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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Nameless"”.
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How to Threaten His Hegemony: The Nameless Women of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and Meridel Le Sueur' s The Girl
… the girl in Meridel LeSueur's The Girl remain nameless throughout their stories, a problem here considered indicative of behavior against societal expectation and thus oppositional to the 1930s capitalist hegemony. The characters' alternative approaches to the conventionally public aspect that …
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Dark mirrors and disembodied spirits : gender, sexuality and incest in selected fiction by Daphne du Maurier
… ability to infuse novelistic narrative with a nameless and pervasive frisson of unease, but it is only recently that critics have begun seriously to investigate the shadowy complexities of her widely-read novels. In this thesis, three of du Maurier's best-known works 'Jamaica Inn', 'Rebecca' …
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革命、生活、女戰士—— 從性別角度看馬來亞共產黨史 = REVOLUTION, LIVES AND WOMEN WARRIORS: MALAYAN COMMUNIST HISTORY FROM GENDER PERSPECTIVE.
… guerrilla warfare. Women have simply remained nameless and faceless. We know very little from the standpoints of those hundreds of thousands of female comrades who participated in the MCP guerrilla. This research explores a very difference picture of the history of MCP by highlighting women as …
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The Effect of Man on the Landscape and the Effect of Land on the Manscape: Or Contingent Plans for Knowing a Mountain
… at a point in its history when the specter of nameless impending disaster weighs pressingly on the collective psyche. This thesis is supplementary to my work of sculpture in the Graduate School of the Arts Thesis Exhibition at the Anderson Gallery opening on April 27th, 2007. The work was …
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Women's perceptions of the relationship between neuromuscular integrative action (NIA) and their body, mind, and spirit
… Action (NIA), has been a promising, yet nameless, element of the holistic fitness paradigm. Holistic fitness offers a unique approach in the understanding of women, as whole persons, through movement. This pilot study was conducted to establish an awareness of women's perceptions of NIA …
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A Translation with an Introduction of Paolo Zardi's XXI Secolo
… no matter the cost. It is this imperfect, nameless protagonist that makes the novel human, and prompts the audience to scrutinize what is occurring in our own world as the 21st century unfolds. The translation presented in this thesis is an attempt to capture both the charm and brutality of …
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Plastic / Explosive: Claude Cahun and the Politics of Becoming Otherwise
… Suzanne Malherbe, dubbing themselves “the Nameless Soldiers." They fought the Nazis with what they called Surrealist "weapons of chance," mounting a devastating campaign against the German soldiers that sought to confuse and demoralize them, fomenting revolt in the Nazi camp. While …
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(N)Onomastics and Malory: Anonymity and Female Characters in Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'arthur
… tradition, but a significant portion of the nameless female characters challenge these assumptions. Malory uses many of these anonymous women to perform actions which are often attributed to male characters in medieval literature, such as acting as a guide or helper on a quest, challenging …
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Why unavoidable moral wrongdoing is impossible
… that, by utilising Susan Wolf’s ideas on the “nameless virtue” (2001), developed in order to solve the problem of resultant moral luck, we can arrive at a more compelling method of dissolving the apparent contradiction. This solution is one that allows us to retain the intuition that a right …
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The workhome... a new building type?
… of years. The building type has until now been nameless, which may have contributed to its lack of attention in architectural histories and classification systems. This thesis investigates a wide range of buildings that combine dwelling and workplace with three aims: to establish an identifiable …
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Grounding robot motion in natural language and visual perception
… as input the locations of the (initially nameless) objects in the floor plan.</p> <p>Next I present a method to automatically detect, localize, and label objects in the robot’s environment using only the robot’s video feed and corresponding odometry. This method produces a map of the …
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Travelling Miniatures: Kerry and Co’s Postcards of the Pacific, 1893-1917
… excavation of the origins and identities of the nameless Aboriginal „postcard people‟, and on the identification of their agency during the shared moment of the postcard imagery‟s production. The third part of the thesis focuses on the Samoan series which, for the „recycled‟ nature of its twelve …
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Security of our Personal Genome
… being associated with the data. The belief that nameless data records eliminates risk and would be a benefit to research is the common pretense for how we manage our health data systems. However, the incredible advances that we are seeing with computational power and more affordable and …
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The use of word-learning principles in young monolingual and bilingual children
… exclusivity principle or to the novel name-nameless category (N3C) principle. In the present cross-sectional study, monolingual and bilingual children were tested at 27 and at 35 months of age. In a first task, monolingual and bilingual children were presented with novel labels violating …
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A mechanized Theory of Aspects
… introduced in this thesis, comparing the locally nameless and the de Bruijn variable representations.
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The Naval Forces of the Irish State, 1922-1977
… to aid in the fighting, although it was a nameless and rather unofficial organisation, it conducted amphibious landings and provided vital assistance to the National Army in their campaign to recapture those areas beyond the control of the Provisional Government. The structure of the thesis …
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Barely Hidden Magic: Acadiana Stories
… In "A Seldom-Heard Voice from Petit Coteau," the nameless narrator observes the true motivation and influence of her boyfriend's mother, who rejects her in ways that are socially deniable, and the narrator both passes judgment and wishes for a little kindness and acceptance. In "Blood Currents on …
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A zsidó nők és férfiak 18. századvégi-19. század eleji letelepedése Pesten, különös tekintettel a zsidó nők helyzetére
… speaking Hungarian as well, while the nameless, unknown peddling, begging women, family mothers and single mothers occupy the centre of attention. Slowly another Jewish world evolves from this before us, the main characters of which are women. The women do occupy the first place in …
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Man In the Chair
<p>Man in the Chair is the culmination of months of writing, rehearsing, experimenting, and finally performing. It is a testimony to the creative process that includes: developing an artistic piece from start to finish; learning to follow imaginative impulses that will lead words into physical …
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Houses
… and out of the edges of action—as the named and nameless of a street scene in film. I refer here to all of the ancestors recorded from the family books: Merriweather Lewis, the ladies, and Howard as well as the immediate family members who speak through letters or whose presence is conjured up in …