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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Veils"”.
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Veils, screens and the tectonic: a gallery for a small town
A small multi-functional gallery was designed for the town of Blacksburg, Virginia to accommodate the needs of students, university organizations, and towns’ people. The gallery would serve as the location for exhibitions of art, lectures, films, and performance art.
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"I'm not going to let the patriarch stop me!": Examining the Obsession with Muslim Women's Bodies, Voices and Veils in Cinema, Television & Popular Culture
Historically, Muslim female bodies have been a key focus of attention in colonial and patriarchal discursive practices. This colonial and patriarchal desire to control Muslim women's bodies ± and, by extension, their voice ± is rooted in Orientalism. Today, Orientalist modes of representation are …
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Out of autoclave manufacturing of cfrps having multiscale reinforcement for improved interlaminar fracture toughness and multifunctional characteristics
… nanotubes and nano-doped nonwoven interleaf veils on the surface of the main reinforcement (carbon fabrics). More precisely, the deposition of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) into the structure of CFRPs has been succeeded by using a liquid CNT-enriched sizing agent solution for the …
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BIINDGOOSHNAME SHKODE TEMGOOG (We Are Coming to Where the Fire is) Orienting a Secular School to Humanity's Original Instructions
… Knowledge). Together we move through the veils cast over such Knowledge arising from a pervasive civilizational mentality, finding hope for transcending these veils in the children we work with, who inspire a potential pedagogy in which non-indigenous educators might work ethically with …
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History, organization and belief among Cuban "plantado" political prisoners, 1959-1993
… to social life, and are not necessarily thin veils for self interest masquerading as principle. Rather, important religious and cultural beliefs take on a life of their own independent of material self interest; this allows for individuals to commit to causes where there are powerful …
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45 King: A Story of the Southern Home
… beauty, its hospitality, its comfort, and its veils. It is a story that was told yesterday and one that is still told today. Like an oral history, the telling of it may change over time. The story changes as people change. The economy changes, the land develops, technology rolls ahead, and the …
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Enhancement of Mechanical, Structural, and Electrical Properties in Advanced Composites and Vat Photopolymerized 3D Printing Nanocomposites
… polyamide (PA) and carbon non-woven veils; (2) improving the mechanical properties of digital light processing (DLP) 3D-printed materials via the addition of graphite nanoparticles; and (3) applying a novel, machine learning-aided analysis and printing method to reduce structural …
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Being with Bees: An Anthropological Study on Human-Animal Relations in Southern Beekeeping
… Variables including attire, smoke, movement, veils, and gloves. This magnifies the ways that these factors may impact the delivery of messages central to the delivery of successful interspecies communication. Literature that helps elucidate the communication and interactions between beekeepers …
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The Lived Experience Of African American Teachers Utilizing Co-Cultural Adaptation At Predominantly White Rural Schools In Central Appalachia
… consciously or unconsciously supportive of the veils of oppression. Meanwhile, the principals and White faculty in these districts remain purposefully negligent of the needs and issues that African American teachers confront as co-cultural group members at predominantly White school districts. …
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The problem of truth and reality in Grisebach's thought
… truth, and that are hung before his eyes like veils preventing him from ever experiencing the "real" and coming face to face with it, Grisebach's teaching deserves the closest attention. This work is thus meant to pave the way for a further study of his philosophy, which may help man to adopt …
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Oblique Strategies: Queer Opacity in Figurative Painting
… in which discernible pictorial and conceptual veils hide queer desire in plain view. It is underpinned by critical theory that proposes opacity as an alternative to absolute visibility. Cultural theorists Nicholas de Villiers and Clare Birchall are exemplary scholars engaging in the field of …
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Oblique Strategies: Queer Opacity in Figurative Painting
… in which discernible pictorial and conceptual veils hide queer desire in plain view. It is underpinned by critical theory that proposes opacity as an alternative to absolute visibility. Cultural theorists Nicholas de Villiers and Clare Birchall are exemplary scholars engaging in the field of …
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Held in place
… looooong black braid, Transparent Curtains and Veils, and the Victorian Walls of (Tajik) Homes. The analysis of works is then expanded upon though the discussion of installation and the ways hanging speaks to the placement and mobility of works and their representations of issues of gendered …
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Prohibiting the niqab?: A critical examination of Western attitudes towards the Islamic veil and its relationship with law in the United Kingdom and France
… whilst France banned the wearing of face veils in 2011, the UK is yet to follow suit despite pressure from certain political organisations and their supporters. In particular, the in-depth exploration of the UK cases will illustrate some of the difficulties the UK legal system has …
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To Settle the Settler: Pathologies of Colonialism in New Zealand History Films 1925 - 2005
… identity at the time of their making. As ‗veils of fantasy‘ (in Slavoj Žižek‘s words), films provide us with a back-door into knowledge; by paying attention to what is not said about colonial history, to the unspoken and the unspeakable in these films, my research attempts to reveal …
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Waiting for Death: The Poetic Transformation of Grief An Autoethnography
… W.E.H. Stanner, I look at what lies behind the veils of the metaphysical core of my poetry.* At the same time I discover a resonance with Yolngu philosophy, and the capacity of Yolngu rituals to transform death into life. This study generates knowledge of my unconscious grieving process. The …
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Waiting for Death: The Poetic Transformation of Grief An Autoethnography
… W.E.H. Stanner, I look at what lies behind the veils of the metaphysical core of my poetry.* At the same time I discover a resonance with Yolngu philosophy, and the capacity of Yolngu rituals to transform death into life. This study generates knowledge of my unconscious grieving process. The …
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Recalcitrant arguments
1 PDF file (viii, 123 pages)
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Nanomaterial-Enabled Out-of-Autoclave and Out-of-Oven Manufacturing of Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites
… (VA-CNTs), electrospun polymer nanofiber (EPN) veils, and polyimide (PI) aerogel thin films may each successfully evacuate voids via capillary-pressure enhanced polymer flow, as the laminate was void-free. A subsequent study placing PI aerogel NPN in each interlaminar region was shown to …
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