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Showing 1 to 20 of 104 for “"Unorthodox"”.
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"Unorthodox Conduct": Re-membering Queer Africa in Literature and Film
<p>"'Unorthodox Conduct'" explores positive representations of sexual and gender minorities in African literatures and film from the 1970s to 2010s that dismantle heterosexist notions of African sexuality and work towards what Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o calls "re-membering." I interrogate how literary and …
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Remodeling Rationality: An Inquiry into Unorthodox Modes of Logic and Computation
This dissertation investigates unorthodox models of computational rationality. Part I examines the histories of such models as nonclassical formalisms of mathematical logic from Brazil, nonbinary Turing machines from postcolonial India, and frameworks of information science from postrevolutionary …
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Exploration of unorthodox tunings and muscle memory practice for the electric guitar
… sounds and timbres that can be derived from unorthodox alternate tunings Examine the effects changing a tuning has on the application of muscle memory for guitarists Develop an appropriate method of notation for the above My portfolio of recordings is comprised of three sections: <ol …
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Unorthodox Support: How Mentors of Undocumented Immigrant Students Leverage Community Cultural Wealth to Pave the Way for College Success
… provided what one of the mentors called “unorthodox” support. Analysis led to recommendations for educational institutions and mentoring programs to develop ways to explicitly support UIS. Since mentors are developing these relationships with UIS outside of structured programming, there …
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Not the Simplest Christians: Vernacular Charming and The Limits of Orthodox Practice in Late Medieval England
… religion. Even if they might technically be unorthodox, it could be excused as matter of religious ignorance. In this construction the individual collector and user of charms is treated as a passive receptor of ideas rather than an independent actor who engaged with the Church and its …
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Valuing
… its title and inspiration from Allen Grossman’s unorthodox understanding of value in<em> True-Love: Essays on Poetry & Valuing</em>. Grossman sees our most human acts of valuation as transcendent of the orthodoxy it is commonly associated with because it is “held in the mind as prior to …
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The geography of the clinic: spatial form, meaning and practice at a Western Cape community health centre
… construction of the clinic, c) The orthodox and unorthodox use of space as a strategic resource in a context of gang violence and health service crisis. The architectural design of the clinic was analysed in terms of the international criteria and logic for PHC facility design. Unique local …
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Emily Dickinson: 19th Century Poet in a 21st Century World
… while she was alive due to her reclusiveness and unorthodox punctuation. The capstone then looks at the other aspects of this in the roles that editors, the merchandise now made with lines from Dickinson’s work, and digital technologies play in that circulation, but also how they have played a …
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Public spaces, public words: contextualising pro-localist, site-local, new writing and its roots in a community’s history, culture and people
… promotes and actively seeks out the use of unorthodox and/or local performance spaces, employs a ‘mixed economy’ of young and professional performers, dramatizes and celebrates local culture, with the aim of creating a theatre that is rooted in a local neighborhood’s social, economic and …
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John Middleton Murry as a Critic of John Keats
… companion of fellow students. |"A sudden and unorthodox end" to this career at Oxford was brought about by the romance between him and Katherine Beauchamp. His-wife-to-be was then, and is now, better known under the pen-name of Katherine Mansfield. In 1912, while he was yet an undergraduate, …
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A Tough Nut Never Boils: Thoughts and Ruminations on Language and Playmaking
<p>After an unorthodox journey through higher education ending during the coronavirus pandemic, which has made the typical theatrical thesis production and subsequent typical final year impossible, the author reflects on the body of work she has created at the University of Arkansas as an M.F.A. …
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Maverick Neuroscientist: What Does a Life in Science Look Like Outside the Ivory Tower? : Dr. Eugenio Vargas-Pena is a renowned psychiatrist in Paraguay, who conducts neuroscience research without university ties, funding, or peer review. ls his embodiment of the gentleman scientist an alternate path for those who want to break away from institutionalized science?
… research and the enduring romance of unorthodox scholarship.
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Understanding the importance of vaccine formulation in generating protective immune responses against Leishmania amazonensis challenge
… mechanisms. We tested both conventional and unorthodox vaccine regimens, but were not able to recapitulate the correlates of protection determined by L. major. Conversely, we found IFNγ-producing CD8+ T cells correlated with protection, while ineffective vaccines induced a mixed Th1/Th2 …
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Enrichment, Accelerated Placement, and Gifted Programming: A Policy Advocacy Document
… education, making this policy advocacy document unorthodox. Renzulli (2003) said it well, opportunities and resources must be provided for these bright students to move forward, even as we support “excellence for all,” as an educational policy. This paper highlights the need for policy to address …
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Advocates For the People & the Test Ban
… leading up to the Reykjavik Summit and the unorthodox methods used by one organization to influence the administration's nuclear weapons testing policy. The political impact of this particular group, referred to as the Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC), remains the subject of debate. …
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Social and political ideas of early Buddhism
… Epics and Puran as, Kautilya's Arthasastra, unorthodox canonical works of the Buddhists and Jainas, the classical Sanskrit and Tamil literature and the literature of historical records of the later periods . 1.1.3. The present work forms a study of the social and political ideas contained in …
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Social and political ideas of early Buddhism
… Epics and Puran as, Kautilya's Arthasastra, unorthodox canonical works of the Buddhists and Jainas, the classical Sanskrit and Tamil literature and the literature of historical records of the later periods . 1.1.3. The present work forms a study of the social and political ideas contained in …
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Fingal Chlainne Tanntail: Text and Context
… and to possible underexplored conduits for the unorthodox material contained within this and other medieval Irish literary works.
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Morality according to Irving : an examination of the value system operating in the fiction of John Irving.
… critics fail to address the controversial and unorthodox subjects Irving incorporates into his fiction. The presence of incest, adultery, homosexuality, transsexuality, draft dodging, graphic violence, and rape in Irving's novels contradicts Irving's label as a moral writer unless Irving's …
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