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Showing 1 to 20 of 278 for “""Love Among the Ruins"”.
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Solving the World's Problems: Walker Percy's Cultural Critique in Love in the Ruins
<p>This thesis examines Walker Percy's manipulation of time in Love in the Ruins as a component of indirectly communicating his solution to problems in twentieth-century Western society: existential authenticity. By examining this often overlooked novel, I clarify the process by which Percy conveys …
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Play Among the Ruins: David Jones, Meaning, and Play
… a terse, but stimulating comment on art and the creative process: “An act of art is essentially a gratuitous act. [...] It is essentially ‘play.’” The aim of this dissertation is to examine Jones’s work in relation to the concept of playfulness. Although it makes the most of play’s various …
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Among the Modernist Ruins: British Writing and the Architecture of the State
… “modernist” in architecture to make sense of the modern movement in literature. In modern architects' ultra-visible ability to destroy the forms of tradition, these authors discovered a public realm in which modern literature's aspirations to “make it new” could find their fullest expression. …
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Dwelling among ruins: landscapes in the late 8th century BC Argolic Plain, Greece
This thesis explores the meaningful character of traces of earlier occupation and burial locations visible in the late 8th century BC landscape of the Argolic Plain in the northeast Peloponnese, Greece. It will be argued that, where ruined former habitation remains and burials were observed in the …
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Life behind ruins : constructing documenta
… art, documenta in its current form is known in the art world for its scale, site-specificity and rotating Artistic Directors, each with their own theme and agenda. On a unique schedule, the expansive show is displayed in Kassel, Germany from June to September every five years. The origins of the …
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The culture of the Mayas as shown by their ruins
<p>It is the purpose of this paper to deal with the high state of culture attained by the mysterious Mayas of Central America and Yucatan.</p><p> How old is their civilization? No one knows.</p><p> Where did they come from? Who can say?</p><p> What did they wish to tell us in their writings that …
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Among the Ruins: Memory, Trauma, and a Residential Treatment Facility for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder at Fort Casey, Washington
This architectural design thesis is shaped by the intersection of time, memory, narrative and contemporary construction and use in an encounter with military ruins. This thesis argues that ruins need not remain entirely sacrosanct, but rather can, with understanding and care, become sites partly …
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The love dialectic
<p>The dialectic concerning romantic love and its place in the lives of men and women has for many centuries provided much of the matter of literature. How important is it, or should it be, the poets have asked; is it more important in the lives of women than in the lives of men; how do or should …
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Between love and fear - determinants of sexual behavior among Ugandan university students
… African countries, including Uganda, occur among young people between the ages of 15 and 24, the most sexually active period of their lives. Understanding the contextual determinants of sexual behavior in this group is crucial in combating the pandemic. Aim: The overall aim of this study was …
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Building upon ruins : the evolution of an urban artifact from infrastructure to public space
A thesis is about what architecture can be. In my thesis I propose that urban infrastructure built in the late nineteenth-century, can be the foundation for urban public space in the late twentieth-century. I propose that by exploring the value inherent in an existing structure, or fragment …
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Paul's doctrine of Christian love
[All the voices of revelation units in ascribing the supremacy, among the virtues, to love. The institutes of Moses, and the new commandments of Jesus; the abstract reasonings of Paul, and the practical exhortations of James; the vivid and impulsive rhetoric of Peter and the subdued and tender …
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The Religion of Consumption and Christian Neighbor Love
<p>Loyola University Chicago</p><p>THE RELIGION OF CONSUMPTION AND CHRISTIAN NEIGHBOR LOVE</p><p>Consumerism is a word frequently used in various disciplines to express the variety of attitudes, motivations, and practices found among the middle and upper classes. It drives the global economy and …
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Postcombat Military Job Satisfaction Among Vietnam Helicopter Aviators
This project investigated the relations between recalled job-satisfaction, ability, and task demands in Vietnam era helicopter aviators. It attempted to detect and describe factors present in a dangerous combat environment which may influence some individuals to enjoy and take satisfaction at being …
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The Revealing Love of God: A Systematic, Hermeneutic, and Phenomenological Approach to Thinking Well About the Love of God
<p>“The medium is the message:” theological reflections on the idea that God is love. I am proposing that the idea of the self-revelational nature of God’s being functions, among other ways, rhetorically, such that the content of revelation (God’s love) determines the rhetorical mode of its …
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Love in a life: the art songs of Gena Branscombe
… of her own works and regularly performed the music of her contemporaries with her all-women’s chorus, the Branscombe Choral. Although she published hundreds of pieces for piano, voice, violin, orchestra, and mixed voices—among them the 1929 choral drama Pilgrims of Destiny—Branscombe’s …
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Psychopathy and Incapacity to Love: Role of Physiological Arousal
… inclination towards violent antisocial behavior. Among the various symptoms, the affective experience of the incapacity for love has received little empirical attention, despite having been established as one of Cleckley's 16 classic characteristics. Moreover, the role of physiological responding …
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Building the Tango
This is building the tango, a constructive investigation into the material consequences of dancing the tango. Building the tango is about the resurrection of passion and life, as well as passion for life, of which the reality is now. It also involves resurrecting passion and life on a site occupied …
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Spinoza's Neoplatonism: The Metaphysics of the Unitive Knowledge and Love of God
… in a great diversity of interpretations. Among historically informed readings, there is a great amount of scholarship today on how the different sources of Spinoza shaped various aspects of his philosophy. Excellent work has been done, for instance, on the Cartesian elements in Spinoza’s …
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Prufrock Among the Bohemians: The Dissemination of "Prufrock" through the Twentieth Century
This thesis examines the dissemination of T.S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" through the twentieth century. While scholars seem interested in "Prufrock" as an influential poem, it seems there is limited scholarship on how its influence was propagated. This thesis posits that …
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The healing of a lost past : the revitalization and adaption of Cullinan mining compound
… and adapting an abandoned mining Compound on the outskirts of Cullinan. Through this journey of uncovering and understanding this lost, abandoned and deteriorating site, one starts to fall in love with the beauty of these ruins within an unrestricted landscape, where the natural has started …
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