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Fight to the finish!
When he finds himself in the grips of a criminal plot that threatens to destroy San Fransokyo, robotics prodigy Hiro Hamada joins forces with a reluctant team of first-time crime fighters on a mission to save the city.
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Worlds of “Un-knowledge”: Dystopian Patterns in Primo Levi's Short Stories
In Primo Levi, the witness to Auschwitz and the narrator of science fiction emerged at the same time. Science fiction was an intrinsic part of his identity as a writer. This article focuses on Primo Levi's dystopian works and examines characters who are not aware of their context and situations in which human nature is subjected to manipulation. In doing so, this study reveals the relationship Levi develops between his experience in concentration camps and his fictional dystopias.
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Iron Man
\"Read the complete adventures that turned Tony Stark into the hero Iron Man.\"--Page 4 of cover.
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Descriptive Lists and List Descriptions
Taking inspiration from Deborah Schiffrin's Approaches to Discourse, the analysis of lists in this article proposes a criterion for distinguishing descriptions from lists by claiming that the more list-like descriptions are, the more clearly they have an opening and closing categorial frame. A second thesis concerns the comparative difference in function between literary and non-literary lists, though fictional discourse may include argumentative lists and embed inventories and list-related factual genres. Illustrations are taken from the nineteenth-century novel, especially Dickens. It is also claimed that Dickens's lists arguably mark a shift from more pedestrian descriptive enumeration to stylistic exuberance and anticipate postmodernist experiments in the self-reflexive and ludic utilization of lists.
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Katherine of Aragon: Marriage, Scholarship and Remembrance
This masters by research observes how the scholarship and political successes of women in Tudor England are undermined by the overwhelming importance of marriage. This will be shown through the case study of Katherine of Aragon, who was a highly acclaimed and virtuous woman of her time. Katherine’s unusual education led her to be active in political capacities usually expected of men. These included being chosen to represent Spain as the first Ambassadress of Europe and later counsel the young King Henry VIII in foreign policy and be entrusted as his regent in 1513. Perhaps because of her foreign status, or her intellectual merit, Katherine succeeded as a queen consort, surpassing what was expected of her as a political tool of democracy.Instead, Katherine is often remembered as the loyal and stubborn first wife of Henry VIII, divorced for her inability to bear Henry a surviving son and heir. Unlike Castile, England was not ready for a female regnant monarch that Katherine had seen rule first-hand and having no male heir would lead to her downfall. As Katherine realised this, she became more concerned with the education of her only daughter, Mary. Katherine enlisted the help of humanist scholars to ensure that Mary would receive the ‘New Learning’ as it became known in England, so that she would receive a new view of the classics which combined their study with the importance of religion. This method became the set way for future monarchs, and this can be attributed to Katherine.The first chapter will look at Katherine’s contemporaneous presentation through her representation which survives on artifacts and portraits made during her reign and the iconography surrounding her emblem of the pomegranate. The second chapter will look at recreations of Katherine in verse, plays and artworks, beginning with recreations made closest to her death, continuing to the Victorian era. The last chapter will look at modern recreations of Katherine within films and historical fiction and her annual commemoration. This thesis will look at how Katherine’s memory has changed over time and show that her scholarly and political achievements have been overshadowed by the dynamics of her turbulent life and the romantic reputation of her marriages.
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From the Editor-in-Chief
The effects of this single event on acquisition principles, and World War II overall, can be seen in today's U.S. national security enterprise and the symbiotic relationship between the Army and the nation's industrial base. Army acquisition, at the direction of the Honorable Douglas R. Bush, assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology (ASA(ALT)), is not only able to supply Ukraine with additional artillery, munitions, body armor, night vision devices, tanks (coming soon) and thousands of wheeled and tracked vehicles, but can do so while simultaneously accelerating arms production output, restocking supplies and staying on track across more than 500 acquisition programs, with 30 programs in the middle tier of acquisition (to rapidly develop fieldable prototypes), 24 in the rapid prototyping phase, six rapid fielding initiatives and several new software acquisition programs in planning and execution phase. Learn how the Vaccine Acceleration by Modular Progression program was designed to accelerate the delivery of interim and full capabilities against priority \"viral\" threats and enhance the warfighter's biological body armor.
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The Deconstruction of the Enlightenment in Mark Twain's \A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court\ (1889)
The aim of all hermeneutic criticism, whether derived from formal- ism or cultural studies, is to find and place the author; the incessant efforts of Twain's critics are especially striking, pressing as they do on questions of whether he \"belongs\" in the canon or in libraries, or whether his books can be made to \"work\" in the classroom.1 Still, readers of Twain's earliest stories might be forgiven for wondering whether these continuing quests to fix might have been anticipated and allegorized in Twain's fiction all along - for example, in the frustration of the unnamed listener/narrator of \"Jumping Frog\" at being suckered by the elusive tale-teller Simon Wheeler. In particular, Morgan's encounter with medievalism dramatizes the struggle to recognize what Derrida calls the tout autre; his experiences show us that he is just as incapable of doing that as the listener/narrator of Jumping Frog or any of the 'Twains of the travel books and novels.6 Like them, Morgan relies upon an Enlightenment hermeneutics whose failures leave him and the reader in a textualized world of unattached signs, a Derridean postal world far more disorienting than Berkeleyan idealism or solipsism, since even the idea of the self is deprived of authenticity.7 The Bullet-Hole in the Armor: Or, Narrative Nothingness A Connecticut Yankee opens with Twain the tourist and surrogate for the reader examining a hole in chain-mail armor.
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“Hegemony Protected by the Armour of Coercion”: Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest and the State
This article argues that Dashiell Hammett's 1929 novel Red Harvest is best understood in the context of the consolidation and expansion of the US state following the First World War and the Russian Revolution. It also argues that Hammett's novel constitutes a highly significant articulation of theoretical debates about the nature of political authority and state power in the modern era and speaks about the transition of one state formation to another. Insofar as Red Harvest explores the way in which the state's coercive and ethical character are bound up together, this article argues that Hammett's novel draws upon an understanding of political authority and state power primarily derived from Gramsci, via Marx. Gramsci insists that control cannot be maintained through force alone (and his conception of hegemony, in turn, suggests a power bloc that can become fragmented and disunited in a war of position). In the same way, Red Harvest traces the transformation of the “economic-corporate” state into the expanded or “ethical” State but crucially any ethical dimension, as Gramsci notes, is always beholden to the needs of the capitalist economy. As such, the apparently arbitrary bloodshed in the novel is conceived as a relatively minor realignment in the ranks of the capitalist classes – certainly less serious than the miners' strike that prefigures the novel. What makes this realignment significant is that it calls attention to the state both as repressive and as a site of conflict and compromise. Here, the work performed by the Continental Op and by the crime novel in general – simultaneously buttressing and, to some extent, contesting the power of the state – needs to be understood as part of the process by which the state is consistently enacting hegemony (albeit protected by the armour of coercion). The article concludes by pointing out that while Gramsci is perhaps too willing to dwell upon the state's expanded reach, Red Harvest is more interested in examining possible “cracks and fissures” in the state formation, even if the critique it ultimately offers goes nowhere and yields nothing.
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