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The dissertation refutes the definition of Bildung as the free development of an individual to his/her organic totality by showing that Bildung ideals are socially constructed. What is universal in the achievement of these socially determined characteristics of Bildung is the re…

This study examines the role of rhetoric in two early accounts of the conquest of Mexico: Hernan Cortes's Cartas de relacion (1519-1526) and Francisco Lopez de Gomara's Historia de la conquista de Mexico (1552). Although rhetoric, understood in Aristotelian terms, owes allegianc…

Amazons break the culturally encoded feminine silence when they enter the masculine spheres of battle and governance. They may be either warriors or women, but not both. Their androgyny explodes the male-female polarity: they are both and neither. The Amazons become a third opti…

\betaS-chromosome haplotypes are peculiar to specific regions of Africa and Asia, and, are associated with different levels of fetal hemoglobin in sickle cell patients. Among these haplotypes, \betaS-chromosomes found in the Senegal and the Saudi-Indian regions are associated wi…