J.R.R. Tolkien and his Influence on Modern Fantasy Writer Tamora Pierce [PDF]
, 2015 Tolkien’s writing of female and racial minority characters has been criticized as misogynistic and racist by many critics of Tolkien. However, these critics come to these conclusions due to the limited quantity of these characters overall, especially ...
Curry, Alexandria
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Understanding phylogenetic incongruence: lessons from phyllostomid bats
Biological Reviews of The Cambridge Philosophical Society, 2012 All characters and trait systems in an organism share a common evolutionary history that can be estimated using phylogenetic methods. However, differential rates of change and the evolutionary mechanisms driving those rates result in pervasive ...
L. Dávalos +3 more
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Zobrazení vědomí fikčních postav v prózách Arnošta Lustiga
Bohemica Litteraria, 2016 The study focuses on characters in Arnošt Lustig's prose. It primarily focuses on the consciousness in fictional characters. As a theoretical basis we chose publications Poetics (2001) Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan, Story and Discourse (2008) Seymour Chatman ...
Ingrid Chytilová
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A plea for a modal realist epistemology [PDF]
, 2000 David Lewis’s genuine modal realism postulates the existence of concrete possible worlds that are spatio-temporally discontinuous with the concrete world we inhabit. How, then, can we have modal knowledge?
Bueno, O., Shalkowski, S.
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You No Real Man : Constructing Gender, Sexuality, and the Asian American Subject in Jana Monji\u27s Kim [PDF]
, 2013 Jana Monji\u27s short story Kim offers a stunning plot twist that challenges readers initial interpretations of the characters as well as many assumptions and stereotypes about Asian American identity, gender, sexuality, and culture.
Field, Robin E.
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Negotiation in Diasporic Identity in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Third and Final Continent and This Blessed House [PDF]
Nowadays diaspora becomes crucial issue once people actively involve in global world. In diasporic world, people inevitably engage with their new environment, adjust with the new life and adapt to the unaccustomed-yet habits.
Wulandari, Retno
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A multi-player educational game for story writing [PDF]
, 2004 In this short paper, a multi-player interactive game called STORYWORLD BUILDER is described. The game enables children to collaboratively build a virtual “story world” and then role-play characters in that world.
Mayo, Michael
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Taxonomic status of Bambusaspis miliaris : B. robusta, and B. pseudomiliaris (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Asterolecaniidae) [PDF]
, 1999 Based on an assessment of 50 morphological characters from 110 specimens of Bambusaspis miliaris (BoisduvalI869), B. robusta (Green 1908), andB. pseudomiliaris (Green 1922) from different geographic regions around the world, we conclude that these ...
Lambdin, P. L., Stumpf, C. F.
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3D Face Synthesis Driven by Personality Impression
, 2018 Synthesizing 3D faces that give certain personality impressions is commonly needed in computer games, animations, and virtual world applications for producing realistic virtual characters. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to synthesize 3D faces
Lang, Yining +3 more
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Taxonomy and phylogeny of the Old World jumping plant-louse genus Paurocephala (Insecta, Hemiptera, Psylloidea) [PDF]
, 2002 Fifty-one species are recognized in the genus Paurocephala, with an additional 14 species which remain unnamed. Thirty-five species are described as new, and five species are synonymized: P. pumilae and P. zhejiangensis with P.
Burckhardt, Daniel, Mifsud, David
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