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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"cautionary tale"”.
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Towards an understanding of business design within enterprise architecture management: a cautionary tale
Business Design represents a set of concepts that are described in the literature as providing a sound foundation for sustainable competitive advantage into the future. The particular values underpinning Business design are based on the enablement of a design thinking approach to solving the …
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The quest for professionalization: A twentieth century cautionary tale for United States stage managers
This dissertation explores stage management’s failed attempts at professionalization in the early twentieth century. Using Harold L. Wilensky’s theory of professionalization as a means of comparison, I investigate the ways stage management tried to develop as a field of practice but were ultimately …
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J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla: A Tri-Part Exploration of the Vampiric Novel
… looks at Bertha Rheinfeldt’s character and the cautionary tale that she presents simply with her name. I draw parallels between her character and that of Bertha Mason both in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea. By engaging these outside texts, I propose that Bertha …
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The Portal of Orion
… elements as well as fantasy and serves as both a cautionary tale and an adventure.</p>
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John Spaghotte
… California version of Don Quixote becomes a cautionary tale about the dangers of failing to recognize oneself among a world full of materialistic pleasures and grandiose, fictional heroes. In the formulation of his novel Schuler argues that artistic creation, appreciation, study, and the …
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Knowledge discovery in corporate email : the compliance bot meets Enron
… of email as evidence in litigation. The cautionary tale of Enron provides the backdrop for the thesis. The government released hundreds of thousands of Enron management emails and they have become research fodder for those interested in "Knowledge Discovery," a computer science discipline …
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Lonely Monsters
… and class. Utilizing the elements of a fairy tale, the narrative seeks to complicate the roles of gender in a cautionary tale. Set in the fictional Florida town of Puerto Palmera, an economic divide between the Estates and the Glades makes for a ripe, troublesome environment for a foul …
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In search of a direction in the contemporary architecture of Arabia
… new architectural vocabulary. Secondly. it is a cautionary tale to designers who set about buildings that attempt to respond to the exigencies of both internationalism and tradition, and finally it focuses on issues of guidance to state agencies.
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"The Case of Mary Phagan,'A Story About the Story of a Murder': Constructing a Crime"
… and describe crime. Phagan's murder became a cautionary tale, a narrative of sexual danger within the model city of the New South. My thesis illustrates the importance of understanding murder as an event occurring within and shaped by a social context. The murder of Mary Phagan and the Frank …
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Ornament because of crime : learning from Mafia Baroque
… of Mafia Baroque nor will it just serve as a cautionary tale projecting a bleak future. If ornament used to be a direct product of crime, could it now express its patron's ulterior motive for an improved urban environment as it takes on additional collective functions besides communicating …
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For the Lost
… and the stories of others are presented not as a cautionary tale, or even a tale of the exceptional person, but as the attempt to demonstrate the unique problems academia and the professional world offers people like me. This is the attempt to offer the victims of child abuse a narrative which …
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Medea in Victorian Women's Poetry
… the mid to late Victorian period, Euripides’ tale of Medea was given new life by the suffragette movement. As Victorians began to question women’s rights and capabilities, Medea’s story resurfaced as a cautionary tale showing the damage that occurs when women repress and shape their identities …
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A Model Citizen: Ethos, Conservation, and the Rhetorical Construction of Aldo Leopold
… shows that Leopold can serve as both a model and cautionary tale for environmental communication in our own time.'</p>
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Moral Politics: Global Humanitarianism, Africa, and West Germany, 1960-1985
… does not tally them to an uplifting account or cautionary tale about humanitarianism’s rise and fall. Engaging history transnationally, beyond the Cold War, and outside the bounds of former empires, each chapter works micro-historically outward from specific places and conjunctures in order, …
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Towards The Engineering Of A Synthetic Minimal Cell
… to produce mycoplasma-based CFE and serves as a cautionary tale for other researchers entering this field.
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Dorian Gray: The Myth
… with Sybil. Ultimately, the novel serves as a cautionary tale against the Aesthetic Movement's hubris in pursuit of beauty and art above all else. While acknowledging Dorian as a metaphorical Narcissus that critiques societal norms, a deeper exploration comparing the myth and novel’s narratives …
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Atrazine: a lively chemical journey
… should hopefully serve as a case study and cautionary tale of globally increasing and unevenly experienced chemical exposure. This project argues that effects of atrazine within their political and historic contexts should be considered a form of unspectacular violence, that slowly but …
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Social policy and operations management
… on the introduction, chapter two tells a cautionary tale, investigating how scholars and decision makers used operations management methods to consider operations in planning and policy analysis in the 1970s in ways that further marginalized already vulnerable residents. The tools and …
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Assessing the effects of grazing and land use change on soil carbon stocks in pastures of the Virginia Blue Ridge
… 1999 and 2010. This conflict should serve as a cautionary tale to ecologists using space-for-time substitution. Averaged across all sites (all of which are grazed), we found soil carbon in the top 20 cm of soil increased 1.2±0.2 Mg/ha/yr for the 11 years between 1999 and 2010. This provides …
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A Critical Examination of Green Economic Development as a Post-Disaster Recovery Approach: The Case of Greensburg, Kansas 2007-2012
… the green technology movement looks more like a cautionary tale of outsider influence, misunderstood economic development principles, and a hint of buyers' remorse.</p>
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