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Showing 1 to 20 of 115 for “"treasure"”.
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Treasure
… resulted from her power exchange relationship, Treasure Montgomery’s recovery from post-traumatic stress disorder is hampered by relationships with family members and the legal difficulties of her foster daughter.</p>
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Digitizing Treasure Island's Museum's Collection
… preparations and research needed to digitize the Treasure Island Museum's collection database. Treasure Island Museum was founded in 1976 as a Naval and Bay Area history museum. It closed when the Treasure Island Navy base closed in 1998. The museum reopened in 2008 and has been growing and …
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Carefree Black Girl: Trope or Treasure?
<blockquote> Abstract: The writing below is an experimental study on the idea of the “Carefree Black Girl,” a term coined in 2017 to define a way of life for Black women to emulate, focused on self-care and self-love. I write about its popularity and meaning, with parallels to my own life and …
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Treasure : an exploration in the writing of the self
… and (Vol. 2) the auto/biographical-based novel TREASURE. The title of the overall project is TREASURE: An Exploration in the Writing of the Self. The critical component addresses issues of feminist theorists seeking a 'new' space for women's auto/biographical writing, and includes a discussion …
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Finding Treasure: The Story of a Micro-budget Digital Film
Treasure is a feature-length narrative fictional film directed by Chris Williamson as part of the requirements for earning a Master of Fine Arts in Entrepreneurial Digital Cinema from the School of Visual Arts and Design at the University of Central Florida. This thesis is a documentary record of …
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The biggest treasure of all? ~ the "fifth element" of biodiversity
The aim of this dissertation is to complete the formal requirements for the University of Cape Town LLM programme (via course work). Whilst drafting the dissertation, the author was mindful of the need for an original academic treatise on the relevant subject matter but a parallel underlying …
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Hidden Treasure: The Epistemology of Love According to Hans Urs on Balthasar
<p>Many contemporary thinkers have wrestled with the notion that Balthasar is unwilling to consider modern theology's starting point of the consciousness of the knower. Otherwise stated, some scholars argue that Balthasar's point of departure is the will (love) to the neglect of human consciousness …
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Germany, the European Union, and the Euro: the primacy of politics in treasure
The Federal Republic of Germany has arisen to take a leadership position in the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis. This quasi depression has highlighted the economic interdependence of the Eurozone member states and has exposed the fundamental weakness of the lack of a political union between members …
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Exploring Environmental Justice Issues in Latino communities in the Treasure Valley in Idaho
… justice issues in Latino communities in the Treasure Valley in Idaho. Given the little work focused on environmental justice issues of Latino communities, specifically in the Treasure Valley in Idaho. This thesis aims to, firstly determine whether environmental justice issues of Latino …
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Unbinding Piratical Themes: Treasure Island, The Unbinding of Mary Reade, and Piratical History
<p>Robert Louis Stevenson’s <em>Treasure Island, </em>a touchstone in children’s literature, is known among critics as the novel that popularized numerous piratical themes and tropes as well as the classic pirate archetype, which has been emulated in fictional pirates ever since. Long John Silver, …
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Pocket Monsters And Pirate Treasure: Fantasy And Social Platforms In The 21st Century
POCKET MONSTERS AND PIRATE TREASURE: FANTASY AND SOCIAL PLATFORMS IN THE 21ST CENTURY is an anthropology project examining media, fantasy, ideology, and social groups in order to build a better foundation for the ways in which economic and social changes influence social networking, popular media, …
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Buried Treasure? Excavating Active, Meaningful, and Worthwhile Learning from an Elementary Time Capsule
… in seventh grade, filled a trash can with time treasured relics and promised to return and unearth their treasure in 2000, but when they grew up and moved away, they lost touch with one another and their buried treasure. In 2009, Springdale's elementary gifted students located their treasure, …
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Fragments of the Prosperous Age: Living with Heritage and Treasure in Contemporary China
… explores the ways in which ‘heritage’ and ‘treasure’ are lived by wider Chinese urban residents, constituting a total social fact. Challenging the popular assumption made by heritage scholars in which heritage phenomenon is considered a by-product of modernity’s tendency to contrast the …
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Troubled waters : the battle over shipwrecks, treasure and history at the bottom of the sea
Though shipwrecks and treasure are deeply seductive to the public, the political, ethical, and scientific geography surrounding these sunken ships is not well publicized, except in cases involving large amounts of money. There is a battle for access rights to these objects with some claiming them …
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A Genomic and Proteomic Investigation of the Plant Pathogen Armillaria mellea: Buried Treasure or Hidden Threat?
Armillaria mellea is a major plant pathogen of timber and agronomic crops. Yet, no large-scale “-omics” data are available to enable new studies, and limited experimental models are available to investigate basidiomycete pathogenicity. Herein it is revealed that the A. mellea genome comprises 58.35 …
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My Trash, Your Treasure: What Prevents Risk-Based Governance from Diffusing in American Coal Mining Safety Regulation?
Recently, there has been a growth of risk-based governance in coal mining safety regulation in many European and commonwealth countries. However, it is puzzling that the progress is much slower in the U.S. This dissertation seeks to explore this puzzle by examining the question what are the …
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Solving ANTS with loneliness detection and constant memory
… Feinerman et al. introduced the Ants Nearby Treasure Search (ANTS) problem [1]. In this problem, k non-communicating agents with unlimited memory, initially located at the origin, try to locate a treasure distance D from the origin. They show that if the agents know k, then the treasure can …
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Starbucks cups : trash or treasure? : an example of facilitated systems thinking assisting stakeholders in designing their own system to recycle take-away cups
A mixed methods, action-research study was conducted to assess the efficacy and usefulness of Facilitated Systems Thinking as an intervention for system design in complex, multi-stakeholder systems, especially where the stakeholders themselves design the system. This research is contextualized …
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