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Showing 1 to 20 of 316 for “"The Essay"”.
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Recovering a "Lost" Genre: The Essay
… in rhetoric and composition could improve their pedagogy and scholarship by "reclaiming" the genre at the heart of composition curricula nationwide: the essay. Why do we need to "reclaim" it if it is already so central? Because the closer we examine the essay historically, in all its …
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A Comparative Study of Some Types of the Essay
University of Minnesota Masters thesis. June 1909. 1 computer file (PDF); approximately 84 pages.
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The Essay Film and Space: The Essayistic Filmic Space as aLocation of Thought
This practice-led research investigates the function of filmic space in essayistic discourse through the dialogic relationship between the essay film My Pink City that reflects on post-Soviet urban space in Yerevan and a written thesis that examines the role of space in the essay film. The research …
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Literary journalism in England and Egypt : A comparative study of the essay and the review
Before the rise of the modern newspaper with its mass circulation in the 19th century, journalism was regarded as a branch of English letters. Journalism had universalized literature and enormously increased the number of readers. Many writers have succeeded in maintaining a fair balance between …
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Towards a practice of unmaking: the essay film as critical discourse for fashion in the expanded field
Going against the traditional productivist nature of fashion design, this practice-based PhD proposes a strategy for critical fashion practices in a research context at the intersection of fashion, fine arts, and film methodologies. This interdisciplinary strategy investigates fashion in the …
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A Study of the Validity of the Essay Test as a College Admissions Screening Factor in Korea: Evaluative Approach to Validation
This study evaluates the validity of the essay test as a college admissions screening factor in Korea according to the unified view on validity. In this unified view, which has been regarded as a kind of consensus among current validity theorists, validity is a unitary evaluative judgment making …
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The Heidegger Collection
The dissertation consists of two parts: (1) the essay and (2) the composition. The essay elucidates the composer's creative process of the orchestral works, The Heidegger Collection. The Heidegger Collection has five movements. The titles of each movement are derived from the key philosophical …
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Saphira, the snake priestess : a novel, and; Minoan is not Greek : an essay
The creative project of the novel, Saphira, the Snake Priestess, embodied two goals. The first was to write a novel to appeal to what I have termed the sub Young Adult reader, the reader of around fourteen years of age. The second was to introduce this age group to the remarkable Minoan …
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The German Essay of The Eighteenth Century: An Ecology
The German essay of the eighteenth century shows us a very different view of the age from that presented in the standard handbooks and literary histories. Its emergence in the eighteenth century is itself most revealing of the age. The social and cultural climate of the century in general and the …
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"Who watches the watchmen?" Power Relationships in the Discworld Watch Series
This essay explores some chosen books from the popular Watch series written by Terry Pratchett in the period from 1994 to 2006 in order to analyze power relationships and the growth and character development of Samuel Vimes into a respected authority figure and a power-player of equal standing and …
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Ditaodišo tša Sepedi
The objective of this investigation is to look into, and to describe, the development and merit of the Sepedi essay-oeuvre. The works taken into account are the essay collections that were published from 1943 to 1996. At the same time, the various sub-genres of the essay are described. These works …
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An analysis of foreign statutes dealing with environmental liability with a view to the drawing up and promulgating of an environmental liability statute in South Africa to deal with the legal problems of civil liability for environmental damage
This essay concerns civil liability for environmental damage and has as its focus, the drawing up of an Environmental Liability statute for South Africa. The approach taken in the essay is largely a comparative one, with topics being approached first from a general perspective and then with …
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Fields and Consumer Groups: The Layered and Overlapping Roles of Culture
<p>The first essay investigates Bourdieu’s conceptualization of fields and its use in the marketing literature. It suggests that fields do not exist in isolation, but rather work together in a number of different possible configurations. Fields are reconceptualized as dominated, overlapped, …
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Positive accounting theory and the study of corporate control: the role of loan covenants and the going concern qualification
This thesis comprises four published papers (the Papers) - three on accounting-based loan covenants and one on the going concern qualification (GCQ) - plus a linking essay. The essay focuses on the Papers' common subject matter of corporate control and on their common research methodology, positive …
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Net-Bags and Looking Glasses: Writing in Sympoiesis
… LOOKING GLASSES: writing in sympoiesis" explores the concept of storytelling as a ritual practice and the idea of sympoiesis as a framework for understanding cultural production. The essay reflects on my childhood experience of collecting and sewing bags, which served as containers for various …
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John Donne's "Songs and Sonnets" as Poetic Essays
<p>The primary purpose of this study is to determine whether or not John Donne's "Songs and Sonnets" may be considered within the realm of the essay; that is, are they essays in poetry? To give validity to this question we must first offer the evidence upon which the question is based. We began …
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Writing and developing a play: from initial idea to final draft & Roses on the wire
… From Initial Idea to Final Draft is a critical essay that explores the creation of a full-length play in the context of the MPhil (B) Playwriting Studies course. The essay looks at such aspects as the use of dramaturgical elements, including character, language, and time and space; cultural and …
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Work is What I Want
This thesis is written as an essay, which considers sculpture outside of its definition as art object. Having as its goal finding an intrinsic definition of sculpture, the essay sets on a short journey meandering between ideas, historic precedents, and anecdotes. Among some of the discussed thing …
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The rules of natural justice within the Zambian legal system
The Directed Research I have embarked on addresses the rules of Natural Justice within the Zambian legal system. In this essay, attempt has been made to ascertain what constitutes the Rules of Natural justice. The essay focuses the subject of the rules of natural justice within the Zambian justice …
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