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Showing 1 to 20 of 254 for “"invisibility"”.
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The Invisibility of Juvenal
This dissertation offers a reading of Juvenal's Satires. It maintains that Juvenal consciously frustrates readers' attempts to identify his poetic voice with a single unitary character or persona. At the same time, it argues that Juvenal's poems are influenced in both form and theme by cultural …
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Identity invisibility and social forces
… thesis explores the three threads of identity, invisibility and social forces in relation to ‘non-traditional’ students undertaking undergraduate study within an ‘HE in FE’ environment. The exploratory nature of the research required an inductive approach and thus the design of the research …
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Fighting the Invisibility of Domestic Violence
<p>Analyzing the invisibility of domestic violence in New York City as 32% of women in the city experience intimate partner physical violence. In this project, domestic violence refers to all different kinds of violence that occur in a home between all the members who live there regardless of …
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Study on transformation-based invisibility cloaks
… an unprecedented opportunity for realizing invisibility cloaking. Coordinate transformation theory predicts that by squeezing the space to form a "hole" in it, any object inside the "hole" becomes completely invisible from electromagnetic waves. A metamaterial shell can thus be designed to …
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Methods of invisibility and multi-dimensional display
… for applications in multidimensional display and invisibility.
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Black women, White campus: Students living through invisibility.
… that are overshadowed by stereotyping and invisibility; and how Black women endure the college journey with various support systems, staying encouraged, and using survival/coping strategies. Findings of this study revealed: experiencing racism and/or sexism prior to being enrolled in …
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Now you see me: the invisibility of older lesbians
… has been a decisive factor in maintaining their invisibility; and that there is a need for further research in this neglected area.
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Stereotypes and Prototypes: The Causes and Consequences of Intersectional Invisibility
… One such theory is the intersectional invisibility model (Purdie-Vaughns & Eibach, 2008), which suggests that the non-prototypicality of Black women, in terms of both race and gender, leads to invisibility and subsequent marginalization. Newer research, however, suggests that …
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Geometric manipulation of light : from nonlinear optics to invisibility cloaks
… generation. Second, we consider proposals for invisibility cloaks to change the path of electromagnetic waves in a certain way so that the object appears invisible at a certain frequency or a range of frequencies. Transformation-based invisibility cloaks make use of the coordinate invariance of …
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Invisibility Spells in the Greek Magical Papyri: Prolegomena, Texts, and Commentaries
… humans are portrayed as deliberately procuring invisibility in purportedly historical and fictional accounts and in doing so, attempt to answer key questions concerning the ritual practices found in the extant invisibility spells. How does the practitioner envision invisibility? For what reasons …
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From Death Sentence to Disappearance: The Invisibility of West Asian LGBTQ Refugees
… the most understudied populations. I believe the invisibility of vulnerable populations is one of the highest levels of injustice which places them at higher risks of discrimination. Despite the most visible injustice, why do they remain invisible? I began to seek answers by myself through a …
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The bookbinder and historical invisibility: bookbinding and the Staffordshire book trade 1750-1850
… trade. It addresses the historical 'invisibility' of the bookbinders, and argues that Staffordshire's bookbinders made a significant contribution in the commerce between the county trade and London. There is little first-hand evidence of the lives lived by Staffordshire's binders. In …
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Invisibility, appropriation, subversion: British Army observation posts at the Shankill Falls divide, 1972
… knowledge. <br/><br/>Main Question:<br/>How was invisibility in the appropriation and subversion of architectural spaces and structures as military observation posts at the Shankill Falls Divide in 1972?<br/><br/>Summary:<br/>My thesis examines key reversals of power and visibility that occurred …
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Examining intersectional invisibility of African American girls in high school Advanced Placement classrooms
… to examine the essence of intersectional invisibility (Purdie-Vaughns & Eibach, 2008) among this specific population. Through interviews of student participants and high school principals, it was observed that African American girls primarily became enrolled in AP courses through counselor …
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From Invisibility to Hypervisibility: Queer Testimonies to the Holocaust Across France and Italy
… I insist on the notions of ‘visibility’, ‘invisibility’ and ‘hypervisibility’, that retain a Möbius strip-like relationship, for a theorisation that bears importance for thinking about cis-heterosexism, racism, ableism or other forms of stigmatisation. I emphasise the impact of context on …
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ON THE CUSP OF INVISIBILITY: THE LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY, MARGINALIZED STUDENTS, AND INSTITUTIONAL SPACES
… demographic that has remained on the cusp of invisibility in society, the academy, and the discipline of rhetoric and composition. The contribution of this research includes developing spatial and temporal awareness, increasing attention to local and regional cultural differences, and …
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BLACK REMOVAL AND INVISIBILITY: AT THE INTERSECTIONS OF RACE AND CITIZENSHIP IN THE 21st CENTURY
This dissertation, Black Removal and Invisibility: At the Intersections of Race and Citizenship in the 21st Century, uses the experiences of Black immigrants as a lens to examine anti-Blackness and citizenship within the contemporary U.S. immigration system. I explore how Black immigrants sit at a …
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The presumption of invisibility: A qualitative study of Mexican immigrant fathers supporting their sons educationally
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-12-01
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