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Sanctions, National Security, and Free Speech
ABSTRACT A fundamental, but largely overlooked, aspect of the New Washington Consensus is the use of national security arguments to restrict speech and punish disfavored speakers. Although the United States has a longer history of using sanctions to restrict speech in the terrorism context, it has recently applied sanctions to restrict political speech,
Joshua Andresen
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Memory, genealogy and power in íslendingabók [PDF]
The aim of this study is to reveal the manner in which memory and genealogy are employed in Íslendingabók with the purpose of legitimizing the power and promoting the prestige of chieftains (goði), bishops and kings.
Costel COROBAN
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It is often said that sports imitate life. The College of Charleston (Charleston, South Carolina) men’s basketball team had a good season last year. Unlike their professional counterparts, however, college students graduate, and the Cougars lost 3 highly productive players from last year’s team.
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Investigating proxies for retail investor attention in financial markets
Abstract Investor attention influences financial markets but “depends on where you search” (Ben‐Rephael et al., The Review of Financial Studies, 2017, 30, 3009). We explore various retail investor attention proxies and their correlations with company characteristics and market reactions.
Daniel Cahill +2 more
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Holy vikings: Saints' lives in the old Icelandic kings' sagas
The biographies of royal saints in the Old Icelandic kings’ sagas are usually described as “secular” or “profane” texts and not “proper” saints’ lives. This book argues that theoretical concepts developed by Mikhail Bakhtin can provide new insights into ...
Phelpstead, Carl Luke
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Estresse laboral entre os trabalhadores da atenção primária de quatro contextos do interior do estado do Amazonas, 2011. [PDF]
Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Curso de Medicina.
Scherer, Mauricio
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Opferbeschreibungen in christlichen Schriften
The article analyses Christian influences as they can be observed in the narrations of traditional Icelandic Sagas from the early Christian period. It gives special attention to rituals of offering as these are depicted in the Landnámabók (dating from ...
Jón Aðalsteinsson
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ABSTRACT This article retraces the Woodward Commission on Aboriginal Land Rights in the Northern Territory, focusing on the question of mineral rights. Mineral rights were assumed in the Commission's terms of reference and expected by many Aboriginal people. Why, then, were they not recommended by the Commission?
Laura Rademaker
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Representações e apropriações nas sagas fantásticas
In this article , we intend to relate the studies of Chartier with the concept of fantastic saga. We relate the fantastic sagas with representation of concepts and ownership developed by Chartier .
Barth, Pedro Afonso
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Inventing a saga form: The development of the kings’ sagas
This study concerns form and the aesthetics of the Kings’ Sagas, a subject that has been somewhat neglected by previous kings’ saga scholars. Among the formal categories that will be given particular attention are the role of anecdotal material and ...
Armann Jacobsson
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