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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"dishonor"”.
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There Is No Dishonor in Desertion: Army Racial Intolerance and African-American Soldiers' Desertion
The thesis focuses on a study concerning the desertion of African-American soldiers from the United States Army. The data were collected from the period covering the War of Independence to the mid-1960s of the Cold War. The study proposes that there are limits to which these soldiers cannot bear …
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Dangerous diasporas : émigré nationalism and ethnic violence
… in fact, anchored in past episodes of trauma and dishonor that remain significant to certain members of the diaspora community. It endures in the everyday lives of diaspora individuals as a type of potential energy--simmering under the surface but not leading to any kind of extreme action. Only in …
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Optimizing practice through self-testing
Memory benefits from retrieval. This fact has motivated an entire literature on the testing effect, which demonstrates that retrieval practice benefits memory more than additional restudy opportunities. The overall robustness of this effect masks a surprising variability in just how advantageous …
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Shame in the Fabliaux
In this thesis I highlight the literary techniques used in fabliaux to understand the power struggles traversed by the characters. This work focuses on methods of avoiding the shame emasculation in scenes from the fabliaux Berangier au lonc Cul, Du Prestre qui fu mis au lardier, Du Prestre …