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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"Vestiges"”.
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Engaging vestiges of negative social memory: from an order of segregation to linkage
The theme of this project is the architectural opportunities of spaces of negative social memory. The issue that the work focuses on specifically is the case of the former Non-White Main Line Concourse building, located on the flyover of the Cape Town Train Station precinct. The building has slowly …
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A Lost Cause Found: Vestiges of Old South Memory in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia
This dissertation examines issues of neo-Confederate collective memory, heritage, and geographical imagination within the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. I analyze a whole range of material cultural practices throughout the entire region centered on the memory of the Civil War including monuments, …
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SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVISM AND EDUCATION IDENTITY BEYOND ASSIMILATION VESTIGES: A TEACHER’S LATINA IDENTITY IN A MIDDLE SCHOOL ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE CLASSROOM
This case study highlights the social-cultural relevant pedagogical impact a bilingual teacher has on the middle school ESL classroom through her Latina identity and lived experiences. Data gathering occurred over six months through the principal participant's in-depth interviews, classrooms …
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On the origin of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' : science, religion, and the natural world in early Victorian Scotland
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation was the first book published in Britain in the nineteenth century that made a comprehensive case arguing for the evolution of life. It appeared anonymously fifteen years before Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, and it was read and discussed by many …
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“You Must Be an Android”: The Persistence of Humanist Hierarchies in Posthumanist Science Fiction
… examines science fiction dystopias in which the vestiges of humanist philosophy taint the construction of posthuman subjects. With a grounding in the tenets of both humanist and posthumanist philosophy, I analyze eight works of science fiction that depict artificial intelligence, cyborgs, and …
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Contesting the Utopia: Power and Resistance in Abusive Lesbian Relationships
… of lesbian relationships as articulated by the vestiges of lesbian-feminist philosophy that permeate the multiple sites of power relations in domestic violence contexts. Each chapter addresses these contexts as sites of negotiation for battered lesbians whose narratives of abuse indicate vast …
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L’église de l’abbaye cistercienne Notre-Dame du Val-Dieu
… the parts of the church they related, and the vestiges that remain today.
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Some Kind of Time
… present to future. Scars and blemishes are also vestiges of time, marking us like scratches on a record. The detritus of our lives defines our time, as it defines us. This thesis will elaborate on my exploration of time and its implications. It will describe works and identify the evolution of …
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Individualism in education reform
… for reform that not only harms our present vestiges of democracy but also endangers the possibility of a democratic society for future generations. A critical analysis of individualism in U.S. culture, standardized testing, its history, and the ways in which it is used will show that …
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Metamorphosis in Red
… become sanitized over time, they still contain vestiges of the original written injustices. As a child, being read these narratives normalized this conduct and even as an adult, the stories continued to seem benign. Examining these tales more closely, especially the original versions, allows us …
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Conceptualising the Role of Universities in Transforming Society: Trends and Tools of Traits
… the structural resistance to change and unlock vestiges of development. This study is locating the role of the universities in transforming the society with a deliberate action in downplaying the notion of universities being "white elephants" and "conservative spaces" for the intellectuals. The …
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The Korean Peninsula: Perspectives on War and Proliferation
The Korean Peninsula is one of the last vestiges of the Cold War. It remains the setting for another war, and North Korea remains a source of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and missiles. Currently South Korea continues its transformation to a free-market, democratic and open …
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Ontogeny of the temporomandibular joint and middle ear of the Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana) and their implications for mammalian cranial evolution
… have suggested that the disc and DML are vestiges of the lateral pterygoideus muscle becuase the malleus is its primitive attachment, but these remain untested. Ontogeny of the Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana) TMJ resembles the evolutionary trajectory of mammalian jaw and ear bones, …
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The Martyr’s Desire: Levinas, Girard, and Infinite Responsibility
… <p>My project considers these problematic vestiges through Emmanuel Levinas’s reconfiguration of subjectivity. To address these bio-historical realities, my work highlights the role of the martyr in Levinas’s philosophy. As with other philosophical and religious concepts, I argue that …
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National heritage and nationalist narrative in contemporary Thailand : an essay on culture and politics
In contemporary perception vestiges of the past are like endangered species: the ones still surviving have to be protected to avoid their possible disappearance. Hence, similar to animals under threat of extinction, relics are kept in enclosed areas that safeguard and allow their display while …
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National heritage and nationalist narrative in contemporary Thailand : an essay on culture and politics
In contemporary perception vestiges of the past are like endangered species: the ones still surviving have to be protected to avoid their possible disappearance. Hence, similar to animals under threat of extinction, relics are kept in enclosed areas that safeguard and allow their display while …
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Trace and the makers of meaning
… and nonmaterial evidence, remnants, marks, vestiges of events past and forgotten or remembered. How can a past that is evidenced only by its traces be read within a landscape context by disciplines of knowledge production? The subsequent interpretation, generation of meaning and …
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FROM PARTIAL TO FULL-ENOUGH RECOVERY: A DEVELOPMENTAL MODEL OF RECOVERY FROM EATING DISORDERS
… between chronicity and complete freedom from all vestiges of the disorder. The dissertation proposes a model comprised of three-stages: 1) early recovery, which is dominated by a focus on behavioral change and seeking guidance from external sources, 2) transitional recovery in which change …
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A study of an emerging missions movement in urban China: from the perspective of four Beijing pastors
… and a possible new missionary paradigm with vestiges of the past coming from the Global East.
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Problems of representation and representativeness in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's fiction
… of his fiction. By refusing to engage the vestiges of the Gikuyu patriarchy, Ngugi consolidates his privileged position within the Kenyan elite and proclaims to represent worker/peasant constituency transparently. Reading 'against the grain' of the later novels, I iocate in the prostitute …
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