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Goblins, Greed, and Goodness: The Symbolic and Narrative Degradation of Goblins within The Hobbit [PDF]
Throughout The Hobbit, J.R.R Tolkien establishes a variety of races that range on a diverse scale of good and evil. Within this spectrum, Goblins are portrayed as being the most evil in comparison to every other race on Middle Earth. Tolkien utilizes a
Stine, Katelyn
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The problem of free will is child's play
Abstract I argue that the essence of ‘free will’ is control, the ability to do otherwise and that this ability is an acquired skill: We can and do see people acquire it, as for example small children learn to play and to do all the other things that human agents characteristically do.
Sophie‐Grace Chappell
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The Hobbit and Tolkien\u27s Mythology (2014), ed. Bradford Lee Eden [PDF]
Book review of The Hobbit and Tolkien\u27s Mythology (2014), ed.
Honegger, Thomas
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ABSTRACT This article presents the 2024 Report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, entitled ‘Contemporary Forms of Slavery as Affecting Currently and Formerly Incarcerated People’, and assesses the regime in England and Wales on the basis of the Rapporteur's recommendations.
Virginia Mantouvalou
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Kicking the hobbit habit [PDF]
The nickname for the new hominid Homo floresiensis has its advantages, but will the label obscure the true importance of the find, asks Henry Gee.
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Critical Insights: The Hobbit (2016) edited by Stephen W. Potts [PDF]
Book review by Martin Simonson of Critical Insights: The Hobbit (2016), edited by Stephen W ...
Simonson, Martin
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ABSTRACT Direct‐developing species lack the pelagic larval phase which facilitates connectivity in most marine species. Consequently, they tend to exhibit spatially restricted dispersal and increased population structure. When subject to harvesting, this biological constraint increases their vulnerability to localized depletion, as local aggregations ...
Cassidy C. D'Aloia +8 more
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Inspiracja radykalna, czyli wątki tolkienowskie w twórczości Varga Vikernesa
In the article Radical Inspiration, or Tolkienian Threads in the Works of Varg Vikernes, Adam Podlewski draws a comparison between John Ronald Reuel Tolkien’s and Varg Vikernes’ esthetical, theological, and civilisational worldview.
Adam Podlewski
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The Hobbit Party (2014) by Jonathan Witt and Jay W. Richards [PDF]
Book Review of The Hobbit Party (2014) by Jonathan Witt and Jay W ...
Rateliff, John D.
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The paper presents a native length encoding approach alongside a human skeleton‐based action recognition model (named CLS‐Transformer) for home service robots. The model incorporates a novel cue coding strategy that captures richer feature information. The experimental results demonstrate that CLS‐Transformer achieves superior recognition accuracy and ...
Jie Shen +5 more
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