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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Sorry"”.
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Sorry Guard
Sorry Guard is a collection of poems with a critical introduction on poetic form. Form in poetry can be revealed vocally (how the poem sounds), temporally (how the poem makes use of time), and spatially (how the poem is visualized, both physically on the page due to typography and imagistically due …
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Sorry Horses
<p>Sorry Horses is a cycle of stories whose central protagonists, Denver and Bonita Breeden, are siblings from the small Kentucky town of Puckett. Although they grow up in the same house, their love is tested by the different experiences they have in that house. Through the cycle, Denver and Bonnie …
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Sorry states : apologies in international politics
Are apologies and other acts of contrition necessary to reduce threat and build trust between former adversaries? This has become an accepted conventional wisdom, despite the fact that the effects of contrition have not yet been tested. This dissertation outlines and tests an "apology theory" of …
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The Art of Feeling Sorry for Yourself
<p>The novel, a work of realistic fiction, attempts to accurately and fairly portray the generational ennui of the Millennial twenty-something. By use of first-person narration and realistic portrayal of the American urban hipster lifestyle, this project attempts to convey the reality of the …
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The Australian Apology in Fiction: Gail Jones's Sorry
My dissertation focuses on Sorry, a novel by the Australian academic and writer Gail Jones. The novel centres on the friendship between an Aboriginal girl, Mary, and a white girl, Perdita, and hints at an ideal of reconciliation. It is thus against the background of the Australian Reconciliation …
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Better safe than sorry: new CRISPR/Cas9 tools for improved genome engineering
CRISPR nucleases are efficient tools to edit cellular genomes in a variety of organisms. However, the in vivo application of this technology is still severely limited by unwanted genomic cleavages, that are further increased by long-term expression of the nuclease and can lead to unpredictable …
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Is Sorry Really the Hardest Word? Guilt, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation in Contemporary Music
… narrative of healing in Kerry Fletcher’s “Sorry Song” becomes a performative communal apology, whilst the fragmented, multi-vocal narrative of Philip Miller’s REwind: A Cantata for Voice, Tape and Testimony illustrates how reconciliation may be achieved through constructing a collective …
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Sorry we're closed : what closes malls and community centers in the United States? an analysis and predictive modeling of distressed centers
The retail industry has transformed markedly in the last decade driven by the confluence of technology, evolving consumer behavior, and innovation. As the sector continues to evolve, retail real estate is coming under significant pressure to keep up with the pace of change. Some centers are poised …
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Mirroring Financial Speculation and Late Capitalism Through Speculative Fiction: Worker Gullibility and Guilt as Re-imagination of Human Value
… Package” from the speculative fiction collection Sorry Please Thank You features a worker who conforms to the cultural logic of Wall Street and late capitalism. However, the privilege of working in a tech company in an up-and-coming industry does not shield him from experiencing the oftentimes …
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Motivating Students Using Positive Reinforcement
… as "please", "thank you", "excuse me", and "I'm sorry" were assessed.
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Geriausio paaiškinimo išvedimo patikimumo ribos /
… pessimistic induction and better safe than sorry beliefs all the four ways of justification of IBE in terms of truth-conduciveness cannot be taken for granted which leaves IBE only accidentally valid.
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Untangled: An auto-ethnographic exploration of my stages of life which resulted in an unravelling of identity and return to wholeness
… unearthing, the uprooting was inevitable. I am sorry I did not recognize the structure on which I based my identity had eroded. I was surviving, clinging to the fading structures. Holding you back from developing, from maturing. The compassion and acceptance I worked to have for you did not …
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The litigation between Greenhalgh and the Mallard family, [1941-1950]: and its influence on company law in England, Australia and South Africa
… the courts ... remarks that many of them have a sorry history as the ghost of Mr Zuccani ...., Mr Sidebottom ...., Mr Greenhalgh .... and the many other unsuccessful litigants who haunt the pages of the textbooks could plainly testify." The first two references are to Allen v Gold Reefs of West …
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“WELL, I’VE WHISPERED ‘RACISM’ IN A POST-RACIAL WORLD”: SATIRE AND THE ABSURDITY OF “POST-RACIAL” AMERICA
… Sellout, Johnson’s novel Pym, and Riley’s film Sorry to Bother You attack a variety of satirical targets that all relate to the falsehoods of post-racialism. In the first chapter, I analyze the ways in which Get Out and The Sellout address the covert nature of white supremacy in contemporary …
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The journey from New Delhi to Islamabad : dependence and subversion in the ambivalent expression of nationhood
… of 'nation' to post-colonialism". The sorry contiguity of the two terms evokes the post-colonial presence of the socio-spatial idiom of Imperial British India within the contemporary situation; this is the transitional social reality of postcolonial "modernity" as manifest in the …
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Deciphering the chemistry of host-parasitic plants interactions using the UHPLC-q-TOF-MS and chemometrics
… exposure through the “better be safe than sorry” strategy. V. combreticola was also found to contain rare flavonoids, viscutins, that were characterized for the first time in this study by their unique spectral fingerprints resulting from the retro Diels Alder reaction using a molecular …
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Investigating the Effect of Small Molecule Ligands and Cations on i-Motif DNA
… have stood by me throughout this process, I am sorry for the times I have neglected you and I thank you for your forgivness and support. To Jess, you have made this last and most stressful year also one of the most enjoyable and I wish you the very best with your own PhD. To John you have …
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An exploration of accounts of lesbian identities : using Q methodology
… as sexual rejection of men"; and "sinful and sorry". Thirteen factors were extracted from the analysis of Q-sample 2, and one of the resulting accounts was discarded. These accounts can generally be characterised as moderate, with some support for feminist propositions and a strong rejection …
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Enhancing Autonomous Robots in the AEC Industry using Foundation Models
… recovered when the robot displayed a brief "sorry" expression and asked for a second chance. Participants were generally willing to try again after one error, but less so after repeated errors, highlighting why both performance and communication matter for safe collaboration.
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