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Showing 1 to 20 of 87 for “"Spectacles"”.
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Mixed-race fantasies: abolitionist propaganda as spectacles of race in the nineteenth century
“We trust some one, if not all our daguerrean artists, will take pictures of these little girls, and place them in their specimens by the street side. We want our citizens to see what people are made slaves of at the South,” declared an anonymous author in a letter written in 1855 to the …
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Spectacles of the street : performance, power, and public space in antebellum New Orleans
… race and gender theory, and cultural geography, “Spectacles of the Street” both revises the historical narrative of viii New Orleans and contributes to our general understanding of identity formation in nineteenth-century urban centers. Scholars usually argue that New Orleans became “Americanized” …
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Promoting the Consumer Citizen: Seals, Spectacles, and the Gendered Consumer in Depression-Era America
<p>This thesis will argue that New Deal legislation accounted for increased importance placed on consumers and the articulation of consumer citizenship as female during the Great Depression. Once New Deal programs and legislation determined and legitimized the consumer citizen, the consumer citizen …
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Harry E. "Indian" Miller: Spectacles of Identity in the Early Twentieth Century American Southwest
… to engage in various kinds of what I define as spectacles of identity—performances dependent upon markers of ethnographic identity for their visual impact and commercial appeal—and places those choices in historic context. Miller’s life in spectacles extends beyond his Indian Miller persona. His …
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Spectacles Plastiques : reconstruction and the debates on the "Synthesis of the Arts" in France, 1944-1962
My dissertation examines the collaborative efforts of different individuals and groups - such as Le Corbusier, the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, Groupe Espace, and the Internationale Situationniste - which advocated a "synthesis of the arts" in the time period that corresponds to the Liberation …
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International Crimes as Familiar Spectacles: Socially Constructed Understandings of Atrocity and the Visibility Politics of International Criminal Law
… are expected to manifest themselves as familiar spectacles of violence and abuse that are both shocking and intuitively “criminal” in nature. While at first glance, this understanding may appear to merely reflect the extraordinary scale of atrocity crimes themselves, the notion that such crimes …
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Group Identity, Ideology, and Mass Media: Content Analysis of the 2018 Media Spectacles Family Separation and Migrant Caravan
… print and cable news coverage of two media spectacles involving immigration in 2018: family separation at the border and migrant caravans. This thesis examines the themes that emerge across politically diverse news outlets and categorizes them in terms of how the phenomena is represented …
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Europeanising Diplomatic Spectacles: A Praxeological Account of the Article 34 Negotiations of EU Member States at the UN in New York
This thesis analyses the Article 34 (Art.34) coordination sessions of the EU-Member States (EUMSs) at the EU Delegation (EUDEL) at the UN in New York. Through the application of practice theory, I seek to depict what these Art.34- negotiations entail. The aim is to showcase how EUMS-diplomats …
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Spectacle, Sacrifice and the State: The Legacy of European Fascism and the Revival of Martyrdom in the Modern World
… comparisons of the ways in which martyrdom spectacles are used to communicate with constituent populations, facilitate a culture of violence, perpetuate their revolutionary zeal and demonstrate the characteristics of the ideal citizen. Examining four major movements; Fascist Italy, Nazi …
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Scientific evidence to support the art of prescribing spectacles. Identification of the clinical scenarios in which optometrists apply partial prescribing techniques and the quantification of spectacle adaption problems.
Although experiential prescribing maxims are quoted in some optometric textbooks their content varies significantly and no direct research evidence was available to support their use. Accordingly in chapters 2 and 3, the uses of several potential prescribing rules were investigated in the UK …
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Mythmaking, Mega-events, and Coercion: Autocratic Legitimation in Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan
… through three complementary sources: discourses, spectacles, and repression. Input discourses serve as a coherent body of political arguments, normalising official narratives about the suitability of existing authority structures and state-building processes. To maintain power, modern autocracies …
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Theaters of Power: Inka Imperial Performance
… important of which is state-sanctioned public spectacles, ceremonies, and rituals. This dissertation examines the roles of these large-scale non-quotidian performances that are organized and directed by political agents, occur generally at specified times and locations, and include elements of …
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Performing at the Block: Scripting Early Modern Executions
… of executions that mirrored real life spectacles of deadly punishment. Historical scaffold confessions followed a formulaic pattern and condemned traitors performed their final moments before a crowd of witnesses with the power to judge the quality of the actor’s deportment, costuming …
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Performing at the Block: Scripting Early Modern Executions
… of executions that mirrored real life spectacles of deadly punishment. Historical scaffold confessions followed a formulaic pattern and condemned traitors performed their final moments before a crowd of witnesses with the power to judge the quality of the actor’s deportment, costuming …
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Robust, Automatic Structural Analysis of Difficult Face Images: A New Approach
… half-profiles, eyeglasses with glares or dark spectacles, beards and/or mustaches, and very faint feature contrast due to very dark complexions or weak lighting, etc., have been analyzed well.
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Clinician measurement of spectacle prescription changes and patient tolerance to them
… influence on patient-reported problems with new spectacles. Methods. First, an investigation from optical practices’ perspective, with a study investigating the frequency and causes of patient complaints. Three questionnaires follow; i) quantification of patient-reported symptoms with new …
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Clinician measurement of spectacle prescription changes and patient tolerance to them
… influence on patient-reported problems with new spectacles. Methods. First, an investigation from optical practices’ perspective, with a study investigating the frequency and causes of patient complaints. Three questionnaires follow; i) quantification of patient-reported symptoms with new …
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Spectator seating
… the characteristics of spectators and spectacles, establish design criteria based on these investigations, and utilize these criteria to write a computer program capable of generating and evaluating solutions to spectator seating problems. The body of this thesis is divided into three …
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Evaluation of an Objective Visual Image Quality-Based Method to Identify Spectacle Corrections for Individuals with Keratoconus
… every contact lens patient with a pair of spectacles for times when contact lenses cannot be worn. Individuals with keratoconus are often thought of as poor candidates for spectacle correction (with many not receiving a spectacle prescription at all) due to a lack of efficacy of spectacles …
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The correction of borderline refractive and heterophoric anomalies
… function of optometrists is the prescribing of spectacles in order to alleviate symptoms and improve visual function. Most commonly, the spectacles are used to correct refractive errors and, less frequently, they are also used to correct a decompensated heterophoria. Whilst identifying and …
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