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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"silly"”.
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Writing the screenplay, "Grammy's Grand Slam".
… and writing process. While on the surface, a silly story about a grandma's quest for vengeance, this project is the result of a lengthy research and writing process. The purpose of this paper is to shed light on that process. Dark comedies are not just comedies with extra bite, but rather, …
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EMOTION REGULATION, EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING, AND UNDERSTANDING OF INTENTIONALITY IN CHILDREN WITH A HISTORY OF PEDIATRIC CANCER
… 4 tasks: the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, Silly Sounds, Secret Sharing, and Identifying Intentionality. Parents were asked to complete brief questionnaires. Differences were found between various parent measures as well as cognitive ability and identifying intentionality. However, there …
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Everything Must Go (Original writing, Short stories).
… room with a bottle of red wine, discussing silly things that have nothing to do with the book to be discussed. (6) What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow? (Abstract shortened by UMI.) Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 42-02, page: 0415. Adviser: Dale Jacobs. …
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Investigating campus cycling environment of a large southeastern university from an ecological perspective
… and personal appearance (e.g., looking "silly while wearing a helmet). Interpersonal cycling factors (e.g., concerns about interacting with motor vehicle drivers) were not statistically significant. However, institutional cycling factors, including institutional barriers (e.g., busy …
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Gumiho: how I tried to give up eating human livers and love someone: an opera in two acts
… the guise of rhythmic patterns. Villager 3 is a silly and comical character, and he always sings in a dance-like triple meter with a cheerful feel, even at the moment he is killed. Particular characters carry recurring themes throughout the piece; these are constructed with specific pitch sets, …
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Traditions of Tenderness: Sensibility and the Classics in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain
… visions of the female characters as crude or silly harlots and transformed them into dignified heroines. The language of newly sympathetic Heroides translations became a staple of sentimental poetry throughout the eighteenth century. The wide range of materials discussed in the thesis, …
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The Case of California Against the Communist Party
… |This state of anxiety is not due to the silly fears of a group of alarmists, it is an unquestioned fact that has been known for some time. The question has not been whether or not we should do some tiling a- bout this condition, but can we do something about it. |It is the purpose of this …
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Concussion Reporting Rates at the Conclusion of a Collegiate Athletic Career
… with the most common symptom being “knocked silly” or “seeing stars”. Overall, 42.9% (57/133) of participants acknowledged at least one of the three primary dependent variables. <strong>Conclusion</strong>: The results of this study suggest that there is still a lack of concussion reporting …
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The Djinn
… linked by the same motif, primarily, the urgent, silly, celebrated cultural icon of the Bunnychow. This dish, essential to the South African urban experience, is of course, a half loaf of bread with the insides scooped out and the resulting cavity filled with curry, insanely hot and floating in …
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Plato's Principles of Causation
… accuse Plato of relying on arguments that are silly or sophistic in this part of the Phaedo. I try to show that Plato’s approach is more plausible and engaging than it first appears. Central to my argument is the suggestion that, for Plato, a real cause of anything being F is a stable and …
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A 16 Bar Cut: The History Of American Musical Theatrean Original Script And Monograph Document
… I create a through-line character--a heightened, silly, professorial version of myself, but I will also create approximately fifty additional characters used throughout the show. The vocal and dance requirements for my track will also be numerous and demanding. And since the show travels through …
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Exploring Gender Differences in Online Cancer Support Groups
… likely to report fears that others may view as “silly” because it is not socially acceptable for men to do so (Wilson, 1967). Findings concerning gender differences in cancer‐related distress have largely varied based upon location and types of symptoms as well. For example, males have reported …
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The Evolution of American Expository Prose Style as Exemplified by the Easy Chair Columnists of HARPER'S MAGAZINE
… changed correspondingly, beginning light, almost silly, and becoming earnest and damning. Highly artistic prose was used by Mitchell for elaborate entertainment in the early columns, whereas similarly artistic prose is used in the current columns to make properly dramatic and penetrating the …
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The Sterne voyage of the <i>Pequod</i>: the tale of a tub in American literature
… absurdity promulgated in story form, something silly in the telling as well as in the matter being told.</p> <p>The mirthful element inherent in the tale of a tub deserves more than the mere acknowledgement meted out by literary tradition. But attending to this oversight requires a new …
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Seeing it Straight
<p>This Master of Fine Arts thesis is divided into four main sections:FAITH and DISBELIEF: In which I reckon with the implications of faith versus rationality as a secular nontheistic artist. IDEAS: The central locus of my work is a place of indeterminacy between what is known/familiar and what is …