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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"devour"”.
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The dispersal paradox : can lowland granivorous mice also disperse the seeds they devour?
The relationship between two rodent species and the Cape Reed (Willdenowia incurvata) were examined. Many studies have focussed on the role of rodents as predators of plant seeds. However, it seems that certain rodents may actually perform a crucial role in the dispersal of plants. Experiments to …
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The strong devour the weak : tracing the genocidal dynamics of violence in the Japanese Empire, 1937-1945
The Japanese Empire, like other empires, had a potential for extreme group-destructive violence. This potential was unleashed at times between 1937 and 1945 as the Japanese military, engaged in wars fought, ostensibly, for the liberation and reconstruction of an ‘Asia for the Asiatics’, embraced …
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Friend, Foe, or Other? Monsters and Identity on the Odyssean Sea
… monsters, and deities eager to ensnare and devour the long-suffering hero. However, the Mediterranean of the Archaic Age that produced the Odyssey was a well-charted sea, where Greeks frequently interacted with foreigners. This thesis approaches the sea in the Odyssey as a mythic borderland, …
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Lucrative Blue
… divided into three sections; the first entitled Devour, is largely political and takes a critical stance against many current American ideologies and choices. The second, entitled Empire of Song, contains poems that react to international travel to Italy and France. The third, entitled …
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(RE)MEMBERING THE SUBJECT: NOMADIC BECOMING IN CONTEMPORARY CHICANO/A LITERATURE
… considers Tomás Rivera’s …And the Earth Did Not Devour Him (1971), Sandra Cisneros’s Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991), and Helena María Viramontes’s Their Dogs Came with Them (2007). While each text proposes a unique perspective on subjectivity, this study examines the dynamics of …
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The Werewolf: Past and Future
… and they want nothing more than to kill, devour, and possibly violate humans. Hollywood depictions have resulted in the destruction of the true meanings behind werewolf legends that fascinated and terrified humans for so many ages. If these negative trends were reversed, perhaps …
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Fieldwork Summary Report-World Health Organization
… not only motivated every day, but also eager to devour the information available. My fieldwork placement was the perfect fit and the opportunities it presented and the people I met were irreplaceable.</p> <p>This Fieldwork Summary Report will provide an overview of the main projects that I worked …
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Drawing The Void - Fabricating The Ruined Garden
… Architecture is considered primarily an en-devour through abstraction, the project draws on the garden as an analogous narrative, constructing within its bounds the translations of cultural subjectivity into the landscape, a container of that which is valued and a measure of ideological …
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Haunted houses, haunted selves – feminist readings of uncanny domesticity
… in themselves, entrap, transform, and ultimately devour their female daughter-victims. The haunted houses are symbols, means and places of the continuous tradition of female entrapment within the domestic sphere, be it as wives, mothers or daughters. In Francesca Woodman’s self-portraits the …
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The skin of a writer
… he hasn’t anticipated is the temptations that devour white men in Asia. For each of them, Rangoon will be where they either make something of themselves, or succumb to dissolution. But Rangoon is no city of dreams. It is a place fractured by racial, class and religious prejudice. When Jonathan …
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The Public Pochx: Rhetorics of American-Born Latinxs
No abstract prepared.