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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"mischief"”.
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Magic City Mischief
… been placed at the collection’s start. Clearly, mischief abounds. Note it was my conscious decision not to insert a filter between the story and the reader. Keeping my narrator’s tongue tightly in check, I have embodied the commonly heard storytelling directive of “show, don’t tell"? by opting …
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AfCFTA: the remedy to an enduring mischief?
… and neo-colonialism is steadfast. This mischief has been and is afflicting African trade and development. Its influence has permeated the ideological foundation of African integration and has been inimical to growth on the continent. The African Continental Free Trade Area agreement is …
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plywood work: setting up looms and other works of mischief
'after all, it takes a baker'
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"I Love Mischief Strangely, As Most of Our Sex Do": Aphra Behn and the Trickster Archetype
<p>Archetypes have long been used by oral historians to help their audience connect quickly and easily to their characters. One popular archetype is the trickster figure. Most frequently connected to Native American tales in contemporary literature, the archetype can be found in the mythology and …
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The Dark Ride
… an opportune location for romance, storytelling, mischief and vandalism.</p>
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Story as Medicine: Indigenous Storytelling as a Path to Resilience
… were not simple lessons of coyotes getting into mischief, but lessons from the deepest pain. Navigating trauma with the help of storytelling encouraged resilience (Corntassel et al., 2009; Estés, 1992; Harjo & Leen, 1995). This paper will explore the science and words behind the alchemical …
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Trade beyond the margins : cross-border traders between Zambia and South Africa
… coming into South Africa in search of work or mischief over South Africa's holiday season. Instead, it is the exodus of people heavy with groceries, fashionable accessories and various hardware going in the direction of their home countries. In the queue are mostly Zimbabweans, Zambians, …
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Revolting Women, Roaring Girls and Bloody Men: The RSC in Stratford, 2014
… Theatre (in a short season entitled Midsummer Mischief). The season thus provided a suitable focus for this critical analysis. THE
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Forge of Myths and Legends
… stories in the perspective of the Norse god of mischief, Loki, navigating through the myths, showcasing the other side of history, pushing against the ruling narrative, and fighting injustice. Set on a fictional island in a male-dominated Viking society, Erika struggles to maintain agency and …
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Policy Advocacy for Letting Schools Be Schools
… used for accountability, the more apt it is for mischief, and there are multiple examples that show that this is the case. Could it be that no accountability, or intrinsic accountability at the grassroots within a school, trusting teachers and administrators to consider the context of their own …
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To amend, repeal or enact: Analysing the legislation that regulate anti-illicit financial flows in Namibia's Natural Resources Sector
… proffers recommendations to cure the mischief identified.
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To what extent are the assessments by legal academics who critiqued the Irish personal injury reforms (PIAB & related measures) defensible in light of the outcomes? A case study
… tort reforms in many jurisdictions but the real mischief has not been properly identified, as revealed in this significant research. Proposals in 2002 to reform the Irish compensation system for negligently inflicted personal injury provoked a flurry of concerns from academics. A number of …
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Bodies of Correspondence in Contemporary Quebec: from Gabrielle Roy to le vrai Gab Roy
… the more recent imagining of the internet mischief-maker as “troll.” I analyze the recourse to the monstrum horrendum of the yeti and the troll in bodies of correspondence from Québec that are beholden to the masculine imaginary of epistolary fetishism.
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Articulating Value of Archaeological Resources After Damage, Archaeological Crime and the Archaeological Resources Protection Act
… as the Embezzlement and Theft, and Malicious Mischief federal statutes. In order to exercise these rights, federal land managers and archaeologists must know how to proceed upon detection of an archaeological violation. Specifically, there must be a thorough understanding of how to prepare an …
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Articulating Value of Archaeological Resources After Damage, Archaeological Crime and the Archaeological Resources Protection Act
… as the Embezzlement and Theft, and Malicious Mischief federal statutes. In order to exercise these rights, federal land managers and archaeologists must know how to proceed upon detection of an archaeological violation. Specifically, there must be a thorough understanding of how to prepare an …
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Looking for Thabang: my search for my lost brother
… QwaQwa when his brother was playful and full of mischief like any other teenager. But when he comes back home his brother is a total stranger. He does not say much about his time in exile as a freedom fighter. Instead, Thabang hurries back to his birthplace in Thaba Nchu to lay the wreaths on …
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Fashioning judicial remedies that work in a constitutional society – Establishing a framework for a functional approach to the awarding of constitutional damages in South African law and comparative jurisdictions
… looked at is the breach that has occurred, the ‘mischief’ that needs to be corrected, and the impact that such correction is intended to have. This would mean that there are instances where constitutional damages would remain appropriate despite the existence of a remedy in common law. This will …
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A few words on word recognition: investigating the role of morphology in reading
… for opaque pairs involving a prefix (e.g., mischief–CHIEF), as demonstrated by the results of Experiment 4. Experiment 5 examined interactions between stem frequency, affix productivity, and individual differences in language ability. It was found that words containing a relatively …
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Factors That Influence the Attrition of Mentors In Rural Areas
… activities, including gang involvement, criminal mischief and drug abuse. </p> <p>Insights gained from the present study will enable educators and program managers to refine their existing mentoring programs to augment sustained relationships between protégés and mentors and avoid the harm that …
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Liminal Butlers: Discussing a Comic Stereotype and the Progression of Class Distinctions in America
… their masters while also becoming sources of mischief as tricksters. In early American films, these characters embody the anxiety of a classless body of men who become scapegoats, trickster-figures, and mask-wearing sages in order to survive—attracting as many functions as possible in order to …
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