World is a common name for the whole of human civilization, specifically human experience, history, or the human condition in general, ''worldwide'', i.e. anywhere on Earth.

In a philosophical context it may refer to: (1) the whole of the physical Universe, or (2) an ontological world (''see world disclosure''). In a theological context, ''world'' usually refers to the material or the profane sphere, as opposed to the celestial, spiritual, transcendent or sacred. The "end of the world" refers to scenarios of the final end of human history, often in religious contexts.

World history is commonly understood as spanning the major geopolitical developments of about five millennia, from the first civilizations to the present.

World population is the sum of all human populations at any time; similarly, world economy is the sum of the economies of all societies (all countries), especially in the context of globalization. Terms like world championship, gross world product, world flags etc. also imply the sum or combination of all current-day sovereign states.

In terms such as world religion, world language, and world war, ''world'' suggests international or intercontinental scope without necessarily implying participation of the entire world.

In terms such as world map and world climate, ''world'' is used in the sense detached from human culture or civilization, referring to the planet Earth physically.

Etymology and usage

The English word ''world'' comes from the Old English ''weorold (-uld), weorld, worold (-uld, -eld)'', a compound of ''wer'' "man" and ''eld'' "age," which thus means roughly "Age of Man." The Old English is a reflex of the Common Germanic ''*wira-alđiz'', also reflected in Old Saxon ''werold'', Old High German ''weralt'', Old Frisian ''warld'' and Old Norse ''verǫld'' (whence the Icelandic ''veröld'').

The corresponding word in Latin is ''mundus'', literally "clean, elegant", itself a loan translation of Greek ''cosmos'' "orderly arrangement." While the Germanic word thus reflects a mythological notion of a "domain of Man" (compare Midgard), presumably as opposed to the divine sphere on the one hand and the chthonic sphere of the underworld on the other, the Greco-Latin term expresses a notion of creation as an act of establishing order out of chaos.

'World' distinguishes the entire planet or population from any particular country or region: ''world affairs'' pertain not just to one place but to the whole world, and ''world history'' is a field of history that examines events from a global (rather than a national or a regional) perspective. ''Earth'', on the other hand, refers to the planet as a physical entity, and distinguishes it from other planets and physical objects.

'''World''' can also be used attributively, to mean 'global', 'relating to the whole world', forming usages such as world community or world canonical texts.

By extension, a '''world''' may refer to any planet or heavenly body, especially when it is thought of as inhabited, especially in the context of science fiction or futurology.

'''World''', in original sense, when qualified, can also refer to a particular domain of human experience.

The ''world of work'' describes paid work and the pursuit of career, in all its social aspects, to distinguish it from home life and academic study.

The ''fashion world'' describes the environment of the designers, fashion houses and consumers that make up the fashion industry.

historically, the ''New World'' vs. the ''Old World'', referring to the parts of the world colonized in the wake of the age of discovery. Now mostly used in zoology and botany, as New World monkey.

Philosophy

In philosophy, the term world has several possible meanings. In some contexts, it refers to everything that makes up reality or the physical universe. In others, it can mean have a specific ontological sense (see world disclosure). While clarifying the concept of world has arguably always been among the basic tasks of Western philosophy, this theme appears to have been raised explicitly only at the start of the twentieth century and has been the subject of continuous debate. The question of what the world is has by no means been settled.

;Parmenides The traditional interpretation of Parmenides' work is that he argued that the every-day perception of reality of the physical world (as described in doxa) is mistaken, and that the reality of the world is 'One Being' (as described in aletheia): an unchanging, ungenerated, indestructible whole.

;Plato In his Allegory of the Cave, Plato distingues between forms and ideas and imagines two distinct worlds : the sensible world and the intelligible world.

;Hegel In Hegel's philosophy of history, the expression ''Weltgeschichte ist Weltgericht'' (World History is a tribunal that judges the World) is used to assert the view that History is what judges men, their actions and their opinions. Science is born from the desire to transform the World in relation to Man; its final end is technical application.

;Schopenhauer ''The World as Will and Representation'' is the central work of Arthur Schopenhauer. Schopenhauer saw the human will as our one window to the world behind the representation; the Kantian thing-in-itself. He believed, therefore, that we could gain knowledge about the thing-in-itself, something Kant said was impossible, since the rest of the relationship between representation and thing-in-itself could be understood by analogy to the relationship between human will and human body.

;Wittgenstein Two definitions that were both put forward in the 1920s, however, suggest the range of available opinion. "The world is everything that is the case," wrote Ludwig Wittgenstein in his influential ''Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus'', first published in 1922. This definition would serve as the basis of logical positivism, with its assumption that there is exactly one world, consisting of the totality of facts, regardless of the interpretations that individual people may make of them.

;Heidegger Martin Heidegger, meanwhile, argued that "the surrounding world is different for each of us, and notwithstanding that we move about in a common world". The world, for Heidegger, was that into which we are always already "thrown" and with which we, as beings-in-the-world, must come to terms. His conception of "world disclosure" was most notably elaborated in his 1927 work ''Being and Time''.

;Freud In response, Freud proposed that we do not move about in a common world, but a common thought process. He believed that all the actions of a person are motivated by one thing: lust. This led to numerous theories about reactionary consciousness.

;Other Some philosophers, often inspired by David Lewis, argue that metaphysical concepts such as possibility, probability and necessity are best analyzed by comparing ''the'' world to a range of possible worlds; a view commonly known as modal realism.

Religion and mythology

Mythological cosmologies often depict the world as centered around an axis mundi and delimited by a boundary such as a world ocean, a world serpent or similar.

See also

Globe

List of sovereign states

Universe

References

External links

Category:Earth

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Show name	Super Mario World
Genre	Animated television series
Creator	DIC EntertainmentNintendo (characters)
Writer	Jack Hanrahan (''The Wheel Thing'')Eleanor Burian-Mohr (''The Wheel Thing'')Brooks Wachtel (''Fire Sale'', ''Gopher Bash'')Martha Moran (''Send in the Clown'', ''A Little Learning'', ''The Night Before Cave Christmas'')Perry Martin (''Ghosts 'R' Us'')Phil Harnage (''King Scoopa Koopa'', ''Mama Luigi'', ''Party Line'')Paul Dell (''Born to Ride'')Steven Weiss (''Born to Ride'')Frank Ridgeway (''Party Line'')George Shea (''Rock TV'')Kristofor Brown (''The Yoshi Shuffle'')
Director	John Gruso
Voices	Harvey AtkinWalker BooneTara Strong (as Tara Charandoff)Katherine GallantPaulina GillisDan HennesseyJudy MarshakGordon MastenTracey MooreJames RankinTony RosatoAndrew SabistonMichael StarkJohn StockerStu Stone (as Stuart Stone)
Theme music composer	Mark Mothersbaugh
Opentheme	"Super Mario World"
Endtheme	"Super Mario World" (instrumental)
Composer	Michael Tavera
Country	United States
Language	English, French
Num seasons	1
Num episodes	13
List episodes	List of Super Mario episodes#Super Mario World
Executive producer	Andy Heyward
Producer	John Grusd
Story editor	Phil Harnage
Runtime	approx. 11 minutes (with commercials)
Channel	NBC
First run
First aired	September 14, 1991
Last aired	December 7, 1991
Preceded by	''Captain N & The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3'' (1990)
Related	Super Mario Toons
Production website	}}

''Super Mario World'' is a short-lived animated television series loosely based on the Super NES video game of the same name. It was the third and thus far last Saturday morning cartoon based on the Super Mario Bros. NES and Super NES series of video games. The show only aired thirteen episodes due to ''Captain N: The Game Master'''s cancellation on NBC.

Format

The series centered on Mario, Luigi and Princess Toadstool, now living in Dinosaur Land (sometimes also called Dinosaur World) with Yoshi, who was depicted on the show as a curious child-like dinosaur with a large appetite and several phobias. King Koopa (otherwise known as Bowser) and the Koopalings were also around, having followed the Mario Bros. and the Princess to Dinosaur Land.

Unlike in the game, Dinosaur Land was depicted as being populated with cavepeople, including a pre-adolescent caveboy named Oogtar, who replaced the role of Toad (Oogtar even had the same voice actor as Toad, John Stocker). Some episodes revolved around Mario trying to introduce a modern invention to the cavepeople in an attempt to make their lives easier, only for the Koopas to twist it into an evil scheme. It is unclear whether the characters had traveled back in time (in the episode "Rock TV", King Koopa mentions "there's no TV here in the Stone Age [because] it hasn't been invented yet"), or if Dinosaur Land was simply a "lost valley"-esque island that the characters had come to (in the flashback episode "Mama Luigi", Luigi simply mentions that he and the others came to Dinosaur Land without any mention of time travel).

The show was originally aired on Saturday mornings on NBC in the 1991-92 season, the last year the network programmed an animated children's block before the launch of a Saturday edition of ''Today''. It was featured in a half-hour time slot with a shortened version of ''Captain N: The Game Master'', titled ''Captain N & The New Super Mario World'' (also erroneously titled ''Captain N & Super Mario Bros. World'' in the commercial bumpers). Episodes of ''Super Mario World'' were later shown as part of the syndication package ''Captain N and the Video Game Masters''. Afterwards, the series was split up from ''Captain N'' altogether and shown in time-compressed reruns on as part of ''Mario All-Stars'' on ''Family Channel'', and later ''USA Network''. In the United Kingdom, however, the show was still broadcast as ''Captain N & The New Super Mario World''.

Unlike the previous two Mario cartoons, the show was not widely distributed on home video in the NTSC region, where its only release was the inclusion of the show's Christmas episode on the 1996 VHS release ''Super Mario Bros. Super Christmas Adventures''. Meanwhile, two PAL tapes were released in the United Kingdom. More recently, the series was released on DVD in Australia. This series is the most short-lived of the three American Mario animated series.

Differences between the series and the game

The show takes place in Dinosaur World where Yoshi lives with a preadolescent caveman named Oogtar. In addition, Yoshi's Island is populated with cavemen instead of Yoshis. Several names were changed from the game as well: Forest of Illusion was called Enchanted Forest, and Vanilla Dome was referred to as the Lava Pits. Furthermore, enemies featured in the game were rarely called by their in-game names on the show, and Bowser was called King Koopa. He also had his all-green appearance from the first cartoon. Mario, Luigi and the Princess all retained their original NES designs as well: red and green overalls for Mario and Luigi, and red hair for the Princess. Another notable fact was that Luigi found Yoshi, and when he hatched Yoshi was small and was not born with his saddle, as revealed when Luigi told him the story of how Yoshi was born. Also, the Koopalings were still referred to by their nicknames.

Production errors

Unlike the first two series, this entire project was rushed and there were massive incorrect colorings. The main colored details are different from the first two series. For excample: Princess Toadstool's high hills and petite coat are the same color as the bottom of her dress (Originally, her high hills were purple and her petite coat was white), Bowser Koopa's eyelids are the same color as his skin (Originally, his eyelids were dark), and Cookie Von Koopa's snout is colored orange (Originally, his snout was colored white). There are characters that are badly animated. Such as the small cave children, who's heads are constantly faced toward the screen when they move. Not only there were incorrect colorings, but misquoted lyrics were also added (Misquoted lyrics are rare in cartoon series or animated movies). In one episode A Little Learning, the song for the episode ''Rockin' The High School'' (which was based on the song ''Rock 'n' Roll High School'') is constantly misquoted because the place in the song's title is the oposite of the place in that certain scene.

Cast

Walker Boone as Mario

Tony Rosato as Luigi

Andrew Sabiston as Yoshi

Tracey Moore as Princess Toadstool (Peach)

John Stocker as Oogtar, Magikoopa, Monty Mole, and Chargin' Chuck

Harvey Atkin as King Bowser Koopa

Tara Strong as Lemmy "Hip" Koopa and Iggy "Hop" Koopa (credited as "Tara Charendoff")

Paulina Gillis as Wendy "Kootie Pie" Koopa

James Rankin as Larry "Cheatsy" Koopa

Dan Hennessey as Roy "Bully" Koopa, Green Dinosaur, and Purple Dinosaur

Michael Stark as Ludwig "Kooky" Von Koopa

Gordon Masten as Morton "Big Mouth" Koopa

Catherine Gallant as Mama Fireplant

Stuart Stone as Additional Voices

Brandon Enis as Mama Luigi

UK and USA VHS history

Video Collection International - BBC Video (1992–1994)

DVD release

On November 13, 2007, Shout! Factory released a Complete Series DVD set of ''Captain N & The New Super Mario World'' in Region 1. The series has also been released in Australia (Region 4) by Roadshow Entertainment. nCircle Entertainment (under license from Cookie Jar Entertainment) has also released the series in two volume sets.

!DVD Name	!Ep #	!Release Date	!Additional Information
Captain N & The New Super Mario World - The Complete Series		November 13, 2007		* Select Episode Previews	* Storyboard-to-Screen: Opening Title Sequence	* Original Concept Art: Yoshi

Broadcast Stations

USA

*NBC (1991–1992)

*Family Channel (1992–1994)

*Syndication (1992–1993)

*USA Network (1995–1997)

*PAX Network (January 2,-December 26, 1999)

International Stations

UK

*CITV (1993–present)

*The Children's Channel (1992)

*Channel 4

*POP! (2004–2010)

*ITV1 (2005)

*KidsCo (2011-present)

Australia

*Nine Network (1992)

*KidsCo (2009-present)

Ireland

*RTE Two (Den 2) (2002–2004)

Spain

*TVE2 (1993)

*KidsCo (2010-present)

Portugal (as "Super Mario Episodio")

*SIC (November 20, 1992 - December 14, 1999)

*KidsCo (2010-present)

Finland

*YLE TV1, YLE FST5

*Toon Disney

*Disney Channel

Sweden

*SVT

Chile

*Megavision (1993)

Middle East

*Spacetoon

*MBC3

*Nickelodeon Middle East

Japan

*TV Tokyo

South Korea

*KBS1

*Boomerang (South Korea) (2010-present)

Germany (as "Super Mario Welt")

*RTL Television

*Super RTL

Asia

*Animax Asia

References

External links

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