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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Kairos"”.
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Kairos: Architecture and the Pause for Good Taste
The following is the architectural narrative of a slow meal. Slowness is rich with meaning and expectations. I sought to explore slow not in terms of speed or a measured passage of time, but in terms of the passage of opportunity. Slow is the seizing of an opportunity - a pause for pleasure in the …
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Suomalaisen päihdekeskustelun paatos, kairos ja eetos mediakentällä vuonna 2019
… sekä nomoksista, doxista ja habituksista. Kairos käsittelee aineistosta eriteltäviä kriittisiä hetkiä, jotka vaikuttivat edellä mainittujen käsitteiden muutoksenalaisuuteen kentillä tapahtuvien prosessien ja vuorovaikutussuhteiden johdosta. Eetos on tarkastellun ilmiön laajempaa …
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Talking About Learning Online: Creating the Context for Kairos
… opportune moments for learning are explored as kairos, synthesising and providing insight into learning moments. The findings of this research may apply to any online educator embracing a dialogic model of education and aims to support them to help students realise their voices and engage with …
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Emerging genres, dangerous classifications: The kairos of digital composing policy
… Genres, Dangerous Classifications: The Kairos of Digital Composing Policy</em> argues that writing policy infrastructure plays a significant (if often invisible) role in affording emerging digital genres in rhetoric and composition. Within the last few decades, the accelerating …
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Seizing the Catholic Moment: Kairos and the Rhetoric of Diocesan Administration
… have understood through the metaphor of kairos.</p><p> The rhetoric of diocesan administration is best understood not as the implementation of communicative or managerial 'techniques' but as a form of playful engagement that flows out of the pastoral acknowledgement of the call of a …
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The Afro-British Slave Narrative: The Rhetoric of Freedom in the Kairos of Abolition
… were kairotic; they attempted to shape their own kairos by taking temporal events and reinterpreting them to construct a kairotic process that led to a perceived fulfillment: abolition. Thus, the dissertation examines the rhetorical strategies used by white abolitionists to construct an …
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From nature to the ideal : a cross-disciplinary study of ancient Greek kairos, circa 3000-146 BCE
… study investigates the ancient Greek concept of kairos in the sociocultural history of the ancient Greeks from 3000-146 BCE. Within this historical context, the dissertation attempts to isolate the story of kairos as it moves from being a concept learned through the Greeks’ direct experiences …
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Specializing in the wholly impossible: A rhetorical analysis of phronesis and kairos in the writings of Nannie Helen Burroughs
… teach and model phronesis (practical wisdom) and kairos (timeliness) together creating a discourse grounded in feminist principles. Her rhetorical strategies are unique because her discourse exposes rhetorical distinctions between the descriptors feminist and womanist for rhetors whose lives …
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Seizing the Initiative: Rhetorical Implications of US Army Doctrine
… professional embodies the rhetorical concept of kairos. In rhetoric studies, Kairos is understood to be an independent force that a rhetor must accommodate and also as an ability whereby a rhetor creates an opening for action; both models are rooted in reasoned action. Recent work on bodily …
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Milton's cryptic figures.
… special needs in a given rhetorical occasion (kairos). Crypsis consists of three categories: (1) Deficiency, the omission of something essential; (2) Redundancy, the addition of something non-essential; and (3) Inversion, the reversal of sequential order. Ramus faults each of these techniques …
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Technologically-Mediated Writing In The First Year Writing Classroom: Twitter And Immediate Writing
… utilizes social media to address issues of kairos in student writing experiences. The term "immediate writing" is applied to these writing activities which require students to produce polished writing in a specific moment, a different objective than commonly-used impromptu or freewriting. …
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Systems and Techniques for Efficient Real-World Graph Analytics
… and query characteristics. The second system, Kairos, introduces selective indexing, a technique that chooses a subset of target vertices to index based on characteristics of the underlying temporal graphs and input queries. This system further employs a highly-specialized parallel data …
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The consolidation of Ypsilanti Public and Willow Run Community Schools: Lessons learned and policy considerations
… and the policy window, and the Greek concept of kairos. Key findings included the importance of understanding the historical context from a social, political, and economic perspective. These conditions were determined to be necessary for the successful consolidation vote but insufficient to …
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Graffiti and Rhetoric
… This thesis engages current lines of research on kairos, ethos and place-as-rhetoric to understand how graffiti means, and what role it can play in social movements and personal identity. Standards of kairotic speech for visual rhetoric are theorized. Understanding ethos as dwelling place reveals …
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The Predicament of Illegality: Undocumented Aliens in Contemporary American Immigration Fiction
This dissertation examines representations of undocumented aliens and explores the issue of illegality in contemporary American immigration fiction. It takes as a fundamental premise that in immigration, status matters. The importance of immigration status in the "real world" is evident not only in …
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Design as a context for research : the design of a museum of modern art as a vehicle for studying Alvar Aalto's work
The premise of this thesis is that there is valuable knowledge embedded in the buildings and related work of an architect that can only be understood in the context of some specific design setting. This thesis is an inquiry into the work of Alvar Aalto conducted through the process of two separate …
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Recovering a Classically Oral Homiletic
… of oral composition, memory, roadmapping, and kairos is applicable to the kind of preparation and delivery required by an intentional move toward an orally-conditioned homiletic.
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Uncountry
… in chronos, and rather embracing the Greek <em>kairos</em>.</p>
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Abundant Rhetoric: Memory, Media, and the Multiplicity of Composition
… composition. Each site--copia, ethos, topoi, and kairos--offers practices for becoming aware of and attuned to immanent activities of composition. Ultimately, Abundant Rhetoric seeks to engage the problem of abundance by developing concepts and practices for generating abundance in today's domains …
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Blinking Icons: Letters to Saint Augustine
… consciousness, thought, and experience.</p> <p>Kairos and Chronos, screwball comedy and tragedy, elective affinities, fate and personal agency, astrology, history of belief and the Soul, Catholicism, electricity, fateful names, wordplay, translation, and language’s ability to inspire, connect, …
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