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Showing 1 to 20 of 123 for “"Human existence"”.
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River's edge (a young adult novel) : an investigation of youth suicide and its relationship to the struggle for the meaning of human existence
… youth suicide and its relation to the meaning of human existence. There were two subsidiary aims of the thesis. First, to establish an intimate narrative tone. Second, to explore the technique of ''magic realism' which David Lodge defines as 'when marvellous and impossible events occur in what …
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Filiación-Fraternidad: The Hope of Human Existence in Light of Global Disparity. Exploring the Theological Anthropologies of Karl Rahner and José Ignacio González Faus.
… for Christian theology to critically re-examine human existence through social and structural categories in response to the current direction of globalization which threatens the humanization of human existence. Specifically, there exists a need for a contemporary Christian theological …
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One With the Toad: Bejeweled but Venomous Nature
… and <em>The Tempest</em> between instances of human surrender to nature and the redemption that occurs in the human realm despite nature's apathy toward the human existence.<em></em></p>
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Reason and care: constructing an inclusive moral theory for civic education
… is expanded to embrace three characteristics of human existence: first, the fabric of human existence is the synthesized field of subjectivity and objectivity, the public and the private, as well as rationality and affectivity; second, human life is an ongoing process of becoming and …
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Subjectivity and Selfhood in Kant, Fichte and Heidegger
… guided by the fundamental question, "What is the human being?" Kant himself, and even more so his Idealist successors, addressed this question by offering transcendental theories of human subjectivity. My dissertation explores the philosophical development of the Kantian and post-Kantian theories …
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Soul, Ego, and the Problem of Self-Location in American Poetry: From Emerson to the Beat Generation
… determines what aspects of life give meaning to human existence.
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An analysis of thematics, poetics, and aesthetics in Ivan Bunin's prose narratives
"To underline significant aspects of the human condition in imaginative structures, Bunin contrives a properly suitable relationship between ""form"" and ""content"" without losing aesthetic effects. With this literary perspective, Bunin consistently attempts to pursue the most fundamental …
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Measurement of Maternal Serum Estrogen Levels in Normal and Complicated Pregnancies by Radioimmunoassay. Their Use in Evaluation of Fetal Well-Being.
… this country have seen the perinatal period of human existence become the subject of increasing research. Perinatal mortality rates in the United States remain high by comparison with those observed in other developed countries of the world. This difference may be partially explained by the poor …
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The Dreamworld of Gajto Gazdanov in the Context of European Modernism
… presentiment of death penetrates every aspect of human existence. The theme of death, ethical judgement of good and evil, and the philosophy of Beauty and deformity are developed in Gazdanov's universe through a fairly complete philosophical system. The writer's worldview, which takes ultimate …
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Marshall Carby's An Experiment with an Air Pump
… with an Air Pump explores the depth of human existence using universal conflicts such as: morals versus ethics, science versus God and right versus wrong. Since the play's premiere in 1998, it has provided a forum for hot button topics such as stem cell research, abortion, and scientific …
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Across Water
… find meaning and sense in the complex terrain of human existence. The recurring themes all focus on change—the author's growth from a conservative, sheltered girlhood to womanhood, when she begins cultivating her new beliefs. The questions persist of how much the past will influence the present …
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Nowhere To Go: The Trend To Criminalize The Nation's Homeless
… homeless are often targeted and have their basic human dignities trampled as law enforcement destroys their property and jails them for activity essential for human existence as those activities are criminalized. With the negative perception held by much of the criminal justice system, no homeless …
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Saint Barbara: a Roman Catholic Church
… of Saint Barbara addresses the dichotomy of human existence as both spiritual and material being.
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"Spark" for wind ensemble.
… realization of personal truth and the nature of human existence. The piece carries many messages pertaining to the wonders and dangers associated with technology and the power it grants Humanity.
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Playing with the Other: The Stories of Mu Xin and Vladimir Nabokov
… and Mu Xin cope with “differences” arising in human existence, this thesis argues that such differences are fundamental to their artistic creation. By accommodating the Other in their fictional writing, Nabokov and Mu Xin free the self from temporal, spatial and cultural constraints.
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Material, space and order
The basis of any human existence is a space to inhabit to support that existence. Space, given by nature or created by man is always determined by the "planes" by which the particular space is enclosed. The issue, (what kind of materials these planes are made of - a roof, a wall , a column), is …
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A study of Sophocles' Oedipus Coloneus
… No doubt the poet had something to say about human existence in his play, but I have made no effort to fit this into any hypothetical "system" that he may have had.
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Truth and strangers in Jean Rhys's novels : Good morning, Midnight and Wide Sargasso Sea
… Rhys highlights the heterogeneity of human existence and exposes the provisionality of truth and the instability of meaning by employing multi-vocality, irony, parody and images of doubles.
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The hermeneutics of the modern subject.
… a limiting perspective of the possibilities for human existence. The philosopher Michel Foucault investigated the geneology of the way that the ‘care of the self’ became superseded by the prevailing cultural imperative to ‘have knowledge of the self’. This change began in the seventeenth century …
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