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Showing 1 to 20 of 363 for “"Portraits"”.
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Family Portraits
This thesis is a collection of poems in two parts. The first section is comprised of poems about my grandfather and his genealogy research. It endeavors to explore the ways we see people after they are gone. My grandfather died nine years ago, and much of what he left behind for me were his …
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Portraits of buildings
The photography of architecture is more than a simple tool to record facts about specific buildings. Photography can be used to communicate insights and perceptions about the role of architecture in society and our personal relationship to the architectural environment. This is a study of certain …
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Data portraits : aesthetics and algorithms
… that generate both individual and collective portraits of users participating in online social media. The data used in generating the portraits are unstructured text and publishing timestamps of Twitter micro-blog posts, as well as aggregate RSS feeds from FriendFeed. The strategies for …
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Portraits and Landscapes in Family Narrative
… These individual perceptions can be seen in the portraits and landscapes of people and places that each family member generates, receives from others, and gives status to within the family's collective concept of folklore and history. While the meaning that people derive from family narratives …
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Computational bounce flash for indoor portraits
Portraits taken with direct flash look harsh and unflattering because the light source comes from a small set of angles very close to the camera. Advanced photographers address this problem by using bounce flash, a technique where the flash is directed towards other surfaces in the room, creating a …
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Rethinking Bibliotherapy: Portraits of Gifted Adult Readers
… to replace the need for discussion. Portraits of gifted adult readers (N=7) in their 30s-50s illustrate that metacognition has occurred over their lifespan regarding their reading, with only one participant actively engaging in discussion, and book selection meets the socioemotional …
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Italian Heroic Portraits in the Sixteenth Century
… to the thesis, I qualify independent portraits in all media in which the sitter is represented in the guise of a mythological, historical or religious figure, like a god or a biblical character. These portraits, known from various studies as allegorical, historié, composite, or …
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Portraits of nursing resilience: Listening for a story
… was used to construct a collection of portraits which enabled an exploration of the ‘why’ that relates to the individual nurse’s remaining in a workplace often described as awful. A narrative analysis of the portrait data allowed a meaningful interpretation based in current literature …
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Lifting the Veil off Widowhood: Portraits of Transformation
This qualitative research study has explored the lives of 13 women who were widowed before the age of 55, who are professionals, educators, businesswomen, and community activists, to learn how their lives have been transformed since the death of their spouse. For this study, the death of a spouse …
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Three Portraits of Pipa – for pipa and orchestra
Three Portraits of Pipa is a three movement concerto for pipa, a traditional Chinese plucked-string instrument that has a history of more than 2000 years in China. The large variety of timbres of the pipa gives the instrument unlimited musical possibilities. Each movement of the work demonstrates …
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Capturing Critical Whiteness: Portraits of White Antiracist Professors
<p>This study contains qualitative portraits based on the stories of three white university professors who are nominated by their students as white allies. Through the thick description of setting and context, white privilege is named as the researcher's experience and that of each of the …
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JOHN CHRYSOSTOM AND THE HERMENEUTICS OF EXEMPLAR PORTRAITS
… this thesis, we will argue that these exemplar portraits are largely determined by the literary strategies and analytical frameworks propounded by two major traditions: the Greco-Roman tradition of paideia, philosophical ethics, biography and rhetoric, and the Christian tradition. When due …
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Portraits of Professional Collaboration: Faculty-Librarian Teaching Partnerships
<p>Many regional accrediting organizations for higher education have embraced information literacy as a key component for both student success and student learning outcomes. Through embedded librarianship practices, librarians are now taking a leading role in developing and promoting users’ …
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The Four Haunted Tyrones: Eugene O'Neill's Autobiographical Family Portraits
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Donor Portraits in Late Medieval Venice c.1280-1413
… as reasons for the absence of individual donor portraits; the examples that have survived are commonly interpreted as direct reflections of state or communal values. This dissertation challenges these previous conclusions and poses the following questions: Was donor portraiture popular in …
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Henry Meloy: The Portraits, A Narrative of the Exhibition
… exhibition and researched the biography of and portraits created by Meloy. The professional paper describes the process of mounting the show from the acquisition of the permanent loan of the Meloy collection by the MMAC through exhibiting and and shipping the work. This description is …
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Henry Meloy: The Portraits, A Narrative of the Exhibition
… exhibition and researched the biography of and portraits created by Meloy. The professional paper describes the process of mounting the show from the acquisition of the permanent loan of the Meloy collection by the MMAC through exhibiting and and shipping the work. This description is …
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Elite Identities in Scottish Family Group Portraits, 1740 - 1790
… in Scotland between 1740 and 1790. Family group portraits painted by Scottish artists of Scottish families are examined and contrasted with English counterparts to demonstrate the evolving nature of Scottish identity as performed in the domestic sphere in the period under consideration. The …
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