Comparing Exceptionalism in France and the USA by Elsa Devienne

“…By observing the French media’s reactions to the two major decisions taken by the Supreme Court in the 1970s and their direct consequences, this essay analyzes not only the French gaze on American practices but also how these American decisions were manipulated by the journalists to stoke the French debate about abolition.…”
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Pós-colonialidade, pós-escravismo, bioficção e con(tra)temporaneidade by Denise Carrascosa

“…This critical essay promotes a connection between the contemporary concept from the literary theory field named “biofiction”, the post-colonial theory and the issue of Africa n - diasporic subjetivization, from the Brazilian historical experience and intellectual possibility of speech, crisscrossed with a symptomatic study of the last novels written by Toni Morrison, Home (2012), and Jamaica Kincaid, See now then ( 2013), as well as of the novel A question of power (1970) by Bessie Head. …”
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If Music is Ongoing Experience, What Might Music Theory Be? . A Suggestion from the Drastic by Christopher F. Hasty

“…The complexity or messiness of such production may seem an impediment to understanding music – it would seem to lead to the vagaries of the merely subjective, to mere appearance, or to a hopeless relativism that would in the end leave us speechless. In this essay I will take the creativity of experiencing and all the complexity that comes with it as a positive fact that might lure us to think about time and process in music. …”
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Pitt on a Pedestal: Sculpture and Slavery in Late-Eighteenth-Century Charleston by Wendy Bellion

“…Representing the English statesman William Pitt the Elder in the mode of a classical orator, the marble statue stood on a pedestal at the intersection of Meeting and Broad Streets, in Charleston’s historic Civic Square. This essay reconstructs the significance of its location and its competing meanings within the colonial slave city. …”
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La mise en scène d’un procès pénal : réflexion sur les médias et le procès Demjanjuk by Rainer Volk

“…The media interest in the courtroom was correspondingly high. However, the essay shows that this interest had its ups and downs. …”
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DISCRETE VARIABLE OPTIMUM DESIGN FOR THE PRESSURE VESSEL BASED ON IMPROVED FIREFLY ALGORITHM by CHEN DingLiang, ZHUO HongMing, CHEN QianQing

“…It takes the minimum quality of the pressure vessel shell as its optimization object,the inner diameter and wall thickness as its discrete design variables. The essay puts forward an improved firefly algorithm and it can improve the overall searching ability and the convergence performance of the algorithm by adopting the self-adaptive step size strategy,ignoring the local optimal strategy and the spatial domain constraint strategy. …”
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The syntactic Order and its Role in the Rhetoric by Mahmood Fotoohi Rudmajani

“…The term "verse" in the Persian Dari literature refers to two meanings: one's poetry rhyme and another is syntactic. This essay describes the concept of order as aesthetic quality in syntax and separates it from the term "verse" meaning "poetry rhyme". …”
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Ideario de un encuentro vital: Jacques Gilard y Marvel Moreno by Yohainna Abdala-Mesa

“…This essay is an overview of the research that Jacques Gilard did on Marvel Moreno’s works. …”
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Online Music Theory in Music Theory Online by Nicole Biamonte

“…This essay surveys existing and potential approaches to publishing music theory and analysis in an online format. …”
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« Spirit of the dead, rise up! […] and claim your story ». Représentation de l’esclavage et esthétique de la résistance dans Sankofa (Haile Gerima, 1993) by Claire Dutriaux

“…While the film’s political, ideological, and historical dimensions have been extensively analyzed, this essay focuses on its aesthetic dimension, which is the cornerstone of its ideological discourse on resistance to slavery.…”
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L’UMANA IMMANITÀ: FONTI E FORTUNA DEL FERO ARGANTE. by Gianni Antonio Palumbo

“…Palumbo’s essay aims to investigate the sources of Argante, Circassian warrior who is the principal defender of Jerusalem in Tasso’s poem. …”
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From Fugitive Poses to Visual Sovereignty : The Photo-poetics of Leslie Silko’s Storyteller and Joy Harjo’s Crazy Brave by Audrey Goodman

“…This essay foregrounds Indigenous critical perspectives on the history of photography in the U. …”
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The Societal Relevance of the “Rheinischer Merkur” by Regina M. Frey

“…The closure of the Rheinischer Merkur obscures even today the decisive role it played in the elaboration of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany and the substantial quality of the paper. This essay sketches the history of the Rheinischer Merkur and its self-understanding, as well as its decline, locating these in the context of the journalistic autonomies and media-ethical tensions to which every journalistic medium is subject. …”
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The Chicana Narrator as Healer: Reconciliation in Ana Castillo’s So Far From God by Cahit Bakır

“…Although the narrator is not fully characterised, unlike other female protagonists in the novel, this essay aims to explore how the narrator is one of the female figures in the novel, and similarly, how she attempts not only to bring about the displacement of the male figure and reposition of the female, but also acts as a healer for her community. …”
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Theoretical Analysis Model of the Adoption of Reactive and Proactive Eco-Innovation Strategies: the Influence of Contextual Factors Internal and External to Organizations by Marlete Beatriz Maçaneiro, Sieglinde Kindl da Cunha

“…Therefore, this study is characterized as a theoretical essay, adopting the methodological procedure of literature review, through an analysis of national and international articles on the subject of eco-innovation strategy. …”
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Occupy Waikīkī: pushing the borders of land, sea and story-telling in Kristiana Kahakauwila’s This is Paradise (2013) by Sylvie Largeaud-Ortega

“…This essay explores Kahakauwila’s short story This is Paradise from the angle of post- and decolonial studies and environmental humanities, and presents it as an ecofeminist and counterhegemonic Oceanian identitarian narrative. …”
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A Comparative Study of Olodumare, the Yoruba Supreme Being and the Judea-Christian God by Segun Ogungbemi

“…Rather, it is argued that they are not necessarily the same. Finally, the essay establishes that the Yoruba before the advent of Christianity had a philosophical concept of the existence of 016dumare, the Creator of everything that is in the primordial existence and the material world. …”
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Abicht and Śniadecki: about a Turbulent Philosophical Dispute at the Imperial University of Vilnius in 19th century by Tomasz Kupś

“…In this paper I argue that it was Abicht and his Vilnius-based scholarly and teaching activities that were the direct cause of Śniadecki’s publication of the essay On Metaphysics in 1814, and indirectly also the trigger for all of Śniadecki’s later philosophical writings. …”
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Post-producing the modern – Guidelines for an energy development as an architectural transition by Giuseppe Marsala, Giulia Renda

“…From this perspective, the essay retraces contemporary architectural experiments in an energetic key performed on the structure of modern architecture, starting from the re-interpretation of its theoretical principles.   …”
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Mexican Pointy Boots and the Tribal Scene: Global Appropriations of Local Cultural Practices in the Virtual Age by Helena Simonett, César Burgos Dávila

“…In this essay, we examine music and its performative power by engaging in issues such as the localization of global cultural practices, the embracing of cultural practices based on a shared sense of marginalization and peripheralization, as well as the appropriation and resignification of “odd” cultural practices for global consumption, resulting in a cultural mutation of such practices and their objects from “low” to “art.” …”
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