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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Human Identity"”.
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Images of human motion : changing representations of human identity
Thesis (M.S.V.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1982.
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Eudora Welty: Family, Place, and Human Identity in Losing Battles
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Language, emotion, and imagination: Constructing human identity through Hemingway's work
… narrative fiction--as this thesis demonstrates--human beings enhance their identities in the same way that they construct the stories they read: by attributing meaning to the emotions evoked in them while reading. In essence, human beings feel compelled to immerse themselves in fiction because …
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Mutation Rate Analysis of the Human Mitochondrial D-loop and its Implications for Forensic Identity Testing
… mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequence analysis for human identity testing, a better understanding of its mutation rate is needed. Prior to the middle 1990's the mutation rate applied to a forensic or evolutionary analysis was determined by phylogenetic means, This method involved calculating genetic …
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"Let Us Make 'adam": An Edenic Model of Personal Ontology
<p>Personal ontology studies human constitution and human nature, an increasingly debated topic in Christian theology. Historically, the most prominent models of personal ontology in Christian theology have been substance dualist models. More recently, physicalist models have offered prominent …
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To the Marrow: Poems and Essays
… poetry and essays focusing on animalization, dehumanization, loss, love, and freedom. At the heart of the collection is a woman striving to assert herself in a relationship that has become restrictive and unbalanced. This effort causes her to form connections between herself and animals, …
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Nesting in English fields : bird narratives and the re-imagining of post-war Britain
… reveals about contemporary anxieties around human identity. Starting from the assumption that people often use animals to say things they cannot otherwise articulate, it investigates whether readings that foreground the representation of the more-than-human world in both familiar and …
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Putting Makeup on Dead People
… in the circularity of time and of what makes up human identity (what we do, what happens to us, to whom we are related), the stories do not progress chronologically. The collection pays particular attention to Donna's relationship with key family members: her father Nicky, her mother Martha, her …
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“Whispers Out of Time”: Memorializing (Self-) Portraits in the Work of John Berryman, John Ashbery, Anne Carson, and Nan Goldin
… Portfolio”)—developed new ways of representing human subjectivity and the self that integrated the influences of Romanticism, Modernism and Postmodernism, but were not defined by these movements. In an era when notions of autonomous art and human identity became fractured, they picked up the …
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"About as shapeless as the Man in the Moon" : the representation of desire and transition in six films of Charles Laughton
… and stylistically coherent vision of human identity. Through these performances, Laughton expresses the limits and possibilities of freedom for the self. Drawing on major works of Mikhail Bakhtin and Gilles Deleuze, as well as related theoretical explorations of the representation of …
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Fictional Selves: Creating Identity in the Victorian Fictional Autobiography
<p>Fictional Selves: Creating Identity in the Victorian Fictional Autobiography is about fictionality and the role that processes of fiction play in our experiences of personal subjectivity. I argue that the particular and historically situated form of the Victorian fictional autobiography helps us …
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Woolf and Freud: A dialogue between Woolf's fiction and psychanalytic theory
… theory, namely Freud's theories on sexual identity that were being published by Woolf's own Hogarth Press much around the same time as her earlier works. It is the contention of this thesis that not only do Woolf s texts explore many of the same theories being developed in the field of …
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An Exploration of Nature and Human Development in Young Adult Historical Fantasy
… writing focuses on the cause and effect of human action, assuming that it is the historian’s responsibility to recount the ebbs and flows of human progress. In the process of laying hold of the past as a narrative of human action, historical writing has developed the tendency to marginalise …
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Vocal analogues: A Cultural History of Technological Voice Imitation
The impulse to simulate human voices with machines has a long history. In exploring concepts of human authenticity and simulation within mechanical and digital representations of vocality, this thesis traces the cultural history and logic of vocal imitations up to the deepfake. From the vocal …
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Dança autobiográfica – multivocalidade do self encenado a partir e além da carne negra
… replacing the audience face to face to its own identity issues; b) this flow reassures a perspective of a shared self, and not of a radical subjectivism; c) this favors shared collective actions, discarding the need for strategies of identity self affirmation, common, above all, in minorities’ …
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Modernity, mobility, and materiality in E. M. Forster’s fiction
Through attending to processual and performative human-world relations, this thesis reveals embodied activities as central to developing and showing people’s identities and social relations in E. M. Forster’s fiction. The materiality of the world is prevalent in his literary works where the …
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Alzheimer's Disease Narratives and the Myth of Human Being
… about what it means to be a human person. The loss of self as it occurs in AD narratives functions most effectively in reasserting the presence of the human self, in contrast to an anonymous, inhuman nonself; as AD discourse details a loss of self, it necessarily follows that …
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The computational face for facial emotion analysis: Computer based emotion analysis from the face
… be the most revealing way of understanding the human psychological state during face-to-face communication. It is believed that a more natural interaction between humans and machines can be undertaken through the detailed understanding of the different facial expressions which imitate the manner …
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The computational face for facial emotion analysis: Computer based emotion analysis from the face
… be the most revealing way of understanding the human psychological state during face-to-face communication. It is believed that a more natural interaction between humans and machines can be undertaken through the detailed understanding of the different facial expressions which imitate the manner …
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Imago Dei and the earthly life : the theological anthropology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
… the importance of place for our understanding of human identity. Through reading the early writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer in historical context, this dissertation shows how he provides resources we need to think through an anthropology that properly attends to the vital role relations between the …
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