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Jonathan Swift and Women
Before any proper study may be made of Swift's attitude toward women, as exemplified in his life and as expressed in his writings, it would seem advisable to review briefly woman's place in society during the period of Swift's mature life. Certainly no just conclusions could be reached regarding …
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Swift Electro-Optic Modulator
<p>The Silicon Wafer Integrated Fiber Technology, SWIFT, is a novel platform for the development of photonic devices. SWIFT is comprised of an optical fiber, specifically a D-fiber in this work, embedded into a V-groove etched into a silicon wafer. This provides a method to secure the fiber and …
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Jonathan Swift, political journalist.
In the decade, 1701-1711, Jonathan Swift established his reputation as a writer. His first political tract, Contests and Dissentions (1701), was the only work in which he fully supported the Whig Party. In his next tracts, published in 1708, Swift, though nominally still a Whig, was beginning to …
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The Maiden Voyage of Jonathan Swift
… pride and its consequences through the six poems Swift wrote during the years 1690-1693. As the paper shows, he began his poetic career with odes of praise for men who demonstrated the highest virtues; but the forces of pride kept intruding to mar his panegyric, and they forced Temple to retreat …
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The Irish Writings of Jonathan Swift
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-03T20:51:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0010471.pdf: 14456000 bytes, checksum: a03bb6f0297ce5536b8e9147cba418a0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1954
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GestDefLS : A Gesture Definition Language in Swift
… by Apple for developing applications in the Swift programming language on iOS devices provide limited support when it comes to declaring gesture recognizers outside of those simple ones currently provided. GestDefLS seeks to provide the service of allowing the developer to define custom, …
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Glacial Geology of the Swift Current Area, Saskatchewan
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-04T19:13:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 5904501.pdf: 4741688 bytes, checksum: ae1d23b081ea9f002b101d2619083977 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1959
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Colonial shorthand: Swift, the ascendancy, and internal Colonialism
… challenges the contemporary critical picture of Swift as anti- colonialist. Combining historical research with discursive and rhetorical analyses of heretofore neglected primary sources, I focus on the colonial assumptions underlying Swift's tracts, sermons, and correspondence. Though Swift often …
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Lucius B. Swift, Hoosier reformer of the progressive era
… public career of Hoosier lawyer Lucius Burrie Swift (1844-1929). Born in western New York, Swift served in the Union forces and ultimately established himself as a lawyer in Indianapolis. His Puritan heritage and university -raining bred an intense awareness of civic responsibility and the …
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Campaña de comunicación integral para la marca "Avena Swift"
… de comunicación integral para la marca “Avena Swift”. La cual estará apuntada hacia Mujeres jóvenes (Millennials), amas de casa con o sin hijos, residentes en Lima Metropolitana; pertenecientes a los niveles socioeconómicos A y B. Los objetivos de esta campaña serán comunicar el lanzamiento de …
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An investigation of swift trust formation in disaster management teams
… Meyerson, Weick and Kramer’s (1996) theory of Swift Trust in Temporary Systems to investigate the process of trust formation between disaster management personnel working in an Emergency Operations Centre. The research employs a single case study approach, focussing on the disaster response to …
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A Carnivalesque Perspective of Graham Swift's Last Orders
Graham Swift’s novel Last Orders has yet to be viewed as containing carnivalesque elements as defined by Mikhail Bakhtin in Rabelais and His World. Through the examination of Bakhtin’s theory of the carnivalesque and through a corresponding close reading of Last Orders, this article details the …
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The terrible swift sword : US nuclear posture and foreign policy
This dissertation explains how and why US nuclear posture has changed from the late 1940s to the present. It argues that presidents reliably pursue aggressive nuclear postures to advance their ambitious foreign and security policy goals. In the course of advancing this main argument, it makes five …
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Understanding Swift Trust to Improve Interagency Collaboration in New York City
… and NYPD, this thesis examines the concept of swift trust. Swift trust is a unique form of trust that occurs between groups or individuals brought together in temporary teams to accomplish specific tasks, often under time constraints. This thesis examines swift trust formation in military, …
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The Swift Tern Sterna bergii in Southern Africa : growth and movement
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An exploratory study of utilization fees in the Swift Current Health Region
… of all physicians in private practice in the Swift Current Health Region where utilization fees have beeen in existance since 1953. Swift Current Regional physicians recorded certain sociodemographic patient and physician characteristics as well as utilization fee information on each patient …
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