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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"lighthouse"”.
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A Lighthouse
This lighthouse is a visual anchor from land and sea. Its three concrete towers reach 250 feet tall with a base diameter of 75 feet. Accompanying its rotating spotlight is a central spotlight, lighting the core of the tower vertically and continuing into the sky. Nested 150 feet up the tower is the …
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Mrs. Ramsay's Art in To the Lighthouse
… our mothers if we are women” (76). In <em>To the Lighthouse, </em>Woolf further explores this need for a female tradition through the struggles Mrs. Ramsay faces as an unfulfilled artist working through the only mode of art open to her, her role as angel in the house, and her influence over the …
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The referendum lighthouse: how state-level initiatives drive voter turnout
This thesis examines the use of ballot initiatives at the state level to determine whether the presence of certain types of ballot initiatives cause an increase in voter turnout at the state level. This study is unique in that rather than focusing on individual level voting behavior to explain why …
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The mediation of consciousness in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse
… inhabit, is generated in Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse, and how this is maintained through the novel. Chosen as a prototypical consciousness novel, To The Lighthouse is noted for its complex and difficult narratorial structure and fluid shifts of viewpoint, making it an ideal choice for …
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Dynamic Analysis and Seismic Retrofit of the Point Sur Lighthouse
<p>The Point Sur Lighthouse is an unreinforced stone masonry building completed in 1889 on the central coast of California. The lighthouse is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is still an active aid to navigation. The original first-order Fresnel lens was removed from the …
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The Implications of Virginia Licensure Regulations on Teacher Retention in Lighthouse City Public Schools
… licensure regulations on teacher retention in Lighthouse City Public Schools. The study addressed four research questions: 1) "What factors influence the retention of teachers in Lighthouse City Public Schools? 2) Is it possible to predict demographically by race, gender, age, grade level of …
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Woolf's philosophy of literary subjectivity : Virginia Woolf's 'To the lighthouse' and Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialist theory
… her moment of awakening to subjectivity. To the Lighthouse is examined theoretically and textually to demonstrate Woolf's philosophy of literary subjectivity.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF'S USE OF THE PAST: THE EARLY CRITICISM TO "TO THE LIGHTHOUSE" (HISTORY, MODERNISM, WORLD WAR I)
… focus of Jacob's Room, Mrs. Dalloway, and To the Lighthouse, novels that constitute what Woolf later called "the new biography" and what I term "the new history." In writing fiction Woolf did not abandon history; she found other forms through which to explore it.</p>
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MATERIAL MEDIATION: WOMEN, CONNECTION, AND VITAL MATERIALISM IN VIRGINIA WOOLF’S MRS DALLOWAY, TO THE LIGHTHOUSE, AND BETWEEN THE ACTS
… I argue that Woolf’s novels Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Between the Acts present a number of examples of female characters, who, in particular, demonstrate what the material theorist Jane Bennett calls a “anticipatory readiness” to perceiving, and validating, the presence of nonhuman …
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The immanent life of things : embodiment, materiality, and agency in Virginia Woolf’s “A sketch of the past,” and To the lighthouse
… works, "A Sketch of the Past," and To the Lighthouse. It argues that Woolf's stream-of-consciousness aesthetics underscores the agency that material objects hold in, and via, human actions, encounters, and relationships. This agency comes about, or is manifested, through the ways in which …
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Becoming Light: Releasing Woolf from the Modernists Through the Theories of Giles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
… allows readers of Woolf's novel, To the Lighthouse, outside the confines some past critics have put around it. I apply select Deleuze and Guattarian metaphors to Woolf's To the Lighthouse in order that multiplicities of the novel stand out. The Deleuze and Guattarian metaphors that are …
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Kilea and a critical, reflective essay on Virginia Woolf's The Common Reader and To The Lighthouse, James Joyce's Ulysses and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea
… enacted the transmutation of setting in To the Lighthouse from a nostalgia-tainted Cornwall to a neutral, but unfamiliar place, Skye. Chapter Two addresses James Joyce’s Ulysses in a similar vein, though the style of this chapter is impersonal, lacking the ‘I’ of the rest of the critical essay. …
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Fog Tropes: A social and cultural history of the foghorn
… later. Foghorns are the sonic equivalent to the lighthouse, a technology that used coal power to sound giant metal trumpets, to aid and make safe the sea-bound transport of goods and people. I analyse the reception of this industrial sound on the coast when it was first installed, with specific …
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Assessment of a Low Cost IR Laser Local Tracking Solution for Robotic Operations
… of this thesis we choose to adapt the SteamVR Lighthouse system developed by Valve, which uses photo-diodes on the trackers to detect the rotating IR laser sheets emitted from the anchored base stations, also known as lighthouses. Some previous researches had been completed using the first …
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Long-term Background Ozone and Carbon Monoxide Measurements on the Maltese Islands
… been given to the background station at Gordan lighthouse, Gozo. The evaluation of the data showed that monthly and yearly averages of background ozone mixing-ratios are amongst the highest in the world as observed at low-altitude stations in the mid latitudes, especially during winter. The …
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Material Fluidity: Sense - Will - Form, Alexandria, Virginia Maritime Museum
… forces applied to it. The building's circular lighthouse on the northern end serves as a symbolic focal point as well as a central repository for the energy gathered by its two wings. The east wing closest to the water unravels in response to the 4 foot rise and drop of the tides, and borrows …
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The siting of a wind turbine using the WASP numerical model and its validation by comparison with field data
… over the wind measured at the Cape Agulhas lighthouse for the same height. The predicted theoretical power of 2019 W/m2, was more than twice the average power that occurs at the lighthouse. The second aim was to validate the numerical model. This was achieved by measuring wind speeds, using …
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"Pieces in a Pattern": Virginia Woolf and Family Memory
… Stephen, along with Woolf's novel, <em>To the Lighthouse</em>, I will investigate the memoir genre, particularly in the context of understanding a shared history. These four texts provide a means of analyzing how texts form a discourse and what can be learned when conversational roles are …
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