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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"the unfinished"”.
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The unfinished miracle : how plastics came to be lost at sea
… increasingly significant source of pollution in the world's oceans. In some remote ocean regions, it is aggregating by the ton. This thesis investigates plastic trash as an emerging marine contaminant, with a specific focus on: the history of plastic trash in the ocean; areas of aggregation; …
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The Sempiternal Nature of Architectural-Conservation and the Unfinished Building and Drawing
Conservation is today often interpreted as the preservation of a still-shot, an understanding informed by the belief that by displaying photographic memory of the past, it is possible to gain access to it. Naturalistic representation is unequivocal and presents the onlooker with a single meaning. …
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The unfinished agenda: the great Munāz̤ara of 1854 and ‘Imād-ud-dīn’s contribution to the Muslim-Christian debates in nineteenth-century India
This thesis examines the contribution made by a convert to the theological issues in Muslim-Christian debates in nineteenth-century India. The man in focus here is, arguably, the most important Muslim convert to Christianity from the fledgling stage of Christianity in the Punjab, India - Mawlwī …
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T. S. Eliot's theory of dramatic communication
… wrote only seven dramatic works, which include the unfinished fragments Sweeny Agonistes and the pageant play, The Rock. These works show the ways Eliot put into practice his own theories about the relationship of drama and verse. Although their relative merits are the subject of considerable …
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A School of Culinary Design for Alexandria
The need for a space for the community to gather and the underutilization of the waterfront led to the design of a public space for Alexandria. A school of culinary design was chosen to elevate the current situation of the site by supporting the open space and giving back to the community. The …
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Becoming the flaming creature
Becoming the Flaming Creature is a transdisciplinary thesis exploring sculpture, scent, performance, and poetry through the lens of queer embodiment, material experimentation, and transformation. Drawing on the legacy of Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures (1963) and the metaphor of the scavenger, the …
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"Art is Love is God" : Wallace Berman and the Transmission of Aleph, 1956-66
… magazine, began to make a film. Over ten years, the film now known as Aleph became Berman's personal record, documenting family, friends, Verifax collage artwork and inspirations from popular culture. Paint and Letraset were applied across the film celluloid, creating a palimpsest of code and …
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HolyLand U.S.A. and Other Stories
HolyLand U.S.A. and Other Stories is a collection of voice-driven, satirical short stories, many speculative in mode, whose settings—a religious theme park, a Japanese game show, a far-future conglomo-corp supercity—are sites of spectacle and performance against which its characters, whether from …
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Christian-Muslim dialogue in post-revolutionary Egypt: the influence of the humanist discourse
… in post-revolutionary Egypt using grounded theory methodology. The theoretical framework combines Laclau and Mouffe’s discourse theory from political science with the intergroup theory from social psychology. This framework helps reveal details of the interfaith dynamics. This research …
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DC unmade: failure, fandom and the Justice League films that could have been
… doubly so for unmade superhero genre projects. The fact that these unfilms are failures in otherwise vibrant action franchises has typically led to their elision from canonical narratives. In studying two of the many defunct superhero films in Warner Brothers's DC catalog, it is possible to …
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Whatever happened to the Jesuit Church of Old Havana?
This thesis examines the architectural and historical evolution of the Jesuit Church that was located in Havana (Cuba). It is a "hands on" study that deals with the building and the available archival material. Construction on the church started in 1749 and it was halted with the expulsion of the …
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Means and Methods Analysis of a Cast-In-Place Balanced Cantilever Segmental Bridge: The Wilson Creek Bridge Case Study
Different means and methods exist in the construction industry to erect bridge superstructures. In planning and execution of the complex construction operations the effects of the chosen erection method need to be considered to achieve a safe and economical process. Failures of bridges under …
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Communicating through Cork: Marcel Proust's Performative Call to Philosophy of Communication
… with postmodernity's many works in progress. The metanarrative of postmodernity is fragmentation, the lack of a metanarrative. In postmodernity, progress sputters and stalls, then starts on new paths. Philosophy of communication responds to fragmentation by converging the fragments of …
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The role of the Southern African Development Community Organ on Politics, Defence and Security
The Southern African countries colonial struggles and South African apartheid destabilization policies in the mid-1960s to 1980s compelled Southern African states to establish a Security Organ. This was to assist them to formulate the common defence policy. This Organ became known as the Front Line …
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Curriculum of Imagination Beyond the Walls of Standardization
This dissertation is a theoretical inquiry into ways of seeing, knowing, and learning that are frequently excluded in this present climate of standardized practices in the field of education. In this study, I explore how imagination permeates every aspect of life experience and helps develop …
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Perilous Pedagogies: Women's Education and Epistolarity from Rousseau to Charrière
This dissertation looks at the thematic and narrative tensions that emerge when certain prominent late eighteenth-century French epistolary novels deal with the issue of women's education and the possibility of its reform. The debate of the latter half of the century is firmly centered on Rousseau, …
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How To Make Him Stop: Geographies of Ownership & Perpetration
This dissertation examines the fundamental yet disavowed role of anti-Black enslavist legacies in shaping contemporary forms of gender-based violence (GBV) perpetration in the United States. Through contrapuntal analysis of landmark scholarship on domestic abuse perpetration, I argue that abusive …
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Within the carnal: re-reading Merleau-Ponty through the language of drawing
… for philosophy, Merleau-Ponty investigated the creative processes of artists whose work corresponded closely with his philosophical ideas. His essays on art are widely valued for emphasising process over product, and for challenging the primacy of the written word in all spheres of human …
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