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Showing 1 to 20 of 439 for “"The Dead"”.
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Calling Up the Dead
Calling Up the Dead is a collection of seven short stories which all take place over the final hours of December 31, 1999 and the first few hours of January 1, 2000. The themes of time, history, and the reactions toward the new millennium (positive, negative, indifferent) of a variety of cultures …
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Where the Dead Remain
Where the Dead Remain is a murder mystery set in a Post-Katrina New Orleans where the gods, magic and monsters of various world mythologies actually exist. The story follows a week in the life of Jude Duboisson, a once magician who is struggling with the loss of his magic and the life he had known …
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In the Dead Season
In the Dead Season is a manuscript of poetry that explores, through family narrative, the tensions between ignorance and truth, between honor and mendacity, between violation and veneration, between love and loss, between grief and transcendence. Set in rural Texas, the poems in this collection …
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Wonders for the Dead
<p>This capstone project presents the first five chapters of a novel entitled <em>Wonders for the Dead</em>, which follows the lives of two sets of brothers whose lives intersect in an unexpected way. Ep Fairfax and his brother Francis are estranged, but when Ep finds himself in trouble and on the …
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Living with the dead
This thesis seeks to reimagine the space for the anonymous dead in New York City by proposing a new scenario for burial on Manhattan, which reconnects the alienated community and program to the heart of the city and other civic activities. The construction of the architecture proceeds as the …
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Metabolizing obsolescence: strategies for the dead mall
… originally intended but still maintain some of the original qualities and characteristics. Obsolescence is partially viewed as a tangible repository of memories over time. It is time that creates change and causes obsolescence, thus such landscapes are always short-term even though they might …
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A Davidsonian Response to the Dead Metaphor Problem
… Mean," Donald Davidson presented his own unique theory of metaphor. While this theory has proved to be influential, there seems to be one problem which a Davidsonian theory cannot account for: the dead metaphor problem. Due to certain aspects of Davidson's theory of metaphor, critics argue that …
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The Return of the Dead: Resurrecting Chappell's Family Gathering
<p>This thesis examines Fred Chappell’s virtually overlooked collection of poetry <em>Family Gathering </em>(2000), and how the poems operate within the mode of the grotesque. I argue that the poems illuminate both the southern grotesque and Roland Barthes’s theory of photography’s <em>Operator, …
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Determination of Indium using the dead stop end point
<p>As the importance of indium for research and industry grows, the need for rapid, accurate analysis of the metal Increases. The dead stop titration method, which has been used for other metals, will now be applied to the quantitative determination of indium ion in aqueous solution.</p> <p>The …
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Characterisation of the dead ringer gene of Drosophila melanogaster
Interest in the mechanisms of homeo domain specificity led to a screen that identified Drosophila proteins able to bind a consensus homeo domain site. One clone isolated in this screen produced no homeo domain and was selected for further characterisation as a protein with an unknown DNA binding …
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The Law and Ethics of Using the Dead in Research
… and unavoidable, and although research on the dead is essential to the well-being of the living, medical and legal professionals and ethicists have failed to carefully consider the issue of using the dead and their remains in research. This thesis will explore how the dead are treated (from …
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"'The Dead Travel Fast'": The Gothic Politics of Irish Literature
Although the Gothic was created by English authors it finds significant use in Irish literature. There has been debate over how this genre should be defined, but I would suggest that instead of trying to force the Gothic into the categories of mode/tradition or Catholic/Protestant, it should be …
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Driving with the Dead: Stories of Loss, Journey, and Wonder
… time, cultures, and geography— struggle with the awareness of our own mortality. Rather than accept finitude, we embrace ideas of boundlessness and perpetuity, and perceive ourselves as beings in constant motion, as<em> travelers</em>, in life as well as in death. We rely on metaphors of inner …
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Curating the Dead: Bodies and Matter in Early Mycenaean Burials
This thesis examines the relations between bodies and objects in early Mycenaean burials, between 1700 and 1400 BCE on mainland Greece. It adopts an artistic approach to these burials, which treats the burial context as an intentional representation, centred around the creative actions of selection …
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The Memories of the Dead: Trauma and Historical Memory in "[REC]"
The zombie is a monster that has captured the imagination of horror lovers across the world ever since it made the leap from folklore to film. Since then, anxieties over the present and future in these texts have been the object of analysis, while the expression of historical trauma has largely …
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Judging the Rational and the Dead: Ann Radcliffe and Feminist Theology
“Judging the Rational and the Dead: Ann Radcliffe and Feminist Theology” argues Radcliffe’s first three novels, The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne (1789), A Sicilian Romance (1790), and The Romance of the Forest (1791), show a progression of feminist theology informed by the late eighteenth-century …
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