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Showing 1 to 20 of 941 for “"Thing"”.
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Moon-Thing
Moon-Thing is a collection of playful confessional poems. The poems address ways in which language shapes and mitigates our reality, allowing us both a way into our emotions and a way out of them.
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Any good thing
… is in casting around desperately for “any good thing” in their lives. These “good things” range from monetary salvation, to the mitigation of loneliness, to escape from someone toxic. The arc of the collection as a whole is that of people identifying their conditions, trying to rescue themselves …
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The Real Thing
<p>THE REAL THING is a collection of short stories released from the confinement of the everyday. The stories allow characters to pop off the page from every angle. With an eye for anthropomorphism and ear for lyric, the collection is comprised of twenty-nine short stories, nineteen of which work …
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That Thing: Confronting Difficult Trauma
… Lastly, in Wunderinks thesis exhibition, That Thing: Confronting Difficult Trauma, the artist activates the gallery space creating various modes of interaction with the work engaging her audience to consider the ways in which the work imprints on their own experiences.
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Tell Me One True Thing
<p>My poetry collection, Tell Me One True Thing, tracks my development as a poet alongside my changing roles as daughter, mother, wife, and sister, the transformation of which was most profoundly affected by my mother's death from lung cancer in 2013. These poems loosely track the development of my …
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Transmutation: One Thing Becoming Another
<p>My art emerges from decades of the experience of building myself, sensitively aware of accumulated experience and the weight of accrued memory. Responding to this life I so deeply appreciate the longer I live, as sculptor, painter and poet, I merge these individual aesthetic observations into a …
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The Funny Thing About Leadership
Humor as often been an overlooked and underutilized management tool. The relationship between leader humor expression and trust is explored herein through the theoretical foundations of social exchange theory and signaling theory. It is posited that leader humor expression leads to greater degrees …
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"Knowing a thing is ""a thing"": The use of acoustic features in multiword expression extraction"
… and potentially listeners decide whether something is ""a thing"" or not."
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Newer Versions of the Same Thing
I am interested in the role photographs play in the everyday life of contemporary society, and more specifically the people and memories that occupy those photographic images. In my work I attempt to take the specific moments caught in seemingly meaningless photographs and elevate their importance …
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Relief Is the Thing with Teeth
… the enigmatic town healer Jonnie, isn't making things any easier.) Vera is a girl with a lot of responsibilities: when she isn't boiling, flaying, and chopping herbs for her mother's concoctions, she's maintaining excellent grades and studying for her upcoming Conversion, the mysterious ritual …
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How to build a living thing
A number of research groups worldwide are working on various aspects of the problem of building life from scratch. Jack W. Szostak's lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts is one of the centers of the action. Open a recent news article on some discovery related to synthetic life or life's origins on …
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The Pen is a Thing The Hand Already
The Pen is a Thing The Hand Already is a lyric epic set in the classroom of an American MFA program. The student’s voices as well as the teacher’s all act interchangeably to expand and complicate the reader’s understanding of self. This is a poem.
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Paul Auster's writing machine: A thing to write with
… texts, and where, in Auster's own words, "everything is connected to everything else," looking for singular, fixed meanings would be a futile task. Instead, one can explore the plethora of shifting meanings by reading his texts rhizomatically and by following or "tracing" the associations, …
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'It's a metrosexual thing': a discourse analytical examination of masculinities
The recent critical focus on men and masculinities purports challenges to the dominance of ‘hegemonic’ or idealised dominant masculine scripts (Connell, 1995). Men’s increasing consumption of image enhancement products and especially facial cosmetics – aspects of so-called ‘metrosexuality’ …
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Television public service in Philadelphia: a thing of the past?
<p>The researcher carried out this study to determine if national trends in television public service have influenced decision makers in Philadelphia and to provide public relations practitioners with detailed information about local practices. Online and library searches were conducted to secure …
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That's the Thing with Community: Social Networks and Asset Development
This study explores the role of social networks in the lives of participants in an asset building program. Focus groups were conducted with parents whose children hold accounts in a multi-site demonstration project of Children's Savings Accounts. The study's research questions were: 1) How can the …
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