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Showing 1 to 20 of 374 for “"Morrison"”.
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The Sherman Morrison Iteration
The Sherman Morrison iteration method is developed to solve regularized least squares problems. Notions of pivoting and splitting are deliberated on to make the method more robust. The Sherman Morrison iteration method is shown to be effective when dealing with an extremely underdetermined least …
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The Congressional Career of William Ralls Morrison
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“Anaconda Love” in the Novels of Toni Morrison
… is an exploration of a common theme within Toni Morrison’s novels: a form of love that is so intense it becomes harmful. This harmful form of love is referred to as “anaconda love”. The anaconda attempts to capture, control, constrict and ultimately consume the recipient of its love. This theme …
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The Village Mother in Selected Works of Toni Morrison
… Eye, Sula, and Song of Solomon to discuss Toni Morrison's presentation of women as biological and surrogate mothers and the relationships those mothers have to their children. These mother-child relationships take place in African American "villages" and each chapter displays the relationship …
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Silence as Weakness or Strength in Hurston and Morrison
… novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, and Toni Morrison, in her 1981 novel Tar Baby, exploit voice in different ways. This thesis will investigate and explore the ways in which both of these authors utilize and explore a character’s voice in their literary works.</p>
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Gravity survey of the Golden-Morrison-Denver area Colorado
Includes bibliographical references.
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Stratigraphy of the Golden-Morrison area, Jefferson County, Colorado
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-186).
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Gravity survey in the Morrison area, Jefferson County, Colorado
Includes bibliographical references.
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Images of Change: Language and Power in the Works of Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison has identified, as one of her projects, the question of what societal forces make intellectual domination possible, and how this domination can be transformed into personal revelation and choice. Many of her fictional characters undergo a transformation from intellectual domination to …
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The Search for Cultural Identity: An Exploration of the Works of Toni Morrison
Many of Toni Morrison's African-American characters attempt to change their circumstances either by embracing the white dominant culture that surrounds them or by denying it. In this thesis I explore several ways in which the characters do just that-either embrace or deny the white culture's right …
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True and ancient properties: naming and spirits in the novels of Toni Morrison
… ancestry by the institution of slavery. Toni Morrison, then, shares excellent company as her work can be counted among the best of the genre. Her five novels, The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, and Beloved share the common theme of the search for self-actualization. In each of …
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Critical Exploration of the Neo-Slave Narrative in Selected Walker and Morrison Novels
… Walker’s <em>The Colored Purple</em> and Toni Morrison’s <em>Beloved</em> as Neo-Slave Narratives.<em> </em>These extraordinary authors reveal slave history in their novels. Although these novels deal with neo-slave narratives, they closely identify with history of African American enslavement. …
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Stratigraphy and depositional environments: Lyons Formation (Permian), Golden-Morrison area, Jefferson County, Colorado
Includes bibliographical references.
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The civil rights movement in Toni Morrison's "Song of Solomon"
Although Toni Morrison situates all of her novels in a specific place and time, historical context is especially relevant in Song of Solomon (1977). However, scholars typically examine Milkman's quest for his family history without addressing the Civil Rights era in which the main part of the …
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A Stratigraphic and Geochronologic Analysis of the Morrison Formation/Cedar Mountain Formation Boundary, Utah
… and the Sierran magmatic arc. Historically, the Morrison/Cedar Mountain contact and the duration of the unconformity between them have been difficult or impossible to determine because 1) the formations were deposited in similar environments, 2) the basal Cedar Mountain Formation is composed of …
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Religion, Slavery and Secession: Reflections on the Life and Letters of Robert Hall Morrison
… and founder of Davidson College, Robert Hall Morrison was also a slave owner and father-in-law to three Confederate generals; yet he opposed slavery and often spouted anti-secessionist rhetoric. He preferred living in the Northern states. However, at the time of North Carolina's secession, he …
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