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Showing 1 to 20 of 509 for “"Protagonist"”.
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The Wall as protagonist - Devices of an architectural narrative
Narratives are there in everyone's lives. They are made up of stories that interest us, stories that we want to share with others. However, narrative is not only limited to the written or spoken word. It is made up of a complex system of units and devices which can be explored in many different …
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The Protagonist: Using Artificial Intelligence & Storytelling to Make Value-Based Career Decisions
Choosing what career to pursue is an important life decision for many. For students in higher education, career indecision can be a major source of anxiety. Values play an essential role in helping one clarify their identity and find a meaningful career that is aligned with one’s authentic self. …
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A Novel without a Self: Decentering the Protagonist in the Modernist Bildungsroman
… collectively shore up the centrality of the protagonist, and posit in its stead a more flattened system, one in which the old model of “protagonism” nearly disappears. This shift clears a space for a developing self that is conditioned by its exposure to other selves—a self, in other words, …
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Participant or Protagonist? Exploring the personal in children and young people's participation
This research aimed to respond to the recent shifts in thinking around children and young people’s participation by exploring participatory practice in three community-based NGOs in São Paulo, Brazil. There is profound confusion within children and young people’s participation both in theory and in …
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Towards a description of the protagonist in the fiction of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Thesis. 1976. B.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Humanities.
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The Analysis of the Shonen Protagonist and Aragoto Warrior: The Eternal Strength of Boyhood
<p>This paper is a breakdown of various visual and narrative elements of Kabuki and Anime, using the example of <em>Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura</em>, and <em>One Piece</em>. There is a broad overview of both Kabuki and Anime discussing their various tropes and styles. Following this introduction is a …
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Participant or Protagonist? The impact of the personal on the development of children and young people’s participation
This research aimed to respond to the recent shifts in thinking around children and young people’s participation by exploring participatory practice in three community-based NGOs in São Paulo, Brazil. There is profound confusion within children and young people’s participation both in theory and in …
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Searching for the missing T Cell Receptor (TCR) in Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma (ALCL): Surplus to requirements or a protagonist in lymphomagenesis?
Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma (ALCL) is a peripheral T cell lymphoma divided into three distinct entities: ALCL, Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase (ALK)+, ALCL ALK- and cutaneous ALCL. In the majority of ALCL, ALK+, ALK is expressed as the result of a chromosomal translocation generating Nucleophosmin …
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Does This Book Make Me Look Fat? The Effect of Protagonist Body Esteem and Body Weight in Novels on Female Readers' Body Esteem
… lit novels were used to examine the effect of a protagonist's body weight and body esteem on participants' overall body esteem, sexual attractiveness, weight concern, and physical condition. In Study 1 (N = 159), underweight protagonists made participants feel less sexually attractive. …
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Reinforcing stereotypes and normative ideologies through animated subservience: "How does grand theft auto V perpetuate the dominant ideology of patriarchy through male protagonist game play?"
… the dominant ideology of patriarchy through male protagonist game play. Analyzing data obtained from 10 semi-structured interviews, findings were transcribed and established according to themes and sub-themes. The literature review examines masculinities and the objectification of women in …
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A contemporary voice for the female protagonist : an exploration of the collaborative creative process : the development and synthesis of vocal techniques in the realisation of premiere music performances
… body of work where the female character acts as protagonist, rather than the foil for the masculine “norm” (McClary 1991).It is the intention of this candidature to present performances of several new music works that focus on the experience of the female character and voice through the synthesis …
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Femme noir : a subcategory of neo noir film
… obvious in the binary between the ‘looking’ male protagonist and the ‘looked at’ femme fatale. This binary traps female characters in positions that have limited agency and scope within film narrative. Gendered binaries are a phallic pleasurable expectation and a way in which film noir recreates …
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Die advertensie
… overarching theme explored in the novel. The protagonist is a naive twenty-something who runs a boutique advertising agency in the bustling heart of Cape Town. As a published author he has a passion for Afrikaans literature but he knows that due to the socio-economic climate of the current …
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The Painted Box
… the reader with a split impression of the protagonist, creating one world in which the reader views the protagonist within the confines of her own personal perceptions and another where the protagonist's actions contradict her perceptions about herself. This discrepancy in perception and …
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This Book Will Destroy You: A Critical Comparative Analysis of YA Heroines
… and stories, the representation of a female protagonist has remained formulaic and predictable. YA commonly centers heroines who embody characteristics associated with female likability, resulting in the loss of authentic representations of teenage girls. Characters who do not personify these …
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The Tasmanian devil : a novella in stories
… explored through the lens of how the young protagonist Rika Noordzij navigates her troubled environment. Somewhat hybrid in terms of genre, these pieces work as self-contained narratives, while also forming a fragmented whole (novella), through the strong thematic, metaphoric and stylistic …
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A novel, Curse of the time witch : and, An essay, The time-slip novel
… space as well as with time, thus allowing their protagonists also to travel within parallel worlds. This essay traces the source of Nesbit’s inspiration as well as discussing the problems associated with the actual writing of a time-slip novel, together with its gradual acceptance as a sub genre …
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Murder! But How Foul? Determination, Existentialism and Rationalization in Twentieth-Century American Novels with Transgressive Protagonists
… investigates whether a range of transgressive protagonists from canonical twentieth-century American novels are "contained" in this way by reference to philosophical or sociological systems powerful at the time of writing, and further whether the systems involved track the roughly mid-century …
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