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A world within the world
… express a desire to clarify their place in the world through the creation of small, self-contained worlds. These small worlds help orient people within the greater world by creating centers and boundaries around and within which the events of life take place. “One's identity is contingent on the …
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"In that New World which is the Old": New World/Old World inversion in Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World"
"'In That New World Which Is The Old': New World/Old World Inversion In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World" examines the inversion of the concepts Old World, specifically associated with England, and New World, specifically associated with America, in the novel Brave New World. After examining and …
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Isaac's world
Isaac’s World is an electronic piece featuring audio samples of my son, Isaac, a three-year old, Brazilian and American citizen who speaks both Portuguese and English. Through this composition, I attempted to capture and musically evoke a child’s sense of personal experience, growth, and …
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World Court
Eighteen billion gallons of toxic waste, nine billion dollars in damages, trials across five countries, hundreds of lawyers, millions of dollars in litigation fees, and a corporation with an annual revenue of two hundred billions dollars-this is the story of Texaco's drilling operations in the Lago …
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Imperceivable World
Imperceivable World is an immersive multi-media exhibition that allows the audience to explore the imperceivable micro world of various organisms. These microorganisms occupy a space within our world that is so minuscule that it might seem like fiction. A series of short animations are an …
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Dependability where the mobile world meets the enterprise world
<p>As we move toward increasingly larger scales of computing, complexity of systems and networks has increased manifold leading to massive failures of cloud providers (Amazon Cloudfront, November 2014) and geographically localized outages of cellular services (T-Mobile, June 2014). In this …
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The World Takes
… 11 years old, discovers the cost of living. The World Takes is a narrative short fiction film that features two young brothers and their father grappling with their own fragility as they navigate an impending eviction from their home in Trenton, New Jersey. The power is out, the heat is off, and …
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World market governance
… that needs its own governance. The suggestion is World Market Governance based on the Rule of Law in order to shape the fitness environment for the global market economy and strengthen the nation-states so that they can regain the sovereignty to decide upon the social and cultural conditions in …
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Pneumatic world theater
Thesis (M.S.V.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1987.
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Overcoming Violations of Real-World Knowledge in a Fantasy-World Text
… violate the rules we know to be true in the real-world. In six experiments I explored the inherent conflict between unrealistic fictional events and general world knowledge (GWK) to examine these competing sources of information within the context of extended fantasy-narrative. Experiments I-III …
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World as Other, World As Self: Beyond Dualism in Environmental Narratives
… Our sense of connection with the more-than-human world inspires our compassion. However, such connection and compassion are missing from some of the West's most popular environmental narratives. In this dissertation, I examine three examples of prominent frameworks for understanding climate change …
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The World Become Image: Nonrepresentational Discussions of Film and the Natural World
… the relationships between film and the natural world. Building upon extant work in the burgeoning field of Ecocinema, this project attempts to move beyond the scholarly work on Ecocinema that satisfies itself with questions of representation. The issues and arguments taken up here tend to be …
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World Food Projection Models and Short-Run World Trade and Reserve Policyevaluations
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T06:06:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7804098.pdf: 8081253 bytes, checksum: a26bbb2c8af8a4aaee8fd5433c181bb4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1977
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Zhang Xiguo’s writing world
In the beginning of my thesis, I give a brief introduction to Zhang Xiguo's life and his writing and a brief summary of Zhang Xiguo's humanistic concern: he writes for people. Chapter One discusses that Zhang Xiguo has focused his writing on the physical and spiritual exile of Chinese people. He …
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Obstacles to world peace
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, 1931
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