. . lies between pride and abjection. Average Pertaining to an average or mean; medial; containing a mean proportion; of a mean size, quality, ability, etc.; ordinary; usual; as, an average rate of profit; an average amount of rain; the average Englishman; beings of the average stamp....
“sticking” or “cudgelling”.Boiscíncan be translated as “fencing” according to the 1977 dictionary of Niall Ó Dónaill. This relation to fencing does not necessarily mean a connection to sword-fighting; as fencing could be used at the time to denote other martial arts aside from ...
Review of the Medical Literature Here are key anchor points to the extensive scientific literature that establishes that wearing surgical masks and respirators (e.g., “N95”) does not reduce the risk of contracting a verified illness: Jacobs, J. L. et al. (2009) “Use of surgical face m...
A motivation for the empirical studies of gendered violence I have undertaken has been to ask: what difference does it make to shift the focus to the ‘what’ of the problem, not the ‘who’ is (usually) impacted, and to employ the concept of GRV? The following section describes a proje...
Kristeva notes: Self-abjection "is experienced at the peak of its strength when that subject, weary of fruitless attempts to identify with something on the outside, finds the impossible within; when it finds that the impossible constitutes its very being, that it is none other than abject". ...