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Showing 1 to 20 of 346 for “"Ambition"”.
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Monumental ambition: understanding Jorge Oteiza's innovative sculpture
The goal of this work is to consider local understandings of the modernist sculpture of Jorge Oteiza at the basilica of Aranzazu in Guipuzcoa in the Basque Country. Extensive contextual background is provided, including the artists oeuvre, a review of critical literature pertaining to the artist, …
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Characteristics of Political Ambition of Iowa State Representatives
… was also made to define other characteristics of ambition. The 100 state representatives were interviewed. Information on their backgrounds and how they operate as legislators were crosstabulated with answers on whether they are interested in seeking statewide or congressional office. Much of the …
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Ambition to Run: Women Veterans Pursuing Elected Office
… to discover what experiences fostered political ambition in women veterans who anticipated running for state or federal office within the next 10 years. The aim of this study was to utilize the evidence produced on female veterans’ political ambition to develop an education curriculum that could …
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Between obligation and ambition: the performance of mourning after the Protestant Reformation.
… their sacred obligations and their secular ambitions. English noblewomen, in particular, navigate the mourning process and make their voices heard in a patriarchal society that silences women. This self-serving performance of mourning help men and women defy their gender roles at times and …
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'Imfuno neeMbawelo': ambition, desire and aspiration in South African post-apartheid migration
… 2011, this dissertation explores the spirit of ambition and desire, known in Xhosa as 'imfuno'. Articulated as a unit of study, I explore the concept of imfuno and how it manifests itself in the social lives of a group of migrant labourers in Cape Town, particularly in a post-apartheid South …
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Getting A's in B-School: Do Conservatism and Conventional Ambition Predict Higher GPA?
… outcomes is really driven by differences in ambitions. In other words, conservatives tend to have a higher desire to achieve goals related to the American Dream than liberals, which influences their success in business school and beyond. While the former line only speculates as to why …
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Opening the Chamber: Daughters of the Vote and Political Ambition in Young Women
The political ambition gap between men and women is well-known, and many scholars argue it is a contributing factor to women’s underrepresentation in politics. Several women’s organizations have emerged to address the gender gap, but there is little empirical evidence on whether political …
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Tempering the Ambition of Social Science Genomics: Causation, Explanation, and Evidence for Policy
… in terms of two overarching promises or ambitions: credibility and trustworthiness. For the social sciences, sociogenomic integration is associated with the promise of greater credibility, as some hope that polygenic score-informed research designs will strengthen causal inference about …
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A high school as an urban institution: an inward focus and an outward ambition
The thesis project outlined herein investigates the essential nature of a high school as a learning institution. Underlying the research and subsequent design proposal is an experimentation with locating a high school in an urban setting - a challenge to the reality that many high schools are …
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"""An Impossible Ambition""?: Roy Mitchell's Creative Idealism and the Spiritual Nexus Between Theatre and Theosophy"
Though a participant of the Little Theatre Movement in North America, Roy Mitchell was largely ignored or---at best---marginalized by theatre practitioners and scholars after his death in 1944 until the late 1980s. Most of the material written about him had labelled him a prophet---a lone voice in …
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City of Ambition: Franklin Roosevelt, Fiorello La Guardia, and the Making of New Deal New York
This dissertation offers a new account of New York City's politics and government in the 1930s and 1940s. Focusing on the development of the functions and capacities of the municipal state, it examines three sets of interrelated political changes: the triumph of "municipal reform" over the …
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On to bigger and better things: the behavioral consequences of ambition in the US House of Representatives
This dissertation explores how progressive ambition—or the pursuit of a higher office—affects the behavior of members of the United States House of Representatives. Drawing upon a wide variety of legislative and campaign activities (including roll call votes, introductions and cosponsorships, …
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The ambition of melancholy: the aesthetics of heroism in the lyric poetry of Juan Boscán and Fernando de Herrera
… adoption of the Italianate aesthetic and his ambition to establish Spain as a centre for poetic practice that would parallel its rise to hegemonic power. With the use of Todorov’s theory of narrative progression, I explore how Boscán’s sonnet corpus facilitates a journeying motif that forges a …
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The Power of Image. Ambition, Reputation, and Intellectual Representation in the Written and Drawn Work of Cavalier Gaspare Celio (1571-1640)
Contains fulltext : 314558.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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The deconstruction of ambition: Campus climate, stereotype threat, and the motivational goals of African American students at a selective small liberal arts college
<p>African American students face many challenges when they attend highly selective, predominantly White institutions. Lack of support for or belief in their academic success on the part of White faculty and peers may contribute to a climate in which it becomes increasingly difficult for African …
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A study of aspiration and ambition: the Scottish Treasury Commission and its impact upon the development of Scottish country house architecture 1667-1682
… to the French, but these were different to the ambitions of the English. By using the Italian interpretation of classicism as a yardstick for the development of Scottish country house architecture, historians have failed to compare like with like. A close analysis of the aspirations and the …
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The Resonance of Michelangelo
… an essence in architecture through a sense of ambition and harmony. The ambition for a design to have an architectural presence and establish a clear identity, while achieving a harmony of numerous aspects of the project in order to simplify the inherent complexities of architecture and allow …
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The perceived affective work competencies of Virginia Home Economics Related Occupations chapter members
… HERO participation and AWC variable factors of Ambition, Self-Control, Enthusiasm, and Conscientiousness. (2) HERO participation was the best predictor of Ambition, Self-Control, and Enthusiasm, and the fourth best predictor of Conscientiousness. (3) Adviser effectiveness correlated positively …
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A city of projects: Grand Paris, the 2024 Summer Olympics, and the jurisdictional negotiation of contemporary Paris
… in the Île-de-France region. The emerging ambition to advance a metropolitan model is fundamentally hindered by a historically persistent and burdensome institutional puzzle. Contravening the consensual political dogma that such intricate structure demands to be simplified, initiatives of …
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