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, 1993 Review of: JOHN HARRIS, WONDERWOMAN AND SUPERMAN: THE ETHICS OF HUMAN BIOTECHNOLOGY. (Oxford University Press 1992) [271 pp.] Acknowledgements, further reading, index, introduction, notes. LC 91-23939; ISBN 0-19-2177540-0. [$22.95 cloth.
Olson, Bradley J.
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A Decadence Baedeker: D'Annunzio's The Triumph of Death [PDF]
, 2017 This article investigates how Gabriele D’Annunzio’s The Triumph of Death brings together Nietzsche’s ideas and Wagner’s music and interweaves them with the motifs of literary Decadence and the author’s own particular sexual politics.
Joseph Galbo
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Are Batman and Superman the Barometer of Our Times? A Review of ‘Superheroes in Crisis’
The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, 2015 The WWII historian Jeffrey K. Johnson studies how the two comic book legends Superman and Batman have adapted successfully to American cultural and social landscapes through time.
Ira Erika Franco
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Against Theological Fictionalism [PDF]
, 2011 According to theological fictionalism, God has the same status as a fictional character in a novel or a movie. Such a claim has been defended by Robin Le Poidevin on the basis of Kendall Walton’s theory of make believe. But it is not only a philosophical
Pouivet, Roger
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Towards supporting multiple semantics of named graphs using N3 rules [PDF]
, 2019 Semantic Web applications often require the partitioning of triples into subgraphs, and then associating them with useful metadata (e.g., provenance). This led to the introduction of RDF datasets, with each RDF dataset comprising a default graph and zero
Arndt, Dörthe, Van Woensel, W.
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А.P. Chekhov and D.S. Merezhkovsky: controversy about the mission of the Russian intelligentsia
RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and JournalismThe author examines the dialogue of A.P. Chekhov and D.S. Merezhkovsky on the role of the intelligentsia in society. The study used comparative and cultural-historical methods.
Olga M. Kirillina
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Representation and Agency of Aging Superheroes in Popular Culture and Contemporary Society
Societies, 2021 The figure of the superhero has always been regarded as an iconic representative of American society. Since the birth of the first superhero, it has been shaped by the most important historical, political, and social events, which were echoed in ...
Kateřina Valentová
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Adaptive control in rollforward recovery for extreme scale multigrid
, 2018 With the increasing number of compute components, failures in future exa-scale computer systems are expected to become more frequent. This motivates the study of novel resilience techniques.
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School Mathematics Teachers Are Super Heroes
Southeast Asian Mathematics Education Journal, 2011 Hollywood has produced many super heroes such as Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. Recently it released a film titled 'Waiting for Superman' which shows a young boy imprisoned within a system and classroom that does not stimulate his learning while ...
Allan Leslie White
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A Call for Change: The Evolution of the Modern Documentary from Informative Media to Persuasive Platform [PDF]
, 2011 In the past several years, new documentaries have begun to evolve from informative media to persuasive platform as a result of changing cultural contexts and ideologies.
England, Valerie
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