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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Historical images"”.
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Visual theology in 14th and 15th century Florentine frescoes : a theological approach to historical images, sacred spaces, and the modern viewer
… and the premise of this thesis is that historical images are a potentially rich, but underused, theological resource for modern Christians. Art historical analyses are rarely intended or equipped to demonstrate the rich theological potential of attentive interaction between the modern …
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"It's hard to recall those things when life is so different today:" the role of discourse, memory, and agency in uncovering experiences of southern Alberta war brides
Using the historically-specific group of Southern Alberta war brides, European women who married Canadian servicemen during the Second World War, this thesis demonstrates and contests the discursive constructions of historical knowledge. Within this context, fundamental issues of agency, discourse, …
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Building history : learning with archival photographs
… It is rare for students to engage in authentic historical activities - analyzing multiple documents to look for similarities and variations and ultimately assembling interpretations of past events. In this thesis, I present a set of tools, called Image Maps, that allow students to conduct …
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Estimating Carbon Pool and Carbon Release due to Tropical Deforestation Using High-resolution Satellite Data
… used Landsat ETM+, Landsat TM and IRS pan images of 2001, 1992 and 1999 respectively. Geometrically corrected Landsat ETM+ imagery was obtained from USGS and adjusted to the field using GPS. Historical images were corrected using image-to-image registration. Atmospheric correction was done …
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Significant Images of Mary
<p>The purpose of this historical thesis is to aid art therapists in recognizing the importance of a feminine or maternal figure, such as The Virgin Mary, in their client’s artwork. Understanding spiritual and/or religious figures, especially a universal mother figure, are crucial to art therapists …
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Signing off on the state
… a visual artist. An overview of the social and historical relationships of the individual in societal organisations, and in relation to what Stuart Hall refers to as tendential lines of force, the dominant structures of religion and the state (Hall, 1996), set the context for a selfreflexive …
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A Chinese Writer's Vicissitude in the Political and cultural Context of Early Modern China
… and (2) the linguistic ideologies, the historical images and the literary images registered as semiotic processes which mediated the Hmong identity formation and differentiation in Xiangxi, China. A range of scholars have demonstrated that the modern novel is one of the main tools for …
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Capturing Appalachia: Visualizing coal, culture, and ecology
… the project includes archival work researching historical images as well as fieldwork focused on the production of images. Drawing on the traditions of cultural and ‘green’ criminologies, geography, and critical ecotheory, concluding that the cultural, political, and ecological worlds of …
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Visual Narrative: A Theory and Model for Image-Driven Digital Historiography based on a Case Study of China’s Boxer Uprising (c. 1900)
… instant access to vast numbers of archival, historical images, demands a new paradigm for the use of visual imagery in historical research. This thesis proposes a new form of historiography in the digital medium, an image-based narrative mode for authoring and reading history. I propose a …
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Netolimos praeities reprezentacija ir istorinės atminties formavimas: šiuolaikinio Gruzijos kino atvejis /
… of Recent Past and the Formation of Historical Memory in Contemporary Georgian Film The Representation of Recent Past and the Formation of Historical Memory in Contemporary Georgian Films Memory studies are gradually developing into a very important tool for historical research in …
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Planning and Construction History of the Eight Columns, Anti-Mongol Stone Fortress in the Sichuan Theater at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty
… gradually emerged from the ground. Based on historical documents, historical images, and on-site field surveys, by introducing the perspective of military history and combining in-depth reading of archaeological reports, this study analyzes the theater and mountain city levels to delve into …
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The evolution of tidal coastal landscapes and the controls on pathways to equilibrium
… expansion of mangroves in 1940s. By the use of historical images, the expansion of mangroves in Whitianga Estuary was captured and the results were combined with the measured data of water level, current and sediment dynamics in order to explore the short-term dynamics around the shoal and the …