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GOOD BAD LUCK
GOOD BAD LUCK by Tracey Lien
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Bad luck chicken
He is standing holding a handwritten sign with her name, his flannel shirt tight around the shoulders and unbuttoned at the neck, his blond hair flattened by an invisible cap. Tia wishes she had gone to the bathroom beforehand, brushed her hair, put eye drops in, perhaps lined her lashes with …
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Relationship breakups: Are they all bad?
This research focused on the link between attributions people make about relationship termination, coping strategies employed post-breakup and possible posttraumatic growth experienced as a result of a breakup. The research also studied the relations between past relationship breakups and current …
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Bad Poetry and Other Short Stories
Bad Poetry and Other Short Stories is a collection of social, political, and religious commentary. The last three stories are also commentary from a non-fiction perspective.
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Bad Mothers in Eighteenth-Century Fiction
Focusing on texts written during the eighteenth century, and charting the connections between literary novels and contemporary discourse, this dissertation examines the role of the mother within this literature. I argue that contemporary fictional writers wrote important texts that reflect the …
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A big family of bad bad bad girls! Critical study of knotted entanglements between body, kinship, time, memory and language among trans women who live in Istanbul
Drawing on trans ways of approaching experiences of being, becoming, and relating, this dissertation aims to tell a story of ‘not coincidental but difficult to explain’ entanglements of body, kinship, time, and language by following curious and unexpected links between family and memory. I look at …
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A Structure Theorem for Bad 3-Orbifolds
<p>We explicitly construct 10 families of bad 3-orbifolds, X , having the following property: given any bad 3-orbifold, O, it admits an embedded suborbifold X ∈ X such that after removing this member from O, and capping the resulting boundary, and then iterating this process finitely many times, …
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Controlling Bodies: Mothers, Adolescents, and Bad Advice
Since the 1990s, medical and media articles containing the word "obesity" inevitably included the word "epidemic" as well. These articles usually pointed to the exponential growth in overweight and obese persons in high-income and low-income countries alike. A recent field of literature called "fat …
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Bad Apples, Bad Barrels, and the Structure of Marketing Channel Relationships: Analyses of the Propensity for Opportunism and Opportunistic Behaviors
The theoretical frameworks of transaction cost economics and agency theory are widely used to design appropriate governance structure for constraining opportunism within marketing channels. These approaches generally assume that marketing channel managers are opportunistic, and only economic …
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BAD and Mcl-1 Regulation in Prostate Cancer
… identified the Ser112 and Ser136 residues of BAD as the convergence point for several survival signaling pathways including the PKA, EGF, and PI3K/Akt pathways in prostate cancer cells. Upon phosphorylation of these residues, BAD becomes unable to bind to and inactivate the anti-apoptotic …
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Beyond bad faith : vindicating the quest for being
By equating the "quest for Being" with "bad faith" Sartre has over-simplified and misrepresented human reality. In this thesis I examine Sartre's description of "the human condition," as well as his concepts of "bad faith", "good faith", "authenticity", and "the ego"--for evidence of the consistent …
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Border fixity : when good fences make bad neighbors
Since the end of the Second World War, a norm of "border fixity" - a proscription of foreign conquest and annexation of homeland territory - has become prevalent in world politics. Such practices are no longer acceptable tools of policy. Has the international norm of border fixity made …
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The damned, the bad, and the ugly: Our society's bad (and occasionally sinister) habit of using villains to label, deter, and other
<p>As the most dynamic characters within a plot, villains have the ability to initiate change. To demonstrate the effect a villain can have, I have chosen two very different villains of popular culture—Theodora of <em>Oz the Great and Powerful</em> and the Joker of T<em>he Dark Knight</em>—because …
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