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Showing 1 to 20 of 173 for “"the human condition"”.
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William Faulkner's public and poetic voices: A discussion of the "human condition"
… "failed" to show that "man will prevail," the standard that he set for literature in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech. However, this statement and others by Faulkner can be misleading without an understanding of Faulkner's terms. A study of his speeches, essays, public letters, and …
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Heredity and the Human Condition: A Study of 20th Century Genetic Accounts of Alcoholism
… some curious historical parallels in research on the heritability of alcoholism from opposite ends of the 20th century, and the underlying continuity in assumptions implicated by these parallels. Rather than review mainstream historical narratives on the origins of genetic research and alcoholism …
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Art and the Human Condition: Incorporating Visual Analysis of Artworks into a Undergraduate Pre-Medicine Curriculum
This thesis project presents a sample class session for the course, "The Human Condition: An Arts Perpective" (ARTH 361), which will be a part of the optional Medical Humanities minor for the pre-medicine students at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). Dr. Margaret Lindauer, Associate Professor …
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Investigations of ephrin ligands during development / by Paul Tosch.
… ligands from Drosophila melanogaster and analyse their involvement in Drosophila deveopment. Also investigates the potential of ephrin B-1 as a causative gene in the human condition Aicardi's syndrome.
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Pangs of Exile
The feeling of exile is a timeless and continuous element of the human condition. Understanding of this complex literary theme is to be arrived at, not through terminology and definitions, but through historical and ideological perspectives.
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The Imago Dei and Blaise Pascal's Abductive Anthropological Argument
… persuasion, this dissertation asks: How might the doctrine of the imago Dei strengthen Pascal’s anthropological argument? The central claim is that the doctrine of the imago Dei strengthens Pascal's anthropological argument by supplying greater detail to the explanation stage and accounts for …
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A Machine for Imagination
It began with the question, "What if the Modern Man was successful in his dominion over nature?" By means of Architecture this thesis became a speculation and commentary on the human condition. But, more than that, this is a story that tells the evolution and outcome of a series of questions and …
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An analysis of thematics, poetics, and aesthetics in Ivan Bunin's prose narratives
"To underline significant aspects of the human condition in imaginative structures, Bunin contrives a properly suitable relationship between ""form"" and ""content"" without losing aesthetic effects. With this literary perspective, Bunin consistently attempts to pursue the most fundamental …
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King Lear, Heidegger, and the Encounter with Things and Nothing
… immediate level of interpretive engagement with the world. Drawing heavily upon the phenomenology of Martin Heidegger, I argue that this immediate level of experience is essential to the play’s articulation of the human condition situated within a “strange” and “tough” world (IV.i.11-2, …
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The Fair Wind
… how physical landscape and environment affect the human condition. The critical introduction cites much of the process and theory involved in the composition of these works, so that readers may come to a greater understanding of them and of the writer. Many of the poems are formal, following …
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Representing the Subject: An Interdisciplinary Study of Women's Autobiography, Self -Portraiture, and Autoethography in the Twentieth Century
"Because they understand the ego as a facade, these artists do not aim to represent ""the self"" or the ego. Instead, they attempt to represent subjectivity and thereby initiate a more penetrating analysis of the human condition and a more profound inquiry into the foundations of human suffering. …
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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Prometheus liberated
<p>This thesis investigates the influences of Mary Shelley and trace her construction of Frankenstein. While previous studies have researched Mary Shelley or her novel, little attention has been devoted to considering both. This study takes a close look at the life of Mary Shelley and her novel …
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Revealing The Unknown: Revelation Chapel
This thesis studies how light, as a spiritual and symbolic element, cannot only uplift the human condition but also evoke the spiritual. The result can cause one to know what is unknowable without the presence of light and make one aware of what was unknown to them, as well as, revealing what is …
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The Core Relation Between Hospitality (Philoxenia), Dignity and Vulnerability in Orthodox Christian Bioethics: A Contribution to Global Bioethics
… has proved to be difficult, especially with the political polarization that nurtures inimical differences. This dissertation argues that a middle ground can be identified between the plurality of value systems in contemporary bioethics based on an anthropological approach. This middle ground …
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The desire to upload: a theological analysis of transhumanist advocacy for life-extension and immortality
Transhumanism is a movement dedicated to radically changing the human condition through technology, including by extending lifespan in one of three ways: (1) a biological approach that focuses on reducing the effects of aging, (2) a cybernetic approach that focuses on replacing the body with …
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Loving Lo: The Dialectic of Self-Transcendence and Self-Assertion as Illuminated by the Literary Art of Nabokov's Lolita
<p>This thesis explores the opposition between self-assertive and self-transcending needs within the human condition using Vladimir Nabokov’s novel, Lolita, for illustrative purposes. I argue that the human quest for meaning and fuller humanity hinges on finding a balance between our need for …
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Beyond bad faith : vindicating the quest for being
By equating the "quest for Being" with "bad faith" Sartre has over-simplified and misrepresented human reality. In this thesis I examine Sartre's description of "the human condition," as well as his concepts of "bad faith", "good faith", "authenticity", and "the ego"--for evidence of the consistent …
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Nature versus freedom : Hannah Arendt's theory of the political sphere from the polis to the modern world
My thesis bears on Hannah Arendt's theory of the political sphere. My objective is critically to assess Arendt's development of the theory from its introduction in her treatment of the self-understanding of the ancient Greek polis to its deployment in the modern context. With The Human Condition as …
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The Concept of Dignity in the Early Science Fiction Novels of Kurt Vonnegut.
… depict societies and characters that, as in the real world, have become callous and downtrodden. These works use supercomputers, aliens, and space travel, often in a comical manner, to demonstrate that the future, unless people change their concepts of humanity, will not be the paradise of …
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Synthetic Constructive
<p>Synthetic Constructive is an exhibition of paintings and collages, both reflect the building and managing of synthetically constructed places and expose the human condition of struggle in both the physical world and the emotional world. I view these works as synthetically created arenas that …
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