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The Riddle of Turandot
… consists of two parts. Part One is a novel (The Riddle of Turandot), whose central character is a fifty-five year-old-woman and Part Two is an essay entitled The Representation of Older Women in Contemporary Fiction. Feminist theorists argue that it is difficult if not impossible to represent …
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Bridging the Gap: Finding a Valkyrie in a Riddle
While many riddles exist in the Anglo-Saxon Exeter Book containing female characters, both as actual human females and personified objects and aspects of nature, few scholars have discussed how the anthropomorphized “females” of the riddles challenge and broaden more conventional portrayals of what …
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How Still the Riddle Lies; Emily Dickinson's Sense of Naturalness
… Autumn 2006 Literature Abstract: How Still the Riddle Lies Robert Baker, Chair Louise Economides Phil Condon The tradition of “nature writing” in the United States draws heavily on the literary movements of Romanticism and Transcendentalism. Wordsworth’s meditative walks, Keats’s nightingale, …
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How Still the Riddle Lies; Emily Dickinson's Sense of Naturalness
… Autumn 2006 Literature Abstract: How Still the Riddle Lies Robert Baker, Chair Louise Economides Phil Condon The tradition of “nature writing” in the United States draws heavily on the literary movements of Romanticism and Transcendentalism. Wordsworth’s meditative walks, Keats’s nightingale, …
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Auto-Motives: Unraveling the Riddle of Alternative Transportation to School
<p>Over the last 40 years, there has been a dramatic increase nationwide in the rate of children being driven to school in a private vehicle in the U.S., exacerbating problems from traffic congestion to childhood obesity. While many studies have focused on walking and cycling for the trip to …
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Creating Standards Compliant Biodiesel Production Capability Using Waste Peanut Oil at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
<p>During the past year, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has been in the process of making a viable biodiesel using waste peanut oil from a Chick-Fil-A fast food restaurant on campus. Past research and biodiesel production from the previous two years on campus was taken into consideration and …
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Personality as it Relates to Performance Among Primary Flight Students at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
<p>The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship of primary flight students' performance as it relates to personality. Previous research has provided the basis for the relationship between what an individual accomplishes and personality traits. The individual performance of 30 students …
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The Effect on Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's Reporting Culture from Implementing an Aviation Safety Action Program
<p>The Flight Training Department at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, has been contemplating implementing an Aviation Safety Action Program (ASAP) in order to help protect students and instructors from certificate action. This feasibility study analyzed what motivated instructor …
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Breaking the silence : the necessity of memory in Tillie Olsen's Tell Me a Riddle.
… stories included in her collection Tell Me a Riddle: "I Stand Here Ironing," "Hey Sailor, What Ship?" "O Yes," and "Tell Me a Riddle." In Olsen's collection personal and collective memory breaks the silence engendered by personal hardship and offers hope for a reclaiming voice. Her stories …
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Relationship Of Student Satisfaction Levels In Distance Learning And Traditional Classroom Environments at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Unviersity
… what differences, if any, exist between Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) students enrolled in distance learning and traditional courses during 2004 with regard to their satisfaction with course quality and (b) the level of satisfaction of distance learning students with regard to …
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The Riddle of History Solved: How the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Narrated Bosnia’s History
International Lawyers’ interest in the disciplinary intersection between international criminal law and history has thus far been limited to the history of international criminal law. In this thesis I argue that it is time to shift our perspective to the role of international criminal law in …
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Comparative Analysis of Distance Learning and Traditional Instructional Delivery Methodologies in Selected Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Graduate Courses
… and quantitative data for selected Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University graduate courses in both the distance learning and traditional classroom delivery methods. The population for this study was made up of two segments. The first segment consisted of all students that completed a …
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Development of a Force and Airspeed Data Acquisition System for the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University 30x40 in. Subsonic Wind Tunnel
<p>The very first objective of performing most experiments is collecting numerical data. Values can be read from instruments or gauges by eye and recorded by hand. However, in certain experiments the amount of data collected may become so large that a human alone can not observe and record the data …
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FeSb2: a riddle, inside an insulator, wrapped in a metal Electric and magnetic properties of the unconventional insulator iron diantimonide
The distinction between metals and insulators forms a fundamental tenet of condensed matter physics. Over the past decade or so, the explosion of interest in topological insulators – materials that host a metallic surface state atop their insulating bulks – has demonstrated how the contrasting …
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ΝΕΟΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ ΛΑΙΚΑ ΑΙΝΙΓΜΑΤΑ. ΜΟΡΦΟΛΟΓΙΚΗ ΚΑΙ ΛΕΙΤΟΥΡΓΙΚΗ ΑΝΑΛΥΣΗ
THIS DISSERTATION STUDIES THE MODERN GREEK FOLK RIDDLE THROUGH AN ANALYSIS OF ITS MORPHOLOGY AND FUNCTION. THE INTRODUCTION DISCUSSES CERTAIN GENERAL SUBJECTS, SUCH AS THE PROBLEM OF STUDYING AND COMPREHENDING ORAL FOLK LITERATURE RESULTING FROM ITS VERY ORAL AND TRADITIONAL CHARACTER; THE EARLY …
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A Comparative Analysis of Distance Learning and Traditional Classroom Learning for MAS 602, MAS 603, and MAS 605 at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
<p>To be competitive for tuition dollars, ERAU's distance learning program must meet the needs and demands of prospective students. Consideration must be given to the quality of the instruction over a distance compared to the traditional classroom method. The results of this investigation provide …
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Substance and form in South African Revenue Cases
… to pay less tax, is the solution to the fiscal riddle, the search for which has led to many complicated financial schemes, skirmishes with the Commissioner for Inland Revenue; and the creation of a booming market for astute tax planners.
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Analysis of the Effects of Hypoxia on Cognitive Processing Ability
… ract/F026CBBBA0574DDEPQ/1?accountid=27203#">Embry Riddle Aeronautical University</a> Normobaric High Altitude Lab (HAL) to determine the cognitive reduction in spatial orientation and mental math ability experienced by individuals at progressively increasing levels of hypoxia, measured in blood …
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The Sensitivity to Motion Sickness Induced by Aircraft and Flight Training Devices and the Role of Experience During Flight Training
… aspects of this problem, each of 175 Embry-Riddle student pilots early in their training and 43 Embry-Riddle student non-pilots participated in one of four parts of this study. The Motion History Questionnaire was utilized to compare pilot and non-pilot groups on reported motion sickness …
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