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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"cultural symbolism"”.
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The Book as a Cultural Object: Exploring the Symbolism of Artist's Books
… resemble a traditional book. Artists use the cultural symbolism associated with reading, writing, and printed material to make works of art in various formats. These can be sculptures, or installations, or even performance pieces. The genre also includes works that do resemble traditional …
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The Historic Canal System in Bangkok, Thailand: Guidelines for Reestablishing Public Space Functions
… The study examines the historic value and cultural symbolism of the canals through evolutionary morphological analysis, establishing that the canals are primary structural elements in the city, since they have retained the integrity of their physical form over time, and have come to hold …
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From Pop Culture to Nuclear Debate: The Impact of The Day After in Lawrence and Kansas City
… analyzes the political ramifications and the cultural symbolism of The Day After from its production to its release, arguing that the importance of the film lies in its use as an influential cultural text amplifying repressed nuclear anxieties and using familiar symbolism to relay the dangers …
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The Hero's Journey
… that act as an interface to the spiritual symbolism explored in each piece.</p> <p>The collision of masking tape, shoe polish, flowers; gemstones and repurposed objects result in re-contextualizations of characters from popular culture. My practice suggests new possibilities for cultural …
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Design of water carts as educational and cultural objects in Syrian refugee camp
… capability, the cart will also serve as a cultural object. One of the greatest struggles within these refugee crises is how heritage and culture can be preserved and celebrated through displacement. With that in mind, this portion of the cart will include history lessons and references to …
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Uscire dalla casa paterna: An inquiry into the life, literature and times of Maria Messina
… woman. Different themes are investigated such as culturally-constructed gender barriers that existed since biblical and ancient times that still obtained at the turn of the century--even within the polemics of emancipation; the link between woman's silencing and the repression of her sexuality …
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O VIOLÃO MICROTONAL SMETAKIANO E SEU PAPEL SOCIAL SIMBÓLICO JUNTO AO CAMPO DE CRIAÇÃO DE VANGUARDA NA ESCOLA DE MÚSICA DA UFBA DA DÉCADA DE 1970
… associated performance practices, and cultural symbolism, acted in the relations of force and exercise of symbolic power in the context of the struggle for the monopoly of determining the hierarchy of values within such field, making its double role evident, as a symbolic asset and an …
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Three Essays in Behavioral Economics
… well-being, and analyzes the influence of cultural factors on prosocial behaviors.</p> <p>The first chapter delves into gender bias in the peer review process within academia. Using advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques, the study analyzes the textual content of academic …
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Invisible Scarlet O'neil and the Whitman authorized editions for girls: homefront representations of the american feminine and the feminine heroic during World War II
… the lives of women in three stages. Overall, cultural representations of women began as domestic paragons of good behavior and traditional feminine beauty, changed into women working in traditionally male jobs to maintain and defend the homefront, and then gracefully returned to the domestic …
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Clashes of civilizations: critical conditions for evocation of hostile attitude toward foreign intrusion of cultural space
… why do people sometimes react to foreign cultural influence in a negative way? Three critical conditions were proposed to account for people’s negative reactions toward intrusion of a foreign element into the sacred space of the local community. These three conditions are (a) perceptions …