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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Human spirit"”.
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Immortalizing the Human Spirit: Analyzing Faulkner through Schopenhauer
… literature to commemorate and immortalize the human spirit in its continual fight to persevere against the constraining nature of causality. Analyzing the themes and formal permutations of each novel, this dissertation notes Faulkner's concern with the spatial and temporal boundaries …
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Mind over machine : what Deep Blue taught us about chess, artificial intelligence, and the human spirit
On May 11th 1997, the world watched as IBM's chess-playing computer Deep Blue defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov in a six-game match. The reverberations of that contest touched people, and computers, around the world. At the time, it was difficult to assess the historical significance of …
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Emblem of the human spirit: Arthur Schnitzler's <i>Der Geist im Wort und der Geist in der Tat</i>
… the personal views of life and the human, condition were made generally available for the first time. Besides <em>GWT</em>, <em>AuB</em> contains another important, formerly-published but also long-out-of-print work, <em>Buch der Sprüche und Bedenken</em> (hereafter: <em>BSB</em>), …
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From Services to Customers to the Human Spirit – The Role of Corporate Social Responsibility in Promoting Harmony: A Case Study of Mercado Éxito in Colombia and the Economy of Love Framework.
This research paper explores the multifaceted concept of Harmony as it relates to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in an emerging market context, specifically focusing on the perceptions of customers and employees at Mercado Exito in Colombia. It begins by defining Harmony through its social, …
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The Role of the Great Arts and Literature in Narrative Counselling to Reveal Beauty as a Life-Giving Healing Experience and a Rediscovery of the Human Spirit as a Noetic Spirit
… of a narrative of balance - a rediscovery of my human spirit as a noetic spirit. When reading this in Chapter 3, I invite you, the reader, to allow yourself to freely enter your imagination and become part of our ‘Creative Protagonist’ narrative. I encourage you to chronologically view the …
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Learning by Wandering: Using Technology to Nourish the Spirit
… to use technology in education to nourish the human spirit. To do this, I use a combination of critical and historical analysis. I reconnect first of all with my native ancient Irish culture. From this perspective, I gain an understanding of learning as a spiritual quest for transcendence …
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A Patient Search in Color and Form
… aims is that which resonates deep within the human spirit. This search is fundamentally related to ideas about visual perception and the body's reaction to it.
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Two Fingers: Michael's Struggle
… gain a tremendously important lesson about the human spirit.
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Memorial and meditation, material and metaphor
… The project is a place of healing for the human spirit - a meditation/ meeting space located in the dunes of the Provincelands on the peninsula of Cape Cod, MA. Although primarily influenced by the necessity for expression of ceremony, community, and contemplation brought about by the AIDS …
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Genius Loci---Vertical Temple Design
… emerging, social media issues and lack of human spirit. All of these issues occurred in the modern urban context, which made the "Loci Genius" lose. So how could architects reconstruct and conserve the "Genius Loci." I try to build the temple for people in the high dense city, which help …
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Claiming identity: The effect of the American myth on human relationships in David Mamet's "American Buffalo", "Glengarry Glenn Ross", and "Speed-the-Plow"
… the damage American business has done to the human spirit. The frontier myth has evolved into exploitative capitalism where competition becomes an obstacle for community and friendship. The characters in these plays try to establish and define their identities by their particular status within …
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In|And|Of|Through
… to explore different effects art has on the human spirit.
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The Works of Mikhail A. Bulgakov: A Search for the Ideal Hero (Russia)
… society's consistent denigration of the human spirit, he portrayed what elevates it, turning soon to the gifted individual, and most often the Writer, as the clearest exemplar--and in his frequent failures, the most to be lamented--of the values of freedom and compassion which Bulgakov …
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Architecture and Human Event: a Theatre for the Consortium
… is an interaction, a marriage between human event, human need, human spirit and built form. Architects range along the line of this interaction from those that embrace the complexity of humanity and struggle with form to those that embrace only form and cause humanity to struggle with …
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A Stage for the Town of Floyd
… into a place through the manifestation of the human spirit and will. It should intensify that place and heighten the awareness of human existence. Upon entering into this higher realm of understanding of the self and place, one begins to find beauty in the created object inhabited. This …
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Encounter with Otherness : Nature and Identity in Rolvaag's GIANTS IN THE EARTH
… the novel that deals most effectively with the human cost underlying the glorious national achievement of westward expansion. Though the estimate is a positive one, by being categorized so succinctly, Giants is in some danger of being. perfunctorily dismissed as an excellent frontier novel and …
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Representing the past in the present with the future in mind : a close reading of the ‘Cell Stories’ exhibition at the Robben Island Museum
… rather it should celebrate 'the triumph of the human spirit against the forces of evil' (Kathrada 1996:10-11; see also Deacon 1998: 163; Deacon 2000: 1; Coetzee et al. 1998: 10; Solani2000b: 6; Coombes 2003: 58) . Thus, the triumph narrative has become prevalent at the Robben Island Museum. This …
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Mythic Metamorphosis: Re-shaping Identity in the Works of H.D.
… of the rare intangible thread/ that binds all humanity/ to ancient wisdom,/ to antiquity;/â ¦every concrete object/ has abstract value, is timeless/ in the dream parallel" (Trilogy 24). H.D. mined her own life for charged relationships which she then, through writing, connected to the mythic …
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Spirit matter(s): post-dualistic representations of spirituality in fiction by Walker Percy, Toni Morrison and Gloria Naylor
Spirit Matter(s): Post-Dualism Representations of Spirituality in Fiction by Walker Percy, Toni Morrison and Gloria Naylor, examines the ways in which these authors have presented spirituality in The Moviegoer, Song of Solomon, and Mama Day respectively. In these works, spirituality is a need for …
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Identity Journeys: Life Stories of Women Adopted Transnationally As Children
… and every story shared demonstrated the human spirit could emerge strong, beautiful and resilient.</p>
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