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Showing 1 to 20 of 450 for “"The Ordinary"”.
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Perceptions of the Ordinary
<p>ABSTRACT</p> <p>This thesis explores the progression of my work through my graduate studies at the University of New Orleans. I examine the central psychological themes of the human experience. Through painting, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture, I investigate various ways of translating …
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Value of the Ordinary
Short stories, poetry and personal essays
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The Extraordinary in the Ordinary.
… quite small and needed more ‘hands-on’ care than they do now that they are teenagers, which inevitably had an effect on my work. The ‘everyday’ is what I came home to at night; - the cooking, the laundry, homework, school trips, packed lunches and all the other countless things that provide …
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Into the heartland of the ordinary
The thesis examines various theoretical framings of the relation between the ordinary and the extraordinary in Western thought and art. In particular, it examines the ambivalence of theorizing with respect to its own extraordinary character, i.e. its acknowledgement of the implications of …
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Signs in Architecture: Beauty in the Ordinary
In Japan, the basics of living are described as three main elements; clothing, food, and shelter. These elements involve simple daily activities such as changing clothes in the morning, eating lunch, and sleeping at night. It may easily become a mundane topic since they are woven into our daily …
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The admissibility of data messages in the ordinary course of business.
One of the objects of the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act, Act 25 of 2002 (the ECT Act), is to enable and facilitate electronic communications and transactions for purposes of promoting legal certainty. It is submitted that Section 15 (4) of the ECT Act has in contrast, created more …
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Cross Over and Duality. Murakami’s Integration of the Fantastical into the Ordinary
Whether in Japanese folktales or contemporary works of Japanese fictions, the concept of crossover and duality is widespread. An example of crossover can be the concept of time travel or the crossing into another dimension. On the other hand, duality deals with the concept of two or more identities …
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Fordsburg's urban memory - cultural significance and its embodiment in the ordinary landscape
The vibrant suburb of Fordsburg has a rich history of diverse working class communities. It has long been associated with the Indian community and more recently a new immigrant population from the Indian subcontinent. Transitory communities have left their mark on the suburb and have resulted in …
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Out of the ordinary. The materiality of the south-east Scottish Iron Age.
A materiality approach is developed in this thesis in order to understand social-material relationships during the south-east Scottish Iron Age. The focus is on everyday objects, traditionally lesser studied in terms of cosmological value, made of bone and antler, stone, clay/pottery and metal …
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Imagination and the affirmation of the ordinary : words and deeds in the films of Frank Capra
… "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946). By discussing these films, the study examines the relation between the good man and community as it appears in the American romantic tradition. Characteristic of this tradition is a strong interest in the relation between the individual experience of the grand …
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The Ordinary Weight conjecture and Dade's Projective Conjecture for p-blocks with an extra-special defect group
… \((G, B)\)-subpair \((E, b_E)\). Let \(b\) be the Brauer correspondent of \(B\) for \(N_G(E, b_E)\). For a non-negative integer \(d\), let \(k_d(B)\) denote the number of irreducible characters \(\chi\) in \(B\) which have \(\chi(1)_p=p^{a-d}\) and let \(k_d(b)\) be the corresponding number of …
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Between the Event and the Ordinary: Climate Crises and the Ecologies of Everyday Life in the California Desert
The notion of an environmental crisis or catastrophe conjures connotations of rupture, emergency, and impermanence: an intermediary moment of chaos in which the normal order of things collapses in on itself only to be brought back to life—or “recovered”—after the crisis is finished. It is by …
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The arcane and the ordinary: an exploration of patriarchy and the postcolonial in the writing of Beth Yahp, Catherine Lim and Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
This thesis critically examines the work of Beth Yahp, Catherine Lim and Shirley Geok-lin Lim. Particular emphasis is given to four texts. The first is Beth Yahp's The Crocodile Fury, the second is Catherine Lim's The Bondmaid, the third is Catherine Lim's The Teardrop Story Woman, and the final …
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Least squares mixture decomposition estimation
The Least Squares Mixture Decomposition Estimator (LSMDE) is a new nonparametric density estimation technique developed by modifying the ordinary kernel density estimators. While the ordinary kernel density estimator assumes equal weight (l/<i>n</i>) for each data point, LSMDE assigns the optimized …
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The Agikuyu, the bible and colonial constructs: towards an ordinary African readers’ hermeneutics
Recognising the paradigm shift in African biblical studies where the image of a “decontextualized and non-ideological” scientific Bible reader is slowly being replaced with one of a “contextualized and ideological” reader, this research seeks to explore and understand the role of the “ordinary …
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Flexão térmica das placas
The thermal bending of the plates with thin thickness subjected to a stationary thermal field T = T (x,y,z) is analysed by the ordinary finite difference method. The analysis is restricted to the small deflections theory and interactions between the bending and the membrane forces effects are …
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