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The diaphoric structure and unity of William Faulkner's Go Down Moses
… And there, almost immediately, I discovered Go Down, Moses–to me, a brilliant and uniquely formed novel. There, of course, was “The Bear” once again; but having struggled with the complexities and convolutions of Light in August, The Sound and the Fury, and Absalom, Absalom! in the interim, I …
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Temporal structure and meaning : the defamiliarization of the reader in Faulkner's Go down, Moses
This study of Faulkner's Go Down, Moses uses the reader-response theories of Wolfgang Iser to examine the affective impact of strategically-arranged folk conventions and mythopoeic devices upon a textually-based, white "civilized" reader. Using the devices of Southwestern humor, the trickster, and …
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Navigating the Go-Down Zone in Namuwongo: reimagining spaces for informal traders in Kampala
… the growing number of traders in the city. The Godown Zone in Namuwongo provides an entry point for a self-organised community of informal traders who have taken upon themselves to create spaces for trade and occupation in a restricted space a few kilometres away from the local market. The …
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A Spoonful of Salt Helps the Vegetables Go Down: Exploring the Processing of Health and Nutrition-related Claims in Advertising
In light of recent persuasive appeals which promote a food product's health or nutritional benefits in advertisements, this exploratory study investigates the ways in which individuals read and understand health and nutrition-related claims in advertising and make subsequent judgments about the …
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The Ghost Of Ravishment That Lingers In The Land: The Beginnings Of Environmentalism In Seraph On The Suwanee And Go Down, Moses
… fictional depiction of Lafayette County in Go Down, Moses. This thesis seeks to prove that Hurston and Faulkner were keenly aware of the ecological problems of their hometowns through a close reading of each book alongside the environmental history each book was based on, Eatonville, Florida …
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The translator's habitus and shifts : a study on modulations in the Persian translations of Faulkner's 'The Sound And The Fury', 'Go Down Moses' and 'Absalom! Absalom!'
The present study enquires into the fundamental issue of the translator's habitus(Bourdieu 1990). We take up John B. Thompson's synthetic translation of the concept ofhabitus (1991) while exploring descriptive explanatory interpretive hypotheses about thetranslator's text production activity. The …
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Top-down and bottom-up influences on action and inhibition
A series of studies with complex Go/No-Go tasks systematically examined the influence of tasks that require different combinations of Go and No-Go responses. Specifically, this thesis investigated how commission and omission errors are influenced by the actual distribution of the responses required …
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What goes down need not go back up: decreasing the biological drive toward weight regain by increasing energy flux
INTRODUCTION: Weight regain after weight loss is the experience of most obese dieters. Metabolic adjustments characterized by decreased resting metabolic rate (RMR) and increased hunger can prevent long-term success. Possibly this energy gap could be attenuated by a high flux (HF) state (higher …
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Automatic 'Timed-Up and Go' (TUG) test segmentation
The Timed-Up and Go test (TUG) is a well-known medical test that is used as an indicator of mental and physical health. I developed the TUG-Segmenter, an automatic segmentation tool that can divide recorded TUG test data into the six main phases of the test: Sitting, Standing-Up, Walking-Forward, …
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TURKISH TO GO: TEACHING INTELLECTUAL SKILLS ONLINE
… as an intellectual skill which has been broken down into discriminations (the Turkish vowels), concepts (the Turkish vowel groups) and rules (Turkish vowel harmony). Higher order rules are taught in the form of exceptions to the rules of Turkish vowel harmony found in foreign loan-words in …
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Where will it go? Concepts of motion in complex events
… a tendency to incorrectly break complex events down into independent sub-events. Evidence also points to spatial thinking as a potentially important tool for fostering correct conceptions of motion.
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Disco apocalypse : liminal fictoscapes, and, hatricks: where did the white rabbit go?
… exegesis, Hatricks: Where did the White Rabbit Go? which together explore socio-political and aesthetic currents in contemporary culture and literature by means of an authorial journey. The ultimate aim of the thesis is to create a body of work which applies a critical analysis and produces an …
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Why affordable housing developers should go public : REITs as an alternative source of capital for housing development
… from commercial lenders and private equity. A good affordable housing developer must be adept at understanding the covenants and eligibility requirements of every source of funds as part of the development process, and work with the myriad parties to compete or apply for funds. This long and …
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Industrial pollution control down on the farm : integrated pollution prevention & control and intensive pig farming
… the charges levied against the regulated are negotiated through compromises whereby environmental protection may be the loser. In this study, industry structures have been examined, revealing that the landfill industry is biased towards large operating companies. Re-licensing for the landfill …
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AGING-RELATED DECREMENTS DURING THE ACTIVITIES OF THE TIMED UP AND GO TEST WHEN COMBINED WITH MOTOR TASK AND VISUAL STIMULATION
… test of physical function, the Timed Up and Go (TUG), requires the individual to stand from a seated position, walk forward, turn, walk back to the seat, turn and sit back down. Previous studies have explored the effect of multi-tasking during the TUG; however, the role of visual dependence …
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Is South Africa's headquarter regime successful and does it go against national legislation? Are rewards from a customer loyalty programme capital or revenue in nature?
… headquarter regime successful and does it go against national legislation. This research paper discusses how South Africa has changed its legislation to become the Gateway of investment into Africa. It addresses the prior barriers previously faced by investors in South Africa and Africa as …
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The unity of collected stories of William Faulkner
… theme to many of Faulkner's novels, especially Go Down, Moses, and can profitably be read as a unified work.Like Go Down, Moses, As I Lay Dying, Light in August and other Faulkner novels, Collected Stories is structured around a center, in this case a theme: the relationship between man and his …
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A functional balance profile of school aged children and adolescents diagnosed with Down Syndrome, schooled in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa: a pilot study.
Children and adolescents with Down Syndrome (DS) are at a higher risk of falls due to impaired balance and gait patterns, which complicates their ability to safely engage in daily activities (Jung, Chung & Lee, 2017). Assessing balance function in children is not only important for identifying …
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An investigation of Fusarium verticillioides infection in maize using physiological and molecular approaches
… revealed significant DEGs that were both up- and down-regulated in the infected samples compared to the control. Data analysis was conducted using the DNA subway online bioinformatics tool and these results were compared to those obtained using a separate analysis which also incorporated the …
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