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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"Within and Without"”.
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Within and Without
Within and Without is a document which illustrates my personal and artistic research into the nature of the postmodern conception of the self: that self is unfixed, multiple, and reactive. It explicates my myriad and explorative approaches to photographic portraiture. Furthermore, it indicates many …
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Within and Without: Psychoanalysis, Trauma Theory, and the Healing Narrative
… heal from trauma. In exploring the rhetorical landscape of trauma writing, I offer a new framework for understanding how those who experience a traumatic event may use the process of writing creatively to engage in a process of healing. I argue that through the creation of art, individuals may …
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Being Within and Without: Cases of Phenomenological Embodiment in Art Education
Intrigued by the body’s place within education, I investigate the diverse ways that embodiment manifests in secondary school visual arts classrooms. This thesis presents a multiple case study analysis of two school residency projects, which were part of a multi-year research-creation project, The …
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THE VIOLENCE WITHIN AND WITHOUT: IMAGINATION AND REALITY IN THE NOVEL
… relationship is fundamental to human experience and to the novel, and that the best way to describe the dialectics of the genre is in terms of a conflict between imagination and reality. I define "imagination" as the structuring power of the mind, and cite studies in psychology, literary and …
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Regulating the Corporation from Within and Without: Corporate Governance and Workers’ Interests
… explores how the increased legal regulation and governance of corporations can be used to help improve the interests of workers in global supply chains. Chapter one outlines the introduction and provides background information. Chapter two is the literature review. Chapter three examines the …
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Unity and division : aspects of the history of Abathembu Chieftainship c. 1920 to c. 1980
… yet survived socio-political assaults from both within and without. It focuses on the individuals who were successive paramount chiefs of the abaThembu, exploring how they helped shape the chieftainship over time, and on the impact on the chieftainship of state policy in the eras of segregation …
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Testing Tests: Determination of the Efficacy of Prejudice Measures
<p>Numerous scales and measures exist to determine the level of prejudice in an individual. This study compared six prejudice measures in an attempt to explore the strengths and faults of each measure. Each measure was correlated with a Social Desirability Scale, and each explicit measure was …
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Program officers at the National Science Foundation: a case study of the Biological Instrumentation Program
… as embedded in a web of relationships extending within and without the Foundation. Constructivist and relativist approaches to science studies argue for the significance of the influence of these 'non-scientific' relationships on all contemporary scientific activity. The study describes the web …
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Studies on the metabolism of Hymenolepis diminuta with special reference to desoxyribonucleic acid, vitamin B12 and fat
… factual information for a more complete understanding of the physiology of the rat tapeworm, Hymenolepis diminuta, and the relationships that it has with its host. There are essentially two lines of attack that such a program may take. First, a knowledge of the basic constituents of the parasite …
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The Construction of Tang Wei as a Star in contemporary China: Performance, Context, Reception and Politics
… between transnational Chinese female stardom and the current post-socialist Chinese ideological milieu through a case study of Tang Wei?s stardom. While this study is informed by Western theoretical discourses about star studies, it hopes to contribute to the growing scholarly terrain of …
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Making, remembering, remaking : personal meanings in symbolization
… stories I remember they have fused, intertwined and woven themselves into my story My primary goal in the following research is to examine my own sense of ethnic identity, and in the process better understand my own cultural experience through the process of telling my story. This will be done …
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Storytelling, Myth, and the Dreams Therein: A Critical Analysis of the Intertextuality of Christianity, Capitalism, and Americanism
… the hegemonic history of Christianity in America and the centrality of capitalism in national ethos have contributed to an impulse in the national psyche towards illusion. I argue that due to this impulse and privileging of illusion, and/or various ‘realities’, over actuality, much American …
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Accent and Grouping Structures in the String Quartets of Béla Bartók
… in part by its unique blend of rhythmic vitality and inventiveness, and his string quartets offer a glimpse into a consistency of technique evident throughout his compositional career. Bartók's rhythmic environments are primarily metrical, but many of his rhythmic configurations are placed in such …
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Biblical understanding applied to contemporary African Christian methods of exorcism
… people who take their religion with them and in them, wherever they go (Mbiti, 1991:1). Life in an African society is directed by religion (Idang, 2015:104) Religion dictates how Africans conduct their daily affairs. This is the reason why they seek a spiritual solution and explanation to …
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Abd Al-Karim Al-Jili: tawhid, transcendence and immanence
The present thesis is an attempt to understand Abd Al-Karim Al-Jili’s thought and to illustrate his original contribution to the development of medieval Islamic mysticism. In particular, it maintains that far from being an obscure disciple of Ibn Arabi, Al-Jili was able to overcome the apparent …
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Maker, Wearer, Viewer, Object: the reflexive destabilisation of brooches in a contemporary jewellery making practice
… considered in dialogue with writing both within and without the field of jewellery making. Sociologist Georg Simmel proposed that the structure of jewellery is composed of the Wearer and Viewer interaction. Jeweller and author Bruce Metcalf argued that the Maker plays a major role in …
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The World That Was : An investigation of lost cities, hidden empires, and their role in online pseudoarchaeological communities.
… conspiracies, their uptake on social media, and their impact on heritage identity has largely been ignored amongst archaeologists and heritage professionals with exceptions being studies of online communities, discussions of how pseudoarchaeology misrepresents the past, and most recently the …
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Human Resource Management and Black Teachers’ Employee Experience in K-12 Urban Public Schools
… retain Black teachers in high-need urban areas and in comparison to other groups (Carver-Thomas & Darling Hammond, 2017). This qualitative investigation employed case study methodology. The case study focused on one school within a charter management organization (CMO), exploring interactions …
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Where Intellect and Intuition Converge: Epistemological Errancies in the Poetry of Jorie Graham
… six books of poems. Graham struggles to understand how we make sense of the world through thinking grounded in the logical operations of reason and through thinking that operates as more of a detached wandering that enables direct experiential participation in the present moment-modes of thought …
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The economics of the United Kingdom pension funds.
This Thesis examines the nature and role of the pension funds in the United Kingdom, in theory and in practice, from within and without, and from a contemporary and historical perspective. The pension funds are considered via a series of broad surveys, wherein each chapter may be regarded as a …
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