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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Redrawing"”.
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The Golden Chain: Redrawing the map of ancient allegory
This PhD thesis discusses the concept of allegory from the Archaic to the Hellenistic periods. In the first chapter, which discusses the hermeneutics of allegorical reading in the late Archaic and Classical periods, I aim to show that previous discussions have misunderstood both the texts which …
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Redrawing the Frontier: A Cultural History of American and Franco-Belgian Western Comics
This study provides a cultural history of the Western genre in the comics medium, from the late 1800s up until the 1970s. Historically, this chronology is not arbitrary, and represents the core years in which the Western genre was forged and prospered in a range of popular media. The genre …
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Heritage tourism as secular pilgrimage
… pilgrimage and religion is stripped away, redrawing pilgrimage as a multi-levelled social process. The historical and discursive connections between heritage tourism and pilgrimage are established. The exploration of the problematic that heritage tourism is a form of secular pilgrimage ends …
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With Drawing in Mind: Renovating an Architecture of Discovery
… can we enrich our architectural content. How can redrawing drawings help inform the new spaces around us, how can we re-think drawing to keep up with mind and society?
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Off the page : object-oriented representations
… the majority of time is spent reformatting and redrawing previous details and specifications. The concepts of object-oriented programming and levels of abstraction are used as organizational structures to address these deficiencies. While current methods of documentation utilize more …
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Hidden in Plain Sight: The Social Impact of the Narrative (encoded meanings and creative interventions)
… is reconfigured as a rupture to histories by redrawing boundaries.
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Political contributions, voter turnout, and the effects of redistricting
… are also impacted by redistricting which is the redrawing of the geographic boundaries of U.S. Congressional Districts every 10 years after the completion of the U.S. Census. In both these cases, more competitive elections lead to more individual contributions, and the evidence suggests campaign …
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Integrated decision support model for global sourcing
… suppliers, as well as the long-term effects of redrawing their firm boundary and developing a more vertically disintegrated supply chain. This thesis is an examination of strategic sourcing decision practices at Boeing Commercial Airplanes, based on a six-month internship study with the Future …
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City of Ambition: Franklin Roosevelt, Fiorello La Guardia, and the Making of New Deal New York
… initiatives fed back into subnational politics, redrawing the bounds of what was possible in local government as well as altering the strength and orientation of local political organizations. The dissertation thus seeks not only to provide a more robust account of this crucial passage in the …
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Migrant Itinerancy: The Hemispheric Politics of Contemporary Undocumented Migration
… emerging as a political force that demands the redrawing of our current social order. By foregrounding questions of identity, national belonging, human rights, immigration and asylum discourse in a hemispheric context, Migrant Itinerancy reassess the status of the nation-state as principle of …
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Organisational commitment after a transformation process at a provincial government department
… the private and public sector) have included the redrawing of divisional boundaries, flattening of hierarchic levels, spreading of spans of control, revising compensation, streamlining processes and reforming governance (Ndlovu & Brijball Parusumar, 2005). The results of the research indicate that …
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Cases remémorées, redessinées. Mémoire de la bande dessinée, détournement et traces graphiques dans 'Au travail' d'Olivier Josso Hamel
… of classic Franco-Belgian bandes dessinées by redrawing panels and sequences from these comics into the texture of his own graphic novel. This citational practice works as a détournement of the original material based on the author’s memories of specific images. Embedded in an autobiographical …
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Spatial Optimization Techniques for School Redistricting
… In the majority of the cases, this process of redrawing the school boundaries, also called school redistricting or school boundary formation, is done manually by the planners and involves hand-drawn maps. Given the rapid advancements in GIS made in the last decade and the availability of …
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A Place for Healing in Mental Health Care and Recovery
… we come to know places inside and out: redrawing our internal landscapes these places come to reside within us, integrated into our sense of ourselves. Exploration of the subjective experience of illness and place offers the potential to better understand and inform service delivery and …
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Regulating contracts in the independent television production industry
… role played by both regulation and contract in redrawing organisational boundaries, reconstituting inter-firm relationships and engendering new financial flows, in ways which are fundamentally changing the nature and structure of the television production industry.
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"The Geography of Letters": Space and the Little Magazine in Bombay, 1960 - 1980
… and land against the backdrop of the linguistic redrawing of state boundaries in 1960s India. Finally, bringing this dissertation to a close, Chapter Four turns from the nation to the international. With particular attention to (dis)connections, this chapter considers the maps of affiliation of …
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Greek in Early Hellenistic Magna Graecia: Dialect Contact and Change in South Italy
… environment, I propose a radical redrawing of the dialect map of this area. I first present the historical context, the linguistic evidence and the methodological framework of my research in the introduction. In the first chapter I reject previous hypotheses about dialect contact …
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Understanding the Impact of Green Violence on Ndali Village, Zimbabwe
… the issue of accessing grazing resources and the redrawing of park boundaries that takes away parts of their communal land. The study also illustrates that in relation to accessing natural resources from the park, the villagers' use of wildlife for subsistence is not permitted and leads to …
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The rooted state: Plants and power in the making of modern China’s Xikang Province
… areas: tax policy, agricultural science, and the redrawing of provincial borders. Beginning with Qing Frontier Commissioner Zhao Erfeng, administrators implemented a land tax in kind that strategically accommodated the needs of farmers to maximize the grain supply of Chinese armies and reduce the …
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Mindful mediations at Three Anchor Bay
… spent a lot of time re- drawing and erasing). Redrawing can be a counterintuitive struggle and it has often been difficult to regard it as a necessary and unpredictable process rather than as emblematic of some sort of failure. Although common sense urges us to "learn from our mistakes", it is …
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