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Showing 1 to 20 of 94 for “"Bliss"”.
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The Family Bliss
… and pronouns and coming out as nonbinary, Zee Bliss returns home from college. There, they discover their coming-out announcement has been overshadowed by a rift in their parents’ marriage. Zee’s mother, Myra Bliss, an art professor, has been accused of sexual assault by a student. Radley …
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The bliss of reaching: an online magazine
… uploaded one issue. The issue I created, "The Bliss of Reading," is a magazine that has 100 poems from 100 poets, and they are paired with 100 paintings. The poems were pulled from back issues of Poetry East, with permission from editor, Richard Jones, and all of the paintings are from the …
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The Philosophy Of Aesthetic Bliss: A Marxist Reading Of Nabakov's Lolita
In this thesis I will demonstrate, that, far from being entirely removed from social or political ideologies, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is actually a very emphatic cultural statement. Using the theories of Fredric Jameson, I will examine the novel in terms of what it has to say about social …
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Ignorance and Marital Bliss: Women's Education in the English Novel, 1796-1895
Mary Hays's Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1796) and Mary Wollstonecraft's Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman (1798) demonstrate the futility of educating women, given Britain's law of coverture; they expose the impracticality of ideal women presented in Jean Jacques Rousseau's Émile (1762) and James …
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The Pandemic-Uncanny: Self-Estrangement and Environment in Out There and Bliss Montage
1 PDF file (iii, 100 pages)
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The Gospel According to Carey: Christian Hermeneutics in Bliss and Oscar and Lucinda
… concern with respect to the Peter Carey novels Bliss and Oscar and Lucinda, I trace the appropriations of Scripture in the forms of Christ imagery and allusion (in a number of characters, but principally in protagonists Oscar Hopkins and Harry Joy), Garden imagery as Bride imagery (in rural …
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The Gospel According to Carey: Christian Hermeneutics in Bliss and Oscar and Lucinda
… concern with respect to the Peter Carey novels Bliss and Oscar and Lucinda, I trace the appropriations of Scripture in the forms of Christ imagery and allusion (in a number of characters, but principally in protagonists Oscar Hopkins and Harry Joy), Garden imagery as Bride imagery (in rural …
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Awakening from a land of bliss : changing control and authority of commerical airline pilots
This research project explores the changing control and professional authority of commercial airline pilots as a professional group. Although pilots have historically held significant amounts of professional authority, this has been changing in recent years as a result of the increased regulation …
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Arthur Bliss's emerging voice : a study of two song cycles on texts by Li Po
In 1923, the British composer Arthur Bliss (1889-1975) was 32 years old and resuming his musical activities that had been interrupted by World War I. Bliss visited the United States in April 1923, and in June of that year, he composed his first song cycle, Ballads of the Four Seasons for voice and …
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A case analysis of energy savings performance contract projects and photovoltaic energy at Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas
… emerging photovoltaic energy for the Army’s Fort Bliss in El Paso, TX. The project will also analyze energy demands based on a new force alignment at Fort Bliss in accordance with the recent Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) findings. The project will review current Energy Performance Contract …
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Dante's Divine Comedy as a theurgic act, a guide for the blessed reader from a state of misery to a state of bliss.
The enduring fascination of Dante’s Divina Commedia has attracted, for centuries, not only scholars of medieval literature, Italian or Renaissance studies, but also scholars of modern cosmology and mathematics who, seeking explanations for their research results, rediscover and find inspiration in …
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Charles Willson Peale'S Benjamin and Eleanor Ridgely Laming: An Iconographical Study
… of a couple desiring fertility and domestic bliss. I have found that all of the plants in the image are linked either symbolically or medicinally to fertility of the female body or land. The painting also includes symbolism of domestic bliss and feminine virtue.</p>
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The Enigma of the Everyday
… ultimately resolved. My thesis work, entitled Bliss, is a series of paintings derived from photographs that reference the ordered symmetry of Buddhist mandalas. As representations of bliss states these works allude to the tenuous, shifting nature of experience. In this work, pieces of things …
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The Enigma of the Everyday
… ultimately resolved. My thesis work, entitled Bliss, is a series of paintings derived from photographs that reference the ordered symmetry of Buddhist mandalas. As representations of bliss states these works allude to the tenuous, shifting nature of experience. In this work, pieces of things …
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Kate Brew Vaughn: Marketing Domestic Expertise
… promoted a commercialized message of domestic bliss. In doing so, Vaughn came to be seen as an expert in household affairs. Piecing together Vaughn's professional life with newspaper accounts, encyclopedic entries, archival documents, census records and an assortment of publications written by …
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Sex and Respectability in Ireland: A Chronology of Cultural Change
… Chapter Four analyses the figure of Panti Bliss, the drag queen whose comments on homophobia in Irish culture set the stage for the same-sex marriage referendum. Much like the marriage movement, Panti Bliss represents the sanitisation, desexualisation, and the rendering respectable of the …
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Angel’s Tears – multimedia work project
… through intoxication, where the pursuit of bliss ultimately leads to an illusory state of loss and vulnerability. Through its interactive multimedia elements, “Angel’s Tears” explores the tension between fleeting ecstasy and the irrevocable sacrifice of body, mind, and soul.
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