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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Daring"”.
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Between Daring and Deliberating : 3G as a sustainability issue in Swedish spatial planning
The thesis shows how different aspects of sustainable development have been handled or not handled in the third generation infrastructure development in Sweden. The difference between the design of the 3G development - emphasizing competition, growth and regional access, based on a strong …
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Daring Trade: An Archaeology of the Slave Trade in Late-Seventeenth Century Panama (1663-1674)
This dissertation delves into both archaeological evidence and firsthand written sources in order to examine the material constitution of European slave traders' social life in the last years of existence of the Spanish colonial city of Panama, burnt down to the ashes following a piratic attack in …
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Power relationships and authentic organisational learning : daring to break the silence on meaningful dialogue in policing organisations
The 21st century presents great opportunities and threats for business: national and global markets are demanding high performance, innovation, creativity, and flexibility. Public sector organisations are continually asked to do more with less, with equal if not greater efficiency and creativity …
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Daring to lead: the psychodynamic relationship between anticipated image risk, leader-identity endorsement and leadership emergence in undergraduate student teams
This study investigated some of factors that influence leadership emergence, despite potential image risks, in undergraduate student teams at a South African university. Data was collected for two studies. Both studies employed a quantitative research design to collect data through electronic, …
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Toward a more deliberative port planning : the "vision and daring" of environmental NGOs in negotiations on the Second Maasvlakte, Port of Rotterdam, the Netherlands
This thesis examines the planning process for a major expansion project in the Port of Rotterdam, the Netherlands (Maasvlakte 2), as a case study of mutual gains-oriented consensus building and interactive problem solving. After years of formal negotiations between a broad range of local, regional, …
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On stage
… it does not exist in nature. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. -Helen Keller
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Getting to the heart of leading as a Cognitive Coach
… engaging in what is simple but not easy, daring to be vulnerable, embracing service and authenticity, and leaning into the value practices of leading with a learning mindset, confident humility, self-awareness, mindfulness, and intentionality to align their behavior with their values. The …
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"""Materia Memorable"": Hacia Una Revision De La Poesia De Mujeres en Mexico Durante El Siglo XIX"
… I have concluded that, due to the courage, daring, and independence of thought of their authorism, the works of Tapia, Prieto, Landazurri, and Mendez deserve to be recovered and read. Theoretically drawing on both the synchronic and the diachronic, this thesis aims to play a pioneering role …
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Burden of proof: a historical and theoretical analysis of some aspects of the following concepts in relation to the interpretation of Section 82 of Act 58 of 1962: income, assessment, objection and appeal
… terms of the language used by the Act, becomes daring and controversial.
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Ars Audax: The Myth of the Flight of Icarus and Its Reception Since Antiquity
… each author employs the concept of audacia ('daring') and makes use of sailing metaphors constitute distinct reception threads. I then trace these threads of reception through a selection of poetry, visual art, and music from the Early Modern era to the twenty-first century, and conclude that …
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Spectres of Women in Wuthering Heights
… most potent and where Brontë is at her most daring, challenging the socially prescribed, gendered binaries of her time. The primary interest of this paper is in describing the particular power of Brontë’s feminine ghost, an archetypal figure of the female Gothic, using theoretical frameworks …
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A commentary on book 6 of Achilles Tatius Leucippe and Clitophon
… triggering an odyssey of bizarre escapades and daring exploits that reaches its inevitable happy conclusion with their reunion and marriage. Achilles Tatius, however, takes each of these tropes far beyond their usual scope, displaying a ludic (and at times ludicrous) panache for defying the …
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Mothering Out of Bounds: Inequality and Resistance in Fat Motherhood
… only to themselves but to society at large when daring to reproduce. This dissertation seeks to uncover the long term impacts of weight stigma at different intersections in order to expand sociological understandings of fatness, health, gender, and inequality in motherhood. It highlights parallel …
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ITALIAN PIONEERS: Colonial propaganda and geographic explorations
… to enhance national prestige by glorifying their daring explorative enterprises and pursued the enhancement of its colonial possessions by supporting scientific missions in the Italian colonies.
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Diane Wakoski: an annotated bibliography of secondary materials
… acclaimed to be one of the most intellectually daring poets in America. However, some of Wakoski's later work lacks the energy of her first publication; nevertheless, her style has matured. This bibliography of secondary materials has a threefold purpose. Firstly, it surveys criticism of Wakoski …
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The literary relationships of Edmund Spenser.
… cast the romantic glow of high aspirations, of daring deeds, and of a court emblazoned with the personality of a great queen, so that in the poet, too, stirred the sense of power that "vivified" the English race long after the great queen was dead.
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Mosby's Rangers: the 43rd Virginia Cavalry Battalion, C.S.A.
… had won the hearts of the Confederacy in the daring capture of Union Brig. Gen. E. H. Stoughton. During June, 1863, the first of eight companies was formally organized under the authority of the Partisan Ranger Law. In the ensuing months, the unit concentrated their operations in the Loudoun …
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Crafting Iron and Other Stories
… genius, and abandons her principles for the daring possibility of happiness, while, finally, a horseback riding instructor in Ocala has old wounds of chronic depression reopened by the visit of her troubled sister and the guilt-ridden attempt to help her.</p>
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An Edition of the Poems of Ann of Swansea
… or nineteenth century verse. Yet she was a daring poet who wrote challengingly and interestingly on such issues of modern interest as the position of women in society, female sexuality, the atrocities of war, the plight of colonized peoples, the slave trade, and infanticide. The time seems …
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Still Point: Personal Essays Inspired by Andy Goldsworthy's Ephemeral Art
… ensues, such that touch, intimacy, perseverance, daring, listening, speaking, and joining beyond the finite come into play. Thus, the unseen world, the world we all inhabit in our humanness, the world we all live in distinctly and long to live in, in our humanity together, becomes the driving …
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