An Appraisal of the Chronology Problem in the “Rise of the West” Question by Gürsu Galip Gürsakal, Sezgin Kaya

“…In the former part of our essay we try to acquaint the reader with the aforementioned literature. …”
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Intentional Manipulations? A Further Analysis of Selected English-Yoruba Humorous Translations by Ibukunolu Isaac Olodude

“…However, there are cases when the translation of a text is either intentionally or unintentionally manipulated to achieve certain intended or unintended purposes. This essay examines cases of manipulated translations of texts within a language and from one language to the other. …”
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Academic Classrooms as Rational Communications: (Review of the Book of Narrative from Academic Classrooms: The Lived Experience of University Professors) by Gholam Reza Azari

“…The importance and necessity of addressing classroom space are a valuable realm that can provide a variety of challenges for education experts and managers. Therefore, in this essay, the book "A Narrative of Academic Classrooms: The Lived Experience of University Professors" was attempted by Abbas Kazemi from the Institute for Cultural and Social Studies published in 1396.  …”
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La Société Royale Économique des Amis du Pays de Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle devant l'éclosion de la société de masse by Margarita Barral Martínez

“…We will first tackle the origins and development of the institution throughout the 19th century, after which we will present the evolution of this entity over the 20th century so as to show that its role as an educational and training centre, which had remained valid from the start, became outdated in the face of new social demands in the educational field.This brief essay has been based on the consultation of the documents kept in the Archive of the Royal Economic Society of Friends of the Country of Santiago (hereinafter ARSEAPS), as well as bibliographic sources.…”
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« C’est eux contre nous » ou « Qui a peur de qui ? » : la rhétorique post-11 septembre de l’administration américaine vue par la caricature de presse by Dominique CADINOT

“…However, despite the context, on December 15th, three months after the attacks, Atlanta’s major daily newspaper, TheAtlanta Journal-Constitution, ran an editorial cartoon drawn by Mike Luckovich questioning John Ashcroft’s management of the USA PATRIOT Act.The apparent purpose of the caricature is to satirize the way the Arab or Muslim communities are stigmatized as “enemies within” and to critique the artificial dichotomy used by the administration: “Us versus them”.However, the decision to depict John Ashcroft, leader of the domestic war-on-terror apparatus and prominent evangelist, indicates that what is at stake here is the thorny issue of the relations between state power and religion.Since cartoons may provide scholars with a glimpse of the political debate or public opinion surrounding past events, this essay will seek to highlight and reflect on the feelings of millions of Americans who, a few months after the implementation of the national security strategy, initiated a response to those confounding patriotism and bigotry.…”
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Book Review: Against Liberalism, on a Repercussive Critics on Liberalism by Hamid Malekzadeh, Ahmad Khaleghi damghani

“…In this essay, we have tried to study the form and content of the book Against Liberalism, to show that John Kekes’s work is suffering from a kind of theoretical trap that runs throughout his book. …”
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The Mahdi's Legal Methodology as a Mechanism for Adapting the Sharî'a in the Sudan to Political and Social Purposes by Aharon Layish

“…The Mahdi's version of ijtihâd is not compatible with classical theory.The application of his legal methodology enabled the Mahdi to introduce innovations, some of which were far-reaching deviations from orthodox sharî'a. This essay analyses some of these innovations in various domains of Islamic law arranged according to goals promoted by the Mahdi. …”
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Framing the Golgotha in Renaissance Painting by Péter Bokody

“…They either separate the various incompatible space-segments within the work, or by the virtue of their own fictiveness, they introduce the heterogenous element itself. In this essay, I explore some works that complicate further this dynamic link between frame and space. …”
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Home, Physical Disability and Sense of Belonging in Nina Raine’s Tribes by Nurten Çelik

“…Additionally, Billy experiences alienation and isolation in a family that wallows in miscommunication, disagreement, misunderstanding, and lovelessness. Therefore, this essay explores how the social norms concerning the disabled body operate to determine and govern the perception and validation of hearing impairment in a home setting by focusing on the emotional aspects of an embodied life. …”
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LAW AND JUSTICE IN THE AGE OF POSTMODERNISM by Marius ANDREESCU, Andra PURAN

“…In this context, we refer to some aspects that characterise the person and personality of the judge. This essay is a plea for the principles of law as a possible solution to solve and overcome the crisis of law and justice in postmodernism. …”
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Systematic Literature Review di Bidang Sistem Informasi dan Ilmu Komputer by Diah Priharsari

“…Although SLR method is quite familiar in Indonesia, a complete essay that explains about SLR in Indonesia is hard to find. …”
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Places and Cultures of Capitalism: Histories from the Grassroots by Elsa Devienne, Andrew Diamond

“…The essay to follow introduces the thematic dossier by building upon a number of recent critiques of the conceptual flaws and historical blind spots revealed by the exchanges that have laid down the groundwork of the “new history of capitalism.” …”
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Salience and Blindness: A Haptic Hike on Gins Mountain by Marie-Dominique Garnier

“…This paper attempts to follow an improbable ridge line between architecture, geography and linguistics, between the optic and haptic ends of the concept of salience, through a reading of Helen Keller Or Arakawa, Madeline Gins’s 1994 essay-cum-joint-biography partly devoted to “salience” approached through the blind figure of Helen Keller (1880-1968). …”
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Ibadan In Ibadan: The University and The City by Toyin Falola

“…The dynamics of the above are quite important to discuss, critique, and, most importantly, enjoy, and appreciate the terranean beauty of this setting.  Therefore, in this essay, I intend to consider only the things that matter on how, first, the university has contributed immensely to the growth of the city, and second, how the University can affect the City and vice versa.  …”
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Mina Loy’s Surrealist Strategies of Renewal by Diane Drouin

“…In her essay “Modern Poetry,” published in the little magazine Charm in 1925, the British artist Mina Loy identified the source of the renewal of the English language in the streets of New York, famously claiming: “It was inevitable that the renaissance of poetry should proceed out of America, where latterly a thousand languages have been born.” …”
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Gina Pane and Krzysztof Jung: Queer Love in European Performance Art of the 1970s by Paweł LESZKOWICZ

“…This essay examines how performance art and counterculture in the 1970s opened up the possibility for two queer action/body artists to express an alternative vision of love in its plurality. …”
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Cosmopolitanism, Mobility and Hybridity in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra by Gül Kurtuluş

“…Italy and Egypt, therefore, serve to make the audience alien to the physical sphere of the discussion and blur the most direct of these allegories. This essay aims to discuss ways in which Rome and the West are portrayed as opposed to Egypt and the East and to explore how the West and the East consider each other on a mutual basis and how they interact with one another in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. …”
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Acting queerly: Jonah as the implicated subject and vulnerability by G.F. Snyman

“…With these in mind, the question about queerness in the Book of Jonah is discussed. The essay concludes that the spectacle of the conversion of the Ninevites constitutes a drag performance whilst Jonah’s watching of this drag performance queers himself in as much as he suffers the heat and wind while remaining silent. …”
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Indigenous Knowledge Systems Discourse and Inclusionality: An Afro-centric Quest for Recognition in a Globalised World by Munyaradzi Felix Murove

“… The main goal of this essay is to argue that in a multicultural and globalised world, the indigenisation of knowledge production has to be pursued in a way that demonstrates an element of inclusivity. …”
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C. McGinn. A Religion of Hate / trans. from Engl. V. A. Sergeeva by V. A. Sergeeva

“…The essay examines universal hate as an alternative foundation to Christianity. …”
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