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Jacques Mayol s lifelong passion for diving was based on his love for the ocean, his personal philosophy and his desire to explore his own limits.
Mayol s last deep dive followed in 1983 when he reached the depth of 105m, at the age of 56.
It is the dolphins that became the foundation of Mayol s life philosophy of Homo Delphinus.
L Homo Delphinus ( 1983, published in English as Homo Delphinus – The dolphin within man ) – Throughout his book Mayol expounds his theories about man s relationship with the sea: Does man really have an aquatic origin?

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In 1976 Mayol broke the 100m barrier with a no-limits 101m dive off Elba, Italy.
The movie begins with Jacques Mayol and Enzo Molinari as children.
Maiorca was fictionalized in the 1988 Luc Besson film The Big Blue as well as his rivalry with the French diver Jacques Mayol.

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Mayol was already an experienced free diver when he met the Sicilian Enzo Maiorca

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Jacques Mayol ( April 1, 1927 – December 22, 2001 ) was the holder of many world records in free diving.
Jacques Mayol was a French national born in Shanghai, China.
The film The Big Blue, directed by Luc Besson in 1988, was inspired by his life story ( and the life story of the Italian diver Enzo Maiorca ); Mayol was one of the screenwriters.
Between 1966 and 1983, Mayol was eight times no-limits world champion.
Luc Besson was initially unsure of whom to cast in the main role of Jacques Mayol.
Félix Mayol ( 18 November 1872 – 1 November 1941 ) was a French singer and entertainer.
Mayol was born in Toulon, France.
After coming to the attention of the then great music hall star Félix Mayol who was also from Toulon, in 1908 he was given a chance to work as a secondary act in the Paris theater scene.
On the day of his arrival in Paris, on May 1, 1895, just before his first concert, Félix Mayol was met by a female friend at the station, who gave him some lily-of-the-valley, a flower people traditionally exchange on May 1 in France.
He pinned it on his lapel, his concert was a success and Mayol, who was superstitious, made the lily-of-the-valley his personal emblem.

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On December 22, 2001, Mayol committed suicide by hanging himself in Elba, Italy, at the age of 74.
After being seen by Félix Mayol, one of the leading male singing stars at the time, he hired her to perform at his concerts.
Established in 1908, Toulon currently play their home games at the Stade Mayol, although they have begun to take high-profile matches to the 60, 000-seat Stade Vélodrome in Marseille, playing one match there in 2008 – 09 and two in both 2009 – 10 and 2010 – 11.
They finished top of their pool and advanced to the knockout stage, crushing Scarlets 38 – 12 in the quarterfinals at Stade Mayol and surviving a hard-fought match against Connacht in Galway 19 – 12.

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Mayol reached 60m depth.
Jacques Mayol predicted that, within a couple of generations, some people would be able to dive to 200m and hold their breath for up to ten minutes.
* 1976 – Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100 m undersea without breathing equipment.
On their stages, using then-popular single name pseudonyms or one birth name only, Damia, Kiki, Mayol and Georgius, sang and performed to packed houses.
The teenage Maurice Chevalier took a risk by impersonating Mayol in small-time cafe entertainments, Mayol recognised the young man's talent and gave him his blessing.
The facility, named Stade Mayol in his honor, remains in use today ( after several renovations ) as the home ground for the Toulon rugby team.
Mayol never married, and many stories circulated of his homosexual liaisons, including an attempt to seduce Maurice Chevalier.
Sóller Railway Station ( Coordinates: ) on the other hand is much larger, developed from a fortified house dating from 1606, Ca ' n Mayol.
The era lasted through to the 1930s and saw the likes of Félix Mayol, Lucienne Boyer, Marie-Louise Damien, Marie Dubas, Fréhel, Georges Guibourg, Tino Rossi, Jean Sablon, Charles Trenet, Édith Piaf and Maurice Chevalier.

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The AMPAS was originally conceived by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio boss Louis B. Mayer as a professional honorary organization to help improve the film industry s image and help mediate labor disputes.
The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences defines psychological altruism as " a motivational state with the goal of increasing another s welfare ".
Psychological altruism is contrasted with psychological egoism, which refers to the motivation to increase one s own welfare.
One way is a sincere expression of Christian love, " motivated by a powerful feeling of security, strength, and inner salvation, of the invincible fullness of one s own life and existence ".
Another way is merely " one of the many modern substitutes for love, ... nothing but the urge to turn away from oneself and to lose oneself in other people s business.
* David Firestone-When Romney s Reach Exceeds His Grasp-Mitt Romney quotes the song
" Swift extends the metaphor to get in a few jibes at England s mistreatment of Ireland, noting that " For this kind of commodity will not bear exportation, and flesh being of too tender a consistence, to admit a long continuance in salt, although perhaps I could name a country, which would be glad to eat up our whole nation without it.
George Wittkowsky argued that Swift s main target in A Modest Proposal was not the conditions in Ireland, but rather the can-do spirit of the times that led people to devise a number of illogical schemes that would purportedly solve social and economic ills.
In response, Swift s Modest Proposal was " a burlesque of projects concerning the poor ", that were in vogue during the early 18th century.
Critics differ about Swift s intentions in using this faux-mathematical philosophy.
Charles K. Smith argues that Swift s rhetorical style persuades the reader to detest the speaker and pity the Irish.
Swift s specific strategy is twofold, using a " trap " to create sympathy for the Irish and a dislike of the narrator who, in the span of one sentence, " details vividly and with rhetorical emphasis the grinding poverty " but feels emotion solely for members of his own class.
Swift s use of gripping details of poverty and his narrator s cool approach towards them create " two opposing points of view " that " alienate the reader, perhaps unconsciously, from a narrator who can view with ' melancholy ' detachment a subject that Swift has directed us, rhetorically, to see in a much less detached way.
Once the children have been commodified, Swift s rhetoric can easily turn " people into animals, then meat, and from meat, logically, into tonnage worth a price per pound ".
Swift uses the proposer s serious tone to highlight the absurdity of his proposal.
In making his argument, the speaker uses the conventional, text book approved order of argument from Swift s time ( which was derived from the Latin rhetorician Quintilian ).
James Johnson argued that A Modest Proposal was largely influenced and inspired by Tertullian s Apology: a satirical attack against early Roman persecution of Christianity.
Johnson notes Swift s obvious affinity for Tertullian and the bold stylistic and structural similarities between the works A Modest Proposal and Apology.
He reminds readers that " there is a gap between the narrator s meaning and the text s, and that a moral-political argument is being carried out by means of parody ".

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