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Grave Desires
… collection of short stories called Grave Desires that could be categorized as speculative fiction containing supernatural, fantastical, or futuristic elements. More specifically, each story falls under the genre of fantasy, magic realism, or science fiction. The stories are thematically …
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Desires and dispositions
… are usually held together coherently: beliefs. Desires, unlike beliefs, are often held together although they conflict; I can both want to have coffee because I love the taste, and also want to refrain because I want to sleep. I argue in chapter 1, for reasons independent of philosophy of mind, …
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Displacing Desires in Early Modern Drama
"The introduction examines treatises on lovesickness to demonstrate affinities between Lacanian and early modern theories of a constitutively displaced desire, a perspective often overlooked by ostensibly more historicist approaches. The first chapter looks at the triangular jealous rivalries of …
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Astraea Unmasked: The Desires of Aphra Behn
<p>This project consists of a one character play about Aphra Behn (ca. 1640-1689), the first Englishwoman to write professionally, and is accompanied by a video of a performance of the monologue. Behn came to prominence during the English Restoration period and although best known as a playwright, …
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Captured Desires: Neoliberalism from Below in Fujimori's Peru
… and exploited the working classes’ unmet desires for peace, progress and recognition. For some working-class people, neoliberalism came to seem tolerable – and sometimes even desirable – after its alternatives were exhausted. They were constrained by many factors but nonetheless exercised …
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A comparative investigation of the attribution of desires and preferences
… mental states such as knowledge, beliefs and desires to others. While researchers agree that animals are unlikely to possess a human-like theory of mind; theory of mind is now viewed as a continuum of social cognitive abilities and as such animals may possess limited elements of mental state …
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Ordering desires : rhetoric and virtue in Milton's Paradise Lost.
… that poetry could induce some reordering of the desires that constitute virtue. The goal of this dissertation is to provide new insights regarding the way that Milton's Paradise Lost uses the rhetorical canons of invention (inventio) and arrangement (dispositio) in order to achieve its explicit …
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Completing the Network: Exploring Cyclist Desires and Advocate Priorities for Bicycle Parking
The intent of this thesis is to increase local government and bicycle advocacy awareness of the importance of end of trip facilities in a transportation network, primarily bicycle parking. The research was motivated by a debate about the worthiness of bicycle parking as an advocacy objective. The …
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Mapping the link between female sexual desires and behaviors in heterosexual dating relationships
… cultural norms that dictate what females' sexual desires should look like serve to obscure the variations that actually exist within the lived experiences of women. Data from a sample of 81 females in heterosexual dating relationships were examined to investigate the links between females' sexual …
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Global desires : re]creation, sex, and survival in contemporary narrative of the Hispanophone Caribbean
(Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Hispanic Cultural Studies, 2010
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Not All Desires Are Created Equal: Exploring a Dual -Motivation Account of Consumer Desire
In consumer behavior, desire plays a central role, charging attitudes, values, norms, and other antecedent variables with the motivational energy needed to ignite the consumer's behavioral engine and drive it toward action (Bagozzi 2006). Desire should be a critical variable of inquiry for …
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Fertility Desires and Fertility Control: Young Women's Contraceptive decision-making in Khayelitsha, South Africa
Early fertility remains a public health concern in South Africa, with teenage pregnancy rates remaining high, and more significantly among black adolescent girls of low socioeconomic status. This indicates the unmet need of contraception for adolescent girls. Contraceptive use and non-use by young …
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Bayesian Theory of Mind : modeling human reasoning about beliefs, desires, goals, and social relations
… the reverse: attribute mental states - beliefs, desires, intentions, knowledge, goals, preferences, emotions, and other thoughts - to explain others' behavior. The goal of this thesis is to provide a formal account of the knowledge and mechanisms that support these judgments. The thesis will …
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Low income women‟s expectations, needs, and desires for social support in the postpartum period: a feasibility study.
… women's perceptions, expectations, and desires for social support and the feasibility and acceptability of a postpartum doula as a vehicle for social support services in the postpartum period. This study utilized focus groups, a social support survey and a socio-demographic survey for …
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Understanding Outdoor Social Spaces: Use of Collaborative-Sketching to Capture Users' Imagination as a Rich Source of Needs and Desires
… explored that are responsive to the needs and desires of users. Using a number of photographs of an outdoor residential space as an example, the objective of this study is to examine the use of collaborative sketching as a way of taping into users' imagination as a rich source of their needs …
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Dancing with dangerous desires : the performance of femininity and experiences of pleasure and danger by young black women within club spaces
This research was carried out in Langa Township, Cape Town and worked with 7 young black women, between the ages of 19 and 26 years old. The aim was to explore the fluidity of identity, in particular gender identity, by exploring the performance of 'normative' femininity and 'hidden/subversive' …
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