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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Babel"”.
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Babel
<p>babel is a collection of nonfiction essays in which I explore a female twenty-something’s crossdimensional dilemma of spirituality, racism, art, and love in the wake of Bible-belt hipsterdom. I board the train that is human pride, that great metal snake by which we essayists craft our lives, and …
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BABEL BUOYANTE Torres-Cuenca Fractales
Babel Buoyante es una torre arborescente espejada que flota en el agua, articulando un tramo superior de torres y un tramo inferior de contra-torres de menor altura, oculto por debajo del agua. El conjunto de torres se estructura en tres ramificaciones iterativas jerárquicamente decrecientes: el …
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Revisiting Babel : sport and poetry
… found in a reading of the myth of the tower of Babel (Book of Genesis: 11,1-9). It is an extended and multi-pieced argument exploring an analogy between the truly strong sport performer and the strong poet. It pays attention to the strong sport performer, like the strong poet, as a maker of …
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A black art: Ontology, data, and the Tower of Babel problem
<p>Computational ontologies are a new type of emerging scientific media (Smith, 2016) that process large quantities of heterogeneous data about portions of reality. Applied computational ontologies are used for semantically integrating (Heiler, 1995; Pileggi & Fernandez-Llatas, 2012) divergent data …
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New Tower of Babel: Probing the Antecedents and Consequences of Linguistic Ostracism
<p>While workplace interactions are likely to be conducted in English, the <em>lingua franca </em>of international business (Janssens, Lambert, & Steyaert, 2004), employees may occasionally switch to their native language in their interactions with coworkers who share knowledge of this language. …
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From Bible to Babel Fish: The Evolution of Translation and Translation Theory
Translation, the transfer of the written word from one language to another, has a long history, and many important scholars have helped shape its perceptions, accepted processes, and theories. Machine translation, translation by computer software requiring little or no human input, is the latest …
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Diseño, semántica y especificación de Babel : un lenguaje que integra la programación funcional y lógica
… estudia el lenguaje de programación experimental BABEL, designado para conseguir la integración de la programación funcional (como la usada en HOPE, Standard ML o MIRANDA) y la programación lógica (como la usada en PROLOG) de una forma simple, flexible y matemáticamente bien fundamentada. El …
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The Qur'an after Babel: Translating and Printing the Qur'an in Late Ottoman and Modern Turkey
<p>This dissertation examines the translation and printing of the Qur'an in the late Ottoman Empire and the early years of the Republic of Turkey (1820-1938). As most Islamic scholars deem the Qur'an inimitable divine speech, the idea of translating the Qur'an has been surrounded with concern since …
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Re-constructing Babel: The history and creative possibilities of a myth, explored through text and installation
… the layers of meaning around the Tower of Babel and how the myth can be visually represented today. This thesis attempts to give new readings to the myth drawing on history, literature, philosophy and architectural writings while using multi-media visual experimentation to highlight the …
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Da palavra à imagem : representações da família em Mrs. Doubtfire, Ordinary People, Brokeback Mountain e Babel
… Doubtfire, Ordinary People, Brokeback Mountain e Babel”, surge da reflexão sobre o questionamento da razoabilidade da sobrevivência da família sustentada no amor enquanto agente de equilíbrio individual e grupal, desencadeador de descobertas identitárias que, uma vez consciencializadas, despertam …
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Collaborating at the Tower of Babel: The Meaning of Cooperation and the Foundations of Long-Term Exchange
This dissertation is the first to propose and validate a general process by which exchange partners arrive at a shared understanding of what actions constitute (vs. defection) in changing and complex environments, thereby making cooperation possible. Achieving cooperation in the face of incentives …
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Towards a postmodern theatre
… zeal for reaching the Heaven through the Babel Tower has been fragmented. Like the first generation after the disastrous collapse of the Babel Tower, the postmodernists endeavor to trace the presence of God, the Author and the only source of a true meaning of life, by means of the …
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O papel da montagem na construção da narrativa : Análise no longa-metragembabel
… construção da narrativa do filme longa-metragem Babel, dirigido pelo cineasta mexicano Alejandro González Iñárritu, e lançado no ano de 2006. A estratégia metodológica adotada baseia-se na observação das relações estabelecidas entre as sequências que compõem as diferentes histórias narradas em …
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Arvo Pärt’s manipulation of the tintinnabular style in three representative choral works: An den Wassern zu Babel saẞen wir und weinten (1976), And One of the Pharisees (1992), and Adam’s Lament (2009)
… by Arvo Pärt. These are: An den Wassern zu Babel saßen wir und weinten for voices or mixed choir (Psalm 137) for SATB and organ, And One of the Pharisees… (1992) for 3 voices or 3-part choir (Ct/ATB) a cappella, and Adam’s Lament (2009) for SATB choir and string orchestra. While all these …
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Here on this hill
… the world of a college community in the city of Babel, to which she commutes daily, and the world of her home community in a rural area of northern Mississippi. Past and present collide as she explores events and ideologies which have shaped her own identity and the identities of those around …
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The Gospel in Genesis: How An Ancient Message Subverts Contemporary Worldviews and Lays the Foundation for a Christ-Centered Gospel
… concludes the project by looking at the tower of Babel and the genealogy that leads to Abram. This project shows how the basic framework of the gospel—including God’s sovereignty, man’s depravity, Christ’s redemption, and the response of faith—are all established in the first book of the Bible.
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Words without End: The Development of T. S. Eliot's Poetics from "The Waste Land" to "Four Quartets"
… a problematic multitude of voices (i.e. Babel) and the hoped-for single, divine voice of the Thunder. By contrast, <italic>Four Quartets</italic> not only admits but actively perpetrates linguistic slippage and non-reference. It thereby progresses by way of a poetics of renunciation that …
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