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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"”The Outsider”"”.
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The role of the outsider as an agent for change
This context statement explores and reflects on the role of the outsider as an agent for change. It argues that an outsider is often able to see things differently, to offer new insights, to detect patterns and to identify commonalities that are not apparent to an insider. I tell the narrative …
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The Outsider Within: Sense of Self in Jewish Feminist Women
… media and educational settings. Outcomes of these misrepresentations can vary from social slights to dangerous anti-semitic and sexist behaviors, all of which have potential of interfering with development among Jewish and feminist people. Because religion, culture, and ideology contribute to …
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WEREWOLVES: THE OUTSIDER ON THE INSIDE IN ICELANDIC AND FRENCH MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
The contemporary viewpoint of the werewolf is mostly dominated by a horrific image of a misshapen beast that must be slain. This narrow view of the Monster as always Monstrous is incorrect. The werewolf was never meant to be an irredeemable thing and to distance ourselves from it as an audience is …
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Names, Violence, and the African American Vernacular in Richard Wright's The Outsider
An analysis of the names and violence in Richard Wright's The Outsider reveals Wright's aesthetic program for the novel. Wright's recurring themes and the meanings of the name and aliases of his protagonist are indicative of African American vernacular tradition. Despite Wright's physical distance …
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The company constitution as a contract with emphasis on the outsider rule
The -concept of the company ·constitution as a-contract will be examined in three parts~. The -first part is devoted to the legal nature of the constitution. It will examine the role of the two sources of its nature and sanction, namely the contractual and the statutory. It wi1l also identify the …
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The Outsider: Elizabeth P. MacCallum, the Canadian Department of External Affairs, and the Palestine Mandate to 1947
… Pauline MacCallum was Canada’s leading expert on the Middle East in the first part of the twentieth century. From 1925 to 1935, as a research analyst and author for the Foreign Policy Association (FPA), she gained international recognition for her scholarship on the problems and challenges …
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Der aubenseiter in Heinrich Bolls Epischer kunst : eine typologische untersuchung
Through centuries the concept of the hero has undergone changes, with the result that the grand hero of old has become an anti-hero or outsider. Many well-known twentieth century authors, including Heinrich 8611, are increasingly making use of this figure. In this dissertation the use of the …
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Independent Visions of Marginal America: Reimagining a Nation Through Outsiders, Searching, and Non-Arrival
<p>This thesis explores critical responses to American-ness, American identity, and most significantly American myth, in independent films about America in cultural terms, and their attempts to deconstruct the myths of nation and culture. The independent films about America analyzed in this thesis …
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The use of storytelling to make sense of painful life events: implications for clinical practice in counselling psychology
The aim of this study is to explore how individuals with an acquired facial disfigurement (FD), following a traumatic accident or illness, psychologically reconstruct themselves using a narrative analysis. Whilst previous studies on visible difference have employed both quantitative and qualitative …
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The ‘Suburban Imaginary’: Restructuring the rural village in Ireland and France
The phenomenon of the proliferation of holiday homes, particularly in remote and isolated areas, has provoked widespread concern regarding the fate of the indigenous rural community. The central concern of this thesis is to investigate how the rural community is adapting to the presence of the …
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Collected Short Stories
… this collection of short fiction, I draw upon the experience of growing up in a small southern town and my work as a researcher with the Center for Oral History to reach beyond the stereotypes and create a more accurate portrayal of life in Mississippi. </p> <p>There are two central themes …
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Extending the infinite corridor : building the connection between academics and athletics
… and athletics are far more important at MIT than the outsider might imagine. Exercising brings together the MIT community, not only the students but also the faculty and support staff. But the architecture of the existing facilities neither accurately symbolizes nor promotes the energy and …
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Possibilities for Making Institutional Change: An Institutional Critique of Diversity Discourse at a Predominantly White Institution
The purpose of this dissertation is to explore how diversity discourse inscribes oppressive institutional structures (slavery, racism, and whiteness), specifically, institutional power, and offer possibilities for making sustainable change. This dissertation is an institutional critique (Porter et …
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A knocking at the door : Christian hope in the horror fiction of H. P. Lovecraft.
… of horror and Christian hope in his fiction. The appeal of supernatural horror fiction in a culture which denies the supernatural demonstrates the fascinating nature of objects of Christian hope, even when represented as frightening or revolting. Lovecraft's stories contain such Christian …
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Men on the margin: onscreen outsiders and American masculinity
The central purpose of this thesis is to examine ideas of solitude and alienation as they relate to the masculine identity of men - particularly American men as represented in Hollywood films. The subjects include several outsider characters from history and fiction, which are divided into two …
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Crossroads: An interdisciplinary study of funeral directors in Indiana
… of funeral directors in Indiana, focusing on the social role they play. Funeral directors, through performances as director and actor, with their living tableaux and focus on the life of the deceased individual, rather than his or her death, offer us the illusion of a modern American ideal—a …
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The Picaresque in Six Afro-American Novels
The form, characterization, narration, and subjects of Blake or The Huts of America, Home to Harlem, Native Son, Invisible Man, Quicksand, and Their Eyes Were Watching God are distinctly picaresque. The genre continues a tradition begun with the trickster tales of Africa (Anansi, the Spider and …
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Outsider trading: trading on twitter sentiment
… aims to establish if a relationship between the investor sentiment generated from social media posts, such as Tweets, and the return on securities exists. If a relationship exists, one would be able to obtain an informational advantage from public information and outperform the market on a …
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Using Grounded Theory to Reveal Tacit Knowledge for Nurse Educators in an Unfamiliar African Setting
<p>There is a gap in evidence to guide individuals as they prepare for a nursing education partnership in an unfamiliar setting. Much of the existing knowledge base is contained within institutional or organizational confines. Individuals new to the field need access to existing expertise and tacit …
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Voices from the outside: Homeric exiles in twentieth-century French writing
This thesis explores the twentieth-century trope of the outsider but from a modern and Homeric perspective. The corpus of artists under review each develop a symbiotic relationship with Homer and his epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey. It is an encounter that repositions the outsider, shifting our …
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