When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of time travel works of fiction - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_time_travel_works...

    Works created prior to the 18th century are listed in Time travel § History of the time travel concept. A guardian angel travels back to the year 1728, with letters from 1997 and 1998. An unnamed man falls asleep and finds himself in a Paris of the future. Play – A good fairy sends people forward to the year 7603 AD. [1]

  3. Betrayal - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betrayal

    Often betrayal is the act of supporting a rival group, or it is a complete break from previously decided upon or presumed norms by one party from the others. Someone who betrays others is commonly known as a traitor or betrayer. Betrayal is a commonly used story element in fiction, sometimes used as a plot twist.

  4. Paradox of tolerance - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

    One of the earliest formulations of "paradox of tolerance" is given in the notes of Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies in 1945. Popper raises the paradox in the chapter notes regarding "The Principle of Leadership", connecting the paradox to his refutation of Plato's defense of "benevolent despotism". In the main text, Popper ...

  5. Betrayal trauma - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betrayal_trauma

    Betrayal trauma is defined as a trauma perpetrated by someone with whom the victim is close to and reliant upon for support and survival. [1][2] The concept was originally introduced by Jennifer Freyd in 1994. Betrayal trauma theory (BTT), addresses situations when people or institutions on which a person relies for protection, resources, and ...

  6. Pack of Lies - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pack_of_Lies

    Pack of Lies. Pack of Lies is a 1983 play by English writer Hugh Whitemore, itself adapted from his Act of Betrayal, an episode of the BBC anthology series Play of the Month transmitted in 1971. [1][2] Based on a true story, the plot centres on Bob and Barbara Jackson (in real life Bill and Ruth Search) and their teenage daughter Julie (in real ...

  7. Dystopia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dystopia

    A dystopia (from Ancient Greek δυσ (dus) 'bad' and τόπος (tópos) 'place'), also called a cacotopia[2] or anti-utopia, is a community or society that is extremely bad or frightening. [3][4] It is often treated as an antonym of utopia, a term that was coined by Sir Thomas More and figures as the title of his best known work, published in ...

  8. Mayuri Kurotsuchi - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayuri_Kurotsuchi

    Nine years after his release, Kisuke and Hiyori forced to leave the Soul Society, Mayuri becomes the new captain of Squad 12. As the result of the fifth experiment in his life-creating Nemuri Project while later taking the seventh surviving experiment, Nemu Kurotsuchi , to be his lieutenant and lab assistant while pretending to be uncaring ...

  9. Risk society - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_society

    Risk society is the manner in which modern society organizes in response to risk. The term is closely associated with several key writers on modernity, in particular Ulrich Beck and Anthony Giddens. [1] The term was coined in the 1980s and its popularity during the 1990s was both as a consequence of its links to trends in thinking about wider ...