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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"abyss"”.
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Deep Abyss: Repository of Echoes
<p><em>Deep Abyss: Repository of Echoes</em> explores memory, trauma, and healing through an immersive, multi-sensory installation combining sound, video, and tactile elements. Focusing on sensory experience and embodied resonance, the work invites viewers to deeply engage with fragmented memories …
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The import of the sensation of the abyss
… argues the significance of the concept of the abyss as a means to understanding key contemporary ideas such as the self, identity, reflexivity, indeterminacy, ideology, radical doubt, lack, and xenophobia. Proposing the analysis of interpretations of the abyss as informative in developing an …
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Beyond the Abyss: American Gaslight and Popular Literature
The mainstream feminist movement in the United States has struggled to include women of color and marginalized women. However, two constants emerge from the work of both white feminists and feminists of color: first, writing is a powerful tool with which women can examine their experiences and …
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Into the abyss : a study of the mise en abyme
… initial allusion and has become a metaphor for abyssal - and abysmal - things. This thesis seeks to consider the history of the mise en abyme and to offer a contemporary account of what it might mean: it does this by uncovering the latent rhetorical figures which preceded the name ‘mise en …
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From Within the Abyss: Drug Users in Areas of Rural Poverty
<p>This research was completed to deal with many unanswered questions regarding drug use, specifically drug use in areas of rural poverty. Look at any "Faces of Meth" billboard or listen to any corporate-news program and one might assume there is a drug epidemic in rural areas. Without research, …
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Poetics of the Abyss: History, Aesthetics, and Decoloniality in Édouard Glissant's Early Thought
… the way in which they configure a paradoxical, abyssal experience, I show why it is imperative for Glissant to challenge a traditional account of history that he connects with a Western conception of temporality and spatiality. In this confrontation, Glissant’s philosophy of Caribbean history …
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Renderings of the Abyss: some changing nineteenth-century literary perceptions of the animal / human divide.
… divide and its contents, often regarded as an abyss. The study is written like a time line, starting at the beginning of the nineteenth century and finishing at the end. I split the nineteenth century into four time periods centred around the emergence of Darwinian theory, considered by this …
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From the atmosphere to the abyss: tracing organic carbon deposition, cadmium isotopes, and iron cycling using marine
The marine biological pump refers to the formation and subsequent export of particulate organic carbon from the sunlit zone to the ocean’s interior. The magnitude and attenuation of this flux exert an important control over the air–sea balance of carbon dioxide. This thesis is focused on …
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Speaking into the Abyss: An Exploratory Study of Academics’ Use of Educational Technology and its Impact on Practice.
This is a study of educational technology use in academic practice undertaken in an Irish Higher Education setting. Based on interviews with fifteen academics, the enquiry attempts to respond to Selwyn’s (2010) call for an increase in social scientific accounts of technology use which pay heed to …
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From the atmosphere to the abyss: Tracing organic carbon deposition, cadmium isotopes, and iron cycling using marine sediments
The marine biological pump refers to the formation and subsequent export of particulate organic carbon from the sunlit zone to the ocean’s interior. The magnitude and attenuation of this flux exert an important control over the air–sea balance of carbon dioxide. This thesis is focused on …
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Traversing the transition abyss : examining lived experiences of the transition to adulthood process for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities
… gaps that contribute to the transition abyss. Using focus groups, this study identifies key barriers—including inadequate early planning, inconsistent interagency collaboration, and a lack of person-centered approaches—and examines the alignment of transition experiences with best …
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Rising from the Abyss: A Grounded Theory Exploration on How Afghani and Ukrainian Mothers Navigate Major Milestones Following the Onset of Political Conflict
<p>The political conflicts that have erupted around the world have disrupted the lives of millions of people. This constructivist grounded theory study delved into the experiences of ten mothers from Afghanistan and Ukraine who had to overcome three major milestones: conflict in their homelands, …
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On the role of the Southern Ocean in the global carbon cycle and atmospheric CO2 change
… altered communication between the atmosphere and abyss in the Southern Ocean is relatively well documented and often implicated in explanations of past and future climate changes, but the ambiguity of the paleoceanographic record defies interpretation of the mechanisms involved.<br/><br/>Using a …
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Probable Sociological Reasons for the Increase in Suicide in Contemporary Ireland.
… to the full and to look into the extraordinary abyss of how little we know? There are people around us who may be perceived as having many reasons to kill themselves and yet do everything in the power to live, and there are those who may appear to have every reason for living and yet kill …
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Wordsworth's Gothic Poetics
… self and in his tendency to vanish into the abyss of the mind in reaction to moments of sublimity and perversity. These gothic aspects appear not just in Wordsworth's early experiments with the genre (The Borderers, The Vale of Esthwaite, Fragment of a Gothic Tale), but they also manifest …
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« Le désert progresse » : mirages postmodernes de l’Ouest américain dans les fictions françaises et québécoises
… narrative embedding, the aesthetics of the abyss, and the destabilization of linear temporality. It situates the desert as a narrative and geographic interstice, where Hollywood influence, colonial legacies, and European sensibilities intersect to form a network of aesthetic and ideological …
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The Talus
<p>Falling from a high place into an unknown abyss of strange characters and even stranger events takes readers far further than Humpty Dumpty and into a cats-cradle of mystery and humor. Jonah Tinderwunkel, the protagonist, mistakenly cast a curse upon himself at the age of fourteen. Now, …
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Abyssal polychaete assemblages along latitudinal gradients of productivity in the equatorial Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans
… for large-scale natural disturbance in the abyss. Anew spatio-temporal scale of disturbance was highlighted that may have evolutionary as well as ecological significance.<br/>Although levels of alpha diversity were generally shown to be high in the abyss compared to shallow water, the …
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