Despite the volume of work Shakespeare produced, surprisingly few of his plays directly concern money and the economic mindset. Shakespeare and the Economic Imperative examines the five plays that do address monetary issues (The Comedy of Errors, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Merchant of Venice, Measure for Measure and Timon of Athens), plays in which Shakespeare’s view of how economic determinants shape interpersonal relationships progressively darkens. In short, what thematically starts out in farce ends in nihilistic tragedy. Working within the critical stream of new economic criticism, this book uses formal analysis to interrogate how words are used — how words and metaphoric patterns from the quantifiable dealings of commerce transform into signifiers of qualitative values and how the endemic employment of discursive tropes based on mercantile principles debases human relationships. This examination is complemented by historical socio-economic contextualization, as it seems evident that the societies depicted in these plays reflect the changing world in which Shakespeare lived and wrote.

The site "BexarCountyLine.com" was born out of a backlog of tourist images. It's never been anything more than a side-project that's proven to be hugely amusing, even gratifying. With a short introduction, there should be a long title. The title could read, "San Antonio, 365." There's been an image a day for several years, and there is no shortage of material in sight. San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, sits at a unique crossroads as cultures, histories, stories, and environment shape the town and its confines. People, places, things. Sites, sights, smells, and sounds of one of the oldest cities in the New World. Old and new cultures bump and grind in a miasma new, and frequently undefined compounds and elements.

Howard “Hambone” Hamblin, Hal Peterson, and Charles Belcher, three retired working-class heroes who are dismayed by the onset of globalization and the illegal immigration that goes along with it, set out to do something to rectify the situation. Their efforts bring them into conflict with enemies that they’d never recognized as enemies before, and their task becomes overwhelming and daunting. Bonnie Cummings, a young woman with big dreams and high aspirations, encounters a similar problem in another part of California, but she takes a far different tact in an effort to overcome, and is forced to deal with drug lords, street thugs, and sociopathic killers. In the end, their trails become entangled, and the enormity of the problem is exposed from multiple angles.

Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Aught," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Aught in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Aught when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Aught, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain.

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Title: ADIOS, AUGHTS.(Ticket)
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Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: December 25, 2009
Publisher: The Register Guard
Page: D23

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Human existence in the last 10 years has featured absurd events. Perhaps that is why this decade will be known as the millennial double zero period as it included such a variety of bizarre happenings that only insanity was safe.The neurologist-writer in charge of understanding the brain in this epoch must extract appropriate evidence for this brainless if not mindless period via essay collections such as this one. In so doing, Neurosatire/NeuroAbsurdia is hatched under the direction of Van Gross, MD. Sometimes understood as post-rationalism, absurd thought can also be linked to the psychotic. In that psychosis is of interest to neurologists as an entity making believe it is part of neurology, it would seem appropriate to welcome post-rationalism, psychosis and the absurd under the neurological roof, while in the spirit of neurology, expound on the phenomenology via satire and a literary theatre of the absurd. Many also insist "The Aughts" bypassed true existence in that those years were so bereft of meaning and purpose. People suffered great trauma from late 2000-late 2010 but under the banner of absurdity, many believe there should be some mitigation of same nightmare since "we're all out of our minds anyway" whether recovering from impeachment madness, examining loose chads to decide presidential elections, murdering innocents to access celestial virgins, starting weather crusades, being a "birther", talking nonsense at Townhall Meetings on healthcare, or quasi-justifying an earthquake as religious retribution, the Decade of the Zeroes or the zeros, or zorro, the fox so cunning and free, that epoch from 2000-2010, that "Aughts" Decade, that Would've, Could've, Should've Oughts Decade, or as some have called it, That Aughtistic Period (or at least an ADD case) demands an explanation, indeed a neuropsychiatric elucidation or some kind of testimonial if not a humor packed roast in print. Hence, the emergence of Van Gross, MD, satirist and local riff raff.