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Showing 1 to 20 of 216 for “""Essay upon Epitaphs"”.
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Madam Pele: Novel and essay
… from Hawaii, they unwittingly release her rage upon their city. Essay. In this essay I cover contemporary theoretical considerations, such as Modernism, Postmodernism and Fantasy, and an analysis of various influential authors' writing techniques, descriptive language and narrative-plot genres, …
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An Essay on Cash Flows in Finance
… that hedge macroeconomic conditions. Building upon Hong and Stein’s (1999) gradual information diffusion framework, I develop a model illustrating the effects of discrete and continuous information arrival on price dynamics. The model shows that discrete information causes immediate price …
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Science as a growing system: A cybernetic essay
… overcoming this situation is outlined in the essay. The work is primarily (though not exclusively) devoted to historical/ scientific reconstitutions; special emphasis is laid upon the so called "domain of Natural Science". Throughout it a rather unconventional way of looking upon human's past …
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Economic structure and individuality: an essay on contradiction
This Project builds upon Lucien Seve's time-based (biographical) approach to personality development. The personality is, he contends, composed of three core elements-need; activity; and capacity. In contemporary social conditions, needs are complex and subordinated to the structure of acts and the …
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A consideration of two attacks upon the sharp analytic-synthetic distinction
The purpose of this essay is to reply to the attacks upon the sharp analytic-synthetic distinction made by Quine in "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" and by White in "The Analytic and the Synthetic: An Untenable Dualism". This essay attempts to show not only that these attacks are ill-conceived, but also …
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Big Screen Heroes with Paper Voices: A Superhero Adaptation Research Essay
… the endless adaptations that pelt us from upon high mouse-shaped ears, but their rich history goes back much further than that; they have gripped the public imagination since their creation in comic strips published in newspapers almost one-hundred years ago. But, why exactly has their …
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Political correspondence relating to Kingston-upon-Hull, 1678-1835
… covers aspects of political life at Kingston-upon-Hull between 1678 and 1835, and is part history and part edition. The historical section is an essay on the character and course of Hull politics between these dates. The edition on which that essay is based, consists of a selection from the …
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Travelling in the direction of mortality': Wandering the Topography of Wordsworthian Selfhood
… thesis unearths the way in which Wordsworth, in 'Essay upon Epitaphs,' portrays epitaph as an archetypical example of prosopopoeic transition. Indeed, in 'Essay,' Wordsworth writes extensively about the epitaphic function of granting a voice, and thus life, back to the dead and explains how, …
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Pragmatism and Effective Altruism: An Essay on Epistemology and Practical Ethics
… ideal (as measured by QALYs- a measure settled upon by the movement’s leaders), is undemocratic, and ultimately misses much of the complexity and messiness provided by contingencies, personal and cultural, that is present in, and important to, human life. Altruism done this way is atomizing and …
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At the end of Magnolia Street: five chapters of Southern magical realism with a craft essay
… escape the restrictions of their roots. My craft essay explores the use of counterpointed characterization to create conflict and tension as well as to develop and progress plot based upon Charles Baxter's essay “Counterpointed Characterization” and exploring works that have influenced my own …
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A novel, Curse of the time witch : and, An essay, The time-slip novel
… adults. During my research for this explicatory essay, I discovered that later writers not only expanded upon Nesbit’s simple formula to create atmospheric novels with fully developed characters, but also experimented with space as well as with time, thus allowing their protagonists also to …
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Importance of Medieval Numerology and the Effects Upon Meaning in the Works of the Gawain-Poet
… of medieval numerology and number theory upon the works of the Gawain poet, this essay seeks to connect the importance of numbers to the construction of the four poems. By examining such number theories as the Divine Proportion and marriage numbers, as well as Pythagorean number concepts …
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An essay on liability insurance and accident compensation and five papers on liability insurance
This essay is intended to be broad in scope. Therefore, inevitably, it touches on some issues which are not explored in detail in the articles listed above and which, for reasons of space, cannot be given the detailed attention they deserve here. There is much scope for further research. ' The …
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The Effects of Three Levels of Prewriting Questions Upon The Written Responses of College Freshmen to Short Stories
… questions and the effects of story selection upon the written responses of college freshmen to short stories. Subjects read one of two short stories, one best described as unconventional in terms of its theme and technique and the other more conventional in theme and style. Next, subjects …
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Away, A Novel, And a Critical Essay on Narrative Space with Reference of Paul Auster's Fiction
… Title of thesis: Away, a novel, and a critical essay on narrative space with reference of Paul Auster’s fiction My novel, Away, is mainly the story of a woman travelling alone, leaving all friends and relatives behind. She seeks out remote, beautiful and difficult places where, firstly, she has …
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The Glen Grey Act and its effects upon the native system of land tenure in Cape Colony and the Transkeian Districts
The first object of this essay is to trace any tendency of the Natives in the Cape Colony to modify their own communal system of land occupation in favour of any system more approximating to the Western ideal of individual tenure or ownership. The significance of any such tendency need not be …
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Ten Pounds for Adults, Kids Travel Free: An essay on the effects of migration upon the children of the British migrants to Western Australia in the 1960s and 1970s ; and , The red pipe: a novella set in Port Hedland
This study comprises an essay entitled ‘Ten Pounds for Adults, Kids Travel Free’ and a creative component entitled ‘The Red Pipe: a Novella Set in Port Hedland’. The essay focuses upon the children of the ‘golden era’ of British migration to Australia, between 1961 and 1971, when over 300,000 …
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The role of memory in the poetry of Douglas Dunn and Tony Harrison with specific reference to elegy.
… Making detailed use of Wordsworth's 'Essays upon Epitaphs' and Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard', Chapter 1 argues that Harrison reviews a poetics of epitaphs in V.. In Chapters 4 and 6 it is argued that the figures, structures and motifs of elegy fragmentarily echoed in …
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Targeting Seasonal Marketing Campaigns: Rebalancing Exploration and Exploitation
… from last year to train this year’s policy. This essay identifies an information externality when assigning actions to customers in the same batch: the incremental information contributed by the focal customer depends upon the assignment decisions foe other customers. This essay investigates how …
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Albert Camus on political murder: a sign of the times in which we live
This essay is a study of Albert Camus' response to three questions that were especially relevant vis-a-vis the social and political chaos that prevailed in Europe during and after the two world wars. Though indeed, these questions are in many respects timeless. Namely, the three questions this …
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