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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"vanity"”.
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Hope for Vanity Fair: Love as a Solution in Thackeray's Novels
… includes such characters, seen in Becky Sharp in Vanity Fair, Blanche Amory and Sir Francis Clavering in Pendennis, Beatrix and Lord Castlewood in Henry Esmond, Barnes Newcome in The Newcomes, Barry Lyndon in Barry Lyndon, and the Earl of Castlewood in The Virginians. Few critics perceive, …
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Vanity sizing, body image, and purchase behavior: A closer look at the effects of inaccurate garment labeling
… garment sizing and fit, consumer knowledge of vanity sizing, and how these variables affect body image and/or purchase behavior at retail. Survey Monkey distributed the questionnaire to 485 registered female students attending a Midwestern regional state university. Seventyeight participants …
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Modernism En Vogue: Popular Periodicals and Their Engagement with Modernist Culture
… Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, Vogue, and Vanity Fair to reveal the frequency with which modernist writers contributed to these periodicals and the extent to which editors of these magazines found modernist discourse marketable to larger audiences, thereby undermining the assumption that …
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THE MORAL ARGUMENT OF T. S. ELIOT'S "FOUR QUARTETS" (BRADLEY, ETHICS, NEO-HEGELIANISM, ROYCE).
… also willing the gratification of his personal vanity. Four Quartets presents the same moral dilemma working itself out in Eliot's thoughts about his own life. He wonders if he has chosen his life as poet and critic as an unselfish response to duty--and hence as a path to God--or if he has …
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"Ourselves to know" : the problem of evil in the poetry of Alexander Pope.
… in an unseen order, and pleasure in decrying vanity. Pope's Imitations of Horace and An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot also have a concern with wisdom and folly, reflect on limitations, castigate vanity, and are resigned to Providence. They too are aware of death and struggle to trust in God's …
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Archetypal Place Concept for Assisted Living Private Dwellings
… a door; bathrooms with a toilet, sink, shower, vanity closet, and linen closet; food storage with cooking appliances; two built-in closets; windows facing one direction, some with an outdoor area; separate seating for living and dining out of the sleep area; and kitchenettes with a refrigerator, …
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Effects of Feedback Video in Mediated Communication
… form of feedback can cause issues related to vanity and distraction. However, effects on sensitive aspects of the human psyche, such as self-consciousness and self-esteem, have not been studied. In this project we investigated such possible effects, specifically related to self-consciousness …
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The Efficacy of Downlisting the African Elephant under CITES: A Critical Assessment
… the hands of man, often due to human greed and vanity. This international market for animals has led to drastic declines in the populations of many species, including such exotic animals as the rhino, leopard, tiger, and the African elephant. The African elephant's plight has arguably been the …
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The Lute In Seventeenth-Century Dutch Brothels: A Study of Selected Genre Paintings
… Baburen's The Procuress (1622), Hendrik Pot's Vanity (c. 1633), Nicolaus Knüpfer's Brothel Scene (c. 1650), and Frans van Mieris's Brothel Scene (c. 1658). Many of these--indeed all of the works just cited--not only incorporate the lute as an important aspect of the sex trade in the Low …
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Establishing a Scale to Measure the Need for Attention (NFA)
… singularity of NFA in relation to narcissism, vanity, extraversion, and privacy. Predictive validity studies relate NFA to preference for attention-grabbing products and embarrassment in consumption settings. I conclude with a summary of results and discussion of future research directions.
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Rhetoric of trans* identities: public reactions to private confessions
… interview with Dolezal, as well as two Vanity Fair stories provide a space for a closer examination of how trans* identities are negotiated in a conversational setting. Using Hecht’s (1993) communication theory of identity to investigate how the four proposed frames (personal, enactment, …
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Consumer Socialization in Families: How Parents Teach Children about Spending, Saving, and the Importance of Money
… as whether parents stress the importance or the vanity of wealth. This analysis contributes to existent knowledge about the nuanced ways in which parents socialize their children as competent consumers, and has implications for familial relationships and gender and class inequality in regards to …
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Is beautiful actually good? Divergent paths from attractiveness to moral judgments
… attractiveness causally leads to perception of vanity, which translates into perception of lesser morality/greater immorality. Then, we document how attractiveness is also associated with perception of greater sociability—the non-moral component of warmth—and show how sociability exerts a …
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Enterprising Women in Novels of Manners: The Social Economies of Austen, Thackeray and Wharton
… and punish the undeserving. William Thackeray's Vanity Fair shows how social economies can be impacted by speculative bubbles, when some commodities are temporarily given more value than they really hold. Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth portrays a society which has gone off the gold standard …
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Adulting Children: A Television Series On Growing Up, Getting Out, and Coming Right Back
… to penetrate the job market, citing lethargy, vanity, and arrogance as obstacles that keep this demographic from making a "real living." Utilizing the musings of poet Sylvia Plath and author J.D Salinger, Adulting Children is a television series that narrows in on two of these post-grads and …
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Admiralty jurisdiction in the magistrate's court
… duped by some scoundrels, much assisted by his vanity and pride, into believing that they have created for him a suit of the finest and most magnificent cloth. It takes a small innocent child to point out during the procession attended by the Emperor that in fact he is not wearing a suit of …
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Of glory obscur'd : beatific vision in the narratives of Jack Kerouac
… Maggie Cassidy, Springtime Mary (1938-1939) and Vanity of Duluoz (1939-1946). Chapter nine examines the Kerouac novels which cover the scape-goat figure of Cody-Dean (Neal) and the resultant auest: events covered horizontally in On the Road (1946-1950) and vertically in Visions of Cody …
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