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Showing 1 to 20 of 323 for “"remembering"”.
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Remembering
Remembering is a collection of linked short stories that tell of one family's evolution over several generations as they confront their own histories, within the larger historical context of war, prosperity, economic depression, and post-WW II America. The stories are influenced by the minimalism …
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Remembering Albasini
This dissertation uses the historical figure of Joao Albasini to explore some historiographical issues related to how people commemorate their past. Joao Albasini was a Portuguese trader who operated through the port of Delagoa Bay for a large part of the 19th Century. He was based in Portuguese …
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Ballads for Remembering
Ballads for Re-Membering is an examination of themes of consciousness such as time, space and emergence, set against the precarity of the climate crisis. Using an arts-and-Zen-practice-based methodology of research-creation, and a theoretical framework of New Materialism and Post-Humanism (“K(now)n …
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Remembering Danzig and Reclaiming Gdańsk
<p>This thesis will highlight a number of traumatic memories chronologically in the history of this city. The Versailles Conference will be the beginning of the tale of these two cities in the first chapter, Danzig before 1945. The history of the interwar years reveals a severe rift between Poland …
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The process of remembering pictures
… carried out to investigate processes involved in remembering pictorial stimuli. Because of difficulties encountered in measuring memory for this kind of material, previous investigations in the area (reviewed in Chapters One and Two) have not successfully estimated the capacity of memory for …
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The process of remembering pictures
… carried out to investigate processes involved in remembering pictorial stimuli. Because of difficulties encountered in measuring memory for this kind of material, previous investigations in the area (reviewed in Chapters One and Two) have not successfully estimated the capacity of memory for …
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All that is worth remembering
In the December of my Senior year, my old piano teacher died. Old not in the sense of age, because he was really quite young (in general, but specifically to die), but in the sense that I took lessons from him when I was a kid and young adult (how I despise that term), and hadn't spoken with him, …
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Mapping the Dream: A Poetics of Remembering
The Things Downriver is a personal narrative drawing upon the lyric as a pathway to map dreaming. Devoting a year to mapping dreams of childhood recollections, the writer focused on interludes when she and her younger brother spent summers with their paternal Italian American grandparents on their …
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Making, remembering, remaking : personal meanings in symbolization
My silent voice spirals out of me with your stories I remember they have fused, intertwined and woven themselves into my story My primary goal in the following research is to examine my own sense of ethnic identity, and in the process better understand my own cultural experience through the process …
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The Influence of Opinions on Remembering Revisited
… a relationship between opinions and active remembering. Typically, subjects' memory for long thematic prose passages was tested after a delay. In contrast, results of research after 1956, in which subjects were required to recall immediately a small set of terse statements, indicated little …
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Ukrainian Ostarbeiters in Canada: Individual and Collective Remembering
… the nature of collective and individual remembering of the forced labour, and challenging certain existing conclusions about all Ukrainian DPs in the Ukrainian-Canadian historiography, this thesis sheds new light on the history of the “third wave” of Ukrainian immigration to Canada and …
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Remembering Together: Native Boarding School Stories on Display
<p>Recent scholarship on Native American boarding schools has focused on drawing out the complexities of boarding school history and emphasizing the plurality of experiences of students. This thesis examines how Native American boarding school stories have been displayed using two current museum …
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Remembering 1989: Post-Communist Commemorations in Berlin and Warsaw
Germany and Poland since 1989 have become lands of contested memory, as reflected by their attempts to commemorate the series of reforms that led to the end of their Communist regimes. This study is an attempt to analyze the various modes of commemoration dedicated to the transition from communism …
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Remembering and knowing: exploring subjective report, familiarity, and confidence
This thesis examined how people make and understand judgments of subjective experience using the categories of Remember, Know, Familiar, and Guess (R, K, F, G), and represents the first attempt to use all four categories in a standard episodic recognition task. The key findings of this body of work …
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Remembering East German Childhood In Post-Wende Life Narratives
<p>REMEMBERING EAST GERMAN CHILDHOOD IN </p> <p>POST-WENDE LIFE NARRATIVES</p> <p>by JULIANA MAMOU, May 2013</p> <p>This dissertation explores how East German childhood is remembered in four exemplary auto/biographical texts that appeared in the early years of the twenty-first century. In Jana …
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Remembering, Forgetting, and Artifact Deposition in Late Prehistoric Florida
… Mississippian-influenced societies featured more remembering practices, which I argue to mean certain groups focused on integrating and reinforcing Mississippian identity, while others were attempting to resist and forget these new institutions. This research explores a novel area in …
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As Time Goes By: Ritualized Remembering Through Wedding Photography
The practice of remembering sometimes takes the form of ritual in order to enforce, embody and sustain social bonds and values. American wedding photography is a strong example of an instance in which remembering becomes a formalized symbolic performance through an intricate system of idealization …
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Describing and Remembering Motion Events in British Sign Language
Motion events are ubiquitous in conversation, from describing a tiresome commute to recounting a burglary. These situations, where an entity changes location, consist of four main semantic components: Motion (the movement), Figure (the entity moving), Ground (the object or objects with respect to …
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