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Economic sanctions and corporate compliance: A game-theoretic model
(1999)
This paper examines the question of when economic sanctions will be effectively instituted by states by looking at the role of the multinational corporation in the sanctioning process. Although governments have resources ...
Affinities of forms: Chinese poets and Pope, Pound, Eliot and Williams
(1988)
Despite the tremendous linguistic particularities and cultural differences, Chinese poetry shares some formal and technical similarity with Anglo-American poetry. Through an effective use of the couplet-based verse form ...
Ben Shahn's Sunday Paintings: Explanations for his shift from social realism to personal realism
(1999)
Ben Shahn's 1940 solo exhibition of his so-called "Sunday Paintings" at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York manifested a transformation that had occurred in his art during the 1930s. Both the formal language and the subject ...
Forging the rapier among scythes: Lieutenant-General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien and the Aldershot Command 1907-1912
(1980)
When the Boer War ended in 1902, Great Britain began to analyze
her extremely poor performance in that conflict. For decades, her
army had accomplished its assigned missions on numerous colonial campaigns
and expeditions. ...
Parental scripting and inherited disfunction: A Transactional Analysis of Mauriac's "La Pharisienne" (France)
(1989)
Unconvinced of Emile Glenisson's theory that all Mauriac's characters are but one person with an emotionally arrested development, we took Mauriac's novel, La Pharisienne, and studied its ten principal characters, not only ...
La alquibla novelistica de Juan Goytisolo (Spanish text)
(1994)
El presente trabajo es una investigacion de los elementos arabes en Reivindicacion del Conde don Julian de Juan Goytisolo, tomando como punto de partida la perspectiva critica de Americo Castro y Edward Said.
El objeto ...
'And so, enquire the difference': Gender, land, and social change in twelfth and thirteenth century England, a study of maritagium and fee tail
(1992)
The maritagium and the gift in tail were conditional gifts by which land from the patrimony might be provided to daughters and younger sons while ensuring that when such cadet branches failed the land would return to the ...
Spirituality, discernment and tradition in Ignatius Loyola, Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross
(1992)
This thesis examines the process of discernment as described by three Spanish Catholic mystics of the sixteenth century: Ignatius Loyola (1492-1556), Teresa of Avila (1515-1582), and John of the Cross (1542-1591). Discernment ...
Un analisis linguistico del castellano antiguo del "Poema de Mio Cid" (Spanish text)
(1996)
El castellano antiguo que se encuentra en el Poema de Mio Cid es una variedad bastante distinta de la que existe hoy en dia. Ha habido cambios morfologicos, fonologicos y sintacticos en la evolucion de muchas palabras ...
L'image du souverain dans Racine: Une etude de classe, race et genre (French text)
(1992)
This thesis studies the image of the sovereign in Racine through the three notions through which social power is gained: class, race and gender.
Racine, torn between his duty to work for the glory of Louis XIV, and the ...