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Showing 1 to 20 of 105 for “"rebirth"”.
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Elizabethan rebirth in Christopher Fry
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Rebirth of a Rock: Pembroke Quarry Amphitheatre
… evolves as the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth leaves its trace. This voice in its endless variety of forms expresses the beauty that is inherent within each and every location on earth. The potential of architecture is the translation of this voice into human terms and the formal …
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Adaptive Reuse: Old Building- New Props and Costume- Architectrual Rebirth
Across cities in America and the world old buildings are retired to the fate of demolition. The once glorious piece of architecture are seen as unwanted, eyesores and just not fit for today's needs. This thesis seeks to show that with an adaptive-reuse approach, one can restore the 'lost glory' of …
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Signifying Ruins: The Wreck and Rebirth of Modernity, Language, and Representation
This study explores formal and thematic representations of ruins in twentieth century literary texts, including James Joyce’s Ulysses, T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, and Adrienne Rich’s “Diving into the Wreck.” Analyzing these texts and concepts of ruins in the …
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Mystics, Radicals, Sinners, and Saints: Freedom, Rebirth, and the American West
… thinkers have turned to the West for freedom and rebirth and have sought to share their discoveries. And millions more have been attracted by their tales.
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Slaying the Leviathan: Catholicism and the Rebirth of European Conservatism, 1920-1950
This dissertation argues that Catholic social thought was a central component of post-1945 West European reconstruction: it simultaneously provided a vocabulary for a post-fascist order, brought Catholics into coalition with liberals and socialists, and inspired much of the social policy of the new …
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The rebirth of downtown Boise : how it was accomplished and lessons learned
Downtown Boise, Idaho is a vibrant, safe, and pedestrian friendly city to work, shop, live and play. However, Boise has not always enjoyed its current state of well being. For many years downtown Boise was a desolate wasteland. Very few people frequented downtown, and nearly no one resided …
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The Birth of Sacrifice: Iconographic Metaphors for Spiritual Rebirth in Master Matthias' Isenheim Altarpiece
… Concert of Angels panel creates a discussion of rebirth through the sacrifice and death of the Savior which is symbolized by the Resurrection displayed in the final panel of the middle position. Through the use of iconographic devices which reference different panels within the Altarpiece, …
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E-textuality, e-medieval, e-Malory : the rebirth of Le morte d'Arthur on the web.
Until recently, traditional textual criticism has been unable to account for the rich historical and literary contexts surrounding medieval textual culture, especially the culture of Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur. Finally, though, electronic resources provide the means for reconstructing these …
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The Rebirth of A Nation: An Embassy Proposal for the Republic of South Africa in Washington, DC
In both South Africa and the United States, the occurrence of certain political and social events have affected the cultural structure of the African society. As the patterns of community have been lost over time, due to colonialism and conquest, the foundations of traditional culture and tribal …
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Real vision and right language: Browning's poetics and metamorphosis
… for man after death and of a miraculous rebirth into earthly existence, carry inherent religious significance. But the poet has doubts about the efficacy of language to render them. Whereas some of Browning's personae communicate their understanding of the conditions of “afterlife” or …
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Casa Samba: Twenty-One Years of Amerizilian Identity in New Orleans1
… this thesis looks at Casa Samba's post-Katrina rebirth and the ways in which the group's willingness to continuously evolve throughout its history has made this rebirth possible.
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"Myself I found" : a Jungian reading of Coleridge's The Rime of the ancient mariner
… to the law of opposites and closely related rebirth motif.</p><p> Finally, I will explore the ways dreams, color, and bird imagery are symbolic and develop transformation or individuation to reflect the Mariner's degree of awakening. Not only will the complementary of opposites be discussed …
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Theatre as a Verb: The Theatre Art of Martha Graham, 1923-1958
… her own culpability, and consequently attaining rebirth. Graham's performance in this role, as well as the dance itself, inspired exceptionally enthusiastic critical acclaim. Virtually all observers termed Clytemnestra a masterwork; many claimed that it was unsurpassed in the American theatre of …
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Apocalypse and elegy in contemporary american fiction
… in the novels -- moments of destruction and rebirth, endings, new beginnings, and great revelations -- against some of the most turbulent and often despairing twentieth-century events, in an attempt to show the connection between public and private history. While contemporary apocalypse …
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The Triple Spiral at Newgrange: Historical Research of its Signifigance and Implications for Art Therapy
… The triple spiral is a symbol of both death and rebirth within the Irish culture. Further study is needed to understand and utilize the symbol in psychology and Art Therapy.</p>
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