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Showing 1 to 20 of 235 for “"Destiny"”.
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Designing for a new "ZIP code destiny"
… change) to fuel designs for a new ZIP code destiny.
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Baseball's manifest destiny: The good, the bad, and the ugly
… adherence to nineteenth-century Manifest Destiny and a major demographic shift following a post-World War II economic and technological boom; For the first half of the twentieth century, baseball transcended a mere rooting for a collection of superb athletes; civic identity rested in one's …
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In the Service of Columbia: Gendered Politics and Manifest Destiny Expansion
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Trek : hitchhiking on the ox-wagon of destiny : voortrekker, draadtrekker, saamtrekker
As a South African artist I am in power to influence some manner of change, through my art, to the structure of national thought and hence national identity. Through my live art installation TOTANDERKUNTUlT, I offered South Africans the opportunity to engage in the cathartic process of resolution …
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"Against My Destiny": Reading an Italian Immigrant's Memoir in the Early 20th-century South
<p>Giuseppe Emilio Rocconi's life narrative, The Story of My Life (1958), represents the hardships of immigration and assimilation through meditations on home, family, and religion. I read his narrative in contrast with white elite narratives that express nostalgia for sharecropping and the …
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A More Virtuous Empire: The Ideology of Manifest Destiny in American Literature and Film
… historical origins of the ideology of Manifest Destiny and the effects of its transmission into American literature and film. I argue that though eruptions of Manifest Destiny repeat the idea of American exceptionalism, the semi-autonomous nature of the work of art works against the grain of …
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Creating Destiny: Crafting a Historical Tale Based upon the Life of Emmeline B. Wells.
<p>This study examines the process and procedures employed by storytellers to craft an oral historical narrative. Contemporary storytellers are working toward a transferable methodology and this work is an effort toward that end. Using the various procedures described by nearly 20 storytellers, a …
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"The Destiny of Words": Documentary Theatre, the Avant-Garde, and the Politics of Form
This dissertation reads examples of early and contemporary documentary theatre in order to show that, while documentary theatre is often presumed to be an essentially realist practice, its history, methods, and conceptual underpinnings are closely tied to the historical and contemporary avant-garde …
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Disputed Destiny: The Political and Intellectual Origins of Public-Supported Higher Education in Illinois
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Using first principles Destiny Functional Theory methods to model the Seebeck coefficient of bulk silicon
Thermoelectrics are gaining significant amounts of attention considering their relevance today in the areas of sustainable energy generation and energy efficiency. In this thesis, the thermoelectric properties of bulk Silicon were modeled using ab initio density functional theory methods to …
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Date with Destiny: Genetic and Epigenetic Factors in Cell Fate Decisions in Populations of Multipotent Stem Cells
The governance of cell fate decisions during development is a fundamental biological problem. An important aspect of this is how cells exit a multipotent state and choose their fates in a correct manner and proportion. To tackle an aspect of this problem, I have focused on 2 multipotent models: one …
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The Denizens of Manifest Destiny: An Archaeological Examination of Life on the Military Site of Fort Garland, Colorado
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo granted the United States government a large sum of land consisting of what is now currently the American Southwest. This land was inhabited by a combination of Hispanic settlers and Native tribes. To maintain order in the region, the United States established a …
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A struggle against fate: the opponents of manifest destiny and the collapse of the continental dream, 1846-1871
… individuals supported the ideology of manifest destiny in the nineteenth-century. In contrast to these studies, this dissertation examines the opponents of manifest destiny. Drawing upon a wide range of primary sources, from comedic novels to newspapers to popular periodicals, this dissertation …
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The relationship between desire and destiny in selected stories from Isak Dinesen's Winter's Tales
… writing is characterized by the theme of destiny. Past analyses of Dinesen’s treatment of destiny oppose the concept to desire, arguing that Dinesen advocates “acceptance” of God’s plan at the expense of personal motivations. This construction of destiny as external to the individual has …
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Saving the "Slaves of Kings and Priests": The United States, Manifest Destiny, and the Rhetoric of Anti-Catholicism
… exclusionary arguments. Followers of Manifest Destiny utilized missionary anti-Catholic rhetoric to sanction U.S. territorial expansion while opponents relied on exclusionary anti-Catholic rhetoric to justify halting the further acquisition of territory. Regardless of how they were used, both …
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THOREAU'S A WEEK, RELIGION AS PRESERVATIVE CARE: OPPOSING THE CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF DISCOVERY, MANIFEST DESTINY, AND A RELIGION OF SUBJUGATION
<p>This dissertation argues for a rereading of Henry David Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849) as "Transcendental scripture writing." By placing his book in this genre, Thoreau's religious thinking comes to the fore. His book becomes a contextualized pilgrimage addressing …
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Habitus is a fate not a destiny: A Study of Student Completion In First Year at an Irish Institute of Technology
Having worked in The Institute of Technology sector for decades as both lecturer and faculty manager, the quality of the student experience has always been of prime interest to the researcher, particularly with regard to student success and retention. This research examines student completion among …
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