Sabine Ulibarri, an author from Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico, once attempted to note that " Chicano " was a politically " loaded " term, although Ulibarri has recanted that assessment.

On the other hand Aleksei Borovoi ( 1876 ?– 1936 )., was a professor of philosophy at Moscow University, " a gifted orator and the author of numerous books, pamphlets, and articles which attempted to reconcile individualist anarchism with the doctrines of syndicallism ".

This time he was the victim of attempted blackmail from the husband of a close friend, society beauty and author Caroline Norton.

While some have attempted to describe the book as a horror story, many readers as well as the author would define the book as a love story.

Contemporary author and historian William of Tyre wrote of Fulk " he never attempted to take the initiative, even in trivial matters, without ( Melisende's ) consent ".

Following this anonymous publication, the King sent spies everywhere, condemned the librarians and successfully attempted to discover the author of the Lettres provinciales.

" Eliza Farrar, wife of Harvard professor John Farrar and author of The Young Lady's Friend ( 1836 ), attempted to train her in feminine etiquette until the age of 20, though Farrar was never wholly successful.

In her recent book Letters of a Portuguese Nun: Uncovering the Mystery Behind a Seventeenth-Century Forbidden Love ( 2006 ), the author Myriam Cyr has attempted to reassert the attribution of the letters to the real Mariana Alcoforado.

In 2003, Downey attempted to win Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling a 2004 Nobel Prize for Literature, by organising a letter writing campaign via e-mail.

The book was to include information on the NSA, and according to author James Bamford writing in 1982, the agency attempted to stop its publication, and considered various options, including writing a negative review of Kahn's work to be published in the press to discredit him.

In 1964, Leicester Hemingway, brother of author Ernest Hemingway, attempted to establish a country ( or more appropriately, a micronation ) dubbed the Republic of New Atlantis, on an 8 x 30 foot bamboo raft anchored with an engine block outside the territorial waters of Jamaica, using the Guano Islands Act as part of a claim to sovereignty.

The book was to include information on the National Security Agency ( NSA ), and according to the author James Bamford writing in 1982, the agency attempted to stop its publication, and considered various options, including publishing a negative review of Kahn's work in the press to discredit him.

The Mysterious Stranger is the final novel attempted by the American author Mark Twain.

By referring to well known theological works such as the Decretum Gratiani and the writings of Augustine of Hippo, the author attempted to prove that the excommunication of Sverre was unjust and thus not binding.

One author described it as one of several " holistic health groups " that attempted to incorporate elements of psychology and spirituality into healthcare.

Contemporary author and historian William of Tyre wrote of Fulk " he never attempted to take the initiative, even in trivial matters, without ( Melisende's ) consent ".

and the author of several books, who attempted to describe particularities of ceremonial working in order to summon spirits to " physical appeareance " and even provided a video as an example of going through a real process of " Solomonic Magick " which is an alternative name for Goetia or simply a complex of techniques to conjure lesser deities of a lower astral realm ( demons ) to the temple of the magician.

Although highly regarded, Wyndham did have one peculiar run-in with a fan: author Annie Gilbert, in the book All My Afternoons, noted that Wyndham was mildly assaulted when an enraged fan, fed up with Rachel's scheming ways and thinking Wyndham was her character, attempted to punch her at a Lord & Taylor store in New York City, all the while screaming " I hate you!

The author attempted to present an overview of ruling families over the course of over two centuries — from the 10th century up to the time of writing, the 12th century.

Brunn provides Frontius ’ De aquaeductu Urbis Romae from AD 100 as an example of the “ various illegal uses to which public water in Rome was being diverted .” Christer Bruun suggests that as a recent find by a contemporary author, Caelius actually gave a speech in 50 BC when he was a curule aedile, ultimately proclaiming “ the worst misappropriation of public water in Rome ” which was due “ all the brothels, were enjoying an illegal supply of running water .” Furthermore, Bruun concludes that although these possible arguments can explain why Cicero attempted to connect Clodia to immorality and water, he simply used this argumentation to suggest Clodia ’ s case against Caelius was unfounded.

The Old World changes as Behn recreates the trade route back across the Atlantic to Africa, instead of Europe, becoming “ the first European author who attempted to render the life lived by sub-Saharan African characters on their own continent .” There were few accounts of coastal African kingdoms at that time.

According to Keep Watching the Skies !, a comprehensive history of 1950s American science fiction films, author Bill Warren claims Tucker's attempted suicide was due to depression and a dispute with the film's distributor, who had allegedly refused to pay Tucker his contracted percentage of the film's profits.

Russian literary historians also believe that the author not merely imitated, but attempted to pick out and creatively re-interpret the events and poetic images in The Tale of Igor's Campaign.

Following Chancellor's death, the author Francis Russell attempted to research the theory that Harding was of mixed race.

At the Battle of Ambuila in 1665, the Portuguese forces from Angola defeated the forces of king Antonio I of Kongo ; Antonio was killed with many of his courtiers and the Luso-African author Manuel Roboredo, who had attempted to prevent this final war.

In 2008, Pegasus Books published The Tragedy of Macbeth Part II: The Seed of Banquo, a play by American author and playwright Noah Lukeman which endeavoured to pick up where the original Macbeth left off, and to resolve its many loose ends.

Both of these themes are bookended with what liner notes author Paul Tonks has aptly named ' the resolve theme '.

In 2009, Pegasus Books published The Tragedy of Macbeth Part II, a play by American author and playwright Noah Lukeman which endeavoured to offer a sequel to Macbeth and to resolve its many loose ends, particularly Lady Macbeth ’ s reference to her having had a child.

In 2008, Pegasus Books published The Tragedy of Macbeth Part II: The Seed of Banquo, a play by American author and playwright Noah Lukeman that endeavored to pick up where the original Macbeth left off, and to resolve its many loose ends, particularly the prophesied ascension of the seed of Banquo.

Gérard Prunier, author of The Rwanda Crisis and Africa's World War, expresses skepticism of the claims that génocidaires were a significant factor in the massacre and characterizes the Kibeho as being a miniature version of the characteristics of the invasion of Zaire that would occur 18 months later: " nontreatment of the consequences of genocide, well-meaning but politically blind humanitarianism, RPF resolve to ' solve the problem ' by force, stunned impotence of the international community in the face of violence, and, finally, a hypocritical denial that anything much had happened.

The game would not be finished until June 23. Rochester and Pawtucket did play another game on the same Sunday, but, as one author noted, " they did not attempt to resolve their 32-inning tie then because officials of both clubs were worried that the eligible players were exhausted.

I knew that a conversation with the author would not settle such questions, because a man is not the same as his writing: in the last analysis, the questions had to be settled by the work itself.

William Arens, author of The Man-Eating Myth: Anthropology and Anthropophagy, questions the credibility of reports of cannibalism and argues that the description by one group of people of another people as cannibals is a consistent and demonstrable ideological and rhetorical device to establish perceived cultural superiority.

One author says conclusions on most questions, including the one concerning authorship, should be avoided.

One of the questions raised by the author concerns the objectivity of the sociologist: how may one study an object that, from the very beginning, conditions and relates to the observer?

Naturally questions were asked who the sage was, and the pundits replied that Vatsya was the author of the standard work on love in Sanskrit literature, that no Sanscrit library was complete without his work, and that it was most difficult now to obtain in its entire state.

For instance, Mark Finn, author of Blood and Thunder: The Life & Art of Robert E. Howard, contends that de Camp deliberately framed his questions in regard to Howard to elicit answers matching his Freudian theories about him.

According to this book, the entire novel, even its plot, is an open trajectory where even the author himself questions his motives of the writing process.

And by asking questions of the hero, or giving the hero someone to talk to, the sidekick provides an opportunity for the author to provide exposition, thereby filling the same role as a Greek chorus.

* Barrows Dunham ( 1905 – 95 ), college professor of philosophy and author who was fired by Temple University after he refused to answer questions posed to him in 1953 by the House Un-American Activities Committee.

As a literary technique, an author surrogate is a fictional character who expresses the ideas, questions, personality and morality of the author.

The questions were raised in particular by Orazio Marucchi, whose conclusions won the support of Johann Peter Kirsch, an archaeologist and ecclesiastical historian who is the author of the article on Philomena in the Catholic Encyclopedia, an article that has won the support of the historian William Carroll ; but according to Mark Miravalle the conclusions have been rejected by others.

Tony Godfrey, author of Conceptual Art ( Art & Ideas ) ( 1998 ), asserts that conceptual art questions the nature of art, a notion that Joseph Kosuth elevated to a definition of art itself in his seminal, early manifesto of conceptual art, " Art after Philosophy " ( 1969 ).

Thus, Strauss agrees with the Socrates of the Phaedrus, where the Greek indicates that, insofar as writing does not respond when questioned, good writing provokes questions in the reader — questions that orient the reader towards an understanding of problems the author thought about with utmost seriousness.

The marquis wrote on social questions, notably on prison administration ; he edited the works of La Rochefoucauld, and the memoirs of Condorcet ; and he was the author of some vaudevilles, tragedies and poems.

He questions the role of the author — when speaking of how the Charles character “ disobeys ” his orders ; the characters have discrete lives of their own in the novel.

The author questions the validity of most PVS diagnoses, and the validity of the basic nosology.

More recently the company has enjoyed success with Robert H Frank's The Economic Naturalist ( 2008, ISBN 978-0-7535-1338-5 ), where the author had his economics students pose interesting questions from everyday life and explain them through economics.

Originally, the guests on these segments were NPR personalities and reporters, but the pool of guests later expanded to include mostly celebrity guests, ranging from former U. S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright who was asked questions on the history of Hugh Hefner and Playboy magazine, to author Salman Rushdie who was asked about the history of Pez candy.

Historical criticism seeks to locate the text in history: it asks such questions as when the text was written, who the author / s might have been, and what history might be reconstructed from the answers.

Multiple choice questions lend themselves to the development of objective assessment items, but without author training, questions can be subjective in nature.

For fans, signings give them a chance to see and meet a favorite author and ask them questions.