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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Bastion"”.
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Shelterskinspeed : last bastion for the reclusive brooding man
… ponders his fate and existence from this last bastion of security. He wears his home as the quest knight resides in his armor.
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Practical Exploit Mitigation Design Against Code Re-Use and System Call Abuse Attacks
… second practical exploit mitigation solution, BASTION. BASTION is a fine-grained system call filtering mechanism aimed at significantly strengthening the security surrounding system calls. Like MARDU, BASTION upholds the principles of this dissertation and was implemented with practicality in …
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Conservatism and liberalism in the American Congress : a selected study of congressional voting ratings, 1947-1972
… East realigned from a congressional Republican bastion to a congressional Democratic bastion and revolved from the most conservative to the most liberal region. The South shifted from the most liberal to the most conservative region and began a rapid, pro-Republican realignment. The Midwest …
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The reception and study of Renaissance architecture in Great Britain, 1890-1914
… to the Gothic Revival; then it acted as a bastion against modernist influences from the Continent. Finally, it provided a foundation of aesthetic principles applicable to modern design. With the advent of university programs in architecture, the writing of architectural history became more …
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La citadelle de Namur : patrimoine fortifié comme enjeu patrimonial de développement durable
… italienne et s’exporte vite, comme le bastion. Étymologiquement, citadella veut dire « petite cité, en référence à la grande, face à laquelle elle s’implante. Il n’y a pas de citadelle sans ville, et, généralement, sans ville forte. Elle participe de son système défensif et prend place …
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ΘΕΟΔΩΡΟΣ ΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΙΟΥ ΚΑΒΑΛΛΙΩΤΗΣ (1718; 1789). Ο ΔΙΔΑΣΚΑΛΟΣ ΤΟΥ ΓΕΝΟΥΣ
… OF EDUCATIONAL RADIATION AND CHANGED IT INTO A BASTION OF RESISTANCE AGAINST THE OTTOMAN TYRANNY AND HETERODOX PROPAGANDA. (SHORTENED)
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The stirrings still of popular forms of entertainment in Samuel Beckett's first published play : examining the influences of the Music-Hall, Vaudeville, Circus and Early screen comedy on Waiting for Godot
… Yet his consistent reverence for one particular bastion of Western culture remains a lesser known fact: that of popular stage and screen entertainment. This thesis explores the ways in which Beckett interlards Waiting for Godot with a selection of thematic motifs and comic conventions culled from …
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“For ‘Their Own Good’”: Education, The Performing Arts, and Social Justice at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, 1915–2023
… the leadership of Harvey Lichtenstein) became a bastion of highbrow, avant-garde culture.</p>
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The virtual-musical other: creating unique worlds through musical sound in videogames
… three post-apocalyptic videogames, Borderlands, Bastion, and Fallout 3. In these games, the eclectic musical approach aims to evoke an ambiguity and originality achieved through digital production using synthetic and instrumental sounds found in sound library software. Also, preexisting music …
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An ideological criticism of David Duke's rhetoric of racism and exclusion
… discrimination as white exclusion, welfare as a bastion of illegitimacy, and immigration as the downfall of American culture. Attempting to exclude minorities from society, Duke moves beyond Rojo's concept of demonization and uses scapegoating to blame minorities for America's social ills. By …
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The Church as an Agent of Reconciliation in the Thought of Desmond Tutu
<p>South Africa was both the first and last bastion of extended European colonial rule in Sub-Saharan Africa. Due to the extensive interaction between the Black and White races over time, who were distinguished by divergent philosophies of life, friction developed between these two major ethnic …
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Let them come to Berlin: The geopolitical role and significance of President John F. Kennedy's visit to Berlin on 26 June 1963
… would frame its western sectors as a collective bastion of liberal democracy and Western Allied cooperation, and thereby restore a much-needed sense of unity to an increasingly fractious Euro-Atlantic Alliance. Drawing together materials from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, …
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Location Choice, Linkages and the Spatial Economy: Essays on Theory, Evidence and Heterodox Assessment
… whereas qualitative methods had become the last bastion of "true social scientists". Today, these so-called "science wars" have rendered "qualitative" and "quantitative" analysis into almost mutually exclusive concepts.
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"Celtic Pride": White Nostalgia and Working-Class Masculinity in 1970s Professional Basketball
… ability. The Celtics ultimately represented a bastion of white working-class masculinity, an athletic utopia in which hard work, toughness, and dedication could still lead to success and recognition. They also represented the ability of white men, through sheer determination and force of will, …
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Closing “The Mediterranean Cemetry”: whether the European agenda on migration (immediate action) aimed at curbing the Africa-EU migration “crisis” is International Law compliant?
… commences by arguing that migration today is a bastion of state sovereignty though fettered to a very limited extent by human rights, international law and states’ inter-dependence. The thesis then discusses the right to asylum and the principle of non-refoulement under international law. This …
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Analyzing cities' complex socioeconomic networks using computational science and machine learning
… that social skills will be the last bastion of differentiation between humans and machines, and thus, jobs will become mostly dominated by social skills. Using data-driven tools from network science, machine learning, and computational science, the first question I aim to answer is …
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The food assembly : architecture of sustenance for the new industrial city
… infrastructure, and surplus labor. This food bastion is simultaneously park, garden and workplace, a food Gigafactory, to feed their city and free their city, and hopefully, in this process, become a new driver for culture.
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Light flight : an orchestrated perception
… that an atmospheric enthrallment is the last bastion of a unique experience deliverable by the physical museum. The author believes that an American museum needs a representative architecture that is not, as oftentimes, borrowed from Europe and elsewhere. In this search for national identity, …
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Reading the Terror over Tea: Reflections of British Nationalism in the Guillotine's Blade, 1793-1795
… in the tradition of the Magna Carta to that of a bastion of order in the face of political radicalism. This study uses eighteenth century newspapers from across Britain to examine key events of the period of the Terror--the trial and execution of Louis XVI, the trial and execution of …
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House and home in late Victorian women's poetry
… home is an ideologically loaded noun, a bastion of value which is inextricably entwined with the notion of the pure woman. Thirdly, in literature, houses are metaphorical places. This thesis is primarily a study of those metaphorical places. It explores representations of ‘house’ and …
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