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, 2023 Abstract This chapter considers the meaning of sacrifice in the context of military families. It examines the notion of the family and the military as ‘greedy institutions’ which place considerable, and often competing, demands on service personnel.
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Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Theologia Reformata TransylvanicaThe Individual and Social Aspects of Violence, the Desire for Dominance, and the Mechanisms of Victimization. Some Anthropological Perspectives. Where does violence come from? Is it an inherent or a learned trait?
Szabolcs KOVÁCS
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Antropologìčnì Vimìri Fìlosofsʹkih Doslìdžen', 2017 Purpose. The paper studies the problem of death penalty justifiableness in terms of democratic society from the metaphysical viewpoint. Philosophical argumentation to justify death penalty is proposed as opposed to the common idea of inhuman and ...
V. E. Gromov
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Symbolism in “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry
Journal of Philology and Educational Sciences, 2022 The present paper is an attempt to discuss the use of symbolism by one of the most famous American short story writers, O. Henry, in his The Gift of the Magi. Before we can interpret the symbols, however, we look into the age in which the short story was
Bryar Karim Abdulwahid +2 more
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Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Aldehyde dehydrogenase 1A1 (ALDH1A1) is a cancer stem cell marker in several malignancies. We established a novel epithelial cell line from rectal adenocarcinoma with unique overexpression of this enzyme. Genetic attenuation of ALDH1A1 led to increased invasive capacity and metastatic potential, the inhibition of proliferation activity, and ultimately ...
Martina Poturnajova +25 more
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Social Preferences: Some Simple Tests and a New Model [PDF]
Departures from pure self interest in economic experiments have recently inspired models of "social preferences". We conduct experiments on simple two-person and three-person games with binary choices that test these theories more directly than the array
Gary Charness, Matthew Rabin
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The Relationship Between Submission and Sacrifice in the First Letter of Peter
ReligionsThe First Epistle of Peter is a writing that addresses a new way of understanding and practicing worship among the followers of Jesus. The Christians, recipients of the letter, due to the imminent identity distinction from the Jews and their distancing ...
María José Schultz Montalbetti
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Sacrifice and the Old Testament
St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology, 2022 This article introduces the reader to ancient sacrificial rituals that the biblical authors regarded as acceptable to their God, as they are portrayed in Old Testament Hebrew texts.
Roy E. Gane
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Neither Sensible, Nor Moderate: Revisiting the Antigone
Humanities, 2018 In this essay, I try to conceptualise meaningful forms of resistance in the present by revisiting Sophocles’ Antigone, one of the most important texts of western literary tradition.
Theodore Koulouris
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Gender, Class, and Ideology: The Social Function of Virgin Sacrifice in Euripides’ Children of Herakles [PDF]
, 2007 This paper explores how gender can operate as a disguise for class in an examination of the self-sacrifice of the Maiden in Euripides’ Children of Herakles.
David Roselli
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