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Showing 1 to 20 of 238 for “"In the Beginning"”.
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Aaron Copland's In the Beginning: context and creative process
Sketches and drafts for In the Beginning (1947), Aaron Copland’s only extended choral work, illuminate relationships between the composer’s creative process and his Jewish heritage and humanist philosophy. Commissioned for Harvard University’s Symposium on Music Criticism, this setting of Genesis …
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Stress in the Beginning Spanish Classroom: An Instructional Study
Typologically, stress in Spanish and English is similar in that both languages have variable word stress. However, research done by Cutler (1986) and Soto-Faraco, Sebastian-Galles, & Cutler (2001) investigating the role of stress on lexical access indicates that there are psycholinguistic …
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The Process of Thinking and Making in the Beginning Design Studio
Based on the results of numerous studies, researchers have found that metacognition, or the ability to "think about thinking," plays a significant role in students' design education. Educators are increasingly focused on metacognition in design education, not only with the subject matter, but also …
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Revitalizing Hollywood Stardom: Classical Star Power and Enduring Marketability at Warner Bros. in the Beginning of New Hollywood
… Hollywood was foundationally a debatable period in the course of American film history, with distinctive characteristics of new directorial emergence and innovative film style. However, the contemporary industrial context suggested a prominent power of stardom to effectively sustain the business …
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Antikolonijinio smurtinio pasipriešinimo XX a. pr. Indijoje analizė /
Analysis of Anti-colonial Violent Resistance in India in the Beginning of the 20th Century. The main subject of the bachelor’s thesis is violent resistance in Indian anti-colonial movement in the beginning of the 20th century. The aim is to reveal how this social process made an influence to …
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A Study of Factors Relating to Grade-School Band Dropouts in the Aberdeen School District
It was the purpose of this study (1) to determine the various causes of student dropouts in the beginning band program; (2) to examine the relation of statistics collected between five elementary schools; (3) to analyze, in particular, various student responses as well as aptitude factors as causes …
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A house for a boat
This thesis is the result of an exploration to develop an architectural series of modular units. It is my position that information regarding site and program are unnecessary when beginning an architectural project. This is clearly demonstrated through my process. In the beginning, these units were …
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Rulers, Rhetoric, and Ray-Guns: A Post Colonial Look at 90's Alien Invasion Media
<p>This thesis opens discussion on American alien invasion films of the 90s as a self-critique, a reaction to being an imperial power at the end of the Cold War. The alien menace in these films is not the "other" but rather the U.S. itself being the colonizer or conqueror looking to expand its …
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Come to Light
Light is a recurring image in my work. To represent light, I use vivid images of shadows illuminating different values with the intention of setting particular moods and feelings. Light is an essential element for all life. It has a subliminal message of peace, life, clarification, illumination, …
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A study of estimators in linear models
This thesis is a study of Estimators, particularly in Linear Models. The newest technology of Bootstrap Methodology is employed in the estimation procedure. We present a survey of the Bootstrap Methodology in the beginning and move on to some serious problems in Linear Model estimation procedure. …
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Predicting long term success in a particular program by identifying gateway courses
The purpose of this study is to see if students grades in a math class they complete in the beginning of their college careers are indicative of future success in their major. Using pre-existing historical data from Texas Woman s University, we chose Math 1013 as a test gateway course and noted …
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Designing FET based multiple valued logic circuits
The thesis presents an analysis of FET based Multiple Valued Logic circuits. The circuit analysis program SPICE2 was used to analyze these circuits. A description of device modelling as done by SPICE2 is included in the beginning of the thesis. Techniques to implement MVL circuits using simple …
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Evaluation of Odor-Reducing Commercial Products for Animal Waste
Six odor-reducing commercial products were tested for their efficacy in reducing odors from dairy and swine wastes. A sensory panel method was utilized for odor evaluations, in which the panel played an important part. Comparisons between products were made for agitated and unagitated conditions …
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Pugilism and Poetry: Guillaume Apollinaire, Arthur Cravan and the Poète-Boxeur
The black boxers who fled the United States to Paris in the beginning of the 20th century were a true sensation among the citys avant-garde, and of all the artists and litterateurs gathered around the rings of the Parisian boxing scene, two champions of the poetic world stand out: Guillaume …
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The Jamaican Maroons of the 17th and 18th centuries: Survivalists of the New World
<p>The Jamaican Maroons, in the beginning, served as fugitive slaves avoiding captivity and liberating other enslaved people. To stop the Maroons from liberating other enslaved people, the British granting them freedom on the condition that they stop freeing slaves and even return runaways. …
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Language Attitudes Among English-Learning Hungarian Students
This thesis explores the characteristics of English and its position as a lingua franca, as well as the language attitudes of Hungarian English-speaking students, based on an online questionnaire. Additionally, the properties and types of bilingualism are discussed in the beginning of the thesis. …
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BUILDING ON THE LASTING BENEFITS OF ATTENDING A VOLUNTARY PREKINDERGARTEN PROGRAM
<p>The expectations of kindergarten students have drastically changed over the years. Kindergarten students who have not attended a voluntary pre-kindergarten (VPK) program may be at a disadvantage in behavior and academics. The purpose of this study is to show the benefits of a VPK program. My …
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Field tests on a personal mobility aid for the elderly
The number of elderly Americans is currently rising and will continue to do so. These elderly individuals face several problems in the later years of their lives including the move into an eldercare facility. Personal mobility and monitoring aids are being developed to assist the elderly with this …
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The Computational Kleinman-Newton Method in Solving Nonlinear Nonquadratic Control Problems
This thesis deals with non-linear non-quadratic optimal control problems in an autonomous system and a related iterative numerical method, the Kleinman-Newton method, for solving the problem. The thesis proves the local convergence of Kleinman-Newton method using the contraction mapping theorem and …
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Matryoshka
Matryoshka is a poetry collection that inhabits the space between danger and desire. The poems are largely voice-driven and confessional, sprouting from a speaker who is somehow ruthlessly honest and deceptively evasive at the same time. She covets the domestic only to set it on fire. She runs for …
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