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Alternating chapters follow the mysterious connection between a homesick English girl living in present-day America and an eleven-year-old boy serving in the British Royal Navy in 1803, aboard the H.M.S. Victory, commanded by Admiral Horatio Nelson.
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Lovecidal: Walking with the Disappeared
In this new work, renowned feminist filmmaker and postcolonial theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha offers a lyrical, philosophical meditation on the global state of endless war and the violence inflicted by the imperial need to claim victory. She discusses the rise of the police state as linked, for example, to U.S. military intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan, or to China's occupation of Tibet, examining legacies of earlier campaigns and the residual effects of the war on terror. She also takes up the shifting dynamics of peoples' resistance to acts of militarism and surveillance as well as social media and its capacity to inform and mobilize citizens around the world. At once an engaging treatise and a creative gesture, Lovecidal probes the physical and psychic conditions of the world and shows us a society that is profoundly heartsick. Taking up with those who march both as and for the oppressedwho walk with the disappeared to help carry them forwardTrinh T. Minh-ha engages the spiritual and affective dimensions of a civilization organized around the rubrics of nonstop governmental subjugation, economic austerity, and highly technologized military conflict. In doing so, she clears a path for us to walk upon. Along with our every step, the world of the disappeared lives on.
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Victory
Alternating chapters follow the mysterious connection between a homesick English girl living in present-day America and an eleven-year-old boy serving in the British Royal Navy in 1803, aboard the H.M.S. Victory, commanded by Admiral Horatio Nelson.
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Cultivating Victory
During the First and Second World Wars, food shortages reached critical levels in the Allied nations. The situation in England, which relied heavily on imports and faced German naval blockades, was particularly dire. Government campaigns were introduced in both Britain and the United States to recruit individuals to work on rural farms and to raise gardens in urban areas. These recruits were primarily women, who readily volunteered in what came to be known as Women's Land Armies. Stirred by national propaganda campaigns and a sense of adventure, these women, eager to help in any way possible, worked tirelessly to help their nations grow \"victory gardens\" to win the war against hunger and fascism. In vacant lots, parks, backyards, between row houses, in flowerboxes, and on farms, groups of primarily urban, middle-class women cultivated vegetables along with a sense of personal pride and achievement.InCultivating Victory,Cecilia Gowdy-Wygant presents a compelling study of the sea change brought about in politics, society, and gender roles by these wartime campaigns. As she demonstrates, the seeds of this transformation were sown years before the First World War by women suffragists and international women's organizations. Gowdy-Wygant profiles the foundational organizations and significant individuals in Britain and America, such as Lady Gertrude Denman and Harriet Stanton Blatch, who directed the Women's Land Armies and fought to leverage the wartime efforts of women to eventually win voting rights and garner new positions in the workforce and politics.In her original transnational history, Gowdy-Wygant compares and contrasts the outcomes of war in both nations as seen through changing gender roles and women's ties to labor, agriculture, the home, and the environment. She sheds new light on the cultural legacies left by the Women's Land Armies and their major role in shaping national and personal identities.
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The victory garden
\"As the Great War continues to take its toll, headstrong twenty-one-year-old Emily Bryce is determined to contribute to the war effort. She is convinced by a cheeky and handsome Australian pilot that she can do more, and it is not long before she falls in love with him and accepts his proposal of marriage. When he is sent back to the front, Emily volunteers as a 'land girl,' tending to the neglected grounds of a large Devonshire estate. It's here that Emily discovers the long-forgotten journals of a medicine woman who devoted her life to her herbal garden. The journals inspire Emily, and in the wake of devastating news, they are her saving grace. Emily's lover has not only died a hero but has left her terrified--and with child. Since no one knows that Emily was never married, she adopts the charade of a war widow. As Emily learns more about the volatile power of healing with herbs, the found journals will bring her to the brink of disaster, but may open a path to her destiny\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The impact of rapid weight regain groupings on fight outcomes in professional mixed martial arts
Background Rapid weight regain (RWRG) following official weigh-ins is a common practice among professional Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) athletes. While prior studies have examined weight regain across weight classes, few have explored outcomes based on percentage groupings of regained weight. Understanding whether RWRG affects fight performance or method of victory may offer valuable insight for athlete preparation and regulatory policy.Methods A total of 308 professional MMA bouts were analyzed using public records. All weigh-ins were supervised by the California State Athletic Commission (CSAC) with a commission-calibrated scale. Fighters were categorized into five groups based on the percentage of weight regained between weigh-in and competition: <3% (Low), 3–6% (Low-Moderate), 6–9% (Moderate), 9–12% (Moderate-High), and >12% (High). Chi-square tests assessed the association between weight regain group and both overall fight outcome (win vs. loss) and method of victory (KO/TKO, submission, decision). Statistical significance was set at p ≤ 0.05.Results Chi-square analysis revealed a significant association between weight regain group and method of victory (χ2 = 16.345, p = 0.038). Fighters who regained a higher percentage of body weight were more likely to win by KO/TKO, while those with minimal regain tended to win by decision. No significant association was found between weight regain group and overall fight outcome (χ2 = 8.070, p = 0.089). No other significant results were observed (p ≥ 0.05).Conclusion Categorizing MMA athletes by rapid weight regain percentage highlights differences in how fights are won, but not who wins. Fighters regaining a higher percentage of weight were more likely to win by KO/TKO, while those with minimal regain more often won by decision. These findings suggest that weight regain may influence fight style or pace but does not predict victory. Fight outcomes likely depend on other factors such as technique, training, and mental preparation. Future research should examine the physiological effects of RWRG and its implications for performance, policy, and athlete health.
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Lily's victory garden
Lily gets permission to plant a Victory Garden at the house next door, where the Bishops' son has died in the war, and slowly the garden helps Mrs. Bishop recover from her grief.
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Rethinking rebel victory in civil war
Research on civil war termination typically classifies conflict outcomes into homogeneous categories. Civil wars are conventionally described as ending in ‘victory’ for one side, ‘negotiated settlement’, or ‘stalemate’. However, each of these common categories conceals a significant degree of unexplored variation. Not all peace processes are the same, nor should we assume equivalence between all ‘victory’ outcomes. Ignoring the variability in outcomes obscures our understanding of how civil wars actually end and can undermine efforts to examine how this may influence the sustainability of the ensuing peace. This article focuses on the concept of rebel victory and argues that it has been used to describe a wide range of civil war outcomes that share some features but that also differ along three dimensions: (i) the residual threat posed by the defeated regime; (ii) the role of external actors in enabling victory; and (iii) rebel fragmentation . The article describes these dimensions and the influence that they can exert on the likelihood of continued political instability in the aftermath of rebel victories. The examples of rebel victories in the Central African Republic (2003 and 2012) are used to demonstrate the analytical utility of this novel conceptualisation of rebel victory.
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Roman victory propaganda – Revelation’s response: A historical and theological study
The believers of Christ in the 1st century AD find themselves in a difficult situation. On one hand, they receive the gospel about Jesus’ victory over the world. On the other hand, they witnessed the power and dominance of the Roman Empire through its propaganda. The Book of Revelation comes with a message to comfort Christians torn between these two realities. It uses the Roman symbolism of victory and transforms it to answer the Roman propaganda. Thus, Revelation creates a powerful and vivid message to convince the reader that God is the supreme and only ruler of the world, and Christ triumphs over every power, even the invincible Roman Empire.ContributionThe Roman influence on the Revelation is unquestionable and not elaborated exhaustingly enough to this date. This study aims to show how the Book of Revelation uses elements of Roman ideology to create a Christian response to the propaganda of the empire and to give its readers an important message about God’s ultimate victory.
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The research of the mental states of expecting a victory in men minifootball teams
The study examines the mental states of expecting a victory in men mini-football teams by means of content analysis (n=248) and factor analysis of mental states of expectations of sportsmen-footballers (n=128). The mental states of expecting a victory are important regulators of the sporting activity of its participants. The understanding of footballers' mental states of expectations by their coaches affects the choice of the game guidelines and strategy, determines the content characteristics of tactical and technical training and operationalizes the training process of footballers. The purpose is to investigate the structure, variables and interdependence of the factors of footballers' mental states of expecting a victory. Research methods: content analysis, tests with standardized questionnaires, factor analysis. Factor analysis was used to determine the structure of the mental states of expecting a victory. The main factor in this structure is F1 \"value and sense self-regulation of a victory\" (19.04%), correlated with F2 \"pragmatic self-regulation of a victory\" (rs=.424; p≪01) and F3 \"convergence of a victory\" (rs=.362; p≪01). The obtained results can be useful for coaches, sporting directors, for those dealing with training, for managers of mini-football and football clubs and also for the researchers in the area of psychology of physical education and sports.
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