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Showing 1 to 20 of 12155 for “"the past"”.
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Dismember the past
This thesis is a creative literary biography, or historiographic metafiction, of the life and works of writer and composer Anthony Burgess (1917-1993). The text consists of two synchronous narratives: a fictionalised account of Burgess’ life as a writer, charting his time as a struggling would-be …
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Hello From Across the Past
Hello From Across the Past is a collection of poems written either while I was enrolled at the University of New Orleans MFA program or before, in Knoxville.
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Wupperthal: listening to the past
The community of the Wupperthal Mission Station and its satellite stations, forms the focus of this text. The mission is situated in the Tra-Tra River Valley in the Cederberg Mountains of the Western Cape. In this text, I have sketched a series of vignettes to portray the lives of certain …
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From the past to the present
Thesis Statement: Overlaying historic buildings with new architectural forms gives a sense of renewal and rebirth while at the same time preserves the historic fabric of the existing community. Scope of Project: This project involves the redesign and use of a historic warehouse once owned and …
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Charles Lamb's treatment of the past
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1945. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive.
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Salvaging the Past: A Composition Portfolio
… Western art music centres around abstraction: in the nineteenth century, the debate considered whether or not 'absolute music' could represent the very essence of being human; twentieth-century abstraction concerned itself with the removal of any form of melodic or harmonic implications and was …
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Rebuilding the Past, Sustaining the Future
By researching natural disaster displacement and the process in which we rebuild, I have found that by creating a modular prefabricate unit that is both cost efficient and easy to construct, we can significantly reduce the rebuild time, reduce people from leaving, as well as encourage new residents …
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Relive The Past, Reimagine The Future
… approach to one that emphasizes the dynamic process of decay, architecture can be given a second life through a more human-centered perspective. This approach acknowledges the symbiotic relationship between human decay and architectural decay, and can lead to new possibilities for …
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Reimagining the past at the Beijing Olympics
This thesis examines the 2008 Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony, which was an unprecedented effort by the Chinese Party-state to reinvent Chinese national culture for consumption at home and abroad. Director Zhang Yimou delivered a spectacular event – three-thousand chanting Confucian scholars, …
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Witness: An Artist’s Journey Into The Past
<p>This thesis as a social documentary, using images to provoke awareness of the emotions of children, their lives during the 15-year old Civil War that was in Liberia, West Africa. This thesis will visually explore different timelines, the past, the present and the future of children depicted. In …
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The future of the past: inherent atmospheres
… is an attempt to extract architecture from the site itself. Michelangelo, the Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer, famously said, Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it. He clearly understood his role as …
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The Past and Present of Maldivian Coral Reefs
… reef drowning from rising sea levels. In this thesis, I explore the past and present of Maldivian reefs using a combination of historical research, database searches, and field investigations to ask questions about national trends in coral reef condition, resilience, and the viability of …
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Cultural Monument: The Future of The Past City
… are changing, but nothing changes, and still there are changes.” The rise of science and technology facilitate the means to an end. As it seem, many undeveloped countries are rapidly competing to be a part of a modern civilization. Through these rapid revolutions, civilization becomes perplex …
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Albanian-American relations: The past and the future
This thesis presents a political and historical analysis of the evolution of American-Albanian relations since their initiation up to the present; The study focuses on the highlights of these relations such as the role of the United States (U.S.) in the preservation of Albania's territorial …
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Advancing Information Management:Reflections on the Past Twenty Years
Ph.D. by Publication. The list of publications that were submitted for this thesis award can be found in the attached file. These are published research outputs and can be sourced in the usual ways. If you have trouble sourcing material then please contact your library.
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Making Waves : the past futures of Azerbaijan's islands
This thesis is a collection of design speculations meant to question the frenzy around capitalist urban development in emerging 'world-class" cities. It particularly studies how post-extraction economies are restructuring the industrial city to promote it as a site of leisure, tourism and …
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Governor's Island : designing the present through the past
… along with relics, are our tools to retrieve the past. How can they also be the tools to create the present? This thesis explores how history and memory can be integral in the establishment of a new program for a site and inform the architecture of that site. This thesis challenges the history …
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