Semantron 24 Summer 2024

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How can words be beautiful? ATTICUS DEWE

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To what extent is science our best guide to reality? TAYLOR LAI

219 ‘I sentence you to death by drowning!’ – the absurdist destruction of the everyman in the short fiction of Franz Kafka KIT PARSONS

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Why do Plato and Aristotle consider Homer the greatest tragedian? PETR DONSKOY

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The adversarial and inquisitorial legal systems: truth before justice MATTHEW DA COSTA

Part Eight

TIME PAST

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Franco’s control of Spain during the years 1939 -1975 ALEXANDER LEVITT

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Marx’s 1853 analysis of the causes of the Taiping rebellion OLIVER GREEN

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Oppenheimer and America’s anti -communist paranoia ELLIOT GUBBAY

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Agricola: love him or hate him? PETR DONSKOY

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To what extent was Idi Amin anything more than an unstable despot? SACHIN SHUKLA

The Great Divergence: Europe, China and industrialization ALEXANDRE GRUFFAT

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‘On every new thing lies already the shadow of annihilation . ’ Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five and W.G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn . DANIEL KAMALUDDIN

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Maglev: the history and physics behind frictionless train transportation DANNY LIANG

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