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Showing 1 to 20 of 3691 for “"things"”.
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Red Things
Comprised of a collection of short stories and a full-length screenplay, this thesis is a demonstration of the author's progress as a writer. The stories are literary realism set in St. Louis, Missouri, particularly in the working class south side of the city. The screenplay is an adaptation of the …
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Things that
… the thesis explores a process of "attending to things" through an art practice. How can one's attention be absorbed by, reflective of, or projected into objects being studied? How might these different configurations between subject and object cause a conceptual erasure of the observer, or the …
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Phenomenal Things
Phenomenal Things is a comical look into the daily lives of Internet of Things (IoT) artifacts and their experiences as social beings in cyberspace. This Augmented Reality (AR) experience presents a storyworld set in the digital realm where the digital personas of IoT artifacts are engaged in …
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Many interesting things
… and implemented ES.S10: Many Interesting Things, a novel freshman seminar that introduces students to topics many of them will encounter in classes later on in their undergraduate careers. Topics were presented with a light workload and no formal assignments or exams, in such a way that …
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Things that talk
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1996.
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Simple, Ugly Things
… condemns, what brings redemption. Simple, Ugly Things is a collection of short stories full of conundrums, in which the characters are forced to find the connections of past to present, the pains of memory in small, simple things, the complexity inside simplicity, beauty in the seams of …
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The Shape of Things
<p><em>The Shape of Things</em> is a collection of stories that investigates girlhood and womanhood through women’s bodies, particularly as the body affects their roles in families and relationships and leads to higher risks of becoming victims of violence. These stories show characters navigating …
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Hope for Better Things
<p>With the intention of eliciting a response from his readers, the author selected a multitude of words, arranged them in a particular order and built them into structures like sentences, paragraphs, stories and essays.</p>
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The Nature of Things
The Nature of Things is a collection of stories and a preface that examine character motivation. The author is concerned with unexpected reactions and surprising outcomes. The stories are independent of each other and involve a wide range of characters.
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Things We Once Knew
Nostalgia looms large in the stories and essays of this collection. Many of the characters find it hard to reconcile their current selves with who they used to be. A mountain climber loses his nerve and with it his sense of purpose. A woman estranged from her daughter struggles to fulfill the role …
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The things of now
The Things of Now uses a blend of creative non-fiction and poetry to explore what it means to live in this contemporary moment. The work can be considered a memoir, one which is guided by Patricia’s Hampl’s insight that the self can be transformed into an instrument of observation. Covering aspects …
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The Story of Things
… Lucy, M.F.A., Spring 2011 Fine Art The Story of Things Chairperson: Professor Matthew Hamon The Story of Things examines the power of objects to hold narrative and inspire the emotional responses of longing, loss and desire. There is a tendency among humans to gather and save objects that hold …
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The Story of Things
… Lucy, M.F.A., Spring 2011 Fine Art The Story of Things Chairperson: Professor Matthew Hamon The Story of Things examines the power of objects to hold narrative and inspire the emotional responses of longing, loss and desire. There is a tendency among humans to gather and save objects that hold …
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A Hesitation Of Things
This dissertation, A Hesitation of Things was initially motivated by a temporal, Deleuzian, and Bergsonian enquiry, which appears to trouble notions of ontology and knowledge. It takes up the concept of Hesitation and, tracing a path through meditations on ‘Method’, ‘Writing’, ‘Hesitation’, …
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