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Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Fifty years after the formation of England's child protection system, the country continues to reel from new instances of high‐profile child death tragedies where children have been harmed despite practitioners complying with the processes and procedures designed to protect them.
Ciarán Murphy, Michael Murphy
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Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Children's digital and physical worlds are increasingly entwined as they build and manage meaningful connections online. Central to this is digital empathy and responsible online conduct, that is, a digital ethics of care. We focus on 10–11‐year‐old children from a primary school in the UK, exploring how they conceptualise and understand the ...
Michelle O'Reilly +4 more
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Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Civically and politically participating children and teens encounter contrasting societal beliefs about their identities and actions. Some portray them as heroes, others as naive or rebellious; some celebrate their efforts, while others dismiss or diminish them.
Markéta Supa +3 more
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, 2017 An aporia posed by Theophrastus prompts Priscian to describe the process by which perception formally assimilates to its object as a progressive perfection. I present an interpretation of Priscian’s account of perception’s progressive perfection.
Kalderon, Mark Eli
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, 2006 Excerpt: ‘Paradox’ is derived from two words that literally mean against opinion. The Oxford English Dictionary (1989; vol. 11, p. 185) identifies several meanings for ‘paradox’.
Bufford, Rodger K.
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Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract ‘I have to share a bathroom’, I had so often murmured, almost with shame, as if I personally had been found unworthy of a bathroom of my own. Barbara Pym, Excellent Women (1952) For a single woman of a certain age, living alone in postwar London, austerity was more than a set of political and economic imperatives.
Charlotte Charteris
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The sublimity of the ABSURD as a paradox in physics and metaphysics
Verbum et EcclesiaWe, as Homo sapiens, are inconsistent creatures. One minute, we might be overflowing with energetic feelings of vitality, meaning, and purpose; the next, we might suddenly feel sapped by a nagging sense that nothing we do really signifies anything grand ...
Johan A. van Rooyen
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When Poetry and Humor Get Hitched [PDF]
, 2017 Through humor, poetry explores the imagination and the mind just as it does through other means of expression. Comic poetry finds the truth in the illogical and in the absurd; it finds what unsettles us through its use of surprise; it finds delight and ...
Hartselle, Christian
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Escaping the Absurd. The Corporation and Form in American Psycho
American, British and Canadian Studies JournalThe aim of this essay is to explore the representation of the Corporation in American Psycho and to affirm its very existence as a type of formal system of signs, language, and discourse that sets the boundaries of the characters’ world.
Neagu Vlad-Eugen
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The uses and inadequacy of language in the theatre of Genet, Beckett and Ionesco : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in French at Massey University [PDF]
, 1971 Some French (language) throughoutThis study is an attempt to show the changing role of language in the theatre as exemplified in the works of Genet, Ionesco and Beckett.
Sisam, Jill
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