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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"Futility"”.
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Confrontation: Endeavors in Futility
This paper is intended to compliment and describe the body of work that has been produced within the time I have been enrolled as a graduate student at Virginia Commonwealth University's Photography and Film department. The paper will include information on both my MFA candidacy presentation as …
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An analysis of medical futility dilemmas
Medical futility has caused serious dilemmas in the fields of medicine and bioethics recently. It has become more confusing due to the use of high technological equipment and medicines that are given to prolong life and interrupt the natural process of death; Therefore, we have created a dilemma of …
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The Future of Medical Futility in Ontario
Medical futility is a topic plagued by controversy. The medico-legal community has long debated the definition of medical futility and whether the concept, however defined, can be used by physicians to justify withholding or withdrawing treatment. In Ontario, the present dominance of patient …
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The Parental Leave Directive : An Exercise In Futility?
<b><i>Some internet browsers may have problems loading this document. If so, please save the file to your device and open it with Adobe Acrobat, or another PDF reader.</i></b><br/><br/>This thesis examines issues surrounding the Parental Leave Directive which is the first pan European non-gender …
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The Ethics of Futility Across the Age Continuum
<p>Much has been written on the topic of medical futility with reports of its existence dating back to the time of Hippocrates. However, the majority of the research on the topic has been on the adult population. Very little literature addresses the presence of medically futile treatment across the …
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The Futility of Conformity: The Danger of Gender Constructs In the <em>Sound and theFury</em>
This thesis focuses on William Faulkner's novel <em>The Sound and the Fury</em> and the role sexuality plays in Quentin Compson's construction of identity. I propose that Quentin is incapable of reconciling his potential homosexuality with the expectations his family, friends and elite Southern …
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Physician - Jewish family communication about futile medical treatment : a qualitative approach
… in communication disagreements about futility. I found that families and physicians were at odds in their understanding of futility and their perception of how they communicated with each other. My last chapter offers a collaborative model of good communication and suggestions of how …
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[Title missing] : on the metaphysics and ethics of omissions.
… then apply this analysis of omissions to medical futility, which is when a medical intervention cannot benefit a patient. I argue that we should understand "benefit" as the goods that the patient can seek or that physicians can provide. I then interpret medical futility as practical impossibility, …
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Thisness
… to contemplate the continuousness of life, the futility of love, the complications of language, the power of the world’s elements, and the essence of what exactly life is all about.
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In an Expression of the Inexpressible: Even this title is stolen, but I chose it
… and art. The discussion includes thoughts on futility, desire, schism, the leap, collage, photography, materiality, painting, image, and landscape. The second part of the text is an abstract statement about the paintings included in the thesis show, Splinter Paintings.</p>
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Born in Beirut
… in war-torn Beirut. The film examines the futility of war and the price paid in innocent lives.
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Whiteness as Experienced by People of Color: An Empirical Phenomenological Study
… encounters, they described the powerlessness and futility that they experienced. For the participants in this study, moving beyond encounters with people whom they identify as white means becoming hyper-vigilant.</p><p> The results of this study are discussed in a dialogue with the theoretical …
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Samuel Beckett's Theory of Repetition
… own theories about repetition such as the futility and meaningless of life that repetition brings about, how repetition causes stagnation, repetition is something people are both trapped in and willing go towards for comfort, and the only way to break out of repetition is by involving …
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Cordell Hull and the Moscow Conference of 1943: A Study in Anglo-American-Soviet Relations
… of defining indirect aggression, proved the futility of the situation
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Ignorance and Marital Bliss: Women's Education in the English Novel, 1796-1895
… or The Wrongs of Woman (1798) demonstrate the futility of educating women, given Britain's law of coverture; they expose the impracticality of ideal women presented in Jean Jacques Rousseau's Émile (1762) and James Fordyce's Sermons to Young Women (1766); and they demand educational parity …
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Inexorable Burden: Rhetoric and Togetherness
… awareness in visual rhetoric; and the futility of advancing ideology-free technical writing pedagogies. More theoretical topics this dissertation covers include Kenneth Burke's notions of rhetorical "war" and entelechy; the pluralistic underpinnings of Kantian moral philosophy; and the …
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Going Home
… (and raises questions about) themes such as the futility of the American Dream, the complexities of faith and despair, and the off-kilter moral balance, within ordinary people. The exploration of these themes and the narrative arc, within and between the linked stories, is propelled by a …
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Odds and Clocks
… humiliation. Annabel finally recognizes the futility of her endeavor and disappears. At the end, Beatrice reappears with a new version of the world as a circus; a terrain of experience and plurality.
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Unravelling: Photographic Explorations Of Mending The Forest
… state of these forests. It also addresses the futility of some of the attempts to rectify the damage done to these forests. This document explores the importance of process and materiality in photography and in my artistic practice. Through the experimental use of darkroom processes, expired …
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I Live Peacefully in a Video Game World- Collected Poems
… peacefully in a video game world is an act of futility given the violence and sexism of the modern video game industry. The poems of this collection, then, fight for stability in an inherently unstable universe.
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