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Showing 1 to 20 of 73 for “"Twilight"”.
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Southern Hospitality: A Mississippi Twilight
<p>This is a collection of stories about ordinary people and mice, and the occasional mythological creature whose lives become more complicated.</p>
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Itakuchi: Echoes from the Twilight House
… bloom Wandering the hueco, the space between–The Twilight House–what was and what might be. Itakuchi is not the cadejo of Salvadoran legend: a dog-like creature with goat hooves and alighted charcoal eyes a black dog and a white dog a predator along roads, forests, and the countryside Itakuchi is: …
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The Twilight Program: A Phenomenographic Study
… experienced an alternative program, like Twilight. In these phenomenographic inquiry two current students, two Twilight graduates, and four Twilight teachers discuss the qualitatively different ways that students’ experience Twilight. The analysis yielded an outcome space of three …
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Twilight zone : protein sequence search and classification
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University. Fisheries and Wildlife, 2010
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Acoustic minimization of Ocean Twilight Zone Vehicle, Mesobot
The OTZ is defined as the region of the water column between 200 and 1,000 meters in depth. It plays a vital role in the global carbon cycle, pushing carbon from the surface layer into the deep ocean. It has a very diverse population of fauna, known and unknown, that migrate up and down the water …
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Acoustic Minimization of Ocean Twilight Zone Vehicle, Mesobot
The ocean’s twilight zone (OTZ) is one of the most unexplored regions of the Earth’s oceans. The OTZ is defined as the region of the water column between 200 and 1,000 meters in depth. It plays a vital role in the global carbon cycle, pushing carbon from the surface layer into the deep ocean. It …
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Sex, Consent, and Autonomy in Twilight and Vampire Academy
… discusses how two popular young adult series, Twilight and Vampire Academy, use vampires to aid in conversations revolving around prevalent teenage issues such as sex, consent, and autonomy. Both series have romantic relationships at the forefront of their plot. By having the main characters of …
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The Twilight of the Texas Democrats: The 1978 Governor's Race
This dissertation examines the results and strategies used in the 1978 Texas gubernatorial election to determine what issues, demographics, and campaign strategies led the Republican Party nominee, Dallas businessman Bill Clements, to defeat the Democratic nominee, Attorney General John Hill, to …
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Twilight of the Republic: Security Competition and the American Experience
The purpose of this study is to collect and measure the costs of the American Empire and its current grand strategy of primacy and explain why it is harmful to the security of the United States and the republican ideals for which it stands. This study was undertaken because the choices Washington …
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"To go on Doing Babbitts": Recontextualizing Twilight Sleep as Lewisian Satire
Despite its glowing sales record, when Twilight Sleep was published in 1927 it received mixed critical reviews. Today, the novel is rarely studied as scholars more often examine others of Wharton's oeuvre. The dominant criticisms of Twilight Sleep argue that the novel does not live up to the …
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Twilight of virtualities: Imagining and playfulness in an ambiguous virtual reality
This thesis aims to challenge current critical visions of virtual reality and their drive for immersive experiences. Academic literature and popular culture are predominantly interested in how the technology of virtual reality can convince users they are in a different world. This steers …
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TWILIGHT OF THE TOFFS: FALL OF A CASTE, RISE OF A MYTH
Dissertation ABSTRACT: This dissertation deals with the representation of the interwar upper classes (above all, the aristocracy) in the contemporary English novel. I have chosen three novels for my study: Ian McEwan‟s Atonement (2001), Kazuo Ishiguro‟s The Remains of the Day (1989) and Evelyn …
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PALEOCLIMATE DURING DEPOSITION OF THE GREATER TWILIGHT PARK CONGLOMERATE, UPPER DEVONIAN, SOUTHEAST NEW YORK
… and conglomerate layers known as the Greater Twilight Park Conglomerate (GTPC). Paleosols between layers of the GTPC are important archives of past climate. At four locations, floodplain facies exhibiting pedogenesis were selected for analysis due to their proximity to layers of the GTPC. …
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"A Walk Through the Jungle at Twilight": How Parents Experience a Transition to Adolescence
This study examined how parents experienced their first child's transition to adolescence. A multiple-case qualitative research design was chosen to examine parents' experiences. Family systems theory and family stress and coping theory provided a theoretical starting point. Participants were …
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Couples living in twilight: A Heideggerian hermeneutic study of sexuality and intimacy in lifelimiting illness
The purpose of this study has been to understand the experiences of people living with a life-limiting illness in relation to sexuality and intimacy. Although the healthcare literature advocates that sexuality is addressed as part of holistic care, there is insufficient research evidence to guide …
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The Celtic Twilight as Reflected in the Two-Piano Works of Joan Trimble (1915-2000)
The nineteenth-century Celtic Twilight movement was named after a collection of folklore by W.B. Yeats, a work that was inspired by Ireland’s native folklore and contained themes of twilight, nature, and the supernatural, mainly that of the “fairy faith” from old Pagan Ireland. The movement, which …
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Movement and trophic ecology of large pelagic fishes connecting surface waters with the Ocean’s Twilight Zone
The ocean’s twilight zone is a vast area of the global ocean that lies between the sunlit surface waters and perpetually dark midnight zones, covering depths from ~200 to 1000 meters. Recent work in the twilight (or mesopelagic) zone has revealed unexpected biomass and diversity that may not only …
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