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Concrete Reality: The Posthuman Landscapes of J.G. Ballard
<p>While the fiction of J.G. Ballard has been primarily explored through postmodern criticism, his narratives and settings predict major issues concerning the contemporary discourse of posthumanism. His texts explore the escalating economic, social, and ecological crises converging within the …
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The Development of Job Descriptions for Ballard Community School District
… job descriptions for the employees of the Ballard Community School District. Procedure. The school board initiated the plan by mandating that job descriptions be developed for all employees. A program coordinator was appointed and a format was followed that was developed after reviewing …
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A Study Of The Special Education Programs Of Ballard Community School District
… development of the special education programs of Ballard Community School District. It provided a historical perspective of how and why the special needs services of the district have been developed and expanded. Procedure. Interviews were conducted with personnel who have worked with the past and …
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The Apocalyptic Visions of J.G. Ballard: Surrealism, World War II, and Modern Technology
… four major phases of his literary career, J.G. Ballard’s engagement with, and synthesis of, various twentieth century artistic and intellectual movements assisted Ballard in deciphering the twentieth century, while also enabling him to prophetically speculate on the future of the human …
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Apocalypticisim in the fiction of William S. Burroughs, J.G. Ballard, and Thomas Pynchon.
… Five explore the apocalyptic fiction of J. G. Ballard; topics covered include Ballard's concept of inner space, his debt to Surrealism, and the coded landscapes of his more experimental texts; in particular the "condensed novels" which comprise The Atrocity Exhibition (1970). A concluding …
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Our Best Selves: J. G. Ballard, Jennifer Egan, and Conceptions of Happiness Under Neoliberalism
… literature, looking at the work of J. G. Ballard and Jennifer Egan. I have sought to offer a loosely Foucauldian reading of the way in which happiness has come to operate as a form of neoliberal governmentality. I build on existing accounts of how a form of neoliberal ‘commonsense’ comes …
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Encountering Time: Selected Short Stories of J.G. Ballard and Paul Ricoeur's <em>Time and Narrative</em>
… <ul> <li>Introduction: Treatment of Time in J.G. Ballard’s Selected Short Stories</li> <li>Chapter I: The Illusion of Now</li> <li>Chapter II: Games With Time</li> <li>Chapter III: Capturing Time, Frozen Temporality, and The End of Time</li> <li>Chapter IV: Ricoeur’s “Third Time” or The Fictive …
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The only truly alien planet is earth: J. G. Ballard, dalla fantascienza al mainstream tra romanticismo e surrealismo
As an author J. G. Ballard used to deal with different genres and topics, producing several short stories and a number of novels. Yet he has always been true to himself. He started as a science fiction writer, which in a sense he was until the end. With some occasional romantic references, over the …
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A comparison of the accuracy of various methods of postnatal gestational age estimation; including Ballard score, foot length, vascularity of the anterior lens, last menstrual period and also a clinician's non-structured assessment
… vascularity of the anterior lens, the New Ballard Score and Last Menstrual Period. Clinicians' non-structured global impression “End of Bed” Assessment was also evaluated. Results 106 babies were included in the study. Median age at birth was 34 weeks (IQR 29-36). Ballard Score and “End of …
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"A Self-Observing World of Observers": The American Serial Killer in Cormac McCarthy's Child of God and Contemporary True Crime Narratives
… a concerted look at one such figure: Lester Ballard, the problematic “protagonist” of Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God. My study is organized into four sections which take up the language of criminal classification in order to more fully determine how Lester functions. “Who Is(n’t) Lester …
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Humanising climate change through climate fiction: A literary examination of New York 2140 (2017) by Robinson and the Drowned world (1962) by Ballard
… by Robinson and The Drowned World (1962) by Ballard as they explicitly capture the main theme of this study. The study employed thematic content analysis to analyse gathered data which was systemised into different themes to ease the data analysis and presentation process. Through the …
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Evaluation of nested and parallel real options : case study of Ford's investment in fuel cell technology
… the Case of Ford Motor Company's investment in Ballard/Daimler Chrysler's joint venture. After reviewing the different existing methods that could be applied to the evaluation of Ford's investment, an analysis of the previous major applications of the "Real Option Thinking" to real projects was …
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Conversations: the socially engaged artist as environmental change agent
… to encourage change at a personal level. (Ballard and Associates 2005b; Darnton et al. 2006) I use the value-action gap, the tension point between knowing about climate change and failing to make changes in our own behaviour, (Blake 1999; Darnton 2004b; Kollmus and Agyeman 2002) as a direct …
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High-Resolution Seismic Characterization of Shallow Sedimentary Structure for Freshwater Resources and Karstic Voids
… impulsive borehole seismic sources, Scorpion and Ballard, is rigorously examined at a Gulf of Mexico coastal site. Both sources are evaluated in crosswell and reverse vertical seismic profile (RVSP) configurations. The study reveals distinct P-wave dominant frequencies for each source and …
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Shorebird migration in western Kentucky: phenology, habitat use, and possible effects of prey availability
… (KDFWR) constructed four moist-soil units on Ballard, Sloughs, and Peabody Wildlife Management Areas (WMA) in western Kentucky. From March to October, I surveyed shorebirds at each moist soil unit as well as other natural and man-made wetlands at each WMA. Species abundance and foraging …
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The old New Wave : a study of the 'New Wave' in British science fiction during the 1960s and early 1970s, with special reference to the works of Brian W. Aldiss, J.G. Ballard, Harry Harrison and Michael Moorcock
This thesis examines the 'New Wave' in British science fiction in the 1960s and early 1970s. The use of the terms 'science fiction' and 'New Wave' in the thesis are defined through a use of elements of the ideological theories of Louis Althusser. The New Wave is seen as a change in the ideological …
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Another World Entire: the Posthumanism of Cormac Mccarthy
… of our world a story. His characters, Lester Ballard, Billy Parham, and the boy, become posthuman as they live increasingly outside of narrative. Their existences extend beyond the page, in a radical intimacy with the world, evident in the haunting and elusive presences, and absences, of …
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School Administrators' Perceptions of the CACREP School Counseling Standards
… role as defined by the counseling profession (Ballard and Murgatroyd, 1999; Borders and Drury, 1992; Fitch et al., 2001; Louis et al., 2001; Ponec and Brock, 2000) The purpose of this study was to describe how school administrators view the importance and use of the CACREP School Counseling …
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Random Access Memories: Mechanism and Metaphor in the Fiction of William Gibson
… Cornell and Roland Barthes as well as J. G. Ballard and P. K. Dick), and considers the author's influence on contemporary American culture--in the process sketching the outlines of a social change in the status of human memory.
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