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Do feet have mouths? Slander, metaphor, and the body politic in early modern England
Embargo set by: Colleen Fallaw for item 102806 Lift date: 2019-08-10T21:27:21Z Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system
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Circulating the Female Figure In the Marketplaces of Print and Reputation: Women and Defamation In Early Modern England
… for women to remain in the sexual marketplace, slander cases were a venue which women could use to defend their honesty and salvage their future prospects. In the marketplace of print, the potential for defamation shaped the development of print culture with censorship. The advent of the …
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Excursus: Three Art Songs for Soprano and Flexible Media
… with sitcoms, pharmaceutical ads, and political slander, respectively. Instead of communicating this message traditionally via voice and piano, prerecorded media serves as accompaniment to the soprano. I make the distinction in the title that the work is for “soprano and flexible media.” This …
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'The Protected Disclosures Act 2000: limitation on the defamation law in South Africa'
… both libel (written defamatory statement) and slander (oral ones). [FN41 Most jurisdictions, including South African, allow legal actions, civil and/or criminal against the defamatory statement. In the Court, therefore, in order to be found innocent, the defendant has to establish the "truth" …
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"Under an Ill Tongue": Witchcraft and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Virginia
… of the colony, such as fornication, gossip, and slander, and dismissed those, such as witchcraft, that threatened to tear it apart.
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Sexing the Jew: Early Christian Constructions of Jewishness
… John Chrysostom, I argue that Christian sexual slander against Jews intensified as Christian exegetes endeavored to claim Jewish scripture for Christian use in the third and fourth centuries. My research examines these literary constructions of Jewish sexuality in early Christian writings of …
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"Most Great Reconstruction": The Baha'i Faith in Jim Crow South Carolina, 1898-1965
… at the local level. Facing ostracism, slander, and violence, they succeeded in attracting an astonishingly diverse membership. Focusing on the period from South Carolinians' first contacts with the faith in the late 1890s to the formal dissolution of the Jim Crow regime in the …
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"THE FORGERIES OF JEALOUSY": SHAKESPEARE'S CUCKOLDRY
… of male jealousy and perpetuated by society and slander. Shakespeare's cuckoldry plays do not depict wifely adultery at all; rather, they reveal cuckoldry to be a male delusion. In this way, the plays deny cuckoldry's veracity, portraying the propensity to commit adultery to be foreign to the …
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The Function of Christ's Suffering in I Peter 2:21
… community in two ways: (1) The charges of slander and sedition against the church would be reduced and (2) the cohesiveness and solidarity within the church would be maintained. Therefore Christ's suffering (for you) in vs. 21b does not refer to Christ's death but instead promises God's …
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Academic dishonesty: the link between academics and the law
… breach of contract, immunity, negligence, libel, slander, conflict of interest, Americans with Disabilities, defamation, tort, retaliation, discrimination, and general legal procedural issues (including Article 78 issues specific to the state of New York and Tennessee Code issues specific to the …
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Behavioural and psychosocial factors associated with cyberbullying
… of cyberbullying experienced was rumours and slander using the internet or cellular phone. The electronic communication preferences of participants were: instant messaging (50%); 47% used social networking; about 44% used chatrooms and 32% used email. Females spent more time in chatrooms and …
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Outeurskapidentifikasie en mikroblogs : 'n eksploratiewe forensiese analise in 'n digitale era
… an ideal opportunity for negative communication (slander and bullying or trolling) and fake profiles. In view of the increasing amount of anonymous profiles, one has to ask who is truly speaking and can the author of a short electronic text (in Afrikaans) be identified? Against the broad …
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Pandangan tokoh masyarakat terhadap pernikahan dini akibat hamil pranikah: Studi di Desa Sengon Agung Kecamatan Purwosari Kabupaten Pasuruan
… of the child after birth but also to protect a slander. This study is conducted to find out the view of community leaders in the Sengon Agung village and to know how the sociological affects of early marriage due to pre-marriage pregnancy. The approached used in this study is a qualitative …
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Explaining the Conceptualisation of Reputation in the Trinity of Torts: Defamation, Misuse of Private Information and Data Protection
It is said that English law permits claimants to pursue different, overlapping causes of action in response to the same event provided each action protects a distinct value. Despite this, concern has been expressed about claimants’ ability to pursue misuse of private information and data protection …
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Analysing the legal standard of defamatory conduct during national elections in Zambia
Journalists generally face a number of challenges in their reporting during the period of national elections. This comes as a result of their duty to afford the public the best means of discovering and forming an opinion of the ideas and attitudes of Political Leaders vying for the various …
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Analysing the legal standard of defamatory conduct during national elections in Zambia
Journalists generally face a number of challenges in their reporting during the period of national elections. This comes as a result of their duty to afford the public the best means of discovering and forming an opinion of the ideas and attitudes of Political Leaders vying for the various …