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Showing 1 to 20 of 75 for “"fool"”.
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Fool for Love
… to describe the directorial process of producing Fool for Love, by Sam Shepard, from selecting a play, choosing a cast, working with designers and production staff, to directing. Central to the process is the development of effective communication between director and staff involved in the …
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Being the Beautiful Fool
<p>Ernest Hemingway wrote to F. Scott Fitzgerald that “The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life — and one is as good as the other” (305). With that, I created a collection of short stories that analyzes my …
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The Journey of the Fool
Design in the civic realm demands opportunities to recognize commonality. Architecture, therefore, must provide a call and response between visitor and space. This intimate dialogue can only occur where landscape elements speak a universal language. Revelatory, Allegorical, Cosmological and …
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The schlemiel and anomie : the fool in society
This thesis examines the character of the schlemiel in comparative Jewish and Gentile American literature and cinema. It is the central claim that whilst the schlemiel is a strong Jewish character type this figure also appears in the texts of other socio-cultural groupings to an ever increasingly …
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Using genetic algorithm to "fool" HMAX object recognition model
… but has a similar profile which successfully fooled the classifier in most cases. This implies that the "binding problem" is a major issue in a HMAX model of the size tested. Furthermore, methods of improving the system were investigated.
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Nobody's Fool: A Study of the Yrodivy in Boris Godunov
… second version adds a concluding lament by the fool character that serves as a warning to the people of Russia beyond the scope of the opera. The use of a fool is significant in Russian history and this connection is made between the opera and other arts of nineteenth-century Russia. These …
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Great Fool: Six Poems of Ryōkan for Tenor and Orchestra
Great Fool: Six Poems of Ryōkan for tenor and orchestra (2017) is a piece of music written for tenor voice and orchestra in six interconnected songs lasting approximately thirteen minutes. Each song is an English adaptation of a different poem by the hermit Zen monk Ryōkan Taigu (Japanese, …
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Reflections of a fool a modern ballet derived from electronic sound sources
Title from accompanying document.
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Reflections of a fool a modern ballet derived from electronic sound sources
Title from accompanying document.
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"""You can fool some of the people some of the time"": perspective by incongruity in Ballyhoo magazine, 1931-1932"
This study analyzes two years of images from Ballyhoo magazine (1931-1932) as a form of visual rhetoric. I analyze the visual rhetoric of Ballyhoo to illustrate how it treated three important issues of 1930s America. First, Ballyhoo portrays Prohibition as a detrimental policy and scapegoats its …
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"Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun": fool-characters and comic dramatic structures in Hamlet, Twelfth night and Troilus and Cressida
The thesis analyses fool-characters and comic structures in Shakespeare's three plays-each play representing a different dramatic genre. The chapter on Hamlet primarily focuses on Hamlet's fool-role originating from his "antic disposition." In Twelfth Night, the study examines the topsy-turvydom …
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Geeks & Fools
Short stories: "My Snake," "The Fool," "Meeting by Design," "Poisons Pain You."
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"An investigation of ""John is Easy to Please"""
… of such sentences as "John is too smart to fool" and "John is stupid enough to fool" alongside of the more conventional passivized variants "John is too smart to be fooled" and "John is stupid enough to be fooled". In, general, the emphasis is placed on attempting to account for the …
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Pretending to be Quantum: A study of IQP-based tests of quantumness
… and give a strategy for forging samples to fool the verifier into believing that a classical prover is quantum, with a constant probability dependent on 𝑔. We also give a natural method for constructing random circuits with a particular value of 𝑔, either 𝑔 = 0 or 𝑔 = 1. We use the classical …
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Ordering desires : rhetoric and virtue in Milton's Paradise Lost.
… famously acknowledged in Areopagitica that "a fool will be a fool with the best book, yea or without book" (CPW 2.521); nevertheless, Milton's poetic practice reveals his persistent belief that poetry could induce some reordering of the desires that constitute virtue. The goal of this …
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Crafting Dreams of Lucid Shape
… and ends one's life by identifying with The Fool of the Tarot. </p> <p>To accomplish this exploration, the author will first lead the reader on a journey through his own challenges/discoveries over the course of his Graduate studies. The critical introduction will discuss and/or argue the …
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James Boswell: Writer and Advocate
… that the great biographer was something of a fool or a buffoon who hovered at the coattails of the great, taking down their conversations, noting their gestures and effacing himself in the presence of his superiors- This is a distorted impression which has been fostered by Lord Macaulay's …
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