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From:Italica (Vol. 87, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn one of her personal notebooks written during the 1960's Paola Masino declares, not without pride: "E ora so anche perche ne sono uscita [dalla piccola schiera dei privilegiati]: perche occorre crederci davvero, a...
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From:The Journal of the American Oriental Society (Vol. 126, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedJ. Puhvel gave in his Hittite Etymological Dictionary, Volume K (Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter, 1997), 227, under the entry kurtal(i), kurtalli- (n.) the meaning 'crate, hamper, basket.' Indeed the meaning of this Hittite...
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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 52, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedPropagandists have seven semantic tools through which they can influence people's thinking. These include name calling, which gives an idea a bad name and glittering generalities, which force people to accept something...
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From:The British Journal of Aesthetics (Vol. 36, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe Indian stupa is a mound that houses bones and relics of Buddhist saints and serves as a symbol whose complexity and importance to Indian art is beyond anything found in Western symbology. The stupa represents both...
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From:Renaissance Quarterly (Vol. 54, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThis article traces the connections between the circulation of commodities and counterfeit coins in The Roaring Girl. Contextualizing the play's representation of counterfeits within a discussion of the relationship...
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From:Cartography and Geographic Information Science (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis research investigates how the inclusion of attribute certainty in map displays influences GIS modeling and spatial decision support. The goal is to establish empirical evidence documenting graphical guidelines that...
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From:Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (Vol. 57, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedPurpose: The effects of animation on naming and identification of graphic symbols for verbs and prepositions were studied in 2 graphic symbol sets in preschoolers. Method: Using a 2 x 2 x 2 x 3 completely randomized...
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From:History and Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past (Vol. 32, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article examines the controversy surrounding the street names symbolizing the Franco dictatorship (1939-75) in Madrid. The Memory Law, passed in 2007, which sought to eradicate Francoist symbols in the public...
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From:Journal of Religion and Popular Culture (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedUnlike many heavy metal bands that utilize blasphemy, sacrilege, and evil images for superficial shock value, the wrath of anti-Christian heavy metal bands is rooted in authentic sources. The anti-Christian aesthetic...
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From:IDEA Fitness Journal (Vol. 5, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWhat would it take to get shoppers to use the stairs instead of the escalator? A team of British researchers recently discovered that healthy messages posted near stairwells attract people--and might even encourage them...
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From:Chicago Review (Vol. 63, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedBen Estes is a poet, visual artist, publisher, editor, and cofounder of The Song Cave, a press specializing in archival works, poetry, prose, translations, and limited edition art works. Aaron Kunin has said Estes's...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 62, Issue 20)Across the world, campus symbols from the epoch of avowed white supremacy have come under sharp criticism from students and their allies. At the University of Cape Town, academically the highest-ranked institution in...
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From:African Studies Quarterly (Vol. 12, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe contribution of women in the Bamenda western Grassfields of Cameroon to the struggle for liberation from colonial rule manifested itself in many diverse forms, including mass mobilization, petitions, boycotts, and...
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From:Ovidius University Annals, Series Physical Education and Sport/Science, Movement and Health (Vol. 10, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe Olympic Games is extremely serious, this is not the product of coincidence, as they deserve to study scientific study of not less than the specialized areas of analytical studies, such as religious sects or...
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From:The Carolina Quarterly (Vol. 65, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMine's ibis, mine's three strikes, mine's the turtle on its back, crenellated and fuchsia, mine's the book swung open, sexual in its promise of knowledge. Here's the thing about an open book: left open, the ink will...
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From:Southwest Review (Vol. 100, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA lopping wind sock on a rusty staff does not lift a grommet, does not clank the iron, does not wake the air traffic controller in his singlewide to clear a visitor down to the desert because there is no visitor;...
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From:Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (Vol. 8, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis article questions the assumption that shared culture, or affiliation to shared cultural symbols, is necessarily a source of social cohesion, and that ethnic divisions are associated specifically with perceptions or...
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From:Antiquity (Vol. 81, Issue 312) Peer-ReviewedThe tooth of a tiger shark, perforated to make a pendant, was lost in New Ireland, New Guinea between 39 500 and 28 000 years ago. The author argues that this has to be the work of anatomically modern humans, and...
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From:Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society (Vol. 43, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAbstract In his landmark book, Peirce's Theory of Signs, T. L. Short argues that music signifies as a pure icon. A pure icon, according to Peirce, is not a likeness. It "does not draw any distinction between itself...
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From:Studies in American Jewish Literature (Vol. 30) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction The purpose of this paper is to analyze socially constructed symbols of Jewish American identity that are produced by members of an elite intelligentsia: two groups of Jewish American authors who write...