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Showing 1 to 20 of 61 for “"female voice"”.
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Female Voice and Agency in Film Adaptations
… thesis explores the agency and voice of four novels and their film adaptations,<sup>1</sup> using techniques derived from narrative analysis where "the implied author" is the agency responsible for the overall relationship of narration (story telling) to narrative (story) and is …
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Interpreting the female voice : an application of art and media technology
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1986.
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Earth Ascending: A Composition in Three Movements for Female Voice, Electroacoustic Music, and Video
… is a composition in three movements scored for female voice, electroacoustic music, and video. Composed in the Year 2000, Earth Ascending lasts approximately sixteen minutes and was created specifically for live performance in which all three elements combine to create a sonic and visual …
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Re-Examining the Female Voice in Chaucer's Italian-Sourced Works: A Study in Paleography, Textual Transmission, and Masculinity
… the areas seldom examined is what I will term "female voice," a term that encompasses the thoughts and speech of women in literature. This project analyzes the representation of female voice in Chaucer's work, and it explores alterations to female voices within the largely male worlds (both …
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The Aging Female Voice: Medical Treatments and Pedagogical Techniques For Combatting the Effects of Aging With Emphasis On Menopause
… reality of aging is especially challenging for female singers. Women between the ages of forty and fifty five-face challenges caused by the hormonal fluctuations of menopause. Estrogen deprivation causes vocal changes including hoarseness, breathiness and a reduction in range. In addition, a …
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The ambiguous female voice : recovering female subjectivity in Elizabeth Cary's The tragedy of Mariam, the fair queen of Jewry
… In the play Cary debates the actions of several female characters, presenting the reader with the understanding that they are wilful subjects who act to push the boundaries of the patriarchal confines of the royal household in which they find themselves. But Cary does not unequivocally endorse …
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The representation of female journalists and the female voice in the South African newspapers: a case study of the Cape Times
… indicating that a glass ceiling still exists for female journalists in South Africa. Furthermore, newsrooms are still dominated by patriarchal practices, norms and values. This study investigated the representation of female journalists in South African daily newspapers via one case study: the …
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Hormones and the Female Voice: An Exploration of the Female Hormonal Cycle from Puberty to Menopause and How it Affects the Vocal Apparatus
The purpose of this paper is to examine the female hormonal cycle throughout a woman's life and its effects on the singing voice. Dealing with vocal issues brought on by hormonal fluctuations can be extremely frustrating for the professional singer, as these issues can wreak havoc on performance …
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"Reader" in Jane Eyre
… in the four parts. In this sense, Jane Eyre’s female voice is also empowered by the increasing addresses of her reader. Through the overturning the male voices by Jane’s female voice, her self-empowerment is achieved.
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The Effects of Gender and Regional Dialect on Performance in Aviation Communication
… 60 ATC statements each representing a male and female voice and New England, Southern, and General American dialect. Participants were asked to recall exactly what they heard. If the participant could not understand what they heard, they requested a repeat. The participant’s performance was …
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Female vocality in theatre : sounding, hearing, and structures of feeling re-framed
This study proceeds from the belief that the female voice is silent or is seemingly absent in theatre and explores the possibility of the presence of a female vocality. The term 'female vocality' is used to refer to multiple aspects of the voice(s) of women in theatre; as performers, as playwrights …
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Fictions of Female Voices in Hellenistic Poetry
This thesis examines female voices in Hellenistic Poetry. It argues that fictions of female voices in Greek literature produced in this period assume unprecedented importance. Fictions of female voices of course appear within these poems in the form of character voices. They also, however, …
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The activity response of the infant to familiarity and sex of voice
… investigated the effects of age, sex, male vs female voice, and unfamiliar vs familiar voice upon the infants body movements. The sample consisted of 40 middle-class infants, balanced according to sex, at four age levels -- 3, 6, 9, 12 months. Four tape-recorded stimulus conditions -- mother's …
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Sounding Elsewhere, Sounding Everywhere: Listening to the Background from Motown and Beyond
… of this project is the relationship between voice, space, and the position of Black women in popular music. The project questions the sonic marking of the background vocal along racial and gendered categories arguing how the Black female voice as background, backing, and back-up is a …
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Gender Differences in Auditory Perception of Pure Tone Frequencies and Speech Intelligibility via Bone Conduction Transducers
… skull locations were measured in 15 male and 15 female participants to determine if gender differences exist in auditory signal detection. As frequency of the pure tone signal increased the difference between genders’ hearing thresholds and mean ranks of threshold overall; however, when …
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Cognitive processing during sleep: the role of signal significance and participant characteristics
… (highpitched Australian Standard Alarm (ASA), a female voice alarm, and a mid-pitched signal in the temporal-three (T-3) pattern) under three alcohol conditions (sober, .05 blood alcohol concentration (BAC) and .08 BAC); 3. Testing several alarms with sleeping children including a message …
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The Pink Papers
… of original fiction. The preface addresses the female writer and the female voice in fiction. "Broken Clock" and "Pink Paper" are the stories of two girls coping with endometriosis. "Normal Capacity" looks at the loss of a dream through the eyes of a first-year law student. The novel in …
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Effects of Auditory Stimulation in Low and High Light Conditions on Behavioral and State Organization in Preterm Infants
… that supplemental vocal stimulation (taped female voice) had when varied in amount of exposure (three times a day versus once a day) and when provided in different lighting conditions ("typical illumination" versus "decreased illumination"). Forty infants were placed in one of four groups: …
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Breaking the silence: A rhetorical analysis of selected works by Sandra Cisneros and Toni Morrison through the lens of Northrop Frye's rhetorical theories of speech and style
… there has been a debate centered on the female voice. Thousands of years later, two modern American ethnic writers, Sandra Cisneros and Toni Morrison, examine the topic of the female voice through their literary works, including Cisneros' The House on Mango Street and Woman Hollering …
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