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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"wreckage"”.
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American Civil War photography : traces of death, injury, discrimination and wreckage
Dissertação de Mestrado em Estudos Americanos apresentada à Universidade Aberta
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Wreckage, Hell, and Madness: American Drug Films and the Image of the User, 1923-1936
This paper is an exploration of the discursive, cultural transformations images of drug use and drug users have taken though some of America’s early film history. By exploring and unpacking the imagery and other expressive qualities of films centering on the topic of drug use, this paper attempts …
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An Analysis of the Effectiveness of Emergency Locator Transmitters to Reduce Response Time and Locate Wreckage in U.S. General Aviation Accidents
<p>Emergency Locator Transmitters (ELT) help search crews to locate aircraft in distress and to rescue survivors. This study analyzed ELT data from U.S. General Aviation accidents during the period 2006 to 2010. This study examined the effectiveness of ELTs in terms of ELT Success Rate (ESR) and …
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Rummaging Through the Wreckage: Geographies of Trauma, Memory, and Loss at the National September 11th Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center
<p>This dissertation traces the emergence of 9/11 memory as it is shaped in relation to the event's memorialization at nationally-dedicated landscapes of memory. Focusing on the National September 11th Memorial & Museum, The National Flight 93 Memorial, and the National Pentagon 9/11 Memorial, my …
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Global Wreckage and Consumer Illusions: Responses to the Human Effects of Economic Globalization in Sub-Saharan African Francophone Novels and Films, 1973-2006
<p>My study examines a group of nine novels and films set in Ivory Coast, Mali, Senegal, Cameroon and Gabon written and produced between 1973 and 2006 in which "the West" and its international finance network are depicted as the fundamental contemporary world power that wields a destructive …
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FISTFUL OF DEBRIS
… but having the fortitude to sift through the wreckage of their life, and steadfastly rebuild with what is left. Only then can they begin to heal.
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Seawall
… crew whose duty is to recover corpses from the wreckage of the city. He meets several pivotal characters and eventually manages to escape into the custody of Henry James Moody, Jr., a wealthy businessman, who places him on retainer for future jobs. In the second section, Million settles into his …
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Knowing when to stop : the investigation of Flight 191
… how investigators pieced together the smoldering wreckage, wrestled with questions of personal error and accountability, dodged political and financial influences, and in the end put forth a list of safety recommendations based on the flaws they uncovered along the way. The investigation of Flight …
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Linguistic Cues to Deception
… essays arguing why items salvaged from the wreckage were useful for survival. Cues to deception considered here fit into four categories: those caused by a deceivers' negative emotion, verbal immediacy, those linked to a deceiver's attempt to appear truthful, and those resulting from …
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A saga of black deglorification : the disfigurement of Africa in Ayi Kwei Armah's novels
… that past political violations begot the present wreckage of the African populace. The legendary warrior heroes of the past, whose glory and splendour were once exalted in African writing, are now ruthlessly disentombed and paraded as miscreants and despots, who brutalized and sold their people …
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Dammed If You Don't: The Palmertown Tragedy of 1924 in Collective Memory
… the time all of the bodies were pulled from the wreckage, the death toll had reached 19-an immense loss for the tight-knit community. A dam, owned by Mathieson Alkali Works, loomed approximately 100 feet above Palmertown, keeping at bay the chemical muck produced by the company plants. Despite …
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Ma, performing the White, Afrikaner Woman back to self
… and tragedy; catastrophe and the notion of the wreckage, as theorised by Walter Benjamin (1968), Hans-Thies Lehmann (2016) and Nelson Maldonado-Torres (2016) and how these theories might speak to an understanding of my identity and positionality in South Africa, my understanding of self.
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The Difficulty of Homecoming: Film and Philosophy through Monster, A Hidden Life, and Mountains May Depart
… time but as a persistent return through its wreckage. The film thus demonstrates a form of faithfulness, which exemplifies world cinema, especially its commitment to reality. I conclude by defining homecoming in cinema as a difficult movement between risk and grace.