Manipulating Tournaments in Cup and Round Robin Competitions [PDF]
, 2009 In sports competitions, teams can manipulate the result by, for instance, throwing games. We show that we can decide how to manipulate round robin and cup competitions, two of the most popular types of sporting competitions in polynomial time.
D. Gusfield +4 more
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Pekaresque Adventures: Aesthetics and Identity in American Splendor [PDF]
, 2010 In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay\u27s first paragraph. When considering the ontological status of the comic book, it was once natural to think of superheroes battling all-powerful villains, Archie and Jughead battling wits with Principal ...
Madigan, Tim
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Holy Dung: Comic Signs of Consubstantiality in Martin Luther Films
Religions, 2016 One problem with the religious sub-genre of Hagiographic films is that they frequently romanticize, sentimentalize, or idealize the lives of saints. Our purpose is to excavate three major film biopics on the life of Protestant reformer Martin Luther and ...
Terry Lindvall, Morgan Stroyeck
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The Use of Comic-Based Technology: Media Cultivation of Values in the Nation Defense
Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Civic Education Conference (ACEC 2019), 2020 — The onslaught of the current globalization has a significant influence on the fading of love for the nation and the country, so that it impacts on the weak spirit of defending the younger generation.
Leni Anggraeni +2 more
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Studi sulla Formazione, 2018 The article deals with the role of laughing in pedagogy. Starting from its dual presence in the culture (censored and exalted), it is a central attitude in the human culture.
Franco Cambi
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Urban comix: Subcultures, infrastructures and “the right to the city” in Delhi [PDF]
, 2018 This article argues that comics production in India should be configured as a collaborative artistic endeavour that visualizes Delhi’s segregationist infrastructure, claiming a right to the city through the representation and facilitation of more ...
Davies, D.
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The perils of parody : joking with stereotypes in a postcolonial context in Cien años de soledad [PDF]
, 2016 This article examines the comic treatment of the characters in Cien años de soledad. It challenges the previous studies of the novel’s comedy, which have tended to conclude that its comic formulas are necessarily subversive and carnivalesque.
McAleer, Paul
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The Translation Strategy of Slang Expression in Comic Entitled The Punisher
Buletin Al-Turas, 2015 Abstraks Penelitian ini membahas tentang strategi penerjemahan ungkapan bahasa slang dalam sebuah komik yang berjudul The Punisher. Komik ini diterjemahkan dari bahasa Inggris ke dalam bahasa Indonesia oleh Hindi R. Ibrahim. Adapun tujuan dari penelitian
Dwi Santika
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A One-In-A-Billion Chance : The Transformative Effect of Stan Lee and Spider-Man on American Popular Culture [PDF]
, 2015 The body of research from scholarly sources on the history of comic books contends that Stan Lee’s original run of The Amazing Spider-Man influenced American culture in a generic sense, but little has been written on the specific ways the comic ...
Bateman, Jon
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Playing with the dead:transmedia narratives and the Walking Dead games [PDF]
, 2018 This chapter discusses the theory and practice of transmedia narratives within the storyworld created by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard’s comics series The Walking Dead.
Austin, Hailey, Donald, Iain
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