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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Lucian"”.
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Lucian and the Atticists: A Barbarian at the Gates
… referred to the Second Sophistic. It focuses on Lucian of Samosata, a Syrian “barbarian” writer of satire and parody in Greek, and especially on his works that engage with language-oriented topics of contemporary relevance to his era. The term “language ideologies”, as it is used in studies of …
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Unflattening the page: Lucian, ecphrasis, and the embodied reader
My thesis, entitled ‘Unflattening the page: Lucian, ecphrasis, and the embodied reader’ has as its main focus the ecphrastic work of Lucian, a second-century CE Syrian-Greek writer, and one of the most prolific and versatile writers of Greek imperial literature. It argues that imperial, and in …
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Lucian's Mythological Playground: Time, Space, and Myth in Lucian of Samosata
In this dissertation, I explore how Lucian of Samosata, the Greco-Syrian prose satirist of the second century CE, manipulates the representation of space and time in his mythological texts. Lucian regularly employs characters, spaces, and tropes from myth as a central part of his broader comic …
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Snapshots of the St. Lucian market place: computational strategies of another culture
While the teaching of paper and pencil algorithms dominates the elementary mathematics curriculum, outside of school both children and adults often abandon these methods in favor of their own informal strategies. A literature review showed the use of a large variety of procedures occurs across …
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Functions of Gender in Soca: An Historical and Lyrical Analysis of St. Lucian Soca
… Trinidadian narrative that many, including St. Lucians, have co-opted in an effort to foster Caribbean unity and global brand recognition. Specifically, I explore the intersections of soca, women, and neoliberalism through an historical analysis of St. Lucian Carnival music history and the songs …
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The rhetorics of Lucian's Dream
… an interesting insight into the satirist Lucian’s early life and professional development. In the work, young Lucian has a dream in which he must decide between following a career of education (paideia) or of craftwork (technê). Each career appears to him personified as a woman and they …
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Lucian's New Old Comedy
<p>This study shows that Lucian is deeply engaged with Old Comedy as a literary model, and that the kind of comic dialogue he claims to invent (<em>Bis Acc</em>. 33,<em> Prom. Es</em> 6) is not an evenly balanced hybrid of Platonic Dialogue and Old Comedy as has been previously thought. Instead, …
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An Exploration of Meaning-Making and Engagement with Multimodal Texts Involving 14-15-Year-Old Students in a Virtual Reading Group
… the connections made by a small group of St Lucian adolescents engaging with multimodal texts within a virtual reading group. Over a period of five months, twelve students participated in the reading group via Zoom. Leveraging a case-study design with ethnographic elements, the study utilised …
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Performance measurement and management within construction firms in Saint Lucia
… The study uses a multi-case study of two Saint Lucian construction firms involving semi-structured interviews and document analysis to gather the qualitative data. The quantitative data were analysed using descriptive statistics analysis and factorial analysis, whilst qualitative data were …
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Youth Unemployment in St. Lucia, the West Indies: Perceptions and Expectations on Education and Work
… perspective is brought to bear on the St. Lucian educational context to the end of discovering to what extent a society's views on education and jobs contribute to a better understanding of the problem of youth unemployment.
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Effloresce
… Sargent, Joaquin Sorolla, Rembrandt Van Rijn, Lucian Freud, and Vincent Van Gogh. Each of these artists utilize the tactile nature of the painting medium as part of their personal style and artistic vision, allowing the painted surface and mark making techniques to contribute to the depiction …
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Developing A Next Generation Strategic Structure For Sustainable Safety Culture: Utilizing "leading A Culture Of Safety: A Blueprint For Success"
… such, the National Patient Safety Foundation’s Lucian Leape Institute, a part of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, partnered with the American College of Healthcare Executives to write “Leading a Culture of Safety: A Blueprint for Success”, an evidence-based guide designed with tools and …
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Diversifying the Canon of American First World War Poetry
… the poetry of African American veteran poet Lucian B. Watkins and African American citizen poet and songwriter Andy Razaf. Similarly, American women and LGBTQ soldiers had invisible experiences in the First World War that can be seen in their poetry. Charles Harding Divine, who was …
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Sarcasm in Paul's Letters
… of ancient Greek texts with special reference to Lucian of Samosata. Part 2 focuses on the identification and exegesis of sarcasm in Paul. The relationship between Galatians’s opening (1:6), irony, and ways of expressing rebuke in ancient letters will feature in our chapter on Galatians. Diatribe …
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Design and Experimental Applications of Acoustic Metamaterials
<p>Acoustic metamaterials are engineered materials that were extensively investigated over the last years mainly because they promise properties otherwise hard or impossible to find in nature. Consequently, they open the door for improved or completely new applications (e.g. acoustic superlens that …
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South African Astronomical Observatory data archiving for multi-wavelength astronomy research
This research investigates the best practices for creating a data archive system that can store optical and radio astronomy data as well as interact with other astronomy archives. Archives are built and maintained by staff that specialise in big data storage, information security, database …
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Provenance-based computing
Relying on computing systems that become increasingly complex is difficult: with many factors potentially affecting the result of a computation or its properties, understanding where problems appear and fixing them is a challenging proposition. Typically, the process of finding solutions is driven …
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Beak and feather disease virus candidate vaccine development
[Fix supervisors field.] Psittacine beak and feather disease, caused by a circovirus known as beak and feather disease virus (BFDV), is a threat to both wild and captive psittacine species. There is currently no vaccine against BFDV and safe and affordable vaccine candidates are needed to alleviate …
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