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Showing 1 to 20 of 116 for “"Mid-20th Century"”.
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Architecture and Nation-building in Mid-20th Century Urban Turkey and Iraq
This thesis examines similarities and differences in architecture and city planning in Ankara, Turkey and Baghdad, Iraq, focusing on foreign architects' plans in each city during key moments in the development of each countries' nationalisms (the 1930s in Turkey and the 1950s in Iraq). The plans it …
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Domestic Space, Modernity, and Identity: The Apartment in Mid-20th Century Turkey
My analysis of ordinary spaces, such as maids' rooms, balconies, and bathrooms, constitutes a rich and unexplored domain that exposed the continuation and modernization of hierarchical class relations; it also highlights women's gendered identity in domestic space. Most significantly, the analysis …
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Reappraising an American Jewish Nostalgic Image: The Old World as Mid-20th Century Visual Experience
In the mid 20th-century, American Jewish communities were participating both in an unprecedented level of social integration and an accompanying uncertainty regarding their personal and communal heritage. Jews were increasingly becoming like mainstream Americans, but processes of suburbanization …
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Variation and Change in Daily Precipitation Extremes Across the United States Since the Mid-20th Century
… metrics using data from the physically diverse mid-Atlantic sub-region of the United States. This research used station-level daily precipitation data to compute historic time series of intra-annual and intra-seasonal precipitation amount, precipitation frequency, GC, LAC, variance (V), and …
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The Influence of Jazz on the Solo Trumpet Compositions of Eugène Bozza
… other French composers in the first half of the 20th century, combines traditional elements of western European art music with innovations of American popular music. While Bozza holds a prominent role as a composer of solo trumpet literature in the mid-20th century, little has been written about …
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Layering Connections: Reclaiming Abandoned Post Industrial Infrastructure
… industry and mirrored their decline in the mid-20th century. The transition away from rail resulted in a network of abandoned rail lines, vacant rail yards, and unemployed towns. This thesis examines the Erie divisional rail yard in Port Jervis, New York and the voids left from abandoned …
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Performing with a Personal Musical Identity: An Examination of Musicians' Distinctive Personalities in Performances of Bach's Solo Violin Sonatas and Partitas
… for this can be traced historically to the mid-20th-century, when performances influenced by modernist ideology became prevalent in the classical music world. Under this influence, musicians search for objective measures to define proper performance practice of musical works, including …
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Glorying in a Thorn-Crowned Head: Divine (Im)passibility, Human Suffering, and the Paschal Ecclesiology of the Mystical Body.
… by the seismic geopolitical events of the mid-20th century. I shall argue, rather, that it is in consequence of a crisis of Christological confidence that theological passibilism appears both more systematically coherent and more pastorally compassionate than its doctrinal polar opposite …
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“God loves you but not enough to save you”: Patriarchal Authority and Feminine Punishment in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and Ethel Cain’s Preacher’s Daughter
… the evolving female literary landscape of the mid-20th century, establish the patriarchal conventions that exist in women’s writing, and denote patriarchal subjects’ consistent allusion to Biblical functions as reasoning for their systematic torment.
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Making Transsexuality Impressive: Narrative Collage and the University of Minnesota Gender Clinic
… to the figure of the transsexual emergent from mid-20th century gender clinics. Instead of attempting to find the potentially inspiring parts of these stories, narrative collage stays with the bad feelings of transition in order to let the stories of trans people be as they are.
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Shooting a mule (and other stories)
… American equestrian culture during the late 19th century through the mid 20th century. It includes stories featuring P.T. Barnum, Roy Rogers, Lucille Mulhall, Eben Byers, Fred W. Loring, and other notable historical figures. The fiction is preceded by a critical introduction discussing the …
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Love in Conflict: D.E. Stevenson, War-Time Romance Fiction, and The English Air
D.E. Stevenson was a 20th century Scottish novelist writing romance fiction before, during, and after World War II. By analyzing her life and dissecting the genre's formulaic properties, I will show how The English Air is representative of the ways some women coped with the eras of conflict of the …
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The place of international law and relevant bodies in addressing climate change displacement – the move towards cooperation
… dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century.’ Throughout climate change science, literature, negotiations and debates run a golden threat: The effects of climate change will result in grave consequences for humans. Effects of climate change can range from less water …
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困厄中的自我修辞： 新中国时期的丰子恺研究 = EXPRESSIONS IN DILEMMA:STUDIES ON FENG ZIKAI IN THE P.R.C. (1949-1975)
… in the Maoist era. Moreover, considering the mid-twentieth century was a period when cold war took place and Feng kept close relationships with overseas intellectuals, a transnational perspective is also employed to analyze his cultural activities after 1949. This thesis aims to show the …
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An Ethically Informed Consideration of the Use of a Waiver of Informed Consent in Emergency Medicine Research
The concept of informed consent arose in the mid-20th century as a mechanism for protecting patients and research subjects from abuses. But recent technological advances in the field of emergency medicine research have created new challenges for informed consent procedures. As a result, in 1996 the …
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Parody and the pen: Pippi Longstocking, Harriet M. Welsch, and Flavia de Luce as disrupters of space, language, and the male gaze
… intelligent, and capable young girls living in a mid-20th century environment and successfully subverting patriarchal norms. Drawing on Laura Mulvey’s theory on women as spectacle, Hélène Cixous’s concept of l’ecriture feminine, and New Historicist influences, I explore the common threads within …
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Graduate Recital, Viola
… explores the solo viola literature of the 20th and 21st centuries. Pieces range in date from 1922 to 2005 and present the various styles and techniques of virtuoso viola playing developed in the modern era. The selection of pieces presented on this recital chronicles the viola's journey to …
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A Shift in Perspective: Temptress Witch to Realistic Woman
<p>In mid-20th century Anglo-American translations of The Odyssey, Odysseus is painted as a courageous, clever king while the briefly-featured Circe is portrayed as a temptress witch. This dichotomy changes, however, by the time these characters are featured in early 21st-century adaptations of …
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Six Acres: The Residence & Office of Edmonton Architectural Partnership, Wallbridge & Imrie
… while situating Six Acres within the mid-20th century architectural landscape of Alberta. Six Acres exemplifies Wallbridge & Imrie's design philosophy, merging living and working spaces in a way that reflects their personal and professional values. The study aims to document a complete …
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The Influence of heat transport on Arctic amplification
… twice as much as the global mean since the mid-20th century. Arctic sea ice has also been declining rapidly in recent decades. There is still discussion about how much of this Arctic amplification is caused by local factors, such as changes in surface albedo, versus remote factors, such as …
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