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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"dreamer"”.
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Taunggyi Dreamer: Exiles, Diasporas, and Pleasures
<p><em>Taunggyi Dreamer: Exiles, Diasporas, and Pleasures</em>, a collection of poetry and prose (creative non-fiction and fiction), reflecting themes of trauma, memory, psychic fragmentation and survival is told through hybrid narratives. The writing arises from my own multiple migrations from …
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Countering the DREAMer Narrative: Storytelling, Immigration Reform, and the Work of 67 Sueños
<p>Research question: <em>How has the practice of storytelling been used in the current U.S. conflicts over immigration?</em></p> <p>Telling an effective story is an essential part of a complex strategy to bring about social change, but storytelling as a part of collective action has not been …
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The dreamer awakes : semantic and metaphysical presuppositions in skepticism about knowledge of the external world
Barry Stroud sees global skepticism, in regard to our knowledge of the external world, as a threat to the claims of modern epistemology. An exchange between Susan Haack and Richard Rorty illustrates the situation of contemporary epistemology. For Michael Williams, the skeptic trades on …
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A dreamer and a painter : visualizing the unconscious in the work of Arthur B. Davies, 1890-1920
The paintings of U. S. artist Arthur B. Davies (1863-1928) spoke to his viewers in terms of the emergent discipline of psychology, creating visualizations of dreaming. This dissertation examines his work and its reception between 1890 and 1920, exploring the diversity characterizing American …
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What to Do About the Dreamer? A Theological Evaluation of Dreams and Visions That Aid Muslim Conversions to Christianity
There are increasing reports of dream or vision experiences that significantly influence or aid Muslim conversions to Christianity. These experiences elicit many questions about how one should evaluate, receive, affirm, or reject them, and they have led some to conclusions that are biblically and …
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MEDIATED NARRATIVES ON CITIZENSHIP, IMMIGRATION, AND NATIONAL IDENTITY: THE CONSTRUCTION OF DREAMER IDENTITIES IN PUBLIC DISCOURSE SURROUNDING PRESIDENT OBAMA'S 2012 DEFERRED DEPORTATION ANNOUNCEMENT
… specifically young undocumented immigrants (DREAMers), are constructed in mediated discourse; (3) how national identity is constructed through these mediated discourses; and, (4) how the representation of DREAMer identities reproduces or challenges dominant public discourses on citizenship, …
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“At the Border of My Being” : Impurity, Disgust and Threat in Clive Barker’s Books of Blood and Thomas Ligotti’s Songs of a Dead Dreamer
… of Blood och Thomas Ligottis Songs of a Dead Dreamer. Båda verken är novellsamlingar från 1980-talet, och kan klassificeras som skräcklitteratur. Min analys koncentrerar sig på hotfulla utrymmen och omgivningar i novellerna och beskrivningar av abjekta och äckliga kroppar. Min analys grundar …
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The portrayal of the ideal male in selected works of Eugene O'Neill
A woman’s choice between a starry-eyed dreamer and a pragmatic businessman ends in disaster. This situation is a motif in the works of Eugene O’Neill, and examining its occurrences in Beyond the Horizon, The Great God Brown, Strange Interlude and Long Day’s Journey into Night sheds light on the …
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Draumkvedet and the Medieval English Dream Vision: A Study of Genre
… pertaining to the character of the dreamer, the interplay between dreamer and dream, imagery of the vision, and structure, point to a common set of generic influences. Comparing Draumkvedet with its English counterparts demonstrates that they stem from the same tradition. Draumkvedet …
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House
… shelters day. dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace. house is home, a place to learn, to teach, about world, life, connection, and separation. individuals within a community. the link of bonding into one of a community of individuals. to know the two …
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Temporal structures in Piers Plowman
… the lifetime of the fictional pilgrim, Will the dreamer, in his interludes between dreams, attempting to show that the temporal progression reveals a spiritual growth. At the same time, it summarizes the themes of each vision to establish that the content of the visions is directly related to the …
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How to write a building
… reader, as crystalline as they were to me, the dreamer.
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An American Dream: The Fatal Gambit For Sutpen And Gatsby
… American dream-goal is a fatal process for the dreamer who fails to recognize the difference between the ideal and the real, the spiritual and the material, aspects of the dream. This dream quest carries perilous consequences for the dreamer who ignores the responsibilities inherent in human …
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The Latino Public Sphere in Minnesota: Enacting Cultural Citizenship Through Media
… social media in political organizing around the Dreamer and driver's license campaigns in Minnesota from June 2012 to June 2013. The research examines a segment of the Latino public sphere in Minnesota to examine how Latinos engaged in public deliberation online. Using citizenship and public …
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Social Influences on the Female in the Novels of Thomas Hardy.
… housewife or the rebellious, independent dreamer. Hardy does not demonstrate how women should be, but rather how society pressures women to conform to the accepted image. Hardy progresses from subtly criticizing society, as seen in The Return of the Native and The Woodlanders, to overtly …
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Ser Americano: The Cost of Being American
<p>Over a decade ago, the Dreamer movement began, led by young undocumented Latinx youth. These activists became known as "Dreamers" who continue to advocate for a pathway to citizenship for all immigrants. Through media, speeches, and artwork, Dreamers use the cultural narrative of the "American …
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It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's...a Girl?!: Analyzing Representations of Femininity on The CW's Supergirl
… sister/super spy Alex Danvers, and Nia Nal/Dreamer, this analysis argues that the show presents complex and nuanced depictions of femininity that are a strong step forward for the genre.
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Inside/out : mirrors for reflective, creative thinking
… aesthetic experience we all undertake, where the dreamer is free to test knowledge liberated from physical and moral constraints, its aim is to promote flexibility in levels of thought. The NeverEnding Drawing Machine and Calliope endorse flexibility in vehicles of thought through co-creative and …
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