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Showing 1 to 20 of 11006 for “"NOW"”.
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Apocalypse now now
Baxter Zevcenko is your average 16-year-old-boy. If by average you mean a possible serial killer, the kingpin of a porn-peddling schoolyard syndicate and the only thing standing in the way of full-scale gang warfare between the two powerful gangs which control Westridge High School. Which may well …
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Space is the now; now is the time!
… and the temporality of the present moment and now-time is typically ignored in architectural studies. This thesis is an attempt to evoke the importance of temporality of space in architectural design process and is an effort to bridge the gap between spatial features and their neglected …
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Goodbye Now, Goodbye!
<p>Goodbye Now, Goodbye! explores the lives of a group of architects in a Northeastern city as they work to secure a contract from a client who has made his fortune in a somewhat unsavory way. Set during the course of a week in Autumn, the project seeks to interrogate notions of ambition, …
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Here, now : stories
The four long stories in this collection focus on men struggling with questions of responsibility--personal, familial, moral--that characterize their relationships with others: the betrayal felt by a teenage theatre usher once he realizes the projectionist he admires is an unfaithful and abusive …
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Now (Time Concepts)
… and the focus, on the whole, is on the notion of Now.
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Now Watch This
Now Watch This is exactly what its title expresses it to be. It's a call for attention, a summons for your eyes. More specifically, it's an in-progress novel set from the 1990s to the current year, 2024. It's the story of a millennial named Junior Pena. A man who's like that one smirky friend who …
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The things of now
The Things of Now uses a blend of creative non-fiction and poetry to explore what it means to live in this contemporary moment. The work can be considered a memoir, one which is guided by Patricia’s Hampl’s insight that the self can be transformed into an instrument of observation. Covering aspects …
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Cosmopolitanism Now: Fragmented Belonging
<p>Abstract</p> <p>This thesis reconceptualizes cosmopolitanism for the contemporary moment as fragmented belonging, critiquing and moving beyond traditional cosmopolitan frameworks grounded in universal reason, seamless integration, or coherent identity. Through close readings of Teju Cole’s …
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Animals now and then.
One aim of this dissertation is to remove ambiguities that have impeded a clear discussion and adequate evaluation of animalism. To that end I develop a taxonomy of different varieties of animalism and argue that there are substantive differences between them. In earlier debates about animalism, …
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How Old Is Now?
… of collective acts of repair. In the long-now, kindnesses reinforce, prop-up, and adjust materials that have bore witness to historical events and familial genealogies. What might it mean for the discipline to center maintenance the way it has been centered in l’Aquila? What are the ways …
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Like My Voice, Now Yours
<p>This is a collection of poems with a critical preface.</p>
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Can Education Help Me Now?
<p>The purpose of this case study was to examine the perceived benefits, economic and personal, attributable to the attainment of higher levels of education as sought by displaced employees from the Levi Strauss Johnson City, Tennessee plant that was closed in 1999. Data was collected through …
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Home movies then and now
This study examines the practices and discourses of small gauge filmmaking and attempts to account for the longevity and persistence of the medium. Emphasis is placed on the perception of the home movie as the primary implementation of amateur filmmaking technology. Some of the issues addressed …
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