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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Lost Generation"”.
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Drawings from Syria's Lost Generation: Psychological Impacts of the Refugee Crisis
… have resulted in what is being called Syria‟s lost generation. A potential solution in mitigating these psychological impacts is the reintegration from refugee camps into non-camp host communities or the resettlement into other countries. Through the psychological analysis of children‟s …
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Lost in Time: The Concept of Temporality in Works of the US Lost Generation
… as represented in the major works of the US Lost Generation. The authors and the writings examined within this thesis are F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night; Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms; William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and …
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A study of US nuclear power boiling water reactor, class IV, operating performance, 1992-1997
The steady improvement of US Nuclear Utility generation capability observed over the past two decades has recently halted and somewhat degraded. For the industry to resume its upward trend in performance a detailed examination must be performed of current performance and new methods developed to …
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It's Always Somebody's Paris: An Examination of Place in Nonfiction Writing
… Americans in Paris, including members of the Lost Generation. The first two chapters examine the author’s experience as a young student in Paris. The third and fourth chapters contain the author’s reflection on the process of writing the thesis and an examination of the ways in which other …
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Gender Revolution of the Jazz Age: The Source of Disillusionment in the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway
The Lost Generation was forced to develop their own principles regarding gender identity in an environment of ever-shifting cultural norms, which called into question all of their predetermined ideas on femininity, masculinity, and the ways in which members of the opposite sex should interact with …
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Richard Thurnwald and the Transimperial Fate of German Colonial Ethnology, 1896-1926
… project explores the internationalization of a "Lost Generation" of German ethnologists, exemplified by the renowned scholar Richard Thurnwald (1869-1954), from *fin de siècle* antecedents in Austro-Hungarian Bosnia to field research projects for Anglo-Australian mandate administrations in New …
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Queer American expatriate writers in France and the birth of the gay modernist subject
… overlooked queer-themed works from the Lost Generation era through the 50s in France, this study uses this new history of queer writers in France to explore the wide range of queer expression in pre-Stonewall American literature before it would eventually be consolidated under the term …
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Alcohol and alcoholism in Ernest Hemingway’s ‘The sun also rises’
… has been chosen as it represents the age of the Lost Generation in the 1920s: a time in which American Prohibition was taking place, and so many Americans moved to European countries. The introduction will introduce the history of alcohol; problems arising from alcohol, such as alcoholism and …
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Data-driven methods to improve resource utilization, fraud detection, and cyber-resilience in smart grids
… demonstrates that empirical models of generation and consumption, constructed using machine learning and statistical methods, improve resource utilization, fraud detection, and cyber-resilience in smart grids. The modern power grid, known as the smart grid, uses computer communication …
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What factors contribute to the unemployment duration of youth: a case study of the action volunteers Africa’s youth labour market programme
… to assist this disenfranchised so called 'lost generation’ there has been a major shift from passive to active labour market programmes in many countries across the world in support of the unemployed, where these programmes often concentrate on the youth. But the results on these active …
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What factors contribute to the unemployment duration of youth: A case study of the Action Volunteers Africas youth labour market programme
… to assist this disenfranchised so called ‘lost generation’ there has been a major shift from passive to active labour market programmes in many countries across the world in support of the unemployed, where these programmes often concentrate on the youth. But the results on these active …
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The Italian venture capital market, or the lack thereof : an analysis in the European context
… spiral of decline and provide a future for its "lost generation". The work is divided in three sections, gradually zooming on Italy from a global perspective to a country focus. The first section investigates the venture capital markets in the United States and Europe. The comparison is designed …
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"Myn owene woman, wel at ese" : feminist facts in the fiction of Mary McCarthy
… of what Elaine Showalter refers to as "The Other Lost Generation." McCarthy's texts provide literary illustration of a common response to patriarchy.
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Taking Mormons Seriously: Ethics of Representing Latter-day Saints in American Fiction
… being the best-received of “Mormondom's Lost Generation” of literary writers. In conclusion I argue that these texts, along with the more problematic Kirn stories, help create a positive ethical climate for Mormon representation.</p>
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Bridging the past and the present “Rediscovering Prieska's forgotten cultural landscape”
The phrase “place of the lost she-goat,” derived from the Koran and associated with the Khoi people, originally referred to a location where farmers settled after rainstorms. This area, overseen by a village management board since 1882 and granted municipal status in 1892, became known for its …
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Quiet Awakening: Spinning Yarns from Granny's Table in the New Rural South
This is an inquiry into generational stories from my Granny's table. It is an exploration of my lived experience as a first generation doctoral student who negates the truths of a rural Southern upbringing steeped in issues of race, class and gender. . Building upon the works of Falk (2004), Freire …
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The Hydra of Modern Literature
<p>Modernist Literature</p>
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The charm of time: Generational comparison, memorable tourism experiences, and quality of life in visits to a world heritage site, Kulangsu
… the reasons for such differences from a Chinese generational perspective, remain unclear. Whilst a significant literature exists on differences of personal histories the speed of technological change in China has been so rapid that many older people now use their smartphones for making payments, …
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The Lost Artist: Biographical Fiction and the Identity of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
<p>Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (1900-1948) is widely regarded as the first flapper of the Roaring 20s and is often recognized for her tumultuous marriage to acclaimed American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. As a female icon whose life was filled with salacious incidences and mental struggles, the image of …
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