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Poetry as Dialogue: A reading of recent Anglophone Nigerian poetry
e-cadernos ces, 2011 Recent Nigerian poetry in English seems to concern itself with the most pressing socio-political condition in Nigeria, especially the prolonged military despotism in the past decades whose consequences are still felt in the society. One of the strategies
Sule Emmanuel Egya
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Religions, 2020 Montesquieu wrote that “China is a despotic state whose principle is fear”. And indeed, in the early modern context in China, fear and despotism, on the one hand, were opposed to ziyou 自由 (“freedom”), on the other.
Michael Nylan, Trenton Wilson
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Intersexual Agonism in Gray Langurs Reflects Male Dominance and Feeding Competition
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Male-female agonism varies throughout the primate order with males often dominating females, especially in sexually dimorphic species. While intersexual agonism has been attributed to sexually coercive contexts, it can also occur for other reasons and ...
Andreas Koenig +6 more
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Power Structure and Values on the Behavior of Iranians By Content Analysis of Guilds Fotowwat-namas [PDF]
Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish/hā-yi Rāhburdī-i Siyāsat, 2015 Development and finding a way to overcome the problems is a long-term obsession and one of the important challenges of Iran Especially after Islamic Revolution. After the Qajar era, the long distance of the Iranian nation and the great powers in terms of
Ali Ghanbari Barzian +2 more
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The novelty of Montesquieu’s definition of despotism [PDF]
Sociologija, 2015 Nowhere in his work Montesquieu did give a precise definition of despotism as one of three types of government. However, a number of places where Montesquieu wrote about despotism reveal a fairly consistent model based on five key principles: 1)
Molnar Aleksandar
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Property and Empire: The Law of Imperialism in Johnson v. M’Intosh [PDF]
, 2007 Chief Justice\u27s Marshall\u27s opinion in Johnson v. M\u27Intosh, 21 U.S. (8 Wheat.)543 (1823) has long been a puzzle, both in its doctrinal structure and in long, strange dicta which are both triumphal and elegiac.
Bonnerud, Patrik +5 more
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D’Holbach on (Dis-)Esteeming Talent
Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2020 Rousseau argues that holding the talented in high public esteem leads the less talented to esteem their natural virtues less highly and therefore to neglect the cultivation of these virtues.
Andreas Blank
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The Shelleys and the Idea of Europe [PDF]
, 2008 This article explores how the Shelleys and their circle configure ideas of “Europe” between January 1817 and March 1818. I begin with Frankenstein, discussing how Mary Shelley associates Frankenstein's experiment with the particularly “European” problem ...
Stock, Paul
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Literary constitutionalists [PDF]
تاریخ ادبیات, 2008 The beginning of the Constitutional Revolution was at the same time as the domination of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar. The role of poetry and literature in this great transformation is undeniable.
نصرالّه امامی +1 more
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Stand Up, Speak Out: Stimulating Dissent in Social Justice Teacher Education
Future in Educational Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Teacher education should not only prepare student teachers for their role in the existing educational system but also equip them to critically question and reform that system when confronted with injustice. We advocate for dissent in the future of teacher education.
Koen Hoondert +4 more
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