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Spectacular Tropes: Representations of the Roman Arena [PDF]
, 2018 This paper will focus on the construction of representational tropes depicting the ancient Roman arenas and those involved with them, particularly within the spectacles of gladiatorial battles.
Britt, Tiger Maurice
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, 2017 We present derivations of the contagion condition for a range of spreading mechanisms on families of generalized random networks and bipartite random networks.
Dodds, Peter Sheridan
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Truthmakers and necessary connections [PDF]
, 2008 In this paper I examine the objection to truthmaker theory, forcibly made by David Lewis and endorsed by many, that it violates the Humean denial of necessary connections between distinct existences. In Sect.
Cameron, R.P.
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Cuspidal quintics and surfaces with $p_g=0,$ $K^2=3$ and 5-torsion [PDF]
, 2015 If $S$ is a quintic surface in $\mathbb P^3$ with singular set $15$ $3$-divisible ordinary cusps, then there is a Galois triple cover $\phi:X\to S$ branched only at the cusps such that $p_g(X)=4,$ $q(X)=0,$ $K_X^2=15$ and $\phi$ is the canonical map of ...
Rito, Carlos
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The Singer of Tibet: Shabkar (1781-1851), the “Inescapable Nation,” and Buddhist Universalism [PDF]
, 2018 This paper examines the concept of ‘Tibet (Tib. bod)’ in the spiritual autobiography of the celebrated Tibetan Buddhist author, Shabkar Tsokdruk Rangdröl (1781–1851).
Pang, Rachel H
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Degenerations of Gushel-Mukai fourfolds, with a view towards irrationality proofs [PDF]
, 2017 We study a certain class of degenerations of Gushel-Mukai fourfolds as conic bundles, which we call tame degenerations and which are natural if one wants to prove that very general Gushel-Mukai fourfolds are irrational using the degeneration method due ...
Böhning, Christian +1 more
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The Tragedy Zone: Ableism in Entertainment [PDF]
, 2018 Ableism, or discrimination towards individuals with disabilities, is pervasive in our society. The entertainment world and the media are largely responsible for shaping the way the general public views minority groups.
Sumner, Linnea
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"With 1 follower I must be AWESOME :P". Exploring the role of irony markers in irony recognition
, 2018 Conversations in social media often contain the use of irony or sarcasm, when the users say the opposite of what they really mean. Irony markers are the meta-communicative clues that inform the reader that an utterance is ironic.
Ghosh, Debanjan, Muresan, Smaranda
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Rawls’ Political Constructivism as a Judicial Heuristic: A Response to Professor Allen [PDF]
, 1999 In her Dunwody Lecture, Professor Anita Allen insightfully calls our attention to the social contract tropes that pepper American case law. She claims that these tropes function ideologically, disguising politics, biases, and raw power in judicial ...
Feldman, Heidi Li
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Cryptomimetic tropes in Yoshitomo Nakura’s Batman: Death Mask [PDF]
This article discusses the gothic and science fiction influences apparent in Yoshinori Natsume’s Batman: Death Mask with reference to the Derridean notion of the crypt and Jodey Castricano’s linguistic/structural model of cryptomimesis.
Round, Julia
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