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Defining the Enemy and Other Stories
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ENDING AN ENEMY: UNITED STATES–IRAN RELATIONS
The Iran–United States relationship is often described by U.S. leaders as an intractable, zero-sum problem. In this view, the solution is to collapse the Islamic Republic by military threats and unyielding economic pressure. Since 1979, presidents of both parties have pursued this two-tool campaign …
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Facing the Last Enemy: Death, Trauerarbeit, and Harry Potter
J. K. Rowling’s critically acclaimed and wildly successful Harry Potter series details an orphan hero’s quest to reclaim a lost family, and, yet, very little of the previous scholarship has explored the perennial, overarching grief that spans the length of the series. Death litters the landscape of …
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The Dynamics of Natural Enemy Resistance in Aphid Populations
Many aphids harbour facultative bacterial endosymbionts that can influence aphid fitness. In Acyrthosiphon pisum (the pea aphid), the endosymbiont <i>Hamiltonella defensa</i> confers resistance to parasitism by parasitoid wasps due to the presence of the APSE bacteriophage in the …
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Enemy life: theorizing exile through Milton, Shelley and Byron
<p>This dissertation investigates the contemporary discourse and conceptions of exile as it is presented by Milton, Shelley and Byron. Utilizing biopolitical theory as a lens, it posits that the Satanic iteration or narrative of exile embodies the reality of worldly exile. As such the dissertation …
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Our enemy, ourselves: Political conspiracy in American cinema, 1970-present.
This thesis is an examination of "paranoid conspiracy" films, a film noir subgenre that emerged in mainstream American cinema in the early 1970s and turns on vast, shadowy conspiracies located within U.S. "power structures" (government agencies, the military, the media) and directed against the …
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Encountering the Enemy: An Inquiry into the Limits of Generativity
… a sustained investigation into the sense of the enemy. Chapter one begins by focusing on a common understanding of the enemy found within our homeworld: the political enemy. As will become clear, this mode of encountering the enemy has become the dominant framework for understanding the enemy in …
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My Cherished Enemy: The Construction of Identity and Otherness in Russia
As of 2018 the Russian Federation is home to 185 registered ethnic groups, ranging in size from 5.3 million of the Volga Tatars to the merely 64 people of the Votes. Many of them are adherents to religions other than Orthodoxy with Muslims, Jews and Catholics being the most numerous – Muslims alone …
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Optimal Automated Vehicle Piloting: Avoiding Perfection being the Enemy of the Good
Optimal timing for automated vehicle (AV) pilot programs is essential to balance early implementation benefits against the goal of perfected safety. Although AV technology is not accident-free, it shows potential in reducing crash rates. This work introduces a mathematical framework designed to …
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The March of Judicial Cosmopolitanism and the Legacy of Enemy Combatant Case Law
… judicial cosmopolitanism and its prevalence in enemy combatant case law. The author draws upon the theoretical and philosophical underpinnings of cosmopolitanism and cosmopolitan law to describe judicial cosmopolitanism as form of legal discourse through which judges show a willingness to extend …
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'Garden of evil' : images of the enemy in American war literature 1962-1990
… thesis interrogates representations of the enemy in threeAmerican war novels: James Jones's The Thin Red Line (1962), LarryHeinemann's Paco's Story (1986), and Tim O'Brien's The Things TheyCarried (1990). While American literary responses to the Vietnam War arethe primary concern of this …
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CONCEPT OF REGULAR ENEMY AMIDST THE CONTEMPORARY PROJECT OF INDIVIDUALIZED WAR: CONTINUITIES, TRANSFORMATIONS, AND CONTRADICTIONS
… This research employs the concept of enemy to critically look at the increasing individualization of war. Throughout the thesis it is questioned what does remain of the modern concept of regular enemy in the post-Cold War era, when the way of war is characterized by an apparently …
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Secreted Behind Closed Doors : Rethinking Cather's Adultery Theme and "Unfurnished" Style in My Mortal Enemy
In recent years, My Mortal Enemy (1926) has been virtually ignored in Cather scholarship. I place the novel in its literary and critical context by building on information from the critical reception and recent scholarship on Cather's work to see how My Mortal Enemy fits into the expectations of …
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A NEW ENEMY: AN EXPLORATION OF GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WITHIN LAW ENFORCEMENT'S FIGHT AGAINST CHILD EXPLOITATION
Advances in generative artificial intelligence (GAI) have enabled the creation of highly realistic images and videos of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) without the involvement of an actual child. Its growth and future capabilities pose significant challenges for U.S. law enforcement agencies …
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My Enemy’s Enemy is My Friend: Why Holding the Same Negative Attitudes of Others Promotes Closeness
Holding the same negative, as compared to positive, attitudes about a third party has been shown to predict increased liking for a future interaction partner (Bosson, Johnson, Niederhoffer, & Swann, 2006). The current work extended past research by examining two possible mediators of this effect: …
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"Other" news : enemy image construction and otherization of Al Jazeera in American television news
… CNN and Fox News was conducted using a model of enemy image construction and Otherization in order to describe American television news discourse about Al Jazeera. Taking a political economy approach to communication, this paper argues that the construction of Al Jazeera on American television …
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Host Plant and Spatial Influences on the Natural Enemy Community Structure of a Host Specific Insect Herbivore
… investigate the structure of the insect natural enemy community centered on galls produced by Belonocnema treatae (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) on the leaves of its host plants across the gall former's geographic range while controlling for spatial autocorrelation among sample sites. Belonocnema …
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