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Jack London: American political paradox
LD2668 .T4 1966 S83
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The House that Jack Built
The House That Jack Built is a contemporary novel, set on the mythical Caribbean island of St. Anne, that explores enduring themes of American literature such as independence, selfdetermination, and the effects of greed on the independent spirit.
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Jack Kerouac Does Not Lie
"Jack Kerouac Does Not Lie" recounts my pilgrimage in the summer of 2000, from southwest Florida to a canyon beach in California where Jack Kerouac—as I had read in his Big Sur—lost his mind forty years earlier. I was heavily influenced. Kerouac’s On the Road showed me what to do with myself. Big …
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Female characters in Jack Kerouac's Fiction
Jack Kerouac, accepted speaker for the Beat Generation in American literature, used women as vehicles in his attempt to define himself in both his life and his fiction. His three female-centered novels, Maggie Cassidy, The Subterraneans, and Tristessa show the male protagonists following a pattern …
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Coding and processing numerical information / Leonard Jack White
Appendix 12 ([7] leaves) in pocket
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Constructions of Identity and Otherness in Jack Kerouac's Prose
This thesis is inspired by the abiding academic and public interest in Kerouac’s work and aims to advance new readings of Kerouac’s prose in a contemporary literary and cultural context. It is particularly concerned with a deconstructive reading of Kerouac’s prose and engages with his negotiations …
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Protecting 802.11-Based Wireless Networks From SCTS and JACK Attacks
… CTS attack (SCTS) and Jamming ACK attack (JACK). In the SCTS, malicious nodes may send periodic Spurious CTS packets to force other nodes to update their NAV values and prevent them from using the channel. In the JACK, an attacker ruins legitimate ACK packets for the intention of disrupting …
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AVIAN FORAGING RESPONSE TO JACK PINE (PINUS BANKSIANA) VOLATILE CHEMICALS
… to forage on. I tested this interaction in the jack pine (<em>Pinus banksiana</em>) forests in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. I measured VOCs released from trees that were favored by foraging insectivorous and omnivorous birds and compared them to VOC measurements from trees that had no avian …
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The design of an offshore oil drilling jack-up platform.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Ocean Engineering. Thesis. 1974. Ocean E.
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Of glory obscur'd : beatific vision in the narratives of Jack Kerouac
The present study affirms that Jack Kerouac's individual narratives of his Duluoz Legend, as contained in thirteen of his key novels, serve as episodic chapters in which the archetypal hero voyages on a quest through beatific discoveries toward a final self-discovery, a beatific vision.The first …
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Jack of All Trades : a symphonic poem for British brass band
“Jack of All Trades” is a large symphonic work for a performance medium growing in popularity in the United States, the British Brass Band. This British Brass Bands originated in the United Kingdom during the late 19th Century. My alma mater, James Madison University, has a brass band directed by …
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A Specific Elsewhere: Locating Masculinity in Jack Kerouac's On The Road
In travelling across the postwar United States, Jack Kerouac hoped to revive what he perceived as the lost essence of America. Kerouac’s travels – many of which were shared with his friend Neal Cassady – represented a resistance to the postwar social ideal, an exchange in spatial systems that …
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Secret Identity: Reassessing Jack B. Yeats as a Comic Strip Artist
… comic strip work produced by the Irish painter Jack B. Yeats for a number of British publications between c. 1893 and 1917. The thesis seeks to identify and analyse the corpus of his previously unexamined work, positioning it in relation to contemporaneous media, entertainment and popular …
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Paleomagnetism conglomerate test on Archean conglomerate rock from Jack Hills, Australia
A paleomagnetism study known as a conglomerate test was run on an Archean sandstone conglomerate rock to determine if the sample contained a remnant magnetization from the time of its formation. Twenty-nine clasts from a thin section of the sample were thermally demagnetized up to a temperature of …
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Transformative Professional Development Through the Eyes of Jack Mezirow and Thomas Guskey
… development literature through the lens of Jack Mezirow's transformational theory of adult learning. Overlaid with theory was Thomas Guskey's model of effective professional development which resulted in a tool for planning and evaluating ongoing teacher education. A survey crafted around …
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