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Aristophanes' Lemnian Women: sexual politics in comic fragments

Aristophanic invective against a rival dramatist: the fragment from the lost Lemnian Women included in Henderson's edition as number 382, attested to in two separate ancient sources (suggesting it was considered a particularly choice joke):

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Dang Thuy Tram's diary and humanizing the Vietnamese enemy

As has been apparent all semester, Vietnam had a profound and individualized effect on vast numbers of people.

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Edmund Husserl and phenomenological psychology's humanistic critique of behaviorism

In the early-1900s, Edmund Husserl sought to provide psychology with a truly scientific basis, not by copying the physical sciences but through the description of conscious experiences.

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Telegraphy, radio, and computing: nineteenth-century origins of modern electronic media

Fans of science fiction are fond of recalling a remark by novelist Arthur C. Clarke, to the effect that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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Colonial legacy and early Latin American liberal thought on democracy

For the first two generations of Latin America's radicals, liberals and democrats, the legacy of the colonial past was a terrible burden that their countries had to overcome in order to achieve progress and social and economic development.

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Alcoholism in young adulthood and its effects on elderly alcohol abuse

Substance abuse is a common affliction among the elderly population. Several factors may contribute to the prevalence of alcoholism and drug abuse among older adults, including loneliness, poor health, and depression.

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How Einstein and Churchill shaped twentieth-century science and politics

Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill. Defining politics and science today has a different meaning than it did throughout history until the 20th century.

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Income inequality and human capital investment in Latin America

The concern for the economic development in the developing countries has been an issue for several decades.

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Anti-Trinitarian theology in Servetus, Milton, and Newton

The Arian heresy -- or rejection of the Christian doctrine of the Holy Trinity -- is actually relatively uncommon among contemporary Christian denominations; to pick one particular national example, Post-Reformation England would tolerate a broad array of theological stances -- from the dour…

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Germany's adoption of IASB standards and impacts on Deutsche Bank

Reporting standards for financial transactions have been varied with regard to countries and companies across the globe for many years. This fact has made it difficult for transactions to be reported with any great degree of accuracy.

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