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Showing 1 to 20 of 94 for “"disguise"”.
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The Science of Disguise
… the only means of evading detection is through disguise. We have created a comprehensive database of high-quality imagery that will allow us to explore the effectiveness of disguise as an approach to avoiding unwanted recognition. Using this database, we have evaluated the performance of a …
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Beneath the Body's Disguise: Poems
This thesis project discusses the nature of poetic craft as a dialogue between poet and audience, as poets assume the dual role of “witnesses and storytellers” (Palermo 2). The ideas of persona poems, spatial economy, and confessional poetry are all considered in the opening section which …
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Coloured nude : fetishization, disguise, dichotomy
Representations of black female bodies in western art defy easy categorization. Situated as "other" within colonial discourse, the represented black female body has historically undergone a double fetishization on the basis of a perceived sexual and racial lack. Dorothy Stevens' Coloured Nude …
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The Use of Disguise in Shakespearean Drama
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"Ne canstu me noght knowe?": Disguise, Exile and Medieval Romance
I believe that disguise reveals that medieval identities were fluid and unfixed, but also subject to patriarchal and authoritarian attempts to stabilize them. In these romance traditions, disguise exposes at once the fluidity of identity and the anxiety surrounding this fluidity. I argue that Le …
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Coercive Statecraft in Disguise: China’s Economic Coercion and Its Effectiveness
Can coercive economic statecraft assist a rising power to advance geopolitical aims? This project examines how, over decades, China’s strategic thinking evolves to include the use of coercive economic instruments against foreign states, when it obtains political concessions from target states, and …
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Jacob Wrestles Esau: Disguise, Double-Meaning, and Deceit in Genesis 32:24-32
Many readers often believe that the man who appears before Jacob and wrestles him until daybreak in Genesis 32:24-32 is God, an angel, or another supernatural being. However, the aim of this study is to suggest that the exact identity of the man is not only ambiguous, but that there are other …
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Peacebuilding : imperialism's new disguise? : a critical assessment of the neo-imperialistic agenda of peacebuilding
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 82-87).
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Allied democratic forces (ADF) in Uganda: A Jihadi- Salafi movement or local political movement in disguise
… movement or local political movement in disguise? This study utilises interviews, as well as archival and ethnographic approaches to research. Findings suggest that the ADF is a Jihadi-Salafi militant movement, which was originally established under the name Salafi Jihad Council (SaJiCo). …
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'It's like a disguise': experiences of peer relationships and social camouflaging of autistic adolescent boys: an IPA analysis
Social camouflaging has recently attracted much attention as a coping strategy in autistic individuals and has been associated with mental health difficulties. In an attempt to appear socially competent and to prevent others from noticing their social challenges, autistic individuals may hide their …
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Whose Clothes Are They Wearing Anyway? Sartorial Exchange, Disguise, and Accumulation in Chaucer's The Clerk's Tale and Dickens's Our Mutual Friend
… lovers, whose ability to undress, re-dress, and disguise themselves allows them to appropriate masculine roles of authority and provision. Through sartorial exchange, disguise, and accumulation, characters re-gender clothing in a shared sensibility between male and female, eliding masculine and …
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A Linguistic Assessment of Domestic Abuse: Determining Patterns of Politeness Theory and Persuasion Utilised to Facilitate Abuse and Disguise Abusive Personalities
Domestic abuse is an issue which persists within society, and its subtle, manipulative methods provide a barrier for abuse detection for victims, police officers and prosecution services. The subsequent thesis adopts a holistic approach in determining the barriers of abuse detection through …
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A Band of Sisters: Female Detectives, Authority, and Fiction from 1864 to the 1930s
… and pursue distinctly anti-conservative views in disguise. For fictional detectives and, especially female detectives, disguise is an effective tool for solving their cases. Often, these detectives will disguise themselves as someone infinitely more conservative than they are in order to gain …
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Evil No More: The Image of the Witch and Women in the United States From Seventeenth and Twentieth Centuries
… status. In the colonial period, what was once a disguise for women's oppression, has become a tool for women's liberation.</p>
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The Role of Costume in British Folk Festivals, 1660 to the Present Day
… acknowledges the continuing importance of disguise and ritual, for some participants in modern performance, it hypothesises that the use of comedic costumes, to allow licence, has been underestimated; disguise, or the notion of anonymity, and a sense of menace could not engender and …
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Light + Shadow
… of a space. They can define, emphasize, and disguise.
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Exploring ‘Zelmaneship’: Developing Queer Inwardness from Sidney to Stage
… (50). Zelmane, conceptualized only as a disguise, would be the outward show of Pyrocles; Sidney, however, writes the Amazon with an inward self and individuates her from the Prince. Sidney writes Zelmane with independent pronouns, differentiated thoughts, and the ability to resist …
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Experiment and Tradition: A Builder's Thoughts
… from the application of decorative elements to disguise the structure of the building. The success of a project results from the architect's conceptual understanding of the traditions of the region in which the project exists, informed by local traditions yet not illustrating a revivalist form …
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