Semantron 22 Summer 2022

Contents

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Jumpers by Tom Stoppard: modern or postmodern? DIEGO LACHEZE-BIER

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The Theory of Everything: are we almost there? RATHAN SUBRAMANIAN

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The evolution of the electrochemical battery CAMILLE BORDES

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Autonomous vehicles AMJAD KHAN

34 Liberty’s ‘ terror ’: prosecution for political dissent in England during the decade of the French Revolution JOE WILLIAMS

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Die Verlobung in St. Domingo : a critique of European colonialism? SASHA STRIGO

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Virtual reality, augmented reality and surgical training MICHAEL WONG

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Methods of training neural networks RORY PROBERT

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The maintenance of capitalism: a political and philosophical analysis EMILIO NUNZI

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The nonlinear behaviour of a periodically forced guitar string SHIWEI ZHANG

79 Accelerating modernization or unjust oppression? Chinese control of Tibet since Hu Yaobangs’ reforms in 1980 DAN RAWKINS

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Political and social change in Spain in the films of Pedro Almodóvar CIARAN ROBBINS

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Chirality JEFFERSON XUE

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