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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"End of the world"”.
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The reef at the end of the world
Flippers first, I splash into the year 2100. Graduate student Hannah Barkley and I are swimming in Nikko Bay, among the Rock Islands of Palau. Here the warm blue-green water resembles naturally what the tropical Pacific will be like by the end of the century, as carbon emissions take an …
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Falling in Love at the End of the World
166 leaves. Advisor: Stuart Burns.
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Abolitionist Futures: Black Cultural Imagination at the End of the World
… Futures: Black Cultural Imagination at the End of the World, examines abolitionist imagination in the cultural production of black American writers, creatives, activists, and thinkers. From its inception in the nineteenth century, abolitionism has evolved from a social movement to …
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How to build a home for the end of the World
How To Build a Home for the End of the World is a magical realist dystopian road trip novel by Keely Shinners. Donny is a carpenter who renovates houses nobody lives in. His daughter, Mary-Beth, is hell-bent on donating her organs to her chronically ill ex-girlfriend, Aida. Together, they go on a …
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After The End Of The World: Poetics, Time, And Black Experimental Writing
"After the End of the World" is a study of the poetics of experimental writing, focusing on the work of W. E. B. Du Bois, Nathaniel Mackey, Suzan-Lori Parks and Kamau Brathwaite. By thinking form as a locus of political and conceptual contestation and transformation, I seek methods for conceiving …
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Monsters at the End of the World: A Socio-Historical Analysis of Nineteenth-Century Horror and Apocalypse Literature
… Shelley’s <em>Frankenstein</em> (1818) and <em>The Last Man</em> (1826), and H. G. Wells’s <em>The Time Machine</em> (1895) and <em>The Island of Doctor Moreau</em> (1896) as examples of nineteenth-century horror and apocalypse literature. Specifically, I argue that these four novels perform as …
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'The end of the world as we know it': imagining new possibilities for the Anthropocene through a study of Nigerian Africanfuturism
The imaginary of the Anthropocene as an environmental apocalypse facing the planet and calls for ecological literature from the perspective of the Global North masks the current environmental crisis in parts of the world that are “already living the apocalypse”. Likewise, science fiction has been …
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A Revision of Family and Domesticity in Michael Cunningham's A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, and The Hours
Primarily through the experiences of his gay protagonists, Michael Cunningham critiques the heteronormative nuclear family structure of the 1950s and depicts alternatives to it. Drawing on the work of feminist critics who focus on the political intent of American women authors during the nineteenth …
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A Revision of Family and Domesticity in Michael Cunningham's A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, and The Hours
Primarily through the experiences of his gay protagonists, Michael Cunningham critiques the heteronormative nuclear family structure of the 1950s and depicts alternatives to it. Drawing on the work of feminist critics who focus on the political intent of American women authors during the nineteenth …
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The Nothing
<p>This thesis is a description and analysis of work that I produced during my Graduate studies at The University of New Orleans. The central theme of these work is the end of the world. Through prints, sculpture and painting I explore this idea.</p>
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Corporate Monster
<p>Mara Brokowski never wanted to be an agent of the apocalypse. Before the end of the world, she was her bank's Primary Compliance officer. Everything changes after she finds something strange and nefarious in her bank's files. In this twisted world, she must learn to overcome a crippling drug …
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Hal Lindsey's <i>The Late, Great Planet Earth</i> and the Rise of Popular Premillennialism in the 1970s
<p>How people think about the end of the world greatly affects how they live in the present. This thesis examines how popular American thought about “the end of the world” has been greatly affected by Hal Lindsey’s 1970 popular prophecy book <em>The Late, Great Planet Earth</em>. <em>LGPE </em>sold …
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Tara
Tara is a collection of interconnected short-stories centering on the funeral of Tara Michaels. The stories are told through her friends and those who never met her, though she had a definite impact on their lives. Jeff Hoover was teased by Tara in high school and wants revenge. Allan Washington, …
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American Imperialism in the Middle East: 1920 – 1950
During the Roosevelt and Truman administrations, the United States challenged Britain’s position and became a dominant power in the Middle East. During the 1920s, the rise to power began with American oil companies pursuing economic opportunities in the region’s oil fields. Britain maintained the …
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The Eschatology Scholarship Database
The Eschatology Scholarship Database is a collaborative digital archive that explores the ethics of misinformation, memory, and apocalypse. Styled as a future-facing wiki, the project invites contributors to imagine themselves as posthuman entities reconstructing the end of the world from …
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A Ajuda Oficial pra o Desenvolvimento a partir de três perspectivas teóricas
Since the end of the World War II, development issues have become central to the international agenda. Each subsequent decade has set up scenarios with differing perspectives on development goals and strategies, but in all of them Official Development Assistance (ODA) has remained one of the main …
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Eschatological Thought and Religiosity Among Christians: Patterns And Relationships
… to research on fundamentalism and death anxiety, there has been very little empirical research on the relationship between a person's eschatology, religious thought and behavior. This study attempts to identify associations between eschatology, religiosity, locus of control, death anxiety, and an …
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Complexity And Entanglement In Quantum Gravity
We present a collection of recent results concerning quantum information theory applied to quantum gravity. We first study the entanglement structure of Euclidean path integral states in SU(2) Chern-Simons theory, where we elucidate a connection between topological entanglement and quantum …
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Transcending Absence, Transforming Presence: Undocumented Migrants and the Navigation of Forced and Chosen Space
… very nature, undocumented migration challenges the notion of set, static borders, at once rendering them transcend-able while also throwing into stark relief the power and control exercised by the state over undocumented migrants along the arc of their journeys. Two main questions guide my …
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