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Something holy
… The novel chapters in the thesis are from Something Holy, which follows Beck Taylor, an eighteen-year-old, mostly closeted bisexual boy who only has a few months until he leaves on a two-year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Determined to make the most of his …
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Something Like Human
<p>This project is a work of speculative fiction set in a fictional future in which the remnants of post-climate change post-nuclear war humanity have relocated to colonies on the Galapagos Islands. The novel follows the young daughter of a metalworker, Kyra Krikorian, as she befriends a squid boy, …
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Something between us
Something Between Us is a comi-tragedy, a novel that deals with the relationships between a group of adolescent friends. Set in a small South African mining town in the 1980s, against a general backdrop of political upheaval and border conflict, it aims to explore the nature and consequences of …
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Something old, something new : heterosexual students' opinions on same-sex marriage
This study is an exploration of the opinions of heterosexual law students (n=44) at the University of Cape Town on the legalisation of same-sex marriage. Three distinct perspectives are identified by means of Q methodology and are compared with respondents' scores on the short form of the Attitudes …
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Something old, something new: The demanding process of serial updating in working memory
Working memory (WM) is a cognitive system that holds and manipulates information over short periods. The process of updating allows WM to selectively keep track of task-relevant information so that ongoing mental activity can proceed smoothly. The thesis established the first fine-grained temporal …
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"Something You Love And Something More Practical": Undergraduate Anthropology Education In The Neoliberal Era
<p>This ethnographic case study attempts to understand how neoliberalism, which emphasizes education for employment, contradicts, complements, or coexists with the values of the liberal arts discipline of anthropology. Liberal arts education, the broader type of education that anthropology fits …
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Something that Hasn't Happened Yet
Something that Hasn't Happened Yet is a collection of poems wherein the speaker traverses the world of family and relationships in an absurdist/meta-modern narrative. The collection also explores the form of poetry itself as well as creative nonfiction, recipes, and flash fiction as well. It is an …
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Something New, Something Old: Combining Conductive Fibers and Classical Tatting Techniques for Lace Structured Circuits
This project applies lacemaking to circuit design as an applications-based focus at the intersection of traditional craft and emerging e- textile materials. Tatting is a particularly durable method of creating lace by the use of sequential half-hitch knots and loops. This type of lace is fairly …
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A Postcard, Or Something Like It
… and the world wide web, sharing memories is something that happens almost as quickly as the original event is experienced. The history and function of postcards are not the topics that I will address in this essay. Rather, I will look at how geography and experience influence the formation of …
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And now for something completely different
This multi-genre thesis has been split into three parts. The first consists of nonfiction works that focus on moments in his life that had the biggest impact such as the birth of his two nieces. The second consists of at first car crash and the dealing of the aftermath of a shocking incident. This …
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Awe: A precursor to something more
Awe is an emotion that signals the vast and extraordinary. It allows us to recognize the expanse of the world around us. It challenges the mind’s normal perception of reality and begs us to stretch beyond what we think we know. Contrary to many other positive emotions, awe turns our attention …
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Something to do with Schrödinger spacetimes
We present a brief review of the AdS/CFT correspondence and the progress made toward building a realistic gravity/gauge theory duality for a non-relativistic conformal field theory. In particular, we highlight many of the computational tools necessary for such a program before introducing one such …
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"If You See Something, Say Something": The Power of the 'War on Terrorism' to Name What We See
… through a case study of the "If You See Something, Say Something" campaign within the New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority Subway System. Drawing upon literature that focuses on an understanding of the affective transmission of culture, this research seeks to understand this …
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Sandra Day O'Connor: Moderate or Something More?
In 2006 an historic era of the Supreme Court came to a close with the retirement of its first female justice, Sandra Day O'Connor. This paper attempts to expand judicial behavior scholarship by examining O'Connor's policy preferences for possible ideological change during her twenty-five year …
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Something to Cry About: A Writing Portfolio
Short fiction.
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Something Wicked: Witches and Rhetorics of Resistance
<p>This project joins other academic conversations regarding the dynamics of power, modernity, witchcraft, and magic within the contexts of Western hegemony. Occasioned by kairotic cultural events and the reinforcement of ideologies like those found in the Dobbs decision, QAnon conspiracy, and rise …
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Something Gold Steps Out of the Skin
<p>This dissertation performs and examines feminine desire as a pathway toward spiritual enlightenment (or knowledge of the true Self). The areas of research include écriture feminine (women’s writing), the lyric poem, as well as psychological and spiritual theories of self-actualization. The main …
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