It is generally acknowledged in Western countries that exhibitionism is the most common of sexual offenses. The relationship between offense and conviction rates is, of course, unknown and survey data1,2,:1 indicate that in fact few of the many female victims report the incident to police. As noted by Brownell,4 the general community attitude toward exhibitionists is one of amusement and derisi...

<p>Abstract Apart from the considerations set out by jurists, moralists or sarcastic poets about cursing in late Middle Ages, main purpose of this article is to analyse use insults («bad words, dishonest and offensive»), through direct study municipal sources court proceedings, social political life a Catalan city within period, focusing on analysis insult’s variants, situations where it ...

This paper focuses on a number of American stories which helped educate people and bring about legal or social change. There are many stories which caused major or minor legal and political change, particularly, in the United States. Some of them are written by Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Upton Sinclair and Sidney Kingsley. After the publication of White Jacket by Melville the novel...

This paper is motivated by the following question: how can animated satire constitute a tool of resistance against terrorist groups and their extremist narratives? To answer this question, I examine an Iraqi satirical show produced from late 2015 to 2017 support military campaign Islamic State (IS) turning self-proclaimed caliph other IS terrorists into objects derision, detached Iraq Islam. En...

The article presents a critique of research method whereby historical sources could not have possibly lied as they were targeted at the addressees who knew actual course events described or referred to. This attitude toward has its antecedence in Snorri Sturluson’s argument on reliability skaldic poetry. To his mind, poems biased but still valuable, way, declaimed before rulers would perceived ...

“The day after the first subcutaneous injection, and still more after the two succeeding ones, a radical change took place in me... I had regained at least all the strength I possessed a good many years ago.” [1]. By these words, the 72 year-old physiologist Charles E. Brown-Sequard described in The Lancet the effects of self-administered extracts of dog and guinea pig testes. Even though Brown...

One of the more discouraging trends in the literature of drug testing is the rate at which the toxicology community seems willing to accept imprecision in the use of its technical terms of art. This practice never fails to evoke derision when detected in lay commentary, but I am increasingly struck by the convergence of professional and lay literature in this respect. In the drug testing litera...

â  â  â  resistance manifestations in mozafar al nawwab’s poems â  â  â  * hasan dadkhah â  naser tabe` jabery ** â  â  â  abstract â  â  a mixture of political views and resistance literature is so visible in the poems of some contemporary arab poets that they are known as resistance poets. mozafar al nawwab, the contemporary iraqi poet, is one of them. nawwab grew up in a noble and gentle s...