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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Cliché"”.
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Creating a cliché library for social applications
… functionality across the web into a library of clichés. Users select clichés that represent core concepts in their application, specify various configuration variables and include actions that add the desired functionality to their application. This thesis focuses on creating a cliché library …
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The Gesture of Rage in the Garden of Eden: Cliché and Catastrophe in Anne Carson’s ‘Variations on the Right to Remain Silent’, ’Just for the Thrill’ and The Beauty of the Husband
… imaginative and conceptual use of the terms 'cliché' and 'catastrophe'. These two concepts are central to Carson’s poetics and they are profoundly interrelated.<br/><br/>The introduction explores how, in this challenging contemporary poet’s creative oeuvre, cliché is a screen that distorts the …
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Against against affect (again) : æffect in Kenneth Goldsmith's Seven American deaths and disasters
… a specific kind of affective transformation: the cliché. I discuss what makes a cliché, especially in relation to affect, before turning to Sianne Ngai's Ugly Feelings and her concept of “stuplimity.” Stuplimity is an often ignored and not easily articulated affect that arises from boredom and …
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Let's Waltz the Rumba
… to me, “let’s do this our own way"? or the old cliché phrase “let’s walk to the beat of a different drummer."? This quote embodies the spirit in which these poems where written.
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A graphical environment for Déjà Vu app development
… allows people to build web applications from clichés, reusable implementations of software concepts. A cliché provides user interface elements and a database-backed web service in a single package, and the actions provided by clichés can be connected together to create complex functionality. …
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Translational Architecture
… becoming a World's Fair pavilion or a cultural cliché. World's Fair pavilions often represent just a moment within a nation's ongoing architectural discourse, as is fitting for their temporary status. Some embassies are cultural clichés, which look like how uneducated residents of the host …
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L'image exposée. La représentation des photographies de l'Agence France-Presse sur les réseaux sociaux numériques
Le cliché d’une « barquette de frites nappées de chocolat », un « coucher de soleil » aux couleurs saturées près de Puerto Natales au Chili… Cette thèse a pour objectif d’étudier la représentation des photographies exposées par l’Agence France-Presse sur les « réseaux sociaux » – Instagram, …
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A New score for Pandora's Box (Pabst, 1929).
… referential music and sound, the application of cliché, the employment of the rhythm of inter-title ‘speech’ and synchrony. As an original contribution to knowledge, the paper establishes the novel idea of the organisation of music and sound as Layers of Synchrony and with reference to examples …
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Experiential embodiment and human immediacy: Adorno’s negative affinity
… offers a new pathway without falling into the cliché of a renewal of Adorno’s position. Drawing on Adorno’s theoretical thoughts on the subject the thesis contends that the subject is that which by turns dissolves all eventualities or more proportionally acts like a place-holder for the newly …
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THE ROLE OF MESSIANISM IN CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN IDENTITY AND STATECRAFT
… historical mission is typically represented as a cliché with little or no relevance in politics. However, an increasing deployment of several interrelated messianic ideas and notions has been noted in both public and official Post-Soviet discourse, raising the question of how we should understand …
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Feeling good: rescuing a living tradition of interpersonal, affective ethics from empathy clichés
… the conceptualization of empathy has reduced to cliché.
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The Ancient Art of Smile-Making
… Sometimes we call “friendship” kitschy and cliché. And why is that? I made Perry and White’s bond a bit absurd because it is almost ridiculous that there could be a person in the wild world who would sacrifice themselves.</p>
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Around the World and Back: A Discovery in India
… another culture, and pursue the idea of the old cliché: be the change I wanted to see in the world. This journey fulfilled the requirements of the project in multiple ways. It was a major risk to travel to another country with a language barrier on my own. The amount of work it took to prepare …
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Around the World and Back: A Discovery in India
… another culture, and pursue the idea of the old cliché: be the change I wanted to see in the world. This journey fulfilled the requirements of the project in multiple ways. It was a major risk to travel to another country with a language barrier on my own. The amount of work it took to prepare …
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The midlife crisis, gender, and social science in the United States, 1970–2000
… relegated the midlife crisis to a chauvinist cliché. It has remained a contested concept for negotiating the balances between work and life, production and reproduction into the present day.
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Examining the Relationship Between Leadership Decision Making Styles and Personality Type Within the Department of Defense
… within the Department of Defense. While the old cliché “<em>everyone is a leader regardless of position</em>” may hold moral meaning, personnel in leadership positions are key. Under the umbrella of leadership is decision making. What leadership is to an organization, decision making is to …
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The Effects of Human Capital and Voluntary Human Capital Disclosures on Investors' Decision-Making and Assessments of Firm Value
A common cliché found in annual reports is "our employees are our most important, valuable asset." While many companies claim human capital is an important asset and source of valuable earnings, there is nary a human asset found in financial statements. This research paper investigates the …
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Télédétection des propriétés optiques de l’environnement nocturne pour la modélisation du transfert radiatif de la lumière d’origine anthropique
… étapes. Tout d’abord, une correction par un cliché sombre est appliquée pour le biais du capteur ainsi que les effets thermiques. Puis, un champ plat est utilisé pour compenser la sensibilité réduite en bordure des images. Ensuite, la linéarité du capteur est étalonnée en variant le temps …
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Maintaining cultural identity in design: shape grammar as means of identifying and modifying design style.
… but what if the process of generation leads to cliché designs? The focus of this research involves the analysis of a popular traditional Kuwaiti product called Sadu. Style in art and architecture is measured in terms of consistency over a series of artifacts which can be recognised through the …