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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"Happenings"”.
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An Anthology: The Connectedness Of Life Happenings
… to bear out the author's perception that life happenings set the stage for subsequent events and actually predict, attract, and build on one another in a sometimes loosely, sometimes closely, knit pattern.
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HAPTIC HAPPENINGS: AN EXPLORATION OF SOUND, QUIET AND BLACKNESS
This research analyzes the lives and works of Black visual artists and filmmakers as visual representations of haptic events. This thesis examines how the lives of the artists and specific works of art are entangled with sound and quiet and directly reflect and shape the complexities black …
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A Moral Being in an Aesthetic World: Being in the Early Novels of Kurt Vonnegut
… These novels are full aware of themselves has happenings of truth containing something of their author’s own being. Through these happenings, Vonnegut is able to poetically project himself in a way that not only reveals his own being, but also serves as a mirror that can reveal the being of …
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Beliefs About Children Who Have Been Incarcerated: What Do Parents Know?
… asked their experiences with several traditional happenings, supported by research, in some traditional African-American households. Topics discussed included religion, spanking, and single parenthood. The study found that many of the traditional happenings of African-American parenting occurred …
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Topics, Events, Stories in Social Media
… detect on-going trends, and forecast future happenings. This thesis focuses on developing methods for social media analysis. Specifically, five directions are proposed here: 1) semi-supervised detection for targeted-domain events, 2) topical interaction study among multiple datasets, 3) …
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Insistent Animals
… in such places, but also herself as a site for happenings. There is an understanding across poems that time is not linear, and that events echo backwards and forwards in memory and upon the body. Ultimately, the speaker is concerned with what it means to be tied to others, and how such ties can …
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Site of struggle, custodian of memory: reimagining the St George's Cathedral complex
… previously as well as in their current form. The happenings in and around these structures is also very important. These buildings are steeped in history not only in form but also in respect of attitude and philosophy. The memory of the people of Cape Town, past and present, guide the research and …
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Sitting in a Stranger’s Bathtub
… deja vu that proves the existence of alternate happenings, and also justify deja vu as a sensation intended to fill the fragments of memory. In keeping with the tradition of the Confessional movement, these poems aim toward honesty, toward revealing the truth, only possible by showing the …
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Culture on a Plate: The Social Construction of Authenticity in Food Culture
… doing so, food becomes a mirror reflecting the happenings within the broader social world. This study examines three empirical cases to sociologically understand food culture: southern barbeque, Top Chef, and ramps and quinoa. Southern barbeque allows the examination of the role of fabricated …
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A Battle of Wills: Morale, Hope and the Army of Northern Virginia during the Last Year of the Civil War
… to events such as battles and political happenings that occurred among the soldiers of the Confederacy's primary army we can see how the end of the Civil War unfolded for these men. The Army of Northern Virginia was the Confederacy's main hope for independence and the vehicle through …
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The framing of Caitlyn Jenner: a textual analysis
… for application among other celebrity happenings in the media.
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Violence for a Peaceful End: Rhetorical Violence, Fundamentalist Eschatology, and the Interpretive Tradition of Revelation
… such as ISIS, it is important to note similar happenings in other traditions. This thesis traces the interpretive tradition of the Book of Revelation, from its composition in 90 C.E. through the dispensationalist usage of it by John Nelson Darby in the 19th century, and how its modern use by …
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Joan Jonas and the Object of Performance
… have worked to preserve these events, acts, and happenings through various means, including memory, photographic or filmic documentation, and physical remnants or by-products from the event; however, these pieces only provide a fragmented, disjointed image of a complex, multidimensional work. To …
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Oriental sore: some observations suggested by its prevalence in Quetta in 1936
… compare and contrast this epidemic with similar happenings in other places under varying circumstances.
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How to connect : applying Martha Nussbaum's literary ethical theory to E. M. Forster's Howards end
… choice or action in the face of uncontrolled happenings ethical discourse inevitably uses example to illustrate theory. This strategy is especially fruitful when applied to novels. Literary language constructs the form to convey the content to the reader. Form illuminating content may make the …
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Armand Vaillancourt's social sculpture
… same time as his political manifestations and happenings. Vaillancourt's perception of the role of the public monument is classical, in that it embodies values of permanence, but his political gestures advocate social change. This thesis presents a chronological overview of Vaillancourt's …
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Design of a Multi-biometric Platform, based on physical traits and physiological measures: Face, Iris, Ear, ECG and EEG
… and video surveillance, especially after the sad happenings of September 2001. Outlays assessments of the U.S. government for the years 2001-2005 estimate that the homeland security spending climbed from $56.0 billions of dollars in 2001 to almost $100 billion of 2005. In this lapse of time, new …
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Aloe and honey : tales from town and country
… to enable the reader to extricate real-life happenings from both scenarios, and have a sound judgement about his/her observation.
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Salt Flats, Finger Islands, and Ponds: Reading the Landscape through Infrastructure in Tampa, Florida
… and ideas that have led to these environmental happenings. It looks at racial capitalism, the teleology of progress, the frontier, and ideas about nature; all of which people have used to create a material infrastructure of residential development in the landscape. Through a historical and …
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Composing a Literary Adoption Memoir and Self Through Creative Nonfiction Memoir Writing
… adoption memoir”—artful writings about real life happenings; my contribution to this genre addresses the complexities of the closed adoption era, transnational/transracial adoption, and parenting an adoptee as an adult adoptee. For this project, I share my process and the theories that validate …
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