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Showing 1 to 20 of 97 for “"Tapestry"”.
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Collaborative public art making: The tapestry project
The Tapestry Project is a 30-month effort to plan, fund, design, construct, and exhibit a work of collaborative public art in Weatherford, Oklahoma, a small rural community in Western Oklahoma. Utilizing autoethnography and autobiography, I reexamine and reflect using the photos, video, and …
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Reweaving the tapestry: a supertree of birds
Supertrees are a useful method of constructing large-scale phylogenies by assembling numerous smaller phylogenies that have some, but not necessarily all, taxa in common. Birds are an obvious candidate for supertree construction as they are the most abundant land vertebrates on the planet and no …
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The Sensual Tapestry: Metaphor in Twentieth-Century American Poetry
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tapestry: towards a newer 'parchitecture, that which is 'pataphysical
… followed by a 'pataphysical design proposal for Tapestry: a new library at Mzuzu University in Malawi. The library proposal is introduced through poems and visual information in the following sets: metaphysical, physical, 'pataphysical. Through the inquiry in haiku writing style, this poetry …
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Jeannie's Journey: From Black and White to a Vibrant Tapestry.
… of our individual histories, like threads in a tapestry. It is crucial to our continued progress that we not cease discussions about race or about this part of our historical timeline. Can we as a nation, acknowledge our past, embrace our future, and continue the journey together?</p>
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Career strategies in public relations: constructing an original tapestry paradigm.
The thesis constructs a new ‘tapestry paradigm’ to offer an original contribution towards understanding of career strategies in public relations. It addresses a lack of academic research into careers within the occupation and sits at the intersection of critical consideration of professionalisation …
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Weaving the Tapestry of Life: The United Nations and Global Governmentality
Weaving the Tapestry of Life. The United Nations and Global Governmentality My doctoral research evolves around the question how the Secretaries-General have been constructing the UN as a peculiar subject in world politics, and how this construction is linked to the cognitive structures in which …
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Generations: a tapestry of literacy traditions in an African-American family
Definitions of literacy conform to a model that views literacy as a set of skills reflected by a child’s scores on large-scale tests, which are favored in public schools (Street, 1995). Children from culturally diverse backgrounds are expected to engage in literacy practices that may be different …
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An Analysis of Wars of the Romani, a Flemish Tapestry From the Late Sixteenth Century
… of art entitled Wars of the Romani, a Flemish tapestry woven in the last third of the 16th century. It is a large weaving, 10’ x 15’, portraying two armies intertwined in merciless combat. The specific subject matter of Wars of the Romani is unknown, but a standard displaying the Roman eagle …
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An Analysis of Wars of the Romani, a Flemish Tapestry From the Late Sixteenth Century
… of art entitled Wars of the Romani, a Flemish tapestry woven in the last third of the 16th century. It is a large weaving, 10’ x 15’, portraying two armies intertwined in merciless combat. The specific subject matter of Wars of the Romani is unknown, but a standard displaying the Roman eagle …
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Self-fashioning (Im)Possibilities: A Literary Tapestry of Women at Work in Nineteenth-Century America
This dissertation investigates representations of women's work and the construction of identity in texts written by women between 1840 and 1877. I focus on the literary construction of workingwomen's struggle to find their place in a culture that valorizes women who selflessly devote themselves to …
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Mora county, New Mexico, and Tapetes de Lana: Weaving the tapestry of poverty and cultural preservation
Mora County, New Mexico, has rich natural beauty and a long history of economic success followed by failure. The future of the county is uncertain, but a nonprofit corporation, Tapetes de Lana, has been founded to revive traditional crafts and at the same time provide a sustainable, community-based …
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A tapestry of resistance: Afghan educated refugee women in Pakistan: 'agency', identity and education in war and displacement
This study addresses how educated Afghan refugee women in Pakistan have experienced,contributed to and challenged the gendered constructions of national, ethnic and religious identities in war and displacement. In addition, this study addresses the lived experiences of educated Afghan refugee women …
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Weaving the Black Tapestry: A Decolonising Counter-Storytelling of Black Doctoral Student Experiences in the UK, Analysed with Loom Analysis
… and analysis, in the end weaving together a tapestry of the lived experiences of Black doctoral students in the UK. Using the Loom Analysis methodology, I was able to collect rich historical and creative insight from my participants and then weave their stories together in a final tapestry …
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Great Men, Heroic Deeds: The Influences of the Nine Heros During the Late Middle Age
… for their famous heroic deeds. The first tapestry is devoted to three ancient heroes: Hector, Alexander the Great, and Julius Caesar. The second tapestry shows three Hebrew heroes: Joshua, David, and Judas Maccabeus. The third tapestry depicts three Christian heroes: Charlemagne, Arthur, …
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Divine Poetics: Representation of Genre in Ovid's Metamorphoses 6.70-128
… Greek and Roman literary traditions. Minerva's tapestry is the embodiment of the heroic epic tradition similar to Homeric and Vergilian narrative, and Arachne's tapestry represents the archetype of the Hellenistic poetic tradition. While Ovid perceives the heroic epic tradition as the embodiment …
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Ciudad Abierta / Open City : tracing, mapping and plotting and its trajectory
… In the process, I constructed a collage; a 'tapestry' that attempts to hold the intangible of this tangible place and group of people. The 'tapestry' I constructed is 'weaved' with three stories: first- my personal journey through this place, second- some factual moments of the history of the …
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Needling the system : the textile art of Colette Whiten, Barbara Todd, and Ann Newdigate
… Whiten who, through their respective mediums of tapestry, quilting, and embroidery, challenge existing systems of meaning through a strategic critique of dominant cultural ideologies. Simultaneous to this discussion it seeks to examine how traditional and institutional structures have contributed …
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Webové MVC rámce na platformě Java
… využívají. Jsou to rámce Apache Struts, Tapestry a Spring. V práci je popsán princip rámců a práce s nimi. Součástí práce jsou i jednoduché aplikace využívající těchto rámců. Práce podává návod jak tyto aplikace vytvořit. Popisuje a srovnává nejnovější verze těchto nástrojů. Rámci Spring …
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