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Affirmative Action and Its Mythology [PDF]
For more than three decades, critics and supporters of affirmative action have fought for the moral high ground through ballot initiatives and lawsuits, in state legislatures, and in varied courts of public opinion.
Glenn C. Loury, Roland G. Fryer, Jr.
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Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.This article examines white Australian veterans' views and memories of Vietnamese people in three stages: during the war, after the Fall of Saigon, and upon return to Vietnam. Drawing on original oral histories with veterans who returned to Vietnam, this article shows that veterans' characterisations of Vietnamese were fundamentally about defining ...
Mia Martin Hobbs
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Polilog: Studia Neofilologiczne, 2015 The myth of the Hesperides’ golden apples in Matteo Maria Boiardo’s Orlando Innamorato and Giovanni Pontano’s De hortis Hesperidum sive de cultu citriorum The eleventh Hercules’ labour was the conquest of the Hesperides’ golden apples.
Alicja Raczyńska
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Traces of the Norse Mythology in the Isle of Man [PDF]
, 1904 William A. Craigie
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Women Identity and Self-Assertion: A Study of Two Contemporary Retellings of Mahabharata [PDF]
, 2015 Mythology has been very foundation of many cultures and civilizations. The western world has inherited the base from the classical mythology of Greek and Roman civilization but for India this is all about the rich heritage of its own mythology which is ...
Mishra, Suchi Smita
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Andrology, EarlyView.Abstract Castration has been a significant theme in mythology, religious traditions, and historical practices, often symbolizing transformation, sacrifice, and divine punishment. While the term is frequently associated with orchiectomy (removal of the testes), this study argues that penectomy (removal of the penis) must also be considered, particularly
Coskun Kaya
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Baba Babnega polja
The Baba of Babno polje
Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2012 According to local tradition, a huge Baba (hag, woman) lies in the Bohinj valley in northwest Slovenia. The authors of this essay decided to ascertain to what degree, if so at all, the circumstances in Babno polje (field of Baba; south Slovenia on the ...
Andrej Pleterski, Goran Pavel Šantek
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Composing senselessness: Autoethnography after homicide
Anthropology and Humanism, EarlyView.Abstract Not all narratives create meaning, or create the same kinds of meaning; instead, some stories amplify meaninglessness, which—it is argued—is its own form of sense‐making. This article examines how meaning is formulated through narrative in the absence of a meaningful death, specifically in the context of a motiveless murder.
Jerome Arrow
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The Role of Phonesthemes in Shoegaze Naming Conventions
Names, 2017 This article focuses on some observed similarities between band names, album titles, and song titles within the shoegazing subgenre of rock music, which is characterized by loud, swirling layers of distorted guitar and droning noise.
Zac Smith
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INDIAN MYTHOLOGY AND EXTINCT FOSSIL VERTEBRATES [PDF]
, 1945 Loren C. Eiseley
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