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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"The Kid"”.
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The kid with a camera : Abbas Kiarostami's cinematic critique.
This thesis is an exploration of the film works of Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami. It argues that his films constitute a body of work that serves as a self-reflexive critique of cinema. Through both documentary and fiction film-making, Kiarostami complicates the clear divide between reality …
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"The Last of the True:" The Kid's Place In Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian
<p>In this study I examine the relationship of “the kid” and “the judge” in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian Or The Evening Redness in the West (1985), specifically, how and why the kid resists Judge Holden’s overbearing existential philosophy. In my introduction I set the stage for Judge Holden’s …
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"The Last of the True:" The Kid's Place In Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian
<p>In this study I examine the relationship of “the kid” and “the judge” in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian Or The Evening Redness in the West (1985), specifically, how and why the kid resists Judge Holden’s overbearing existential philosophy. In my introduction I set the stage for Judge Holden’s …
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Negotiating the boundaries of gender : construction and representation of women in the work of Michael Ondaatje
This study is a theoretical and text-based exploration of Michael Ondaatje's construction and representation of female characters in four fictional works: The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, Coming Through Slaughter, In the Skin of a Lion, and The English Patient. The primary focus is on the …
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Symphonic Fantasia Han-Kook Oui Ja-Yeon (Nature in Korea): Score and Critical Commentary
The Symphonic Fantasia Han-Kook oui Ja-Yeon (Nature in Korea ) is a single-movement orchestral piece, which is divided into 5 characteristic sections - each section has programmatic subtitles (Rocks, River, Sea, Wind, and Mountain) and its own idée fixe motive. The degree of texture …
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From Margins to the Center Through the Film Lens: Gender and Turkish-German Cinema
… and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who were among the first to explore the marginalization of immigrants in post-War Germany, the current Turkish-German wave of Migrant Cinema explores issues of memory, border crossing, third space, masculinity in crisis, homosexuality, assimilation, integration, …
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Probing the Role of Nascent Helicity in Protein Function: p27kip1 as a Regulator of the Cell Cycle
<p>p27<sup>kip1</sup> binds to and regulates the activity of cyclin-dependent kinases (Cdks) which are the master timekeepers of the cell division cycle. Members of the p27 family of proteins, also including p21 and p57, are called cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors (CKIs). The amino terminal …
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"Is it time we move through or space?": literary anachronism and anachorism in the novels of Elizabeth Taylor
This thesis examines Elizabeth Taylor’s twelve novels through the lens of the interlinked concepts, anachronism and anachorism, an approach that enables an analysis of the structural, thematic and stylistic engagements with time and place in her fiction. Blending theme with chronology, the study …
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Functional Relevance of Protein Disorder: Why is Disorder Favourable?
For half a century, the central tenet of protein science has been grounded on the idea that the three-dimensional structure of a protein underlies its function. However, increasing evidence of natively unstructured but functional proteins is accumulating. Termed as intrinsically disordered proteins …
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Pharmacokinetics and Effects on Blood Chemistry of Cyclosporine in Human Infants and Kid Goats
<p>Kid goats (newborn) have been used in transplantation protocols to study the techniques and problems of infant human cardiac transplantation. Immunosuppression has been by cyclosporine in both species. However, the pharmacokinetics of cyclosporine (CSA) in both the kid goat and human infant were …
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Use of Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy (ETV) In Treatment of Pediatric Obstructive Hydrocephalus; A Multi-Level Retrospective Analysis of the United States Pediatric Population.
… alternative to cerebrospinal fluid shunting in the treatment of children with obstructive hydrocephalus, due to various etiologies producing obstruction of CSF fluid flow in the region of the cerebral aqueduct. Clinical studies have shown both the high success rates of use of the ETV procedure, …