Using "peer review" method for language assessment by Irina V. Korovina, Daria V. Konstantinova, Olga S. Safonkina

“…As a result of the study the authors developed such evaluation criteria that can evaluate the specific features of such genre as an essay. That effects stylistic and functional characteristics that differ the essay from an article. …”
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Tourism and Erotic Imaginaries in Wartime Paris: French and Germans during the Occupation, 1940-1944 by Bertram M. Gordon

“…This essay focuses on the intersections of tourism, war, and erotics in occupied Paris during the Second World War. …”
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Annulment Suits and the épreuve du congrès at the Officialité de Paris in the Early Seventeenth Century: Judicial Theory and Legal Practice by Michael P. Breen

“…This essay examines the controversial usage of a procedure known as the épreuve du congrès to adjudicate suits by women seeking to annul their marriages in French Church courts (officialités) on the grounds of their husbands’ impotence. …”
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"Informing of the child's understanding, influencing his heart, and directing its practice": Jonathan Edwards on education by K. P. Minkema

“…In particular, the methods and principles he employed as a teacher, both of English and Indian children and young people, are distinctive. Next, the essay turns to some selected figures within the Edwardsean tradition to show pedagogical changes and continuities. …”
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Aristocracia, monasterios y conflictos por la tierra. Reforma eclesiástica y relaciones sociales en León (siglos XI-XII) by Mariel Pérez

“…This paper examines a series of disputes over land between the Benedictine monastery of Sahagún and Leonese noble families in order to understand the transformations in the relationship between laymen and clerics in the Kingdom of Leon after the impact of the Gregorian Reform. The essay posits that those disputes were an expression of the development of a more competitive kind of relationship between the aristocrats and the monastery in which pious donations got integrated into a negotiated logic of reciprocal exchange.…”
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La marcia degli alfabeti. Indagine semiologica degli Slavs and Tatars by Davide Tolfo

“…Introducing the artistic practice of the collective Slavs and Tatars, this essay aims to analyze the ways in which visual communication and linguistic analysis are integrated in their works within a critical and experimental approach. …”
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C. McGinn. The concept of a person / trans. from Engl. A. V. Nekhaev by A. V. Nekhaev

“…The essay contains a critique of the metaphysical ways to use of the term ‘person’. …”
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Voltaire et Contant d’Orville: le 'Voltaire portatif' (1766), une lettre inconnue, un remerciement à l’auteur, et une réplique voilée à l’archevêque d’Auch by John R. Iverson

“…The essay begins by transcribing Contant d’Orville’s full letter, which was printed in a brochure in 1766, along with Voltaire’s response, but which subsequently has not been included in editions of Voltaire’s correspondence. …”
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I put a (mis)spell on you. Erratas, malentendidos e identidades alternas: el caso de Perdita Durango by Kevin  Perromat  Augustin

“…This essay intends to reflect, focusing on the film by Álex de la Iglesia Perdita Durango (1997) on the use of stereotypes in the fictional representation of cultural identities through diverse discourses, and on the practices of legitimization of the agents that operate in the creation and transmission of such imaginaries. …”
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Superstudio 1966-1973: From the World Without Objects to the Universal Grid by Fernando Quesada

“…Between that show and the publication of a serial project called Life, Education, Ceremony, Love, Death in 1973, they developed a thorough critique of design and the professional role of architects in information society. This essay traces the development of Superstudio’s critical project, the evolution of their formal repertoire and their operative instruments, studying their designs, projects and texts.…”
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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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Les mots étrangers, les mots de l’étranger by Jean-Jacques Lecercle

“…The essay assesses the linguistic situation of the exile, a potentially comic figure, with intimations of tragedy (the exclusion of the foreign speaker as linguistic pharmakos), but also of liberation (the standard language is most alive when minorised by foreign words). …”
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Toying with Death in Walden by Yves CARLET

“…This essay tries to question the usual, quasi-consensual reading of Walden as a celebration of life, health and youth. …”
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Santería e "salvezza". Un approccio olistico al benessere e alle relazioni interpersonali by Alessandra Ciattini

“…Drawing from a series of interviews to a contemporary dancer in Havana, who was initiated few years ago in the Regla de Ocha, this essay focuses on the complex relations between religion and health, intending the latter as the result of an achieved harmony between body and psyche. …”
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Retourner à Tara. Revoir Gone With the Wind (réal. Victor Fleming, 1939) by Sarah Hatchuel

“…Based on studies about re-reading and Stanley Cavell’s reflections on the comedy of remarriage, but also on my own memories of seeing the film repeatedly, this essay will attempt to understand the reasons for this general re-viewing of Gone With the Wind.…”
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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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La persistance du western : Yellowstone, la Nouvelle télévision et l’histoire américaine by Martin Shuster

“…This essay will explore the ways in which the western has found new life in new television, especially in the recent neo-western Yellowstone. …”
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Translators’ Personality in the Translations of D.O. Fagunwa’s Igbó Olódùmarè by Clement Odoje

“… The concept “Translation” has been examined by many scholars from different perspectives, but little attention has been devoted to the personalities of the translators in their translation works. The concern of this essay is to consider the personalities of the translators of D.O. …”
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The Witch, the Neophyte, and the Snoop by Gary Williams

“…Writing informally in a personal essay mode, the author describes his first encounter with Julia Ward Howe’s manuscript collections at Harvard’s Houghton Library in the early 1990s. …”
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Que reste-t-il sur terre quand la sensibilité s’absente ? by Stéphane Collet 

“…Instead of suffering from the contempory landscape orientation, that is mainly seekink for efficency, this essay is an atttempt to depict the various ways that affect the making off for the landscape, in a way that increase more and more its objet dimension instead of a sensitive approach. …”
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