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A Femininomenon: Leadership Development Through Representation On‐Screen

New Directions for Student Leadership, Volume 2025, Issue 185, Page 67-74, Spring 2025.
ABSTRACT Historically, films and television centered men, but there has recently been a shift toward focusing on women and people of color (and women of color) in leading roles. Films and shows like Black Panther, Barbie, and Ashoka reflect this trend, offering more complex stories and diverse representation.
Kathleen Callahan
wiley   +1 more source

La especularidad anecdótica [PDF]

Çédille: Revista de Estudios Franceses, 2007
As a literary genre, the anecdote is a reflective one: each anecdote is related to another and its author was often subject / object of an anecdote. In the eighteenth century, Voltaire, Raynal, Voisenon, or at a different level Marmontel, exemplify this.
Lydia Vázquez Jiménez
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Bridging Leadership Development and Hip‐Hop Culture: Empowering Black Students Through Culturally Responsive Educational Approaches

New Directions for Student Leadership, Volume 2025, Issue 185, Page 89-95, Spring 2025.
ABSTRACT Hip‐hop music and culture have existed for decades in the United States. Since the 1970s, five critical elements have been defined as parts of hip‐hop culture: the MC (oral), the DJ (aural), graffiti (visual), knowledge (mental), and breakdancing (physical).
Jesse R. Ford, Jason K. Wallace, Johnnie L. Allen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Decoupling sustainability and performance: How government infrastructure projects in Australia fare on strategic environmental commitments

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract Australian government organisations are pivotal in helping to meet the United Nations sustainable development goals. Yet while these organisations promote sustainability in their strategic plans, they struggle to embed these same commitments into their own infrastructure and construction projects. This study examines this persistent disconnect
Richard Hughes, Kerry Brown
wiley   +1 more source

The mass literature as a globalisation product (observation of genre-variety of the modern Turkish prose)

RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism, 2012
Having some specific literary features and themes the Turkish mass literature of the beginning of XXIst century, included in global literary processes, is developing according to the main world literary trends.
L V Sofronova
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Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
wiley   +1 more source

From Genre Poetics to Structure: Nada Milošević-Đorđević's Contribution to Serbian Structural Folklore Studies

Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2016
This paper looks at the structural analyses of the composition of several oral literary genres in Serbian literature performed by Prof. Nada Milošević- Đorđević. By analyzing romantic tales, religious tales, tales of fate and sagas, Milošević-Đorđević, a
Dragana Antonijević
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Islam at the monastery: on infinity as subtractive truth L'islam au monastère : de l'infini comme vérité soustractive

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
wiley   +1 more source

Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.
Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the now and here of Irish literature: A review of The Routledge Companion To Twenty-First-Century Irish Writing (2024)

ABEI Journal
The review presents a short description of each one of the contributions made to the collection. The book aims to present multiple approaches, reflecting on Ireland's traditional cultural themes in the current literary landscape.
Esther Borges
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