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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Doom"”.
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Bloom and Doom
This thesis harnesses 3D modeling to present a contrasting world through Maya 3D models, Substance Painter textures, and Adobe's audio-visual editing tools. Influenced by my childhood experiences and cultural history, the project contrasts the natural environment with a polluted, urban landscape. …
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Doctor Doom in The Marvel Age: an empirical approach to transmedia character coherence
… featuring the Marvel comics character Doctor Doom, derived from a corpus containing every appearance of the character in the evolving Marvel transmedia storyworld during 'The Marvel Age' from 1962 to 1987 - a period defined here using a Production of Culture approach. Further database and …
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Recreating Beowulf’s “Pregnant Moment of Poise”: Pagan Doom and Christian Eucatastrophe Made Incarnate in the Dark Age Setting of The Lord of the Rings
… on the rise, when the dueling notions of Doom and salvation briefly coexisted in the hearts and minds of the Anglo-Saxon people. Derived from a careful study of Tolkien’s fiction, lectures, letters, and the writings of his contemporaries, instructors, and friends, in combination with many …
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Recreating Beowulf’s “Pregnant Moment of Poise”: Pagan Doom and Christian Eucatastrophe Made Incarnate in the Dark Age Setting of The Lord of the Rings
… on the rise, when the dueling notions of Doom and salvation briefly coexisted in the hearts and minds of the Anglo-Saxon people. Derived from a careful study of Tolkien’s fiction, lectures, letters, and the writings of his contemporaries, instructors, and friends, in combination with many …
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Behold thy doom is mine: The evolution of Guinevere in the eorks of Chrétien de Troyes, Sir Thomas Malory, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson
<p>Guinevere has existed in literature for nearly a millennium, evolving to suit societal values and mores. She has metamorphosed from Arthur’s noble queen to Lancelot’s jealous lover, from a motherly sovereign to a vindictive adulteress as each author struggled to apply his own literary and …
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Unitl the Well Runs Dry
… a solution is proposed that could save—or spell doom—for Tom, the regulars, and Rosie’s Tavern itself. </p>
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Magical Rhetoric and Anti-Witchcraft Motifs in Jeremiah: A Comparative Analysis with the Mesopotamian Maqlû Ritual
… rhetoric embedded in Jeremiah’s oracles of doom, particularly its connections to Mesopotamian anti-witchcraft rituals, has received insufficient attention. This oversight persists amid a surge of interest in ritual references within ancient Near Eastern treaty-making, notably in Deuteronomy …
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Printing the Pandemic: An Analysis of H1N1 Vaccine News Coverage
… initially depicted an ominous message of doom, over time the framing of the disease shifted as the severity of the illness failed to live up to its worst-case projections. The research shows that the coverage significantly privileged the claims of public health officials, provided very …
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Illuminating the true light of northern courage: Gandalf as J.R.R. Tolkien's revised Odin
… view of fighting to the end despite certain doom—in its true light. Odin was the perfect character through which this virtue could be expressed and revised, principally through the character of Gandalf. This project is present in Tolkien’s retelling of the The Saga of the Volsungs in his poem …
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CONK
… of the world around them, their doom arising from their inability to differentiate between the indecipherable and the incorrect ("Bird Kill"). Some are more reflexive, revolving around the difficulty of telling a story at all ("What a Story''), or exploring the dissolution of self …
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Realidade e representação: possibilidade e desafio em pintura
… answers in an attempt to overcome feelings of doom and end - comprising movements I call ideological acts. In favor of a starting hypothesis which defends the maintenance of painting and its procedures as a legitimate way of working out poetic creation in our time, I present four of my own …
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South West Africa and the International Court of Justice.
… be curtailed. It appeared that these prophets of doom might be correct. Between 1969 and 1971 no case came before this high tribunal. Only after the advisory opinion of the International Court concerning South West Africa did the business of the Court increase. While the use of the Court has been …
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Ideological tension in four novels by Saul Bellow
… introduction. His dismissal of the prophets of doom, those thinkers and writers who are pessimistic about the fate of humankind and the continued existence of the novel, is emphatic and certain. His alternative to apocalyptic thinking and writing presents a view both of life and of the role of …
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An Experimental Comparison of Complex Objects Implementations in Big Data Systems
… is that a bad object implementation can doom system performance. In addition, we reaffirm the value of the classical database way of storing complex objects - where there is no distinction between the in-memory and over-the-wire data representation, within a modern big data system.
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The Modern Black Novelist and The Apocalyptic Tradition
… World War created this feeling of impending doom. The omnipresent threat of a nuclear holocaust, rapid advancements in industrial technology and increased socio-political strife led many Americans to believe that the nation was en route to its final destruction. Indeed, the chaos within the …
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The Myth of Techno-Transcendence: The Rhetoric of the Singularity
… the Singularity warn audiences of the impending doom of artificial intelligence (and the like) through a narrative form of secondary allegorizing. Finally, I suggest that the prevalence of these competing discourses indicates a possible blurring in traditional distinctions between myth and …
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The Theme Of Sacrifice: A Comparison Of The Primitive Practices Recorded In The Golden Bough With Representative Works Of Faulkner
… a comparison of the Sartoris men and their doom to the role of the priest-kings in The Golden Bough helps to explain the origin of the Sartoris curse and their ineffectual struggle against it. The story of Joe Christmas also has many parallels to the ancient ceremonies surrounding the …
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Southern Noir: Appropriations and Alterations of a Twentieth-Century Form
… shadows and light play, a foreboding sense of doom, and deadly seductive femmes fatales nipping at their heels. The understanding of noir as a symptom of urban modernity inextricably linked to cities and cinema stands in stark contrast to the traditional understanding of the south as rural, …
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Towards Public Housing: Architecture as (Prop)aganda
… Solid Melts into Air,” sketches the inevitable doom that forces the audience to reconsider homeownership in favor of home-usership. Questioning representations of public housing as matters of economic necessity, Towards Public Housing works to destigmatize public housing and home-usership and …
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