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Showing 1 to 20 of 97 for “"opposites"”.
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Dialogue between opposites
The value of architecture lies in our sensory perception, our experience of the space. If the space creates an awareness of the present through the sensory exchange between our body, mind, and the architecture, then it is committed to memory as a place. The perception of a space cannot be …
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Gender Bias in Microlending: Do Opposites Attract?
<p>This study exploits a quasi-random assignment of clients to loan officers using a unique database and survey from a large microfinance bank in Nigeria to show that opposite-sex preferences affect credit demand and supply. We find that clients matched to loan officers of the opposite gender are …
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Beyond opposites : an urban initiative in Seoul
The thesis began with the understanding of urban, cultural, and social conditions of Seoul. The choice of the existing bridge as the point of departure has meaning in two layers. layer one: the need for more space in the city of Seoul has initiated intense discussions on alternative building sites …
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Intermediary of Opposites/Turkish Embassy at Washington D.C.
The objective of this thesis is not only to design a building or investigate an idea, but also to explore and learn to appreciate what is truly important and, hope- fully, to discover that part of truth which may lead us to a serenity in our souls. My entire struggle is basically to try to achieve …
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Horizon
… the inhabitable space, space the separation of opposites the Horizon exists where opposites meet the contradiction emphasizes the existence of the Horizon architectural elements emphasize this place of meeting using elements of repetition, reflection, and separation
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As the owl discreet: Essay towards a conversation and Carly's Dance a novel
… is concerned with the co-existence of opposites, or more precisely, apparent opposites. The essay's title is ironic, borrowed from Hillaire Belloc's perverse verses collected as Cautionary Tales. Discretion is exactly what the thesis tests the bounds of, as do the characters in my …
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Between Earth and Sky
… and the other toward dark. These gravitational opposites . . . may be said to symbolise the two cosmological opposites to which they aspire; the sky and the earth." Human existence finds itself at the juncture between these opposites. Semper regarded the joint as "the primordial tectonic …
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Yeats and water imagery
… provided Yeats with his subjects, a religion of opposites; the other half is absence of water or fire. Water and fire, wet and dry, the Moon and the Sun symbolize Yeatsian opposites that either unite (Unity of Being) or clash (opposite characters or ages). In the late works, when Yeats …
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Sinister Spaces: Liminality and the Southern Ontario Gothic in Margaret Atwood's Fiction
… created not simply by the meeting of seeming opposites, but at the points where their boundaries are blurred. Atwood’s fiction represents these liminal spaces; however, she provides options for a hopeful ending by providing her characters a means to escape their entrapment. Her characters must …
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Modal Shifts: Row Houses and Alley Houses in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia
… Recognizing that the equilibrium between these opposites fluctuates and is different for each inhabitant, the connecting thresholds are expandable and changeable.
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Patient Zero
… Bill, to save her. The movie explores the binary opposites of heterosexual and homosexual love and how Jenna and Bill show their love for Lillian. In addition the impact of sexual abuse and rape are shown and the zombie transformation works as a metaphor for sexual abuse.</p>
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The Journey: Theatre and Arts center
… and public, action and perception? Upon these opposites, we journey through our lives. If the purpose of architecture is more than the construction of a shelter, then architecture also is a reflection of these contradictions in a human mind. The goal of this project is to illustrate how the …
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“Tawny Grammar”: Anne Simpson’s Exploration of the Other
… creates poems that desire to exist between two opposites, allowing each to maintain their individual identity, yet since Simpson’s opposites are often self/Other, language/chaos, life/death, her poems consistently risk the subjectivity-free space of Levinas’s il y a, where the …
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Contrast: Unifying the Nuts and Bolts
… in a way that makes the viewer feel that these opposites belong together. I struggle to make the improbable seem ordinary and the mundane seem amazing.
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Silence, speech and gender in early modern drama : a presentist, Palestinian perspective
… and Women Beware Women deconstruct the binary opposites of speech and silence and highlight that gender difference is a self-defeating ideology. Following the critical line of new historicism, this thesis draws on the different cultural and historical contexts of both early modern England and …
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Wege Der Verheißung: Jewish Thought And The Portrayal Of History In Franz Werfel’s Work
… a case for tolerance on earth. Just as religious opposites complement one another in an eschatological sense, so too can these opposites assist one another during the struggles of earthly existence. While the urgency of cooperation was amplified by the Second World War, these works demonstrate …
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Structure & Freedom - A Montessori School in Georgetown
… Through the design process, an "architecture of opposites" emerged — edges and endings, light and dark, solid and transparent, quiet and noise, city and nature, bridge and barrier. It is this struggle between opposing forces that creates a dynamic environment. A site at the intersection of P and …
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A Life of Paradox: Thomas Merton's Asian Trajectory
… ever-present subject emerges: the coincidence of opposites, or the paradox. This theme was Merton's own understanding of not only interreligious dialogue but also his very own identity.
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Female Mate Selection for Long-Term Relationships
Some individuals believe that opposites attract. However, in order to have a long-term relationship individuals tend to marry someone who is similar to them. I propose that females tend to select partners who are similar to themselves. Previous studies have shown that individuals do tend to select …
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'Equivocity' and Metaphorical Meaning
… philosophers, despite their positions on polar opposites of a theoretical continuum, have much in common and that their views share common problems that infect the entire continuum. Finally, an alternative to the Authoritarian-Anarchist continuum is proposed, and an argument made (1) against an …
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