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Mark Twain's Desperate Naturalism
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Rethinking Tennessee Williams' "Desperate" Women
Although Amanda Wingfield, Blanche DuBois, and Maggie Pollitt are examined frequently in scholarship on Tennessee Williams's plays, many critics assume that the three women's Southern femininity translates to fragility and that their nostalgia for the Confederate past constitutes delusion. …
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A Last Resort For Desperate People
The stories in this collection are largely centered around individuals who have or on the brink of mistakes (or what they perceive as mistakes). These characters navigate their respective worlds with a combination of cynicism and vulnerability that often forces them to reexamine their relationships …
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The Last Act of a Desperate Man
… production of the thesis film The Last Act of a Desperate Man. The film's production is explored with respect to writing, directing, production design, cinematography, editing, sound design, technology and workflow. Particular attention is paid to the dynamics of acting and directing …
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Desperate Fishwives: A Study In Applied Game Design
… artifact: the educational videogame Desperate Fishwives, which harnesses the idea of procedural rhetoric to instruct players on aspects of early modern (cc. 17th century) English life. Herein is detailed the validity of using games as rhetorical and educational devices and the process …
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In Desperate Need of Sleep: Teenagers and School Start Times
<p>School start times have the potential to be damaging to students academically. Several studies have linked sleep to the transfer of knowledge into long term memory, while others show how the lack of sleep is disruptive to learning. If school start times truly have an impact on the functionality …
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Desperate whispers : empathy in the context of an ecological crisis
In his text Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino (1974) describes the fictional city of Baucis, a land suspended in the clouds, in which humans maintain a purposeful and mysterious physical detachment from the earth. Calvino’s imagining of Baucis visualises a conceptualisation of humans as divorced from …
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DESPERATE MEASURES: RECORDING OF THE COMPLETE PIANO WORKS OF ROBERT MUCZYNSKI
The aim of this dissertation is to help assimilate the solo piano works of Robert Muczynski into the active 20th century piano repertoire, by providing pianists, musicologists, and listeners with the composer’s complete solo piano output on CD, for the first time. Of the fifteen compositions …
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Trapped in Bluebeard's Chamber: Rose Terry Cooke and Nineteenth-Century "Desperate Housewives."
… She portrays women in miserable marriages, desperately looking for an escape. These “brides of Bluebeard” find different ways to cope with their predicament. While most never truly escape, many use (1) religious devotion, (2) masochism, and (3) homosocial relations as “coping mechanisms” in …
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Performing Selves : Distance and Identification in the Experimental Performance Work of Imitating the Dog (ITD), Desperate Optimists and Insomniac Productions.
This thesis counters the common postmodern privileging of distance over identification within artistic practice. After Brecht, identification in the theatre has predominantly been imagined as a conservative operation that always aligns us with the status quo. These theories could be described in …
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Convulsed in desperate living : ghetto criminality and the economy of survival in the Harlem narratives of Chester Himes, Claude Brown and Louise Meriwether
… that do not posit an empowering movement from "desperate living" to political astuteness and radical action. Instead, Himes's Blind Man With a Pistol (1969), Brown's Manchild in the Promised Land (1965) and Meriwether's Daddy Was a Number Runner (1970) complicate an understanding of …
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The New Westward Expansion: Settler Colonialism and Gentrification in Paula Fox’s <em>Desperate Characters</em> and Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s <em>Sabrina and Corina</em>
… of gentrification literature—Paula Fox’s novel, Desperate Characters (1970) and Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s short story collection, Sabrina & Corina (2019). Desperate Characters offers a nuanced and critical examination of characters with privilege who move into Brooklyn in the 1960s, which involves …
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"How Desperate Are You, That You Call on Such Lost Creatures to Defend You?": Exploring how the MCU Establishes and Challenges the Cinematic Archetypes of Masculinity of Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
The field of superhero studies is a fast-growing and evolving one that has grown rapidly over the past decade although relatively little attention has been paid to the depiction of masculinity on screen within superhero films. This thesis proposes that established cinematic archetypes of …
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The Armor of Democracy: Volunteerism on the Home Front in World War II California
… It provided a patriotic outlet for Americans desperate to aid the war effort. Minority groups took part in volunteer activities in order to show that they too were Americans and in doing so raised their status in society. Throughout the war, volunteers collected scrap metal which was melted …
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Last Trip to Disneyland
… Sally Danes are a father and daughter living in desperate times. In order to make ends meet, they're forced to engage in some less than exemplary acts. They soon find themselves way in over their heads once they make a gruesome discovery. Soon after, the police and a trio of killers are both hot …
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Craving What You Still Have
… of sisterhood reinforced through generations of desperate women. The relationship between the narrative speaker and the women (and men) portrayed in the poems evolves as the collection culminates to an almost euphoric realization of the need and desperation that is attached with being a woman.</p>
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God of Toil
… Rufus is a retired warrior of mythical stature desperate to leave behind his violent ways in order to live a life of pacifism and service. When forced back into service, he faces the reverberations of the atrocities he committed in his youth. In failing to right them despite his most earnest …
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After Horses
… hope as illuminating and good thing, hope as desperate and devouring thing, and an underlying fear and awareness of the fact that no one can be sure of what ultimately matters, anyway.
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The contribution of customary international law to the development of international crimes: the role of international courts and tribunals
… crimes rightly touches the statement, ‘desperate ills need desperate medicines’, made by Mr C.B. Burdekin, a representative from New Zealand, during the thirty-sixth meeting of the United Nations War Crimes Commission on 17 October 1944. The thesis is intrigued by the fact that the …
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