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  Hey, remember that one time the New Yorker tried to ruin Obama with a cartoon?

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  Craig O. Stewart Old Dominion University

  February 12, 2009

  Clinton and/or AIPAC) evidence of progressive paranoia that conservatives had not been winning elections ... pessimistic about its ability to win elections. ...
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  Redemption, Privilege and Identification: the Narrative of Michael Vick’s Return to Atlanta

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  Bryce McNeil Georgia State University

  November 29, 2011

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  straight winning seasons, one might assume that Matt Ryan would be iconic in Atlanta.  Yet he remains in ... “ revolutionary ” athleticism is a far bigger draw for a city reputed to “ love its freaks.”   Ryan wins with ...
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  Ice Bucket Challenge Accepted

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  Eleanor Huntington University of Southern California

  December 09, 2014

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  the ice bucket challenge provided a win-win for stars by presenting a socially committed star persona ...
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  Shut Out of the Shining City On a Hill: "The Golden Girls" and the Plight of the Homeless in 1980s America

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  Thomas J. West III Syracuse University

  March 11, 2016

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  the four women procure a winning lottery ticket, which Blanche stores in her new jacket. ... (which occurs immediately following this scene), has the women donate their winning lottery ticket to the ...
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  "The best thing about human beings is that they stack so neatly": Spectatorship and Platform Performativity from the White House to House of Cards

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  Molly C. Beer Mount Holyoke College

  August 27, 2016

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  order to win (a claim regularly made about our real candidates). The FU2016 campaign itself is equally ... is, it literally adjusted its platform to win viewers. The FU2016 campaign therefore operates as ...
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  "Like a good detective": Generic Hybridity on ABC's How to Get Away with Murder

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  Geoffrey Henry Georgia State University

  October 23, 2016

  about the crime. Her unraveling of this mystery consequently allows Annalise to win her court case. In ... a detective” to win their cases. Works Cited Asimow, Michael. “Dramatic Lawyer Series: The Genre.” Lawyers in ...
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  Variable Authorship in the Social Film

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  Marina Hassapopoulou New York University

  November 07, 2016

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  between corporations and consumers is the award-winning online mini-series The Beauty Inside (2012), ... directed by Drake Doremus, and the 26 winning entries are prominently displayed on a Toshiba Portégé ...
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  All Too Superhuman

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  Tyler Zoanni New York University

  March 10, 2018

  prize-winning 2012 Paralympics trailer. While the earlier ad featured only athletes, the 2016 iteration shows ... people doing ordinary things as well. “Yes, I can”: drive a racecar, win a race, dance with verve. But ...
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  Defeating Sheng Long: How a Mistranslation Changed the Canon of a Franchise

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  Argyrios Emmanouloudis University of Amsterdam

  March 19, 2018

  game was translated in English, the localization team mistranslated Ryu’s winning quote “If you cannot ... overcome the Rising Dragon Punch, you cannot win!”, to “You must defeat Sheng Long to stand a chance”. This ...
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  Re: The Disincentives to Combat Concussions in Professional Sports

  Miscellaneous Disincentives

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  David Castillo Medical Instructor, HeadKickLegend.com

  Thursday, May 26, 2011 — 5:22 am

  Sock'Em robots. For an athlete making just 10,000 to show, and an extra 10,000 if they win, there's ... postseason win an extra few thousand dollars, whiler winners can make up to 80+ thousand per man. Nothing ...

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