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Showing 1 to 20 of 467 for “"Mystery"”.
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Mystery: Architecture
What is a library? It is easy to envision the ordinary and ubiquitous library that we are all familiar with, but is there more to libraries that is yet to be explored? What is a concept of a library? What do we as architects envision as the design for a library? The Thesis is built upon the idea …
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The Mystery of Mystery: The Novels of Dashiell Hammett
Samuel Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) has long been recognized as America's finest hard-boiled detective writer. Yet Hammett was more than a successful popular writer: he was a creator of a distinct body of fiction that is unique in its vitality, its language, and its vivid and singular vision. …
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Ghostwriting: Mystery Solved
Nonfiction
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Magic, Mystery, Illusion and Magic
<p>This document vaguely describes what happened to me and my paintings during my time spent at VCU.</p>
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The Magical Mystery Donkey Tour
<p>This creative non-fiction dissertation consists of a travel memoir written while I was enrolled in the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. It incorporates many letters I wrote in 1969. This manuscript consists of the first two parts of …
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Exquisite Corpses : an architectural mystery
In 1937, writing about the parallels between mystery fiction and urban dwelling, Walter Benjamin wrote, ""in times of terror, when everyone is something of a conspirator, everybody will be in the position of having to play detective." That is to say that anxieties present within the built …
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Realism in the Medieval Mystery Plays
… study and analysis of some of the medieval mystery plays—remnants of the York, Townley, Coventry, and Chester Cycles—will inevitably show that realism was very prevalent in the literature of the fourteenth century. Of course Langland's Piers Plowman and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales are even …
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The Greek Pastures: A Modern Mystery
… modern drama. One must go back to the medieval mystery play for its prototype. The Green Pastures might be called a modern mystery in black terms. Whether or not Mr. Connelly deliberately modeled his play after the old, is beside the point. It is most significant, however, that a play whose …
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Adding Mystery to the Table Games Department: A Strengths-Based Mystery Shopping Feedback Intervention for Casino Blackjack Dealers
<p>Mystery shopping is a form of participant observation in which the researcher poses as a customer, directly interacting with the team members being observed. It a unique performance metric in that it evaluates employees from the perspective of a customer, who is by nature a non-biased observer, …
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The Mystery That Prevails: Drawing Fragmented Worlds
The body of work I have made for my thesis exhibition is built from organic imagery that hints at diagrammatic filtering of information, but repeats, contorts and layers to become an unsettling conversation between the known and the unknown. In this essay, I discuss my use of repetitive drawing and …
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Unraveling the mystery of leaf reddening in seagrasses
<p>Seagrass meadows around the world are declining due to natural and anthropogenic stressors, including global climate change. Recently, more attention has been given to identifying responses that offer resistance to stressors so that researchers can better manage seagrasses for resilience to …
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The Artistic Unity of the Chester Mystery Cycle
<p>Prophecy and fulfillment are essential to the unity of the cycle, but prophecy with its fulfillment is only one of the elements which contribute to an organic whole. The most obvious unifying device is Chester's reliance on a uniform stanza. This single metric form is absent in the other cycles. …
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The Mystery of Christ, the Mystery of the Church: Christocentrism in the Theological Visions of Georges Florovsky and Henri de Lubac
… their shared emphasis on paradox and mystery in the life of the Church—as both an historical and eschatological reality—offers an important corrective to the risk of immanentism or presentism in contextual theology. That is, the tendency to reduce the Church’s identity to a particular …
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The Case of the Disappearing/Appearing Slow Learner:An Interpretive Mystery
This thesis explored the topic of the categorization of and programming for students named, through intellectual assessment and/or documented school failure, as “slow learners”. Written as a fictionalized hard-boiled detective story instead of adopting a more traditional thesis format, the thesis …
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The case of the Indian detective: Native American mystery novels
… puzzle resolve into a rational solution, the Mystery genre is well-suited for continuing the centuries-old project of making the Indian legible to non-Indians because it can satisfy the dual impulses of the “Dialectic of Diversity,” exoticism and assimilation. Non-Indian readers want Indians …
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Persistent viruses in Capsicum annuum plants: Understanding the mystery guests
Most work on plant viruses focuses on their pathogenicity, but recent studies suggest viruses may benefit their hosts, at least under some conditions. Plant-infecting viruses of the Partitiviridae and Endornaviridae are transmitted only vertically, via pollen and seed, generally cause no disease …
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