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In recent years renewed efforts have been made to enforce the edict of familyresponsibility, culminating in the enactment of the Child Support Act, 1991.Under this legislation, the duty of absent fathers to provide for their formerfamilies has been reinforced which great rigour.…

Composer Maurice Ravel was deeply affected by his experience as a truck-driving soldier in World War I (WWI). For the rest of his life, he never fully came out of the shadow of losing his friends in combat and his beloved mother during the same years. This study examines the imp…

Censorship has always been viewed by the American military as an essential weapon of warfare. The amounts, and types, of censorship deployed have varied from conflict to conflict. Censorship would reach a peak during America’s involvement in the First World War. The American mil…

My dissertation centers on literary representations of non-normative gender performances, the struggle around new gender norms, and the lived realities of gender in pre- and post-World War I (WWI) era France. The novels discussed in this study, L’Immoraliste (André Gide, 1902), …