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A Comparison of Chaucer's Nonne Presstes Tale and Spenser's Mother Hubberd's Tale
"The fable in general, and the beast-fable in particular, are among the very oldest and most universal of the known forms of literature." A fresh and special development of it took place about the twelfth century, or earlier, somewhere in the central part of the northern coast district of the old …
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The Tale of Tribes
The Bilad al-Sham, or the Eastern Levant, is a region of land located in the eastern Mediterranean. The Bilad al-Sham culture, referred to as Shammi culture, has an emphasis on self image and resents the tribal culture. The narrative in Jordan is that of a country built on tribal culture and …
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Representations of Women in Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Man of Law’s Tale” and “Tale of Melibee”
… as it explores Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. Understanding the Middle Ages and its treatment of women in society and art, the first section explores the idea of clergy and aristocracy as dominant groups responsible for the creation of the feminine ideal and their subsequent …
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Heart Regeneration: An Evolutionary Tale
Lower vertebrates like urodele amphibians and teleost fish retain a robust cardiac regenerative capacity throughout their life, a phenomenon that is mediated through the proliferation of pre-existing cardiomyocytes. The adult mammalian heart lacks any meaningful endogenous regenerative response …
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A tale of two particles
It was the earliest of times, it was the latest of times, it was the age of inflation, it was the age of collapse, it was the epoch of perturbation growth, it was the epoch of perturbation damping, it was the CMB of light, it was the dwarf galaxy of darkness, it was the largest of cosmic scales, it …
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The Tale of the Southern Tour
The Tale of the Southern Tour for orchestra is commissioned by The Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Shaoguan City in Guangdong province in 2019. The piece received its world premiere in December 2019 at the Guangzhou Opera House. The work is a musical sketch depicting ancient Chinese story of …
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Pathétique: a tale of two rabbys
My thesis incorporates a variety of contrasting styles and musical material in an attempt to unify them under the same work while maintaining a unique sound. Since I began composing, I've heard this collaboration in my head between the rock music that I listened to growing up with the contemporary …
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Cinema expression : morphology of the contemporary tale
… refers specifically to the contemporary tale as found in narrative filmic texts and as demonstrated in the works Moonfall, Inside Venus and Slam. Supporting the creative research component of these cinematic texts, is the exegesis; and it similarly, is not a defined entity, but more an …
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Graph database, and its tale on uncertainty
In the real world, many complex objects are modelled as graphs. For instance, social networks, protein interaction networks, chemical compounds, World Wide Web, network design, work flows, and etc. While many models utilise Certain Graphs, in some cases, uncertainty on data is inherent, thus they …
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Miss Hartwright's Most Terrifying Tale: A Novel
<p><em>Miss Hartwright's Most Terrifying Tale</em> tells the story of a young woman in 19th century London who sets out to write a novel scarier than <em>Frankenstein</em>. But a series of comedic mishaps leads to her story starting to come true.<em> </em>This capstone is the beginning of a YA …
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Black Aggie: A Tale of American Folklore
Black Aggie: A Tale of American Folklore italic is a musical work written for wind symphony and synthesizer. The piece has the possibility to be performed in two different ways. It can either be performed by a live wind symphony or can be played as an electronic realization with media. The piece …
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Community participation--a tale of two projects
Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1973.
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"A Sad Tale is Best for Winter" the Use of Nature and Children in Adaptations of the Winter's Tale
… of William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. It compiles different adaptations in one list, examining the factors that unite them. Because of diverse media and focus, the study establishes criteria to determine what constitutes an adaptation of The Winter's Tale. These adaptations share …
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The history writer’s tale : historical fiction and the depiction of identity in Michiel Heyns’s ‘the typewriter’s tale’ and ‘bodies politic’
… by Michiel Heyns, namely: The Typewriter’s Tale (2005) and Bodies Politic (2008). Throughout the study the relationship between history as a discipline and historical fiction is investigated. The distinctions and boundaries between the above-mentioned genres are explored using, in part, Paul …
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