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That Said
<p><em>That Said</em>, a creative thesis of poetry and poetics in two parts, explores points of contact between human interaction, capitalism, consciousness, and the process of meaning itself. The collection appropriates the language of business, scholarship, and politics alongside philosophical …
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Said the River: The Confluence of Ecotheology and Water
<p>Environmental water issues are increasingly in the consciousness of environmental advocates, as well as scientists and engineers. Water experts have approached water issues from a scientific and engineering framework, which has led them to preference material and technical solutions. Yet those …
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Would You Believe Me If I Said I Didn't Need You
<p>This thesis is an attempt to expand upon the ideas that permeate the practice of art making that has developed over the past two years. Art criticism, theory, history, and practice are used to give definition to the boundaries of my ever-shifting body of work. Focusing on the elusive nature of …
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'I have heard it said': towards a new translation of Beowulf
The fields of translation and creative writing have long been seen as entirely distinct, with many writers drawing a distinction between types based on both the level of syntactic experimentation and the background of the translator. While most theorists would disagree, popular opinion (and the …
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Whoever Said Change Was Good: The Transforming Body of the Disney Villainess
This dissertation examines female figures in Disney animation through the lens of Laban Movement Analysis (LMA), a system for observing and articulating movement qualities. Drawing from six major films released between 1937 and 2010, I focus my inquiry on how the bodies and movement of Disneys …
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What more is there to be said?: modern poets on visual art
This paper sets out to examine the different ways in which visual art can play a role in poetry. It:<br/><br/>(i) looks at a variety of poems about representational art to assess in what ways such poems do or do not work effectively (Chapter 1: Representing Representation: Introductory …
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The use and abuse of genealogy : genealogical critique from Nietzsche to Said
… of genealogy, from Friedrich Nietzsche to Edward Said. After elucidating Nietzsche and Michel Foucault's coherent configuration of the genealogical method in their own philosophical projects, it critically deconstructs and rejects the claim that the post-colonial thinker in Edward Said's book …
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Toward more integrated planning in Jakarta : the case of Rasuna Said Avenue
… along the area's major thoroughfare, Rasuna Said Avenue. General characteristics of the area as a whole and of the individual property are analyzed. Observations of these characteristics show that the unfriendly environment along Rasuna Said Avenue is primarily caused by the wide social gap …
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The Dialectics of Secularism and Revivalism in Turkey: The Case of Said Nursi
<p>This dissertation analyzes Said Nursi's revivalist discourse and mobilization strategies in the context of the development of secularism in Turkey. This study starts with the exploration of the development of the secularist movement and its discourse with regard to philosophical foundations of …
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Easier said than done : assessing Texas museums' readiness to diversify their workforces.
The museum has long been perceived as one of the great stalwarts of our society, a position that does not often come with much scrutiny, allowing museums to carry on much like they always have. This lack of pressure to change have left museums with a workforce that does not reflect the communities …
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Said-Huntington Discourse Analyzer : a machine-learning tool for classifying and analyzing discourse
… hypothesis, I have developed a prototype tool "Said-Huntington Discourse Analyzer" that machine classifies news articles on a normative scale -- a scale that measures "clash of civilization" polarization in an article on the basis of conflict. The tool also extracts semantically meaningful …
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'It was as if she had said....': May Sinclair and reading narratives of cure
May Sinclair was one of the most widely read and successful English women novelists of the first half of the twentieth century. She had interests and themes in common with many of those now considered to have been at the heart of English modernism. In terms of formal experimentation too her …
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"""That Is What I Said to Him"": American Women's Narratives About Indians, 1879-1934"
"This dissertation offers the first extended discussion of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century American women who wrote and told stories about Native Americans. When not ignored altogether, these women--white and indigenous--are usually seen as reinforcing vanishing-race ideologies. I …
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Converting the Boston Naval Shipyard at Charlestown to civilian uses : easier said than done.
Thesis. 1976. M.C.P. cn--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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She said, hey! put your self in my shoes : moral theory and the Gilligan-Kohlberg controversy
This thesis is an examination of a debate in contemporary moral theory that centres on the issue of whether moral thinking and practise ought to be based on formal principles of justice or upon caring and responsibility. On one hand is the view that justice is the ethically optimal endpoint of …
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Whoever said a little 'dirt' doesn't hurt? : exploring tuberculosis (TB)-related stigma in Khayelitsha, Cape Town
This paper considers the significance of Tuberculosis (TB)-related stigma and stigmatising acts in areas of Khayelitsha Township in Cape Town, South Africa. Data is drawn from three months of in-depth participant observation, interviews and support group sessions. Stigma is a moral process which …
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"I can't believe I just said that" : discursive filters and beginning mathematics teachers' enactment of ambitious practice
After being introduced to "ambitious" teaching methods during teacher education, only some beginning teachers attempt to enact those methods, as others gravitate toward the conventional practices that overwhelm K-12 settings. To learn more about why, I conducted a multiple-case study of four …
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