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Showing 1 to 20 of 172 for “"Silences"”.
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Searching the silences of war : a creative and theoretical exploration
Searching the Silences of War: A Creative and Theoretical Exploration consists of two parts: Part One, the creative component Finding Sophie, is a young adult novel and Part Two, Searching the Silence, is the accompanying exegesis. Both the novel and the exegesis explore the Anzac myth’s impact on …
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Ödön von Horváth’s Volksstücke. Sounds and silences in dramaturgy and theatrical performance
This thesis investigates the dramaturgical art of Ödön von Horváth, currently one of the most staged German playwrights, focusing on the cycle of five plays known as the Volksstücke (Revolte auf Côte 3018, Die Bergbahn, Italienische Nacht, Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald and Kasimir und Karoline). …
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Female genital mutilation (FGM): An analysis of the silences in maternity care experiences of FGM survivors and the silences of health care professionals providing maternity care to FGM survivors
… to interpret overarching themes and elicit silences in the dominant discourses that were interpreted across the data. The findings from the analysis suggest that health care professionals’ education and training lacks the cultural context of FGM which seems to have an impact on the provision …
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Attractive silences in cricket courtship song : mate choice using a short-range signal /
… mated preferentially with males having shorter silences between the two types of ticks within the song. The length of these silences (Gap 1) was correlated with male condition such that males having long silences were significantly lower in mass with respect to body size when compared to males …
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On the Move across Phnom Dangrek: Mobilities and Silences in the Thai-Cambodian Borderland
… This study not only captures the movements and silences across the border checkpoint and its prior history of Cambodian civil war through the lived experiences of border dwellers. It also investigates how the Chong Chom border market and Surin Province became one of the popular destinations for …
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The universality of the sounds and silences in the works of Sarah Orne Jewett
… the thesis explores Jewett's uses of silences, non-verbal communication (gesture), and symbolic sounds in nature as her means of creating in the reader a sense of union with his fellow man and with nature. The study identifies silence devices in Jewett's The Country of the Pointed …
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Practices of Listening: (Re)percussions of Sound, Silences and Censorship from (Post-)Apartheid South Africa
… practice which employs, as audio palate, the silences between the words of significant political speeches from South Africa. As a consequence of this process I have excised all recognizable words in various aural and video works leaving only the 'Cagean’ noise of the silence. I further examine …
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Power discourse and the curriculum: silences in the high school geography curriculum of South Africa
South Africa is currently undergoing a process of political change. Educational renewal inevitably will be an important part of the restructuring of that society. This study examines the use of school textbooks as instruments of domination. It explores the proposition that the dominant ideology in …
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Bruits et silences savants: les politiques du Ministère de l'éducation au Nouveau-Brunswick, 1937-1943
La loi de 1871 organise l'enseignement public au Nouveau-Brunswick. L'Etat provincial s'arroge le controle ideologique de l'enseignement tout en laissant aux communautes locales le soin de le financer et de le gerer. Ce mode d'organisation est juge problematique en 1931 par la Commission d'enquete …
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Narrating silences : silence, voice and history in the prose of Dionne Brand, M. Nourbese Philip, and Joy Kogawa
Joy Kogawa's Obasan , M. Nourbese Philip's Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence and Dionne Brand's Sans Souci and Other Stories are compared to examine how these fictions explicate the relationship between silence, voice, and language through their revisions of history. Language is …
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The madness of the Black man on his own: an analysis of the silences of history, in search of herstory
The primary purpose of this thesis is to examine the autobiographical works of three Black South African women -- Mamphela Ramphele, Bessie Head, and Ellen Kuzwayo -- to see if and how they were impacted by the masculine discourse of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM), which was articulated in …
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Silent slips trips and broken hips: the recovery experiences of young adults following an isolated fracture of the proximal femur
… A critical interpretivist approach and The Silences Framework (Serrant-Green, 2011), were used to ‘give voice’ to young adults with isolated hip fracture. Thirty participants, between one and ten years post injury, completed an in-depth, minimally structured interview in which they told …
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The Tao of South Park: Dissonant Visual Culture and the Future of Politics
… that requires audience loyalty. In South Park silences and traumas become apparent as silences and as traumas, internalizing their own repression and displacing it into poignant social commentary. This does not prove agency or effect, and indeed can be self-destructive, but it does demonstrate …
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Interpretações para o silêncio: por uma abordagem pragmática dos sinais não-verbais
… au sujet des inférences créées à partir des silences et des gestes produits par les participants du groupe-classe de deux contextes distincts : la classe de français langue étrangère (contexte alloglotte) et de portugais langue étrangère (contexte homoglotte). Prenant pour corpus une classe …
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The Manual Alphabet
… letter and hand; moreover, the sounds and silences between the hearing and the deaf as seen through an appropriated “I.” My goal is for the reader to notice how absence occupies the page, to in turn cause the reader to wonder how silence functions in-between sections, how it activates in …
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How do Mothers Perceive their Ability to Influence their Daughters’ Education? A qualitative study of mothers’ capabilities in three rural communities of Punjab, Pakistan
… to do so in two ways. Firstly, they utilise silences and voice (in a figurative sense) to realise their aims. That is, the narratives of some mothers show how silences and voice are strategically used to create a pathway towards their daughters’ education in a historically complex and …
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Investigation of candidate imprinted tumour suppressor genes
Imprinting is an epigenetic phenomenon that silences one allele of a gene, so that expression in one or more cell types is exclusively monoallelic, and dependent on parental origin. Approaches used to identify novel imprinted genes rely on characteristic features such as the clustering of imprinted …
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Fagin the Jew
… as they reverberate through the gaps and silences in the Cotopaxi colony's past and into the present.</p>
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