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Showing 1 to 20 of 2116 for “"Reflections"”.
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Reflections of Other/Reflections of Self
… a place between her friends and her family. In “Reflections in the River,” Arabela, the second youngest, faces the ghost of an unwanted pregnancy and La Llorona. “La Cocina de Su Madre” is the story of Magda, the oldest daughter, and her own teenage girl, Natalia, as they attempt to find …
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Reflections
… feathers, and webbed feet. I find that the reflections on the surface of a pond, and the shadows and highlights on my subjects, are most beautifully captured as they are veiled by the dusk sunset. Sometimes I prefer to capture an image more inclusive of the environment. Other times I am more …
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REFLECTIONS
<p>"Reflections" explores experiences in my life revolving around my absent father's influence on my choices in men, and how the impact of absence and rejection altered my upbringing and family's dynamic as a whole. There are a lot of women out there like me who’ve blocked out the feelings that …
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Reflections of Reflections of Reflections: A Multi-Case Study of Women Educators' Callings to the High Arctic
… increasingly deeper levels of reflection. In Reflections, as “in an instance of reflecting,” I explored each participant's call to teach, specifically her calling to teach within another cultural context in Aboriginal communities in the High Arctic. Their explicit stories revealed the …
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Wave reflections from breakwaters
… with creasing frequency. Whereas the observed reflections depend only weakly on the incident wave energy, the fraction of the incident wave energy flux transmitted through the breakwater decreases with increasing wave energy, suggesting that dissipation is enhanced with large amplitude waves.
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Critical Dialogues and Reflections
… and dehumanized. “Critical dialogue and reflections” is an attempt to call out the inadequacies of our current framework of thinking about medicine and medical education, written by someone who is a patient, a doctor, an educator, and a researcher. This is a two-paper dissertation. The …
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Reflections on Our Time
… through the use of complex layers of paint. <em>Reflections on Our Time, </em>explores both formal elements and the materiality of paint by utilizing color temperature and intensity, as well as developing images that use both the transparency and opacity of the oil paint medium. Notions of …
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Reflections of American Spirituality
<p>The Franz Mayer and F. X. Zettler stained glass studios of Munich, Germany were the largest producers of stained glass exported to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the San Francisco Bay Area both firms sold over four hundred windows between 1889 and 1959 …
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Resolution of seismic reflections
Thesis. (M.S.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, 1956.
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Reflections of Color and Light
… entering into a building will carry with it the reflections of the environment. The elements of architecture appear quite different at varying times of the day; at varying times of the year. Even at the same time of day two walls painted the same color will appear as two different colors if …
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Reflections on the History of Creativity
<p>This paper attempts to survey the literature on creativity as a concept and field of study. Sources document the creative activities of humans from prehistory through the present day. Man's interest in studying and understanding creativity is a fairly recent phenomenon. This process of …
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Six Reflections Through Music and Poetry
<p>Since beginning school at the University of Arkansas in 2008 I have learned many lessons both in and outside the classroom. To date, the most challenging lessons have been those that I have learned about myself. The manifestation of the person that I am today has been an adventure with many …
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Reducing spectral reflections through image inpainting
… user interaction, significantly reduce spectral reflections. The resulting process can then be used by biological researchers in the process of cataloging and recognizing individual organisms via collected images. The process involves the generation of a mask, refinements to that mask such as …
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3D tracking via body radio reflections
This thesis presents WiTrack, a system that tracks the 3D motion of a user from the radio signals reflected off her body. It works even if the person is occluded from the WiTrack device or in a different room. WiTrack does not require the user to carry any wireless device, yet its accuracy exceeds …
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Considering counterfactuals in counseling : reflections on reality
Counterfactual thoughts involve the consideration of how events might have progressed differently. These conditional statements include an antecedent (e.g., "If only I were less impulsive") and a consequent (e.g., "I would not have been unfaithful") (Markman, Gavanski, Sherman, & McMullen, 1993). …
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Critical Reflections: Interviews with Parents Regarding Truancy
<p>Truancy is an issue that markedly impacts many children nationwide. Truancy takes root in many elementary schools. When socioeconomic and engagement problems are unaddressed, students exhibit a much higher likelihood of abusing drugs and alcohol and engaging in criminal behaviors that are …
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Reflections on teaching a mathematics education course
… on inquiry, historical analysis, and personal reflections, all of which I use in an eclectic, thoughtful, and explorative manner. The two main research questions I will explore in this dissertation involve effort by “teacher” and “student” in which both are learners, knowers and participants. …
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