth in the same matter as all land is connected to Earth. The island however split a part from the Earth following a failed electromagnetism experiment.
Nick Jonas (and the Administration) has just released a new song and it's called "Conspiracy Theory."
Listen to the newest single from his upcoming album "Who I Am" below:
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Rankin and Bass' 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' is an allegory of communism vs. capitalism that ends in a draw. Santa and his elves represent an anti-free market, Stalinist, collectivist state that values conformity above all else. Rudolph and Hermey try to free themselves from the state but eventually become its dupes. Yukon Cornelius is the spirit of independent thinking, self-reliance and free market capitalism.
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Spin magazine's Chris Norris looks at Radiohead's career trajectory and apparently annoying penchant for serial innovation and theorizes: Radiohead kinda blow...
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Carly Simon reveals the wildest theory about the subject of 'You're So Vain' to date.
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LOST's last season is not what you expect
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Emma Watson is no Miley Cyrus, Britney Spears or Demi Lovato. This theory says she's the next Hepburn.
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Pink Floyd's “The Wall” syncs with Disney's "Alice in Wonderland" and was recorded to do so.
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While the LOST-ies were on the island, everyone else on the planet perished.
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The 6 major theories around Amelia Earhart's demise are: captured by the Japanese; open ocean crash and sinking; espionage gone wrong; castaway on Gardner's island; Bougainville crash and the identity change to Irene Bolam.
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Phrase coined by the American critic William Kurtz Wimsatt (jnr) (1907-75) for a traditional belief about poetry.Poetry uniquely exhibits a linguistic paradox: it refers to, or creates the fiction of, highly specific, individual, concrete, entities; but treats them in such a way that the themes or...
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Essentially due to MODERNISM, but there existed an earlier Renaissance tradition of 'emblems', for example poems of George Herbert (1593-1633) shaped like wings or an altar.Poem, usually a single page for instantaneous apprehension, in which format and typography offer a visual meaning. Often 'iconic',...
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Poetic device which became popular with the rediscovery of the METAPHYSICAL POETS.In the 16th century, the 'Petrarchan conceit' was a hyperbolic comparison of the attributes of one thing (for example the poet's mistress) with those of another, somewhat distant (for example a landscape). In the early...
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No single authoritative theory.Comedy has been an important and prolific form of drama from the plays of the Greek Aristophanes (c.448-c.380 BC), and is a mode which finds expression in non-dramatic genres too. Aristotle's Poetics (4th century BC) has little to say about comedy, but seems to regard...
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Evaluative as well as theoretical term, used either positively or negatively.An aesthetically satisfying sense of formal completeness given by, for instance, rhyme in poetry or a clear outcome in narrative. Closure is disvalued in the sceptical atmosphere of DECONSTRUCTION and POSTSTRUCTURALISM, suggesting...
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Derived from the Greek word for colour, this is the notion that in tonal music certain notes foreign to those belonging to a key may be present without undermining the key of the piece.Chromatic notes are the five pitches that, together with the seven pitches of a major or minor scale ('diatonic'),...
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French for 'thingism', this is a descriptive technique favoured by practitioners of the 'NOUVEAU ROMAN'.A kind of hyper-realism which employs very detailed decriptions of the physical appearance of inanimate objects, this is a style of writing practised particularly by the French novelists Alain Robbe-Grillet...
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Group of critics practising at the University of Chicago, notably Ronald Salmon Crane (1886-1967), Elder Olson (1909- ), Wayne C Booth (1921-).Otherwise called 'Chicago Neo-Aristoteleans' for their adherence to the poetic theory of Aristotle (384-322 BC). Opposed to NEW CRITICISM (whose proponents...
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Theory of Russian Mikhail M Bakhtin (1895-1975).Development of DIALOGISM in which the metaphor of carnival is applied to the structure of those narratives which invert conventional relationships, subvert power, and celebrate a 'grotesque canon of the body': paradigmatically, F Rabelais's Gargantua...
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Most often found in music of the first half of the 20th century, the best-known exponents of this concept include composers Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) and Charles Ives (1874-1954). Bitonality is the theory that two distinct keys or tonalities may be traced as simultaneously...
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