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Great expectations : managing realities of transitional justice
This thesis examines the management of expectations for transitional justice. The transitional justice trials for the former Yugoslavia (Tribunal) and Cambodia (Chambers) reveal an expectation dilemma. In interviews with transitional justice practitioners and advocates, expectations were declared …
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Great expectations : managing realities of transitional justice
This thesis examines the management of expectations for transitional justice. The transitional justice trials for the former Yugoslavia (Tribunal) and Cambodia (Chambers) reveal an expectation dilemma. In interviews with transitional justice practitioners and advocates, expectations were declared …
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Great Expectations: Researching Usability of Online Museum Collections
This evaluative study examined what museum visitors expect to find when they access a museum's online collection, how they are using online collections, and how successful their searches are. Increased reliance on the Internet in today's culture means the museum website is quickly becoming the face …
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Great Expectations? Universities as civic anchors forlocal innovation and development
The relative importance of universities as local anchor institutions, coupled with the prevailing economic conditions since the financial crisis and subsequent austerity era, has led to increasing demands from policy makers for publicly funded universities to be proactive drivers of innovation and …
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Great expectations : provisional modernism and the reception of J.J.P. Oud
… not only his work but also the prevailing expectations of those who received his work. Using the reception theory of the literary theorist Hans Jauss and his concept of a "horizon of expectation," my study contends that Oud was celebrated where the nexus of his work met prevailing …
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Great Expectations: Women's Help Wanted Ads In Kansas City, 1920-1936
The question of the nature of women’s paid work has been a frequent point of historical inquiry. Using a source previously only tapped quantitatively, this paper seeks to expand our understanding of how women’s employment was advertised for and viewed during the 1920s and 30s in the United States …
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Frankenstein and Great Expectations : the romantic child and the Victorian adult
… between Romantic and Victorian discourses in Great Expectations. At the heart of my argument is the contention that Pip has a Romantic childhood and steadily grows into a Victorian adult. The work of some critics suggests that Dickens was not able to reconcile the presence of Romantic and …
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Great Expectations: Phosph(On)Ate Prodrugs In Drug Design—Opportunities and Limitations
<p>Phosphate and phosphonates are chemical moieties with historical precedence in anticancer and antiviral nucleotide analogues. Synchronous to modern efforts identifying novel therapeutic targets in cancer, such chemical moieties are being investigated in the design of novel inhibitors with …
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Great Expectations: The Role of Myth in 1980s Films with Child Heroes
This study performed a mythic analysis on three films with child heroes including E.T.—the Extra-Terrestrial, Stand by Me, and The Goonies. Several unifying themes were extracted and then compared with the dominant values of Reagan America to determine if these films provided a unique cultural …
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Not So Great Expectations: An Analysis of Expectation Determinants and the Predictability of Expectation Errors
… Reserve Bank of New York’s Survey of Consumer Expectations (SCE) to analyze expectations of national inflation, national stock market returns, personal credit access, and personal financial wellbeing to test the rational expectations hypothesis (REH). For each of these variables, I examine the …
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'What is Life But Learning!': Informal Education in A Christmas Carol, Bleak House, and Great Expectations
… Christmas Carol (1843), Bleak House (1852), and Great Expectations (1860). While substantial scholarly attention has been paid to Dickens's interest in formal education, for example his educational reform efforts, his fictional depictions of schools and schooling, and his "student" and "teacher" …
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Great expectations : narratives of second generation Asian Indian American college students about academic achievement and related intergenerational communication
… Asian Indian Americans navigate the expectations of academic excellence and cultural adherence in their relationships with their first-generation parents. There is limited knowledge and understanding of this population that is burdened by family expectations, community expectations, …
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Dickens's comic art: a study of the comic element in Dombey and Son, Little Dorrit, and Great Expectations
It is my contention in this thesis that the comic nature of Dickens's mature fiction has not received the degree of attention that its importance warrants. In particular, the questions left unanswered, or to my mind not satisfactorily answered, by modern critics of Dickens are: why does Dickens …
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Dickens's comic art: a study of the comic element in Dombey and .son, little Dorrit, and great expectations
… Little Dorrit (1857; rpt. Oxford: O.U.P., 1953) Great Expectations (1861; rpt. Oxford: O.U.P., 1953) All other quotations and references to Dickens's. works also refer to the New Oxford Illustrated Edition, unless otherwise noted. I have consulted the Clarendon Dickens (Variorum) Edition where …
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OVERLY-GREAT EXPECTATIONS: WHY POLITICAL VOLUNTARISM IS IMPOSSIBLE, WHY PHILOSOPHICAL ANARCHISM IS UNNECESSARY, AND WHY THAT'S NOT A PROBLEM
John Locke argued that legitimate state authority is created when free individuals lend their personal power via consent to the state's governors. Modern Lockean A. John Simmons extends Locke's argument to conclude that, since this does not happen in the real world, philosophical anarchism must be …
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Dickens and the Problem of Maturity: 'Dombey and Son,' 'David Copperfield,' 'Bleak House,' 'Great Expectations,' and 'Our Mutual Friend.'
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T22:38:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6801698.pdf: 9305212 bytes, checksum: d4e3d8e509a2244702eec2ebd1c8762c (MD5) Previous issue date: 1967
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Values in Four Selected British Novels Commonly Read in American Secondary Schools
… Brave New World, Lord of the Flies, 1984, and Great Expectations. These four novels were selected for examination from a values perspective.
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