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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"decorum"”.
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“Leisure with Decorum”: Gentlemen Making Music in the Georgian era
<p>This project examines the musical activities of Georgian gentlemen with the goal of illustrating the ways that recreational music-making tested the boundaries of gender, class, and nationality. While the English nobility could respectably engage in music-making, socialize with professional …
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Ben Jonson's Concept of Decorum: A Study of His Theory and Three Comedies
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T22:39:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6910800.pdf: 9596393 bytes, checksum: 1f75687e42460de91c7e58687865368e (MD5) Previous issue date: 1968
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Prudence and decorum and the invention of american democracy: an examination of the ratification debates for the federal constitution in 1787-88
… use of the rhetorical strategies of prudence and decorum as they are employed within the debates in Massachusetts, Virginia and New York. </p> <p>In Massachusetts, classical notions of representation are challenged by the use of binding instructions given to delegates sent to the ratification …
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Evaluation of African trifolium species for growth and biological nitrogen fixation
… Nitosol (Paleudalf), and seed from Trifolium decorum, T. quartinianum, T. rueppellianum, T. steudneri, and T. tembense were obtained from ILCA in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A commercial collection and R. trifolii strains isolated from the Ethiopian soils were evaluated for symbiotic effectiveness …
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Keeping America a white man’s country: Southern opposition to civil rights in the united states senate
… First, southerners used claims based in decorum, procedural objections to civil rights forces. Second, southerners used locus of the irreparable claims, drawing from a long tradition of states’ rights scholarship. Third, southerners scapegoated civil rights groups. Fourth, southerners …
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Inigo Jones's library and the language of architectural classicism in England, 1580-1640
… for representing ideas of personal and public decorum and learning; and Jones's use of the methods and resources of English antiquarians in his study of ancient architectural precedent. Each of these themes are located within the cultural and intellectual history of Renaissance England. The …
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Beyond Reason: Madness in the English Revenge Tragedy
… the tool that allows them to escape convention, decorum and even the law to rout a moral cancer, and, in this capacity, is enabling rather than disabling.
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Writing Against The War Machine: Wiflred Owen's Poetic Challenge to World War I Pro-War Rhetoric
… four poems used are “Strange Meeting,” “Dulce et Decorum Est,” “Disabled,” and “Smile, Smile, Smile” to showcase Owen’s growing disillusionment, not with the war itself, but with the conversations and beliefs that non-soldiers held in England.</p>
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Philip Gilbert Hamerton: Victorian Art Critic (England)
… role was perceived in society, what ideas of decorum governed the selection of subject matter for painters and sculptors and whose role it was to educate a new art-buying public about what constitutes good art and what does not. This attempt to analyze the proposals and solutions put forward …
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A guide to source materials of the life and work of Lawrence B. Anderson '30
… architecture responsibly, with grace, style, and decorum. Through his papers , he will continue to teach for generations into the future. In 1994, Lawrence Anderson died at age 87. This thesis documents the whole of his prodigious output of personal and professional papers, published and …
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Precarious Positions: Toward a Theory and Analysis of Rhetorical Vulnerability
… vulnerability through legal appeals to decorum. Finally, in my fourth chapter, I examine the citational composing methods of the God Loves Poetry movement, an online initiative that manages rhetorical vulnerability by redacting the WBC’s documents into poems.
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“Making The World A Better Place To Live In”: Hattiesburg Women’s Literary Organizations and the Formation of a Progressive Southern City, 1884-1945
… of progressive womanhood while maintaining the decorum expected of them. These activities can also demonstrate if these clubs allowed southern women to participate in a larger feminist movement that may not have been widely accepted in the Deep South. The cultural and structural contributions of …
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The State of the Anti-Union Address: A Rhetorical Critique of Select Service Worker Training Methods
… Service worker language, uniforms, and store decorum are sometimes analyzed for their rhetorical content. The idea of a single, technically written training manual in the service sector is a misnomer; training is delivered through a pastiche of manuals, videos, computers, apps, flipcharts, and …
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Bad girls in corsets: Women and the transgressive body in the nineteenth century
… the Victorian era strove to maintain a level of decorum that, increasingly, the nineteenth-century woman were, rebelling against. The urge for women to break through social barriers and constraints binding them to the century created a divergence in thought from the traditional mores of the past, …
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"The Verdict of History": Defining and Defending James Buchanan through Public Memorialization
… the first half of the nineteenth century, decorum called for the veneration of past presidents as devoted patriots. The terms "sage" and "statesman," which became synonymous with patriotism, riddled the remembrances of every president during this period. The Civil War, however, marked a …
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Embracing Monumentality: a Montpelier Center for the Arts
… of the Montpelier Center for the Arts, return decorum to the theater-going experience.
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Negotiating constructions of success and failure: women in mid-life and formations of subject, subjectivity and identity
… capitals of happiness, security, and decorum around material affluence; exercise of choice, evaluated as good or bad choice and implicated in responsible citizenship. Such sites were seen to be issues of interactional negotiation as analysis attended to ideological dilemmas and …
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Cervantes’s La entretenida: Translation, Performance and a Digital Edition
… theory, and in particular with the principle of decorum. Chapter 3 shows how the play reflects Cervantes’s tendency to view life through literature, relating this aspect of his writing to the role of memory in Early Modern culture, while Chapter 4 demonstrates how this metaliterary quality …
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Flap of a Butterfly's Wings
… are not limited by typical political pathways or decorum. This is based in James C. Scott’s work on the everyday forms of resistance by the politically powerless. Here I rely on the empirical evidence I gathered when I filmed and embedded myself with activists protecting the statue outside of the …
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Italian Heroic Portraits in the Sixteenth Century
… moral values related to post-Tridentine norms of decorum.
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