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Showing 1 to 20 of 103 for “"Cruel"”.
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Cruel Sorority, Or, Feminizing Enjoyment in American Romance
<p>"Cruel Sorority, or, Feminizing Enjoyment in American Romance" analyzes the often-overlooked anti-social figures and affects found on the margins of American Romanticism. Symptomatically registering dissatisfaction and rage at the foreclosure of democratic possibility and public life, these …
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Baixada é Cruel: o território a partir do rap
… atribuídos a essa região, conhecida por “Baixada Cruel”, e como o termo pode ser entendido tanto como símbolo de estigma territorial quanto uma estratégia de autoafirmação identitária. Nesse percurso, levantam-se reflexões importantes sobre os mecanismos dessa crueldade e os impactos que ela …
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Hello, Cruel World: Antonin Artaud’s Pursuit of Primal Theatre
This thesis delves into the most volatile years of the notoriously volatile life of French poet and theatrical theorist Antonin Artaud (1896–1948). At the heart of the research is an examination of his voyages to Mexico and Ireland, as these seem to be relatively neglected in relation to …
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Withstanding Cruel Teasing: Does Dispositional Mindfulness Fortify Target Immunity?
<p>Cruel teasing can be pernicious for targets' psychological health. In this thesis I examined the extent to which trait mindfulness might mitigate the negative psychological effects associated with cruel teasing. Correlation results confirmed cruel teasing history related significantly and …
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Blind Man's Bluff - cruel revelations through the study of architectural artefacts
This dissertation is an attempt to understand the Bluff Headland of Durban by uncovering its hidden systems and ideas. By studying the abandoned built fabric visible on site including a whaling station, the ideas that once embedded themselves within those structures reveal much larger societal …
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The Cruel Consequences of War: Life in Fauquier County, Virginia, 1861-1863
<p>“The Cruel Consequences of War” describes how the American Civil War came to Fauquier County, Virginia, a border area in northern Virginia, and examines the effects of the conflict on the county’s black and white residents from 1861 – 1863. Scholars have been writing community studies since the …
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“It’s War That's Cruel”: The Evolution of Wartime Representation and ‘The Other’ in the American Musical
<p>Musical theater has historically been a venue for Americans to come to terms with our past and present on both a national and an individual level as it stages and restages war mythology on the Broadway Stage. As the nation has won, lost, and abandoned foreign conflicts, the connotation, …
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Kind world, cruel world, friends and heroes: A generic analysis of television police drama and situation comedy, 1982-1992
Significant elements of narrative clearly recur in television programs. They do so within a number of recognizable generic patterns which not only create narrative coherence but also advocate particular principles of social organization and practice within the context of the program--i.e., views of …
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FIGHTING A "CRUEL AND SAVAGE FOE": COUNTERINSURGENCY AND HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES FROM THE INDIAN WARS TO THE PHILIPPINE-AMERICAN WAR (1899-1902)
Many scholars have written about the counterinsurgency phase of the Philippine- American War (1899-1902). Military historians often downplayed the impact of human rights abuses, while emphasizing the success of the U.S. Army’s counterinsurgency instead. In contrast, social historians frequently …
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The Features of Single-fathers in Father-daughter Relationships in Shakespear's King Lear, The Merchant of Venice and The Tempest
… male single parents as ‘tyrannous’, ‘cruel’, ‘violent’ and ‘murderous.’ Some of these critics are Shin (2010), Callaghan (2000, 2002 and 2016), and Leventen (1991). Not only do some of the critics find ‘all’ Shakespeare’s single fathers ‘tyrannous,’ ‘cruel,’ ‘violent’ and ‘murderous’, …
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Violence against women in the novels of Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor
… work has the purpose of warning women about the cruel misogyny of men."
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An assessment of South Africa's obligations under the United Nations Convention against torture
… Since it has been established that torture and cruel inhuman and degrading treatment (CIDT) usually occur in situations where persons are deprived of personal liberty, I examine legislation, policies and practices applicable to specific places of detention, such as correctional centres, police …
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Destabilizing U.S.-Japan Relations: Nikkatsu Film Noir as Postwar Social Critique
… Pigs and Battleships (Imamura Shohei, 1961), and Cruel Gun Story (Furukawa Takumi, 1964). I argue that the style of film noir was specifically adopted by Japanese film directors at Nikkatsu in the 1950s and 1960s to critique the development of U.S.-Japan relations during this period as the two …
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The two-world division in the poetry of Sylvia Plath
… the poet the necessary escape from the often cruel and insensitive former one.
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BRICK
… while proclaiming the joy of rebellion from the cruel, effemimanic imagination it documents.</p>
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Speculating after the Interregnum: Utopia and Apocalypse in Cape Town
… within the novels I examine, from Berlant's “Cruel Optimism” (illustrating an “affective” experience of Cape Town) to Berger's understanding of apocalypse and Jameson's theorisation of Utopia for their explicitly literary interventions. I aim to answer how speculative fiction mediates the city …
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Memorable family narratives
… affection, independence, and the world is cruel. From these narratives that were told, a better understanding of how and why narratives are so memorable was obtained.</p>
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The Transmogrification of St Bunnycrisp
… until St. Bunnycrisp's fate is threatened by the cruel Icemaiden, and Poppy will have to find the courage to save her friends' lives on her own.
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