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Showing 1 to 20 of 555 for “"contradiction"”.
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Economic structure and individuality: an essay on contradiction
This Project builds upon Lucien Seve's time-based (biographical) approach to personality development. The personality is, he contends, composed of three core elements-need; activity; and capacity. In contemporary social conditions, needs are complex and subordinated to the structure of acts and the …
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Contradiction in the making of a sacred monolith
… is a) the discovery and study of architectonic contradictions used in the design of this unique sacred community, and b) their use for the creation of the new design.
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Contradiction and grammar : the case of weak islands
… expressions leads to a problem, namely a contradiction. This contradiction might manifest itself in one of two forms: In some cases, the question will presuppose that that a number of mutually incompatible alternatives is true at the same time, therefore it will necessarily lead to a …
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Embracing Conflict and Contradiction as a Path to Awareness
<p>The focus of this autoethnographic dissertation is the exploration of habitus and how it consciously and unconsciously influences our perceptions, emotions, values, and actions. I describe this dissertation as an autoethnography to highlight my subjective approach to research and to dispel any …
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Contract and contradiction: Representations of women's labor in 18th century British literature.
Contract and contradiction: Representations of women's labor in 18th century British literature.
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PEDAGOGICAL PRAXIS IN AN AGE OF PRIVATIZATION: THE CONTRADICTION OF CHARTER SCHOOLS
<p>This study investigates a perceived inconsistency between pedagogical theory and uncritical practice in education, specifically in charter schools. The researcher reflects on the historical creation of charter schools to fulfill the needs of struggling students in contrast to a perception of …
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The Literature of Loss: Modernity, Poetic Prose, and the Tendency Toward Contradiction
<p>This study traces the historical and formal development of poetic prose beginning in the late eighteenth century through the mid to late nineteenth century. Drawing on research in poetics, narrative theory, genre theory, philosophy, and socioeconomic analysis and ideology, this study positions …
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Undergraduate Mathematics Education Students' Understanding of Proof by Contradiction and Proof by Contraposition
Proof by contradiction (PBCd) and proof by contraposition (PBCp) are essential yet challenging for students, particularly undergraduate mathematics students, and are often perceived as less convincing and explanatory than direct proof (DP). While several factors have been identified as contributing …
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‘A contradiction in essence’: Eroticism and the Creation of the Self in Henry Miller
<p>The intention of this paper is, in the first, to demonstrate that Miller’s work has been labeled ‘erotic’, and that this obscures the true contribution of his work – but that as much as it obscures his work, this label also provides us an avenue to access it. In the second, it is to explore what …
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‘Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s The Turkish Embassy Letters (1763): Agency, Authority and the “female spirit of contradiction”’‘Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s The Turkish Embassy Letters (1763): Agency, Authority and the “female spirit of contradiction”’
The Turkish Embassy Letters is considered both inaugural and atypical of women’s travel writing, and scholarship is largely orientated around Montagu’s focus on women and their lives in the different countries she travelled to and stayed in between 1716 – 18. While this dissertation maintains a …
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A Contradiction in Will: Understanding China's Strategic Culture in a Civil-Military Context
Given China’s civil-military relationship, how consistent is its military’s perspectives on the use of force with those of the party-state government? By adopting a cultural framework of analysis, this study utilizes a methodology rooted in social constructivism to examine the strategic policies of …
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Contradiction, conflict and convergence of class and nation in black South African politics, 1925-1985
As the history of South Africa has been a history of race relations, involving, as it did, the domination of blacks by whites, nationalism, the reaction to this domination, occupies a special position in the history of the black struggle. Yet the history of national liberation in South Africa …
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A web of contradiction : an assessment of the migration-development nexus and its relevance to MIDA
Although organizations and researchers have long pointed to the impact of migration on the development of countries of origin, one can hardly deny the bright spotlight and the rapid resurgence within policy debates, that the migration-development nexus enjoys over recent years. European …
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(School) girl power : the construction and contradiction of the cultural figure of the schoolgirl across contemporary popular culture
Girls are significant consumers of media and popular culture. As the girl power movement gained popularity alongside the rise of postfeminism in the late 1990s, representations of girls were held to demonstrate model citizenship. With schoolgirls being representative of almost all women and girls, …
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The contradiction of south-south sustainable development in Chinese-Mauritanian fishmeal factories and environmental violence in the Gambia
… plants in The Gambia. This thesis explores the contradiction of the sustainable development and South-South Cooperation discourses epitomized in fishmeal investments in The Gambia and how counter narratives emerge from coastal communities who protest and challenge hegemonic discourses about the …
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