Body as Danger: Gender, Race and Body in Toni Morrison's Sul
Ilha do Desterro, 2015 This paper aims at tackling the question as to why Sula as a social nonconformist and sexual dissident ends up as an avatar of evil, a powerless victim of witch-hunt and eventually a scapegoat for the decline and misfortunes of her community.
Pi-hua Ni
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Continuous Feedback for Data‐Driven Organisational Change: Implementing OTTO's Digital Heartbeat
Information Systems Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Organisations implementing change initiatives routinely fail to maintain alignment between strategic intent and daily operations, detect emerging issues early or build sustainable data habits for continuous improvement. This paper examines how organisations can address these challenges through high frequency, data‐driven feedback systems that ...
Benjamin van Giffen +4 more
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The Media Scapegoat and Mom’s Mouth
SAGE Open, 2016 Swearing acceptance as a function of media and family influences was examined among 763 college students from a large southeastern public research university.
Chrysalis L. Wright, Jasmin Mokbel
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Parental insights and attitudes toward children's imaginary companions : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Psychology at Massey University [PDF]
, 1995 Pgs 41-3, 92 not in originalThis study was designed to determine parental attitudes and conceptualisations of the function of imaginary companions. Fourteen parents with children who have imaginary companions and sixteen parents whose children do not ...
Morris, Sarah Mary
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Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Merchant’s Tale, Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Tale of the Enchanted Pear-Tree, and Sir Orfeo Viewed as Eroticized Versions of the Folktales about Supernatural Wives [PDF]
, 2013 Two of the tales mentioned in the title are in many ways typical of the great collections of stories (The Canterbury Tales and Il Decamerone) to which they belong.
Wicher, Andrzej
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Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Volume 55, Issue 5, Page 322-342, May 2025.ABSTRACT Despite rising inequality making upward social mobility difficult, faith in the American Dream persists. Americans are often exposed to narratives where hard work leads to upward social mobility but are less likely to hear about the numerous instances where the same efforts don't pay off.
Erin Shanahan, Anne E. Wilson
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Prophetic Contrasts: How Durkheim and Girard Affirm the Religious Gift of Peace
ReligionsHuman beings are prone to violence of all kinds, and they are generally religious. Violence and religion are also thick, difficult-to-define concepts. Are they related? Two seminal thinkers stand as cornerstones in this modern debate. For Emile Durkheim,
Matthew Hallgarth
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The scapegoat theory of exchange rates: the first tests
, 2012 This paper provides an empirical test of the scapegoat theory of exchange rates (Bacchetta and van Wincoop 2004, 2011), as an attempt to evaluate its potential for explaining the poor empirical performance of traditional exchange rate models. This theory
Fratzscher, Marcel +2 more
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JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract The 2016 Brexit referendum was a watershed moment for the politicisation of the European Union (EU) in the United Kingdom. Much has been written about the politicising effects of the referendum, along with the Leave result's subsequent contestation in the media as well as in national and European election cycles.
Anne‐Marie Houde, Louis Stockwell
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Optimising Hormonal Therapy Before Declaring Failure in Endometriosis‐Associated Pain
BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics &Gynaecology, EarlyView.
Paolo Vercellini +4 more
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