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Showing 1 to 20 of 915 for “"backdrop"”.
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Backdrop Explorer: A Human-AI Collaborative Approach for Exploring Studio Backdrops in Civil War Portraits
… photo research, the presence of painted backdrops have the potential to help identify subjects, photographers, locations, and jl{events surrounding} certain photographs. Yet, research processes around these backdrops are poorly documented, with no known tools to aid in the task. We …
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Nuclear liability – a comparative assessment of the legal situation in South Africa and Germany against the backdrop of international law
The study is concerned with the topic of nuclear liability. One might think this is a topic of the last century, but it is not. In the last few years the demand and development of nuclear power plants were enhanced due to several reasons. Especially in South Africa, the further development of …
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Everyday Heritage, Spatio-temporal Dynamics and Place-making: Rethinking the Social Production of London’s Chinatown on the Backdrop of COVID-19
The impact of COVID-19-related racism on London’s Chinatown reveals the urgent need to reconceptualise this central London district beyond an essentialist idea of Chinatown. Research on London’s Chinatown as a lived and meaningful space often focuses only on self-identified Chinese people or their …
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Against the Backdrop of Sovereignty and Absolutism: The Theology of God's Power and Its Bearing on the Western Legal Tradition, 1100-1600
In focusing on the theology of God's power, this dissertation neither presents an exhaustive historical biography of political theology nor exalts its career in the Western history of ideas. Rather, it attempts to determine the degree to which the modern fate of this field depended on the dialectic …
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Boomtown wives: a novel and, The stage and backdrop: essay on the history of the Hopetoun-Ravensthorpe region, A great madness: essay on the social effects of WA's 21st century resources boom
… Wives', and two essays entitled 'The Stage and Backdrop', and 'A Great Madness'. These works are about the Western Australian mining boom generally and the remote seaside town of Hopetotm in particular: my thesis explores how overseas demand for Australian commodities shapes the lives of a …
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The rhetorical structure of disability : bridging the gap between what is 'spoken' and what is 'said' with song - over-signifying with personhood against the backdrop of disease-centric discourse.
This paper investigates the rhetoric surrounding disability, specifically focusing on how such rhetoric is deployed in legislative texts which attempt to promote the equality of people with disabilities throughout society. In criticizing "disease-centric discourse" within legislative texts the …
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A heuristic exploration into the lived experience of trying to “have it all” at 30: How do professional women experience desiring to mother and career planning against the backdrop of the finitude of their fertility?
A time of heightened anxiety arises for women who have careers and wish to be mothers around the age of 30. It seems that for this group of women, the experience of choosing when to become mothers is imbued with anxiety rich with existential themes such as, choice, freedom, meaning, temporality, …
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Photographic backdrops in Cameroon: A study of intra-interregional and intergenerational circulations.
This study is about photographic backdrops in the Cameroon visual scene, from the 1950s to 1980s, a time in which Cameroon moved from a divided state to a unified nation state. Several different forms of these backdrops were identified and mapped out intra- interregionally and intergenerationally …
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Collateral Damage: Exploring the Metaphors and Realities of War in Three Fictional Narratives
… written three fictional stories set against a backdrop of human conflict. I use this backdrop to explore the themes of: belonging, home, love, acceptance, place, and identity. Whether we believe in the fight or whether we are even in the fight, it is clear that war permanently changes us. This …
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Reconstructing My Mother
<p>Set against the backdrop of turning 40, watching her sister battle cancer, and losing her father, Reconstructing My Mother is a memoir chronicling Jennifers journey to get to know her mother who died from cancer when Jennifer was 13, and her journey to get to know herself.'</p>
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We Were Such a Happy Family: Lessons in Imperfection
… what it means to be a family—against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic.</p>
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Van siters en skalmeie
… an essay in which it is argued that against the backdrop of the poststructural zeitgeist, the relationship between poetry and philosophy should be understood as a deconstructive one.
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More Abundantly
… the search for personal salvation against the backdrop of a small Central Pennsylvania town. The novel weaves together the lives of Ruby Jean, a college student and part-time stripper grappling with an unexpected pregnancy, and a cast of characters each searching for their own form of …
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Economic advancement or social exclusion? : less-educated workers, cost-of-living and migration in high-tech regions
… on knowledge-intensive sectors, provides a backdrop for policy makers to evaluate industry-choice decisions in the interest of economic growth and social equity in regional development. To provide that backdrop, I empirically answer: How are the benefits of high-tech development distributed …
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Tournament bass fishing: Commodification in a serious leisure activity
… social world of tournament bass fishing as a backdrop, this research combined qualitative and quantitative research methods in a grounded theory approach for the study of commodification, serious leisure and the relationship between these two important social phenomena. Significant …
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The Fabric of a Neighborhood: Hilton Village in Newport News, Virginia
… and community planning, as well as of the social backdrop of the period in which the specific community was developed.
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The historical archaeology of Marothodi : towards an understanding of space, identity and the organisation of production at an early 19th century Tlokwa capital in the Pilansberg region of South Africa
… on a case by case basis against the defined backdrop of their unique historical, political and biophysical contexts. The early 19th century Tlokwa capital of Marothodi, in the Pilanesberg region of South Africa, forms the focus of a study through which the value of this approach is …
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The place of women in the political sphere: a comparative study of Cameroon and South Africa
… through an assessment conducted against the backdrop key of international, regional and national human rights standards. The aim of this thesis was not only, to be conscious of women's absence in politics, but to also take steps to redefine sound strategies to implement gender equality in …
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"She was certainly not a Rosa Luxemborg" : a biography of Cissie Gool in images and words
… activist Cissie Gool (1897-1963) against the backdrop oflocal, national and international politics as it impacted on her in both a direct and indirect way. Culled from oral and documentary sources, the historical Cissie is a representation based on memories, perceptions, biases and subjective …
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Shadows Hold Their Breath
… everything about her traditional life. With a backdrop of the 1970s feminist movement, Kat decides the only way she can discover who she was meant to be is to leave her husband and her three young daughters. She discovers that the decision has unintended outcomes and leads her down an …
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