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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"On Beauty"”.
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On Beauty And Ethics In Shakespeare And His Contemporaries
… modern literature abounds in references to beauty. However, in the past few decades, discussions of beauty have been sidelined in part due to the influence of approaches such as cultural materialism and new historicism; as a result, beauty often gets viewed as some kind of ideological mist …
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The Millennial Garden: A Post-hybrid Reading of Zadie Smith's White Teeth and On Beauty
… to examine Smith’s novels White Teeth and On Beauty and demonstrate the ways in which they problematize hybridity as well as the instances when post-hybridity more accurately describes her work where hybridity falters and fails. In A New World Order, Caryl Phillips writes that Smith’s work …
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The Millennial Garden: A Post-hybrid Reading of Zadie Smith's White Teeth and On Beauty
… to examine Smith’s novels White Teeth and On Beauty and demonstrate the ways in which they problematize hybridity as well as the instances when post-hybridity more accurately describes her work where hybridity falters and fails. In A New World Order, Caryl Phillips writes that Smith’s work …
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The Give and Take on Restaurant Tipping
This dissertation examines aspects of both the consumer (the "give") and the server (the "take") sides of restaurant tipping. On the consumer side, I address both why, and how much, people tip in restaurants. I also examine a policy issue related to the recent Supreme Court decision in United …
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The impact of augmented reality on body image perceptions in digital media
… examines the impact of Augmented Reality (AR) on beauty standards, focusing on how AR technologies in digital media influence consumers' perceptions of ideal body images. The research uses a mixed-methods approach to explore the relationships between AR application usage and body image …
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The Revised and Expanded Version: A Series of Etchings
The Revised and Expanded Version is a series of large-scale intaglio prints that explore notions of beauty using line and text. Etched and printed over a series of eight different states, the prints illustrate their own evolution over time and a process of redaction and revision. Through the …
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La relación entre la autocompasión y la imagen corporal en mujeres jóvenes y adolescentes
… vast majority of women define their value based on their body image. That is because society places great importance on beauty, physical appearance and thinness. The present study seeks to describe the relationship between self-compassion and body image in young and adolescent women. An applied …
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TAN BUT NOT TOO TAN: Understanding Skin Color Amongst Chinese Transnational Adoptees
Studies examining the impact of skin color on women’s lives, specifically Asian American women, have primarily ignored Chinese transnational adoptees. Often, research in this area operates under the assumption that there is knowledge of East Asian culture shaping skin color preference, but for …
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Aphrodite as Acorn: Method and Message in the Cantos of Ezra Pound
… <p>First, I will survey the critical work on the role of Aphrodite written over the last twenty years. Astonishingly, few scholars have studied the goddess in any great detail and so I have included scholarly opinion on the role of archetypal figures and of the lyric mode in The Cantos …
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Suvokiamo grožio ir gyvenimo prasmės bei dėkingumo sąsajos /
Nowadays psychologists' interest in beauty signals the need for a better understanding of its effects. Previous research allows us to know what psychological research trends and questions have been relevant in a historical context. Although modern research on beauty is mainly focused on cognitive …
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Dorian Gray: The Myth
<p>“Narcissus and Echo” is a myth cautioning against excessive self-adoration and fixation on beauty. However, in the late 19th century, this ancient myth underwent a transformation, taking center stage as a prominent symbol in the emerging Aesthetic Movement. Contrary to warnings present in the …
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A study of influences and experiences contributing to the attitudes of a group of vocational students towards science
This research project examines perceptions and attitudes towards science of a group of Technical and Further Education students studying Beauty Therapy at Victoria University. Many members of this group displayed a high level of science anxiety as described by Mallow, (1978). They lacked confidence …
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Sight and Knowledge Disconnected: The Epistemology of the Visual and the Ideological Gaze in the Novels of E. M. Forster and Virginia Woolf
One of the ways to understand literary modernism is to see it as a response to the crisis of Western ocularcentrism. First taking up E. M. Forster as a main figure and later shifting its point of focus to Virginia Woolf and finally to a contemporary author Zadie Smith, this dissertation examines …
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Understanding the relationship between body image and menopause in South Asian Canadian women
… to South Asian women, who often fear stigmatization and struggle with openly discussing health concerns. This study used interpretive phenomenological analysis, which focuses on understanding and interpreting the experiences of the participants, to explore the relationship between body image and …
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Essays in macroeconomics : information and financial markets
This thesis studies how information imperfections affect financial markets and the macroeconomy. Chapter 1 considers an economy where investors delegate their investment decisions to financial institutions that choose across multiple investment opportunities featuring different levels of …
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Ir-rappreżentazzjoni tas-sess f’Jutta Heim ta’ Immanuel Mifsud
… Immanuel Mifsud u l-effetti tagħhom. L-ossessjoni bis-sess li għandu l-protagonist, Erik Xerri, tiġi trażmessa permezz ta’ dawn l-għodod differenti. Fl-ewwel kapitlu tingħata ħarsa kritika lejn dak li nkiteb dwar it-tema tas-sess fil-letteratura Maltija, lejn x’qalu l-estetisti Maltin li …