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Delve into the historical journey 'To America'. Explore early voyages, encounters, and the foundational narratives that shaped the New World. Uncover the origins of the Americas.

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Post-9/11 Dilemma over the Priority of National Security or Civil Liberties in Marvel Comics (2001-2004)

The article contains an analysis of comics from Marvel Comics, published between the second half of 2001 and the end of 2004. With the mixed methods approach (quantitative and qualitative research), the criterion for the analysis is appear...

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The Squash that Conquered America: Pumpkin Symbolism in the United States

Pumpkin has always played an important role in American culture. Throughout history, it carried a plethora of meanings and connotations. Since European arrival to the New World, the meaning of the squash changed drastically from a product...

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Food Is Different During the Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has left no area of human life unaffected and the food system in its global, regional, or micro manifestations is not an exception. The images of empty store shelves caused by lockdowns stirred a lot of anxiety among...

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Primeiro Comando da Capital and Comando Vermelho

The era of the military junta left a legacy of draconian laws and inhumane prison conditions. The lack of effective reforms led to the rise of the prison gangs Comando Vermelho in the city of Rio de Janeiro and Primeiro Comando da Capital...

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The American Revolutionary Spirit

The formation of Whitman’s poetics can be explained from various perspectives: mystical experience, Transcendentalism, politics, sexuality, and so on. Among these factors, the essay aims to study Whitman’s poetics in the context of politic...

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Eviction Moratorium in the New York State During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The work aims to analyze and compare the development of the legal solutions for the eviction crisis that were introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic in the New York State by each branch of the authorities. The issue will be studied by ana...

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Québec Separatism in the Polish Weekly Newspaper Czas [Polish Times]

Some processes in every country’s history are significant and well-known to any scholar who is interested in the subject. In the history of Canada, there are many processes of this kind, for example relations with the Indigenous People or...

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From Ipanema Across the Ocean – Brazil’s Image Abroad Through Music

Brazilian music carries strong characteristics of its people and has become one of the most recognizable features of the country abroad. In this study, I analyze how Brazil is pictured overseas by the means of music as an element of soft p...

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The Problem with a Peremptory Challange – a Tool of Racial Discrimination Within American Jury Selection Process

Jury duty serves as one of the fundamental pillars of American democracy, for it encourages direct citizen participation. Yet, the process of selecting its members is characterised by a flaw in form of a peremptory challenge — a tool with...

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Canadian Federal Policies and the Inuit Youth Suicide Crisis

Since the late 1980s, an unusually high number of suicides and cases of self-harm has been recorded among the Indigenous inhabitants of the Canadian Arctic, the Inuit. The statistics on child and adolescent suicides are particularly drasti...

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Food-Insecure from the Start

The 2022 infant formula crisis has brought a new meaning to food insecurity, generally understood as “a household-level economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food” (USDA Economic Research Service, Definit...

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#NeverAgainMSD and the March for Our Lives Movement

The United States gives citizens the right to own guns and has developed a specific culture of gun presence in everyday life. However, this privilege raises many controversies, and gun-related deaths are one of the most common causes of de...

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“Barren, Silent, Godless“

This paper proposes to explore how, through apocalyptic destruction, a characteristically American landscape in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road has undergone the process of removal of identity, and has, therefore, reverted into the hostile wild...

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Cultural Chronicles – Uncovering the Legacy of Oppressive Black Architecture in Memphis and Other Cities

Architectural structures and the spaces they create are not neutral; instead, they mirror the values and power dynamics of the societies in which they are constructed. This observation is particularly noticeable in the buildings African Am...

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Risks of Using Artificial Intelligence in Creating the Image of Politicians and in Electoral Campaigns

In the light of the rapid development of advanced technologies in recent years, many questions have been raised about the future application of available technological solutions in various spheres of life, including politics. An important...

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