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Showing 1 to 20 of 2128 for “"feeling"”.
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Feeling Clumsy, Feeling Alien: Gender and Affect in Victorian Sensation Fiction
<p>“Feeling Clumsy, Feeling Alien: Gender and Affect in Victorian Sensation Fiction” explores the interactions between the shock of reading sensation fiction and the affective potential of the genre using Sara Ahmed’s definition of the killjoy and the affect alien. The sensation genre, as explained …
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Feeling the Climate Crisis
This project visualizes the ongoing climate crisis through the means of kinetic sculptures that are made with found natural objects juxtaposed with electromechanical elements. Together they create movement patterns that express climate data. The project attempts to create an experience that allows …
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August Endell's Construction of Feeling
… namely forms drawn from collective memories, feelings, and ethical relations. Endell was an activist for architectural design driven by a "science" of consciousness, and he was convinced that built experiential forms could serve an important unifying social function, counteracting processes of …
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The Living Experience of Feeling Playful
<p>Feeling playful is a universal living experience. The human becoming paradigm of sciencing the art that is nursing guided the study. The purposes of this nursing science were to uncover the structure of the universal living experience of feeling playful, to contribute to the development of the …
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Feeling Better: The Therapeutic Drug in Modernism
This project argues that by reading first-person accounts of drug intoxication in European modernism, one can uncover qualitative structures that broadly inform the modernist experience of space, time, language, desire, and embodiment. Evidence for this systematization of subjective experience …
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The Art of Feeling Sorry for Yourself
<p>The novel, a work of realistic fiction, attempts to accurately and fairly portray the generational ennui of the Millennial twenty-something. By use of first-person narration and realistic portrayal of the American urban hipster lifestyle, this project attempts to convey the reality of the …
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Feeling Suicidal in England, c.1750-1850
This thesis examines the experience of feeling suicidal in England, between c.1750 and 1850. During this time, suicide was an act with immense religious and legal significance, and historians have done much to examine how attitudes to self-killing developed over this important period of change. …
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Feeling Images of the Sun on Earth
We are solar societies with diverse relationships and practices that revolve around the Sun. But as mechanical systems became reliable, we retreated to thermally controlled environments away from the Sun. Energy became a utility to feed these systems. As the time spent indoors increased, energy …
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Foucault, Affect, History: On the Art of Feeling
… experience that belong to affect, emotion, and feeling. In this thesis, I aim to tease out that historicization in the form of two key historical modalities belonging to modern and ancient technologies of the self: the scientia affectus, which endeavours to decipher truth in emotion or affect, …
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Assessing thinking, feeling and acting components of behavior
… Internal reliability scores for thinking, feeling and acting ranged from .780 to .980; test-retest reliability scores ranged from .710 to .930.
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Feeling in Character: Towards an Ethics of Emotion
<p>This dissertation contends that emotions are subject to ethical assessment, not simply as motives or overt expressions, but in their own right. Emotions, I argue, are subject to assessment because they are aspects of a person's character. Specifically, emotions involve voluntary acts of …
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The Experience of Feeling Disrespected a Humanbecoming Perspective
<p>Feeling disrespected is a universal living experience. The humanbecoming theory of nursing science guided the study. The purposes of this investigation were to advance nursing science by gaining an understanding of the structure of the living experience of feeling disrespected for women who have …
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Feeling Overwhelmed: The Lived Experience of Nurse Managers.
… study explored the lived experience of feeling overwhelmed by 6 nurse managers currently working in an inpatient hospital environment. Interviews were analyzed using a modified version of the descriptive-interpretive phenomenological method as described by van Manen. Four essential …
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The feeling of knowing for names of faces
… study there had been little research into the Feeling of Knowing (FOK) in response to names of faces. The literature favoured inferential theories for explaining the bases of the FOK. Experiment 1 aimed to explore thetwo leading inferential theories (the cue-familiarity hypothesis and the …
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miss translation : from fact to feeling to form
… Through my practice I give form to my feelings that hide behind the smile that I argue often represents false feelings. My thesis project functions as a map of my journey, from Korea to America, Los Angeles to Cambridge, past to future, fact to feeling, and memory to form; at the same …
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Feeling is believing : viewing movies through emotional arcs
This thesis uses machine learning methods to construct emotional arcs in movies, calculate families of arcs, and demonstrate the ability for certain arcs to predict audience engagement. The system is applied to Hollywood films and high quality shorts found on the web. We begin by harnessing deep …
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Freud after Bataille: Death, Dissolution and the 'Oceanic' Feeling
… its potential association with the ‘oceanic’ feeling that Freud acknowledges (but quickly dismisses) as a motivation for religious belief. Considering death and its corresponding drive through the ontological oscillations they provoke, I argue, expands the field that constitutes their …
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Seeing. Feeling. Remembering: The Making of an Appalachian Place
Three houses are sited in the New River Valley of Southwestern Virginia in 1996. Each house is designed to provide the essential utilitarian resources necessary for habitation in modern Appalachia. The relative context within which to make each house has been found within the unique character of …
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Feeling the fleshed body: The aftermath of childhood rape [thesis]
The point of propulsion for this research is my raped and censured body with its somatic aftermath narrative. This doctoral research project is a feminist and creative investigation that sought to uncover and articulate the long term somatic impacts of childhood rape as they manifest in the adult …
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