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Showing 1 to 20 of 222 for “"verses"”.
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5 Year Analysis of Company ESG Ratings Verses Financial Performance
Environmental Social Governance adds a new dimension to investing by targeting companies that pursue ethical policies and practices outside of normal business operations. However, there is a lack of information regarding the viability of such investing tactics. To dissolve the ambiguity associated …
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Human Verses Mountain: Climbing, Language, and the Liveliness of Stone
… a combative act, but a communicative one. Human Verses Mountain is organized as a series of essays that each explore a different aspect of this central metaphor – climbing as communication – building a radical new paradigm by which to understand the ascensionist’s experience on the wall. Each …
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Verses on Auschwitz : images of the Holocaust in modern American poetry
This thesis examines how poetic responses to the Holocaust in America, when they emerged, have differed from the novels addressing the same subject; how the Second World War has challenged, in a way the First World War did not, basic humanistic assumptions regarding the image of man, the role of …
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Speaking Subjects: Beckett’s Not I, Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses, and Coetzee’s Foe
… to Rushdie and Coetzee, I show that The Satanic Verses and Foe suggest approaches to language similar to Beckett’s play, insofar as each text interrogates the ability of the marginalized speaking subject to maintain control of his or her voice, finding that the speaking subject’s voice is …
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An enhanced feature selection technique for classification of group based holy Quran verses
… and analysis of the textual data (Quranic verses). The group-based dataset is a combination of Holy Quran translation and commentary (tafsir). The Quranic verses were selected from two chapters, Surah Al- Baqarah and Surah Al-Anaam. The verses are classified into three categories: Faith, …
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College students' preferences in seeking social support from divorced verses non-divorced parents
<p>The goals of the current study were to (a) determine if differences exist in social support sought by college students from divorced vs. intact families and (b) to determine if the nature of the stressor is also related to students seeking support from either parent. Fifty-five students were …
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Comparison of patient outcome for aortic valve replacement verses transcatheter aortic valve replacement
Aortic stenosis or narrowing of the aortic valve is the most common cause for surgical valvular replacement in the United States. The disease of aortic stenosis has a long asymptomatic latency period followed by a quickly progressing symptomatic phase. Symptoms of the disease include dyspnea, …
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Consensual verses [i.e. versus] hierarchical approachs to environmental decision making : the case of the Massachusetts Miliary Reservation
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1997.
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Translating the Untranslatable: A Comparative Study of Two Modern Language Translations of the Verses of Egils saga Skalla-Grimssonar
My project analyses the extent to which, though a process of translation (or rewriting), skaldic poetry has been appropriated and manipulated in such a way as to help construct ideas of national identity. It combines two academic fields of study: one is the long-established and time-honoured …
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Salman Rushdie's Fiction in a Global Perspective: Hybridity and Fundamentalism in The Satanic Verses and The Moor's Last Sigh
… studies. In particular, I focus on The Satanic Verses (1988) and The Moor’s Last Sigh (1995) in order to elucidate the specific ways in which Rushdie engages the promises and pitfalls of cultural globalization. In my introduction, I lay necessary important epistemological groundwork through my …
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Salman Rushdie's Fiction in a Global Perspective: Hybridity and Fundamentalism in The Satanic Verses and The Moor's Last Sigh
… studies. In particular, I focus on The Satanic Verses (1988) and The Moor’s Last Sigh (1995) in order to elucidate the specific ways in which Rushdie engages the promises and pitfalls of cultural globalization. In my introduction, I lay necessary important epistemological groundwork through my …
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The Reproducibility of Short verses Long-Duration Heart Rate Variability Methods and Relations to Aerobic Fitness in Normal Adults
Heart rate variability (HRV) has been used to evaluate cardiac autonomic function by measuring variations in electrocardiographic R-R intervals between cardiac cycles. HRV was first used to associate decreases in autonomic nervous system (ANS) control with an increased risk of mortality in coronary …
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To Be Born IS to Die: A Study of Spatio-Temporal Impossibility and the Apocalypse in Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses
… labeled Salman Rushdie's <italic>The Satanic Verses</italic> postmodern, postcolonial, modern, or any combination of the three (as well as religious, antireligious, and other terms on which I do not focus). I argue for an interpretation of the text as postcolonial modern because such a reading …
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Verses, subverses and subversions in contemporary postcolonial poetry : the arts of resistance in the works of Linton Kwesi Johnson and Lesego Rampolokeng
This dissertation seeks to analyse insubordination and resistance manifested in postcolonial and post-apartheid poetry as ways of subverting dominant Western discourses. More specifically, I focus my analysis on textual strategies of resistance in the poetry of Linton Kwesi Johnson and Lesego …
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Claudius Claudianus tükre
… különleges, minthogy önállóan értelmezve verses fiktív császártükörnek, illetve bizonyos szempontból verses uralkodói és verses polgártükörnek tekinthető. A dolgozat vállalása ezen részlet magyar nyelvű műfordítással egybekapcsolt, többrétű elemzése a speculum mint műfaj antik …
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