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Time and perspective
* Robert A. Heinlein's By His Bootstraps ( 1941 ) features a plot in which a man interacts with different older versions of himself that travel by way of a " Time Gate ", with all the interactions revisited later in the story from the perspective of the now-older man, everything being tied together in a completely self-consistent way.
The content of Being and Time, according to Husserl, claimed to deal with ontology, but from Husserl's perspective only did so in the first few pages of the book.
* Dinah Dean's series of historical novels are set against the background of the Napoleonic Wars and are told from a Russian perspective – " The Road to Kaluga ", " Flight From the Eagle ", " The Eagle's Fate ", " The Wheel of Fortune ", " The Green Gallant " – follow a small group of soldiers ( and their relatives ) over months of campaigning from the fall of Moscow up to the liberation of Paris, the last 3 books – " The Ice King ", " Tatya's Story ", " The River of Time " – fall some years later but have the same cast of characters.
That same year Sting also released a little-known CD-ROM called All This Time, which provided music, commentary and custom computer features describing Sting and his music from his perspective.
Nikolay Brunov recognized the influence of these prototypes but not their significance ; he suggested that in the mid-16th century Moscow already had local architects trained in Italian tradition, architectural drawing and perspective, and that this culture was lost during the Time of Troubles.
The evolutionary perspective can be seen in tales involving long time periods — two examples being The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine by Wells and Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon.
He then said he even wanted The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time to take place in the first person perspective.
Time magazine reported that most journalists believe Kelley " too frequently fails to bring perspective or analysis to the fruits of her reporting and at times lards her work with dollops of questionable inferences and innuendos.
He is brought into the present ( or future depending on perspective ) as an accident via a Time Bubble that was used for research about the past.
She possesses a unique perspective on life, in that she lacks the normal human ability to ignore things which do not fit in with a logical world-view: in Soul Music, she is able to acknowledge the enormous size of the rooms in Death's Domain, whereas most humans can only deal with the incomprehensible vastness by pretending it is not there ; Hogfather reveals that she shares the ability of witches, wizards and young children to see things which are invisible to most people, such as the tooth fairy, monsters and bogeymen ; in Thief of Time, she is able to identify the historical anomalies created by the History Monks ' reconstruction of the shattered timeline.
Time of Judgment, published in early 2004, included a chapter on the end of the world from a Changeling perspective, and was the last official published material for the game.
Mario's Time Machine uses a side-scrolling perspective, with a game engine that varies across all three versions.
Paul Gray wrote in a review in Time that the documents that make up Shikasta allow Lessing to stretch the novel out over vast periods of time and shift perspective " dramatically from the near infinite to the minute ".
* Deirdre McCann ( 2005 ), Working Time Laws: A global perspective, ILO, ISBN 92-2-117323-2
The seventies also marked a high in national filmmaking seen from an artistic perspective, an assessment supported by opinion polls such as the TIFF List of Canada's Top Ten Films of All Time, which has included several films from that decade every year that the poll was taken.
Coke's new OK soda uses irony and understatement to woo a skeptical market " — A critical business perspective from Time Magazine on OK Soda as a case study for marketing to Generation X ( May 30, 1994 )
Billboard noted, " It all adds up to a collection that successfully sets Hanson apart from the current teen-pop phenomenon that it helped start -- at least from a creative perspective ," and CDNow said " This Time Around scores with more sophisticated harmonies and storytelling.
* The Michael A. Martone short story It's Time is told from the perspective of an unnamed Radium Girl
The One Year Full Time MBA ( EPGP ) has a tie-up with the Joseph M Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh, USA where the entire batch shifts for a five week module to get a global perspective on management.
Zaehner also wrote from a wider perspective in his The Dawn and Twilight of Zoroastrianism ( 1961 ), where he explores the era of the founding of the religion by its prophet Zarathushtra ( for whom Zaehner gives traditional sixth century BCE dates ), and later its decline, when there arose doctrines concerning Zurvan i Akanarak Time, and of the savior Saoshyans.
Featuring an actual ( voice ) cameo by the late Canadian historian Pierre Berton ( who is also a character in the play ), the show tells the tale of a jaded Grade-8 student named David who doesn ’ t feel proud of his country until Berton's ghost seizes David in his Time Canoe ( which is bestowed to all Canadian celebrities who don't leave Canada ) and takes the young lad on a paddle down the River of Time to witness the events of the War of 1812 from a Canadian perspective ( which is occasionally at odds with the American and British versions of events ).

Time and ability
" Sullivan had little acting ability ; in 1967, 20 years after his show's debut, Time magazine asked " What exactly is Ed Sullivan's talent?
MIDI interfaces intended for use as the centerpiece of a studio, such as the Mark of the Unicorn MIDI Time Piece, were made possible by a " fast " transmission mode that could take advantage of these serial ports ' ability to operate at 20 times the standard MIDI speed.
When first used by Commander Linx in The Time Warrior, it shows the ability to fire a beam which can disarm by knocking the weapon out of the wielder's hand, hypnotise, as well as cutting through wood and killing.
This imprint comes from the Rassilon Imprimatur, part of the biological make-up of Time Lords, which gives them both a symbiotic link to their TARDISes and the ability to withstand the physical stresses of time travel (" The Two Doctors ", 1985 ).
This ability seems to be unique to the Doctor, though, as he said Time Lords cannot do that.
The Time Lords are able to divert the TARDIS's flight path (" The Ribos Operation " ( 1978 )), or have the ability to totally override and recall any TARDIS by the order of the Council (" Arc of Infinity " ( 1983 )).
* Regeneration ( Doctor Who ), a biological ability exhibited by the Time Lords in the fictional context of Doctor Who
* The Time Lords of Gallifrey in the television show Doctor Who are said to have practiced non-interference, especially related to their ability to travel anywhere in time or space.
* Time binding: The human ability to pass information and knowledge from one generation to the next.
Time Lords also have the ability to regenerate their bodies when their current body is mortally wounded.
Some victims, such as Runcible, were possibly " just Gallifreyans " and not Time Lords ( see above ), and so may not have had the ability to regenerate.
It is also worth noting that Time Lords appear to have the ability to stay conscious for moments after events that would outright kill other lifeforms instantly, giving them the opportunity to regenerate.
In " The End of Time ", the Lord President is shown wearing a gauntlet with several powers, primarily the ability to disintegrate a target and the ability to reverse / revert changes made to the human race by the Master.
At some point in their history the Time Lords interacted with the civilisation of the planet Minyos, giving them advanced technology ( including the ability to " regenerate " to a limited degree, by rejuvenating their bodies when they grow too old ).
" It also bound Essex to, " execute the Office of Captain-General, in such Manner, and according to such Instructions, as he shall, from Time to Time, receive from both Houses of Parliament ," which was inevitably going to be a constraint on his ability to command an army.
Discussing the legislation, Time referred to the DSHEA as " ill-conceived and reprehensible ", that " gives the industry virtually to market products defined as dietary supplements, while severely limiting the FDA's ability to regulate them ".
However, his ability to direct was correlated to an early beginning in music videos, which culminated in the EFX driven Michael Jackson “ Remember the Time ” MTV video.
All Microsoft Windows versions since Windows 2000 and Windows XP include the Windows Time Service (" w32time "), which has the ability to sync the computer clock to an NTP server.
During the series, emphasis was placed on the Bajoran's spiritual life, centering around the Orbs — objects of an alien origin believed to have been sent by the Prophets ( Bajor's gods ), each of which possess a unique ability ( such as the ' Orb of Time ', which allows those viewing it to revisit past events ).
The extent of Cockburn's literary ability only became known after he had passed his seventieth year, on the publication of his biography of lifelong friend Lord Jeffrey in 1852, and from his chief literary work, the Memorials of his Time, which appeared posthumously in 1856.
He was revered by many cultures past, present, and future as the God of Time because of his preternatural ability to manipulate time and space.
Over the course of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, individuals appear with supernatural abilities that are seemingly unconnected to the One Power and the ability to channel.

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