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Showing 1 to 20 of 126 for “"antithetical"”.
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The world in His hands: a Christian account of scientific law and its antithetical competitors
This dissertation examines the Christian doctrine of divine providence and its implications for the laws of nature and problem of induction before contrasting secular and Islamic approaches to these same topics. Chapter 1 introduces the topic of a Christian account of scientific law by citing …
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The ballad as a literary genre: studies toward a redefinition
… one another to the degree that they exhibit an antithetical structure characteristically present on two levels: 1) contextually, in the confrontation between the hero and a higher order; 2) formally, in the division between narrative stanza and refrain. The confrontation is usually resolved by …
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EXILES OF HETERONORMATIVITY: QUEER REPRODUCTION AND FEMALE SAME-SEX FAMILIES IN SINGAPORE
… same-sex desires and practices are treated as antithetical to the Family. This dissertation challenges the rhetorical monolith of the traditional family by documenting intimate stories of alternative reproduction from the experiences of female citizens who have been treated as exiles of …
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Narrative discourse in W. B. Yeats's "A Vision": An analysis of the interrelationships of narrators and narrative transmissions
… function systematically within his primary and antithetical dichotomy which corresponds to the outer, disciplined man of action and to the inner, intuitive man of contemplation, respectively. Also, Yeats fuses a complex meaning to his surface structure of confusing charts, diagrams, and varying …
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Strangers among us: the critique of westoxification in Perso-Islamic political thought
… western thought that reads Islamism as antithetical to modernity and globalization; that Islamism is a site of unabashed traditionalism in the wake of the secularism. I challenge this dominant western reading by asking the question: how might Islamic thinkers' critiques of the West, and …
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The Break Between Taft and Roosevelt
… did the friendship between these two antithetical characters begin. Though their training had been different, for a time each complemented the other and brought out the best points in his character.
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Uses of Aboriginality : popular representations of Australian Aboriginality / Robert Windsor.
… ideas and values that are external or even antithetical to Aboriginal interests.
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Peshawar’s ‘Emergent Civil Society’: The Potential and Limitations of its Contribution to Peacebuilding
… religious pluralism, which is resisted by the antithetical forces of masculinity and religious orthodoxies. Amidst these contestations, the ‘emergent civil society’, while resisting these antithetical forces, pressurizes the state also to provide favourable conditions to continue its …
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Traditional Governance Influence on Democracy in Africa
… whether or not if they are complimentary or antithetical to democracy in African countries. Lastly, to examine the benefits that comes with having a democratic government in Africa.</p>
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Poetry, Place, and Painting in the Works of Frank O'Hara
… a modern urban epic that both emulates and is antithetical to Eliot's The Waste Land. Having broken free of Eliot's influence and establishing his own poetic manifesto, O'Hara could embrace his generation's dominant art form: painting rather than literature and Abstract Expressionist painting …
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Reading disability in the law and in Presidential rhetoric : the cases of Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and George H.W. Bush.
… and citizenship are positioned discursively as antithetical concepts.
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Through the Scholastic Looking Glass: The Pedagogical Potential of Textual Deformation for Poetic Studies
… examines the pedagogical usefulness of the antithetical reading model of textual deformation for the study of poetic works. No formal pedagogical plan exists for the education of students in poetic studies through textual deformance. This thesis does not go as far as structuring one in its …
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Assessing mindfulness as a moderator between trait worry and working memory capacity performance in undergraduates
Mindfulness and worry have some antithetical qualities, yet mixed or non-significant findings suggest that practicing mindfulness alone will not disrupt worry. Working memory capacity (WMC) has been implicated in the relationship between worry and mindfulness, with some research showing that the …
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The King's Speech: A Rhetorical Analysis of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I
… the play lead to a transformation in Hal that is antithetical to the emergent understanding of Hal as a great manipulator. Falstaff uses the ruse of rhetoric instructor in order to construct a classical rhetorical argument for his own ends, and Henry IV gives a passionate yet formally adept (and …
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Variance reduction for Poisson and Markov jump processes
… time-stepping method for Markov processes. Both antithetical and stratified sampling variance-reduction techniques are considered for Poisson mean estimation, and a hybridization of them is developed that has lower variance than either for every value of the Poisson parameter. Several analytical …
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The Mirrors of Naturalism: Stephen Crane's Pragmatic Determinism
… theories of determinism and pragmatism were antithetical to, and yet dependent upon, one another. On the one hand, Stephen Crane’s fiction reveals determinism’s heavy weight upon the naturalist genre (the sense that humans cannot affect their worlds), yet unlike Frank Norris or Jack London, …
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Three is a Crowd: A potential exception to an oppositional rule
… artistic collaboration matthews and allen) as antithetical systems. This discourse proposes a disruption to a metaphysical dichotomy between the noetic authorial text and the poetic paratext. The non-oppositional premise of collaborative dialogue is proposed as a method to resist the …
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Light Imagery in Little Dorrit
… how the sun image emphasizes in a parallel or antithetical fashion these illusions. Chapter II will handle fire imagery, particularly that of hearth fire, and its relationship to three of the main characters, Arthur, Amy, and William Dorrit. Images of fire that portray the phoenix motif will …
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Negotiations with the landscape : a winery in California
… the industrial nature of the winery might appear antithetical to landscape setting. the production of wine necessitates a dialogue between building and site. The design is an exploration of this tension and interdependence in architectural form. historical movements in European garden design, and …
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