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  Getting Interpersonal in the Dungeon

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  Ian Borton Aquinas College

  October 16, 2019

  and you must earn a minimum of 8000 points to win permission to take the final exam.   To explain how ... and scores of ways students can earn the required points. In my course, quests are assessed pass/fail ...
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  Earnest Money: The Politics, Power, and Promise of Black College Completion

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  Steven Francisco

  February 14, 2023

  FX Atlanta’s Earnest Marks is sampled from a familiar song: Earn’s struggles as a provider because he ... dropped out of college. The bass line upon which the story develops is the divergent path of Earn, who ... does not survive Princeton, from Earn the “fine ivy league husband” of Season 1’s Juneteenth episode. ...
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  The Importance of Not Being Earnest

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  Natasha Ori Bailey Georgia State University

  February 15, 2023

  Donald Glover’s Earnest, called throughout the series by his nickname “Earn”, struggles with survival ... do the same. Earn has an instinct for self-preservation; E. does not. Earn is presented throughout ... Earn is visibly annoyed. “You didn’t even bail me out when I was actually in jail.” Earn insists on ...
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  Authenticity, The Academy, and the Commodification of Activism: How Oscar Acceptance Becomes Political Platform

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  Ryan Castillo University of Denver

  February 27, 2013

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  celebrities.  Since Marlon Brando's 1973 Academy Best Actor win for The Godfather and his controversial ... Sean Penn’s Best Actor win for Milk where he deemed Academy voters “Comi-Homo-loving ... sons-of-guns;" or Hillary Swank's call for "uniting through difference" in her win for the ...
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  You Write It! Or, The L Word Is Labor

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  Julie Levin Russo Stanford University

  September 21, 2009

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  a movie-within-a-TV-show that campily remixed The L Word 's early seasons. Molly's scene earned its winning vote ... Molly or the Wall Street Journal 's winning interviewee. Chaiken's equivalence effaces the ...
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  Flyting and Charisma in Assassin's Creed Valhalla

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  Steve Spence Clayton State University

  August 30, 2021

  described as a Viking rap battle. In the gameplay recorded in the accompanying video, Eivor wins a flyting ... challenge from the NPC Jungulf, earning both gold and a charisma bump. With the gold—as in dozens of similar ...
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  An Award without Ceremony: The Critics' Consensus

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  Karen Petruska University of California, Santa Barbara

  September 16, 2011

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  requirement that a program must earn a two-thirds (2/3) consensus from the critics to win. Though “consensus” ...
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  Strike a (Masculine) Pose: Queering Hip-hop

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  Scott Poulson-Bryant Harvard University

  April 14, 2011

  2 comments

  performing their boyness for other boys, striking poses, earning points in the competition for realness that ... their finest “straight” boy apparel, trying to pass for butch to win the prize. What is hiphop, ...
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  Re: Idiot Media: The Culture of NekNomination Videos

  Noms vs. Neks

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  Andrea K. Brooks The University of British Columbia

  Thursday, April 3, 2014 — 5:55 pm

  etc.) to earn an extreme reaction from their selected judges (their friend database). It would seem that ... no competition to win, only attention to be gained. As with everything else that gains notoriety on ...
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  Re: The NBA, FanDuel, and the New Betting Economy of Sports Television

  I wonder if we can categorize

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  Michael Blight North Central College

  Wednesday, March 28, 2018 — 2:02 pm

  winning; (2) people who want to win first, but are rooting for their favorite team's success; (3) ... people who want "their team" to win first, but winning in fantasy is cool, too; (4) etc. Your ... payouts. The euphoric experience of winning a bit pot certainly tugs at positive affect. On the other hand, ...

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