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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Thieves"”.
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Thieves' Nest
<p>Thieves Nest is a poetry collection bound by themes of separation, detachment, landscape, and displacement. The collection is divided into three sections that mark different phases of the speaker's life, as experienced primarily through the speaker's relationship to place.'</p>
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We Are Not Thieves
… of displacement in this manuscript, “We Are Not Thieves.” I will experiment with form and points-of-view, to elevate this sense of wandering, confusion and loss.
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Of Wolves & Thieves: A Love Story
<p>During my three years in the University of Nevada, Las Vegas’ Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program, I have written and published eleven short stories. These stories reflect my growth as a writer and, more specifically, the tremendous development I have seen in my work as a result of …
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Thieves of thankfulness: inhibitors of gratitude
<p>"Gratitude has often been called the "poster child" of positive psychology as a result of demonstrated links to a number of positive outcomes across diverse areas of life (Wood, Froh, & Geraghty, 2010). This study investigated four possible inhibitors of trait gratitude: cynicism, …
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DEN OF THIEVES: APPROPRIATING AND APPLYING THE COLLABORATIVE IDEALS OF THE LABYRINTH THEATER COMPANY
… and the seriocomic matters of the plays. Den of Thieves is Guirgis' first published play. I chose this project for my thesis production because I wanted to work with younger actors on a play that is not produced often. Although the company was not part of the playwriting process, the actors, …
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Thugs, Thieves, Tricksters or Popular Heroes? A Comparative Look at the Phenomenon of "Ayyari"
This project examines the phenomenon of 'ayyari in various primary and secondary sources. During the medieval period, 'ayyar brotherhoods flourished in many of Iran's urban centers. Although they have attracted the attention of a wide spectrum of modern scholars, basic questions regarding their …
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Honor among thieves? Socio-economic theories of Thorstein Veblen in the plays of David Mamet
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Thieves Apostates and Bloody Viragos: Female Irish Catholic Rebels in the Irish Rebellion of 1641.
<p>The purpose of this thesis is to discuss the roles played by Irish Catholic women in the Irish Rebellion of 1641. The primary goal is to examine the factors that determined the nature of those roles. To achieve this end, I used the information contained in the 1641 depositions, a collection of …
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Understanding petrified wood theft from a moral reasoning perspective
… National Park and to describe the nature of the thieves in terms of their level of moral reasoning. A model of noncompliant behavior was developed that incorporated the theory of reasoned action, the theory of planned behavior, the theory of attitude accessibility, and the four-compartment model …
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Three Essays on Crime
… for stolen durable goods where agents can be thieves who steal durable goods to consume or exchange them for a profit, and non-thieves who can also demand stolen durable goods in the secondary market. The results indicate that the government must focus their resources to capture thieves on the …
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So Many Thieves and Lutherans at Sea: Spain's Reaction to the Emergence of French Huguenots in the New World
This thesis argues that religion is essential when studying the reaction of the Spanish to the influx of foreign trespassers in the New World. Previous scholarship pertaining to the French in the Americas focuses on the motivations of pirates and neglects to consider the Spanish reaction to the …
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Reducing and understanding petrified wood theft at Petrified Forest National Park
… a thoughtless act, but instead occurred because thieves rationalized their particular act of theft as acceptable. The primary rationalization given by thieves was that their piece of stolen wood was so small that taking it would not hurt anything. It appeared as though anti-theft messages were …
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Palaeoecological studies of selected mires in the Craven District of West Yorkshire with special reference to the late Devensian period and the Ulmus decline
… site, Sniddle Moss, and two upland sites, Thieves' Moss and Sunset Hole, in the Ingleborough Region, the Craven District, north-west Yorkshire. (2) The analysis of the earliest sediments of Sniddle Moss and Thieves' Moss suggests the existence of a Lateglacial sequence. A reconstruction of …
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Blockchain Application for Disaster Management and National Security
… growing crimes present in the world. Identity thieves are active more than ever as the e-commerce trading keeps on growing. Earlier the thieves used to buy pieces and parts of someone’s personal identification information but now they could have hold of everything. Similarly there has been an …
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Analyzing Wireless LAN Security Overhead
… has created large security holes for hackers and thieves to abuse, which is finally being addressed by stronger security methods such as advanced encryption algorithms and efficient authentication processes. However, these security methods often hamper network performance unbeknownst to engineers …
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Constructions of cinematic space : spatial practice at the intersection of film and theory
… Edward Yang's Yi Yi, Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves and Wang Xiaoshuai's Beijing Bicycle, and Franqois Truffaut's The 400 Blows and Mira Nair's Salaam Bombay!. Along with De Certeau's notions of satial ractice, walking rhetorics, and the pedestrian speech act, the philosophy of Gilles …
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DATA MINING: TRACKING SUSPICIOUS LOGGING ACTIVITY USING HADOOP
… hacker’s true identity. These identity thieves rob private data and ruin the very purpose of privacy. The purpose of this project is to identify suspicious user activity by analyzing a log file which then later can help an investigation agency like FBI to track and monitor anonymous …
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Notes of Venom and Vengeance
… group of Low Fae orphans aptly named the Den of Thieves, Madrigal is her lover’s Seb’s blade for hire – forced to do his dirty work for survival, even though her heart beats to a musician’s drum. However, since the childhood death of her mother on the King’s orders, Mads has vowed to get her …
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An investigation into the origin and nature of some organic deposits of the Ingleborough region
… Ingleborough region of Yorkshire, Helwith Moss, Thieves Moss, Scar Close, Moughton, and Howrake Rocks. Samples of peat were extracted by means of a borer, or taken from monoliths, and their structure and pollen content examined. Profiles and pollen diagrams were produced for each site. Helwith …
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