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Showing 1 to 20 of 262 for “"Curse"”.
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"Words Are No Good": The Curse of Signification and the Curse of Faulkner's South
<p>In this study I examine three of Faulkner’s novels that concern his fictional Yoknapatawpha County: As I Lay Dying (1930), Absalom, Absalom! (1936), and Go Down, Moses (1942). These novels, I argue, indicate a development in Faulkner’s relationship to the formalist hierarchy of art over real …
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"Words Are No Good": The Curse of Signification and the Curse of Faulkner's South
<p>In this study I examine three of Faulkner’s novels that concern his fictional Yoknapatawpha County: As I Lay Dying (1930), Absalom, Absalom! (1936), and Go Down, Moses (1942). These novels, I argue, indicate a development in Faulkner’s relationship to the formalist hierarchy of art over real …
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Curse or blessing? : challenges of commodity-based economies
… Chile or Australia, the resources proved to be a curse. I begin with a survey of previous academic literature and research on the effects of natural resources on a given country's economic, social and political development. I then move to exploring the many challenges and pitfalls faced by …
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Mineral wealth versus resource curse - the stage is set
… regarding the impact of resource wealth being a curse rather than a benefit has been a subject of debate since the 1950’s. Only since Sachs and Warner, (1995) the ground-breaking study which confirmed a negative relationship between resource abundance and economic growth for a selected set of …
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The Resource Curse and Peru: A Potential Threat for the Future?
… stagnation and impoverishment? The resource curse theory has helped economists explain this observation. This work examines how Peru has been able to produce strong economic growth in the last 20 years despite the economy’s strong dependence on its natural resource extractive industry. Peru …
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The Royal Bafokeng nation, a Case Study for the resource Curse
Resource curse literature examines the causes and consequences of natural resources on economies. Within the literature, politico-economic theories provide insight into the relationship between institutional strength, the incentives facing the political elite due to the natural resource and the …
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Twitter: An opportunity or a curse for South African female journalists?
The spread of cyberviolence around the globe and cyberbullying towards female journalists is growing (Mijatović, 2016); in fact, thanks to improved technology and the proliferation of bots and botnets (Barojan, 2018), it is becoming even more ubiquitous. The cruelty and frequency of the attacks …
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Beyond the resource curse : mineral resources and development in Guinea-Conakry
… sources and data to argue that the resource curse as a phenomenon in resource-rich countries has limitations as it does not offer these countries a path for how their resources could be used to propel social and economic development. To overcome the so-called resource curse, this thesis …
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Diamonds, a resource curse? : the case of Kono District in Sierra Leone
(Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Geography, 2010
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Preventing the resource curse? : an examination of the Chad-Cameroon Pipeline Project
The resource curse is a theory which argues that rather than being a conduit for development natural resources can in fact lead to slow growth, civil war and hinder democracy. This thesis focuses specifically on the inverse relationship between dependence on the export of natural resources and slow …
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Sisters' curse: sexually antagonistic selection constrains the spread of a rare mitochondrial haplogroup
Females produce relatively few, large and costly eggs. By contrast, males produce large numbers of small and physiologically inexpensive sperm. This differential investment in gametes has long been identified as a force driving the evolution of divergent mating tactics in the sexes. In most …
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Agents of Evil: Curse Accusations and Shamanic Retaliation in Post-Soviet Tuva (Siberia)
… suspicions and accusations of affliction with curses in the Republic of Tuva, south Siberia (Russia). Based on a sample of consultations between shamans and clients regarding curse-inflicted misfortunes, as well as on sociological and statistical sources about post-Soviet Tuva, this thesis …
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Blessing or curse? : oil riches, economic policy, and the restructuringof Venzuela's plastics manufacturing
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1995.
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A novel, Curse of the time witch : and, An essay, The time-slip novel
… of parallel worlds emerged. My own novel, Curse of the Time Witch, set in Elizabethan England at the time of the Spanish Armada in 1588, follows Nesbit’s formula to some extent, except that the events are seen through the eyes of a protagonist living in the past who is visited by the other …
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