Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 148 for “"Luck"”.
-
Evoking Luck
… and illusion of control theories to examine luck rituals at casino slots. Gamblers were observed through covert participant observations over a seven-month observation period in The casino, and yielded 388 observations. Analysis of the gamblers demonstrated the fact that luck rituals do exist …
-
Moral Luck
<p>The problem of moral luck arises because of an apparent conflict between the luck that humans face, the pervasiveness of moral considerations in our lives, and the idea that moral responsibility requires a level of control that luck robs them of. The claim is that we cannot be governed by luck …
-
Hard Luck Baby
<p>Hard Luck Baby is a collection that elucidates the life of a southern, black mother as she grapples with her culture, family, love and the complex reality of black life in America. Hannah, is a woman who was born in the bubbling 40s, raised in the racial 60s and raptured in the drug-infested …
-
GOOD BAD LUCK
GOOD BAD LUCK by Tracey Lien
-
Bad luck chicken
He is standing holding a handwritten sign with her name, his flannel shirt tight around the shoulders and unbuttoned at the neck, his blond hair flattened by an invisible cap. Tia wishes she had gone to the bathroom beforehand, brushed her hair, put eye drops in, perhaps lined her lashes with …
-
Playing with my Luck
Playing with my luck is a performance which comments on feminine expectations and satirizes the oppressive social structures that women must follow in order to be accepted by patriarchal societies. The 10 Commandments short film borrows religious recognizable elements and displays some of Orthodox …
-
Luck Egalitarianism and Democratic Equality
Luck egalitarianism is the view that justice requires that we hold people accountable for the choices that they make but not the circumstances that they find themselves in. My aim in this thesis is to reject luck egalitarianism. My argument builds on the recent critique of luck egalitarianism by …
-
Making moral decisions : reason, emotion and luck
… (and how they threaten or uphold her thesis) and luck (and the ways in which moral life is vulnerable to it). After examining Korsgaard's thesis, I look at those elements I think are missing from her work. By including the alternative perspectives of Martha Nussbaum and Robert Solomon, I hope to …
-
Three Essays in Luck, Effort, and Economic Opportunity
… studying the role of opportunities, effort and luck in economic decision making. The introduction argues that effort and redistribution choices rely on understanding the relative roles of these factors. Yet, individuals do not know the actual relative roles and act based on beliefs. Chapter 2 …
-
Luck and skill in professional League of Legends (E-sports)
… to create league systems in which skill and luck balance to create competitive, exciting, and fair environments. This study uses the most developed e-sport leagues, found in the game League of Legends (LoL), to examine early efforts at crafting such environments. The use of "winning …
-
Detecting Earnings Information in Repurchase Announcements using the Luck of the (Double) Irish
Previous studies disagree about whether open market repurchase announcements contain information about earnings expectations. Using a regulation that made tax haven-using firms’ repurchases more costly as a quasi-natural experiment, I find positive post-repurchase-announcement revisions in earnings …
-
Skill or luck: a bootstrapping approach to analysing South African equity unit trust returns
… and to distinguish between skill and luck. The study focussed on South African domestic equity funds and divided these between funds that have an allowance for an offshore allocation and those that are domestic only. Domestic equity funds were specifically selected as sample because …
-
Authoring Self and Redefining Luck: Pathways to Arts Degrees and Professions for College Students of Color
<p>Educators and researchers have consistently championed the value of arts education in helping to foster greater creativity and innovative thought in students. Despite the apparent social value of arts and creativity, there is a growing negative public perception of the utility of arts education …
-
The mother's voice: a folkloric analysis of Amy Tan's the joy luck club
Despite the desire of some critics for ethnic accountability and cultural accuracy in modern fictional writings concerning the Asian culture, Amy Tan's novel has been received with enthusiasm by much of the American public. The success of her novel is due in part to the universality of the …
-
Staying the hand of fortune : a pluralist approach to the regulatory strategies of luck egalitarian distributive justice
… one is worse off than anyone else as a matter of luck, this thesis examines how such a distribution might be brought about. It begins with an investigation of how the luck egalitarian ideal should be interpreted, advancing a critique of the ‘attributivist’ approach to conceptualizing luck …
-
My Personality, Whose Responsibility? Equal opportunity for integrity : what the metaphysics of the person can teach luck-egalitarians about responsibility
… they are worse off than others on account of bad luck, but should bear responsibility for their situation if it results from their choices. What is surprising, though, is how little work has been done to establish where luck ends, and responsibility begins - whether the preferences that someone …
-
Inevitable magic – reason, magic and manipulation
… one-third of opposing players displayed “good luck” (many correct guesses, defined by an above average score), one-third “neutral luck” (some correct, defined by an average score), and one-third “bad luck” (almost none correct, defined by a below average score). After the game, participants …
Page 1 of 8