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Showing 1 to 20 of 234 for “"Sanctuary"”.
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Bachelorette Sanctuary
<p>Bachelorette Sanctuary is an uncompleted book that helps single women purchase a home. The book inspires women to fulfill their goals and dreams even without a man by their side, and it provides those women with the information and skills they need to save money for a home, purchase it, maintain …
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A sanctuary
This project aims to design a safe and healthy space for orphan girls in Iraq, considering their needs and culture. Moreover, to set a foundation for girls to grow and become confident young individuals. My approach to this project was working both in plan and perspective. From the first days of …
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Sanctuary for Who?
… major city in the United States, became a Sanctuary City in 2014. The designation committed the region to policies limiting cooperation with federal law enforcement in the persecution of undocumented communities. Policies have ranged from refusing to detain individuals without judicial …
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Sanctuary and other stories
This collection of linked short stories concerns itself with the lives of young people coming of age in the punk subculture of downtown Toronto in the 1980s. Long third-person narratives are interposed with brief first-person monologues. The longer stories explore how the alienated characters, who …
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Newport Sanctuary & Community Center
… the non-sacred space that exists outside the sanctuary. Corbelling reveals the thickness of the threshold that simultaneously separates the two types of spaces and geometries. The secondary objective of this inquiry is a harmonious balance between light, material, and shape. The project is a …
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Grief and Healing Sanctuary
… The inspirations for the Grief and Healing Sanctuary were the healing experienced at quiet spaces of reflection and my father's stories as a Navy Vietnam shipboard combat veteran. I designed a building to provide a place for healing and to deal with grief. The building was designed for …
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Sanctuary: The-Construction of Communion
… of the multimedia art installation called <em>Sanctuary. </em>I unwrap the theoretical background of my practice, which is rooted in the theories of deconstruction by Jacques Derrida, and the rhizome theory by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. I approach my creative process as a grammatic of …
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Sanctuary in Sixteenth-Century England
On the eve of the sixteenth century, sanctuary in England operated under the common law in much the same manner as it had done for centuries. ‘Common’ sanctuaries (a customary right pertaining to all churches and churchyards) permitted felons to seek refuge for a maximum of forty days, before they …
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American sanctuary : architecture & (in)justice
… masses." This tension has led to a growing Sanctuary Movement across the country, as people have joined together to protect their undocumented neighbors from the increasingly severe deportation tactics of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. As part of this movement, several …
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Stayin' Alive: Transnational Sanctuary and Insurgency
… about whether the presence of transnational sanctuary is as important as the conventional wisdom assumes. In examining the record of post-1945 insurgencies, this dissertation finds some limited support for the conventional wisdom: overall, insurgents with sanctuary do win at a higher rate …
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Fiberglass Sanctuary A New Corvette Museum
A museum is an important type in the palette of public buildings. Most famous and iconic museums are mainly dedicated to house artworks or historical and cultural artifacts. Aside from the sheltering of the artifacts, museums often are landmarks, which contribute to the identity of a place. The few …
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Archaeological Backgrounds of the Sanctuary: A Search for Egyptian Cultural Influence in the Construction of the Hebrew Tent-Sanctuary
… description of the construction of the tent-sanctuary appears to give it an Egyptian context in terms of the materials used and the culture of the artisans, in three distinct spheres (sacred, royal-domestic, and military), very little work has been done in comparing the descriptions in the …
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Secular spiritualism evolved: The market as communal sanctuary
… ground for a new urban prototype: the communal sanctuary.
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Architecture/landscape : an urban sanctuary on Boston Harbor
This thesis proposes an urban sanctuary at Chapel Rocks, a peninsula extending into Boston Harbor. The sanctuary includes an ecumenical chapel. restaurant/meeting hall and designed features of the landscape. Several general issues guided this exploration: Architecture and Landscape: How can the …
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SANCTUARY : asymmetric interfaces for game-based tablet learning
This thesis describes the production of Sanctuary, a multiplayer learning game to be played on two tablet computers. Sanctuary's principle innovation is the splitting of the user interface onto two tablets, separating player tools in separate roles and thus providing players with obtainable …
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Finding Sanctuary: The Occupational Choice of Animal Shelter Work
… I add a moral economy lens and the notion of sanctuary to explain why my respondents stay in this occupation. My respondents feel their occupation is part of a project of wider significance, and they are supported by some members of the public in this belief, by the ‘moral economy of the …
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Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) Space use in a Sanctuary Setting
… 12 chimpanzees at Fauna Foundation, a chimpanzee sanctuary located in Carignan, Québec, Canada. Observers recorded the chimpanzees’ location, elevation, perimeter, and substrate using a scan sampling procedure. In total, there were 93 hours of data and 3,190 scans. The author used Geographical …
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Healing Gardens: Creating Places for Restoration, Meditation, and Sanctuary
The "healing garden" is an evolving concept that is gaining popularity today. What is a healing garden? Why is one garden called a healing garden and not another? How is a healing garden defined? In what way are gardens healing? This thesis describes the ways in which healing gardens are beneficial …
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Fiasco - From Religious Sanctuary to Art and Culture Complex
Near the end of a building's lifecycle, many times when the building is no longer deemed useful, decisions are made whether to wait out a new tenant for the structure or to destroy it to make way for new construction. If the latter, while the building waits, its materials are left to the elements …
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