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Showing 1 to 20 of 646 for “"Magic"”.
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Magic, Mystery, Illusion and Magic
<p>This document vaguely describes what happened to me and my paintings during my time spent at VCU.</p>
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Inevitable magic – reason, magic and manipulation
Magical thinking occurs when supernatural causes, as opposed to rational ones, are assumed in events that defy reasonable probability. To investigate magical thinking, 64 adults were tested in a novel experiment where they were told they were playing an online game with opposing players. However, …
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Magic Mountain
My installations are propositions for an imaginary world that relies on its own internal logic, a world of believability without recognition. While the work references landscape it also emphasizes its contrivance, as it is automatically estranged in an "unnatural" gallery setting. I subvert or …
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Dirt Road Magic
… run-ins with ditch wizards, rich exploitative magicians, and other supernatural phenomena. This book is based on and includes my short story, "Dirt Road Magic," which won the Writers of the Future award in 2019. That story was about a boy from the trailer park who finds out that the magic his …
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Bachelor of magic
Includes bibliographical references.
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A magic prison
When Megan’s aged and addled father goes missing in Lahaina, Maui, where he has been living most of his adult life, she must decide whether and how she should help to find him. As a child, she knew him only through their two weeks together each December; as a young adult, she had to deal with the …
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Magic City Mischief
… be a tropical paradise is Miami a.k.a. The Magic City—a hedonistic metropolis saturated with sex whose residents are consumed with the pleasure principle. Combine the sheer numbers and too-busy, modern lives—and the consequential ability to live anonymously—plus inhabitants who embrace the …
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Introduction to magic & thaumaturgy
This thesis consists of six pieces of short speculative fiction, along with a short craft essay titled, “Affect and Interiority: Tools of Characterization in Speculative Fiction.” The short stories are rooted within an individual character’s encounter with the spectacular, specifically focusing on …
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Strictly Concentric Magic Squares
Magic Squares as a mathematical structure have existed for 5000 years, yet they are still an interesting topic of new research. This thesis presents general denitions, examples and important properties of Strictly Concentric Magic Squares (SCMS). Using the known minimum centre cell value of Prime …
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Canadian magic : a study of myths in English-Canadian and Québec magic realism
Le "magic realism" existe depuis plusieurs années, mais les critiques littéraires semblent l'avoir ignoré. Seulement quelques personnes, surtout dans l'ouest canadien, semblent croire qu'il a une valeur. Même si ce genre littéraire est présent dans la littérature québécoise le seul terme français …
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Powerful Magic: Sorcery, Magic, Witchcraft and the Spanish Inquisition as Catalysts for Women's Power
… manipulation of societal fears and beliefs in magic.</p>
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Francis Bacon's science of magic
… goal of his inquiry into nature "true natural magic. " It attempts to establish the precise relationships among Bacon's concepts of matter, inquiry and magic in terms of his novel conception of nature. Baconian matter forms the basis of Bacon's substantive natural philosophy; it is highly …
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Barely Hidden Magic: Acadiana Stories
… the heart of Cajun country. It was a mystical, magical place to grow up, though of course it seemed normal at the time. In writing these stories, I aimed to honor the culture without erasing the emotional realities. Someday, when this collection becomes a part of a book, people may not agree …
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Gendered magic and Arthurian sovereignty
… in medieval romance. My dissertation, “Gendered Magic and Arthurian Sovereignty,” argues that the supernatural figures within the Arthurian tradition interact with the sovereign in a way which is determined by and mediated through issues of gender. My project surveys the largely unexplored …
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Translating Magic: Remedios Varo’s Visual Language
… frequently depict a scientist, explorer, or some magical figure in a meticulously rendered setting there is a deeper understanding to be gained though examining what Varo studied and how she used specific iconography and references in her work. Varo created her own personal symbolic language, …
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