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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Timelessness"”.
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Time and timelessness in Robert Frost's lyrics
Sharon Cameron argues persuasively that lyrics isolate moments, freeing them from the sequential, causal flow of ordinary time. Robert Frost's lyrics, however, demonstrate that often the speakers who describe such timeless moments are themselves anchored in particular moments and cannot escape …
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Monument Square, Charlestown : seeking timelessness in a temporal world
The Bunker Hill Monument, a 220-foot high granite obelisk built from 1825-1842, stands on a grassy mound known as Monument Square. Today the situation of the monument incites curiosity, standing as it does amidst brick and wooden rowhouses in a residential area of Charlestown, Mass. The Bunker Hill …
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Toward a Criticism of Theological Reason : Time and Timelessness as Primordial Presuppositions
<p>This investigation studies the possibility of developing a theological criticism of Christian theological reason. The investigation proceeds by developing a phenomenological analysis of three major contexts within which reason has been interpreted and utilized by Christian theology for the …
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"The Pattern is Movement": Images of Timelessness and Patterns of Response in T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets
T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets is full of beautiful and resounding imagery, yet the art of unfolding these images, discovering the movement and drama taking place in and between them, often remains elusive. In this thesis, I approach this problem by offering a detailed reading of Eliot's four poems, …
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The affective sustainability of objects; a search for causal connections: Studies of theory, processes and practice related to timelessness as a phenomenon
The phenomenon of timelessness has important connotations beyond its popular meaning. Although philosophical, timelessness is frequently applied to objects: there are various suggestions concerning the properties of a timeless object in literature and popular publications, but there is no apparent …
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Timelessly Present, Compassionately Impassible: A Defense of Two Classical Divine Attributes
… philosophical and theological attack – God’s timelessness and impassibility (inability to suffer). Is the “classical” Lord truly Immanuel, i.e. with us? This general question motivates the study.</p> <p>The opening three chapters analyze aspects of the God-concepts put forth by Augustine, …
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Measuring the multiple, deep, and unfolding aspects of the wilderness experience using the experience sampling method
… writers: oneness, primitiveness, humility, timelessness, solitude, and care. Five modes of experiencing the wilderness were developed based on the work of environmental psychology and leisure scholars: focus on self (introspection), focus on others (socialness), focus on task (task …
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A Wall a Bench a Tree
… It is commendable when a made thing achieves timelessness without striving vainly for agelessness. This thesis uses the vehicle of making an outdoor sitting room- composed of a wall, a bench, and a tree- to explore questions of the passage of seasons, of weathering, and of how the made thing …
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Paradigm or pariah? : an architectural intervention into Daniel Burnham's timeless plan of Chicago
… in my personal search for the qualities of timelessness (a timeless architecture). It allows one to imagine an instance in which Daniel Burnham's Plan for Chicago is physically overlaid upon a diagram of the city today. Then makes real the thesis, that further completions of Burnham's plan …
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A Complementary Architecture: Enhancing the experience of Maynardville Park through a responsive architecture
… of Maynardville Park, ensuring its relevance and timelessness. Responsive architecture, by its nature, necessitates a degree of flexibility and user agency, qualities that this design inquiry thoughtfully incorporates into its programming. It collages the various narratives to create a sense of …
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Instant Conductors
… new verse. They touch on place, and time, and timelessness. They attempt to reimagine the negative space of individual, sometimes muddled, histories, into some understandable or at least familiar, organic, whole. Universal truths or no, these are the electric currents of language. They are …
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Check the Box Marked Other: Exploring Gender in Family Life
… not mother to daughter. The effect is a sort of timelessness, an aging farmhouse with a son bearing striking resemblance to his father, maintaining a ranch dog and driving a Chevy because that is the way he was taught and expected to behave. But modern families do exist in the area, standing out …
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A cold fireplace
… a stable continuity and inspires a feeling of timelessness in my family, as the years become uniform in a concrete setting. After my grandfather's and later my father's death, our family group became smaller, and yet the house remained exactly the same. Because of these changes and …
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Random Access Memories: Mechanism and Metaphor in the Fiction of William Gibson
… for a condition, at once mental and social, of timelessness. This dissertation offers close readings of Gibson's first four books (Burning Chrome, Neuromancer, Count Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive), discusses the literary context of these texts (including figures such as Joseph Cornell and Roland …
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'n Ondersoek na die tydruimtelike aspek in Voetskrif van Breyten Breytenbach
… of time in the prison is transformed into the timelessness of thought as the poet strives through one poem after the other, to adapt himself and alleviate his distress. Each poem can be seen as an interlude delaying the flow of time. The typography of the poems may suggest that the lyric moment …
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Development of flood prediction models using machine learning techniques
… learning algorithm to improve the accuracy and timelessness of flash flood predictions in Greene County, Missouri. In addition, a risk analysis study is conducted to advise the existing flash flood management strategies for the region. The second contribution presents a comparative analysis of …
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Dracula: Infection, Disease and Illness
… countless forms, shapes, shapelessness and even timelessness of the vampire makes it easier for him to carry and spread fear and disease and eventually infect his victims. Finally, this paper reveals the many animalistic features and various animal forms of Count Dracula that alter repeatedly, …
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A rhetorical legacy: the art of memory's place in literature and semiotics
… semiotic-based memory labyrinth, illustrates the timelessness of the art of memory. This work raises questions about the relationship between the classical/rhetorical concept of memory and the processes of creativity and writing. Further study of the classical art of memory can enhance the writing …
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The trauma aesthetic: (re)mediating absence, emptiness and nation in post-9/11 American film and literature
… national identity. These include: falling, timelessness, placelessness and the absent body. By drawing on and adapting existing trauma theories from scholars such as Cathy Caruth and Kali Tal the thesis proposes the trauma aesthetic as a new critical tool for the understanding of post-9/11 …
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Auspicium Aevum
Context for a premise: Norfolk, Virginia, 1986 The original premise for the National Aquarium for the Waterfront, Norfolk, Virginia derived from the realization that a potentially dramatic portion of the city had been separated by a major highway. As a young student of Engineering and Art, I had …
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