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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Construction and Destruction"”.
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Sacrifice as a Narrative Strategy: The Construction and Destruction of the Self in May Sinclair, Mary Butts, and H. D.
… twentieth century by May Sinclair, Mary Butts, and H. D. (Hilda Doolittle). I argue that sacrifice is used as a narrative strategy for negotiating the relationship between self and other, not only on a thematic level, but also in terms of narrative strategy. These shifts are not only indicative …
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Everyday Haunting
… a journey of self-exploration, discovery, construction and destruction. It is a story of learning, a testament to impermanence, and a proposal for possibility. The words and work contained in this document are exclusive to the thoughts and actions of one man that hopes to share with others.
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Type inference based deforestation of functional programs
… data structure is produced by one part and consumed by another one. The gained modularity has to be payed for in terms of a longer runtime, because construction and destruction of the intermediate data structure costs time. Deforestation is the name for a class of optimising program …
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Phantom Limbs: Urban history and the generation of built form
… the process of trying to manage decisions and objects coming together in a designated area of the city, questions are faced that are generated by more than one set of circumstances, the many histories of a place, its geology and typology and topology, the balance of pragmatism and idealism …
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Potential architecture
Material equality, and thus the balance of social power, represents an Inherently architectural problem. But architects do not yet possess the tools required to formulate a meaningful response. Architects should be painfully aware that building - In a society that relies on capitalist principles - …
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Committed to Memory: Remembering "9/11" as a Crisis of Education
… the pedagogical significance of mourning and remembrance in the context of the commemorative culture surrounding the “9/11” attacks on America, which have stimulated recent explorations of what it might mean to commit to ethical remembrances of the dead. Critical of “9/11” memorial …
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Academic Life Under Occupation: The Impact on Educationalists at Gaza's Universities
This sociological study explores the past and current higher education (HE) experience of educationalists at Gaza’s universities and how this experience may be evolving in the shifting socio-political context in the Arab World. The thesis is motivated by three questions: 1. What are the …