Dangerous Liaisons? by Norman L Jones

“…I sometimes feel that I am so dominated by circumstances and coincidences that I have little free choice, for example, when approaching an editorial. …”
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Psychological factors of the effectiveness of competitive activity in professional skills by A. Yu. Tymchikov

“…The main psychological reasons for unsuccessful performances are identified - excessive independence with insufficient experience of psychological training; insufficient command of psychological technologies of self-action; low need for achievements, blurred fuzzy image of “I am the winner”; inadequate (overestimated and understated) self-esteem; unproductive reflection, low level of reflective culture; insufficient level of development of the main personal and professional qualities; uncertainty.…”
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A Life Committed by Sbonelo Radebe

“…Pahad served as the Minister in the Presidency from 1999 until 2008 under former President Thabo Mbeki who wrote a foreword to this book, “I am happy to commend this educative tour through many decades of exciting struggles for our liberation and a better world, as contained in this autobiography” (p17). …”
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Ludic Populism and Its Unpopular Subversion by Sascha Pöhlmann

“…Understanding the political as a way of imagining a community as a political actor through symbolic practices, either in the interest of creating the sovereign of democratic systems or an ethnicity, I argue that video games may employ a populist imagination in constructing ‘the people’ as a basically unified group (usually in implicitly or explicitly essentialist ways) as much as they may resist or subvert this populist fantasy of homogeneity. I am especially interested in games that dialectically combine both these aspects at the same time by way of dissonances between their representational elements and their gameplay. …”
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The Role of New Orleans Parish Prison in Joyce Carol Oates’s “Aiding and Abetting” by Tanya TROMBLE

“…Though no Oates story exclusively uses New Orleans as setting, the city does play an important role in the short story “Aiding and Abetting” (collected in I Am No One You Know, 2004). Steven and Holly’s idyllic home life with their two young children in urban northern New Jersey is interrupted by frequent disturbing evening phone calls from Holly’s mentally unstable brother, Owen. …”
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Wanderings with Lady M.: A happy threesome by Adelheid L. J. Thieme

“…   As our relationship was getting more serious, he said to me one day: “I need to tell you something. I am already engaged, and no matter what is going to happen between the two of us, I’m not going to give up my fiancée. …”
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Oscar, Derrida’s Cat, and Other Knowing Animals by Wendy Harding, Jacky Martin

“…Our knowledge is limited, a premise that Derrida analyses in The Animal that Therefore I Am, where he admits that the philosophical literature about animals does not satisfactorily justify his human difference. …”
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Interpersonal relations by Llew von Essen

“…I trust that you, like me, are thrilled to be living in what must be considered the most exciting, dynamic and challenging era of this century. But like you, I am not that naïve to realise that it is an easy one free of problems. …”
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Being Geniuses Together: Ghostwriting and the Uncanny of Robert McAlmon’s and Kay Boyle’s (Out of) Joint Autobiography by Anna Linzie

“…Boyle’s version prompts questions about originality and autobiographical truth through the way in which her chapters are alternated with McAlmon’s chapters in a post-mortem “dialogue” or ghostwriting experiment and frequently seem to bracket or undermine his version of the “same” story. I am interested in the way in which self-writing and autobiography in general, and in particular experimental forms of collaborative, queer, or “mock” autobiography, have been used to conjure up supposedly True Stories of the Lost Generation and literary Modernism. …”
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Cultural Stereotypes, Literary Agency, and Postcolonial Writing: A Conversation with Shirin Ramzanali Fazel and Simone Brioni by Maria Morelli

“…On that occasion, I conducted an interview with author Shirin Ramzanali Fazel in discussion with postcolonial studies scholar Simone Brioni, which I am presenting here. The interview focuses on the veiling issue, cultural stereotypes, female agency, the publishing market in Italy, and the place of transnational literature. …”
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México ¿la dictadura perfecta? by Rocío  Ruiz Lagier

“…A clear example is the so-called dirty war of the seventies, which resulted in hundreds of dissappeared persons who are not recognized today in political discourse, nor in the social imaginary. In this article, I am interested in analyzing the way different narratives unfold about the recent past, where oblivion has been a substantial element of internal politics. …”
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Response on Cheema U N, et al. (J Pak Med Assoc. 74: 1051-1054, June 2024) Film as an educational tool in medical pedagogy: A study on cinemeducation and its effectiveness by Usama Naveed Cheema, Sarmed Ibrahim, Nukhbat Ullah Awan, Haram Ashiq, Wagma Sarmed, Khalid Munir

“…Madam, I am pleased to read the thoughtful commentaryon our article, "Film as an educational tool in medicalpedagogy: A study on cinemeducation and itseffectiveness," published in the Journal of the PakistanMedical Association (JPMA). …”
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Dziecięce zmagania z czasem. Wyzwalanie rozumienia pojęcia czas przez dzieci 9–10-letnie w kulturze szkoły polskiej by Monika Wiśniewska-Kin

“…In this article, I am going to discuss the issues of triggering children’s understanding of natural concepts (on the example of the concept of time) in a cultural context. …”
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Shakespeare revisité, entre fidélité et parodie : de La Nuit des Rois à Shake de Dan Jemmett by Isabelle Schwartz-Gastine

“…William Shakespeare himself was a master of re-writing older material as he abundantly used this technique, which was totally justified at the Renaissance, to compose his poems or plays, from various sources whether literary (prose or verse), historical, or any other—and sometimes most unusual—background.The play I am considering in this paper is a very recent re-writing in English by Dan Jemmett (Peter Brook’s son-in-law), but performed in Marie-Paul Remo’s French translation at the Vidy Theatre in Lausanne during the 2001 season. …”
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Écart et souveraineté dans les essais de Ralph Waldo Emerson by Mathieu Duplay

“…First because, according to him, I am master of my own thoughts only to the extent that I « recognize » them as mine, that is to say if I seek to narrow the gap that separates me from what is properly mine by performatively laying claim to my most intimate possessions. …”
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KAB Newsletter Issue 5 (Apr - Jun 2023) by Sempungu, Godfrey J., Ocan, Johnson, Saturday, Alex

“…There are no words to describe how appreciative I am of the indefatigable team of contributors, most of whom hail from the Communications, Branding and Marketing department. …”
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Gambaran Resiliensi Pada Individu Dewasa Awal Terhadap Situasi Akibat Perceraian Orangtua by Shofi Tri Amalia, Ika Yuniar Cahyanti

“…Ketiga partisipan memiliki kesulitan yang berbeda-beda namun terdapat persamaan yaitu tumbuhnya ketakutan yang membuat subjek untuk antisipasi dalam berhubungan dan menyiapkan diri dalam berumah tangga. Sumber resiliensi "I am”, "I have”, dan "I can” juga memenuhi adaptasi individu. …”
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The new age and conventional communication by Marco Roodt

“… kspite 14 joint years of working for two large Parastatal corporations and the largest Financial Services institution on the African continent, and of late three years as an independent communication consultant, I still have no clear-cut answer to the question of what the future holds for conventional communication. Note that I am steering clear of the word communications. Communications would in my view be referring to those information-technology-trained experts driving luxury cars at an age when they had barely qualified for a legal driver's licence, or to the richest person in the world who has, by starting a dot.com business, surpassed in stock wealth the software wunderkid of the eighties. …”
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HERMENEUTINIS PAŽINIMAS KAIP SUPRATIMAS: TREČIASIS TIKROVĖS MATMUO by Milda Paulikaitė

“…It can be described in many aspects. In this paper I am concentrating my attention on the notion of reality. …”
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Pierre Monbeig e o vacilo de uma tradição nos trópicos by César Simoni Santos

“…Perhaps for their unsystematic and still fairly intuitive condition, such theoretical-conceptual advances have rarely been debated, if only superficially, and never with its due importance. However, I am confident that the experience of getting acquainted with the Brazilian reality opened for Pierre Monbeig the opportunity for the commencement of a re-elaboration not only of Geography’s theoretical and conceptual outline, but also of its own epistemological status — and this is what I intend to demonstrate here. …”
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