விவேக சிந்தாமணி கூறும் மானுட விழுமியங்கள் / Human Values in Viveka Cintamani by முனைவர் சு. சுசா / Dr. S. Susa

“…From trees, bushes, and vines, they learned the virtue of selflessness in supporting other creatures. This essay explores how humanity has derived many admirable qualities and enduring principles from the natural world. …”
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'Sanctifying Sex': Exploring 'Indecent' Sexual Imagery in Pentecostal Liturgical Practices by Sarojini Nadar, Johnathan Jodamus

“…Drawing on Foucault's challenge to the repressive hypothesis, where he suggests that so-called repressed sexuality finds 'appropriate' outlets in spaces such as psychiatry and prostitution, this essay suggests a third outlet, namely Pentecostalism. …”
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On the trail of John Calvin's philosophy of language: a few notes on his commentary on Genesis 10 and 11 by N. T. van der Merwe

“… This essay attempts to discover John Calvin’s view on the nature and use of human language. …”
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Relíquias da casa velha: literatura e ditadura militar, 50 anos depois by Tânia Pellegrini

“…This essay tries to relate specific actions of the military regime in the field of culture to the effective consolidation of a cultural industry in Brazil. …”
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World Religions in the World by David Chidester

“…Yet, the notion of ‘world religions’ has been enthusiastically embraced by advocates of inclusive citizenship in democratic societies and by advocates of indigenous empowerment in postcolonial societies. This brief essay reviews the terms of engagement for critically reflecting on the various deployments of ‘world religions’ as a prelude to thinking about religion in the world. …”
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Race, Gender, and Empire: The Strange Career of Women’s Voting Rights in Wyoming by Virginia Scharff

“…Historians have long puzzled over the fact that the earliest victories for women’s voting rights in the United States were won in the American West, far from the most prominent centers of women’s political activism. This essay argues that women won the vote in Wyoming Territory in 1869 due to a convergence of the post-Civil War politics of Reconstruction and the dynamics of white supremacist settler colonialism. …”
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In a historic environment, design with order an ostensible disorder by Emanuele Walter Angelico

“…The essay examines the relationship between the built and its regeneration. …”
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O deslocamento inaugural de Laços de família by Carlos Magno Gomes

“…This essay presents a reading of women’s place in the tales “Amor” and “Os laços de família”, from the collection Laços de família (1960), by Clarice Lispector. …”
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The Black Ecstatic by Desirée de Jesús

“…Critically lauded as one of 2020’s best films, Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock is an intimate look at black joy during a fraught period of high unemployment and the state-sanctioned criminalization of racialized communities in early 1980s Britain. My video essay ‘The Black Ecstatic’ concentrates on a sequence in this musical and explores how attending to sound enables us to think across generations of Black diasporic dreaming, striving, believing, and resisting bodies.…”
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Self-destruction of three-dimensional modern paintings caused by untypical materials – finding conservation solutions by Katarzyna Mikstal

“…The aim of this article is to indicate the relation between matter and an idea within a work of art – three-dimensional painting which involves untypical and undurable techniques. The essay introduces the problem of retaining the idea throughout the proper preserving of the substance while taking considerable care of its authenticity and complying with the rules of restoration ethical code. …”
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« Somnambulisme », ou l’après-coup de la métaphore by Marc Amfreville

“…This essay aims to show that “Somnambulism,” a short story by Charles Brockden Brown published in 1799 foreshadows several Freudian tenets that allow, in turn, to fully measure the symbolic purport of this fiction. …”
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Prolonged Relief of Chronic Pain from Local Anaesthetic Blocks by Ellen N Thompson

“…In a fascinating essay on the future of local anesthetic agents, Wall (1) cited a 1990 paper from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, entitled 'Prolonged relief of neuralgia after regional anesthetic blocks: A call for further experimental and systematic clinical studies' (2). …”
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« Very much in the dark about light » : Franklin, lumières et critiques by James Delbourgo

“…This essay discusses a critical account of Benjamin Franklin’s experiments with electricity published anonymously in London in 1777. …”
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The Semantic Web, Universalist Ambition and Some Lessons from Librarianship by Terrence A. Brooks

“…Three issues are explored in this essay: development of a standard container of information, desirability of standardizing the information hosted by this standardized container, and auxiliary tools to aid users find information. …”
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The Belhar confession and Church and Society: a comparative reading in five statements by P. Naudé

“… This essay offers a close comparative reading of the Belhar confession and the DRC witness document, Church and Society. …”
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Political Principles and Ideologies in Charles Johnson’s Middle Passage by Raphaël Lambert

“…Presented as pacifist and egalitarian, the Allmuseri will prove as bellicose and self-serving as their oppressors once in control of the ship. This essay demonstrates that both political models are in fact similar in nature as they have Utopian foundations whose ideals their proponents could never live up to and yet still claim to live for.…”
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Andrea Casale. Forme della percezione, dal pensiero all’immagine. Milano: Franco Angeli 2018 by Alessandra Cirafici

“…Thus wrote Gyorgy Kepes in the introduction to his fundamental Language of Vision, to which the fine essay by Andrea Casale, that we present here, certainly owes the clarity of the approach used to examine the theme of the image, not in itself, but as a process, as an act of a discipline of organization of which vision, perception and memory are the protagonists …”
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L’Architecture localement bio- et géo-sourcée de Christophe Aubertin : régionaliste, biorégionaliste ? by Mathias Rollot

“…As it is nowadays quite a commonplace to criticize the extractivist, productivist and naturalist ideologies, it also became interesting to question how architecture could help to rehabilitate the idea of ressources. To do so, this essay propose an examination of a selected body of buildings from french architect Christophe Aubertin, through the filter of their « regionalist » and/or « bioregionalist » caracteristics. …”
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Locke's Diagnosis of Akrasia Revisited by Samuel C. Rickless

“…Matthew Leisinger (2020) argues that previous interpretations of John Locke’s account of akrasia (or weakness of will) are mistaken and offers a new interpretation in their place.  In this essay, we aim to recapitulate part of this debate, defend a previously articulated interpretation by responding to Leisinger’s criticisms of it, and explain why Leisinger’s own interpretation faces textual and philosophical problems that are serious enough to disqualify it as an accurate reconstruction of Locke’s views.  …”
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Persuasive Papers, Speeches, and Campaigns by Laura Gorham, Ricky Telg, Tracy Irani

“…Persuasion can be used in written essays, speeches or as part of media campaigns that attempt to influence an audience to change their thinking or behavior. …”
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