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There is only one más: Spanish que/de comparative alternation

spellout . Dordrecht: Springer. Baker , Mark. 1988 . Incorporation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Bale , Alan. 2008 . A universal scale of comparison . Linguistics and Philosophy 31 : 1 - 55 . https ... : Indefiniteness and islands . Linguistics and Philosophy 43 : 427 - 472 . Chierchia , Gennaro. 1998 . Reference to kinds across language . Natural Language Semantics 6 ( 4 ): 339 - 405 . Chomsky , Noam. 1957

The Fuel for Neo-Nazism

holds. Political stability is hypothesized to be the root cause in far-right support in Germany (and lack thereof in Luxembourg), and the examples of Norway and Greece support this hypothesis. By ... ? Through an exploratory analysis of select European countries revealing the effects of political stability in recent years, one can understand the factors that create support for far-right extremist

The 1980 Moscow Olympic Boycott: Politics and the Public

political statements in favor of their own systems. President Carter was able to use the belief many Americans held that the U.S.S.R. was to be defeated and delegeitimized at every step to support a boycott ... came true in 1896 when the first modern Olympic games were held in Athens, Greece. De Coubertin’s vision was to foster international relations through sport that would transcend the petty political

A Century of Identity-Based Resistance: The Evolution of Islamism as a Political Movement

This research analyzes the evolution of Islamism, or political Islam, from its roots as a backlash to Western imperialism in the Middle East to its manifestation as Arab Nationalism up to 1967 to its ... , or holy war, against religious dissidents. The reality, however, is not so straightforward: the movement we know today as Islamism is the latest incarnation of a string of political movements in the

The WWI Middle East: Western Intervention and Modern-Day Political Conflict

reveals the agreements as demonstrative of deeper patterns of political power and strategy in the Middle East that persist today. This paper moreover compares the Middle East with the European colonization ... intensity of Arab claims to Palestine, demonstrating early stages of modern political attitudes and catalysts to the conflict of the modern day Middle East. The second pact made by Britain concerning the

A Critical Analysis of Amelioration and Inclusion by Katherine Jenkins

Jenkins Braden S. Ritchey 0 0 Part of the Applied Ethics Commons , Ethics and Political Philosophy Commons, Feminist, Gender Follow this and additional works at: https ... , (2) cis women would gain more power in the political sphere, and (3) it would invite all women to abandon their identity as a woman since it articulates “a negative ideal that challenges male dominance

A Close Look at the Relationship Between Poverty and Political Violence in Nepal

from the aftermath of the Maoist insurgency. This paper will seek to understand the role of poverty in the historically and presently unfolding political environment of Nepal. Several factors show direct ... caste, and to whom literacy is not a foreign concept. Nepal’s violent political environment is not a result of its brutal history, but rather its brutal poverty. Nepal has been an independent kingdom for

Taking Down Descartes Trademark: An objection to Descartes Ontological Argument

would know with certainty that I, as a philosophy major, could not be the total or efficient cause of the blueprint. I know I am not the creator of the blueprint because I don’t have the knowledge ... taking it apart using his own terms. What if I wanted to reject a point mentioned above-namely, that as a philosophy major, I lack the knowledge required to make a blueprint for a NASA supercomputer - but

The Right to Choose: Women's Political Activity in Islamic States

own choice or by oppression from her male-dominated society. This paper categorizes political activity into three types, from least active to most active: 1. political discourse and community-affiliated ... leaders (e.g., Yahoo! Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer) and women as political leaders (e.g., former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton). Both of these potentially highpowered and prominent roles would

On the Efficacy of Sanctions: Why Regimes and Motives Matter

the efficacy of sanctions extracting political concessions, sanctions are generally succeeding with more democratic regimes and fail with more autocratic regimes. As a symbolic tool sanctions often ... , and Jiawen Yang, ?Economic Sanctions: Examining Their Philosophy and Efficacy (Praeger Publishers , 2003 ), 191 . Susan Hannah Allen , ? Political Institutions and Constrained Response to Economic

Notas sobre el uso de la etnografía y la teoría fundamentada en ciencia política. Un análisis amplio de la participación política y el Estado en asentamientos informales de la periferia de Buenos Aires, Argentina

By examining the results obtained in the framework of a doctoral thesis on the political participation of people in informal settlements in the periphery of Buenos Aires (Argentina), this article ... periferia de Buenos Aires, Argentina1 Notes on the use of ethnography and grounded theory on political science. A broad analysis of political participation and the State in informal settlements on the

Greek non-negative min, epistemic modality, and positive bias

. Giannakidou , Anastasia, and Alda Mari . 2018 . The semantic roots of positive polarity: Epistemic modal verbs and adverbs . Linguistics and Philosophy 41 : 623 - 664 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-018- 9235 ... . Hans J. Eikmeyer and Hannes Rieser , 38 - 74 . Berlin: de Gruyter. Kratzer , Angelika. 1989 . An investigation of the lumps of thought . Linguistics and Philosophy 12 : 607 - 653 . Kratzer , Angelika

Changing Hearts: The Future of the Environmental Movement

personal level and the public policy level. In this paper, I argue that environmentalism must be modified to meet the needs of the general populace in order to gain momentum as a contemporary political ... oil spill has roused recent public interest in environmentalism. Second, I explore the unique capacity of faith communities in the United States to change hearts and unite believers into political

The Rise of Left-Wing Populism in Europe: A Comparative Study

The aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis left Europe in a state of shock, out of which political transitions occurred across the country. One of these transitions was the rise of left-wing populist ... substantive change that will remain imprinted in the political culture of Europe. Being this impactful to current European politics, it is surprising that academics have paid little attention to them, but this

Qohelet and Camus: Answering the Absurd

Albert Camus contributed greatly to the realm of philosophy with the promotion of absurdism—the school of thought hinging on the belief in the “absurd.” Essentially the divorce between man’s desire ... philosophy of the absurd?the clash between man and the universe. He examines our time spent on earth and discovers something at the human core. Man desires lucidity and cohesion, life and answers, yet is met

Twitter: a Platform for Political Discourse or Social Networking

are making their way to the mainstream general public. In this study, I examine a new political and media environment that encourages the interaction between the politically inattentive public and ... Political Discourse or Social Networking?” By Timothy Nguyen Previous research on new media has largely focused on the potential media effects of alternative news sources on their viewers. The effects of

Crude Awakening: The International Politics of Oil

Since its modern-day discovery in northwestern Pennsylvania in the 1850s, rock oil has revolutionized the modern international political economy. This natural resource quickly caught the attention of ... developed and developing states and in both oil-producing states and in oilconsuming states. For oil’s vitality in the landscape of the international political economy, competition to profit from it breeds

Mobilidades Urbanas, Espaços Públicos e Manifestações Populares: uma análise dos protestos ocorridos na cidade de Belo Horizonte entre 2012 e 2015

of political groups. Our finds show that urban mobility is not only a complex and extremely important political agenda, but that the very act of moving and / or interrupting the flow of movement of ... and / or interrupting the flow of movement of this city are fundamental strategies in the search for visibility and dissemination of political challenges on the public scene. Key words: urban mobility

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desire and imagination. Finally, relying on political philosophy, Nelson Cuchumbé Holguín discusses how constitutional legal discourse has shaped in problematic ways the idea of ethnic diversity in ... understand them as expressions of the submerged memories that are hidden in the silence of the affected populations and, therefore, as mechanisms of political action in the midst of war. We close this issue

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desire and imagination. Finally, relying on political philosophy, Nelson Cuchumbé Holguín discusses how constitutional legal discourse has shaped in problematic ways the idea of ethnic diversity in ... understand them as expressions of the submerged memories that are hidden in the silence of the affected populations and, therefore, as mechanisms of political action in the midst of war. We close this issue