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Showing 1 to 20 of 281 for “"mundane"”.
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Three Furies: The Mythic and the Mundane
<p>Adam Jolly May 7<sup>th</sup>, 2004 67 pages</p> <p>Directed by: Dr. Nancy Roberts, Dr. David Lenoir, and Dr. Lloyd Davies</p> <p>Department of English Western Kentucky University</p> <p>This thesis, consisting of three short stories, proposes to explore ubiquitous motifs by exhibition of …
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Mundane Fashion: Women, Clothes and Emotional Durability
This research investigates emotional durability of clothing through the lens of a designer-maker practice. The current discourse on fashion futures urgently recognizes that a deeper understanding of the behavioural drivers behind long-term use of clothing is critical in order to move beyond …
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The Cognitive Representation of Mundane Social Events
An important issue in the event memory area concerns the effects of prior knowledge on how newly encountered event sequences become represented in memory. The following experiments address two relevant questions. First, when people encounter events that exemplify a schema, do they copy …
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The Mundane Habits of the Opposite Sex
The stories in The Mundane Habits of the Opposite Sex explore themes of identity, loss, gender, and the often-complex landscape of human interaction. These are relationship stories, coming-of-age stories. Stories about searching for answers to mysteries both large and small. Loneliness is de …
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Minding the Mundane: The Critique of Political Participation from Epicurus to Montaigne
Minding the Mundane theorizes an important way of thinking about politics both today and in the history of European political thought. I call this the mundane perspective and locate it particularly in Epicurus and his ancient followers, as well as (in modified form) in early modern European …
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The sequence of the supreme and mundane : case studies of the Chinese urban order
After decades of urbanization and growth, Chinese cities are experiencing rapid renewal and redevelopment. The revolutionary changes in city form are accompanied by not only prosperity and wealth, but also chaotic environment and life. On the one hand, the current international style of urban …
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Forms and functions of the French discourse particle hein in French mundane conversation: a conversation analysis perspective
… and functions of the French particle hein in mundane talk-in-interaction between French native speakers. This study was conducted using Conversation Analysis (CA) as methodology. The data for this study consist of four different sets of videotaped and audio-taped, non-elicited mundane …
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"I Need to Be Myself" : Authenticity and Performance in the Everyday and Mundane Practice of Trustworthy Leadership - A Paradox.
… evidence by exploring in depth the specific and mundane ways in which trustworthy leadership is manifest in an everyday context. This work builds upon Alvesson & Sveningsson's (2003b) concept of the extra-ordinarization of the mundane, which highlights the significance of everyday and routine …
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The Sled, the Litter, and the Plot: Finding Connections Between Mundane Material Culture From World War II's USS North Carolina
… through the voices of the sailors using three "mundane" artifacts. The object biographies of seemingly unrelated objects -- in this case the Kingfisher sea sled, a vertical plotting board, and a stretcher -- showcase elements of construction, technological improvement, and inferred value. …
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Social support in parent-child relationships during emerging adulthood: examining the effects of mundane support and the support gap phenomenon
… and explicating a new type of support – mundane support, which is defined as social support delivered through relational partners’ everyday, mundane interactions without targeting at specific stressors. Based on previous research and findings of a pilot study, I developed and refined a …
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Shifting personal brandscapes: young sojourners’ consumer acculturation
… are also evident. The gifting of foods and other mundane products between sojourners and home and host others allows for the representation of different selves and for the creation, establishment, maintenance and modification of social bonds during and post sojourn. The exchange of branded …
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The administrator character from Renaissance humanism to modernism: an examination of the authorial tradition of using characterisation to represent the mundane processes of their contemporary soundings, and as means through which to engage in discourses of power
… as a means to reflect through character both the mundane processes of their contemporary soundings, and as a means through which to address contemporary discourses of power. This character has historically functioned to alter the course of plots, determine the fates of other characters, and …
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Disorientations
<p>The materials that make up the ordinary and mundane in the United States also reinforce and normalize a white spatial imaginary. Conventions of mapping, imaging of land and landscape, and elements of the built environment continue to orient us in a logic of space as property. In my sculptural …
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I found your address in a fortune cookie : a novel
… for something unnamable. His desire runs from mundane, sensual pleasures like lying in bed or drinking coffee to desires for which there are no easy names, like the desire to escape the body. The novel is composed of a series of romantic relationships that span Joshua's early adolescence to his …
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Re[source]
… is a case study in revealing value in mundane residual waste infrastructure and waste materials. Our perception of municipal solid waste and drop-off sites is that they are unsightly and non-special parts of our everyday lives. This is evident in their marginalization and seclusion from …
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A Reconstitution of Place
… reconstitute a place. This occurs when mundane characteristics of a locality are reformulated in such a manner that their presence becomes significant.
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Policies from practice: The stories of the Whitewater Head Start program
… The study utilized short stories about the mundane daily events and special occurrences at Whitewater to understand how staff interpreted policies.
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Preserving Human Autonomy in AI-Mediated Negotiations
… moral principles) alongside transactional “mundane” interests. This thesis investigates whether generative AI can be designed to recognize and respect important values and beliefs while preserving human agency in decision-making. Drawing on datasets from a repository of large language model …
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Theater: Architecture of the Horizon
… similar framework, whereby the actor's work is a mundane manifestation of the elements extracted from the world of ideas, making it the perfect conduit to examine the reconciliation of these oppositions: the mundane and the ethereal, the quotidian and the philosophical, the earth and the heavens… …
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