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Climate change and its risk reduction by mangrove ecosystem of Bangladesh [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Climate change is amongst the most dreaded problems of the new millennium. Bangladesh is a coastal country bounded by Bay of Bengal on its southern part and here natural disasters are an ongoing part of human life.
Barua, Prabal   +2 more
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The chatbot's real self: On the archaeology of artificial personas Le vrai soi du chatbot: vers une archéologie des personnes artificielles

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract From the beginning of widespread public interactions with ChatGPT and other large language models, some users have seen the disfluencies of chatbots as opportunities for them to go on an archaeological search for an unfettered chatbot persona that they need to jailbreak. These are not claims of sentience, but rather of personhood.
Courtney Handman
wiley   +1 more source

An Anomalous Case of Southern Sympathy: New Jersey\u27s Civil War Stance

open access: yes, 2017
A popular narrative of the Civil War assumes that all Northern states stood united behind President Abraham Lincoln in their loyalty to the Union. However, the case of New Jersey suggests that this narrative of devotion is simply a myth.
Hawk, Emily A
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Global climate change – a crucial aspect of development planning [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Author Amanda J. Harvey examines the effect of global warming on the world. Citing concerns over rising sea levels and storm activity, she requests leaders and planners to work together to develop architecture that will take into account continuous ...
Harvey, Amanda J.
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Narrative formatting, chronotopic orderings, and moralization in ex‐gay stories

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract Formatted stories rely on spatiotemporal cues to evoke recognizability through linearity, which prescribes a particular template for meaning‐making. This article examines stories narrated by ex‐gay members of a Christian organization in Singapore and considers how chronotopes within the stories are ordered to regiment ways of feeling for ...
Vincent Pak
wiley   +1 more source

Climate justice and curriculum justice: Young people's accounts of schools' uneven responses to their climate justice activism

open access: yesThe Curriculum Journal, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 140-163, March 2026.
Abstract The uneven ways in which climate change is taught (or not) within schools, and the uneven opportunities for students to experience justice‐oriented climate education, are curricular injustices. Recent systematic reviews of Climate Change Education literature note a depoliticising tendency in climate change education, with official curriculum ...
Eve Mayes   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Environmental Theology of Aimee Semple McPherson (Chapter 4 of Blood Cries Out : Pentecostals, Ecology, and the Groans of Creation)

open access: yes, 2014
Excerpt: My initial investigation into Aimee Semple McPherson—founder of The International Church of the Foursquare Gospel—and ecology was bleak: every word search returned a spiritual metaphor. “Garbage” came back as “garbage can of Satan,” “pollution”
Bouma-Prediger, Steven, Swoboda, A.J.
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Watery words : language, sexuality,and motherhood in Joyce's fiction [PDF]

open access: yes, 1980
The idea of a dangerous, dirty, or lifegiving stream of water, bodily fluids, or even words -- as if words were the essence of life itself -- recurs throughout Joyce's work and becomes the prevailing, dominant metaphor of Finnegans Wake.
Splitter, Randolph N.
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Disaster Mythology and Availability Cascades [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Sociological research conducted in the aftermath of natural disasters has uncovered a number of “disaster myths” – widely shared misconceptions about typical post-disaster human behavior.
Sun, Lisa Grow
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