Natural Monuments: Mount Etna’s Chestnut Trees by Rosario Scaduto

“…It dwells on the need for a long-standing census on knowledge, preservation and promotion of these trees and quotes some of the current Italian laws. Finally, the essay focuses on Mount Etna’s Chestnut trees, natural wonder monuments which have marvelled travellers of the 18th century and still continue to amaze and touch.…”
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Farm Cultural Park as an urban regeneration lab by Fausta Occhipinti

“…A lot of Italian old town centers are wilderness because of their inability to adapt to the different ways of contemporary living and it represents an urgency that needs compelling solutions. This essay shows the importance of the fieldwork and the involvement of the persons to renew the forsaken town centers through the example of the Farm Cultural Park, a driving force of a cultural, social and economical rebirth of the Sicilian town of Favara.…”
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James Ellroy’s American Tabloid: Conspiracy Theory and Chaos Theory by Isabelle Boof-Vermesse

“…Applying determinist chaos theory to the conspiracy that led to the JFK assassination as it is revisited by what is, after all, a fictional text, this essay draws some conclusions as to the opposition between “compartmentalisation” and “connectionism”, on the one hand, and as to the turbulent relationship between history and fiction, on the other.…”
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The Imperial ambassador, the nuncio and the favourite: The Count of Pötting, Vitaliano Visconti Borromeo and Juan Everardo Nithard at the time of the Spanish crisis (1668–1669) by Rafaella Pillo

“… The essay aims at touching different aspects of Spanish policy during the regency of Mariana (1665–1675), the interest in the political and physical weakness of the heir to the throne Prince Charles and future King Charles II, the last Hapsburg on the Spanish monarchy. …”
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Voix du Sud : étude de trois autobiographies de femmes esclaves by Dominique Aurélia

“…This essay examines the presence of the half-muted and marginalized women slaves’ voices which nevertheless inform the audience of the time as well as the contemporary scholar on their desire to inscribe their being within the public sphere as they question the issue of identity and emancipation through their texts. …”
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Dickens and the American Millennium: The Uniformitarian Argument of Martin Chuzzlewit by Nancy Aycock Metz

“…This essay builds on recent critical discussion of Dickens’s novels in terms of the ‘uniformitarian’ and ‘catastrophist’ paradigms of time and change, then current in contemporary geological discourse. …”
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Methodological Evaluation of the Final Examinations of Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing by Margarita Rosa Romeu Escobar, Jose Aurelio Díaz Quiñones

“…The most frequent errors were omission of the subject or content in the stem of the questions; imprecise task in modified essay questions; and multiple-choice questions with a simple alternative to be selected out of three. …”
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The Yorùbá Social Values in Ọbasá’s Poetry by Saudat Adebisi Olayide Hamzat, Hezekiah Olufemi Adeosun

“…However, the ideology that inform the social values have not been given a deserved attention. The main aim of this essay is to investigate the Yorùbá social values in Ọbasá’s poetry texts – Àwọn Akéwì I-III (1924, 1934, and 1945). …”
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“Squeezing Case(s)” with Melville: A Haptic Reading of “The Whiteness of the Whale” by Édouard Marsoin

“…This essay performs a haptic reading of “The Whiteness of the Whale” chapter in Melville’s Moby-Dick. …”
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Elizabeth Parker’s Sampler/Diary: The Autobiographical Needle by Róisín Quinn-Lautrefin

“…Relying on an unusual stitched text made by a young servant in the 1830s, this essay sets out to explore the Victorian sampler as a didactic tool designed to inculcate desirable behaviour as well as literacy and numeracy in young girls. …”
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Trauma Ties in Paul Auster’s Invention of Solitude by Houaria Righi

“…It can be considered as an autobiography as it was inspired by a striking familial trauma, but also as an essay, since in this hybrid piece of work Auster puts into question the very nature of the relationship and drags the reader along the maze of creation. …”
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A hora e o lugar das Ordens Sufis na tradição islâmica by Mateus Soares de Azevedo

“…These are some of the questions that this essay seeks to answer.…”
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Novas paisagens e passagens da literatura brasileira contemporânea by Jefferson Agostini Mello, Ricardo Gonçalves Barreto

“…In this essay we will test the hypothesis that Brazilian literary fi eld is becoming more autonomous, i.e., more concerned to means of expression and to modifications operated in literary language, although it may still retain some marks of Realism, and although authors and critics disseminated fear of the economic market. …”
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‘What perversity is this?’: Dickens, Emily Brontë, and A [Twisted] Christmas Carol by André L. DeCuir

“…In Wuthering Heights, there is a critically-neglected Christmas scene which begins with details worthy of Dickens’s Christmas tale. The essay closely contrasts that scene with the ‘Cratchits’ Christmas.…”
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‘For God’s Sake Look at This!’: Physiognomy in Bleak House by Michael Hollington

“…This essay hopes to add to the impressive array of criticism and scholarship about the ’science’ of physiognomy, derived from Lavater, in Dickens, focussing chiefly on its role in Bleak House. …”
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GRIGORY ANDREEVICH LEVITSKY by L. I. Orel, E. V. Truskinov

“…This article is a biographical essay about a prominent scientist - the cytogeneticist G. …”
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A Program for Postgraduate Diploma in Project Planning and Management by Kabale University

“…The programme consists of 13 compulsory taught courses while the second part will involve a project inform of an extended essay.…”
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Pater and the Lacedaemonian Ideal by John Coates

“…In his neglected essay ‘Lacedaemon’, Pater offers an account of ancient Sparta which draws parallels between the training of Sparta youth and the nineteenth century public schools. …”
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Raphael’s Religious Paintings and Their Early Restorations: Devotional Attention or Aesthetic Appreciation? by Cathleen Hoeniger

“…This essay explores whether early restorers responded to the cult status of Raphael’s paintings, since Vasari records that several of his religious works carried spiritual power. …”
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« A single gray flake, like the last host of christendom » : The Road ou l’apocalypse selon St McCarthy by Yves Davo

“…Through the motif of the ashes, this essay studies McCarthy’s theological aspiration and the emergence of a new eschatological liturgy thanks to a reinvented Holy Trinity.…”
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