Lytton Strachey : l’historien intime de deux reines by Jeannine Hayat

“…Nevertheless many of Strachey’s readers have appreciated his conception of biography, as a means of personal confession while studying the destiny of a public figure. Indeed the Stracheyan way of life, free from Victorian moral standards and guided by the rules of the Bloomsbury group, inspired his story of Victoria and Elizabeth. …”
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De la « rurbanisation » du héros américain : The Rise of Silas Lapham by Guillaume TANGUY

“…The city, according to Howells, is America’s ultimate destiny.…”
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Russian Science and Russian State: Image of a Scientist in Modern Russian Cinema by S. M. Medvedeva

“…So owing to recent movies this representation of hopeless destiny of a scientist is becoming widespread in Russian public culture.…”
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Pèleriner, faire du commerce et visiter les lieux saints : Le tourisme religieux sénégalais au Maroc by Nazarena Lanza

“…This article is based on ethnography of a pilgrimage organized by a Senegalese travel agency, for the Laylatoul-Qadr («Night of Destiny»), in August 2012. The discourses and temporalities that characterize such organized groups of pilgrims, feed particular imaginaries and reveal a multiplicity of dimensions, including social, political and religious dimensions of Senegalese society.The present article emphasizes two aspects: firstly, the meanings and motivations of those travels to Morocco, which allow to understand number of mutations in contemporary Senegalese society (the concept of family, death, belief, leisure, etc.); secondly, the discourses and counter-discourses about the nature of the links between Senegalese and Moroccan peoples, qualified by the governments as «exceptional and fraternal», but which are often differently experienced and reported by many Senegalese residents in Morocco.…”
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La Revelatio ecclesiae sancti Michaelis et son auteur by Pierre Bouet

“…I to III and VIII) proposes a history of this mount and a theological conception of the role of Saint Michael the Archangel in the destiny of mankind. This document reveals the culture of a canon during the Carolingian Renaissance, who was stronglyinfluenced by constant readings of the Bible, the sermons of the Holy Fathers and the works of Gregory the Great. …”
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Legislación y políticas en Nueva Granada y Chile para atraer la inmigración extranjera a mediados del siglo XIX by Vicente Romero

“…For the “coolie-Indians” and other kind of manual workers and day laborers that will arrive, those State programs envisage only a subaltern social destiny.…”
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Deux visions du noir : le roman Jack’s Return Home de Ted Lewis et le film Get Carter de Mike Hodges by Christophe BROCHIER

“…With the story of a London gangster returning home to the North to avenge his brother, Lewis wanted to offer a thriller that was also, fundamentally, a reflection on the two types of destiny that await the sons of working-class people: the proletarian or the hoodlum. …”
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Review and Recognition of the Book “Political Modernity and Review” by Seyed Ebrahim Sarparast Sadat

“…However, Maurice Barbier assumes the west experience the ultimate experience of noble nations and suggests that surrendering such separations is destiny of all societies. He advises the countries deprived of political modernity not to have ambitious leaps and try to use treasure of their ancestors’ accumulated experiences and move forward gradually. …”
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Wychowanie ekologiczne w perspektywie personalistycznej by Stanisław Dziekoński

“…Between man and other beings, one can see close ties, relations of interdependence, common sharing of destiny. This is especially underlined in the Christian concept of personalism, which directs the whole of education in the Christ-centered direction.…”
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«Omsk group» in exile in Manchuria by M. V. Krotova

“…Based on the theory of social adaptation and the anthropological approach, the article focuses on such aspects of the biography of this category of figures as behavioral strategies, service on the Chinese Eastern Railway, and the choice of citizenship. The study of the destiny of the “Omichi” in Harbin is necessary to present the activities of Russian public and political figures after the Civil War, to understand the problems of emigration in Manchuria and the peculiarities of the existence of the liberal intelligentsia.…”
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A Critical Review on the Book Population Aging and the Generational Economy: A Global Perspective by Hatam Hosseini

“…Population aging will be the inevitable demographic destiny of contemporary societies. Paying less attention to this phenomenon can make its consequences far more complex and difficult. …”
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John James Bezer (1816–1888) and his Autobiography of One of the Chartist Rebels of 1848 (1851) by Madeleine Pham-Thanh

“…This political outlook oscillates between the individualistic ‘I’ of autobiography, and the generic subject indissociable from collective destiny. To a certain extent, Bezer’s political intervention and potential legacy must be balanced against the campaigning efforts of the somewhat anti-Chartist Christian Socialist, in which his (unfinished) Autobiography appeared by instalments. …”
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PERPETUATION OF RADICAL IDEOLOGY: DEPERSONALIZATION AND AGENCY OF WOMEN AFTER THE BANNING OF HIZBUT TAHRIR INDONESIA by Inayah Rohmaniyah

“…This process gained legitimacy from religious understanding, especially related to belief in the concept of fatalistic destiny, which has contributed to the perpetuation of patriarchal interpretation. …”
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The Issues of the Sixth Dalai Lama and the Transformation of Qing Information System on Tibet by Ling-Wei Kung

“…The Sixth Dalai Lama’s death embodied the monumental transition that significantly shaped the destiny of Tibet, China, and Inner Asia in the following three centuries. …”
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Elite Governance, Development, and Public Safety in Nigeria by Johnson Oluwole Ayodele, Jane Adebusuyi

“…This article concludes that elitism should not only socially engage with the citizenry, but it should also reproduce egalitarian political values and actors for inclusion in Nigeria’s democratic destiny. Drawing on the values of the conceptual lions (oselu) of Pareto to scare his conceptual foxes (ojelu) vices out of political domination through electoral re-socialization could neutralize elite conspiracy against the majority and boost the capacity of vulnerable Nigerians to initiate and implement development and public safety defenses. …”
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The Relevance of the Practice of Ifá Divination in Ola Rotimi’s The Gods are not to Blame by Olusegun Olu-Osayomi, Babatunde Adebua

“…Finally, while recognizing the enduring popularity and artistic forte of Rotimi’s magnum opus, the paper broadens spasmodically our perception of the pervasiveness and practical relevance of the practice of Ifá divination as means for rectifying evil destiny, regulating what the future holds and resolving problems of existence in Yorùbá culture and metaphysics. …”
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Didacticism and Philosophical Tenets in Ọbasa’s Poetry by Arinpe Adejumo

“…The metaphysical beliefs of the Yoruba in death, destiny, and life after death, as well as the belief in the Supreme Being (Olodumare) are also discussed. …”
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Geen ander naam by J. du Preez

“…The article concludes with a brief answer to the question about the destiny of those who have never  had the opportunity ot hear the Good News. …”
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Traces et sens de l'Histoire chez les voyageuses françaises et britanniques dans l'Italie préunitaire (1815-1861) by Nicolas Bourguinat

“…Rather than limiting the study to a few “representative” women, I describe a more general feminine view of Italy as a land of classical culture and of seductive leisure, but also as a foreign and dominated country whose destiny was affected by the accidents of History. …”
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The Eternal Return. Apocatastasis and its Manifestations in Ancient Philosophies: Pythagoreanism, Stoicism, Zoroastrianism, Platonism and Gnosticism by Alexandru LAZĂR

“…Apocatastasis, defined as 'restoration' or 'return to the original state', was interpreted differently in each of these systems of thought, reflecting distinct views on the nature of the cosmos, time and human destiny. In Pythagoreanism and Stoicism, apocatastasis is closely linked to cosmological cyclicity, implying the periodic renewal of the universe. …”
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