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Development in the depiction of depth
… when drawing a table. Research on development in depiction is reviewed (Chapters 1 and 2), with particular reference to the use of pictorial depth cues and projection systems. A series of studies on the use of projection systems in the drawing of a table is reported (Chapters 3 to 5) which shows …
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Extended notation. The depiction of the unconventional
Most extended instrumental playing techniques are still deprived of a conventional method of notation. In order to facilitate the utilisation of these unconventional musical elements, a coherent and consistent notation system is developed in this thesis. It comprises chapters on string instruments, …
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The Depiction of Expert Women in Canadian Newspapers
… Very little of this literature has examined depictions of “expert” women. The research is guided by this question: How are “expert” women depicted in contemporary Canadian newspapers? The methodologica l framework of the research is a mixed-methods approach using discourse analysis as …
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Social class depiction in selected award-winning children's narrative fiction
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Analyzing the Depiction of Women in Iranian Post-Revolutionary Film Adaptations
This dissertation explores the cross-cultural intricacies of adapting non-Iranian literary texts in post-revolutionary Iranian cinema, focusing on the shifting representations of female characters. Drawing on a tripartite critical approach encompassing feminist theory (Beauvoir, Butler), cultural …
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Affect and (Un)Certainty: Exploring the Non-Representational in Ethnographic Depiction
… a type of realistic documentary and ethnographic depiction of Vancouver B.C. The film aims to explore how sound shapes affect in film and involves not employing two very effective and reliable cinematic techniques: the close-up of a face and the use of music. Through walking, an actor and …
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Protracted Refugee Situations: A Feminist Perspective on Refugee Depiction by UNHCR
… uses a feminist approach to study the discursive depiction of refugees in protracted situations by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). As the largest organization mandated with the protection of refugees and finding solutions for their plight, UNHCR has a …
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Awareness or complicity? : documentaries' depiction of communities marginalized by Christian Nationalism.
The rise of streaming services has made documentaries more accessible than ever before. With this comes the common misconception that the genre is based on truth instead of an interpretation thereof. Due to this broad misconception, it's important to analyze how the public comes to understand the …
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A Cartographic Depiction and Exploration of the Boy Scouts of America's Historical Membership Patterns
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the historical membership patterns of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) on a regional and council scale. Using Annual Report data, maps were created to show membership patterns within the BSA’s 12 regions, and over 300 councils when available. The examination …
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‘Transfiguration’s coming’: An investigation of the depiction of interspecies transformation in medieval Irish literature
This thesis examines the depiction of interspecies transformation, that is, the transformation of living beings between species of animal including human, in medieval Irish literature. It spans texts written from the seventh to the fourteenth centuries, using the wide temporal range, along with an …
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Depiction of Widow Immolation In Works by Montaigne, Voltaire, Bernardin De Saint-Pierre, and Verne
… de Saint-Pierre. Chapter 4 criticizes the depiction of a widow's rescue from her husband's funeral pyre as an ethical imperative based on a simplified moral system in Jules Verne's Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours. The ethic of human rights actually conflicts with the ethic of …
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Evaluating the depiction of complex RNAV/RNP procedures and analyzing a potential de-cluttering technique
… and visual clutter on the RNAV and RNP procedure depiction is to reduce the number of flight paths shown on a single page by separating the depicted paths to multiple pages. However, there are a number of drawbacks to this clutter mitigation technique. Example drawbacks include having more paper …
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The depiction of Homelessness in K. Sello Duiker's Thirteen Cents and Phaswane MPE's Welcome to Our Hillbrow
In this study, I explore the depiction of homelessness in K. Sello Duiker’s Thirteen Cents (2000) and Phaswane Mpe’s Welcome to Our Hillbrow (2001). Against the background of post-colonial and transcultural theories, I explore the effects of homelessness on select characters depicted in the two …
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The Furrowed Face: the depiction of the elderly in painting, England and the United States, 1870-1910
Old age has always evoked diametrically opposed opinions. On the one hand, the elderly are respected, regarded as benevolent repositories of wisdom and comfort; on the other, they are considered as decrepit vestiges of life, who pointlessly linger on, wasting the world for the vibrant and useful. …
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Sexuality, sorority and subversion: An exploration of the literary depiction of the continuum of German women's relationships
… German lesbian writing, in terms of their bold depictions of sexuality, playful subversion and pervasive sense of gynocentric sorority.
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A depiction of the ghetto in feature film : a cinematic platform for confronting contemporary representations of ghetto occupancy
… film project, Mile in My Shoes, is a narrative depiction of a particular South African experience that consists of broader implications. It utilizes the ghetto/township setting to illustrate diverse, counter hegemonic depictions of black and especially black African characters, lifestyles, …
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The Wolverhampton Express and Star and the depiction of the volunteer soldier in the First World War, 1914-1916
… was a central element in shaping the newspaper’s depiction of the volunteer soldier between the outbreak of war in August 1914 and the introduction of conscription in January 1916. Using both advertising and journalistic techniques, the Express and Star adopted the figure of the volunteer soldier …
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