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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"ophelia"”.
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Listen to the River: Dolores, Ophelia, and Female Resistance in Opera
<p>The music of female characters in the great masterpieces of opera often demonstrates resistance to and undermines the abuse they have historically received in opera plots. The Mexican folktale that my opera, <em>The Tragedy of La Llorona</em>, draws inspiration from plays on many of the same …
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From the DSM to Ophelia: Teenage Girls and the Psychological Complex
… the construction of teenage girls as modern-day Ophelias; and the notion of ""girl power"" as a recuperative moment for teenage girls. A variety of cultural texts including popular media (e.g., newspapers, magazines, television), and industry and government reports are examined."
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Teaching Shante Curtelia Dominique Ophelia Brown Johnson : an Autoethnography of a Black Male, Seventh-day Adventist, Jazz Avant-Garde Artist
<p>Leadership is part and parcel of societies and cultures. Leadership research can provide understanding that in turn provides knowledge, resources and growth opportunities for leaders. Leadership may be understood from a personal perspective as being bound up with identity. As I examine myself as …
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Exploring the Role of Health Literacy in Cardiac Rehabilitation: A Mixed Methods Approach
… 1 of the OPtimising HEalth LIteracy Approach (OPHELIA) a sequential explanatory mixed method design was used. First, a systematic review showed that interventions to improve health literacy can be successful (15/22 studies) and lead to health behaviour change (7/8 studies). There was limited …
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Hamlet's objective of killing Claudius fuels dramatic action
… analyzes Hamlet's behavior toward Gertrude, Ophelia, the Ghost, and Horatio.
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Graduate Recital, Voice
… of the goddess Ceres. Strauss' Drei Lieder der Ophelia, Op. 67 represents German Lieder from the late-Romantic period; the set presents a German translation of Ophelia's mad scene from Shakespeare's Hamlet. Argento's Six Elizabethan Songs represent 20th-century music, but Argento draws the text …
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“A Door Left Open”: Tracing Shakespeare’s Influence in Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen
… and two of Shakespeare’s female characters, Ophelia and Lady Macbeth.</p>
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HISTORICAL INTIMACY: CONTEMPORARY RECLAMATIONS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY IN THE DRAMA, POETRY, AND FICTION OF SUZAN-LORI PARKS, NATASHA TRETHEWAY, AND COLSON WHITEHEAD
… Parks’ The America Play, Trethewey’s Bellocq’s Ophelia, and Whitehead’s The Intuitionist, these authors comment on historical representation through such symbols as iconic figures like Abraham Lincoln, photographs, and elevators as starting points to explore the possibility of an independent …
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Decomposing the grid
The American landscape chronicles the dreams of an agricultural nation through a series of regular lines en-scribed on a flat plane. Each 6 mile x 6 mile square frames a lose-lose situation in which government subsidies encourage intensive monocultural production resulting in loss of topsoil, …
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An Ensemble Numerical Modeling Study of Alantic Basin Hurricane Intensification
… Igor (2010), Julia (2010), Katia (2011), and Ophelia (2011). Ensemble sensitivity analysis is used to investigate which patterns in the analysis have a strong influence on the forecast intensity and then a novel sensitivity compositing is used to identify common patterns which affect the …
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On the Viscoelastic Deformation of the Earth
Post-seismic deformation and glacial isostatic adjustment are two processes by which the Earth deforms viscoelastically. In both cases, the details of the deformation depend on the rheological structure of the Earth as well as the forcing, which is the earthquake and further movement on the fault …
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The dynamics of ultrafast motion in biological and bio-inspired systems: the case study of click beetles
Some of the fastest and most extraordinary motions of the animal kingdom are generated by small animals to locomote, hunt, or escape predators. Mantis shrimps, trap-jaw ants, fleas, and click beetles can repeatedly achieve accelerations up to 106 m/s2. These animals generate such high accelerations …
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Observing and modelling the legless jumping mechanism of click beetles for bio-inspired robotic design
Click beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae) have evolved a unique jumping mechanism to right themselves when on their dorsal side without using their legs or any other appendages. This work describes and analyzes the stages of the click beetle jump using high-speed video recordings and scanning electron …
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The dynamic shift in therapeutic relationships through counselor self-disclosure with military client: a case study
This qualitative case study is designed to explore how two participants described their role with their use of counselor self-disclosure in establishing and maintaining therapeutic alliance with military clients. Utilizing purposeful and criterion-based sampling, participants for this study were …
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Evaluating the Utility of an Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometer for Detecting Organic Peroxides During Beta-Pinene Ozonolysis Experiments
The intent of this study was to use a positive-ion atmospheric pressure chemical ionization mass spectrometer ((+) APCI-MS/MS) to detect organic peroxide products formed during β-pinene ozonolysis experiments. Detection was based on utilizing the neutral-loss scan (NLS) analysis mode of the …
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Inspired Positive Organizational Development (ipod): The Beneficial Effects Of Mindfulness For Nonprofit Organizational Leadership
<p>This research attempted to illustrate the benefits of utilizing positive organizational development (IPOD) and mindfulness in leading a nonprofit toward overall long-term success. The major research that was used to enhance the leadership acumen and performance of nonprofit leaders came from …
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Building a Distributed Transaction Processing System Using DARQ
Building distributed transaction processing systems in the context of cloud microservices poses challenges related to fault tolerance, resilience, and composability. Composable Resilient Steps (CReSt) and its implementation, Deduplicated Asynchronously Recoverable Queues (DARQ), provide an …
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