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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Grand Tour"”.
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Grand Tour – a film in-debt(ed): Exploring the possibilities of the essayistic filmmaking form.
… researching and developing an online essay film, Grand Tour a film in-debt(ed). The film explores an alternative reading of the recent Greek financial crisis without explicitly addressing the crisis, but in the tradition of essayistic filmmaking, by exploring the disjunctive threads that make …
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The Portrait of Citizen Jean-Baptiste Belley, Ex-Representative of the Colonies by Anne-Louis Girodet Trioson: Hybridity, History Painting, and the Grand Tour
… striking visual similarities between this and Grand Tour portraits of Englishmen earlier in the century. This portrait of Belley calls into question accepted post-colonial readings by not adhering to a strict Orientalist interpretation. His hybrid nature nullifies readings that he is merely a …
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Practical methods for data mining with massive data sets
… such as binned kernel density estimation, tours, and mode-based projection pursuit will be explored. Mean-centered binning will be introduced as an improved method for binned density estimation. The density grand tour will be demonstrated as a means of exploring massive high-dimensional …
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Greek antiquity, women’s modernity: hellenism in the work of Michael Field, Amy Levy and Virginia Woolf [Antichità greca, modernità delle donne: l’ellenismo nelle opere di Michael Field, Amy Levy e Virginia Woolf]
Sebbene spesso escluse dalle università e dal Grand Tour, molte donne vittoriane instaurarono un rapporto profondo con il Mediterraneo e con l’antichità greco-latina, non solo come viaggiatrici ma anche come traduttrici, studiose e interpreti culturali, sfidando i vincoli di genere nello studio …
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Albert Bierstadt: Rocky Mountains - Lander's Peak
… mehrerer amerikanischer Künstler zu einer Grand Tour durch die Schweiz nach Italien aufmachte. Nach Bierstadts Rückkehr in die USA stand die großformatige Darstellung der von den weißen Amerikanern unberührten Natur des amerikanischen Westens in Mittelpunkt seines Gesamtwerks. Am Beispiel …
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Barriers to provision of psychiatric nursing care : a case study of a teaching hospital, Nigeria
… The data collection methods included grand tour interviews with the key informants, in-depth interviews with key informants and other study participants and participant observation of all 12 participants. Content analysis was conducted. It yielded five themes related to barriers, …
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Drawing an Education: Influence and Evidence
… the way, as well as when he embarks on his own Grand Tour.
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Scientia est propentia: school personnel perceptions of their role in empowering a college-going culture among low-income African-American students in a mid-size, public school district
… a largely blue-collar, post-industrial city. The grand tour question guiding this research is: What is the college-going culture for low-income African American students in a mid-size, public Midwestern school district? The existing college-going culture was investigated through the use of …
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Myth In Reception: Insights From Stourhead Gardens
… by responses to the garden imagery at Stourhead, Wiltshire. Previous explanations have tended to the view that the gardens were designed to recapitulate Virgil’s Aeneid. However, the garden owner, Henry Hoare II, left no record to substantiate this, or any other theme, and it is not …
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‘Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s The Turkish Embassy Letters (1763): Agency, Authority and the “female spirit of contradiction”’‘Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s The Turkish Embassy Letters (1763): Agency, Authority and the “female spirit of contradiction”’
… of the Letters’ emulation of popular ‘Grand Tour’ narratives and examines how Montagu self-fashions as a female Grand Tourist. I propose that Montagu’s ‘double-voiced’ strategy of conformity and repudiation, while characteristic of proto-feminist writing of the day, effects the …
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Sweet Briar, 1800-1900: Palladian Plantation House, Italianate Villa, Aesthetic Retreat
… return of the Fletcher children from an extended Grand Tour of Europe, the house was remodeled as an Italianate villa (Sweet Briar House II, 1851-52). The second thesis advances the contention that by renovating their Palladian house into an asymmetrical Italianate villa, the Fletcher family …
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A Multi-Case Study of Private Institution Undergraduate Anatomy and Physiology Faculty in One Midwest State
… Anatomy and Physiology instructors. The grand tour question was “What are the experiences of undergraduate Anatomy and Physiology instructors in their biological science content courses?” The Anatomy and Physiology instructors were selected using purposeful sampling. Six cases composed …
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Giving Up and Giving In: Young Adolescents' Dilemmas when Caring for a Grandparent with Alzheimer's Disease
… it like for an adolescent to provide care for a grandparent afflicted with Alzheimer's disease? A qualitative, grounded theory study design was utilized. Ten adolescents aged 11–18 were interviewed and asked a series of semi-structured questions regarding caregiving. To be included, respondents …
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Textuality and Travel from Gray to Byron.
… between letter writing, poetry and place in his Grand Tour correspondence with Richard West (1739-1741); while the second explores the evolution of his Lake District Journal (1769) from private document to public Picturesque work. The third chapter considers travel as a context for textual self- …
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A Phenomenological Study of Mindfulness of Curriculum Directors in a Midwest State
… as it relates to curriculum directors. The grand tour question is “How is the phenomenon of mindfulness manifested in the work of curriculum directors?” The curriculum directors were selected using purposive sampling. A semi-structured interview, conducted with seven curriculum directors, …
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A Phenomenological Exploration of Play Among Educational Leaders
… play as it relates to educational leaders. The grand tour question is “How is the phenomenon of play impacting the work of educational leaders?” A semi-structured interview was conducted with eight educational leaders including, superintendents, curriculum directors, and principals. The …
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The Academic Acculturation of Newcomer Teens in Iowa Schools: A Phenomenological Study
… 10 nationalities and 15 language groups. A grand tour question guided this study: What are the academic acculturation experiences of teenage newcomers in Iowa schools? Participants completed a narrative survey and engaged in focus group discussions with 3-5 other newcomers from various …
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Constructing a Spatial Imaginary: The Formation and Re-presentation of Monte Carlo as a Vacation-Leisure Paradise, 1854-1950
… peripheral backwater and as a minor stop on the Grand Tour. Within a few short decades, perceptions of Monaco and its newly-founded city, Monte Carlo, changed so radically that the place became the premier vacation-leisure destination for European and American elites and a byword for luxury, …
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The Effectiveness of Dimensional Analysis as a Problem-solving Method for Medication Calculations from the Nursing Student Perspective
… students. Specifically, the study answered the grand-tour question, "What perceptions do nursing students have regarding the effectiveness of dimensional analysis as a problem-solving method for medication calculations?" Based on the nursing literature, four sub-questions also were included …
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