Major themes of the play include existentialism, free will vs. determinism, the search for value, and the impossibility of certainty.

Major themes in research at the Experimental Forests and Ranges includes:

Major themes include: self-reference in memes, language, art and logic ; discussions of philosophical issues important in cognitive science / AI ; analogies and what makes something similar to something else ( specifically what makes, for example, an uppercase letter ' A ' recognisable as such ); and lengthy discussions of the work of Robert Axelrod on the prisoner's dilemma and the idea of superrationality.

Major themes in Natsume's works include ordinary people fighting against economic hardship, the conflict between duty and desire ( a traditional Japanese theme ; see giri ), loyalty and group mentality versus freedom and individuality, personal isolation and estrangement, the rapid industrialization of Japan and its social consequences, contempt of Japan's aping of Western culture, and a pessimistic view of human nature.

* Rahman, Fazlur ( 1980 ), Major themes of the Qur ' an, Bibliotheca Islamica, ISBN 0-88297-051-8

Major themes of Northup's campaign was that she was independent of the then-unpopular President Bush, and that she was uniquely able to secure federal funds for Louisville projects.

Major themes of this range of philosophies and teachings include a synthesis of science and religion, evolutionary spirituality, and holistic programs of development for the body, mind, soul, and spirit.

Major themes include the evolution of experimental design, from table-top experiments to today's large-scale collider projects ; accompanying changes in standards of evidence ; and discourse patterns across researchers whose expertise only partially overlaps.

Major themes throughout the work are power, hegemony, resistance and loyalty.

Major changes came in the themes, with the inclusion of folk epics, Sanskrit dramas and created ( imaginary ) stories forming the thematic base.

) Major themes in Out of Control are cybernetics, emergence, self-organization, complex systems and chaos theory and it can be seen as a work of Techno-utopianism.

Major themes in the Sister Fidelma series include:

Major themes of the work include: first love, child and adult sexuality, spirituality, sibling relationships, and coming of age.

Space exploration was intended to be one of the major themes early on during the development of the game, most of which was eclipsed in the final product, save for the prior mentioned Major Tom references and several lesser story elements.

Major themes in his poetry and writings include liberal humanism, human relations, romanticised rebellion of youth, the emergence of and consequent events in Bangladesh, and opposition to religious fundamentalism.

Major themes within non-representational theory include subjectification ; space as a verb ; technologies of being ; embodiment ; and play & excess.

Major themes of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close include trauma, mourning, family, and the struggle between self-destruction and self-preservation.

Major themes in his work include home and family, place, time, sexuality, isolation, and memory.

Major themes include the notion of the self in a totalitarian state, the meaning of life, and the power of love.

Major themes include the development of Bartitsu as a confluence of Edwardian interests in Orientalism, physical culture and criminology ; the use of jujitsu by the Bodyguards of the radical Suffragette movement in London and subsequent spread of Japanese martial arts through Western popular culture ; personality profiles of Barton-Wright himself and the other principal figures of the original Bartitsu craze ; and the connection between Bartitsu and Sherlock Holmes ' baritsu.

Slate notes that Major League Baseball players " can pick several songs as personal themes for their plate appearances, sometimes a rotation of four different tracks a game.

Major recurring themes in the work include loneliness and the dreadful feeling of loss when someone dear dies.

Major recurring themes in the work include euthanasia, necrophilia, decay and loneliness.

Major themes of the book are the social pain and exclusion caused by illegitimacy, the nefarious effects of the demon drink, and the difficulties of romantic attachments outside one's social class.

The World Series, baseball's championship series which determines the champion of Major League Baseball for that season, is held in mid-to-late October ( sometimes spilling over into November to accommodate longer series ) and is nicknamed the " Fall Classic ".

In its first series it was a single-game cup, played each year at minor-league Cooper Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, was staged just days before the start of each new Major League Baseball season.

The Rockies trailed the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Arizona Diamondbacks and the San Diego Padres for most of 2007 Major League Baseball season – however – by August, Colorado showed a steady series of wins, while the Division-leading Dodgers began to struggle.

* Many of the members of Section 9 in the Ghost in the Shell universe, specifically the main characters Major Motoko Kusanagi and Batou, are cyborgs dependent on regular maintenance ; there are several manga ( or graphic novel ) and artbooks set in the GitS universe, as well as two feature-length anime films, three television series and three video games.

A fifth title, Intellivision World Series Major League Baseball, developed as part of the Entertainment Computer System series, also supports the Intellivoice if both the ECS and Intellivoice are connected concurrently.

A series of scandals among leading Tory MP's also did Major and his government no favours.

The magazine also ran a series of cartoons called 101 Uses for a John Major ( based on a comic book of some ten years earlier, called 101 Uses for a Dead Cat ), in which Major was illustrated serving a number of bizarre purposes, such as a train-spotter's anorak.

The Royals returned to the post-season in 1981, losing to the Oakland Athletics in a unique divisional series resulting from the split-season caused by the 1981 Major League Baseball strike.

Enlisted soldiers and non-commissioned officers rise through a series of nine ranks, namely ( in English translation ): Private 2nd class, Private 1st class, Corporal, Chief Corporal, Sergeant, Chief Sergeant, Adjutant, Chief Adjutant, Major.

The Subway Series is a series of Major League Baseball games played between teams based in New York City.

In the later years of the series many Goon Show ' grams ' were produced for the series by members of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, a notable example being the famous " Major Bloodnok's Stomach " effect, realised by Dick Mills.

Major riots in black neighborhoods caused a series of " long hot summers.

* David Copperfield ( Major Literary Characters series ).

While in England, now Major Miller recorded a series of records at EMI ) owned Abbey Road Studios.

Starting in 1972, Swit played Major Margaret " Hot Lips " Houlihan in the television series M * A * S * H. She inherited the star-making role from actress Sally Kellerman, who portrayed Houlihan in the feature film.

Rogers took on the role of Major Tony Nelson which was originally portrayed by Larry Hagman ( of the CBS TV series Dallas fame ) in the TV series when Hagman was unavailable to reprise the character he had originated.

" His father ( a Major ) appears in two episodes, but his mother, though mentioned throughout the series, never appears.

Along with Major Synapse, she is the only villain to ever " die " in the series, as she was " erased " by turpentine.

The USA / Canada Superseries was an eight-game series, seen as a pre-cursor to the Major Indoor Lacrosse League.

Starting with an upgraded Major missile, the design went through a series of improvements and ultimately became the PGM-11 with the popular name Redstone rocket.

The course was allegedly designed to play to then-commanding officer Major General Robert B. McClure's terrible slice, and thus has a series of holes nicknamed " Combat Corner " with substantial doglegs.