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Showing 1 to 20 of 460 for “"commonplace"”.
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The Art of the Commonplace: Found Sounds in Compositional Practice
<p>This dissertation contains a historical analysis of the emergence of found sounds or everyday noises as a compositional strategy in Western art music through the first half of the 20th century. Pioneering works are examined to determine the motives and aesthetic goals that first led composers to …
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Embracing Commonplace: Creating Ground for a Life of Rhetorically Engaged Civic Action
… and college campus through the understanding of commonplace stemming from the Greek understanding of topoi (Aristotle). This praxis-centered approach to service-learning provides ground for students to understand the rhetorical and communicative practices necessary for a life of engaged civic …
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Questioning Commonplace Ecological Design: a study of waterfront design practices and the ecological well-being of development in the harbor of Oyster, Virginia
The purpose of this investigation is to examine how landscape architecture can create a different kind of threshold between land and water without controlling the edge between the two entities, but merely guiding the natural process of exchange. The design of Oyster Harbor on the Eastern Shore of …
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Reconceiving Romantic Agency: A Question Concerning Its Extent
… the agent-external conception is pervasive and commonplace in contemporary culture, and that it conceives of romantic love as being involuntary and without agency. My investigation then questions the accuracy of this agent-external conception by juxtaposing it with what I consider to be an …
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Reconceiving Romantic Agency: A Question Concerning Its Extent
… the agent-external conception is pervasive and commonplace in contemporary culture, and that it conceives of romantic love as being involuntary and without agency. My investigation then questions the accuracy of this agent-external conception by juxtaposing it with what I consider to be an …
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A Case Study of Selected Preservice Teachers Regarding the Origins of Their Perspectives on the Commonplaces of Education and the Impact of Foundations Studies on Those Perspectives
… and Schwab’s (1978) concept of the four "commonplaces" of education (teacher, student, curriculum, and context) was used to categorize questions about the meaning and purpose of education. Nine interviewees were selected from among students in two teacher education programs in the …
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Fighting Words: Slurs, Semantics, and the Law
… injury is unmatched by that of other, more commonplace insults. But what is it that makes oppressive slurs such potent verbal weapons? A commonplace view among both philosophers and legal theorists is that slurs make such potent insults because their uses convey extremely offensive, bigoted …
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The Aesthetic Agency of Popular Culture in the Writings of Pierre Bourdieu and Arthur C. Danto
… people's disrespect for the importance of commonplace and everyday experiences. Bourdieu approaches the problem by applying sociology to aesthetics, and Danto raises the question through a view of aesthetics based on his philosophy of culture, which he begins to cultivate in his late …
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Observations on the biology of Schistocerca venusta
… environs. Despite the fact that the insect is commonplace, very little work has been done on its biology. It was the purpose of this study, therefore, to learn by field and laboratory observations of the life cycle and habits of Schistoceroa venusta.</p>
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THE IMPORTANCE OF TEACHING MEDIA LITERACY: A CULTURAL APPROACH TO NAVIGATING MEDIA LANDSCAPES
<p>One’s familiarity with the commonplace does not automatically equate to one’s being a discerning, savvy, or knowledgeable consumer of media in any form. Nor does it automatically result in a society of engaged Americans capable of distinguishing between fact and fiction amid the unstoppable …
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Towards automating cine DENSE MRI image analysis : segmentation, tissue tracking and strain computation
… for the heart. Imaging cardiac morphology is now commonplace in clinical practice, and a plethora of quantitative techniques have also arisen on the research front. Myocardial tagging is an established quantitative cardiac MRI method that involves magnetically tagging the heart with a set of …
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Pushpin computing : a platform for distributed sensor networks
… node possesses the tangible affordances of a commonplace pushpin to meet ease-of-use and power considerations. The sensing, computational, and communication abilities of a "Pushpin", as well as a "Pushpin" operating system supporting mobile computational processes are treated in detail. …
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Into the heartland of the ordinary
… to "look awry" at the habitual and the commonplace is understood as interventionist, since it calls for a radical shift in our relations to the ordinary by recognizing the place of desire in mundane accounts of the lifeworld. Sacks, on the other hand, can be read as a theorist committed …
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The Exploration of Machiavellianism
… whether in an academic or practical setting, are commonplace. Workforces and academic settings alike are often comprised of groups of two or more individuals working together towards a common goal. As these interactions continue to be prevalent and important in the various settings, the context in …
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New World Drugs in England's Early Empire
… and consumption of New World drugs became commonplace by the early eighteenth century, and they could even be accessed by schoolboys and pensioners at charitable institutions. To formulate this narrative, I employ an integrated historical approach, drawing from economic, colonial, …
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The Grounds of Transcendental Idealism
… metaphysics and epistemology of ground that were commonplace in Kant’s time. In the third paper, I provide a new interpretation of transcendental idealism, by drawing a conceptual distinction between two forms of intentionality: reference and truthmaking. I argue that this interpretation manages …
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Forensic analysis of digital evidence from Palm Personal Digital Assistants
… Assistants are becoming more affordable and commonplace. They provide mobile data storage, computational, and network abilities. When handheld devices are involved in a crime, forensic examiners need tools to properly retrieve and analyze data present on the device. Unfortunately, forensic …
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Fiction Free Form
… dogma, and balloons. Experiences that are commonplace and ordinary things are used to create meaning; appropriate topics for poetry can and should include everything under the sun and above it. The introduction discusses formal elements of the fiction and poetry included in the collection.
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Sixteen year retrospective analysis of rheumatic and non-rheumatic heart disease patients undergoing valve procedures at Groote Schuur Hospital first incidence single aortic and mitral valve replacement
… the epidemic of rheumatic disease are still commonplace. The choice of appropriate valve procedure and prosthesis in our setting will depend on an adequate knowledge of short and long term outcomes of valve replacement and repair. The aim of this thesis was to evaluate the demographics and …
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