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Showing 1 to 20 of 139 for “"Ordinary People"”.
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Da palavra à imagem : representações da família em Mrs. Doubtfire, Ordinary People, Brokeback Mountain e Babel
… – Representações da Família em Mrs. Doubtfire, Ordinary People, Brokeback Mountain e Babel”, surge da reflexão sobre o questionamento da razoabilidade da sobrevivência da família sustentada no amor enquanto agente de equilíbrio individual e grupal, desencadeador de descobertas identitárias que, …
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Southern Hospitality: A Mississippi Twilight
<p>This is a collection of stories about ordinary people and mice, and the occasional mythological creature whose lives become more complicated.</p>
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Religion, Heritage, and Power： Everyday Life in Contemporary China
… an ethnographic study of the religious life of ordinary people in the town of Dongpu, this research explores the relationships between: religion and state power; Chinese ritual (li, 礼/禮) tradition and Christian culture; and religion and intangible cultural heritage in contemporary China. This …
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Efficient 3D building model generation from 2D floor plans
… to architects, interior designers, and ordinary people in visualizing indoor space in three dimensions. 3D building models appear to be more aesthetic to ordinary people than architectural drawings. Architects can benefit from such models in detecting any inconsistencies in their …
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Central West New South Wales 1891-1893 'A Regional History from Below'
… any analyses which reveal the experiences of ordinary people. This thesis explores the suppositions about the early years of the 1890s in Central West NSW through the lens of ordinary people. What is evident in this study is that it was day-to-day affairs that dominated the lives of most …
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Central West New South Wales 1891-1893 'A Regional History from Below'
… any analyses which reveal the experiences of ordinary people. This thesis explores the suppositions about the early years of the 1890s in Central West NSW through the lens of ordinary people. What is evident in this study is that it was day-to-day affairs that dominated the lives of most …
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The Rhetorical Marketplace: Interpreting the Rhetoric of Marketers and Consumers as Civil Public Discourse
… rather than the critical participation of ordinary people. Habermas' theory of "communicative action" provides an intriguing, yet incommensurable theoretical approach to address both concerns regarding the marketer's strategic teleology and the call for alternative communication processes …
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Consumer Mutations: Mediated Subjectivities of the Incipient Digital Age
… consumer technology. As postmodern mediators of ordinary people, reality TV, Facebook, and YouTube are steeped in concerns about authenticity. Reality TV, for example, cannot escape its authenticity problem because of the conventional hierarchy of production it maintains, a hierarchy that prompts …
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The analysis, presentation and sustainability of a past Northeast of Scotland 'way of life' through video capture.
… representing the historical lifestyles of the "ordinary people" within rural Aberdeenshire circa 1890s-1950s. A unique feature of this research is the use of video as a tool for data gathering and presentation. The key themes are direct observations of the "ordinary people" and the author's …
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Heresy and Popular Protestantism in England, 1527-1553
… studies have largely ignored the beliefs of ordinary people despite the fact that an examination of available sources reveals much about the nature of this popular Protestant thought as well as the extent of its debt to medieval heretical activity and its relationship to its continental …
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The understanding of race: an analysis of laypeople's contemporary understanding of the notion race
… popular perceptions of "race" - the way in which ordinary people in South Africa conceptualise and understand the term. Traditional academic literature on the topic has emphasised the need to differentiate clearly between "popular" and "scientific" conceptions of "race". The scientific conception, …
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Sacred Flame: 100 Years Later Still Bringing Communities Together
… torch bearing experience. Narratives of fifteen ordinary people who were publicly selected as 2008 Olympic torchbearers were collected and three themes, with several subthemes under each, were identified from the data: (1) Paradigm Shift: Who Are the Torchbearers? (2) Experience of a Lifetime – …
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In The Middle
… uprooted reality. Along the way, she encounters ordinary people who act as inspirations and is also reminded of her deceased Chinese grandmother, whom she was care-giver to before she died and whose stories about life in China and the US parallel the woman´s own life during the post-Katrina …
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Science of Thought and the Culture of Democracy in Postwar Japan, 1946-1962
… between the world of intellectuals and that of "ordinary people." My dissertation shows how the group's many attempts to realize that goal embodied a vision of democratic experimentation that had to be re-articulated again and again in response to challenges that arose in connection with …
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Schrödinger's Categories: The Indeterminacy of Folk Metaethics
… Research on folk metaethics studies whether ordinary people (i.e., nonphilosophers) endorse realism or antirealism, or speak and think in ways that commit them to one of these views. Some researchers maintain that nearly everyone endorses either realism or antirealism, but not both. Yet most …
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ʻIdle, Drunk and Good-for-Nothingʼ: The Rank-and-File Perpetrators of 1932-1933 Famine in Ukraine and Their Representation in Cultural Memory
… the famine on the ground were predominantly ordinary people largely incongruous with the dominant image of the perpetrator in Ukrainian cultural memory. I organise this interdisciplinary study, which draws on a wide range of primary sources, including archival research at all levels – …
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The small house
… situation has caused much suffering among ordinary people. Regular water and power cuts occur and there are chronic shortages of fuel and basic foodstuffs like bread, milk, sugar, and margarine. Tina's life is suddenly turned upside down when she discovers that her husband is having an …
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Popular talk radio and everyday life in Mauritius
… used a multilevel approach to find out what do people do to talk radio, what kinds of engagement are pursued, which ethical considerations are valued and the implications for citizenship and democracy in a Mauritian context of power differentials and social inequalities. Following a three tier …
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Unintended Politics: The Prevalence of Partisan Opinion Expression in Incidental Political Discussions
… discussion, is abundant in the everyday lives of ordinary people. However, the characteristics of incidental political discussion are still understudied. Analysis of nearly three thousand comments on mass shootings and gun control across both political and non-political communities on Reddit …
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