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The World Takes
The power is out, the heat is off, and the family car is on the back of a tow truck when Joop, at 11 years old, discovers the cost of living. The World Takes is a narrative short fiction film that features two young brothers and their father grappling with their own fragility as they navigate an …
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The World We Build
In this thesis I explore the relationship between the cultural memory bank we all have and how it creates Typologies within media and Architecture. This is shown through breaking down existing architecture within media to create a code, and then implementing that code upon my own work. To test this …
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CRACKING THE WORLD SYSTEM: MEDIATING PUBLIC PEDAGOGIES FROM THE “WORLD REVOLUTION” OF 1848
<p>This project adopts the framework of World Systems Analysis [WSA], formulated by global sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein, to take the entire world system as the unit of analysis. Drawing on the work of Paulo Freire, the seminal theorist of critical pedagogy, this project couples WSA with the …
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Letters to the World: Self-Presentation in Personal Homepages on the World Wide Web
The study concludes personal homepages come in a wide variety of forms and serve different purposes for their authors, and that the context of personal homepage environment is also very important in their production and popularity.
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The History of the World
This Thesis is my effort to understand what subjects I find interesting and why. In the processes of writing and making sculpture, I discovered that my underlying fascination is in history. I am interested in places and objects for their individual qualities, but I also want to know how they relate …
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The world according to Graaff
This design dissertation report describes the narrative approach to the design of a district cooling facility for the Cape Town foreshore. The project attempts to grapple with architectural ideas around the re-scripting of buildings. The role buildings play in the constructing of narratives and …
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Neutrino capital of the world
Neutrinos are ubiquitous particles, but they don't like to mingle. Each second, billions of them pass through our bodies, slicing imperceptibly through our delicate internal organs. They can barrel through the sun, stars, and planets without a single interaction. Only one in every ten billion of …
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UN2 : reconfiguring the world city
The establishment of the United Nations' "permanent headquarters" in New York City was hailed as an epochal triumph: the era of post-war internationality- in terms of global politics and architectural modernism--was to be continuous and encompassing. Sixty years later, however, the UN's physical …
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The world is a window
"We were searching for ourselves in each other." - Sergei Parajanov Straddling the border between the continents of Europe and Asia, the South Caucasus, the name referring to the geographical region that stretches from the Black Sea to the Caspian has played an important role in connecting peoples. …
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Entrepreneurial ecosystems around the world
… following this philosophy. Governments around the world need to build and grow their entrepreneurial ecosystems to support the economies and foster innovation. Approaches taken to encourage entrepreneurship vary around the world based on cultural norms, market conditions, and economic …
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A world within the world
When people settle in one place they often express a desire to clarify their place in the world through the creation of small, self-contained worlds. These small worlds help orient people within the greater world by creating centers and boundaries around and within which the events of life take …
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All the Good in the World
<p>The following is a collection of short fiction written from August of 2009 through May of 2011. By and large, the material explores characterization and conflict through the lens of deliberate kindness or gravitation towards goodness in a disappointing and dismal world.</p> <p>Doctoral …
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Mapping the world with social buzz
With the advancement of information technology, social networks have become popular platforms for people to share and discuss their activities and interests. The social network contents, the social buzz in these networks, are a valuable source for us to learn about the world. Meanwhile, the …
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Surgical training on the World Wide Web
The World Wide Web as a repository of information has had a great influence on our lives. This influence is increasing as the web introduces applications in addition to information. These applications have several advantages, such as world wide accessibility, distance group learning and …
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Tollbooth at the Edge of the World
This thesis in creative writing is a manuscript of poems that examine and deconstruct death, mortality and the apocalypse. It is the product of extensive research, workshops and collaboration with the professors and students of the University of Missouri-Kansas City English Department. The poems …
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Authenticity as Compassionate Being in the World
<p>This paper will present a thesis on what it means to be authentic in the world and how a person can cultivate an authentic being. I will argue that being authentic leads to a healthier self that lives her life to its fullest potential and how being authentic will result in a more compassionate …
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Data wrapping on the World Wide Web
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1996.
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