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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Carew"”.
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A study of early Caroline lyric verse with special attention to that of Thomas Carew and Robert Herrick
… attention is directed to the work of Thomas Carew and Robert Herrick. First the historical background of the period, with its social and political tensions, is examined. The court is seen as a bastion of privilege, a cause for resentment and, at the same time, a nurturing ground for great …
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Lyric Transcendence: the Sacred and the Real In Classical and Early-Modern Lyric.
… in English lyric in Sir Philip Sidney and Thomas Carew. I argue that the function of the erotic in lyric discourse underwent a major shift in relation to sacred discourse and transcendence. This shift consisted of an alteration from a poetics of metaphor to metonymy and a conceptual alteration of …
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Disarming Microaggressions: How Black College Students Self-regulate Racial Stressors within Predominately White Institutions
… microaggressions (Constantine, 2007; Pierce, Carew, Pierce-Gonzalez, & Willis, 1978; Sue, Capidolupo et al., 2007). Researchers have demonstrated the unique, harmful, and cumulative impact of racial microaggressions in the lives of people of color (Rivera, Forquer, & Rangel, 2010; Sue, Nadal, …
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Deviant bodies and the reordering of desire: Heterosexuality and nation-building in early modern England
… Bale, John Lyly, Edmund Spenser, James I, Thomas Carew, Andrew Marvell, and John Milton, my study argues that the disruptive presence of queer desire plays an integral role in shaping the emerging, interrelated discourses of heterosexuality and nationalism in early modern culture. Looking at …
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The Byzantine system from within: a comparison of Procopius' Secret History and Lydus' On the Magistracies, and their presentation of the regime of Justinian
[pg 124,129 is missing] The reason for choosing Procopius and John the Lydian (or Lydus, as he will be referred to for convenience hereafter) for this study of the reign of Justinian is that they both provide contemporary accounts from within the imperial system and portray different persepectives …
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The power of peers: mobile youth culture, homophily and informal learning among a group of South African youth
Popular notions of "net generations" and "digital natives" have already been subject to sustained academic critique. This dissertation builds on such critiques by documenting the local practices and distinctive mobile literacies of a group of young people in South Africa. These young people (ages …
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The recipe book and the construction of female domestic identity: a historical inquiry
This thesis explores how familiar objects such as the homely recipe book hold our affection and shape our personal worlds. It takes its inspiration from a body of literature that only recently has explored in detail our relationship to mundane objects, subjecting these objects - and our feelings …
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Application of CNN-gcForestCS to cassava leaf image classification
Cassava is one of the most consumed carbohydrates in the world, providing a reliable source of income and nutrition to inhabitants of Latin America, Africa and Asia. However, its production is greatly affected by pathogenic infection with cassava mosaic disease (CMD) posing the greatest threat to …
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The Effectiveness of Industrial Countrys' Preferential Market Access Arrangements on Stimulating Caribbean Exports
The study is confined to evaluating the effectiveness of trade preferences extended by major industrial countries. Two approaches are used to make this evaluation. The first approach is a gravity trade model that relies in both time series and cross-sectional data. The Gravity equation includes …
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Multivariable control of a nonlinear process : output prioritisation by error redistribution
Bibliography: leaves 149-154.
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Modeling spatial patterns of mixed-species Appalachian forests with Gibbs point processes
Stochastic point processes and associated methodology provide a means for the statistical analysis and modeling of the spatial point pattern formed from forest tree stem locations. Stochastic Gibbs point processes were explored as models that could simulate short-range clustering arising from …