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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"glamour"”.
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Value versus glamour investing : a South African case
… in an international context, when using the glamour investment style, which is a sub-style of growth, as a comparative to value investing. This study aims to prove which style, value or glamour, outperforms the other thereby confirming or denying the presence of an international phenomenon in …
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Female sexuality, taste and respectability: an analysis of transatlantic media discourse surrounding Hollywood glamour and film star pin-ups during WWII.
… States between 1939 and 1949 in relation to glamour and the figure of the film star pin-up. Using Betty Grable and Rita Hayworth – the era’s most popular Hollywood pin-ups - as its case studies, the study reveals the issues of taste, class, national identity, modernity and propriety which …
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Affective Triggers in Defoe's Moll Flanders
… experiences and their relationship to glamour and commodities contribute to Moll's sense of fear and shame and the constant deterritorialization and reterritorialization of her identity. An examination of critical approaches and how they relate to affect theory provides a foundation for …
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Playing House with Coward’s “Hay Fever”
… Within the concept of “playing house,” the glamour of Coward’s work lives on through scenery, costumes, and lighting, while his quirkier side is highlighted in hopes of making his Comedy of Manners accessible to a new audience.</p>
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Acquirer type, agency monitoring and post-acquisition performance: an empirical investigation
… performance? whether the acquirer's profile as a glamour or value stock, measured by the market to book value, affects the long run post-acquisition performance? whether the acquirer's profile as a glamour or value stock, measured by the price to earnings ratio, affects the long run …
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Quality of earnings as an investment indicator : a literature review.
… effect, the general growth effect and the value-glamour effect. Thereafter, other factors that can influence earnings quality are documented, from earnings manipulation to the effects of external factors on quality of earnings. The concept and measurement of economic profits are also examined. …
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Bitter Relish
… when feelings are reciprocated, and the glamour of lust. The protagonists usually become aware of these trivial motivations, usually followed by the collapse of a particular feeling that perhaps never really existed, a take on paralysis. </p>
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Revitalizing Hollywood Stardom: Classical Star Power and Enduring Marketability at Warner Bros. in the Beginning of New Hollywood
… a star-driven marketing approach using classical glamour and the narrative of nonconformity to attract the target audience. Proven by the studio’s archival evidence, major Hollywood stars in the 1960s made extensive use of their established persona to reframe contemporary perception towards …
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Essay 1. The Risk and Return From Factors. Essay 2. Forecasting Covariances for Portfolio Optimization. Essay 3. An Agency Explanation of the Book-to-Market Effect
… accepted as fact. The last two assumptions (that glamour stocks tend to outperform value stocks in up-market periods and that the time-series flow-performance relation in the mutual fund industry is indicative of positive feedback trading on the part of mutual fund investors) are either disputed …
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Clown, o avesso de si : uma análise do clownesco na pós-modernidade
… e sua importância clínica numa cultura onde o glamour de um espetáculo serve cada vez mais para vender sabonetes.
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How Does Poetry Confess? Zhai Yongming's Poems and the Landscape of "Confession"
… confession is the basic controversy but also the glamour of confessional poetry. For confessional poets, poetry not only presents confession but also represents it. In a close reading of her two most important poems “Women” and “Jing’an Village (<em>Jing’an zhuan</em>g静安庄),” this research will …
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Public mirror: legitimizing 'social' photography as a contemporary discipline
… (ii) Participation, (iii) Identity, (iv) Glamour, (v) Protest, and (vi) Spectacle – that exemplify its capacity to curate a meaningful democratic public image. These six aspects can be used to categorize and formalize individual behaviour that can be analysed and interpreted to foster a …
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Some Patterns of Imagery in Joseph Conrad's Typhoon
… is carried through by the unresting speed and glamour of the style and by Conrad’s wonderful character sketches."</p> <p>The point of disagreement among the critics who value Typhoon highly, concerns the various factors in the tale which make it a masterpiece of its kind. Most attention has …
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Now I Speak: The African American Males' Perspective as to Whether His Identification with Hip-Hop Culture Affects His Academic Achievement
… embraced the popular culture of hip-hop with its glamour and style, but many also continue to fall behind in school or dropout. The use of qualitative analysis allows the participants in this study to speak of their experiences with hip-hop and education. Glesne (1999) writes, "Critical Race …
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From Film Sets to Front Lines and Back Again: Reinventing Star Image in Post-World War II Hollywood
… The effects of ageism on Dietrich hindered her glamour girl image and forced her out of Hollywood, while ageism turned Loy into an agreeable wife and mother, rather than an exotic, clever young woman. These actors’ extremely personal choices to leave the film industry to serve were at odds with …
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The female fatale archetype in elechi amadi's the concubine and ferdinand oyono's hosueboy
… indigo, henna, patchouli, and nipple tassels. Glamour is her uniform. The African femme fatale is accused of witchcraft and murder. Although the findings in the two texts show that the femme fatale (literally, the woman who brings death) exists in the African literary tradition, there are …
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The female fatale archetype in elechi amadi's the concubine and ferdinand oyono's hosueboy
… indigo, henna, patchouli, and nipple tassels. Glamour is her uniform. The African femme fatale is accused of witchcraft and murder. Although the findings in the two texts show that the femme fatale (literally, the woman who brings death) exists in the African literary tradition, there are …
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RE: Edificio Conjunto Nacional
… de café en la región. Ícono de status y glamour, su diseño abarca una superficie total de más de 150.000 metros cuadrados, consolidándose como un referente de escala y audacia en el panorama urbano. El archivo disponible en la Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo de la Universidad de São …
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The breaking of boundaries in microtheatre
… street in the centre of Madrid. It is a place of glamour, ostentation, and money, the home to a number of Western conventional and mainstream as well as expensive theatres such as the Teatro Compac (See Figure 1.7), the Teatro Rialto, and the Teatro Lope de Vega. (My use of the word ‘conventional’ …
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