Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 193 for “"CrossRoads"”.
-
Crossroads
… for analyzing my own fear. Like my title essay “Crossroads” implies, I find myself at a pivotal moment in my life--a fork in the road, if you will--and my thesis is an attempt to make a decision about my future by examining my current frustrations and also my past--in particular the moments and …
-
Signature Crossroads
Signature Crossroads, an urban form that grows out of an street intersection, combines both the sense of "transit" and the sense of "destination." Such dual character gives Signature Crossroads a superiority over traditional squares as the identity in contemporary cities. This thesis investigates …
-
Crossroads of the Earth
Crossroads of The Earth is a single-movement mixed quartet in five sections, set for flute/piccolo, alto saxophone, violoncello, and piano. My inspiration for this composition stemmed from the environmental awareness film 11th Hour which vividly portrays the adverse effects of humanity's historical …
-
Hermeneutics of the Crossroads
… posed in my thesis is whether or not the crossroads is a paradigm that might open the event of reading and interpretation. I believe this profound place of possibility is a valid intellectual model for innovative and uninhabited modes of understanding. The hermeneutics of the crossroads is …
-
Naomi on the crossroads of Umlazi.
The title of this dissertation reads Naomi on the Crossroads of Umlazi: A critical historical study of the cultural situation of the childless widow in Ancient Israel visa- vis that of the childless widow in Umlazi, KwaZulu-Natal in the late 1990s.
-
At the Crossroads of Civil War
<p>The Battle of Antietam, often overlooked among the defining events of the American Civil War, perfectly encapsulates the complexities of the conflict and the myriad factors that must be considered to fully understand it. These intertwining factors can be found preceding and following Antietam in …
-
Living with fragility : children in New Crossroads
… aged between and sixteen years, resided in New Crossroads, Cape Town, a suburb marked by poverty, inadequate schooling, and a history of violent intervention by the apartheid state and other power holders. The thesis shows that institutions of childhood are fragile, that children's social …
-
Crossroads Center, Homeless Mission and Transitional Shelter
My thesis is an exploration of sacred space in architecture. The vehicle for this exploration is a homeless mission and transitional shelter in Alexandria, Virginia. Homelessness is a constant battle for both individuals and communities, precipitating disjointed and fragmented lives. I hoped to …
-
The German Army at a Crossroads of Modernization
<p>This thesis examines the German civil-military relationship and the challenges the country is facing amidst modernizing reforms to the German armed forces. Over the last quarter of a century, new international security threats have manifested and continue to transform requiring Germany to adapt …
-
Crossroads: An interdisciplinary study of funeral directors in Indiana
<p>This work is an ethnographic study of funeral directors in Indiana, focusing on the social role they play. Funeral directors, through performances as director and actor, with their living tableaux and focus on the life of the deceased individual, rather than his or her death, offer us the …
-
A posthuman curriculum: subjectivity at the crossroads of time
This investigation is focused on three critical issues facing educators in the 21st century: how technology is reshaping what it means to be human, the shift from the human era to the posthuman era and the implications of that shift on subjectivity, and the purpose of undergraduate education in a …
-
Career and Technical Education in the Crossroads of Change
Career and technical education (CTE) is faced with numerous forces that may impact its future. A variety of forces directly or indirectly affect CTE, ranging from the persisting stigma or negative image of career and technical education, the schools' curricular structure and requirements, along …
-
Crossroads : a collaborative design notebook for constructionist learning activities
Thesis (M.Eng. and S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2001.
-
MEIS1: At the Crossroads Between Metabolic and Cell Cycle Regulation
Stem cells undergo self-renewal, maintaining themselves in an undifferentiated state while generating differentiated cells that are required for the tissue homeostasis or repair. One intriguing feature of stem cells is their maintenance in their respective hypoxic niche. Survival in this low-oxygen …
-
Cinema at the Crossroads: Bruce Conner’s Atomic Sublime, 1958 - 2008
… how Conner’s films, situated at the historical “crossroads” of the Cold War, negotiated the cultural politics of race, nation, gender, and sexuality during this fraught period, with particular attention to their complex, and often ambivalent, engagement with popular culture.</p> <p>The …
-
Urban Forestry at a Crossroads: Development of an Emerging Profession
While the practice of managing trees in and near human settlements has been around for most of human history, urban forestry has only been organizing as a discrete profession since the mid-1960s. As a relatively new profession, urban forestry lacks much of the structure and organization seen in …
-
TB-RBP protein : sitting at the crossroads of sex and disease
The goal of the project was to determine the crystal structure of TB-RBP (Testis/Brain RNA binding protein) in complex with single stranded DNA. The secondary goal was to determine the crystal structure of TB-RBP in complex with Trax (translin associated factor X). Functions of TB-RBP is to …
-
Taming Contingency: Photography at the Crossroads between Collections, Archives and Atlases
My practice-based PhD investigates how the gathering of visual information through the photographic camera, together with the visual strategies involved in the organisation and configuration of specific groups of images are key processes in the constitution of meaning. I use my own practice to …
Page 1 of 10