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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Graveyard"”.
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Graveyard Shifts: Unearthing Identity Myths and the Retro Rebrand
<p>This essay examines a trend in brand identity at the time of writing wherein icons of several decades past are resurrected to play to nostalgic feelings associated with a product or service. It begins with a case study of iconography for popular pizza chain logos through several decades …
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Fevers in a Reykjavík Graveyard: A COVID Novella in Modernist Iceland
… and domestic spheres. Fevers in a Reykjavík Graveyard portrays these unconventional encounters not only as opportunities for solidarity and intimacy but also as chokepoints that trigger reckonings with Iceland’s colonial history. This work explores the complicated, filial, exploitative, and …
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Only a body “who nobody owns:” Adolescent identity in Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book
<p>Neil Gaiman’s <em>The Graveyard Book</em> presents a child, Nobody (Bod) Owens, who grows up in a graveyard with ghosts and a vampire as primary guardians. While Bod is not technically an adolescent for the entire novel, he is constantly struggling with adolescent themes—primarily being in a …
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Cranial remains from the graveyard to the laboratory: restoration, conservation and craniometric analysis of medieval British skeletal samples
The present thesis proposes a comparison of 16 British medieval samples by means of craniometric analysis. The purpose of this study is to determine whether craniometric variation among British medieval groups exists and what are the causes of these differences. Following the reconstruction of 267 …
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Barriers to flood risk adaptation a case study of cross-scale collaboration in the informal settlement of Graveyard Pond, Philipi
This study provides insight into the barriers of adapting to urban flooding as well as how flooding is responded to in informal settlements in order to increase adaptive capacity to future climate change. There is a growing concern over the increase in extreme events expected as part of climate …
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The Mundane Habits of the Opposite Sex
… own mortality by hanging out in a small-town graveyard. These stories ask the question: if we don’t fully know ourselves, how well will we ever truly know someone else? In settings both dreamy and extraordinarily commonplace, from sleepy diners to abandoned tourist traps, from the real world …
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Beyond nostalgia: a walking guide to American small-town literature, 1940-1960
… church, the courthouse, the outskirts and the graveyard—are places of tension, places in which the ambiguities and anxieties of America at mid-century are played out. By examining the small town as such a model, the ways in which the small town functions as something beyond nostalgia become …
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SAVAIMINIŲ DEKORATYVIŲJŲ AUGALŲ PAPLITIMAS PIETŲ LIETUVOS ŽELDYNUOSE /
… flower gardens (10), housing estates (15), old graveyards (10), new graveyards (10), a graveyard of a little village (10 graves). Totally, 55 objects of green plantation were investigated. During investigation 95 species of plants were registered in all ornamental plantations. Among them 69 …
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Gothic Stirrings on the Georgian Stage, 1740-1780
… of early Gothic works. I also consider how Graveyard poetry was written in reaction to concerns about religion. The chapter closes with an exploration of Walpole's The Mysterious Mother in relation to these identified anxieties. Chapter 2 reflects upon the intersection of the Gothic with the …
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Seeing ghosts: The absented presence of black lesbian women in mid-2000s Kwa-Thema and the legacies of trauma
… a queer haven for people in Johannesburg to a graveyard. Prioritising memory work through the Sojan trialectic of historicality, spatiality, and sociality, the Wynterian-McKittrickean demonic and geographic knowledges, and Gordonic hauntology leads me to the potential answers: what the process …
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The capacity of the Cape Flats aquifer and its role in water sensitive urban design in Cape Town
… winter groundwater flooding, viz. Sweet Home and Graveyard Pond informal settlements. The second objective of the study was to assess the storage potential and feasibility of MAR at two sites in the south of the Cape Flats, at Philippi and Mitchells Plain. In addition, the migration of solute …
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A Multiwavelength Analysis of the Effect of Cluster Environments on Galaxy Evolution
… field, yet the mechanisms responsible for this graveyard of galaxies remain to be clearly identified. This indicates that external gas quenching in the cluster environment such as through ram-pressure stripping is potentially dominating over any internal processes that deplete the gas supply. …
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A Study of The United Irish League in The King's County, 1899-1918
… the King's county proved to be the political graveyard of the IPP, for the defeat of the party's candidate in the Tullamore constituency in December 1914 after the apparent securing of Home Rule was a major blow to the party at that time; while the party's decision not to contest for the same …