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Places, Please!
<p>Growing up in the American South as the daughter of a scenic designer, I frequently found myself on both the physical stage of the theatre and the metaphorical stage of gender performance. Through immersive oil paintings, I seek to visually represent where these two experiences merge, depicting …
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"An investigation of ""John is Easy to Please"""
… transformational account of "John is easy to please". Then, in the light of an analysis of "John is an easy man to please", based on the infinitival relative, I propose a speculative historical hypothesis concerning the origins of "John is easy to please". In addition, I attempt to explain the …
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No doggy bag please : Chinese attitudes on food waste
As an emerging economy, food waste has become a hot topic in China within the last two years because of increasing appetites and shrinking landfills. Although there are an increasing number of studies on food waste in China, there is a lack of research into the social and cultural drivers that …
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Will All of You Stop Being A-holes, Please?
<p>None</p>
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“Please Turn and Talk”: Mathematical Discussions in Elementary Classrooms
This research explores the perceptions of elementary math teachers on mathematical communication. The purpose of this research is to better support all students by understanding the benefits, limitations and strategies that are used to utilize mathematical communication to support higher-level …
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Molecular Mechanisms of Lymphocyte Activation - Please Mind the Gap
The underlying mechanism of lymphocyte triggering is still not fully understood, but the kinetic-segregation (KS) model of receptor triggering in T cells has been supported by several recent studies. This model proposes that the small gap between an antigen-presenting cell and an immune cell …
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Take My Thesis…Please! The Art Of Stand-Up Comedy
<p>In my thesis, I explore the artistry of stand-up comedy primarily by concentrating on five aspects of the genre that one generally uses to discuss literature: theme, persona, language, narrative structure, and audience. My purpose is to critically analyze a mode of artistic expression that is …
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"A Supreme Desire to Please Him": The Spirituality of Adoniram Judson
… which was motivated by an affectionate desire to please Christ, by obeying his final command revealed in the sacred Scriptures. Chapter 2 surveys Judson's life and the historical, theological, and spiritual contexts that formed him. Chapter 3 argues that the foundation of Judson's missionary …
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Please understand me : effective leadership practices and strategies that increase graduation rates
The primary purpose of this study was to examine how leadership strategies and practices contribute to student retention and sustained improvement in student graduation rates. The issue of students' success and graduation is important because educational attainment is positively correlated with …
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Please, don't let me be misunderstood: intentionality, queer gestures, and feminist accountability
<p>This thesis aims to theoretically situate and define intentionality specifically as a feminist practice through queer gesturing; this re-defining places intentionality within a framework of accountability. By defining intent through the distibution of responsibility, this thesis addresses the …
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Retirement, Life Satisfaction, and Pet Ownership: Please Don't Take My Sunshine Away
When results from non owners were analyzed by retirement status, significant differences appeared from the early to late stages of retirement on the two life satisfactional scales and on freedom to travel, perceived health, and satisfaction with health with the early stage being higher. These …
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Please Be Patient : A Cultural Phenomenological Study of Haemodialysis and Kidney Transplantation Care
This thesis examines the practice of haemodialysis and kidney transplantation, the two medical therapies available for persons with kidney failure, from a phenomenological perspective. A basic assumption made in the thesis is that contemporary biomedicine is deeply embedded in the cultural, …
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Quiet please! - School Noise and its Effects on Student Teachers and Practicing Teachers
Lärm in Schulen gilt aus unterschiedlichen Gründen als massiver Belastungsfaktor für Lehrkräfte und kann deshalb zu Leistungsdefiziten im Beruf, aber auch zu physischen und psychischen Beeinträchtigungen führen. Die Erforschung von Schullärm und seinen Auswirkungen ist daher essentiell. Die drei …
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Please Talk to Strangers: Using Communication Privacy Management Theory to Analyze Disclosure Between Strangers
Communication privacy management (CPM) theory has become a powerful tool for researchers in terms of learning how human beings protect their thoughts and personal information with hypothetical boundaries. It also helps reveal how they negotiate the letting down of said barriers in different …
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"""Passport Please"": The United States Passport and the Documentation of Individual Identity, 1845--1930"
This dissertation uses the emergence of the passport in the United States to explore the social and cultural origins, development and deployment of the documentation of individual identity in the United States from the 1840s to the 1930s. Specifically this history asks how did a piece of paper come …
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Will the real lesbians please stand up? : butch/fem and creations of authentic lesbian identity
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, 1994.
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