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Challenging identity hierarchies in Julie Taymor’s Tempest
<p>Julie Taymor’s The Tempest was released in 2010 and received mixed critical response though almost all critics lauded Helen Mirren’s performance as Prospera, the first female Prospero in a major film. In the spirit of the original, almost all of the dialogue is Shakespeare’s save for some …
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Tempest: A Framework for High Performance Thermal-Aware Distributed Computing
… accurate, portable, software framework called Tempest (for temperature estimator) that leverages emergent thermal sensors to enable user profiling, evaluating, and reducing the thermal characteristics of systems and applications. In this thesis, we illustrate the use of Tempest to analyze the …
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Players in a storm: Climate and political migrants in The Tempest and Othello
… slow violence in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Othello. Using Steve Mentz’s work with water and shipwreck, Lowell Duckert’s work on water in Shakespeare, Rob Nixon’s concept “slow violence,” Patricia Fumerton’s book on vagrancy in sixteenth and seventeenth century England, and Ken …
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English Imperial Selfhood and Semiperipheral Witchcraft in The Faerie Queene, Daemonologie, and The Tempest
… Daemonologie, and Shakespeare’s 1610-11 play The Tempest. The Scottish and Irish witches of these works embody an intractable, powerful racial “Otherness” that undermines the production of faithful English subjects in the larger British Isles, keeping England from upholding its ambitions of …
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A Tempest in the Halls: Intersections of Social Justice, Student Collaboration, and Devised Theatre
<p>An increasing disconnection exists between students and schooling as these formal institutions continue to prioritize high-stakes testing and quantitative measures over the specific needs of individual learners. Drama attempts to interrogate spaces in all echelons of social and economic standing …
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"A statistical analysis of undergraduate readers' responses to selected characters in Shakespeare's ""The Tempest"""
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Wrestling with Father Shakespeare: Contemporary Revisions of <em>King Lear</em> and <em>The Tempest</em>.
<p>In Shakespeare’s The Tempest and King Lear, the relationship between the father and his children affects the progression and outcome of events. Goneril and Regan oppose Lear after Cordelia’s untimely rebellion and disownment. In The Tempest, Caliban desires to overthrow Prospero for freedom. …
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Magic is might?: Uncovering abjection in Shakespeare's The Tempest and J.K Rowling's Harry Potter series
… will also look backwards to Shakespeare’s The Tempest. The Tempest is one of the foundational texts for the representation of the wizard figure in the British literary canon, and it is a tradition Harry Potter, one of the most iconic representations of this wizard figure in recent years, …
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Through the Mangrove Tunnels, for String Quartet, Piano, and Drum Set, and “Musical Signification in Thomas Adès’s The Tempest”
… signification in Thomas Adès’s opera, The Tempest.</p><p>Through the Mangrove Tunnels is a forty-five minute composition inspired by my experiences growing up in the swamps and bayous of Florida. Its eight movements for string quartet, piano, and drum set are drawn from my memories as well …
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The Features of Single-fathers in Father-daughter Relationships in Shakespear's King Lear, The Merchant of Venice and The Tempest
… King Lear, The Merchant of Venice and The Tempest,’ this paper will investigate the existence of good male single parents: those who demonstrate positive qualities in playing their paternal roles in the lives of their daughters, in particular.
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The influence of alchemy and Rosicrucianism in William Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre and The tempest, and Ben Jonson's The alchemist
… Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre and The Tempest, and Ben Jonson's The Alchemist. Shakespeare's Final Plays are a dramatic experiment that ventures beyond realism, with a common symbolic pattern of loss and reconciliation that reflects the alchemical one of Man's Fall, self-transmutation …
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The Multicolored Patchwork Portraiture of an Effective Veteran High School Special Education Teacher Amidst the Tempest of the High Stakes Testing Movement
This single-subject study used the art and science of portraiture to illuminate a veteran special education teacher who is meeting the needs of her students with disabilities. This qualitative study was not done for the purposes of generalization but rather to show how this remarkable and effective …
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"The forms of things unknown: The impact of Reginald Scot's skeptical treatise, ""The Discoverie of Witchcraft"", on ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"", ""King Lear"", and ""The Tempest"""
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One With the Toad: Bejeweled but Venomous Nature
… <em>As You Like It, King Lear</em> and <em>The Tempest</em> between instances of human surrender to nature and the redemption that occurs in the human realm despite nature's apathy toward the human existence.<em></em></p>
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"The Island Has Two Sides": Female Subjectivity in Postcolonial Adaptation
… or unconsciously adapt Shakespeare’s The Tempest in an effort to resurrect repressed female narratives of resistance. Through an examination of Elizabeth Nunez’s Prospero’s Daughter (2006), J.M. Coetzee’s Foe (1986), Maryse Condé’s I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem (1988), and Jean Rhys’s …
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"How the Fishes Live in the Sea": Shakespeare's Daughters and the Market of Romance
… surrounded it. In Pericles, Cymbeline, and The Tempest, this thesis argues, the figure of the daughter is the nexus for such discourses: Marina, Imogen, and Miranda each enact and embody an early modern London’s conflicting understandings and reactions to the cultural shifts this dynamic economy …
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The Fairy Songs: A Theater Piece for Voice, Electronics, Lighting, and Theatrical Components
… text is derived from William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, specifically the pair of songs in Act I, scene ii sung by the spirit, Ariel. The piece is divided into six (6) movements in an arching mirror structure: an electronic prelude and postlude, two vocal pieces, and two electroacoustic songs …
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Minimally invasive instrument for in vivo measurement of solid organ mechanical impedance
… The Tissue Material Property Sampling Tool, or TeMPeST 1-D, applies a small amplitude vibration normal to the surface of an organ such as liver or spleen, and records the applied force and displacement. It has a range of motion of up to lmm, and can apply up to 300mN force with a 5mm right …
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Thunder without lightning : working class discontent in the United States, 1929-1937
… reached crescendos. Yet the full force of the tempest never broke upon America in the thirties. The pages that follow explore the thundering and seek to explain how Franklin D. Roosevelt acted as a lightning rod, helping American capitalism weather the most furious storm of working-class …
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The Decolonial Power of Shapeshifting: Subversive Ecofeminist Rhetorics
… comprise the basis of this investigation: Terry Tempest Williams, a Mormon conservationist, Gloria Anzaldúa, a queer feminist Chicana scholar, and Tanya Tagaq, a Nunavut singer. Contrasting against patterns of animalization which enable Othering tactics, shapeshifting centers empathy in order to …
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