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Showing 1 to 20 of 69 for “"drowning"”.
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THE FEAR OF DROWNING
… one’s place of origin.</p> <p><em>The Fear of Drowning</em> is a culmination of fiction, poetry, and essays that blur the lines of confession and imagination. Each individual piece works in conversation with the whole. Fiction merges into poetry and finally lands in an undeniable desire to …
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How Love is Like Drowning
… girl named Isabeau Jones. After the mysterious drowning death of her mother, Isabeau attempts to find her place as a girl, as a student, as a preternaturally gifted baseball player and as an outsider in a rural East Texas community that does not look kindly on difference. Throughout the novel, …
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Prevention of childhood drowning: A review of current community interventions and their effect on recreational drowning mortality in children
… in American children today. Accidental death by drowning is the second-most common cause of accidental injury-related death among children ages 1 to 14 and the leading cause of accidental injury-related death among children ages 1 to 4. (1) The most disturbing thing about this fact is that many …
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Translating the experience of drowning to film form
… is concerned with translating the experience of drowning to film form. A hybrid of Practice as Research (PaR) and narrative methodologies under a constructionist conceptual framework was used to examine small stories from thirteen survivors and visualise their experiences of drowning. This was a …
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Doubter Come Home from a Drowning of Vision
A poetry collection in two parts. Slingshot Catapult, the first half of the manuscript, explores the lives of two professional wrestlers. While the spectacle of professional wrestling is the backdrop for this series of linked, narrative poems, the relationship between protagonists Tracy and Dodge …
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Swimming In The Shallows: Drowning The Standard Conventions of Directing
<p>This thesis explores the challenges I encountered while directing Adam Bock’s play Swimming in the Shallows. Specifically, this thesis addresses staging issues that stem from the problematic conventions required by Bock’s specific instructions regarding any mounting of the play. In particular, …
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Prevention | Rescue | Resuscitation – The influence of New Zealand lifeguarding practice on global drowning prevention
Drowning is a serious public health issue and leading cause of unintentional injury mortality worldwide. Of the 320,000 deaths annually, most occur in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). Not all drowning is fatal, but some survivors suffer long-term or permanent disability. Prompt rescue and …
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A retrospective analysis of the circumstantial factors contributing to drowning incidents reported in the South African media
… guidelines for the uniform reporting of drowning were published in 2003, and specifically call for the precipitating factor to be described. The aim of this study was to describe the precipitating factors contributing to fatal drowning incidents reported in the South African media between …
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She "Too much of water hast": Drownings and Near-Drownings in Twentieth-Century American Literature by Women
Drowning is a frequent mode of death for female literary characters because of the strong symbolic relationship between female sexuality and water. Drowning has long been a punishment for sexually transgressive women in literature. In the introduction, Chapter 1, I describe the drowning paradigm …
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Drowning in Development Discourse: The Effects of Climate Finance and the Development Industry on Ability to Adapt to Climate Change in Kiribati
This dissertation explores the confluence of two external forces, anthropogenic climate change and climate finance, in Kiribati. Kiribati, alongside other Pacific Island nations, is poised to receive a substantial increase in climate finance. This finance, pledged under the UNFCCC, is intended to …
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Die drenkeling in die werk van D.J. Opperman, met spesiale verwysing na Joernaal van Jorik
In discussing the drowning figure in the work of DJ Opperman, it is assumed that the themes of decline and resurgence are central to the work of the author. With respect to these dual motifs the following became apparent: (a) that the decline inevitably leads to new life, and of necessity, must …
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Factors concerning the effective use of life saving equipment in Uganda and low-middle income countries.
… is to establish the factors associated with drowning and life jacket use amongst the fishing communities of Lake Victoria, and the possibility of reducing drowning events using design and innovation. Research is focused on: life jackets, risk, beliefs, culture, legislation, and education. A …
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Synthetic ecology : revisiting Mexico City's lakes project
… but simultaneously the city runs the risk of drowning in its own sewage. A series of past projects -all addressing the hydrological imbalance- outline a lineage that makes pin pointing the intellectual coordinates of the present project easier. Taking Mexico City's Metropolitan Basin as an …
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Deluge : a collection of original poetry with exegesis
… flood of 1995. It utilises two urban myths of drowning to create a new myth as enunciated by the Narrator, about the Barwon River, its people and environs. The second section is constructed as six chapters of prose addressing critical concerns. After an introductory chapter sketching out the …
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Análise da composição e da distribuição geográfica da avifauna das restingas do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
… explained by the history of successive Restinga drowning during the Holocene and by the lack of geographical barriers with other Tropical Atlantic Domain formations.
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Optical method of recording electrical activity in isolated rabbit hearts
… related signals accompany normal beating hearts, drowning out the actual signal that corresponds to change in membrane potential. When added to the nutrient solution of the heart, an excitation / contraction decoupler restricts motion and reduces the motion related signal making it easier to …
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The Adolescent Rebellion against Panoptical Society: A Foucauldian Analysis of Adolescent Development in Contemporary Young Adult Novels.
… and Stargirl</em>), Bette Greene (<em>The Drowning of Stephan Jones</em>), and Gary Schmidt (<em>Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Daughter</em>). Each of these novels shows the adolescent rebel character defying the social ideals centered on age, gender roles, sexuality, and race. This …
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“Mexico, Public Policy and Obesity in a Global Context”
… for its diversity of rich flavorful food is drowning in low nutritional food products. This thesis examines Mexico’s obesity epidemic within the larger global context of international economic trade policies, public policies and Mexico’s health policies. The key research questions are 1) why …
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Doorway to the Deep: Memoirs of Enduring Endometriosis and Embracing Life After Loss
… so far from the proverbial shore that they are drowning in it.<em> Doorway to the Deep </em>explores this concept through personal reflections and private diary and journal entries.</p> <p>The story commences on December 17, 1993 with my first diary entry when I was eleven years old. After …
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Systems for collective human curation of online discussion
… to be getting worse, as people are increasingly drowning in discussion, with much of it unwanted or unpleasant. In this thesis, I present new systems that empower discussion participants to work collectively to bring order to discussions through a range of curation tools that superimpose richer …
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