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Showing 1 to 20 of 140 for “"Entertaining"”.
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Creating an Immersive and Entertaining Game for Raising Internet Privacy Awareness
… value of the game and to further test how entertaining Immaculacy is. Ultimately, we aim to create an engaging environment which presents players with situations and choices intended to encourage them to consider their own personal behavior when using online services.
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Entertaining the Yugoslav capital: culture, urban space, and politics in Belgrade between the two wars
This dissertation examines entertainment in Belgrade during the 1920s and 1930s, a period when it was overwhelmingly foreign. Entertainment presented an everyday challenge to social hierarchies propped up by elites, conservatives, and reform-minded bourgeois and petit bourgeois residents. More …
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The invincible defeat of a violent innocent : entertaining paradox and paranoia in the therapy of a borderline patient
In this thesis I use the case study to understand and interpret the manifested transference-countertransference anxiety in the therapy as it was expressed largely through the patient's and the therapist's paranoia. The experience of the sense of aliveness and deadness in the therapeutic hour, and …
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Political Satire and Political News: Entertaining, Accidentally Reporting or Both? The Case of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (TDS)
For the last decade, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (TDS), a (Comedy Central) cable comedy show, has been increasingly seen as an informative, new, even revolutionary, form of journalism. A substantial body of literature appeared, adopting this view. On closer inspection, it became clear that this …
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Tall Tales: Editing Autobiographical Memories
… the events, or by adding outrageous, yet entertaining, lies. Results indicated that participants prefer entertaining stories but do not like lies. In Study 2 participants were instructed to recall the events of a video to another participant in an entertaining way, an accurate way, or …
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A CyberCIEGE scenario illustrating secrecy issues in an Internal Corporate Network connected to the internet
… approaches by developing an interactive, entertaining commercial-grade PC-based computer game that teaches IA concepts while simultaneously entertaining the player. The game provides a robust, flexible and extensible gaming environment where each game instance is based on a fully …
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A Creative Project of a Video Production of an Annual Report
… a company's annual report done on video tape be entertaining yet still contain the financial data required by the Securities and Exchange Commission for printed annual reports? In an attempt to determine this, Congressional Records, periodicals, books, and previously attempted video annual …
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Historical Overview of Children's Magazines
… periodicals expanded from educating to include entertaining. Although children's magazine methods of educating and entertaining have changed to accommodate seismic shifts from the Industrial Revolution to the Digital Revolution these two missions have not. Children's magazines have existed in …
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The design and development of a serious game intervention to engage service users who experience psychosis and staff who work with them in activities that promote recovery
… and treated. Serious games, by creating an entertaining and educational experience, have shown promise in the promotion of pro-health behaviours. By applying a research-through-design approach, this thesis will seek to create intermediate-level knowledge that is generative to the future …
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KUNSTKRITIK ALS KONVERSATION: DAS JOURNALISTISCHE AUSSTELLUNGSGESPRÄCH, 1804-1826
… gallery conversations imitate the contemporary entertaining and critical conversation culture in the exhibit halls to offer the readership a reading experience that is just as entertaining and informative as an actual gallery visit. In my analyses of four fictional conversations published …
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The Rhetorical Rise and Fall of Tennessee Governor Frank G. Clement, 1952-1967
The practice of entertaining and informing people with political speech has disappeared, replaced by sound bite posturing and ineffective delivery of questionable content. Technology has forced a wedge between politicians and the public by eliminating the excitement and challenge of compelling, …
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Three Furies: The Mythic and the Mundane
… effectual inquiry and still be inventive and entertaining.</p> <p>Source materials for this thesis range from Norse mythology to Homer to the Charlie Daniels Band. </p>
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Graduate Recital, Violin
… challenging and exciting program, which was both entertaining to the audience, and an excellent learning experience for the performers.
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Design and implementation of an electronic special interest magazine
… The material is presented in a stylized and entertaining manner, in keeping with the nature of popular magazines.
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Minor league basketball organizations: making them work
… These leagues tried to present fans with an entertaining alternative to professional sports.</p> <p>Minor league basketball's efforts to entertain fans have been unsuccessful. This study examines why these organizations have not succeeded. Through interviews, research and survey results …
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Artists as Tricksters: Resourceful Artists of the German Renaissance
Comic and entertaining chapbooks from late-medieval Germany, such as Till Eulenspiegel, often featured clever and cunning protagonists who practiced trickery and subverted social norms. This character of the trickster—as this dissertation reveals—was also a major identity deliberately cultivated by …
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Telecommunications services for multimedia data exchange support
… present information in both an informative and entertaining way can lead to an enhanced quality of life for an increasingly larger segment of the world's population. However, information generated in a multimedia format presents special challenges for communication networks. This thesis is an …
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Virginia Woolf's Interpolated Fiction and Humor
… another side of Woolf not only as a funny and entertaining woman, but as a sufficiently masterful manipulator of her craft to have used her fiction writing talent as an enhancement of her nonfiction works, and which included humor in the process.
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Animated Films and Linguistic Stereotypes: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Accent Use in Disney Animated Films
<p>Although cartoons are entertaining and worldwide appreciated, studies have demonstrated that they are not neutral, and are likely to convey messages about society linguistic ideologies. This study aims to find out if Disney animated films released in 2016 use accents to express the nature of the …
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Earhart County: The Making Of A World War Two Wondertale
… feats of Churchill’s finest generation. Whilst entertaining its audience, it aims at giving them a glimpse at the many lives and aircraft that flew during the war. Research was conducted mainly through the study of autobiographical and biographical accounts of both famous and unknown aircrew, as …
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