Abstract
This paper reviews an article entitled "Denial of responsibility: A new mode of dissonance reduction" by Gosling P. Denizeau et. al. The subject of denial of responsibility as a mechanism for reduction of dissonance and the conditions under which it is likely to be deployed are described at length.

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"The authors used an experimental type of design that over the course of three separate investigations also included an examination of correlation between dependent variables and the strength of one particular dependent variable, namely denial of responsibility as a mode of dissonance reduction. Experiment researchers gave a pretest to ..."

Tags:cognitive dissonance, denial, dissonance reduction, denial of responsibility

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The paper explains how the Holocaust denial theory is unique in that it forces its proponents to denounce a veritable monolith of hard evidence that runs contrary to its central claims. The five primary pillars of Holocaust denial theory are explored and ultimately discarded amidst a convergence of evidence that the Holocaust did, tragically, take place.

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"There is a burden of proof that every historian must bear and it is in many respects one's ability to authenticate an historical event with hard data and incontrovertible fact that will validate one's analysis of the past. Old Testament accounts, for example, often at times discuss characters and events that are only to be found in the Old Testament itself. Archaeology has done little to verify claims that, for instance, men such as Solomon or Abraham ever actually existed."

Tags:Holocaust denial theory, Nazi Germany, Adolph Hitler, The Holocaust, Anti-Defamation League, Jewish Defense League

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This paper examines the issue of distributed denial of service attacks and how to use predictive analysis to detect such attacks on computer networks.

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"Denial of service attacks receive considerable media attention because they have the ability to shut down the Net or at least portions of it. Businesses and individuals alike have come to depend on the World Wide Web for commerce, entertainment and information and the realization that the Web is vulnerable to attack causes concern. Defending against denial of service attacks is an important part of an organization's security plan but can be difficult to accomplish because of ..."

Tags:DDOS, DOS, Distributed denial of service attacks, denial of service

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This paper strongly confronts the recent theories of Holocaust denial by discussing the anti-Semitic history of Europe and giving the statistics proving the number of Jews erased following World War II in Europe. First, the paper examines the philosophical influences of Adolph Hitler. Then, the actual suffering of the Jews during the Holocaust is detailed, from the death camps to those who were used for human experiments. Other sources of proof regarding the Holocaust are analyzed, such as "Anne Frank's Diary," photographs and famous speeches made by Nazi officials. The author concludes that there is considerable evidence indicating the truth behind the Holocaust and that claims made by deniers are based on their own anti-Semitism and have no historical or factual evidence corroborating them.

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"Those who lived were used as subjects for human experiments. The most notorious of these physicians was Dr. Josef Mengele, who worked in Auschwitz. His experiments included placing subjects in pressure chambers, testing drugs on them, freezing them, attempting to change eye color by injecting chemicals into children's eyes and various amputations and other brutal surgeries (The Holocaust Chronicles: A History in Words and Pictures). One of Mengele's infamous experiments included working with twins. He sewed a pair of four year old twins together, back to front like Siamese twins and left them like that. Their wounds were infected and oozing pus. They screamed day and night till their parents finally managed to get their hands on some morphine and killed their own children in order to put them out of their misery (The world must know: The history of the Holocaust as told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). Death was a fate far better than what those who lived at Auschwitz endured."

Tags:genocide, death camps, Shoah, Auschwitz, World War II, Holocaust denial

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This thesis argues that Holocaust denial is simply the craving for another Holocaust. It is a craving that basically pursues its objective via different tactics. The author feels that by erasing memory and employing moral relativism, combined with the same anti-Semitic caricatures that led to the Holocaust, holocaust denial institutes a certain social and political mind-set which, in turn, can facilitate the possibility of yet another Holocaust. In order to understand what Holocaust denial is about, it is mandatory to understand what the Holocaust was and why it came about. This essay examines both the Holocaust and the phenomenon of subsequent efforts to deny its historical reality.

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Hesse and Hemingway both write with influences from existential philosophy; however, each writer also fails to address the embedded paradox of isolation and meaningfulness is his writing. What emerges in this analysis is the way denial functions in the authors' texts. This denial works at a deep level, where each author writes in ways that presume a logic of transparency to writing. In other words, the assumption that the author is absent from the writing functions as a denial of writing at all. As such, both texts are drained of effect, revealing too much of the author's own rationalizations and too little of the ethical issues being addressed.

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In this article, the writer considers the denial of corporeality as is found in the Yogacara. The writer demonstrates the inconsistencies of this view, and offers representationalism as a solution. The writer first shows that Yogacara's denial of corporeality delivers nihilism. The writer shows how Vasubandhu deconstructs the inference of corporeality, first by analyzing sense perception, then by considering the physicality of material objects. The writer then shows how representationalism, as found in the Abhidharma, avoids nihilism by stressing belief over positive assertion. The writer also shows that this accords with the middle way of the Buddha. Finally, the writer shows where the Abhidharma is also mistaken, and this is where it tries to prove its claims through metaphysics.

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"By positing the absence of corporeality, the Yogacara is guilty of positive assertion, and this is incompatible with the middle way taught by the Buddha. According to this doctrine the correct way is to steer a course between positive assertion and nihilism, and this is the path of belief. Vasubandhu is successful in deconstructing the inference of corporeality, but in doing so he arrives at nihilism. To overcome this consequence Abhidharma posits corporeality and representationalism, which is the rational conclusion. However, the Abhidharma is mistaken when it tries to establish representationalism through metaphysics. This analysis leads to the point where the whole is not real and only parts are real. But parts cannot exist on their own accord without an existing whole. Therefore the real consequence of this analysis is that neither the whole nor the parts are real. This again describes nihilism. Thus, through positive assertion the Abhidharma is thrown back to nihilism."

Tags:Buddhism, Abhidharma, Vasubandhu, nirvana, svabhava, representationalism, nihilism, sum, parts, whole

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This paper examines prejudice attitudes towards Japaneses Canadians and Americans. It claims that they often report experiencing estrangement and 'identity denial' by their fellow citizens. The paper draws upon history and literature to illustrate this phenomenon. It discusses the Japanese internment in the US during WWII, Sapna Cheryan and Benoit Monin's article "Where are You Really From? - Asian Americans and Identity Denial", and Joy Kogawa's novel "Obasan".

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"Prejudice may still exist in Canada concerning people of Japanese descent, along with occasional prejudice faced by all newer communities, as may be part of the human process of resettlement, as in Irish immigrants or yore to face considerable ostracism as did members of some Eastern European communities. Early arrivals from China certainly faced ostracism and in central Canada report that they no longer feel a 'visible' minority, the community having developed over time its place in the mainstream, distinction remaining between persons of Chinese origin long established in Canada or those seen as recent arrivals. The point made is that some differentiation or exclusion may be part of the way of the world, more than overt racism, significant only if it produces direct abuse as opposed to exclusion. Then again Kogawa refers to a British Columbia where anti-Japanese and just anti-East Asian racism does seem to have been in place. World War II and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour had pitched feeling against a visible and concentrated community that was not well known to others and suspected of pro-Japanese sympathies. The day was one of racialist thought too, distinct from racism, and lingering belief in a 'yellow peril' resulting from unregulated Asian immigration. Films, hearsay and ordinary ignorance encouraged a generalizing of Asian peoples as though all engaged in secret society activities, in a Fu Manchu motif carried from people of one origin to another."

Tags:prejudice, immigrant

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This paper mainly discusses the idea of Holocaust denial and the people who follow this practice and how they support their ideas with the views of Deborah Lipstadt and her rebuttal.

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"?Modern Holocaust denial draws inspiration from a variety of sources? (Lipstadt 31). The Holocaust Deniers, or more appropriately called ?revisionist? historians, and historians of the traditional school seem to differ greatly in their methodologies as shown when they use the same piece of evidence in two separate manners to come to two completely different conclusions."

Tags:deniers, holocaust, ii, lipstadt, revisionists, war, world

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This paper analyzes "The Denial of Saint Peter" by the Dutch artist Hendrick Terbrugghen. The author focuses on the artist's use of line, color, light and dark, area, texture, perspective, volume and assesses their effectiveness.

Tags:saint, painting