It has also been argued that A Modest Proposal was, at least in part, a response to the 1728 essay The Generous Projector or, A Friendly Proposal to Prevent Murder and Other Enormous Abuses, By Erecting an Hospital for Foundlings and Bastard Children by Swift's rival Daniel Defoe.

The term " fictional autobiography " has been coined to define novels about a fictional character written as though the character were writing their own biography, of which Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders, is an early example.

In the company of Edwin and his loves are a dramatic array of thinly veiled representations of theatrical personages of the time, amongst them Daniel Mendoza, an exacting and powerful impresario, who controls the lives of his leading ladies ; the goatish, démodé manager, Matthew Lewis, who promotes Julia Scarlet as “ the American Sarah Bernhardt ”; the worldly-wise veteran of the stage, Ottilie Potter, who has gotten where she is because, “ Men had what I wanted, and I had what they wanted ”; and the huge, manlike Helen Sampson, chief among theatrical agents.

The traditional theory that Daniel was the original author of the Book of Daniel has been disputed by recent scholars.

The horrified king eventually summons Daniel who is able to read the writing and offer the following interpretation: Mene, Mene-God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.

Daniel has a lengthy vision ( 10: 1-12: 13 ) in the third year of Cyrus king of Persia, around 536 BCE, regarding conflicts between the " King of the North " and the " King of the South " (= Egypt, 11: 8 ).

New evidence from Babylon has verified the existence of Belshazzar, the name first given in Daniel 5: 1, as well as his co-regency during the absence of his father, Nabonidus, in Temâ.

It has often been compared to the first half of the Book of Daniel and to the deuterocanonical Books of Tobit and Judith for its subject matter.

This final chapter is a poetic praise of God, and has some similarities with texts found in the Book of Daniel.

The town is named for famous American pioneer and explorer Daniel Boone, and every summer since 1952 has hosted an outdoor amphitheatre portrayal of the life and times of its namesake.

" Horn in the West ", a dramatization of the life and times of the early settlers of the mountain area, which features Daniel Boone as one of its characters, has been performed in an outdoor amphitheatre above the town every summer since 1952.

Daniel Amneus, however, argues that when Ross and Angus bring King Duncan's praise, and the news that Macbeth has been granted the title of Thane of Cawdor, the " greater honor " he ascribes to Macbeth is actually his title as Prince of Cumberland.

Daniel Dennett has argued for an approach he calls heterophenomenology, which means treating verbal reports as stories that may or may not be true, but his ideas about how to do this have not been widely adopted.

The puzzling phenomenon of two individuals being exposed to the same evidence and being able to reach different conclusions, has been frequently explained ( particularly by Daniel Kahneman ) by reference to a ' bounded rationality ' - that is most judgments are made by fast acting heuristics ( system 1 ) that work well in every day situations, but are not amenable to decision making about complex subjects such as climate change.

Christian alternative music has its roots in the early 1980s, as the earliest efforts at Christian punk and new wave were recorded by artists like Andy McCarroll and Moral Support, Undercover, The 77s, Adam Again, Quickflight, Daniel Amos, Youth Choir ( later renamed The Choir ), Lifesavers Underground, Michael Knott, The Altar Boys, Breakfast with Amy, Steve Taylor, 4-4-1, David Edwards and Vector.

In Consciousness Explained, Daniel Dennett ' distinguishes between a purely metaphysical sense of epiphenomenalism, in which the epiphenomenon has no causal impact at all, and Huxley's " steam whistle " epiphenomenalism, in which effects exist but are not functionally relevant.

However, Daniel Fredericks, who has studied all the linguistic inconsistencies used by scholars as evidence, has concluded that they are unconvincing.

However, this Irish etymology was suggested by Daniel Cassidy, whose work has been widely criticised by reputable linguists and scholars.

Together with undersea archaeologist Daniel Lenihan, Hackman has written three historical fiction novels: Wake of the Perdido Star ( 1999 ), a sea adventure of the 19th century, Justice for None ( 2004 ), a Depression-era tale of murder, and Escape from Andersonville ( 2008 ) about a prison escape during the Civil War.

Finkelstein has published heavy criticisms of several books in his career, as he did to Hitler's Willing Executioners by Daniel Johnah Goldhagen, which he calls " replete with gross misinterpretations of source material and internal contradictions ", and says " the book is devoid of scholarly value ".

According to Daniel Boyarin, the underlying distinction between religion and ethnicity is foreign to Judaism itself, and is one form of the dualism between spirit and flesh that has its origin in Platonic philosophy and that permeated Hellenistic Judaism.

Jaynes's theory has been influential to philosophers such as Daniel Dennett, psychologists such as Tim Crow and Steven Pinker, and psychiatrists such as Henry Nasrallah.

The gravi-kora has been adopted by kora players such as Daniel Berkman, Jacques Burtin, Le Chant de la Forêt ( The Song of the Forest ), suite for kora, gravi-kora, flute and viola, and Foday Musa Suso, who featured it in recordings with jazz innovator Herbie Hancock, with his band Mandingo, and on Suso's New World Power album.

Most recently he appeared in Cyrano de Bergerac as Antoine de Guiche, alongside Kevin Kline, Jennifer Garner and Daniel Sunjata.

However many new approaches have appeared in recent years, especially by such scholars as Wilda Anderson, Kurt Ballstadt, Daniel Brewer, Jay Caplan, Andrew Clark, Elisabeth de Fontenay, Rosalina de la Carrera, Julie Candler Hays, Thomas M. Kavanagh, Walter Rex, and Pierre Saint-Amand.

Despite the outpouring of antagonistic replies to The Age of Reason, some scholars have argued that Constantin Volney's deistic The Ruins ( translations of excerpts from the French original appeared in radical papers such as Thomas Spence's Pig's Meat and Daniel Isaac Eaton's Politics for the People ) was actually more influential than The Age of Reason.

In this time appeared the Apocalypse of Daniel, a Syriac text redacted during the rule of the empress Irene of Byzantium wherein wars between the Arabs, the Byzantines and the Northern peoples were prophesied.

Milland's son Daniel Milland appeared in several minor acting roles in the 1960s.

An 1824 draft on the Bank written and signed by Daniel Webster, its attorney and the director of the Boston branch. By the time of Jackson's inauguration in 1829, the national bank appeared to be on solid footing.

The Bulgarian name Sredets (), which is related to среда sreda ( middle ), first appeared in the 11th-century Vision of Daniel and was widely used in the Middle Ages.

He appeared in a few episodes of Alias Smith and Jones, The Lone Ranger, Daniel Boone, The Virginian, Bonanza and Kung Fu.

* A holodeck simulation of Professor Moriarty, played by actor Daniel Davis, appeared in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes " Elementary, Dear Data " and " Ship in a Bottle ", accidentally achieving sentience when Geordi LaForge asks the holodeck to create an opponent able to defeat Data ( rather than Sherlock Holmes ).

Earlier Prime Ministerial advisers had appeared from time to time in episodes of Yes Minister, including Daniel Moynihan as Daniel Hughes in " The Writing on the Wall " ( 1980 ) and Nigel Stock as Sir Mark Spencer in " Bed of Nails " ( 1982 ).

His most notable role was as Daniel LaRusso in the Karate Kid series, and appeared as contestant on Dancing with the Stars.

* Uncle Ben appeared in Spider-Man: The Animated Series voiced by Brian Keith ( though Christopher Daniel Barnes voiced a younger Uncle Ben in an episode of the " Six Forgotten Warriors Saga ").

The orations were followed by a prodigious quantity of Latin verse, which appeared in successive volumes in 1533, 1534, 1539, 1546 and 1547 ; of these, a friendly critic, Mark Pattison, is obliged to approve the judgment of Pierre Daniel Huet, who says, " par ses poésies brutes et informes Scaliger a déshonoré le Parnasse "; yet their numerous editions show that they commended themselves not only to his contemporaries, but to succeeding scholars.

While Irish politics in the 1820s to 1840s had been dominated by the Catholic Emancipation and " Repeal " movements under Daniel O ' Connell, it was not until the 1880s under Charles Stewart Parnell, nearly forty years after the Famine, that a major Irish nationalist political movement, the Home Rule League ( later known as the ' Parliamentary Party ') appeared.

Both Alexander the Cat and Daniel and Pansy appeared in color.

He appeared in three episodes of Daniel Boone starring Fess Parker as the titular historical frontiersman.

He also appeared in fourteen episodes of Daniel Boone ( 1967 – 70 ) in three different roles ( one episode as " Delo Jones ", two as " Jeremiah " and eleven as " Josh Clements ") and as Charlie Rowlands in two Fantasy Island episodes ( 1981 – 82 ), as well as on other TV shows including a semi-regular role as Charlie Bullets on J. J. Starbuck starring Dale Robertson ( 1987 – 88 ).

Despite his existentialist outlook on life expressed through his paintings, Bacon always appeared to be a bon vivant, spending much of his middle and later life eating, drinking and gambling in London's Soho with Lucian Freud, John Deakin, Daniel Farson, Patrick Swift, Jeffrey Bernard, Muriel Belcher and Henrietta Moraes, among others.

The following year, Howard Kaylan appeared in the rock-n-roll comedy film Get Crazy, starring Malcolm McDowell and Daniel Stern.

Hudson next appeared in the musical film Nine, alongside Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz, Nicole Kidman and Judi Dench.

He debuted in the " A Granddad for Daniel " opera and later appeared to harvest the Neighborhood's vegetables when there weren't any in Northwood.

Cast as the drunken surgeon Daniel " Dan " Challis, Tom Atkins had appeared in several John Carpenter films prior to Halloween III.

Daniel Lanois ' Black Dub also appeared at the 2011 Bonnaroo Music Festival.

He appeared on episode # 3. 6 of Comedy Central's Tosh. 0, when he clothes lined Daniel Tosh and put David Wills ( a. k. a. YouTube's " Crying Wrestling Fan ") in a Cobra Clutch during Wills ' " Web Redemption " segment.