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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Avenger"”.
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The Avenger and SGT York: an examination of two air defense systems nondevelopmental item acquisition programs
… two NDI Acquisition programs, the SGT York and Avenger Air Defense Systems, to determine what factors made SGT York a failure and Avenger a success. From this analysis, lessons-learned are identified that can be used by other acquisition managers and their staffs to effectively manage future …
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Time the avenger: two plays and a critical thesis. How does a dramatist’s use of stage time affect the audience’s understanding of the story being told? A critical examination of temporal framing in the work of four playwrights
My research question is comprised of two elements: two original plays and a thesis. The critical and creative elements are linked by an interrogation into the way that four different dramatists have used stage time, and in a critical reflection on the way I myself have used stage time in my plays. …
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Application of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) to compare legacy and future forces in Mine Warfare (MIW) missions
… mine countermeasures (MCM) performance of the Avenger class MCM ship (MCM 1), landing helicopter deck (LHD) support ship, and MH-53E helicopter legacy systems and Increment 1 of the littoral combat ship (LCS) and MH-60S helicopter future systems. The study focused on two measures of …
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The vigilante strain and the spaces of the state in contemporary fiction
… of the vigilante portray the figure as an avenger, seeking vengeance for personal injury as well as for other helpless members of society. Historical and political studies of the vigilante reveal the figure variously as a revolutionary, an upholder of the status quo, a prejudiced and …
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Valences of Vengeance: The Moral Imagination of Early Modern Japanese Vendetta Fiction
… ways these earlier texts imagine the figures of avenger and enemy and the status of virtuous violence, I argue that vendetta has always been characterized as possessing a disruptive potential that can unsettle orders of authority and social hierarchies, and challenge figures of power and status. …
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Indicators of Typology in the Narrative of Elijah: An Investigation into the Predictive Nature of Biblical Theology
… as a helper to the righteous in the present and avenger to the wicked in the future eschaton. In Christianity, the expectation involving his return has also a multitemporal dimension, but its fulfilment is typologically oriented. More often, scholars study the fulfilment of the Elijah typology …
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A vingadora e a sua vida dupla: facetas psicossociais de um fenómeno paradigmático na literatura e noutras artes
A vingança ocupa, desde a Antiguidade, um lugar central no imaginário coletivo, como manifestação de tensões entre justiça, violência e ordem social. Presente em tradições literárias e artísticas que vão do teatro clássico à ópera, da pintura ao cinema, assume configurações diversas conforme os …
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An Unsinkable Carrier: The Midway-Based Forces and the Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway is remembered as one of the greatest military victories in American history and marked as the turning point of the Second World War in the Pacific. The victory has long been celebrated as a great US Naval victory, brought about by the US Navy's Carrier Task Forces. Remembering …