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Acta Ophthalmologica, EarlyView.Abstract Purpose Fania (Fanny) Kaplan (1890–1918), who was reportedly visually impaired, confessed to the attempted assassination of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) in 1918 by shooting him with a pistol. The precise nature of her visual loss is unknown and raises doubts about whether she had sufficient visual function to perform the act ...
Stephen G. Schwartz +3 more
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Don Quijote ako idiot (Don Quixote as an idiot)
Ostium, 2018 The topic of the paper is an accentuation and analysis of moral message of Cervantes’ character of Don Quixote. The aim of the interpretation is to advert that the absurdity of knight-errant could be used as a demonstration of idealistic conviction in ...
Juraj Dragašek
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Le pronom you dans les insultes directes en anglais: une usurpation d’identité [PDF]
Studii de Lingvistica, 2013 In English it is possible to resort to the pronoun you in « insulting utterances » such as You idiot!, You bastard!, etc. The pronoun does not seem necessary in those utterances in the sense that it does not give any information about the addressee, who ...
Stéphanie Béligon
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Disability Studies Quarterly, 2014 People with a particular profile of strengths and weaknesses—typically involving prodigious skill in one area (such as calendar or arithmetical calculation, art, or music) and a general “mental deficiency”—have long been categorized as “idiots savants ...
Joseph Straus
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Sartrean Account of Mental Health [PDF]
, 2017 The antipsychiatrists in the 1960's, specifically Thomas Szasz, have claimed that mental illness does not exist. This argument was based on a specific definition of physical disease that, Szasz argued, could not be applied to mental illness.
Krgovic, Jelena
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Intertextual Adaptability of the Character of Sherlock Holmes from Literature to Film Production [PDF]
, 2014 This study explores the theme of intertextuality and adaptation between literature and film on the basis of Sherlock Holmes, the 19th/20th-century character conceived by Arthur Conan Doyle. It shows how the character has been adapted from literature into
Paśnik, Martyna
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The important semiotic indicators of Dostoyevsky's emotional image
Язык и текст, 2016 This article is devoted to finding the emotional semiotic character of F. Dostoevsky that is expressed by the key characters' behaviour in 'The Gambler', 'Idiot', The Brothers Karamazov'.
Iskhakova Z.Z. +2 more
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Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Increasingly, community‐based organizations (CBOs) that have a social impact are required to evidence their impact through accountability and evaluation methods that are complex and inappropriate for their specific context. In response to this challenge, we offer a participatory approach to social return on investment (SROI), which builds on a
Rebecca Warren +2 more
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The skills and methods of calendrical savants [PDF]
, 2003 Calendrical savants are people with considerable intellectual difficulties that have the unusual ability to name the weekdays for dates in the past and sometimes the future.
Cowan, Richard +2 more
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Local Wisdom of the Community in Handling Mental Retardation People ( a Case Study of “Kampung Idiot” in Sidoharjo Village, Jambon District, Ponorogo Regency) [PDF]
, 2016 Sidoharjo village, in Jambon is one of villages in Ponorogo Regency, called as ‘Kampong Idiot', since there are many villagers having mental retardation. They also have many disabilities, as a matter of fact they can survive and live quite longer.
Hanif, M. (Muhammad)
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