The Cold War context simmers, of course, encoded into the themes of factional antagonism and rivalry, spheres of influence, wars of rhetoric, spies, lookalikes, and sabotage missions. The fraught UN meetings evoke the tense bloc standoffs of the 1950s, with Dave proving an unexpectedly pithy ...
When we first meet Marianne, it is the 1950’s, she is fifteen, the only child of regular middle class parents from a semi-rural district in southern England and in her prime for falling helplessly in love with the boy who is paying her attention, Simon Hurst. They are both coming to ...
Kristin Thompson - From Hobbits to Hollywood: Essays on Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings", and: The Lord of the Rings: Popular Culture in Global Context (review) - Tolkien Studies 4 From Hobbits to Hollywood (hereafter From Hobbits ) focuses on interpretive studies of the film itself; ...
Belief in dragons has united humanity more than the belief in any other mythological creature. From China and Japan, through Southeast Asia, India and the Middle East, to Europe and even Central America, the image of the dragon has burned brightly in the imaginations of our forefathers. Even ...
1 HISTORY IN THE LANGUAGE: THE VOCABULARY AS A HISTORICAL REPOSITORY Here, therefore, is the first distemper [imbalance] of learning, when men study words and not matter. Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning (1605) It has only just begun to dawn on us that in our own language alone...
Informal payments in the health sector are an important focus of this study. It is known that in some countries there is a well-defined cultural and historical context, which often does not equate to any form of corruption or bribery. Several researchers have pointed out that there is a very...
The juxtaposition of civilized agricultural societies with steppe nomads and seafaring communities within the Eurasian context also provoked 2 other comparatively slender migration patterns that nonetheless played important parts in historic development. One was military and the other mercantile. The barbarian...
The historical areas are frequently early-developed districts in the city. Due to the urban modernization, the cultural heritages composed the historical area are demolished and then replaced by communal facilities to upgrade the urban faculties. However, the urban context is the outcome of the ...
Jenkins's "Young Adult Novels with Gay/Lesbian Characters and Themes, 1969-92" in a twenty-first century context enables "a historical understanding of what has and has not changed in the explicit and implicit messages to several ... Weldy,Lance - 《Lion & the Unicorn》 被引量: 0发表: ...
While many have approached deliberative methods as tools potentially separable from their political and philosophical underpinnings, it is important to acknowledge their rootedness in this broader intellectual context, which shapes the methods in crucial ways. Such inquiry is especially indicated when we ...