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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Madonna"”.
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Eve and the Madonna in Victorian Art
… and addresses representations of Eve and the Madonna exhibited at seven well-known London venues during the Victorian era (1838-1901). The subjects of Eve and the Madonna are here selected for detailed analysis from the broader context of Victorian religious subject pictures, a category of …
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'The Sancity Of Womanhood': John Ruskin And The Medieval Madonna
… through the sanctified image of the medieval Madonna, serve as one interesting and much-judged example of many reactions to the tumultuous new social conditions of industrial, imperial nineteenth-century Victorian Britain. Though Ruskin is often labeled by some scholars as a prime example of …
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La translacioni di la gloriusa virgini madonna santa Agati di Antoni d'Oliveri
Titolo: La translacioni di la gloriusa virgini madonna santa Agati di Antoni d Oliveri Il presente lavoro presenta come principale oggetto di studio la predisposizione di un edizione critica del poema Istoria di la translacioni di S. Agata del poeta catanese Antoni d Oliveri (XV sec.). In una prima …
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Loners : working from a pattern
… Tracey Emin, Mike Kelly, Allyson Mitchell, Madonna, Weird Al.
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The European art and Canadiana collections of Robert Wilson Reford (1867-1951)
… a large collection of Boningtons, and the Madonna of the Yarnwinder attributed to Leonardo da Vinci. Collected between 1909 and 1948, the paintings were purchased primarily from a few well-known dealers in London, New York and Paris who were to add considerably to the quality of Reford's …
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Apparent lesbian performances, heteroflexibility and sexual identity: Fluid sexuality among young women in public places.
… and normalized by pop culture icons like Madonna and Britney Spears who have popularized the female kiss on TV in 1993. The notion of heteroflexibility and fluid sexuality is examined in relation to the many ways that the young women in this study used apparent lesbian performances to …
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Revisiting girlhood : defining a postmodern/popular feminist culture /
… this thesis examines the importance of Madonna, Gwen Stefani, and the Spice Girls, in addition to the numerous girl magazines available on the market today, such as Seventeen and YM. Focusing on the issue of the feminine versus feminist polarity and its importance to girls' culture, this …
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Audiovisual Afterlives: The Soundtrack of Liberal Nostalgia
… with the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, and Stevie Wonder, the party’s identification with class, gender, and race, has emerged on a cultural stage circumscribed by nostalgic notions. Tracing the audiovisual afterlives of these artists through contemporary television soundtracks, …
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SuperFicial: An Exploration of Decoration, Fashion, Taste, Camp, and Trends
… high-profile camp figures such as Warhol and Madonna, focusing on the performative quality of their camp aesthetics. My research shows that taste-makers can subvert or overturn trends and that camp and superficiality can bring not only comfort, but also empower individuals. Ultimately, I argue …
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Kinetics and Reaction Engineering Aspects of Syngas Production by the Heterogeneously Catalysed Reverse Water Gas Shift Reaction
… were solved by using the program Berkeley Madonna. The simulated temperature and conversion profiles within the reactor are presented. Pressure drop as well as reactor size required in a technical adiabatic fixed bed RWGS reactors were also estimated for both catalysts.
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The Notch Target Hes4 Promotes Osteosarcoma Tumor Growth and Metastasis By Inhibiting Osteogenic Differentiation, and Has Potential As A Prognostic Biomarker For Newly Diagnosed Patients With High Grade Osteosarcoma.
<p>Currently, there are no well-established prognostic biomarkers for osteosarcoma (OS) at the time of diagnosis. Although response to preoperative chemotherapy correlates with metastasis risk and overall survival, this information is obtained 3-4 months after the initial diagnosis. The major …
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The Attitudes and Behaviors of Native American Patients with Diabetes and Their Relationship to Seeking Health Care
<p>Diabetes Mellitus is a major health problem for Native Americans. There has been an increase in the prevalence rate of Type 2 diabetes among this population. The increase in Type 2 diabetes has been attributed to major lifestyle changes such as decreased physical activity and a diet high in …
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“I can't completely run free”: understanding the lived experience of the menstrual cycle for female clients working with male psychotherapists: An interpretative phenomenological analysis with a critical feminist phenomenological lens
… well as one Integrative theme: Confronting the Madonna-Whore Complex. The findings suggest that the menstrual cycle is an important topic for therapeutic exploration, as well as a gateway for understanding related female embodied experiences, including sexuality and motherhood. The study also …
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The Birth of Sacrifice: Iconographic Metaphors for Spiritual Rebirth in Master Matthias' Isenheim Altarpiece
… reveals events from the life of Mary. Since the Madonna is a prominent figure in the Altarpiece panels, understanding her role in sixteenth century Christian theology as birth mother of the Savior and as an especial example of bringing forth good fruit by virtue of obedience and humility is …
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Shape-shifting: Reimaging mothering and mother-being
… discrimination. Within the context of art, the Madonna and Child trope remains the most instantly summoned and enduring visual standard to address mothering. My project attempts to widen the narrow aperture through which the contemporary mother and mothering is viewed. It would be presumptuous …
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The Anna Selbdritt in late medieval Germany : meaning and function of religious image
… gazes. The hooded gaze of the fifteenth-century madonna, which is directed either downwards at her son or into the distance towards his coming crucifixion, and which aligns her with the role of co-redemptrix (merited by her fore-known humility) that some fifteenth-century theologians ascribed to …
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Exploring the effects of 5-HT2A and AMPA receptors on brain 5-HT via a mechanism-based pharmacodynamic model
… was developed. Phoenix WinNonlin ® and Berkeley Madonna™ were used for model estimation, external validation with secondary data set, and simulation. The result supports the possibility of a 5-HT 2A /AMPA feedback control circuit that originates in the PFC and modulates DRN and PFC 5-HT levels …
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Carrollian language arts & rhetoric: Dodgson's quest for order & meaning, with a purpose
Lewis Carroll (Rev. Charles Dodgson) is a language specialist who has verifiably altered our lexicon and created fictional worlds that serve as commentary on our ability to effectively create meaning within our existing communicative systems. This ability to create language and illustrations of …
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