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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Marvelous"”.
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Domain of the Marvelous
<p>The Domain of the Marvelous is a three-part collection of poetry. The first part, The Encounter of the Umbrella,' contains poems told as if dream stories, happening outside the realm of an identifiable speaker. Strangeness or absurdity with emotional regulation. These poems are rely heavily on …
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Encountering the Marvelous in Marie De France
This study is an examination of the marvelous encounter in the Lais of Marie de France, a collection of twelve short narratives attributed to the twelfth century. Four of the lais – Guigemar, Bisclavret, Lanval, and Yonec - were selected for close analysis of the marvelous motifs and themes that …
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Burn Fortune: The Real June not Marvelous Enough for Us
<p>In BURN FORTUNE, protagonist June is a flag-twirling, corn-detasseling sixteen-year-old who lives in a conservative small town in the early 90s Midwest. Her family is dysfunctional but her boyfriend—known only as “My Boyfriend”—has a family who is emotionally and physically abusive. Looking for …
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"Marvelous Accidents": The Concerto for Prepared Piano and Chamber Orchestra of John Cage
John Cages Concerto for Prepared Piano and Chamber Orchestra (1950-51) holds a unique position within the composers oeuvre as the first work based in part on chance-derived compositional procedures. Cage entered into such practice gradually, incrementally abandoning subjective taste and personal …
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“I Knew These Marvelous People”: Gay Men’s Experiences of Long-Term HIV/AIDS Survival
<p>The gay and bisexual men who were diagnosed with HIV/AIDS before the pharmaceutical breakthroughs of the mid-1990s were given what was expected to be a death sentence. Instead, the majority of those who began the newly available treatments outlived not just their initial prognoses but their …
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L'ecriture hybride dans le roman francophone African et Antillais : resemblances et differences
… the fantastic. This fantastic becomes the marvelous in African novels, which creates the magical realism. In francophone Caribbean novels, the fantastic becomes the strange, and the hyperbolical marvelous. We have the marvelous in African novels as it was in traditional tale, because the …
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"Tales of the supernatural: ""Liao-chai chih-i"" and the American short story of the nineteenth century"
… uncanny""), rejects them as illusory (""the marvelous""), or remains uncertain (""the fantastic""), he perceives the notion of otherness which evokes a sense of awe and wonder."
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Washateriacafeteria laundromatautomat
… Marvels, they allowed for an exploration of marvelous characteristics and provided new terms specific to urban Life in Houston. The thesis buildings were first understood as one of that series. They needed to be believable as actual spaces in Houston, but also marvelous. The buildings are …
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Revelations: Spirituality as Privileged Perspectivism in Magical Realist Distortions
… where it could be interpreted as magical or “marvelous,” as per Carpentier’s first naming of the form as lo real maravilloso or “the marvelous real,” often happens when characters notice something they had never seen before in a context that is natural. Whether they are highly in tune with or …
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When Reality Was Surreal: Lee Miller's World War II War Correspondence for Vogue
… style, and the surrealist concepts of the Marvelous and Convulsive Beauty, Miller presented the war as a surreality, or a surreal reality. This study concludes by using Miller's approach to suggest a new concept of journalistic practice: surrealist journalism.
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Assessing the Exotic: Authority, Reason, and Experience in the Construction of Medieval Natural Knowledge
… investigation of nature, particularly the marvelous or exotic nature that exists near the boundaries of natural philosophy. The marvelous, exotic, and unusual are fascinating to both readers and authors, providing windows into the ways in which the evidence structures of reason, authority, …
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On Projective Planes & Rational Identities
One of the marvelous phenomena of coordinate geometry is the equivalence of Desargues' Theorem to the presence of an underlying division ring in a projective plane. Supplementing this correspondence is the general theory of intersection theorems, which, restricted to desarguian projective planes P, …
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A drama of discourse: competing narratives in the Book of Job
… both through its multiple discourses and G’d’s marvelous visual narrative at the end.
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Bi-directional Flyback Converter Circuit Design for Flapping-wing Microrobots
… their aerial micro-robots, which have achieved marvelous collision resilience and acrobatic maneuvers. However, powering the DEAs requires a much higher voltage than the piezoelectric bimorphs actuators. This work addresses the issue of powering these DEAs with minimal weight carried by the …
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Representative Biodiversity: The Ecosystem of Cartoon Network
… programs from Cartoon Network including <em>The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack</em>,<em>Regular Show</em>, <em>Adventure Time</em>, <em>The Amazing World of Gumball</em>, <em>Steven Universe</em>,<em>We Bare Bears</em>, and <em>Craig of the Creek</em>.<em></em>Recognizing the programs …
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The Impact of China's Economic Engagement on Political Influence in Latin America and the Caribbean from 2000 to 2015: An Empirical Analysis
… natural resources to boost China’s economy and marvelous markets for China’s manufactured goods, contract capabilities, and investment destinations.</p>
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The effect of idiosyncratic and macroeconomic risk on cash holdings
The thesis explores the dynamics and determinants of corporate cash holding (or corporate liquidity) in South Africa in three related studies. The first study empirically investigates the sensitivity of corporate cash holdings to changes in idiosyncratic and macroeconomic risk. The analysis is …
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Racialization, sexualization, and resistance: a “subtle” look at Our Nig and “a subtlety”
… Kara Walker’s 2014 sculpture A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby since these are works that contain representations of black women crafted by black women. From this analysis, it was found that visual stereotypes of black women dating back to the nineteenth century have been used as resistance …
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The Crooked End of Nowhere: Fantastic Fiction and its Adoption of the Gothic and Uncanny
… often oscillate between the mundane and the marvelous: the question of whether the fantastic situation they are in is magical or just a product of their imagination. I argue that in this oscillation, the fantastic depends upon the assistance of two foundational themes within the genre: the …
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Bacterial genes and genome dynamics in the environment
One of the most marvelous features of microbial life is its ability to thrive in such diverse and dynamic environments. My scientific interest lies in the variety of modes by which microbial life accomplishes this feat. In the first half of this thesis I present tools to leverage high throughput …
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