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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"beginning of the 20th century"”.
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A Critical Analysis Of Actions Taken Upon Historic Musical Instruments Through The Period Of The Early Music Revival From The Beginning Of The 20th Century To The 1990s
This work is a critical analysis of craft internvention upon historic musical instruments. It is centred upon the tension between use and preservation that arose with the conflicting demands of the early music revival for working musical instruments,and of the conservation discipline for the …
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Antikolonijinio smurtinio pasipriešinimo XX a. pr. Indijoje analizė /
Analysis of Anti-colonial Violent Resistance in India in the Beginning of the 20th Century. The main subject of the bachelor’s thesis is violent resistance in Indian anti-colonial movement in the beginning of the 20th century. The aim is to reveal how this social process made an influence to …
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Shakespeare in China
Since Shakespeare was introduced to China at the beginning of the 20th Century, the Chinese have translated the English playwright's plays and performed them on the Chinese stage either in the form of spoken drama or the traditional Chinese opera. No matter which approach is chosen to perform the …
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El narcotráfico como realidad y representación en la narrativa de Germán Castro Caycedo
<p>The work of the Colombian author Germán Castro Caycedo (Bogotá, 1944) has produced some of Colombia's most widely read non-fiction works during the last five decades. Among other intellectuals, his work represents a post-1970s Colombian society conditioned by the complex issue of drugs and drug …
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The transformation of line, shape and intention in Chinese painting since Xu Beihong and Lin Fengmian
The research of this dissertation is focused on 'transformation' in the development of Chinese painting and takes the three traditional elements in painting-- line, shape, and intention--as methods of observation. The dissertation proposes that Chinese painting has undergone two stages of critical …
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Pugilism and Poetry: Guillaume Apollinaire, Arthur Cravan and the Poète-Boxeur
The black boxers who fled the United States to Paris in the beginning of the 20th century were a true sensation among the citys avant-garde, and of all the artists and litterateurs gathered around the rings of the Parisian boxing scene, two champions of the poetic world stand out: Guillaume …
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Use of geographic information systems and infrared-triggered cameras to assess white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) habitat in Denton County, Texas.
… in both population and development. Despite their presence here historically, white-tailed deer were all but extirpated by the beginning of the 20th century, and there are no data available which support their presence in Denton County again until the 1980's. This study attempts to equate the …
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Temporal Context, Inequality and Democratic Survival
… factors prevent democratic breakdowns? Since the beginning of the 20th century, more than a hundred countries in the world have transformed their political regime types into democracies. However, not every transition to democracy continued without interruption. Even though some democracies …
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Development of a sandcasting process for an Atlantic Marine Engine
The Atlantic Marine Engine, designed and manufactured by Lunenburg Foundry of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, is a historically significant gasoline marine engine from the beginning of the 20th century. The Atlantic and other similar engines transformed the American and Canadian fishing industries with …
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Η αρχαία ελληνική γλώσσα και γραμματεία ως πρόβλημα της νεοελληνικής εκπαίδευσης, από την αναγέννηση ως την καθιέρωση της δημοτικής (1976)
… two opposing tendencies, creating two types of presentation and reception of AELL in education; the historical and the dogmatic type. The historical type began during the renaissance humanismus and was related to national languages. It uses translation to approach AELL. The dogmatic type …
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Recollecting history : songs, flags and a Syrian square
Symbols have played a major role in the development of a Syrian national identity since the beginning of the 20th century. These representations are national, official, and/or public (flag, song, and square), that are repetitively performed by successive generations of Syrian citizens, thus forming …
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The mind of the everyday in contemporary fine art and Zen Buddhist practice
Since the beginning of the 20th century, contemporary art has been saturated with references to the everyday and there are a mass of available views addressing the subject by profound social thinkers such as Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau and Agnes Heller. Towards the end of the 20th century and …
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Shackleford Banks: Applying Archaeological and Geospatial Approaches to Maritime Settlement and Abandonment
… been permanently inhabited by humans in over a century. Before it was abandoned in the beginning of the 20th century, this island had been occupied since at least the mid-eighteenth century by European colonists. These "Ca'e Bankers" lived, not necessarily in isolation, but in self-reliant …
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Evolving notions of childhood: an example of Kazakhstan
… understanding versatile and evolving perceptions of childhood in Kazakhstan after the independence of the country. It draws on a variety of primary data including in-depth interviews and surveys with young people and representatives of non- governmental organisations working with young people. …
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French Caribbean Women and the Problem of Empowerment: A look at Moi, Tituba, sorcière...Noire de Salem and Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle
This thesis explores the problem of self-empowerment for the French Caribbean Black woman as presented in the novels Moi, Tituba, sorcière...Noire de Salem and Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle. The respective authors, Maryse Condé and Simone Schwarz- Bart, use fiction to convey the plight of women …
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Entre palácios e pavilhões: a arquitetura efêmera da Exposição Nacional de 1908
On the occasion of the National Exposition that took place in Rio de Janeiro in 1908, some large structures – Palaces and Pavillions – were built, as well as a number of smaller ones, making up a grand ensemble characterized by predominantly eclectic esthetics. This dissertation studies the …
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Small-Town Mentality and Female Perspectives
At the end of the 19th and also at the beginning of the 20th century several social and cultural changes took place that shaped American society. One of the most significant of them was the appearance of big cities, which resulted in the duality and led to the born of a new way thinking. In the new …
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Estudo de uma experiência de fluxo informacional científico no Instituto Oswaldo Cruz : a "Mesa das quartas-feiras"
In the beginning of the 20th century, Documentation presented a great advance by means of reflection and action on the treatment of the existing information in the scientific institutions. In 1909, in the Library of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute, a system of dissemination of information between its …
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Corporate governance in emerging markets: a study of South African and Zimbabwean banks
Since 1994 (that is from the time SA became an independent state) 12 banks failed in SA and 8 in Zimbabwe. BCCI was operating in both countries (Document 2: Appendix 1). The impact of a failure of a bank to any economy is huge as evidenced by the failure of Lehman Brothers in 2009. From the …
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The Cultural Shaping of Depression: A Qualitative Investigation Into Afghan Women’s Perspectives on Depression
In recent years, Major Depression has become one of the most widely researched areas in the field of cross-cultural psychology. Since the beginning of the 20th century, the number of people diagnosed as having this disorder has increased substantially not only in Western cultures, but also in Asian …
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