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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Folly"”.
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Fragments of Folly
… fabrication and fragments that unfurl into a folly at Heritage Park. The act of making simultaneously tests a constructive idea and imbues it with a physical presence. Embodied within the forthcoming fragments are ideas and questions that resisted the enclosure of intentionality. As the …
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Fashion & Folly: Developing a Site-Responsive Fashion Exhibition for Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill House
… a siteresponsive exhibition entitled Fashion & Folly. Fashion & Folly revives the eighteenthcentury bibliographic practice of extra-illustration as a metaphor, method and format for site-responsive exhibition-making. The proposal for Fashion & Folly is delivered in the format of an …
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Jocus : a personification of folly and play and an attribute of carnal love in Renaissance art
… medieval sources associate Jocus with human folly, folly is also signified in these paintings. By further exploring the association between Jocus and folly, this study establishes a link between Italian and northern iconographic themes, and reveals a network of northern artists and humanists …
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Is there folly when worker A is more productive than worker B? : examining heterogeneous responses to individual and group performance pay
Although it is commonly suggested that employees of different ability levels respond in different ways to performance pay, there is little research documenting such a relationship. In this study, I examine how employee ability moderates the effectiveness of two types of incentives in a field …
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Formalization, data abstraction, and communication
… Through the experimentation with "making follY," this thesis introduces a model for the application of Shape Grammar to the architectural design process. It presents theoretical foundations, describes the methods of formalization, data abstraction, and communication with Shape Grammar in …
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Writing Indigenous Identity in Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad's Polynesian and Malay Archipelago Novels
… and the Malay Trilogy (<em>Almayer’s Folly, An Outcast of the Islands,</em> and <em>The Rescue</em>)— are used as master models of how to write indigenous characters with rich characterization in pivotal roles, even circa 1846 and 1896. The unique perspective and technique by which …
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Incremental housing at the receding suburban fringe
… that followed brought into stark focus the folly of decades of short-sighted land use policy and housing development that largely ignored environmental vulnerabilities. Second, a massive foreclosure crisis exposed the economic flaws of a housing delivery system that relies on reckless and …
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Lonely Monsters
… her sound mind—in the wake of the false prince's folly. Utilizing her experiences as a child within the lavish lives of the Estates—at the desire of a wealthy and secretive benefactor with motives of her own—Fisher creates a persona who becomes entangled in a lustful and dangerous liaison with …
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Mesoscale circulation in the Black Sea : a study combining numerical modelling and observations
… data analysis. Within this research: i) A folly working eddy resolving Black Sea model was set up using the POLCOMS 3-D numerical code, ii) The mesoscale circulation in the Black Sea during October-November 2004 was characterised from in situ CTD measurements and from satellite-derived sea …
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Architectura Laticis
… to reference the transition between one folly to another. Sergei M. Eisenstein describes Architecture as a montage in which a sequential rhythm is established by the placement of buildings. Likewise this thesis is a contribution to that discourse in the blending of edges between spaces. …
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Judged by the Bottom-line But Expected to Lead Ethically: A Leader's Catch 22
… I will demonstrate Kerr's (1975) example of “the folly of rewarding A, while hoping for B.” Third, I will explain and demonstrate why follower BLM and leader stress perceptions are important boundary conditions regarding the primary relationship of interest and overall model. Comprehensively, I …
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"Hey! They're trying to learn for free!": An Analysis of The Simpsons as a Satirical Portrayal of Neoliberal Influence on Public Education
… wider opportunity to expose and discuss the folly of neoliberalism’s influence on public education.
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Exploring perceptions of support amongst caregivers in first thousand day-friendly churches in the Western Cape
Introduction According to The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) (2018) the First Thousand Days (FTD) of life, which is the period from conception to two years old, is a unique window of opportunity. There is a wide body of evidence pointing to the role of stable and responsive caregiving to …
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Jack Kerouac Does Not Lie
… my trip to measure up. Ben was on vacation. Our folly is chronicled within; three weeks and four thousand miles of it.
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Metamodern Satire in Contemporary American Literature and Television
… predecessors. Modernist satire targeted human folly and vice with the objective of societal correction. As postmodernism emerged, the purpose of satire evolved, as its postmodern form replaced correction with destabilization of metanarratives. In this project, I argue that as elements of …
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Literary Landscapes: Mapping Emergent American Identity in Transatlantic Narratives of Women's Travel of the Long Eighteenth Century
… reflect aspects of the human condition such as folly and friendship.
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Exploring Hokmâ (Woman Wisdom) Metaphor in Proverbs 1-9 From a Sümi Naga Woman’s Perspective
… 뺚et rä` (Evil Woman), and 뺚et Küsîlût (Woman Folly). By employing a reader response methodology, I will first critically engage with my Sümi context, and then with the biblical text of Prov. 1-9. Drawing on my personal experiences as a Sümi Christian woman, and using a reader response …
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Coastal climate change and variability in the Benguela current system
The thesis aims to seek to document the long-term change and decadal variability in the Benguela Upwelling System and study the possible mechanisms behind these changes. The Benguela Upwelling System is one of the four most productive fisheries areas in the world, and it is therefore important to …
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From Vico to Grassi: toward a rhetoric of openness
… With fantasy, innovation, and the play of folly, the writer/rhetor interprets and invents discourse which persuades a reader/audience by forming immediate identities between elements. This study grounds its language research in a review of cognitive sciences to understand how the brain …
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Holocene Geology and Migration of a Low-Profile Barrier Island System, Metompkin Island, Virginia
… a prominent antecedent valley associated with Folly Creek.</p> <p>A model describing the late Holocene depositional history of the Metompkin Island system starts with a period of relative shoreline stability when fine-grained deposition was dominant throughout the back-barrier system. Between …
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