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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"content and form"”.
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Content and form in public address : an analysis of the relative influences of the major components of speech upon the listener
… is a communicative process by which information may be given and received. Inherent in the phrase "given and received" is the assumption that the speaker anticipates that his listener will understand and respond, and that the speech will be understood as it was intended.</p> <p>The …
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Making meaning of the sketchbook: an inquiry into the conceptualisation, content and form of sketchbooks, and associated pedagogical practices, in post-compulsory Art and Design education, with consideration of the effects of new technologies on practices.
This research project is an inquiry into, and exploration of, work carried out by students studying on formal Further Education (FE) and Higher Education (HE) Art & Design courses in a specialist Art & Design college. The project focuses on the use of sketchbooks and the effects that new …
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Definitions and Lexical Organization of Adjectives: A Developmental Investigation
In comparing word association and definition, it is suggested that adjectives are supported by word association. Word associations seem to contribute to the content of definitions (as opposed to form). However, grammatical skill also appears to be involved. It is concluded that content and form are …
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JEWISH LANDSCAPES ROOTED, EMBEDDED, ENSHRINED, AND TRANSCENDENT: METAPHOR AS COMMUNICATED IN JEWISH MUSEUMS IN NEW YORK, JERUSALEM, AND SAN FRANCISCO
As public places, museums negotiate authenticity and re-presentation, fact and ideology, memory and the present confronting a basic question for museums directors, curators, and visitors alike: what is the truth here? In this dissertation, the content and form of four Jewish museums are examined …
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An analysis of the factors shaping teachers' understanding of HIV/AIDS
… study examined factors shaping teachers' understanding, experience, and teaching about sexuality and HIV/AIDS in some schools in the Western Cape and Mpumalanga, South Africa. Through the use of in-depth, semi-structured interviews with teachers and participant classroom observations in a select …
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O desencanto da história em A insustentável leveza do ser (1984) - sobre literatura e sociedade
… relationships established between literature and society. In the artistic-literary context, the kundera´s work appears as an aesthetic solution to the contradictions of the postwar world, especially with regard to the crisis of Soviet experience and ideological aspects referred to this. The …
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"The Ghost of That Ineluctable Past": Trauma and Memory in John Banville's Frames Trilogy
… consists of The Book of Evidence, Ghosts, and Athena—is a series of interconnected novels haunted by the memory of a singular, traumatic event: the senseless murder of an innocent woman at the hands of the Trilogy’s first-person narrator. This thesis project examines the central role that …
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"Undone by Murmurs of Love": Traumatic Legacies and the Struggle for Personal and Communal Identity Formation in Toni Morrison's Trilogy
<p>Implications of racial oppression on personal and collective African American identity formation in Toni Morrison’s trilogy are explored in this thesis. Morrison reconstructs African American history in her trilogy, but she also enacts a cultural healing through content and form. Impossible …
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Supporting children's narrative composition: The development and reflection of a visual approach for 7-8 year-olds
At the heart of present literacy, and narrative, learning paradigms are the "literate behaviours" usually associated with aspects of learning to encode and decode print. These paradigms have been criticized for placing written and verbal language in a privileged position. Furthermore, whilst an …
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Health promotion in the field of substance misuse in post-Soviet Russia
… of substance misuse defined as the problematic and chaotic as well as recreational use of alcohol, solvents and both prescription and illicit drugs. The thesis outlines and analyses developments in the provision of health promotion in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 in two …
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Riotous Reform, Staging Complaint, 1561–1595
ABSTRACT Riotous Reform: Staging Complaint, 1561-1595 Frances Caitlin Eastwood A cluster of plays published in London in the mid-1590s centres on reform and its corollary—a resistance to established authority. This thesis examines the staging of commons complaint during the evolution of commercial …
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La trilogia de jorge volpi como ventana sitiada en la posmodernidad
… of postmodern theory, the ideological and formal aspects of Jorge Volpi's trilogy of the twentieth century: En busca de Klingsor (In Search of Klingsor), El fin de la locura (The End of Madness), and No será la tierra (Season of Ash). Employing the concept of postmodernism as used by …
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Filtered Fiction, Tunnel Truth
… to ask questions about identity, to re-evaluate and to better articulate my world and self. The form of this manuscript is a blend of poetry and prose forms, mainly autobiographical in nature, somewhat fictionalized (or revised) and using subjects that are most significant to the understanding of …
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Semantic and organization considerations in database conceptual modelling : the Semantic Conceptual Organizational Model (SECOM)
… of the issues of relevance to the design and utilization of databases. Such issues include conceptual modelling, organization theory, and semantic theory. The conceptual modelling approach presented in this thesis is developed over three design stages, or model perspectives. In the …
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Contemporary english oral poetry by black poets in Great Britain and South Africa : a comparison between Linton Kwesi Johnson and Mzwakhe Mbuli
… aims of this dissertation are: to study a form of literature traditionally disregarded by a text-bound academy; to argue that form is an important element in ideological analyses of the poetry under discussion; and, on the basis of this second aim, to argue for a comparative, rigorously …
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Simulacra : constructing narrative in the studio tableau
The content and form of the work completed for this degree is intended as a narrative. This narrative is constructed to tell stories of my family, and of myself, in a way that openly stresses the playful, mythical, and fictional nature of such narratives in the family and in history. These …
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Blazing trails, being us: A narrative inquiry with five high school students with autism who type to communicate
… the terrain of high school, adolescence, and identity through collaboration and dialogue with one another, their school support team, and the inquirer (researcher). This study employs a multilayered approach to narrative inquiry to unravel and (re)present the students’ (co-inquirers) …
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Charles Brockden Brown and the Ethics of the Grotesque
… novels through close attention to the texts and to the richly complex historical environment from which they emerge and to which they respond. In several non-novelistic writings, including prefaces, letters, essays, and reviews, Brown insists that the value of narratives, whether fictional or …
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Paul’s Theology of Preaching in 1 Corinthians 1–4 from the Perspective of Apocalyptic Eschatology
… affirm the importance of eschatology in theology and recognize the unmistakable rise of apocalyptic eschatology in Pauline studies, how that affects Paul’s theology of preaching in 1 Corinthians 1–4 has yet to be researched. This dissertation draws upon Pauline studies about apocalyptic …
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The self-help of composition: Peter Elbow's "Writing without Teachers", composition studies, and the extracurriculum
… Writing without Teachers on Composition Studies and classroom-based writing instruction is indisputable, yet the central message of the book has been continually sidestepped. At the heart of Elbow's book is an inherent contradiction to classroom instruction: the original impetus for the book was …
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