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Williams, Shelley. "Text and Tapestry: "The Lady and the Unicorn," Christine de Pizan and the le Vistes." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2009. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2929.pdf.
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Sowley, Katherine Ilsley. "The lady and the unicorn, the iconography of love in a series of fifteenth-century tapestries." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ50573.pdf.
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Sowley, Katherine Ilsley. "The Lady and the unicorn : the iconography of love in a series of fifteenth-century tapestries." Thesis, McGill University, 1998. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21266.
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The corpus of literature on the Lady and The Unicorn tapestries has most often focussed on technical/stylistic aspects or attempted to explain the iconography of this work with little definitive consensus in either domain. An informative element in the history of this problematic work is the patron, who played a primordial role in the artistic process of the late Middle Ages. Although the patron of our subject has been identified as Jean LeViste and his personal and family history is relatively well-documented, few attempts have been made to place this work in the context of his reality. An investigation of the figure and his milieu will certainly benefit our understanding of the themes of heraldic display and courtly love that are most often proposed to interpret our work. The patron's situation will bring us to a new level of interpretation in this work---the glorification of women---which, like the other themes represented throughout this series, served the interests of the patron and reflected his reality.
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Decu, Teodorescu Carmen. "Le Roman de la Rose et les arts figurés autour de 1500 : Lieux communs de la réception et de l'interprétation." Thesis, Paris 4, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA040141.
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A la fois lieu commun du raisonnement et cliché discursif - selon la distinction opérée par Remy de Gourmont pour qui le lieu commun renvoie à la banalité de l'Idée, tandis que le cliché représente la matérialité même de la phrase -, l'antienne de l'influence du Roman de la Rose sur les arts figurés au Moyen Âge est devenue l'une de ces nombreuses redondances argumentatives sustentant régulièrement la rhétorique en histoire de l'art. Partie de ce constat inflationniste et du désir de vérifier le bien-fondé d'une hypothèse iconographique reliant le Roman de la Rose à la tenture de la Dame à la Licorne, cette enquête a essayé de mettre en exergue le danger des lieux communs de l'interprétation en histoire de l'art, et plus particulièrement de ceux faisant un usage inconsidéré du texte de Guillaume de Lorris et Jean de Meung<br>Both discursive cliché and commonplace reasoning – according to the distinction made by Remy de Gourmot for whom the commonplace refers to the banality of the Idea while the cliché is the very materiality of the sentence – the anthem of the Roman de la Rose's influence on figurative arts in the Middle Ages became one of those many redundancies regulary invoked in argumentative rhetoric. Provoked by this observation and by the desire to check the relevance of an iconographic hypothesis linking the Roman de la Rose to the tapestry of the Lady and the Unicorn, this investigation has tried to highlight the danger of the interpretation commonplaces in Art History, especially those making a reckless use of Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung's poem
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Dooling, Shannon Marie. "Like A Unicorn in Captivity." Thesis, University of Maryland, College Park, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1543561.
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<p> In the process of creating <i>Like A Unicorn in Captivity</i>, I sought the answers to two primary research questions: "What happens when you realize that your idol isn't perfect?" and "What happens when you recognize her flaws in yourself?" The work began as a response to and an interpretation of the work of writer and aviator Anne Morrow Lindbergh, incorporating multimedia, spoken word, and movement in an exploration of celebrity, hero-worship, identity, relationship, ambition, creativity and duty. As we investigated these notions, the cast and I embarked on a transdisciplinary choreographic process, one that combined movement-based and theoretical research across dance, theatre, design, music, history, literature, feminism, and women's studies. This paper offers an explanation of the inspirations behind the piece, how I arrived at the notion of transdiciplinary choreography, what the practice looked and felt like in progress, and a description of the piece that resulted from the process.</p>
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Duchoňová, Veronika. "Strategická analýza společnosti Unicorn a.s." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-113665.
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This thesis focuses on strategic analysis of Unicorn Systems, joint-stock company. The first part describes theoretical process of strategic analysis which continues to practical part. It contains external analysis, internal analysis and competitive strategy. The end of the thesis contains evaluations of strategy analysis and recommendations.
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Grämerová, Andrea. "Marketingová strategie společnosti Unicorn, a.s." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-264525.
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The goal of the master thesis is to suggest a marketing strategy for company Uni-corn a.s. based on marketing situation analysis. The thesis consists of theoretical and practical parts. In the theoretical part, the concept of marketing and marke-ting management are discussed and the perception of marketing mix is described. It presents further methodology for the practical part. The practical part contains situation analysis in which the study of outer and inner enterprise environment is presented. The result is a basis for SWOT analysis a furthermore composition of EFE and IFE matrix. Next, the suggestions for tactical targets are determined through the marketing mix. In conclusion a proposition of marketing strategy is presented which is founded not only on situation analysis but also on review study of contemporary company marketing tools.
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Nord, Karl Axel, and Filip Franzén. "What makes a successful Unicorn IPO?" Thesis, KTH, Matematisk statistik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-275677.
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Amongst the great numbers of companies being listed on the stock exchange, one type of company stands out from the rest. Known as Unicorns, these companies are valued at $1 billion or more before they are even acquired or listed on the stock market. In order to understand why some of these companies perform well on the stock exchange, this thesis attempts to find the driving factors of stock price growth using multiple regression analysis. The results are two different models that can be used by investors considering investing in this type of company. The first model consists of the increase of a company’s total costs, research and development costs, total assets and number of employees. This model is likely to be useful when investing in companies operating in the tech industry as they typically have high research and development costs. The second model consists of a company’s increase in marketing costs, return on invested capital and number of employees. When considering investing in companies that have a large amount of marketing costs, such as companies operating in the retail industry, this model is likely to serve a better purpose. The models are however not accurate enough to solely be relied upon when deciding if and how much to invest but should rather be used as pointers on whether a company will increase in value after the first day of trading.<br>Bland den mängd företag som listas på börsen, är det en typ av företag som sticker ut från mängden. De kallas för Unicorns och är värderade till över en miljard dollar innan de köps upp eller börsnoteras. För att förstå varför vissa av dessa företag presterar så bra på börsen, försöker man i denna rapport hitta de drivande faktorerna för aktieprisutveckling genom multipel regressionsanalys. Det resulterade i två olika modeller som skulle kunna nyttjas av investerare som överväger att investera i denna typ av företag. Den första modellen bestod av tillväxten av ett företags totala kostnader, forskning- och utvecklingskostnader, totala tillgångar och antalet anställda. Den här modellen skulle kunna vara användningsbar när man överväger att investera i företag som verkar inom teknologisektorn, då dessa företag investerar mycket pengar i forskning och utveckling. Den andra modellen bestod av tillväxten av ett företags marknadsföringskostnader, avkastning på investerat kapital och antalet anställda. I situationer där man överväger att investera i företag som har stora marknadsföringskostnader, som företag som verkar i detaljhandel, är denna modell förmodligen mer användbar. Modellerna är dock inte korrekta nog för att fullständigt lita på vid ett beslut om och hur mycket man ska investera, utan bör istället användas som en fingervisning för om företaget kommer stiga i värde efter första handlingsdagen på börsen.
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Tománková, Jana. "Konkurenčná stratégia firmy Unicorn Systems, a.s." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-223324.
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Presented graduation theses concern proposition of competitive strategy in paticular company active in field of IT. The analytical part describes actual condition of the company on the market and its competitors, as well as internal processes and external environment. The theoretical part defines abstract conclusion of this graduation theses. Finally the application part includes proposals of solutions how to succeed in competitive fight by means of given targets and taking the competitive advantage.
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Fictum, Luboš. "Proces správy znalostí ve společnosti Unicorn, a.s." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-77718.
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Knowledge as company resource which brings competitive advantage is frequently discussed topic. And managing of knowledge pays increasing attention, because it is possible to maximize utility and minimize losses of knowledge by using appropriate knowledge management. This paper is focused on analysis of Knowledge management process in the context of Unicorn ES Powered Company methodology and on suggestion of possible form of management of the process and its parts, which is the overall goal of this paper.
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Runervik, Julia. "Streamline Lady." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Technology and Design, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-964.
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<p>Projektet är ett glasdesignprojekt där visionen var att ta fram en nyskapande belysningsarmatur för privat,</p><p>offentlig och exklusiv miljö.</p><p>Målet var att ta fram en nyskapande belysningsarmatur med avseende form, teknik och material med</p><p>möjlighet till rationell tillverkning. Syftet var att undersöka glasets möjligheter, begränsningar och uttryck genom en komplex form och specifika krav på utseende. Jag ville undersöka glasets möjligheter och</p><p>formbarhet. Hur mjukt och böljande går det att forma glaset? Kan glaset få samma mjukhet och svallande egenskaper som textil? Jag ville även undersöka hur ljuset påverkas av glasets form, tjocklek och färg.</p><p>I projektet har jag fått ta hänsyn till många olika parametrar så som tillverkningsteknik, ljuskälla, ljustyp, tekniska lösningar m.m. Jag har även fått kompromissa när det gäller form och storlek på mitt objekt p.g.a den korta tiden.</p><p>Objektet blåstes av Mikael Johansson i hyttan i Pukeberg.</p><br><p>This project is a glass design project with the vision to create a innovative armature for private, public and exclusive environment.</p><p>The goal was to create a innovative armature in meaning of form, technique and material with contingency of rational production. The aim was to examine the possiblities, limitations and expression of the glass through a complex form and specific demands of appearance. I wanted to examine the possibilities and formablity of the glass. How smooth and billow can the glass be formed? Can the glass get the same softness and billow</p><p>appearance as fabric? I also wanted to examine how light is affected by the shape, thickness and colour of the glass.</p><p>In these project I have had to take into concideration several parameters, like manufacturing techniques, light source, light type, technical solutions etc. I also have had to compromise concerning form and size of my object due to the short project time. The objects where blown by Mikael Johansson in the blowing room of Pukeberg.</p>
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Orner, Phyllis June. "Lady Liberty." University of the Western Cape, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/5544.
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Livingstone, Tessa. "Lady Grimm." PDXScholar, 2018. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4476.
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Lady Grimm is a conceptual assemblage. A substrate of fairy tales, fables, and nursery rhymes provide a basis for transformative and macabre frames, specifically concerning a stillbirth in 1940s Scotland. The collection utilizes the folklore genre to navigate a world of uncertainty and realities too difficult for its speakers to face. It further critiques the assumption of voice being restricted to human cognition. Animalistic totems as sea lions, peacocks, rabbits, and iguanas are some of the spirits summoned in order to explore themes such as motherhood, irreversible loss, abandonment, and choice within choicelessness. The collection begins in tragedy but gestures toward redemption as it maneuvers through strange & haunting imagery, mystic & surreal narratives. Ultimately, Lady Grimm illuminates a path towards perseverance in a coldly indifferent world.
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Kocián, Václav. "Integrace metodiky PRINCE2 do internetové služby Unicorn Universe." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-162572.
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This thesis deals with the subject of project management, primarily from the viewpoint of the development of a tool for project management support using the PRINCE2 methodology and the Unicorn Universe information system. The subject of the theoretical part is the definition of a project and project management and a description and a comparison of the most widely used project management standards, PRINCE2, PMI and IPMA. Subsequently, the emphasis is put on a detailed description of PRINCE2 with regard to its use in the next parts of the work. At the end of the theoretical part of the thesis the chapters are devoted to Unicorn Universe and to Unicorn Enterprise System Powered Company, which is a methodology used for company management. In the practical part, the author followed the recommended 4-phases process of the development of a new methodology set defined by the UESPC methodology; inception, elaboration, construction and transition. By means of the analysis in inception and elaboration stages and creation of A4 and High Level Concept documents, which describe specific ways how to implement various elements of PRINCE2into the Unicorn Universe, and the subsequent production of project management tool prototype, the author worked his way up to the construction stage, in which he designed and created definitions of meta artifacts and scripts for their later implementation in the final phase, called transition. In this phase metaartifacts were set up. They are templates for management and control artifacts and for other items necessary for the production of the methodological set, a final product of the thesis. At the end of thesis, the automation scripts, as proposed in the previous stage to verify the practical use of the thesis product, were assigned for implementation.
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Mikloš, Jiří. "Implementace metodiky řízení projektů PRINCE2 do služby Unicorn Universe." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-74434.
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The goal of Master's thesis is analysis of suitability of Unicorn Universe service, which is operated by Unicorn Company, for implementation of PRINCE2 project management methodology. Theoretical and Methodological part of Master's thesis includes description of PRINCE2 methodology and description of methods, which are used for requirements analysis and analysis of Unicorn Universe service. The analysis of Unicorn Universe service confirmed that this service is suitable for implementation of PRINCE2 methodology. This suitability is also proven by implementation of chosen part of PRINCE2 methodology. The Master's thesis recommends the implementation of PRINCE2 methodology to Unicorn Universe service. There are estimated economical and non-economical benefits, which are brought by this implementation to Unicorn and Unicorn its clients.
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Havlín, Jan. "Implementace novelizované normy ISO 10006 ve spolecnosti UNICORN a.s." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2008. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-221700.
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This Thesis looks at the current situation in the UNICORN a.s. company and analyses how the projects are managed in the company. The Thesis suggests recommendation for improvements in this field according to ČSN ISO 10 006 Quality Management Systems - Guidelines for quality management in projects.
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Leshay, Ilana D. "A sympathetic lady /." South Hadley, Mass. : [s.n.], 2008. http://ada.mtholyoke.edu/setr/websrc/pdfs/www/2008/287.pdf.
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Newell, Marique H. "Lady of courage." Fairfax, VA : George Mason University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1920/3154.
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Thesis (M.A.)--George Mason University, 2008.<br>Vita: p. 103. Thesis director: Stephen Goodwin. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed July 18, 2008). Also issued in print.
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Hardy, Jules. "The unicorn is driving a Mustang : self, memory and narrative." Thesis, Bath Spa University, 2006. http://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/1464/.
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Natale, Irene. "A study on Friction Boundary Conditions with Unicorn/FEniCS-HPC." Thesis, KTH, Numerisk analys, NA, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-241920.
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The aim of this thesis is to present and validate a boundary condition formulation for CFD problems that includes a friction parameter. In the first part of the thesis the incompressible Navier-Stokes system of equations and the friction boundary conditions are presented. Then the Finite Element methodology that is used to discretize the problem is given, with particular emphasis to the a-posteriori error estimate, the adaptive algorithm and the numerical tripping included in the flow. Moreover, since FEniCS-HPC is the software on which this thesis leans on, its framework is explained, together with its powerful parallelization strategy. Then the weak formulation of the Navier Stokes system of equation coupled with friction boundary conditions is presented, together with an initial theoretical derivation of the friction coefficient optimal values. Furthermore, in the last chapter, the preliminary results of a validation study for the lift coefficient of the NACA0012 airfoil benchmark model are included and commented in detail. Even if there still are some aspects to be elucidated, we believe that our preliminary results are very promising and that they open a new pathway for simulation development in aerodynamics-related models.<br>Målet med denna avhandling är att presentera och validera ett rand-villkor för CFD problem som inkluderar en friktionsparameter. I den första delen av avhandlingen presenterar vi det inkompressibla Navier-Stokes system av ekvationer och dess randvillkor för friktion. Sedan använder vi oss av Finita Elementmetoden som används för att diskretisera problemet som är presenterat, med en särskild betoning på a posteriori feluppskattningen, den adaptiva algoritmen och den numeriska trippingen som fanns med i flödet. Eftersom denna avhandling helt lutar sig mot FEniCS-HPC mjukvara, förklaras dess ramverk, tillsammans med dess kraftfulla parallelliseringsstrategi. Därefter pre-senterar vi den svaga formuleringen av Navier-Stokes system av ekvationer kopplad till friktionsgränserna, tillsammans med en initiell teoretisk härledning av friktionskoefficientens optimala värden. Vidare, i det sista kapitlet, presenteras de preliminära resultaten av en valide-ringsstudie av lyftkoefficienten för modellen som använts vid benchmarking av NACA0012:s bärytan, som är kommenterad i detalj. Även om det fortfarande finns aspekter som bör belysas tror vi att vårt preliminära resultat är väldigt lovande och att det öppnar en ny väg för simuleringsutveckling i aerodynamikrelaterade modeller.
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Vinclerová, Zuzana. "Hodnocení pracovníků a rozvoj jejich kariéry ve společnosti Unicorn,a.s." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2006. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-427.
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Diplomová práce seznamuje čtenáře s fungováním systému hodnocení pracovníků a systému rozvoje kariéry ve společnosti Unicorn, a.s. Obsahuje výčet a popis nalezených slabých míst a navržená opatření, která by je pomohla eliminovat. V systému hodnocení pracovníků je práce zaměřěná hlavně na problematiku formálního periodického hodnocení, protože neformální hodnocení nebývá zpravidla zaznamenáno a jen výjimečně bývá příčinou konkrétního personálního rozhodnutí.
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Condoluci, Giada <1995>. "From Copycats to Innovators: the rise of China’s Unicorn Companies." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/18437.
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Ant Financial, ByteDance and Didi Chuxing: these are the three most valuable unicorns in the world. According to Hurun Global Unicorn List 2019, a ranking of the world’s billion-dollar tech ‘start-ups’ founded in the 2000s and not yet listed on a public exchange, China has the world’s largest number of “unicorns”, 206 in total, compared with 203 in the US. But what does “unicorn” mean? Unicorn is not just a mythical creature famous for being represented as an horse with a horn on its head, but it’s also a term used in the venture capital industry and coined in 2013 by Aileen Lee, founder of a seed stage fund named Cowboy ventures, to describe privately owned startup companies that reach a 1$ billion dollars market value. Companies that managed to exceed such valuation are so rare, that finding one is like finding an unicorn. Besides providing an overview of the definition and characteristics of the unicorn companies, the aim of my thesis is to analyze the Chinese business development environment in order to understand what are the main drivers of these startups, identify the reasons of their success in the Chinese economic ecosystem, comparing it with that of different countries.
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Iredell, Jamie. "Our Lady of Refuge." Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/42.
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Iredell, James S. "Our Lady of Refuge." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/42.
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This story cycle focuses on the members of the Ordoñez family of Castroville, California from the time of the first generation’s migration from Mexico in the 1950s to the most recent generation who moves out of the town in the 2000s. “The Ordoñez Pride” shows the entire family as they experience a miracle. Cecilia, the matriarch, receives a belated wedding ring that bursts into flame that doesn’t burn her, but everything else it comes into contact with. The flame also magically sparks hers and her husband’s sex life into overdrive and, late in life, they produce three more children, for a total of nine. Following this framing story, we see snapshots of all the other family members at life-changing moments. In “After the Revolution” we see Ray Ordoñez , the family patriarch, grow from a boy into a man, as he defends his sister from what he perceives to be the American ranch owner practicing the right to first night—a custom that was still practiced in rural Mexico in the twentieth century. Eventually, Ray migrates to California and begins his family, becomes assimilated into American culture, and reluctantly welcomes an American boy—his oldest daughter’s boyfriend—into his household.
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Capone, Lauren. "The Hat Lady Equation." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2014. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1856.
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The Hat Lady Equation is a collection of poems by Lauren Capone. As influences she cites Elizabeth Bishop, John Berryman, among the exquisite minutiae of day-to-day living. The poems explore works of visual art by Alberto Giacometti, James Taylor Bonds, Chris Dennis, Blaine Capone (her brother), and creatures of the natural world including fish, the rhinoceros, a lettered olive shell. . . . Lauren shows a preoccupation with disassembling through the poems whether it's her identity, art, or happenings of everyday life.
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Brihault, Jean. "Lady Morgan et l'Irlande." Rennes 2, 1985. http://www.theses.fr/1985REN20016.
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Brihault, Jean. "Lady Morgan et l'Irlande." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1986. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37594533c.
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Brereton, Catherine A. "Conversations with Lady Chatterley." UKnowledge, 2016. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/41.
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This thesis comprises of a series of personal essays exploring intersections and parallels between my life and D.H. Lawrence’s classic novel, Lady Chatterley’s Lover. The essays discuss, among other things, Lawrence and tuberculosis, gamekeeping, mining in 20th century England, love, education, and youth. Thus, the collection creates a literary memoir.
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Kern, Meghan. "The Lady Markham Elegies." VCU Scholars Compass, 2019. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5863.
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This project studies the contemporary manuscript transmission of three poems written on the 1609 death of Lady Bridget Markham. Lady Markham was the cousin of the influential courtier and patron Lucy, Countess of Bedford and her death prompted an outpouring of verses that were collected in manuscript verse miscellanies during the period. John Donne was in the process of establishing a patronage relationship with Lady Bedford at the time and wrote a respectful elegy on her cousin’s death. Francis Beaumont also wrote, for the same occasion, what has been called the most “repellent” work of the English Renaissance. That same year, Lady Bedford wrote an elegy on the death of another kinswoman, Cecilia Bulstrode, which several scribes redirected to Lady Markham. This project attends to the diverse ways contemporary verse collectors encountered, altered, and situated these poems, mediating the legacy of Markham’s death and Bedford’s patronage. The method for this project adapts elements of single-author critical editing to study the verses as a group. By organizing textual study around Lady Bedford and the death of Lady Markham, it reorients research away from the individual author towards the patron and her circle.
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Sumpter, Guy. "Lady Chapels and the manifestation of devotion to Our Lady in medieval England." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/31073.
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The subject of Lady Chapels and devotion to Our Lady in medieval churches is vast. This thesis investigates whether liturgical Marian observances required a particular setting or not, and the forms it might take. This is achieved by a careful selection of material that highlights the evolutionary development of the most influential physical manifestations of the cult of the Virgin and some of the more humble ones. Accordingly, attention has been focussed on three main areas that form the principal components of this study, Chapter one investigates the development and gradual inclusion of specifically Marian commemorations in the liturgical calendars that sustained the cult and fed its growth. Chapter two comprises case studies of Lady Chapels and other manifestations of the Marian cult in major churches. Each has been chosen to provide evidence of chronological and geographical diversity in terms of its respective contribution to the holistic picture, and /or because it has attracted little previous notice. In addition, the cumulative examination of the available material has permitted a degree of fresh and original insight. The third chapter focuses on the county of Northamptonshire in order to examine Lady Chapels and the cult of Mary in the context of the parish, in order to establish as accurately as possible the incidences of specifically Marian chapels and the degree to which devotion and the manner of its observance was manifest. The justifications for such a study are firstly, that it was at parish level that most people would have experienced and participated in any such observance, and secondly, that no countywide survey has previously been attempted. The conclusion draws the evidence together and argues that the veneration of Our Lady could take place in a variety of settings that reflected the diversity of Her cult.
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Amundsen, Sarah Audine. "Lady Libertines, Female Fops, and Lady Julia Fulbank: Aphra Behn's Extraordinary Female Characters." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2011. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2653.
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Aphra Behn has, throughout her life and subsequent years, been both demonized as a writer of bawdy and licentious plays and poetry as well as being hailed as the forerunner of female writers. She was a woman writing in a man's world, and not only survived the experience, but was exceptionally successful in her efforts. While so little is known about her background, the numerous plays she has left behind demonstrate a skilled author in many forms, as well as a creative and innovative storyteller. This thesis will examine how Behn used the traditional theatrical forms of the time and created dynamic female characters that were quite unique in their own ways. Stock characters were a standard in Restoration comedies, and she used these types to make significantly stronger female characters than those portrayed by her contemporary male playwrights. I will examine and compare her female libertines to the traditional male libertines in the plays The Rover or The Banish't Cavaliers and The Feign'd Curtizans or A Night's Intrigue. Following this, I will describe how her female fop in Sir Patient Fancy is so much superior to the customary male fop. The succeeding chapter will examine Lady Julia Fulbank from The Luckey Chance or An Alderman's Bargain and demonstrates how Behn was able to move outside of the traditional types of characters expected in these plays to create an entirely new character that has no counterpart in any Restoration play. Behn used the forms and tools available to her to create much more independent and dominant female characters than those expected in the genre. She created a voice for women, and the voice strongly declared that women were as capable, if not more so, than men.
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McLeish, Valerie. "Imperial footprints : Lady Aberdeen and Lady Dufferin in Ireland, Canada and India, 1870-1914." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.398025.
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Maliuševskaja, Leokadija. "Tworczosc poetycka Tadeusza Lady - Zablockiego." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2005. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2005~D_20050614_133847-54945.
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T. Lad - Zablocki is the most famous poet of Caucasus group. He lived and created his poems in XIX century. The master thesis describes Poland political situation and nature of Caucasus. T. Lad - Zablocki has written about love to his native country.
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Girard, Chris. "Lady/applicant : on the Lazarus." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2013. http://research.gold.ac.uk/7993/.
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This research investigates the ‘performativity’ of the ‘author function’ through collaging the audio recordings of American poet Sylvia Plath. The ‘author function’ is a term by Michel Foucault to describe how readers attribute certain characteristics that they believe belong to the author and ascribe them to the writing. ‘Performativity’ is a term used by Judith Butler to describe a set of actions that ascribe and predetermine a set of attributes to a subject through his or her gender, age, timeframe, nationality and race. The ‘performativity’ of the ‘author function’ appropriates these characteristics and attributes them to the author. How the determination of an authorial identity translates to the interaction of the practice component of the project, which includes several components of digital collage, is through attributions that readers make in the creation of an author. The practice component of the project consists of the collage of audio and video recordings, the programming of video with Max/MSP/Jitter, ‘performative’ elements and collage poetry on Twitter. The audio component was collaged from two poems entitled ‘Lady Lazarus’ and ‘The Applicant’ that Plath read to the British Council in 1962 to form a new poem entitled Lady/Applicant: The Lazarus. The video component consists of collaging recorded video clips of storefront and street signs in Camden, London, where she is associated with living and committing suicide at. A second video collage entitled Shadows/Shadows/Tomb takes place at a cemetery close to my residence in 2011 and documents symbols of death that reference my own authorial identity. The second set of videos run on a Max/MSP/Jitter patch that display four screens of filmed texts inscribed on tombstones that play four streaming poems through a systematic structure of boxes. The screens are displayed in each box and sourced from separate folders to display and play the film clips. The practice of collage and constraint-based poetry complicates the constitution of being the author when the collagist of Plath’s poetry is a different gender than hers. This research then expands on how identity radically shifts in the text when the subject and the collagist have very different identities. The radical shift in a collage takes place within a predefined and generalized concept of the reader as determined by Stanley Fish, a prominent writer on the subject of ‘reader-response criticism’, who believes that one way a reader could be approached is through his or her relationship with the writing.
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Gibson, Alanna Marie. "Salome: Reviving the Dark Lady." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1398693802.
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Scott, Kathleen Marie. "An officer and a lady." W&M ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626284.
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Skog, Daniel. "Dismantling the Co-creation Unicorn : Investigating the "How" in Inter-firm Collaboration." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för informatik, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-56907.
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In order to face the challenges derived from an increasingly disruptive technologicalenvironment, firms often engage in collaborative arrangements with other firms. While it isargued that inter-firm networks can serve as a way to catalyze innovation, to manage risksinvolved in R&D and to enable the creation of new value through co-creation, the causes andreasons for inter-firm collaboration are well-known. However, little effort has been focused atcritically examining the challenges that co-creation brings on a network and firm-level. Thisresearch addresses this issue by taking a process perspective on the formation and developmentof an inter-firm network in relation to its technologically disruptive environment. Building on acase study involving firms from that network, this research shows that such arrangements mayalso involve challenges for participating firms. These challenges relates to a paradoxicaltension between exploitation of relation-specific assets and success in the long- and short-term,but also a challenge in terms of positioning the firm within the network.
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Lövström, Georg, and Hampus Olofsson. "The unicorn factory : Examining Stockholm tech-startups and their pursuit of internationalization." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för marknadsföring (MF), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-75920.
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The idea behind this thesis was born from the success of the so-called unicorn companies originating from Stockholm. Unicorn companies are highly successful tech-startups which reached an evaluation of 1 billion USD while remaining private companies. This has created international attention to Stockholm, and the number of tech startups in the city has increased dramatically. The purpose of this thesis is to achieve a deeper understanding of how tech-startups in Stockholm design their internationalization strategy. To do this, comprehensive information regarding the background of this situation was given, which was then used to form the research questions. To answer them, research regarding internationalization, entrepreneurial strategies and business networks and relations were collected. The theories were then formulated into a conceptual synthesis. To answer our research questions, qualitative data was gathered through four semi-structured interviews with tech-startups operating in Stockholm. The abductive research approach was found to be the most useful approach for our research design. The analysis chapter was built upon the structure of our theories and analyzed through the lens of our conceptual synthesis. Formulating a discussion on the similarities between the theories and the empirical findings as well as unforeseen differences. Concluding our analysis of the gathered empirical data, we found an implication that there was a connection between the environment, the company and the strategy that they choose in order to internationalize, and that all factors impact each other. Following the analysis, the theoretical synthesis was adjusted based on the gathered data and restructured into a conceptual framework. This thesis stresses the importance of networks in entrepreneurial businesses and showcases why this is. It is of interest to entrepreneurs wishing to establish their own companies in Stockholm, but can also be of interest to entrepreneurs at large concerning their presence in tech-hubs.
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Bierens, Kali. "The Captain’s Lady: Mary Ann Bugg." Thesis, Honours thesis, University of Tasmania, 2008. https://eprints.utas.edu.au/8748/1/01_Bierens_front.pdf.
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Bushrangers have a powerful grip on the Australian psyche. Ned Kelly is celebrated as Australia’s most popular folk hero. Bushranger Captain Thunderbolt has been immortalised in his home state of New South Wales, with a major highway named in his honour. For the town of Uralla in the New England District, the Thunderbolt legend looms large. He is a major tourist draw card for the region. The legend of Thunderbolt embodies a larger telling of a collective struggle against a system of injustice and oppression. A closer examination of events reveals that Thunderbolt’s Aboriginal wife, Mary Ann, was crucial to his survival. Yet she has been erased from the legend. Many of our folk heroes could not have survived without the support of Aboriginal Australians. However the mateship ethos continues to exclude both Aboriginal people and women. In documenting the life of Worimi woman Mary Ann and her partnership with Thunderbolt, the rhetoric of mateship is challenged. Reciprocal relationships that developed between Aboriginal and settler Australians will be investigated. It is important to consider the range of relationships that emerged on the frontier and the bearing that geography played in such encounters. By adopting a place-centred approach one is able to closely examine the complexity of race relations that existed in colonial times. The violent encounters that occurred on the frontier between Aboriginal and settler Australians are well documented. However not all relationships were based on exploitation and violence. The union between Mary Ann’s Aboriginal mother and English convict father is celebrated by the Worimi today. Mixed
marriage continues to be recognised as a central part of contemporary Worimi culture.
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Quinn, Dale. ""Bunny Lady" is Self-Taught Expert." College of Agriculture, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/295875.
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Thi, Thanh Truc Vu. "Testing and optimization of Unicorn Fluid-Structure Interaction solver for simulating an industrial problem." Thesis, KTH, Numerisk analys, NA, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-139104.
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In industry applications, such as power supply plants, the issue of interaction between fluid and structure is always presented. More precisely, the fluid flow affects the structure by applying force(s) on it and vice versa. As a result, the structure can move (vibrate) or deform. A good understanding of this problem can help to design the system in term of safety, stability and efficiency. This project aims to optimize and test the Unicorn FSI solver from the FEniCS project [1] to simulate the interaction of fluid and structure in an experiment, which was carried out at Vattenfall Research and Development. The target is to improve the Unicorn FSI solver to cope with a real industrial problem. Moreover, some results of the simulation can be used as a tool to predict the behavior of a system under the effect of fluid flow<br>I industriapplikationer, såsom kraftverk, är frågan om samspelet mellan fluid och struktur alltid närvarande. Närmare bestämt påverkar fluiden kraftverkets struktur genom att applicera en kraft på det och vice versa. Som ett resultat av fluidens kraftpåverkan, kan kraftverkets struktur vibrera eller deformeras. En god förståelse för detta FSI problem kan bidra till att utforma system ifråga om säkerhet, stabilitet och effektivitet. Detta projekt syftar till att optimera och testa Unicorn FSI lösaren från FEniCS projektet. Denna FSI lösare ska därefter användas till att simulera samspelet mellan vätska och struktur i ett experiment, som utförts på Vattenfalls forsknings och utvecklingsavdeling. Målet är att förbättra Unicorn FSI-lösaren för att klara av ett verkligt industriellt problem. Dessutom kan vissa resultaten av simuleringen användas som ett verktyg för att förutsäga beteendet hos ett system under inverkan av en fluid.
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Costa, João Pedro Santos. "The place of the unicorn in today’s marketplace : a new reality for start-ups." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/21540.
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Gestão<br>Criar empresas de valorizações exponenciais é um objetivo comum entre empreendedores e investidores, mas subsiste a dúvida sobre como fazê-lo. Este estudo pretende contribuir para colmatar esta lacuna na literatura atual – sobre como criar os chamados unicórnios. Devido ao aparecimento crescente de empresas valorizadas em biliões de dólares nos últimos anos, a sua compreensão, assim como a sua posição no mercado atual, e as ameaças, oportunidades e vantagens competitivas das mesmas, tornou-se um fator chave para melhor compreender o mundo dos negócios. Baseada maioritariamente em pesquisa exploratória, envolvendo entrevistas e um focus group com especialistas, esta dissertação pretende criar, reunir e sumarizar a informação relevante e atualizada sobre empresas de valorizações exponenciais e criar um modelo teórico para a conceção e crescimento sustentado das mesmas. Se, por um lado, o plano de negócio poderá ser menos importante do que é geralmente aceite na sociedade, e no meio académico em particular, a pesquisa aponta para fatores como a experiência, a capacidade de execução, a motivação intrínseca, a visão e sentido de oportunidade, assim como a capacidade de procurar obter feedback e aprender com os erros e não somente com os sucessos – que o empreendedor deverá ter para poder impulsionar o seu negócio para a denominação de unicórnio – ou valorização para cima de um bilião de dólares Norte Americanos – que é uma realidade cada vez mais frequente no mundo também cada vez mais tecnológico em que vivemos.<br>Creating enterprises with exponential valuations is a common goal of entrepreneurs and investors but the question of how to do it still remains, for the most part, unanswered. This research intends to fill this gap in the literature - about how to create the so-called unicorns. Due to the increasing emergence of highly valued, billion-dollar start-up companies in recent years, the understanding of their position in the current market and their threats, opportunities and competitive advantages, has become a key factor to better understanding the business world. Based mainly on exploratory research involving interviews and a focus groups with experts, this dissertation intends to create, collect and summarize relevant and updated information on highly valuated companies and, following this, creating a theoretical model for their conception and sustained growth. If, on the one hand, the business plan may be less important than is generally accepted in society, and in academia in particular, the research points to factors such as experience, implementation capacity, intrinsic motivation, vision and timing, and the ability to seek feedback and learn from mistakes and not just from success - the entrepreneur must be able to boost his business to enter the unicorn club – meaning being valued equally or at more than one billion dollars - which is an increasingly common reality in the increasingly technological world in which we live in.
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Jacobi, Juliane. "Elisabeth Blochmann : First-Lady der akademischen Pädagogik." Universität Potsdam, 1993. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2011/5099/.
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Berlin, Lisa, and Sofia Brunzell. "Lady Gaga : Bilden av den postmoderna popstjärnan." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för journalistik, medier och kommunikation (JMK), 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-58757.
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Uppsatsen behandlar det postmoderna popfenomenet Lady Gaga och framställningen av henne i dagspress världen över. Lady Gagas spektakulära och inflytelserika kändisskap reproduceras dagligen i media och hon påverkar således vår samtid vilket gör henne till ett intressant forskningsobjekt. Med hjälp av Norman Faircloughs kritiska diskursanalys som metod har vi kunnat göra djupgående kvalitativa analyser och undersökt Lady Gagas framställning i dagspress. Vi har tittat på den bild som ges av Lady Gaga genom att göra grundliga språkliga analyser. Materialet som ligger till grund för undersökningen behandlar Lady Gaga i sin köttklänning som hon bar på MTV Video Music Awards i september 2010. Materialet utgörs av tio nyhetsartiklar tagna från tidningars onlinesidor och kommer främst från USA och Englands största dagstidningar. Den teoretiska ramen för uppsatsen utgörs främst av postmoderna teorier av Mikhail Bakhtin och Dominic Strinati då vi ser Lady Gaga som ett postmodernt fenomen. Bakhtins teorier om karnevalens upplösande av gränser och social tillhörighet sammanfattar han i begreppet qarnevalesque som vi applicerar på framställningen av Lady Gaga. Vidare använder vi Bakhtins teori om pajasens roll i det sociala. Faircloughs kritiska diskursanalys är förutom en metod även ett teoretiskt förhållningssätt. Vi har använt oss av hans teorier om diskurs och ideologi och hur makt upprätthålls och reproduceras genom dem. Den postmoderna teoretiska ramen i kombination med den valda metoden har på en mikronivå gett oss konkreta resultat och vi har trots vårt begränsade material kunnat utläsa mönster och strukturer som går igen i artiklarna. De diskurser och förhållningssätt som framträder i texterna har vi sammanfattat i en LadyGaga-köttklänningsdiskurs. Diskursen ser vi som en deldiskurs ur en större LadyGaga-diskurs. LadyGagaköttklänningsdiskursen innehåller inslag av ironi, skandal- och sensationsjournalistik och en vi-mothenne- atmosfär. Bilden som ges av Lady Gaga framställer henne som en förvirrad och löjlig pajas. Vidare kan vi se på en makronivå hur den här diskursen konstituerar och konstitueras av den sociala praktiken och den rådande kapitalistiska ideologin.
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Yang, Hao-han Helen, and 楊浩涵. ""A lady wanted": Victorian governesses abroad1856-1898." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2008. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B41633805.
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Myhrman, Carl. "An Iron Lady for an Iron Throne." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och lärande, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-23005.
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Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur kvinnlighet framställs för att konstruera feministikonen Daenerys Targaryen i TV-serien Game of Thrones. För att uppnå mitt syfte har jag analyserat Daenerys karaktär samt personer hon interagerar med i serien. Jag har använt mig av en semiotisk bildanalys. Min teorianknytning utgörs huvudsakligen av feministisk medieforskning samt feministiska åskådningar. Materialet för min studie utgörs av fem scener från serien. Resultaten visar att framställningen av Daenerys karaktär blir en konstruktion av kvinnan med speciella band med naturen som för en kamp mot en mansdominerad kultur.
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Mair, Katherine Alice. "Anne, Lady Bacon : a life in letters." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2009. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/28083.
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Anne, Lady Bacon (c.1S2B-1610) is chiefly remembered as the translator of several important religious texts and as the mother of Francis and Anthony Bacon. This thesis seeks to re-evaluate her fulfilment of her role as a mother, translator and religious patron through an examination of her correspondence and an assessment of her published works. In doing so it demonstrates that Anne was adept at utilising epistolary conventions in order to achieve her politico-religious aims, and was far more capable at negotiating complex webs of power than has hitherto been acknowledged. Over one hundred of her letters survive, most of which are written to Anthony between the 1592 and 1596, and only a few of which have been published. I have transcribed all these extant letters, and through a close analysis of their content and material construction I offer an outline of her epistolary habits, and demonstrate how her letter-writing practice was influenced by the practical elements of sixteenth-century epistolary culture. I describe the factors that influenced Anne's relationship with her sons, and analyse how both parties performed or neglected their duties. The second half of my thesis focuses on Anne's religious patronage. I describe the iconographic significance of the female translator, and examine Anne's contribution to the nascent Protestant literary culture. Faced with a political climate that was becoming increasingly hostile to expressions of nonconformity, I look at how Anne harnessed other means by which to support the puritan cause, and assess the extent to which she directed the religious tenor of her local parishes.
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Guo, Shu Lin. "Role of the first lady in diplomacy." Thesis, University of Macau, 2015. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b3335225.
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Jallet-Traverso, Catherine. "La correspondance de Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope." Montpellier 3, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005MON30005.
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L'aristocrate, lady Hester Lucy Stanhope (12 mars 1776-22 juin 1839), est à ce point associée à sa cavalcade orientale qu'aucune anthologie de l'épistolaire féminin ne lui a consacré une petite place. Epistolière elle l'est pourtant, ainsi que mémorialiste de l'Orient d'avant l'impérialisme forcené des Occidentaux. Après avoir démontré l'invalidité des images juxtaposées sur le portrait arbitraire d'extravagante et de voyageuse proposé par des décennies de biographes successifs, cette étude tente de faire entendre la voix de cette scriptrice méconnue et les qualités de son message. Les thèmes qu'elle aborde et son discours analysé avec les outils littéraires de l'épistolaire essayent de la redéfinir comme auteur et de comprendre pourquoi ses correspondances n'ont pas été éditées à ce jour, lavées de tout ajout biographique superfétatoire<br>Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope's high profile as an eccentric and as a traveller in the East has subdued her voice and overshadowed her literary skills. This dissertation focuses on her letters unduly bequeathed to the future despite her will to have them destroyed. In the first place, it endeavours to reassess her within the Enlightenment period into which she was born on the 12th of March 1776, without giving inordinate emphasis on her somewhat fragmentary biography. Then, it aims at deciphering her varied messages with a study of her favourite themes so as to trace back influences. And lastly, it intends to analyse her epistolary accomplishments using literary tools so as to redefine her essentially as a letter-writer. In the end, it is assumed that an answer will surface to help understand why she has never been considered as a writer of moment and why her letters have not yet been published or even compiled within an anthology of British women's writings
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Buenaflor, Judith L. "Ursula Brangwen the lady of the dance /." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 1998. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 1998.<br>Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2842. Typescript. Abstract precedes thesis as preliminary leaves [1]-2. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 80-84).