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Diabolik is a fictional character, an Anti-hero featured in Italian comics. He was created by sisters Angela and Luciana Giussani in 1962. His stories appear in monthly black and white digest-sized booklets. The character was inspired by several previous characters from Italian and French pulp fiction.
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Prominent theorists have decried the 'death' of comparative literature and have pronounced the beginning of a new era 'after' its great theoretical models. The titles of Gayatri Spivak's Death of a Discipline1 and Terry Eagleton's After Theory2 epitomise these provocative arguments. Is comparative literature dead?
Emotional labor
Work managing feelings and expressions Emotional labor is the process of managing feelings and expressions to fulfill the emotional requirements of a job.[1][2] More specifically, workers are expected to regulate their emotions during interactions with customers, co-workers and superiors. This includes analysis and decision making in terms of the expression of emotion, whether actually felt or not, as well as its opposite: the suppression of emotions that are felt but not expressed.
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A week after NASA's top climate scientist complained that the space agency's public-affairs office was trying to silence his statements on global warming, the agency's administrator, Michael D. Griffin, issued a sharply worded statement yesterday calling for "scientific openness" throughout the agency. "It is not the job of public-affairs officers," Dr.
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It assesses the ways in which American counter-terrorism agencies are working to combat terrorist groups. In the narrative, Suskind criticizes the Bush administration for formulating its terrorism policies based on political goals rather than geopolitical realities. The title comes from a story within the book in which Vice President Dick Cheney describes the Bush administration's doctrine on dealing with terrorism:[3]
Superfluous man
The superfluous man will often attempt to manipulate, control or enslave other individuals. Because he has no integrity or ambitions, he is often self-serving and sees little point to being a benefactor or helping others. He will often carelessly try to manipulate, degrade or pacify individuals within the society; in order to gain more comfort and security. The character type originates in Alexander Pushkin's verse-novel Eugene Onegin (1825–32). This term was popularized by Ivan Turgenev's novella The Diary of a Superfluous Man (1850) and was thereafter applied to characters from earlier novels.[1] Mikhail Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time (1840) depicts another superfluous man – Pechorin – as its protagonist.
Parse tree
A related concept is that of phrase marker or P-marker, as used in transformational generative grammar. A phrase marker is a linguistic expression marked as to its phrase structure. This may be presented in the form of a tree, or as a bracketed expression. Phrase markers are generated by applying phrase structure rules, and themselves are subject to further transformational rules.[2] A set of possible parse trees for a syntactically ambiguous sentence is called a "parse forest
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Textile made from condensed fibers Samples of felt in different colours Felt in Maymand, Kerman Province, Iran Felt is a textile material that is produced by matting, condensing and pressing fibers together. Felt can be made of natural fibers such as wool or animal fur, or from synthetic fibers such as petroleum-based acrylic or acrylonitrile or wood pulp-based rayon.
Kudzu in the United States
Kudzu is an invasive plant species in the United States. Its introduction has produced devastating environmental consequences.[1] This has earned it the nickname "the vine that ate the South". It has been spreading rapidly in the southern U.S., "easily outpacing the use of herbicide spraying and mowing, as well increasing the costs of these controls by $6 million annually".[2] Estimates of the vine's spread vary, from the United States Forest Service's 2015 estimate of 2,500 acres (1,000 ha - 10 km²) per year[3] to the Department of Agriculture's estimate of as much as 150,000 acres (61,000 ha - 610 km²) annually.[4] History and biology[edit] Description[edit]
Antoinette Frank
American former police officer on death row Antoinette Renee Frank (born April 30, 1971) is a former New Orleans police officer who, on March 4, 1995, committed a violent armed robbery at a restaurant which resulted in the killing of two members of the family who ran from the establishment, and fellow New Orleans Police Department officer Ronald A. Williams II. She was aided by an accomplice, a drug dealer and probable lover, Rogers Lacaze. Frank is the only woman on death row in Louisiana, at the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women in St. Gabriel, Louisiana.
Len Davis
Former New Orleans police officer on death row Len Davis (born 1964)[5][6] is a former New Orleans police officer. He was convicted of depriving civil rights through murder by conspiring with an assassin to kill a local resident.[7] Police career[edit] Davis was known in the community as "Robocop" due to his large size and the "Desire terrorist" due to his aggressive policing style.[8] He had a reputation as both a good and bad cop.
