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Showing 1 to 20 of 417 for “"transcend"”.
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The development of a disruptive innovation response framework within the South African insurance context: adapt, regenerate, transcend (Art)
… led to the development of an Adapt, Regenerate, Transcend response strategy framework, the ART framework, which describes these three broad response strategies and a further set of sub-strategies, that answer the question of how firms respond to disruptive influence and become disruptive too. The …
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Addressing car dependency in Cape Town: Reviewing how the Citys mobility and spatial frameworks can transcend car-oriented urbanism
… the city's mobility and spatial frameworks can transcend car-oriented urbanism'. The research stems from a background of the need to address problems associated with the dominance of cars in cities. The problems include carbon emissions contributing to climate change, road safety issues, …
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Urban Fashion
How can architecture transcend style in the fashion world? My thesis offers experiences for both the public and private realm of the fashion industry. For the public, the opportunity to see and feel the clothes on the runways. For the private, the designers can work, show and display all in one …
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Chronolibidinal Reading: Proust, Woolf, Nabokov
… persistently been read in terms of a desire to transcend mortal life. In contrast, I develop a theory of "chronolibido" that calls into question the very desire for immortality. The fear of time (chronophobia) does not stem from a desire to transcend time. On the contrary, it is generated by the …
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"The Splendours of Imagination." The Transformative and Regenerative Power of Myth in Soyinka's and Walcott's Theatre
… of mythical patters, Soyinka and Walcott transcend the allegedly petrifying character of tradition and enter a syncretic dimension of creativity capable of engendering a new cultural ethos.
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Symbiosis
… given to us but their conditions of possibility transcend them.
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Identity at Work: Balancing Demographic-related Identity in the Workplace and the Impact on Extra-role Behaviors and Turnover Intentions
… some of which are work-related and some of which transcend the workplace. To date, the vast majority of studies on social identities focus on these identities in isolation. Two important identities that transcend the work domain are those associated with gender and ethnicity. These attributes have …
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Climate responsive housing for Miami Beach
… and establish a new set of elements that can transcend future housing developments, specifically in the Miami Beach area.
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Discord and fragmentation in Eritrean politics, 1941-1981
… in Eritrea. Lacking a common bond which could transcend sectarian views and confessional interests, the political forces which emerged in Eritrea in the 1940s, were unable to agree among themselves on the territory's future.
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Dreaming Other Dreams: Persona and Humor in Mark Twain's Early Writings
In his early writings, Mark Twain tries to transcend life's incongruities and polarities by developing a flexible persona and kaleidoscopic humor. Dissipating distinctions, Twain uses humorous play to express variegated tones and perspectives. Through humor's plasticity, Twain volatilizes world and …
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Points of Refusal: An Arts-Based Exploration of the Medicalization of Mad Trans Identity
… and disability art and justice to critique and transcend the photograph’s history as an object that pathologizes medicalized bodies through the gender binary, by using the concepts of crip technoscience and the glitch. This glitching of the technological software of the digital photograph leads …
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The Symbolism of Female Characters in Fedor Sologub's Mythopoetics
… deceive, with implications for other characters, transcendence of phenomenal reality. Inspiration and guidance to truth help characters to transcend their imprisonment within the illusions of the phenomenal world, while temptation and deception keep them imprisoned within phenomenal reality. …
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Conditional Clauses
… to observe subtle relationships that ultimately transcend the ordinary and question what is being seen or experienced.
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The stylistic traits of Charles Griffes's piano music: "Roman Sketches", Op. 7 and Piano Sonata (1917--1918)
… certain recurring stylistic traits. These traits transcend the three periods in which his music is categorized. A comparison of two of his best known piano works, Roman Sketches, Op. 7 and the Piano Sonata (1917--18), illustrates the significant compositional techniques that he continued to use as …
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The match between current national assessment initiatives in reading and validated dimensions of authentic assessment
… that match criterion performance settings and transcend traditional subject matter divisions. Recognizing the cognitive complexity of reading and the need for critical and evaluative reading in diverse situations, assessment and standards initiatives have strived to provide a more authentic …
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Africans in Cape Town : the origins and development of state policy and popular resistance to 1936
… process of struggle, the thesis attempts to transcend the limitations not only of functionalist and "conflict pluralist'' perspectives, but also of the more simplistic Marxist formulations propounded within the field of South African urban studies.
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The potential of America's Army, the video game as civilian-military public sphere
… are considered for the ways they escape and transcend current critical theories of Internet-based public spheres.
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A Pavilion for Time
… of phenomenological time. It is to go beyond, to transcend a convention towards empiricism. The result is an uncritical state, unhindered, uncluttered, a place of pure perception, an existential autoclave. As a phenomenological exploration with architecture as the vehicle, this project …
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THREE TRAVELING WOMEN WRITERS: CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES OF BRAZIL, PATAGONIA, AND THE U.S., 1859-79
… women travel writers used in their narrative to transcend their husband's shadow. The British Lady Florence Dixie (1855-1905), the Argentine Eduarda Mansilla de García (1834-1892), and the American Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz (1822-1907) are pionner women that accompany their husbands on travels to …
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Plutarch reading Plato: Interpretation and Mythmaking in the Early Empire
… such as these, for Plutarch as for Plato, do not transcend the reach of rational discourse, as much of the scholarship holds, however, but rather form likely accounts. Second, I argue that Plutarch constructs his own Platonic mythmaking as a distinctive kind of discourse that acts in parallel to …
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