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From Mjölnir to the Crucifix examines the Vikings’ conversion from paganism to Christianity. It explores factors such as political alliances, parallels in religious texts, and similarities in lifestyles in search of motivation for this religious…

Ian Hacking posits that the looping effect is occurring within the social sciences and it is causing scientists to change their object of study as they study it. As social scientists classify humans based on behavior, they create a new reality for…

This study examined 80 short stories written by Caucasian male and female short story authors in the later part of the 19th century. Results indicate that while males and females did not have specifically different styles, the topics on which they…

This paper focuses on Adam Smith’s “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, which was published in 1776 and continues to be a highly regarded contribution to economic theory. Through comparing Smith’s ideas on topics such as…

Wild and captive grey wolves (Canis lupus) not only live in different habitats, but they also have different necessary survival activities. These differences give rise to questions concerning exhibit familiarity and the correlation with activity…

Householder plays on the absurd and the uncanny to elevate the work of the housewife. It lays bare the domestic toil that frequently goes unnoticed by pitting landscape and household familiarities against each other in search of agent and origin. In…