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Showing 1 to 20 of 128 for “"One Place"”.
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One Time, One Place? Richard Wright and Eudora Welty's Shared Visual Politics in the Depression Era
… 12 Million Black Voices (1941) and Welty's One Time, One Place (1971)—and extends into such fictional works as Wright's "Big Boy Leaves Home" (1936) and Native Son (1941) and Welty's "Moon Lake" (1949) and "Flowers for Marjorie" (1941). In chapter one, I write Welty's and Wright's …
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“One Place for All the Ways We Play”: The Corporate Sociotechnical Imaginary of Cloud Game Streaming
… gaming within the cultural hegemony. This is done by conducting close readings of press conferences made by three platform owners with cloud gaming services (OnLive, Nvidia, and Google) along with articles written by members of the enthusiast press. The corporate sociotechnical imaginary …
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From one Place to an 'Other": Meanings, Ideologies, Identities, and Representations on the Covers of Japanese Self-Help Translations
This study addresses gaps in paratextual, translation, and cultural theory research concerning the covers of Japanese self-help book translations. The study looks at five book covers of The Courage to be Disliked: the original Japanese and four culturally Western English translations from …
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Path-Finding With Differential Constraints In Real Time Strategy Video Games
… an agent such as a soldier or a vehicle from one place to another, but currently these paths are unrealistic for agents that possess differential constraints. For example, when a car-like vehicle moves from one place to another it will follow a jagged path, which overlooks differential …
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Existing in contrast
In the act of building, man places himself between earth and sky. Where a wall is raised, a place becomes divided. Architecture occurs. One wall in one place begins to define three physical realities. The form and matter of a wall exist as one thing. Each side of the wall exists separately and face …
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Investigating the efficacy of graywater use at the household level
… aspects of graywater are variable from one place to another and need to be investigated in order to predict whether graywater use will be accepted or not by the people.
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An investigation into the factors that influence commuters in the North West Province with specific references to the Mafikeng area
… humans has been a major activity which has undergone a lot of transformation. During the ancient times, people moved from one place to another for various reasons using different methods. Modernisation has brought along a new dimension of commuting from one place to the other. Unlike the olden …
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The Mystery That Prevails: Drawing Fragmented Worlds
… uncanny nature of my surroundings as I move from one place and experience to the next. At the same time, I discuss indirect concerns of shared displacement and discontent within a world of unforeseeable changes.
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The role of the South African regulatory authorities in combating money laundering and terrorist financing perpetrated through alternative remittance systems
Money Service Businesses provide people and institutions with a way to send money (remit) from one place to another. This service is most often associated with migrants, who typically wish to send money or value home. Remittances can be sent both on a domestic and on a cross-border basis. The …
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Wishful Thinking
… in college. What it means to have stayed in one place long enough that everyone who left has decided to come back. What it means to be the one left behind. Among those who come back are a cousin who married into wealth and a former lover of hers who has come back with a mountain of wealth of …
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A theatre of deception: The Plano Performance Center for the Interactive Arts
… understanding of media; can we bring media to one place to experiment with community and social interaction using the constructs of technology? A theater with this new media of virtual reality should, in fact, express fun and bring social interaction to a space lost by the visions of computers. …
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Memory and Architecture
… disease is a challenge. To stay and live in one place as conditions progress irreversibly is perhaps one of the areas where architecture could make a contribution. In addition to patients, the needs of caretakers and visiting family members play a role in the program for a new facility. As an …
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A Study of Plato's Cratylus
… philosophers turned their attention to language. One place they have looked for clues about its nature is Plato's Cratylus, which considers whether names are naturally or conventionally correct. The dialogue is a source of annoyance to many commentators because it does not take a clear position on …
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Walking in the Novels of Thomas Hardy
… studies, I examine how walking embodies displacement--ideological, gendered, and narrative--in five of Hardy's novels. His characters, in their inability to settle in one place, represent a destabilization of identity and suffer the inevitable consequence of placelessness. In particular, the …
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Comparison of and Improvements to Degree Zero Divisor Class Group Arithmetic in Algebraic Function Fields
… requires the function field to have a degree one place, and the second improvement requires a degree one infinite place. We performed a theoretical complexity analysis of our algorithms and measured the empirical performance of our implementations. To improve upon [13] we optimized for typical …
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The passage
… refers to a narrow space which leads from one place to another. It is the intermediary zone between two defined programmes. It is a moment of transition, where the ambiguity of its claim facilitates for multiple crossings which lead to unexpected interactions and transactions. This thesis …
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The search for San Ffraid.
… for the first time gathers together in one place the Welsh traditions related to San Ffraid, integrating the separate pieces to reveal a more focused image of a saint of obvious importance in Wales. As part of this discussion, the dissertation addresses questions about the relationship, …
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Japan and Taiwan in the wake of bio-globalization : drugs, race and standards
… of "extrapolation" of clinical data from one place to another.
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Modelling movement through environments : giving characters a sense of where they are
… collision-free path when instructed to walk from one place to another. This is a first step towards goal-directed animation where animators will specify desired goals in terms such as "walk to the door and open it" and characters will know enough about "where they are" and how they can move to …
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SparkInfo : designing a social space for co-creation of multimedia contents
… at the same event, to collect their elements in one place and have a meaningful experience of their co-created media resources. SparkInfo provides a social space for the co-creation of multimedia resources. In the process of exploring and embellishing their materials, SparkInfo users can create …
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