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Queen Fatty
<p>This work is a coming-of-age novel that is inspired by my mother’s childhood in 1960’s Hong Kong. It explores a young girl’s attempts to establish an autonomous identity in the face of enormous challenges, including physical violence, sexual abuse, and hunger. The novel also explores the …
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The Unseen Queen
The Unseen Queen is a YA Fantasy Novel that explores race relations through two character's eyes: a white-coded queen and her black-coded serving girl/maid, in a world where Emarys' people have begun colonising parts of Xuxa's land. The crux of the novel is the curse that has been placed on Emarys …
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Good queen mothers, bad queen mothers : the theological presentation of the queen mother in 1 and 2 Kings.
… signaling an importance on the part of the queen mother and her place within the theological presentation of the books. This dissertation investigates the multiple passages in which the mother of the king appears outside of the regnal formulas through literary criticism and integrates that …
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Queen size dimorphism in ants
… this is particularly common in males. Ant queens are an important exception. The case of ant queen size dimorphisms has not been studied in sufficient detail, and thus this thesis aimed at elucidating causes and consequences of the different size of small (microgynous) and large …
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The thief and the beauty queen
The Thief and the Beauty Queen is a middle-grade novel told from the perspectives of two eleven-year-olds, Landon and Cora—one known for theft and the other for social media fame—who must collaborate to mend their tarnished reputations. Aimed at readers aged 8-12, the story reflects the modern …
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Concerning Begum Akhtar: ''Queen of Ghazal''
Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T14:53:57Z Item is restricted indefinitely.
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Women who served Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth : Ladies, Gentlewomen and Maids of the Privy Chamber, 1553-1603.
… turns to the criteria used by the queens in selecting their women and discusses specialised duties (laundry, dancing etc.), the use by the queens of service as a form of house arrest, the eager pursuit of places in the Privy Chamber by women and their families and the alternatives …
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Queen of Heaven for piano and electronics
Queen of Heaven is a large-scale composition for piano and electronics, cast as five meditations on the Virgin Mary. Each of the five movements is set in musical materials that both subjectively and symbolically express the composer's study and experience of scriptural, liturgical and iconographic …
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Fanny Janauschek: America's Last Queen of Tragedy
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Queen Nefertiti: Power and Intrigue Amidst Gender Inequality
<p>Queen Nefertiti, one of ancient Egypt's most enigmatic & striking figures, rose to prominence during a time of radical political and religious transformation. Known for her striking beauty and influential role, her legacy transcends mere aesthetics, positioning her as a powerful force in a …
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Artistic Patronage at the Court of Queen Charlotte
"Charlotte supported all types of visual culture, but especially of the so-called ""minor arts,"" such as engraving, embroidery, transparencies (illuminated paintings), wax modeling and miniature painting, fields which were traditionally open to or dominated by women. My dissertation demonstrates …
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Trickster and Weetigo : Tomson Highway's Fur Queen
… present in Tomson Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen. I contend that Highway’s conflation of the two mythological characters, Weesageechak and Weetigo, in the figure of the Fur Queen allows the dramatization of the interaction and confrontation between the aboriginal culture and colonizing …
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Queen Anne's revenge : a systems analysis of Blackbeard's flagship
… examine the life history of the pirate flagship Queen Anne's Revenge using a functional systems approach to observe how the ship affected and was affected by the macrosystems operating around her and the microsystems operating within her. To this end, I examined the archaeological and historical …
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QUEEN: The Remaking of Character in the Modernist Novel
… depicted character. I study one such character, Queen Victoria, to trace how Woolf and James Joyce reimagined how to depict a historical figure in a novel. What is Queen Victoria in the Modernist novel and why does she begin to appear? She is a symptom and symbol of a problem the Modern writers …
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Structure, evolution, and petroleum potential of the Queen Charlotte Basin
… on the structure and evolution of the Tertiary Queen Charlotte sedimentary basin and its petroleum potential. The study is based on integrated geological basin analysis, which involves compiling all relevant geological, geophysical, and geochemical data; interpreting them using a …
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Representations of Queen Elizabeth I in Edmund Spenser's Pastoral Poetry
… (1595) to uncover allegorical representations of Queen Elizabeth I. The psychoanalytical theories of Jacques Lacan and Julia Kristeva will be appropriated to construct a methodological model termed the 'Lacanian Pastoral'. This model will be used to examine Spenser's poetic unconscious that maps …
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