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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Mansion"”.
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Gender Stereotypes And The Governor's Mansion
This study analyzes the effects of gender stereotypes on women gubernatorial candidates in the post "Year of the Woman" era to determine whether or not the electoral gains made by women running for legislative office in 1992 also extended to women contesting executive elections in subsequent years. …
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Mansion: Inner Cosmologies, Thresholds, and Contacts
… essay, which features an analysis of the work Mansion, and the second is the score to the Mansion Cycle, written for the International Contemporary Ensemble between 2009 and 2011. The score is included as an appendix, and consists of five works, which may be performed individually or as a …
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A governor's mansion for the State of Texas
Thesis (M. Arch)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1961.
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A concrete mansion to be built in the South
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 1909
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A design for the family mansion of a South Carolina plantation
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1916.
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Reconnecting the Physical and Cultural Landscapes At the Hampton-Preston Mansion In Columbia, South Carolina
<p>The Hampton-Preston Mansion in Columbia, South Carolina is a historic house museum where scores of visitors tour every year. The museum illustrates the property's history dating back to the early Antebellum South. However, what is portrayed to visitors is in part a fabrication due to a …
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The material culture of the Polley Mansion, Whitehall : vernacular architecture, decorative arts, and domestic arts.
The Polley Mansion, with its massive walls, generous proportions, and wide double galleries, is described in Texas Homes of the 19th Century as "one of the most important plantation homes in early Texas." In fact, the Polley Mansion, constructed with native sandstone, is the only stone antebellum …
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Analysis of Historic Paints on Woodwork at Andalusia Mansion - Understanding the Period of Benjamin Latrobe and Thomas Walter
This study of architectural finishes is intended to substantiate evidence of physical and material changes to the building by way of paint evidence. It augments existing research, including the recently published 2014 Andalusia Big House Historic Structure Report and the 2014 report on the doors …
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The Larz and Isabel Anderson House, Washington, D. C., by Little and Browne (1902-1905)
… of Columbia. Completed in 1905, this Beaux-Arts mansion now serves as an historic house museum and as the national headquarters for the Society of the Cincinnati, a patriotic organization established by Revolutionary War officers in 1783. Larz Anderson was a member and a descendant of one of the …
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John Hartwell Cocke (1780-1866): From Jeffersonian Palladianism to Romantic Colonial Revivalism in Antebellum Virginia
… most ambitious project, a Jeffersonian Palladian mansion called Bremo, was in the planning stages by 1815. The second thesis is that Cocke's off-plantation buildings signals his break from the Palladianism of Thomas Jefferson in favor of the Jacobean style for his houses and his acceptance of …
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Voltaire: From Sacrificial to Judicial System in the Play The Orphan of China
… adaptation of a Chinese play, The Orphan of the Mansion Tchao. Many critics contend that in this play Voltaire is: 1. Propagating the spirit of the Enlightenment to the Europeans via his representation of the Chinese; 2. Refuting Rousseau because he condemns civilization as the source of men's …
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The Rational and the Intuitive : a Thematic Juxtaposition in the fiction of William Faulkner
… three novels--The Hamlet, The Town, and The Mansion--that this study is primarily concerned. In The Hamlet Faulkner sets up this conflict through two main characters: Flem Snopes is an incarnation of cold logic and acquisitiveness, whereas Eula Varner is an embodiment of hot subterranean …
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The cultural and social milieu of Westmoreland Davis
… the Gilded Age through furnishings or the mansion as well as riding to the hounds, breeding thoroughbreds and pedigreed dogs, yachting and giving extravagant banquets. At the same time, he exemplified the antebellum. Southern gentleman by becoming a good-farmer equivalent of the …
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The raising of the first internal Dáil Éireann Loan and the British responses to it, 1919-1921
… Sinn Féin candidates gathered in Diblin's Mansion House and established Dáil Éireann. They declared their intention to develop a republican state administration in an attempt to supersede the existing British government run from Dublin Castle. Even the most skeletal of state administrations …
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Faulkner And "The Football"
… in the Dust (1948), The Town (1957), and The Mansion (1959) in which Faulkner indicates an affinity with progressive sportswriters in suggesting that the importance of sports in Southern culture might be used as a lever to quell racial tension and bring about the eventual integration of the …
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Phantom Chase, The Novel
… hates that stretches from the Texas Governor's Mansion, to the nation's White House, and back to the time and place in the world where they, too, killed willingly for God, country, honor, and revenge.
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Gay Faulkner: Uncovering a Homosexual Presence in Yoknapatawpha and Beyond
… career crystalizes in the closing scenes in The Mansion (1959) as the final verdict on the great saga of Yoknapatawpha County. This study is a developmental narrative both of Faulkner's queer identity throughout his life and of his mastery of the gay representation through its many emanations in …
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Building Yoknapatawpha: Reading Space and the Plantation in William Faulkner
… and narrative exclusion. It considers how The Mansion (1959) revises and integrates details from earlier Yoknapatawpha texts to create a richly layered textual space – but which is in constant tension with the process of the historical “whitening” of the Southern post-plantation landscape which …
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