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Showing 1 to 20 of 2350 for “"want"”.
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What you want, Whenever you want it
… one should produce, make, be creative. What You Want Whenever You Want It is a project that reflects on contemporary culture, including movements of taste, tempo and style. It embraces the rich and varied iconography of popular culture ? films, advertising, images, packaging, fashion and music. …
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Visioning our community : using urban design to move from "don't want" to "want"
… in organizing against the siting of locally unwanted land uses. While residents find ease in expressing what they do not want, they often fail to express what they do want, causing their ultimate exclusion from land use decision. This thesis examines how communities can use urban design as a …
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Work is What I Want
This thesis is written as an essay, which considers sculpture outside of its definition as art object. Having as its goal finding an intrinsic definition of sculpture, the essay sets on a short journey meandering between ideas, historic precedents, and anecdotes. Among some of the discussed thing …
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(What You Want Hummed Here)
(What You Want Hummed Here) represents the cumulative work of my past three years of studies in poetry as an MFA of Creative Writing candidate at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Included in the following document are a preface and manuscript of poetry. The preface details my poetic aesthetic, …
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What it means to want
Wanting is an easy concept to use. Talk to any three year-old and you'll know they've mastered it. Wanting is important, too. We understand one another in no small part through what they want, and wanting is a pillar in theories of mind and ethics. An account of wanting, then, must do dual duties: …
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I don't want to be here
I Don't Want to Be Here is novel that explores questions of consent, ethics, mother-daughter relationships, and community through the lens of the Oak School when it becomes involved in a Me Too scandal. Helen Mathews, a teacher and administrator at Oak and one of the novel's protagonists, is …
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Taak in Sutik (I Want to Return)
<p>The purpose of this film is to have four descendants of the Maya tell their stories and through them, explain four difficult concepts facing the 21st century contemporary Maya:</p> <p>* How do Mayan languages influence a worldview different than the westernized, globalized worldview?</p> <p>* …
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PowMail : want to fork? : do some work
We design and implement PowMail, a secure email framework that uses proof-of-work to prevent impersonation attacks. PowMail uses a novel authenticated data structure called a Po W-tree to enable email users to jointly certify the history of all users' public keys. An implementation is given in the …
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The school manager we want: voices of stakeholders.
The study investigated how views of stakeholders were embraced in school management, focusing on stakeholders’ participation in decision making, factors affecting participation and effects of participation in decision making. The analysis was based on the findings of the study conducted in six …
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The school manager we want: voices of stakeholders.
The study investigated how views of stakeholders were embraced in school management, focusing on stakeholders’ participation in decision making, factors affecting participation and effects of participation in decision making. The analysis was based on the findings of the study conducted in six …
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Training Transhumanism : I want to become a cephalopod
Training Transhumanism is a psycho-physical training regimen for evolving the future of the human, developed in collaboration with the choreographer luciana achugar. The regimen seeks to develop within the human new sensitivities and capacities for a world marked by everincreasing ecological and …
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What Dolphins Want: Animal Intentionality and Tool-Use
In this thesis, I argue that at least some animals have the sort of intentionality philosophers traditionally have only ascribed to humans. I argue for this through the examination of tool-use among New Caledonian crows and Bottlenose dolphins. New Caledonian crows demonstrate advanced …
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To Want Something Better is to Want Something Worse: A Critique of the Labour Party’s (Continual) Adaptation to the Capitalist State
Drawing on the Marxist critique of bourgeois political economy, this thesis empirically and theoretically analyses the political and ideological trajectory of the Labour Party from 1945-97, concentrating in particular on the Party’s reluctance in seriously changing the structures of the British …
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Using pedometers to explore the physical activities that children want to do, and teachers want to implement: a mixed method case study
… activities in primary school that children want to do, and schools want to implement: a mixed method case study. Background: It is globally acknowledged that physical activity has numerous benefits for children’s overall health and well-being (Fotina & Ellefson, 2021). Yet recent research …
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I Want to Believe, But I Can't Tom O'Day
This Thesis is an overview of the processes and practices that I employed for transferring abstract ideas into concrete visual forms, while I was in the graduate program at the University of New Orleans. The description is accompanied by images of the works; they follow in the order they made.
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Power or progress: What terrorist group leaders really want
<p>This paper examines how the different goals of terrorist group leaders affect their decision making calculus. This study uses a formal model and shows that terrorist group leaders who are more concerned with gaining concessions from the government are likely to use lower levels of violence. The …
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How Want vs Need Self-Talk Facilitates Goal-Directed Behavior
… This study examined how self-talk strategies want and need affected behavioral self-control outcomes in a temptation situation using a 2 (self-talk strategy: want vs need) x 2 (goal emphasis: temptation vs long term goal) factorial design. Participants’ own cell phones served as the temptation …
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