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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Feud"”.
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Family, Feud, and the Conduct of War in Anglo-Saxon England
… society was built around the concept of feud, and it is clear from history, law, and literature that the twin concerns of family and vengeance remained pillars of Anglo-Saxon society and consciousness throughout the period. Given constant warfare and the cultural and social importance of …
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The Creative Feud of Andy Warhol: A Philosophy of Communication Ethics
<p><em>The Creative Feud of Andy Warhol: A Philosophy of Communication Ethics </em>begins with the assumption that the current historical moment is defined by Gilles Lipovetsky’s philosophical project known as hypermodernity. The dominant paradigm of hypermodernity, as consumption and commodity …
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The Queen's Feud: Women and Kinship in Malory's <em>Morte Darthur</em>
<p>The impact of blood feud on the knights of the Round Table in Malory's <em>Morte Darthur</em> is clear and has been well studied. Likewise documented is the shift to an institutionalized political system focused on individual chivalry after the founding of the Round Table. This study focuses on …
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Protection, Feud and Royal Power: Violence and its Regulation in English Law, c. 850 – c. 1250.
… to explain how a system largely based on feud, in which violence was a matter primarily for the parties involved, became one in which all serious violence was punished by the crown as crime. It does so through the examination of all the relevant legal material in the period: mostly royal …
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a people blessed, a land teeming
… my personal connection with the Hatfield-McCoy Feud through a critical analysis of my particular writing process, influences, and considerations in the endeavor to develop a creative manuscript which strives to reframe contemporary treatments of the feud, its participants, and the greater …
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Peacecroft
… caught in the middle of a thousand-year blood feud that threatens to tear apart their new home. Otto and Anne must find a way to navigate the machinations of a ruthless estate agent, a half-mad soldier just returned from the war, and the harsh world around them. To survive they must decide on …
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Battle of the Bulls: A Coal Conflict in Cattle Country
… on the science of modern-day mining. As the feud continues, the ranchers seek a potential lawsuit while the mine insists any environmental impacts will be restored. Now, only time will tell.</p>
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Battle of the Bulls: A Coal Conflict in Cattle Country
… on the science of modern-day mining. As the feud continues, the ranchers seek a potential lawsuit while the mine insists any environmental impacts will be restored. Now, only time will tell.</p>
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Izzy and Aster's Guide to Cryptid Creatures
… despite their never ending (perhaps, one sided) feud, to solve the mystery of why Jenna has seemingly disappeared off the face of the planet. Their Jenna-related findings and an English assignment that inspires them to learn more about cryptids leads them to go on the road trip. Through this …
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The roles of language in selected novels of Thomas Berger.
… two most recent works in the Berger canon, The Feud (1983) and Nowhere (1985), suggest that Berger has moved toward a fulfillment of a dream of Flaubert: to write about nothing, to write books held together entirely by the force of their style. In these works, language supersedes all other …
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Blood Heist
… stop him. The three men have en escalating feud, which leads to Flowers and Rex tying Stick to a tree and soaking him with several bags of blood and leaving him to die. Flowers and Rex ride south on a team of ostriches that Flowers has stolen from Crazy Patti LeBeau. Stick is rescued by a …
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Song hunters in Svaneti: Musical tourism and other intercultural encounters in highland Georgia
… moral code of mountain hospitality and blood feud, have experienced startling changes to their way of life in this time period. The most entrepreneurial have capitalized on foreign fascination with Svaneti’s stunning natural landscapes and exotic, supposedly medieval culture. A key aspect of …
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THE COLTMANS OF HAGNABY, LINCOLNSHIRE. A Study of Minor Landed Gentry
… this research was based, and revealed their feud, which demonstrated the integrity of Coltman in the face of interference from Banks. Decisions taken during his long tenure of the Bench reveal a man of compassion and probity, and distanced him from the stereotypical image of the 18th century …
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French provincial life as portrayed by the chief French novelists of the nineteenth century.
… metropolitan aspect. In all lands there exists a feud between the practical bourgeois and the more spiritual and bohemian man of letters, but in France this dislike is more pronounced than elsewhere, With this dislike combined with a disparaging attitude toward life outside of Paris, the French …
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“According to social media…” Examining the influence of social media on political reporting within Zimbabwe’s mainstream media
… social media by the other faction. The public feud, which played out on social media, forced political reporters to gather story ideas from social media and overly rely on a few tech savvy elite sources. In these circumstances, social media’s influence on the political news agenda was …
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The Norwegian success story : narrative applications of interpretation, understanding, & communication in complex organizational systems
… make of an oil and gas narrative without a blood feud or villain? This is the story of the Norway Model, a unique system of natural resource management responsible for this country’s transformation since 1969 when massive oil reserves were discovered on the North Sea continental shelf. After …
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Porter James McCumber : evolution of a senator
… involvement in the community and focusing on his feud with fellow Republican and resident of Wahpeton, William Lauder.</p> <p>Chapter Six describes McCumber' s surprising and triumphant election as Senator, describing the "deal" that was struck with Alexander McKenzie and the state's reaction.</p> …
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"You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive": Using FX's Justified to Form A Cultural Understanding of Crime in Harlan County, Kentucky
… issue. From the Hatfield and McCoy feud to Deliverance, social issues unique to the rural south have received a significant amount of focus within modern popular culture. One of the most recent and popular examples of southern culture and violence is the television network FX’s …
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Institutions, State Capacity, and Intra-State Conflict: Evidence from a Decade-Long Civil War in Nepal
… politics but was due to an internal family feud. I use this exogenous shock to identify the differences in conflict outcomes before and after the massacre. Whereas conflict was isolated and sparse in the pre-2001 period, it escalated and spread to all parts of the country immediately …
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