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This study explores the representation of Singaporean Chinese diasporic identity in Hwee Hwee Tans novel Mammon Inc. with the help of cultural linguistics. This article seeks to analyze how the novel contributes to understanding diasporic identity and cultural negotiation, with a focus on how the portrayal of the main character reshapes the delicate equilibrium between traditional values and global capitalist pressures. Drawing on Farzad Sharifians cultural conceptualization framework and Gary B. Palmers ethnosemantic analysis, this study focuses on cultural schemas3 and metaphors in the novel. We identify passages in Mammon Inc. that illustrate themes of identity negotiation, cultural displacement, and the impact of globalization on traditional values. Through the categorization of themes and metaphors, we aim to identify culturally relevant schemas pertaining to the Singaporean Chinese diaspora.4 We also employ Palmers ethnosemantic analysis to expose how the novels language reflects the cognitive and cultural frameworks of the protagonist. The metaphorical language used in the novel reveals the protagonists struggle to balance familial expectations with personal ambitions, thus challenging simplistic narratives of identity. This analysis of Tans novel enhances cultural linguistics and diaspora studies by deepening our understanding of how cultural and linguistic factors influence the representation and understanding of diasporic experiences. It underscores the importance of language and culture in the negotiation of identity, offering a nuanced perspective on the complexities faced by the Singaporean Chinese diaspora in a globalized world.

Robert King Merton’s article published in Science popularized the Matthew Effect: “For to everyone who has, more will be given and he will grow rich; but from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away” (Matthew 25:29). The Matthew Effect prevails at the individual, organization-industry, and country-global levels. This interdisciplinary review connects the Holy Bible with agency theory, tournament theory, corporate social responsibility (CSR), prospect theory, behavioral economics, the psychology of money, and business ethics in the literature. I expand the Matthew Effect, incorporate prospect theory and the love of money (1 Timothy 6:9–10), and develop a multi-level theory of the Matthew Effect in Monetary Wisdoms: Individual decision-makers apply their deep-rooted values (avaricious monetary aspiration, the love of money attitude) as a lens, frame the critical concerns in the immediate and omnibus contexts, and maximize expected utility and ultimate serenity-happiness across people, context, and time at the individual, organization-industry, and country-global levels. The rich (with talents, integrity, character, and wisdom) serve God, enjoying the ultimate joy and happiness. The poor serve mammon, destroying their lives. The rich get richer. The poor get poorer. Scholars of business ethics and CSR must explore this phenomenon in future studies.

The parable of the unrighteous steward encouraged rich individuals outside the Christian community to use their wealth to make friends of Jesus’ poor disciples, specifically by reducing their debts, so that in the eschatological kingdom Jesus’ disciples would receive these benefactors into their eternal dwellings. It had its setting in the efforts of early Palestinian Christians to enlist the financial support of the wealthy. Since many of these did not wish to sell all their possessions and donate the proceeds to the Christian community, this parable suggested an alternative way that the rich could use their wealth to assist the community.

Inside \"Paradise Lost\"opens up new readings and ways of reading Milton's epic poem by mapping out the intricacies of its narrative and symbolic designs and by revealing and exploring the deeply allusive texture of its verse. David Quint's comprehensive study demonstrates how systematic patterns of allusion and keywords give structure and coherence both to individual books ofParadise Lostand to the overarching relationship among its books and episodes. Looking at poems within the poem, Quint provides new interpretations as he takes readers through the major subjects ofParadise Lost-its relationship to epic tradition and the Bible, its cosmology and politics, and its dramas of human choice. Quint shows how Milton radically revises the epic tradition and the Genesis story itself by arguing that it is better to create than destroy, by telling the reader to make love, not war, and by appearing to ratify Adam's decision to fall and die with his wife. The Milton of thisParadise Lostis a Christian humanist who believes in the power and freedom of human moral agency. As this indispensable guide and reference takes us inside the poetry of Milton's masterpiece,Paradise Lostreveals itself in new formal configurations and unsuspected levels of meaning and design.

The Satan of Paradise Lost has fascinated generations of readers. This book attempts to explain how and why Milton’s Satan is so seductive. It reasserts the importance of Satan against those who would minimize the poem’s sympathy for the devil and thereby make Milton orthodox. Neil Forsyth argues that William Blake got it right when he called Milton a true poet because he was \"of the Devils party\" even though he set out \"to justify the ways of God to men.\" In seeking to learn why Satan is so alluring, Forsyth ranges over diverse topics--from the origins of evil and the relevance of witchcraft to the status of the poetic narrator, the epic tradition, the nature of love between the sexes, and seventeenth-century astronomy. He considers each of these as Milton introduces them: as Satanic subjects.

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After seeing the homicide victim's missing license plate in Abdullah Alkhalidi's car, police got a search warrant and looked through the rest of the green Nissan, according to testimony Wednesday in St. Joseph Superior Court. When police found out that Alkhalidi was an acquaintance of [Claude] Purdiman's, they went to talk to Alkhalidi at his house, according to previous testimony.

IT LOOKS LIKE Cupid has traded in his arrow for a badge. Police Officer Albert Mammon, 32, played matchmaker on the Coney Island Boardwalk earlier this summer - and this month, two of the lovebirds he introduced got engaged. It started as a quiet night in Coney Island on May 23 when a young officer's fancy turned to love. Mammon said he spotted a trio of long-skirted, young women celebrating their last college final and another threesome of men further down the historic plankway.

Darlene Dawson, from Antioch, attaches the Sportsmen Yacht Club burgee to the bow of her boat as they leave the Sportsmen Yacht Club in preparation for the Million Boat Float on Sunday, Aug. 16, 2009 in Antioch, Calif. A flotilla of boats is making their way up the Delta to the state capitol in Sacramento. Boaters are protesting the proposed drilling in the Delta for a peripheral canal. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Staff); Sportsmen Yacht Club member [Bruce Connelley], from Oakley, prepares to pass over \"Million Boat Float\" pennants to boater Gary Moscato Sr., from Concord, in preparation for the Million Boat Float on Sunday, Aug. 16, 2009 at Broad Slough, near Antioch, Calif. The flotilla of boats is making their way up the Delta to the state capitol in Sacramento. Boaters are protesting the proposed drilling in the Delta for a peripheral canal. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Staff); Jim Dawson and his wife Darlene Dawson, from Antioch, steer their boat \"After Midnight\" on the San Joaquin River as they head to a check point at Broad Slough for the Million Boat Float on Sunday, Aug. 16, 2009 in Antioch, Calif. The Dawsons are part of a flotilla making their way up the Delta to the state capitol in Sacramento. Boaters are protesting the proposed drilling in the Delta for a peripheral canal. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Staff); Jim Dawson and his wife Darlene Dawson, from Antioch, boat at left, steer their boat \"After Midnight\" as they lead other boaters to a check point at Broad Slough for the Million Boat Float on Sunday, Aug. 16, 2009 in Calif. The Dawsons are part of a flotilla making their way up the Delta to the state capitol in Sacramento. Boaters are protesting the proposed drilling in the Delta for a peripheral canal.