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Showing 1 to 20 of 351 for “"Orient"”.
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Orient
… juncture of art, politics, and the sacred, <em>ORIENT</em> engages, deconstructs, and re-orchestrates a variety of dissonant energies. Cultural in nature and historical in scope, these energies constitute the political, philosophical and religious contexts through which individuals and …
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The Orient in Elementary School Social Studies
… of this investigation (1) to make a study of the Oriental Studies content suggested in textbooks, curriculum guides, and "new social studies programs" used extensively in elementary schools in the state of Washington, and (2) to develop suggested Oriental Studies content for elementary schools, …
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Changing the Definition of the Orient Through Hollywood
… cultures. I will use Edward Said’s definition of Orientalism and the theories set forth by Said’s work as a framework to explain how American media has commercialized and fetishized Eastern cultures for their advantage. Through the analysis of the work of Asian-American authors, such as <em>Crazy …
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Utilizing dynamic and static stability to orient parts
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1985.
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Geology of the Orient limonite deposit, Saguache County, Colorado
Includes bibliographical references.
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Faciliter l’intégration des immigrants du Moyen-Orient dans la communauté fransaskoise
This research aims to facilitate the integration of immigrants from the Middle East (with different linguistic backgrounds) into the Fransaskois community. The existing literature illustrates the importance of immigration in Canada and, particularly, in Western Canada. This immigration plays a …
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The Orient in the Empire’s Poetry: Scholarship, Translation, and Imaginative Geography (1770-1857)
… of what writers in Europe referred to as the <em>Orient</em> during the long nineteenth century. <em>Imaginative geography</em> refers to a subjective collection of associations that accumulate around a place about which positive knowledge is limited, such that the imaginative associations …
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Sea lampreys orient toward a source of a synthesized pheromone using odor-conditioned rheotaxis
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University. Mechanical Engineering, 2010
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The Corset and the Hijab: the Discursivisation of Identity Between the West and the Orient
… the postulation of the West and the Orient in parallel, rather than viewed as opposed cultural practices. Utilising mainly the Semiotic and Socio-semiotic Theories developed by Greimas (1970, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 2000; Greimas & Courtés, 1993) and Landowski (1992, 1997, 2004, 2005, …
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Heritage of the Red Orient : theories and practices of architectural restoration in Soviet Central Asia (1920-1991)
By critically reviewing theoretical, methodological and practical approaches to the restoration of Islamic architecture in Soviet Central Asia, this dissertation reveals the mechanisms of transmitting ideologically predicated vision of the past into the physical fabric of historic monuments. It …
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Reproducing the Orient: A Critical Examination of Western Media Representations of China’s Uyghur Policies between 2014 and 2021
… on the interaction of US state media and Orientalist knowledge production and research on news media’s function as propaganda. Within examined news publications, Western authors largely presumed that the West possesses an exclusive enunciative capacity to produce knowledge about Xinjiang. …
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Travelling Through Time: Tracing the Arrival of Modernity in German-Speaking Women’s Travel Literature on the Orient between 1840 and 1945
… Through Time discusses accounts of the “Orient,” questions of identity formation through interactions with the “Other,” and the significance of the global spread of technological advances for these questions. Travel writing by both male and female authors has been a topic of interest for …
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"La Revelation m'est venue de l'Orient" Henri Matisse
… will analyze Matisse's complex relation to the Orient. In 1947, Hemi Matisse was a recognized avant garde painter, after having deeply reflected on his painting he declared: "The Revelation came to me from the Orient." What does Matisse mean when he makes such a confession? What kind of Orient …
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Sun-compass orientation in the treefrogs, Hyla crucifer and Pseudacris triseriata triseriata
Sun-compass orientation tests were performed on adults and larvae of the spring peeper (Hyla crucifer) and the western chorus frog (Pseudacris triseriata triseriata). All animals were tested outdoors in a circular test pool from which all visible landmarks were obscured. Response on the Y-axis …
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