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Showing 1 to 20 of 142 for “"Boyle"”.
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The Untalented Boyle
… of this short comedic novel, Mary Catherine Boyle moves back in with her parents after her mother becomes sick. Mary believes that her mother is pretending to be sick in order to force her daughter to return home. However, Mary is broke and homeless so she does not have a choice. Her parents …
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Robert Boyle on the Elements
Robert Boyle (1627-91) hypothesised that all matter subsisted of corpuscles, differentiated only by size, figure and shape, and believed that water played a central rôle in the created world: it may even have been the prime matter. He considered the question of the elements and, defining them as …
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The Vascular Flora of Boyle County, KY
<p>The vascular flora of Boyle County, Kentucky, was conducted from March 2013 to March 2015. Boyle County is located in central Kentucky and is part of the Bluegrass Physiographic Section. A total of 127 families, 392 genera, and 722 species, varieties, and subspecies were documented from Boyle …
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A Commentary on The Sceptical Chymist of Robert Boyle
… purpose of this project is to elucidate Robert Boyle’s The Sceptical Chymist to the contemporary reader – in particular one with a knowledge either of philosophy or of chemistry. The body of the work divides naturally into three distinct sections: Literature Review in which some twenty articles …
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Uncovering the unpublished chamber music of George Frederick Boyle Volume I: Dissertation
… composer, pianist, and teacher, George Frederick Boyle (1886–1948). Boyle was somewhat of a prodigy in his younger years and contributed much to Australia’s burgeoning concert scene. In 1905 he left Australia to study with Ferruccio Busoni, and from 1910 until his death he lived and worked in the …
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John Boyle, Greg Curnoe and Joyce Wieland: Erotic Art and English Canadian Nationalism
… artists in the mid-1960s-70s, namely John Boyle, Greg Curnoe, and Joyce Wieland. It contends that within their bodies of work there are ways of imagining nationalism and eroticism that are formally or conceptually interrelated, either by strategy or figuration, and at times …
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Robert Boyle and the Significance of Skill and Experience in Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy
… of the seventeenth centuryin particular, Robert Boyle (1627-1691) considered and assessed the personal traits of skill and experience and the significance of these characteristics to the practice of seventeenth-century science. Boyle's writings reveal that skill and experience impacted various …
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Living coal : Robert Boyle, John Holland, and the bodily passages of chimney sweep literature, 1684-1824
This project attends to a body of literature that registers the extraordinary and tragic effects of chimneys infused with living coal upon young chimney sweeps. In so doing, I show how writers, especially John Holland, registered the dynamic interrelationship between chimney sweeps, chimneys and …
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Transculturalidade entre fronteiras no continente norte-americano: The tortilla curtain, de T. C. Boyle, e Volkswagen Blues, de Jacques Poulin
… Curtain (1995), do escritor estadunidense T. C. Boyle, e Volkswagen Blues (1984), do escritor quebequense Jacques Poulin, com o objetivo de delinear os recursos linguísticos e literários que tais autores utilizam para representar as fronteiras entre o Canadá, os Estados Unidos e o México. Para …
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With Teeth
… living in New Jersey now, witnesses Beth Boyle stage her husband's death, she decides to blackmail her.
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Theology and natural philosophy in late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century Britain
… of science have claimed that the early Boyle Sermons provided a platform for the promotion of a moderate-Anglican social and political ideology underpinned by Newtonian natural philosophy. However, by examining in detail the texts of Richard Bentley, John Harris and Samuel Clarke, this …
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Selling Out: The American Literary Market Place and the Modernist Novel
… F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Kay Boyle, and William Faulkner deliberately tried to create a literary reputation through both their success in commercial publishing and their resistance to it. I do not so much refute the difference between elite and mass culture, but instead show …
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Selling out: The American literary marketplace and the Modernist novel
… F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Kay Boyle, and William Faulkner attempted to create their literary reputations through their success in commercial publishing, and how later critics and scholars read, interpreted, and re-inscribed those attempts. Specifically, I interrogate the …
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Ailments of the Soul: Blood Transfusions and the Treatment of Melancholy in Seventeenth-Century England
… of Lower’s colleagues, Thomas Willis and Robert Boyle, provide a new context and reasoning behind Lower’s experiments. Lower, Willis and Boyle’s combined work explains the theory of blood diseases and how blood transfusions could potentially treat mental diseases including melancholy.
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the game: a contemporary opera in one act
… opera was performed on April 2nd, 2022 in Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall as a partial fulfillment for my degree requirements. Long-term, I envision The Game performed by singers in high school, undergraduates, or even community theaters. I utilize the leitmotiv technique throughout the opera, as …
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At the Margins of Modern Science: Leviathan and the Air-Pump as a Case Study for Meta-analysis of Contemporary Science and Technology Studies
… find between the community orientation of Robert Boyle and the anti-community stance of Thomas Hobbes. In the course of this thesis, I question the validity not only of this contrast, but of the origins story itself. I suggest that while experimental, communally-practiced science and modernity did …
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Engaging The Public Through Social Media
… will highlight some local government entities in Boyle County, Kentucky and what they currently have in place regarding use of social media by their agencies. As there appears to be very little direction on this matter, potential issues that can affect the use of social media by future …
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Persuading college students to refrain from abusing energy drinks : a test of message framing, argument type, and cognitive load.
… years energy drink consumption has increased (Boyle & Castilleo, 2006) as well as mixing alcohol with energy drinks (Kapner, 2008). The current study examines the impact of persuasion (i.e., message framing and argument type) and cognitive load on susceptibility, perceived likelihood, and …
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Du mythe à la subversion trois manifestations de la figure du zombie filmique
… A. Romero et 28 Days Later (2002) de Danny Boyle et Alex Garland. Ces films sont analysés en fonction de l'attitude du zombie, de ses caractéristiques, des motivations apparentes, de son pouvoir et impact sur la population. En somme, l'objectif vise ici à établir un portrait de la figure du …
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Dunsink Landfill A Study Of The Health Effects Of Living In Close Proximity To A Landfill And The Public Perception Of Landfills
… Manager for Dublin City Council and Dr. Eugene Boyle of the Health Service Executive (HSE) are also taken into account. A door-to-door survey o f three areas in Finglas was used in order to obtain the information needed for the study. This survey included questions relating to health, opinions …
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