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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"superficiality"”.
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'Sugared Placebos'? The effects of satire and farce in the plays of David Williamson
… levelled at his work on the basis of perceived superficiality and glibness. The term 'sugared placebos' was employed to describe the truncation of characterisation and treatment of ideas in Williamson’s work (Fitzpatrick 'Styles of Love: New Directions in David Williamson' 416). In examining and …
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SuperFicial: An Exploration of Decoration, Fashion, Taste, Camp, and Trends
… functional properties, their decoration and superficiality bring me joy. To better understand my appreciation of decoration and aesthetics, I assess how an object or fashion is considered in good or bad taste. While we inherit ideas of taste from our personal cultures and families, we can …
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Painting the zone : Chernobyl and the "Art of witness"
… one piece. However, it is beyond this formal superficiality that the similarities reside. Choosing to address the events at Chernobyl, whether directly or indirectly, both artists embark on a quasi-political trajectory, using and manipulating elements of abjection, the narrative, virus, …
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The Portrait of The Jew in The Balzacian Novel
… observe the Jew, his perspicacity dispelled the superficiality of the demonic archetype which was commonly accepted. As Balzac probed into the motivation of the Jew, he realized his own affinity with them. In his portraits of the Jew he created outsiders and pariahs with all the strengths of such …
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Advertising and social responsibility as models of the press: a study of three local newspapers
… this concentration as well as in the resulting superficiality of news coverage. In the 1940s, a group of scholars formed the Commission on Freedom of the Press (COFOP) to discuss the perceived problem of irresponsible media and to prescribe remedies in the form of greater emphasis on the issues …
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Haile Selassie and the Religious Field: Generative Structuralism and Christian Missions in Ethiopia
… while refuting Horton's broader claim about the superficiality of Christianity in Africa.
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Installectualism: Public Intellectuals in a Digital World
… new phenomenon (i.e., speed, contagion, and superficiality), the thesis advances the concept of Insta-llectualism (e.g., “insta” as in insta-success or Instagram) as a more apt definition of this new breed. The thesis crystalises three major components that constitute this emergent phenomenon …
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Curating Connection: How Millennial Women Navigate Self-Presentation, Intimacy, and Rejection in Online Dating
… enhance self-presentation, they may also foster superficiality and erode trust. Rejection, including ghosting, is common, yet participants exhibit resilience, sustained by self-confidence and community support, which enables continued openness to intimacy. This thesis emphasizes the importance of …
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Female cross-dressing and fragile masculinity in Le Roman de Silence and Twelfth Night
… crossing of the gender boundary highlights the superficiality and flexibility of the boundaries themselves, resulting in enduring subversion. </p>
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Translation, gender in Disney’s live-action productions: a translation studies perspective on the representation of gender stereotypes in Pinocchio, Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast
… further reveal ideological manipulation and superficiality of progress. By combining theories from Translation Studies, Adaptation Studies, Feminist and Queer Theory, and Semiotics and Narratology, this study highlights the role of translation as a vehicle of cultural and ideological …
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Pleasures and Powers of Affective Disorientation: Iconoclastic Ambivalence and Polyvalence in the NDW
… critics’ accusations of the music’s narcissistic superficiality or meaningless frivolity. Instead, the project shows, the NDW precisely eschews didactic sloganeering in favor of semantic abundance. Simultaneously however, the artists adopted market-based models of commodification that undermined …
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Conflict Complexity in Ethiopia: Case Study of Gambella Regional State
… comprehended, thereby giving rise to much superficiality in their explanations, inappropriate policies and a failure of efforts at apprehending them. The thesis identifies four major factors and two contrasting narratives which have framed the analysis of conflict complexity in Gambella. …
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Conflict Complexity in Ethiopia: Case Study of Gambella Regional State
… comprehended, thereby giving rise to much superficiality in their explanations, inappropriate policies and a failure of efforts at apprehending them. The thesis identifies four major factors and two contrasting narratives which have framed the analysis of conflict complexity in Gambella. …
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Liminal blankness : mixing race and space in monochrome's psychic surface
… surfaces under discussion. Theories of `radical superficiality' both contradict and complement these ways of theorising the psychic surface. The trick/ster is a significant/signifiant means of deploying interdisciplinary methodologies to negotiate this difficult terrain between Black, White and …
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Beyond academics - is community engagement possible through work integrated learning?
… community engagement did occur for students, the superficiality of the NGO engagement provided a superficial student experience. The evidence points to the conclusion that the use of work integrated learning modules as a means to promote community engagement awareness was moderately successful, …
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Positioning students as (non)writers: A case study of disengaged pedagogy in a suburban primary school
… of Writing framework; in order to capture the superficiality of her discourse, I have added a 'procedural discourse' category. Through this discourse, Miss King can be seen to position her students as nonwriters. In spite of the limiting opportunities to engage meaningfully with their teacher …
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Islam and International Relations: Towards an Alternative Conception of Universality
… critical IR, we must go beyond the mere superficiality of the existing ‘‘derivative discourses’’ of the modern West by identifying critical discourses on political issues and incorporate the relevant material from non-Western traditions to build an ITIR which is capable of making a …
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The Last Frontier; or, Going Critical; or, Nuclear Deference in Las Vegas
… because of its seriousness, the other for its superficiality. By excavating Las Vegas as a nuclear site, my research provides a critical lens to view the culture built in and around the city that eliminates the evaluative bent of most critical investigations of the city that tend toward either …
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The influence of Hindu-Buddhist psychology and philosophy on J. D. Salinger's fiction
… vary from outright moral deception to glaring superficiality and escapist philosophizing. However, no critical faction has provided an adequate explanation of the crucial function of Eastern motifs in Salinger’s fiction. Without a proper understanding of the Eastern influences, any critical or …
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