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Showing 1 to 20 of 1577 for “"essence"”.
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Revealing Essence
There is a fine line between the "simple" and the "simplistic". The simple such as the plain, the pure, and the truthful holds a complexity within, which is extremely hard to obtain. It ultimately results in beauty. The simplistic embodies nothing more than obviousness and boredom. My aim is to …
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Essence Apparatus
Essence Apparatus is a collection of fiction short stories rooted in poetry and the traditions of ‘the uncanny' and ‘weird' writing. Included are also three expository essays relating to my creative work and its contextual and theoretical underpinnings, going in-depth on my relationship with the …
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Essence and Ontology
… has traditionally been attached to the notion of essence.</p><p>The two intuitions mentioned in: 1) together form what I call `Fine's asymmetry', after Kit Fine, whose paper `Essence and Modality' has persuasively undermined the traditional modal account of essentiality by pointing out: among …
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Essence of Portraiture.
… that demanded a translation of their own ‘essence’ into visual form. Using the methods exampled by Cézanne and Matisse, I have sought to create portraits that are revelations of both the sitters and myself.</p> <p>The totality of an individual’s being is ineffable. Thus, the task of the …
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Voice: A Writer's Essence
Creative nonfiction and essays.
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The essence of splace
… qualities we find in the places we love - those essences which make space place. Why? In order to learn, we must experience these directly - they change in us - and then use them. When? Now, before, after. How? We assemble our understanding through optional associations and multiple readings (not …
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Essence, Revelation, and Physicalism
Revelation is (roughly) the thesis that the natures of phenomenal properties are revealed through experience. In this paper, I respond to Antonin Broi's charge that if both Revelation and the quality space view of phenomenal properties are true, then counterintuitive results that speak against the …
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Essence, Explanation and Kind-membership
My dissertation centers on questions about essence, explanation and kind-membership. In the first chapter, I examine a recent proposal which suggests that we define ontological dependence in terms of essence. Compared with the modal definition of ontological dependence, the essentialist definition …
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Fall and Redemption: The Essence of Country Music
… title of the paper is Fall and Redemption: the Essence of Country Music for this reason. It is in Narrative form, foot printing my process and discovery of the music. I attempted to combine life’s experiences with the discovery of the music. The experiences were the inspiration behind playing …
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Fall and Redemption: The Essence of Country Music
… title of the paper is Fall and Redemption: the Essence of Country Music for this reason. It is in Narrative form, foot printing my process and discovery of the music. I attempted to combine life’s experiences with the discovery of the music. The experiences were the inspiration behind playing …
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The essence of stroke rehabilitation experience across two settings
The present research used van Manen's application of hermeneutic phenomenology as philosophy and method to explore stroke rehabilitation experience across two different settings, i.e. (i) a conventional setting (National Health Service or NHS stroke unit) and (ii) an unconventional setting …
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Children's Beliefs in Relation to the Essence of Race
… children do not consistently believe in the essence of race (Glerum, 2002). This study more closely examines one of the potential factors for the point at which race is essentialized: knowledge of inheritance. Children were presented with stories and pictures describing superficial changes to …
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The essence of nurse caring during labor and delivery
The problem of the study was to determine the essence of nurse caring during labor and delivery. The works of Mayeroff, Leininger, and Paterson and Zderad were examined in order to focus the study specifically toward nurse caring. Mayeroff explored the general concept of caring. Leininger …
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Essence and Meaning in Professional Development: The Writing Project Experience
Professional development in education is often a process focused on teachers' limitations. Teachers are rarely offered choices in professional development, nor are they asked to qualify the attributes of their professional development experiences they find most meaningful. This study situates the …
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Kalarippayat. The Structure and Essence of an Indian Martial Art
Contains fulltext : 65537_kala.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Essays in the History of the Masque: Essence and Echoes
… literary and political form (what I have called "essence") into its present appearance as mode--that is, as a more fragmentary collection of elements (what I have called "echoes") recurring within the framework of other genres. Contents: An account of the life and death of a political art form : …
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