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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Hard Times"”.
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The divided consciousness in Charles Dickens' Hard times
… this paper is apply Frye’s concept of romance to Hard Times, i.e., Frye's defining romance as a device for using archetypes. The novel, as Frye sees it, is a vehicle whereby “realism” or life-like representation is applied. Hard Times contains “stylized figures” which thematically and …
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A soft man in hard times: Lionel Abrahams: writing the state of emergency
This thesis has the principle aim of providing a critical reading of the work of Lionel Abrahams, intending to provide the first serious scholarly interpretation of his thought. The argument that it purses is that what is at stake in his work is a thinking through the state of emergency. The state …
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Minutes From Pragma
… on fire. The collection concentrates on hardship and alienation, but suggests ways in which characters may confront and endure hard times. Characters' attempts to connect with others sometimes fail, but the characters themselves persevere--they read, hold hands, even treat one other …
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The portrayal of dissent and the Anglican Church in Victorian literature
… society. The examination of North and South, Hard Times, and Jane Eyre will show how the larger conversation about the cultural shift away from Anglicanism was manifesting itself on the literary page.
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Community Development for the 21st Century: Asset-building and the Resurgence of Pittsburgh
… community is a difficult challenge. Oftentimes it can take decades to achieve. Pittsburgh's East Liberty and Lawrenceville neighborhoods had fallen on hard times in the late part of the 20th century. However, in recent years, both were able to identify and leverage the assets of the …
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Eager and Hungry for Music: The WPA Music Project in New Orleans, 1935-1943
… of the 1930s, musicians in particular fell on hard times. The live music profession had begun to decline even before the onset of the Depression due to the introduction of new acoustic technologies. In 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration (WPA) …
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Dropouts from literacy : an analysis of the meanings which adult learners attach to the fact of abandoning their training programme
… provide hope for a better future and comfort in hard times.
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Population dynamics and succession strategies of rural industry producers
… to be under threat, due to a combination of hard times and the long-term and inexorable decline in the terms of trade. I examined this threat to the continuation of family farming in Australia’s sheep industry by describing the demographic structure of the industry, documenting the structural …
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African American Entrepreneurship: Narratives of Fresno County, California, African American Entrepreneurs
… resilience enabled them to survive through hard times and played a crucial role in the outcomes of their entrepreneurial efforts.</p>
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Transracial adoption (TRA) and the development of ethnoracial identity
… of origin, family culture, communication, hard times, parents' emotions, resourcing and multicultural education.
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Lost in the cloud : cultural lag in the transition to eTextbooks.
… employed in K-12 education by 2017. In economic hard times, these measures may make good sense. The cost of textbooks has undergone a dramatic increase and it is believed that electronic textbook delivery is cost efficient, saving the struggling public schools a great deal of money. In higher …
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Here be dragons: exploring the hinterland of science
… The demarcation project has fallen on hard times, and many philosophers have grown suspicious of the very term ‘pseudoscience’, as it is believed to suggest a naïve conception of science and its borderlines. In this dissertation, I argue that, instead of abandoning the demarcation …
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Urban Industry and Literary Work: The Construction of Authorship in the Victorian Social -Problem Novel, 1845--1866
… Gaskell, Alton Locke (1850) by Charles Kingsley, Hard Times (1854) by Charles Dickens, and Felix Holt (1866) George Eliot. Individual chapters analyze writers' attempts to project narrative into the heart of urban scenes and labor conflicts. This dissertation accordingly reframes critical accounts …
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Black Cats, Berlin, Broadway And Beyond: Cabaret History In The Making
… term "musical theatre" was coined and suffered hard times during the Golden Age of Musical Theatre. The correlation of the two genres cannot be denied, and exploring cabaret history will reveal how deeply the connection lies. My collaborator Debbie Tedrick and I will attempt to define cabaret …
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Ar lorg na slí
… to enhance reader engagement, but, after Richardson (1994); Speedy (2005); Gale & Wyatt (2006); Hall (2009); Ingold (2010); Shepherd (2011); McCormack (2013); and Gros (2014) is used here as a method of inquiry. Furthermore, these processes of embodied and contextualised dialogic practice …
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Masculine Fantasies In Selected Novels by Charles Dickens
… pleasure akin to that which a sick man sometimes has in irritating a wound upon his body." This dissertation examines that "perverse pleasure," the ways in which deviations from the dominant ideal of masculinity provide vicarious kinds of satisfaction not only for the character but also for …
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Addressing the Poor Professional Outcomes of Undergraduate Arts Students
… are unemployed (Carnevale, Cheah, & Strohl, Hard Times: College Majors, Unemployment and Earnings, 2012, p. 7). Fifty two percent of arts undergraduate alumni reported being dissatisfied with their institution’s ability to advise them about further career or education opportunities (SNAAP, …
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Retrofitting the Tennessee Valley Authority
… environmental design that has since fallen on hard times. When writer James Agee toured the region in 1935, he described the massive dam construction underway as a great skeleton across the valley, to be fleshed with social programs; economic incentives; navigation; flood control; power; and …
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Drinking fountains : the past and future of free public water in the United States
… broken, drinking fountains have fallen on hard times in the public realm. Many Americans express skepticism of public water sources, reflecting underlying attitudes about distrust of government and public infrastructure. There are compelling reasons to rethink our relationship with drinking …
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Workers Out of Control: Recuperations, Reverberations and Communalism from Argentina to Greece
… is deemed particularly important during these hard times of destructive political winds all over the world. A constructive answer to the latter could only be a common, concrete, utopian prefiguration.
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