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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Pervading"”.
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Heterosexual anal sex in the age of HIV : an exploratory study of a silenced subject
… topic of heterosexual anal sex and pervading penile-vaginal heteronormativity. To understand the origins and character of the seemingly universal ambivalence towards heterosexual anal intercourse I attempt to situate it historically. There is general ignorance concerning the …
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Acoustic Labor in the Timing of Everyday Life: A Critical Contribution to the History of Samba in Rio De Janeiro
… for transcending crucial theoretical dilemmas pervading the study of practices otherwise deemed as ""musics."""
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Arthur Lismer in the context of Sheffield
… art, the Heeley Art Club, and particularly the pervading influence of John Ruskin. Parallels are drawn between Lismer's Sheffield background and his views on art appreciation, which included concerns about art training and education, the lack of aesthetic awareness, and the need for social and …
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Unveiling Jewett's hidden voice: discovering the aborted future of Dunnet Landing in The Country of the Pointed Firs
… females as disproportionately heroic. Indeed, a pervading recurrence of abortions and otherwise lost children among the predominately female community of Dunnet Landing creates a framework of death by which to interpret the actions and motivations of Jewett‟s characters. My thesis explores the …
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"I can't carry on like this": a feminist perspective on the process of exiting sex work in a South African context
… which is symptomatic of the gender oppression pervading their lives. The results of this research will be used to draw up a policy in collaboration with the NGO Embrace Dignity, for parliament, to initiate legal reform relating to sex work.
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The experience of restlessness: a study of movement in the shorter fiction of Franz Kafka
… the study explores the patterns of movement pervading Kafka’s early collection Betrachtung and a selection of texts written between 1915 and 1917. What emerges is a persistent concern with the condition of restlessness, its origins and consequences. The condition emerges from a conflict …
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Film and the Dartington Experience
… ethos of Dartington to a filmic practice. A pervading concern has been with the mythic nature of Dartington during the inter-war years and the function of the filmic form in myth generation and perpetuation. The final part of the project presents an overview of these strategies, assessing …
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The Role of Symbolism in Four Plays of François de Curel
… and established his reputation.</p> <p>So all-pervading is the use of symbols in the drama of de Curel, that it is surprising to find no previous study on the subject, and only cursory allusions to it in the general commentaries of various critics. Apart from a rich field of textual evidence in …
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Pedestrian Pal: A Route Recommendation System for the Android Mobile Phone
With mobile phone technology pervading people's everyday lives, using these devices has become prevalent for route recommendations while traveling in unfamiliar locations. Current research works to improve algorithms that calculate efficient and effective routes between two or more points. While …
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Pedestrian Pal: A Route Recommendation System for the Android Mobile Phone
With mobile phone technology pervading people's everyday lives, using these devices has become prevalent for route recommendations while traveling in unfamiliar locations. Current research works to improve algorithms that calculate efficient and effective routes between two or more points. While …
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Experiencing narrative pedagogy
… to become more astute at addressing problems pervading the role of the new nursing graduate. Narrative Pedagogy was identified as a research-based nursing pedagogy and has been researched and enacted for more than a decade. Out of the Narrative Pedagogy research, the Concernful Practices …
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Developing digital historians in Italy
… linked to the digital revolution that is pervading society. How historians face the challenges and take advantage of the affordances of technology will have a strong impact on teaching and researching history in the future. However, the voice of digital historians on these issues does not …
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Perception of old towns, historicism, and temporality
… of its common denominator of oldness. The all-pervading sense of age could, to a certain extent erase other irregularities, so that the old town may be cognized with a powerful sense of unity. The first part of the study plants this central issue within the larger context of architectural …
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American Journey Toward Female Equality with and Through Adrienne Rich's Works
… are somehow inferior to the Caucasian male. This pervading idea is a part of our history books, and until it becomes just that—history—then the movement to eradicate its presence, even in our subconscious minds, has to continue. We are all of the human race, and we are all born equally and freely …
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The appraisal and enhancement of resilience modalities in middle adolescents within the school context
… riddled with potential adversities which are pervading into their lives, adding to their challenges inherent to their developmental stage. Resilient behaviour requires changes with each developmental phase and varies on a continuum of less optimum resilience to optimum resilience based on the …
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Why should physicians read? Understanding clinical judgement and its relation to literary experience
… text constitutes a complement to the rationality pervading scientific medicine. The final step in my analysis is a closer exploration of the potential of the literary text to contribute to the growth of clinical judgement, in relation to the challenges of everyday clinical work. Some of the …
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The Supervisory Assemblage: A Singular Doctoral Experience
… and Cixous. This thesis defies the ascetic ideal pervading normative accounts of doctoral experience, academic textual production and theoretical engagement. It embodies my desire to embrace an ontology of becoming and its pedagogic corollaries.
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‘The balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities‘: political tensions and religious transitions in the works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
… thesis considers the profound effect of the all-pervading late Eighteenth-Century revolutionary climate on the evolving religious and political views of the young Coleridge, and their expression through his published works from 1794-1800. I consider how Coleridge‘s continuing use of religious …
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Theological and Ecological Foundations for Youth Ministry in Relation to the Archdiocese of Mbarara, Uganda - East Africa
… Uganda, is undergoing societal shift. Due to the pervading influences of Western civilization and technology, the conservative and often static culture of native tribal communities with their adherence to informal education, traditional customs and worship and a predominantly agrarian economy, is …
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Investigating the parameter space of viable models for f(R) gravity
… to the existence of new, unknown energy fields pervading the universe, but it is has also spurred the growth of the research field of modified gravity theories. Of these, f(R) theories of gravity is the first and simplest modification to General Relativity, and have been studied extensively for …
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