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Showing 1 to 20 of 202 for “"Genius"”.
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Black Genius: An Achievement Distortion
… and (3) How do Black educators define Black Genius? Data sources included a quantitative comparison of three achievement variables from 56 school districts over two cohort years (2017/2018–2021/2022), a questionnaire, and document analyses. “Groundtruthing” (Pérez Huber et al., 2018) was also …
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Genius Loci---Vertical Temple Design
… the modern urban context, which made the "Loci Genius" lose. So how could architects reconstruct and conserve the "Genius Loci." I try to build the temple for people in the high dense city, which help people to find and think for themselves, to keep peaceful. I believe people and space could …
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Shaw's Man of Genius: The Solitary Visionary
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An Urban Monastery and Its Genius Loci
Genius loci has been described as "the spirit of place". The main interest in considering an urban monastery program is to create a place that embodies the spirit and culture of Tibetan Buddhism in the context of urban Washington, D.C. Given Tibet's unique culture that has developed over centuries …
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Leonide Massine: Choreographic genius with a collaborative spirit
As a leading figure in the development of dance in the twentieth century, Leonide Massine was an artist who foresaw and created an idiom of dance that transcend stylistic boundaries. The ballets which Massine produced had a profound effect upon choreographic approaches to dance movement. Massine's …
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The French Response to the Genius of Edgar Allan Poe
… him either a. willful eccentric or “three-fifths genius." |Early in 1845, however, Graham1s Magazine carried what has since become a famous review of Poe, by James Russell Lowell. Though this study, too, abounds in generalities and gives the Impression that the writer is not intent upon a …
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General Ishii Shiro: His Legacy is That of Genius and Madman
<p>This paper covers the development of the chemical weapons division founded by Ishii Shiro, and discusses the horrible experimentation that was done by the Japanese. These experiments have been a source of controversy. The Chinese feel the Japanese should acknowledge these as war crimes. When the …
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Champagne for the Blind : Paul Bach-y-Rita, neuroscience's forgotten genius
Dr. Paul Bach-y-Rita was a visionary neuroscientist and an early pioneer of the theory of neuroplasticity. He is the father of sensory substitution, a field which explores how one sensory modality can be transferred to another. This work culminated in the invention of the Brainport, a device that …
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Beating the Dead Horse: Deconstructing the Junk Genius of Naked Lunch
… "Beating the Dead Horse: Deconstructing the Junk Genius of Naked Lunch," I illustrate Burroughs' means of exposing the flawed binaries that undergird the Aristotelian Logic of language. In Naked Lunch, the author bares the slippery nature of any such Logical language, whereby each word comes with …
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Creativity, Culture, and Genius: Nietzsche's Ethics of the Creative Life
In my dissertation Creativity, Culture, and Genius: Nietzsche's Ethics of the Creative Life I aim to articulate what creativity means to Nietzsche. I present an account of Nietzsche in which creativity exemplifies the "highest potential power and splendour" (GM P: 6) of human beings. Specifically, …
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Stereo-tectonic choreography: A sculptural [re]surfacing of an enigmatic genius loci
This inquiry draws on architectural pieces - collages and models - that explore the tactile and spatial world conceptually. I have a broad interest in the mechanical world and the processes of assembling and disassembling. The making of the pieces and my fascination with the medium is manifested …
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Decadent Sociability and Material Culture at the Fin de Siècle: 'A Genius for Friendship'
This thesis re-evaluates decadence by investigating the relationship that emerged between sociability and material culture at the fin de siècle. Its focus on the mechanisms of sociability and on materiality situates decadent interactions within the physical world. Rather than treating the decadents …
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Il genius loci e l'architettura sostenibile: l'ambiente naturale e costruito della Val di Gresta
La tesi di dottorato “Il genius loci e l’architettura sostenibile. L’ambiente naturale e costruito della Val di Gresta” attiene alla definizione di una metodologia di studio efficace a descrivere i caratteri ricorrenti in un ambito territoriale omogeneo, analizzando il territorio nelle diverse …
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Genius, heredity, and family dynamics. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his children : a literary biography.
… to what they can reveal about him, the literary genius. Scholars who have studied the children for these purposes all assume familial ties justify their basic premise, that Coleridge can be understood by examining the children he raised. But in this case, the assumption is false; Coleridge had …
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Early Modern Evil Genius: Hyperconformity and Objectivity in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century English Literature
… same desire for resolution, and the same evil genius to counter it.</p>
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Cultivating Genius: A Narrative Journey of At-Promise Youth at a P-TECH Early College High School
<p>College and career preparedness rates among at-promise youth remains low despite assurances of postsecondary success by architects of the current school reform model. The endeavor to increase the enrollment of students of color in college credit classes and to boost college degree attainment has …
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Lighting the Fire: A Legacy of Ignatius' Pedagogical Genius Among Faculty and Administrators of Three Jesuit Universities
Jesuit higher education institutions have a historically rich bedrock upon which to advance successful teaching practices—Ignatius Loyola’s seminal work, The Spiritual Exercises, and the 20th century Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm, a pedagogical blueprint that marries the spiritual vision of …
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