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Metamorphosis
As an artist, my methodology emulates that of a historian and enters into the arena of archaeologists, archivists and curators. Historians write, and re-write history privileging certain evidence while imposing specific agendas, to reshape history. Confronting history as a construction; I provoke …
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The Feminine Metamorphosis
The Feminine Metamorphosis is a fiction collection that explores the ways women adapt and change in order to survive. Eight narratives see their female protagonists grapple with challenges such as the pressures of society, the corrosion of girlhood, or the perils of a difficult home-life. The …
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Metamorphosis in Red
Folk and fairy tales have been told for centuries and they remain a mainstay in children's literature. When they were first written down, the tales included startling episodes of mistreatment of women, including sexual assault, oppression and violence. Though these stories have become sanitized …
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Washington D.C. | Olympic Metamorphosis
This thesis began by studying how a temporary event could create permanent architecture and how that architecture could change an urban lifestyle. I chose the Olympics as the event and proposed that they be held in Washington D.C., a city of international prominence with a rich design history but a …
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Scriblerian Ethics: Encounters in Satiric Metamorphosis
<p>"Scriblerian Ethics" proposes that the aesthetic and ethical standpoint of the writings of the Scriblerians (Pope, Swift, Gay, Arbuthnot, Oxford, Parnell) can be better understood through an attunement to their orientation towards the Longinian sublime and to the metamorphic poetics of Ovid. The …
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Boredom's Metamorphosis: Robert Venturi and Saul Steinberg
My dissertation investigates questions of boredom and architecture in the middle decades of the twentieth century through the work of two figures: the American-Italian architect Robert Venturi (b. 1925) and the Romanian-born American architect and artist Saul Steinberg (1914-1999). The topic of …
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Growth and Metamorphosis of the Ringed Salamander
Observations of the ringed salamander, Ambystoma annulatum, from Stone County, Missouri, were made during 1983 and 1984. Deposition of eggs on land and development of eggs out of the water were observed. Larvae hatched at a mean total length of 11.4 mm and metamorphosed at a mean total length of …
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Respiratory quotient during metamorphosis of Hyla regilla tadpoles
<p>Metamorphosis may be defined as postembryonic developmental changes in non-reproductive structures of an organism. Such changes anticipate changes in the organism's environment (Frieden, 1961). Metamorphosis of amphibian larvae is dependent on the thyroid hormone in the circulating body fluid, …
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Diversity reduction as organizational metamorphosis: A strategic analysis
Over one-third of the firms that were considered to be unrelated diversifiers did an about-face in the 1980s and announced their decision to reduce their diversity. This dissertation researches differences between those unrelated diversifiers that continued their unrelated strategy (continuers) and …
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The metamorphosis of Battersea, 1800-1914: a building history
<i>The Metamorphosis of Battersea</i> is a study of the process of building development in a London parish during the nineteenth century. Part I reviews existing literature on the subject and looks at the physical and pre-urban background. It also provides a brief overview of the creation of the …
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Real vision and right language: Browning's poetics and metamorphosis
<p>Two recurrent subjects in Browning’s poetry, the ideas of an other-worldly existence for man after death and of a miraculous rebirth into earthly existence, carry inherent religious significance. But the poet has doubts about the efficacy of language to render them. Whereas some of Browning's …
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Developmental changes in mechanosensory circuits during metamorphosis of the hawkmoth
In the hawkmoth, Manduca sexta, many behaviors are partially or fully functional but are actively suppressed prior to normal expression. The pupal gin-trap reflex is such a behavior and its development prior to repression was examined both behaviorally and physiologically. Behavioral responses …
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Mythic Metamorphosis: Re-shaping Identity in the Works of H.D.
… manipulates this most reliable of tools, mythic metamorphosis, in works stretching from her early Imagist poetry, through her long poem Trilogy, and finally into her last memoir End To Torment, taking note of the way she uses this tool to form beauty from harsh circumstances and help heal her …
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Principal factors affecting senior management culture change for total quality metamorphosis
… (steps or stages) a complete Total Quality metamorphosis can be achieved.<br/><br/>Through an extensive literature search focusing on research and studies of academics and practitioners, 72 whats, and 165 hows addressed by 73 3rd level hows were identified. The 72 "what" requirements were …
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Metamorphosis and fairy tale tropes in Christa Wolf’s Patterns of Childhood
… the Nazi Regime. Furthermore, Wolf introduces metamorphosis to explore the intrinsic evil and subsequent guilt of her child protagonist, and she uses the child’s capacity for evil to illustrate the German people’s similar capacity to treat their fellow citizens as “other” during their nation’s …
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The Metamorphosis of a Newspaper: The San Francisco Chronicle, 1935-1965
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Evolution and metamorphosis of pre-existent structures : lasting change, Lazarus' memory
As society perpetually evolves, retention of selected pre-existent building fragments (structure and inhabitation, form and use) provides necessary continuity to affirm cultural and individual identity. Within this framework of continuity, radical transformation may occur, in line with the …
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