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Koenig, Madison. "Mythical Places, Magical Communities: The Transformative Powers of Collective Storytelling in Toni Morrison's Paradise and Karen Russell's Swamplandia!" Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1429892496.
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McGill, Anna. "Magic and Femininity as Power in Medieval Literature." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/293.
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It is undeniable that literature reflects much about the society that produces it. The give-and-take relationship between a society and its literature is especially interesting when medieval texts are considered. Because most medieval plots and characters are variants of existing stories, the ways that the portrayals change has the potential to reveal much about the differences between medieval societies separated by distance and time. Changes to the treatment of these recurring characters and their stories can reveal how the attitudes of medieval society changed over time. Perceptions of magic and attitudes toward its female practitioners, both real and fictional, changed drastically throughout the Middle Ages among clergy members and the ruling class. Historically, as attitudes toward women became more negative, they were increasingly prohibited from receiving a formal education and from gaining or maintaining positions traditionally associated with feminine magical power, such as healer, midwife, or wise woman. As the power of the Church grew and attitudes changed throughout the Middle Ages, women’s power in almost all areas of life experienced a proportional decrease. Using a combination of historical and literary sources, this paper will explore whether this decrease in power is evident in literary portrayals of magical female characters in medieval literature. Specifically, it will examine the agency and potency, or the intrinsic motivation and effectiveness within the story, respectively, of female characters within medieval narratives, comparing the characters to their earlier iterations. This research will offer a unique perspective on the roles of magical women in medieval literature.
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Osbourne, Gavin. "Mosaics of power : superstition, magic and Christian power in early Byzantine floor mosaics." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2015. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/54017/.
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This thesis argues that some Early Byzantine floor mosaics had, in addition to a practical and decorative role, a supernatural function. By this I mean the images and words depicted within the mosaic were perceived as devices to attract powers from a supernatural dimension, for the benefit of those that walked over the mosaic or the building that housed it. The thesis is ultimately a discussion of the Byzantines' beliefs in the power of art and text, and how they were believed to intervene and affect everyday life. My examination is carried out with a focus on the floor mosaics produced between the fourth and seventh centuries in the Byzantine Empire. Using an iconographic methodological approach, the thesis explores how certain images and words incorporated within mosaic designs can be seen in supernatural terms. To do so, comparable material objects with clearer supernatural functions will be examined. Primary sources that indicate how certain motifs were perceived to bring about powers will also be analysed. In this thesis, I analyse the different kinds of devices that were depicted to attract supernatural powers and explore why those devices were believed to have the ability to generate powers. The thesis illustrates how power could be seen as being rooted in Christianity, magic or more unclear sources. Expanding on this discussion, I explore how a single mosaic could incorporate elements from several sources, dispelling scholarship that portrays the Early Byzantine period as predominately influenced by Christianity. The other key function of the thesis is to emphasise the fact that mosaics can be considered in terms of the conscious design process of their construction, placing them within the same category as gemstones and icons in terms of purposeful objects.
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Wells, Kimberly Ann. "Screaming, flying, and laughing: magical feminism's witches in contemporary film, television, and novels." Texas A&M University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/6007.
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This project argues that there is a previously unnamed canon of literature called
Magical Feminism which exists across many current popular (even lowbrow) genres
such as science-fiction, fantasy, so-called realistic literature, and contemporary
television and film. I define Magical Feminism as a genre quite similar to Magical
Realism, but assert that its main political thrust is to model a feminist agency for its
readers. To define this genre, I closely-read the image of the female magic user as one
of the most important Magical Feminist metaphors. I argue that the female magic
userâÂÂcommonly called the witch, but also labeled priestess, mistress, shaman, mambo,
healer, midwifeâ is a metaphor for female unruliness and disruption to patriarchy and
as such, is usually portrayed as evil and deserving of punishment. I assert that many
(although not all) of the popular texts this genre includes are overlooked or ignored by
the academy, and thus, that an important focus for contemporary feminism is missed.
When the texts are noticed by parts of the academy, they are mostly considered popular
culture novelty acts, not serious political genres. As part of my argument, I analyze third wave feminismâÂÂs attempt to reconcile traits previously considered less than
feminist, such as the domestic. I also deconstruct the popular mediaâÂÂs negative
portrayal of contemporary feminism and the resulting reluctance for many young
women to identify themselves as feminist. I also argue that this reluctance goes hand in
hand with a growing attempt to seek new models for empowering female
epistemologies. My assertion is that these texts are the classrooms where many readers
learn their feminism. Finally, I list a short bibliography as a way of defining canon of
texts that should be considered Magical Feminist.
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Guo, Shuqing. "Magic, Power, and Knowledge: Technological Reproducibility in Chinese and American Animations." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1300720577.
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Lewis, Abby N. "How Disassociating the Past Reassociates the Present: Distilling the Magic out of Magic Realism in Susan Power’s The Grass Dancer." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/421.
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American Indian author Susan Power’s novel The Grass Dancer is often categorized as magical realism, yet Power has stated the novel is a representation of her reality and that it is not a magical realist text. The term magical realism was first applied to the work of Latin American authors such as Gabriel García Márquez whose writing depicts magical events in a matter-of-fact narrative tone. It has since expanded to include other cultures. The question is whether it is a term that can readily be applied to the literary work of all cultures. The closest Wendy B. Faris, one of the most prominent experts on magical realism, comes to discussing the term in relation to the work of American Indian authors is by simply acknowledging Ojibwe writer Louise Erdrich’s label as a magical realist author. In order to aid Power in her rejection of the association, I delve into both her Dakota heritage and her life through the lens of biographical criticism in order to obtain a working image of her reality. By locating and examining the seeds of truth in her fiction, I explain the magical qualities of her novel in a rational and logical manner.
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Tal, Guy. "Witches on top : magic, power, and imagination in the art of early modern Italy /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3230548.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of the History of Art, 2006.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Dec. 4, 2008). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-08, Section: A, page: 2790. Adviser: Bruce Cole.
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King, Ian James. "Combined use of powder diffraction and magic-angle spinning NMR to structural chemistry." Thesis, Durham University, 2003. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/4063/.
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A range of 1D and 2D MAS NMR experiments have been carried out in conjunction with X-ray diffraction experiments on a number of materials from the AM(_2)O(_7) family, which exhibit the unusual phenomenon of negative thermal expansion. It has been shown that ZrP(_2)O(_7) and HfP(_2)O(_7) exist with space group Pbca rather than Pa3 as proposed in the literature, and a full structure solution has been possible for ZrP(_2)O(_7) from a combination of NMR and X-ray and neutron powder diffraction. 2D MAS NMR has been used to differentiate at least 108 unique phosphorus sites within the asymmetric unit of SnP(_2)O(_7), supporting a recent powder diffraction study presented in the literature. PbP(_2)O(_7) has been shown, by NMR, to exist as an incommensurate phase at room temperature. ZrW(_2)O(_8), a material which also shows negative thermal expansion, has been studied here primarily with variable-temperature (^17)O MAS NMR. The results presented shed important new light on oxygen migration processes occurring at the a I β-phase transition of this material. A full structure solution is presented for 2-[4-(2-hydroxy-ethylamino)-6-phenylamino-[1,3,5]triazin-2-ylamino]-ethanol from powder X-ray data, an organic material investigated as part of a study of ink-jet-dyes.
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Tsoumpra, Natalia. "Comic leadership and power dynamics in Aristophanes." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1b3d4779-609e-4638-81f2-2e7f0d410477.
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This thesis investigates the concept of leadership in four comedies of Aristophanes. In the first chapter (Lysistrata) I focus on the relationship of the female leadership with religious rituals and medical pathology, and I show that the power of women lies in their important biological role and their ability to conceive and (re)produce life in the context of marriage. In chapter two (Knights) I examine the operation of leadership through the alimentary and sacrificial codes of the play. I argue that the Sausage-seller gradually manifests himself as the sacrificial cook Agorakritos who sacrifices Demos. In this way he puts an end to the politics of savage, raw consumption as they were employed by Paphlagon (and, occasionally, by Demos himself), and saves the day by inaugurating a new era of political practice. In chapter three (Birds) I focus on the political competition between the former leader of the Birds, Tereus, and the newcomer Peisetairos. I argue that Peisetairos captivates his audience through the abuse of rhetoric and sophistry, and gradually adopts more brutal ways, by perverting the ritual of hospitality, committing cannibalism, and becoming sexually aggressive. In this respect, Peisetairos is assimilated to the tragic Tereus of the Sophoclean tragedy, but finally emerges as a more successful version of both the comic and the tragic Tereus. In the fourth and last chapter (Ecclesiazusae) I discuss the women’s disruption and overturn of the normal social order by focusing on the practice of cross-dressing and on love-magic rituals: the exchange of costume between the two sexes, as well as the control of magic practices by the women over men, empower women and, by contrast, disempower and ridicule men, who are finally reduced to a state of impotence, infertility and almost death.
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Morris, David Roger Neacalbann Mcintyre. "Driekopseiland and the 'rain's magic power': history and landscape in a new interpretation of a Northern Cape rock engraving." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/1597.
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The rock engraving site of Driekopseiland, west of Kimberley in the Northern Cape is distinctively situated on glaciated basement rock in the bed of the Riet River, and has a wealth of over 3500 engravings, preponderantly geometric images. Most other sites in the region have greater proportions of, or are dominated by, animal imagery. In early interpretations, it was often considered that ethnicity was the principal factor in this variabilty. From the 1960s the focus shifted more to establishing a quantative definition of the site, and an emperical understanding of it within the emerging cultural and environmental history of the region.Magister Artium - MA (Anthropology/Sociology)
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Morris, David Roger Neacalbánn McIntyre. "Driekopseiland and the 'rain's magic power': history and landscape in a new interpretation of a Northern Cape rock engraving." Thesis, University of Westen Cape, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/151.
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The rock engraving site of Driekopseiland, west of Kimberley in the Northern Cape is distinctively situated on glaciated basement rock in the bed of the Riet River, and has a wealth of over 3500 engravings, preponderantly geometric images. Most other sites in the region have greater proportions of, or are dominated by, animal imagery. In early interpretations, it was often considered that ethnicity was the principal factor in this variabilty. From the 1960s the focus shifted more to establishing a quantative definition of the site, and an emperical understanding of it within the emerging cultural and environmental history of the region.
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Strandberg, Jens. "Overhead and Behind : a glossary." Thesis, Konstfack, Institutionen för Konst (K), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-3650.
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Overhead and Behind is an ongoing learning exercise in three parts: Working Conditions, The Refusal of Objects and Disturbing Distribution (forthcoming). Through learning by doing, it unfolds new episodes as an attempt to look at the act of orientating different standpoints. The different parts of Overhead and Behind are examined in series of episodes and an ongoing glossary that expands words connected to the learning exercise. The purpose of Overhead and Behind is (a) to see how structures over-ones-head conceals value systems which conforms working conditions and (b) to practice the method of “being behind”, i.e. to slow-down and counterpose progress. The third aim (c) is to see how these standpoints can be practiced and how this act can insert a new valorization-system.
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Guo, Fanqing. "Nuclear reactions with 11C and 14O radioactive ion beams." Berkeley, Calif. : Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ; distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2004. http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/840236-JlqxbQ/native/.
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Thesis (Ph.D.); Submitted to the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, CA (US); 9 Dec 2004.Published through the Information Bridge: DOE Scientific and Technical Information. "LBNL--56744" Guo, Fanqing. USDOE Director. Office of Science. Office of Nuclear Physics (US) 12/09/2004. Report is also available in paper and microfiche from NTIS.
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Costa, Ivonete Ferreira da. "INTERTEXTUALIZAÇÃO NA OBRA DE MARINA COLASANTI: O TEAR E O TECIDO." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, 2016. http://tede2.pucgoias.edu.br:8080/handle/tede/3563.
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The text brings the analysis of aspects of the literary discourse as the processes of construction of the scenes and the magical universe, in which the narratives of Marina Colasanti are realized, having as it shows the tales of the works Doze reis e a moca no labirinto do vento (2006): "The woman ramada", Uma ideia toda azul (2006): "Beyond the frame", "Between the leaves of green ó" and "Yarn after yarn". The general and specific objectives are to highlight and distinguish the encompassing and generic scenes present in the narratives, to identify the nature of the verbal sign in its relation to the nonverbal sign, and to analyze intertext resources, paratext, among others, as an artistic procedure. The narrative plans are approached, in which the characters are realized mimically, starting from the initial assumption formulated by Dominique Maingueneau. Non-verbal language is an invitation to read verbal language and vice versa. Both are associated with the signs that are constructed through the textual writing: loom and fabric. They can be seen now either explicitly or implicitly, and put in the service of a power that is realized by the act of reading. Thus, in the narrative text, there are traces of a speech in which the text is staged.
O texto traz a análise de aspectos do discurso literário como os processos de construção das cenas e o universo mágico, em que se realizam as narrativas de Marina Colasanti, tendo como mostra os contos das obras Doze reis e a moca no labirinto do vento (2006): “A mulher ramada”, Uma ideia toda azul (2006): “Além do bastidor”, “Entre as folhas do verde ó” e “Fio após fio”. Os objetivos geral e específicos são destacar e distinguir as cenas englobante e genérica presentes nas narrativas, identificar a natureza do signo verbal na sua relação com o signo não verbal e analisar recursos de intertexto, paratexto, entre outros, como procedimento artístico. Abordam-se os planos narrativos, nos quais se dá a realização dos personagens mimeticamente, partindo do pressuposto inicial formulado por Dominique Maingueneau. A linguagem não verbal é um convite à leitura da linguagem verbal e vice-versa. Ambas se associam aos signos que se constroem por meio da escritura textual: tear e tecido. Elas podem ser vistas ora de modo explícito, ora implícito, e se colocam a serviço de um poder que se realiza pelo ato de leitura. Assim, no texto narrativo, há rastros de um discurso em que o texto é encenado.
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Djurdjevic, Gordan. "Masters of magical powers : the Nāth Siddhas in the light of esoteric notions." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/17001.
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The Nāth Siddhas are North Indian yogis with tantric associations who claim guru
Gorakhnath, their founding adept, to be an incarnation of the god Śiva. They strive to
obtain the eternal body through a regime of yogic practices, which are aimed at
transmutation of sexual fluids into elixir. The masters of this yoga are the siddhas, the
possessors of the siddhis, which are occult powers that culminate in immortality and
deification. The Sayings of Gorakh (Gorakh Bānī) is a collection of medieval Hindi
poetry attributed to their founder.
Scholars have noticed the importance of the occult in the lifestyle of the Naths.
The category of the occult is, however, rarely given appropriate theoretical
considerations. The academic discipline for the study of Western esotericism, conversely,
directly engages the study of the occult but in a culturally and geographically limited
setting. I demonstrate that there are heuristic advantages in applying the conceptual
vocabulary and theoretical conclusions of esoteric studies to the investigation of tantra
and the yoga of the Nāth Siddhas. To do so, I employ the model of esotericism developed
by Antoine Faivre. I make evident that all its major elements are applicable to the theory
and practice of the Nāths. The contextual focus of my exposition is The Sayings of
Gorakh, partially translated by Shukdev Singh and myself.
I apply the model of esotericism to the Nāths by making a threefold thematic
division of the subject matter. I investigate their understanding of body and sexuality, speech and rhetoric, and mind and ideology. I propose that yoga is comparable to magic
understood as a quest for power (where power is taken to be the sacred), based on the
cultivation of imagination (which I compare to yogic meditation) and the principle of
eros (the drive towards union). Other esoteric notions such as correspondences (between
micro- and macrocosm), living nature (understood as śakti) and transmutation (what the
yogis call the reversal, ul ţa sādhana) are shown to be equally essential in the yoga of the
Nāths. I conclude suggesting that esotericism should be seen as a cross-cultural
phenomenon.Arts, Faculty of
Asian Studies, Department of
Graduate
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Yarbrough, Danielle Z. "Releasing The Power Within: Exploring The Magical Girl Transformation Sequence With Flash Animation." 2014. http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/art_design_theses/158.
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This studio-based thesis explores the universal theme of transformation within the Magical Girl genre of Animation. My research incorporates the viewing and analysis of Japanese animations and discusses the symbolism behind transformation sequences. In addition, this study discusses how this theme can be created using Flash software for animation and discusses its value as a teaching resource in the art classroom.
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Dyer, Natalie Rose. "Reproductive power; menstruation, magic, and taboo." 2010. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/8549.
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In Western culture menstruation is considered to be a curse, an illness, or at least an aspect of feminine “nature” best suppressed. In this thesis I argue that the menstrual taboo has been oppressive to women. Through a closely reading of Sigmund Freud’s writing on femininity, I argue that Freud depicts a monstrous aspect of femininity, connected with the mother and female castration, which he believes must remain repressed. I propose that he is unable to detect a direct connection between female castration and menstruation, because he is himself unconscious of the operations of the menstrual taboo.I draw on Freudian theorist Claude Dagmar Daly who critiques Freud’s negligence regarding the menstrual taboo, and pinpoints a “menstrual complex” at the heart of Freud’s Oedipus complex. In fleshing out the monstrous menstruating mother at the heart of the Oedipus complex I work with French feminist theorists Julia Kristeva, LuceIrigaray, and Hélène Cixous and trace this figure to the hysteric. Drawing on French feminist Catherine Clément’s writing on the hysteric, I reveal a marginalised space of feminine Nature that opens up in the splitting of the hysteric from the sorceress. I argue that the figure of the sorceress presides over an extremely important aspect of feminine Nature associated with women’s “blood magic.”
I use the term “blood magic” to describe a periodic magical power that is an aspect of feminine Nature, which has been repressed in Western culture. The roots of the term “blood magic” are in anthropological accounts of menstrual rituals. My use of the term Nature denotes the possibility of the expression of a femininity by women, where as “nature” is evidence of the colonisation of femininity by the dominant phallocentric culture in the West. A sacred space of feminine Nature that resides on the borders of culture cannot be accessed and returned to culture until it has been dislodged from the patriarchal depiction of menstruation as a monstrous threat to civilization.
I find that the hysteric provides an historical instance of feminine disorder linked to the sorceress that allows me to explore the domain of the sorceress and what I have referred to as “blood magic.” In order to develop this positive reconstruction of the menstrual taboo I draw on several case studies in which women’s menstrual cycles are ritualised for women’s empowerment. It is in relation to this sacred ritual space of femininity that I call for women to write their own feminine imaginaries, in connection with their menstrual cycles. Moreover, I argue that this constitutes the expression of an authentic account of female sexuality by women, which is dually the writing of a menstrual dialectic. Authenticity in these terms refers to the expression of the menstrual aspect of female sexuality by women. It therefore requires that women recognise the value of articulating the menstrual aspect of female sexuality.
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Chang, Hsun. "Incense-offering and obtaining the magical power of Qi the Mazu (Heavenly Mother) pilgrimage in Taiwan /." 1993. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/47198882.html.
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Thesis (Ph. D. in Anthropology)--University of California, Berkeley, December 1993.eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 232-242).
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Lee, Ting yi, and 李亭怡. "A Fur-Kid with Magic Power and Spotlight." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/93969899975406032072.
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碩士國立臺南藝術大學
應用藝術研究所
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Creative art making is like composing a freestyle essay which does not belong to the lyrical essay, not to mention a formal narration. However, sensory organs are used to observe and peruse the surroundings while a person’s own language or method is used to convey and record the information. Information is gathered through observation, writing or drawing. Moreover, emotion is authentically illustrated by the overlapping of feelings in the reality life, permanent perception from the surroundings, remembrance, and individual fantasy world. Handcrafting has been my hobby at all times in which a unique creation is gradually built through my own hand. In addition, fiber is utilized as the source material because of its characteristics and its close interaction with the body. The back and forth motion of the fingers with needle and thread going through the fabric has created a platform for communication between the creator and creation work. Moreover, the repeating motion has added spices to the process of creation and making it a more interesting and amusing experience. As a storyteller, I seek for the component which is pertinent with my creation within the field of fiber art and establish a personal way of expression.
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Spinelli, Maria-Lydia. "Fun and power: Experience and ideology at the Magic Kingdom." 1992. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9233165.
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The Magic Kingdom at Disneyland is a performance of Public Culture deliberately designed to appeal to culturally diverse audiences despite its highly nationalistic symbolic content. The study explores the Disneyland experience from the participants' (employees and visitors) point of view. In-depth interviews with former employees and frequent visitors, supplemented by extensive questionnaires and essays from different target populations provide diverse readings, descriptions of the Disneyland stage and personal experiences. Despite such diversity, patterns of interpretation, participation and use can be clearly discerned. Experiences which visitors describe primarily as "fun" and "feeling like a child again" have far reaching effects on individual construction of self, life-style and social and historical location. The metaphor of childhood, the organization of the stage and the engineering of the experience, however, do place constraints on the visitors' autonomy in modes of appropriation and are instrumental in the education of perception of the United States and its citizens as "authentic" leaders in the context of on-going international restructuration and emergent refeudalization.
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Klepáčková, Michaela. "Feminismus a mytopoetika v dílech Angely Carterové Krvavá komnata a Noci v cirkuse." Master's thesis, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-322728.
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The aim of this thesis is to present the specific notion of feminism and mythopoetics in the selected works of Angela Carter and demonstrate them on two selected works of Carter's, namely on the collection of re-visited traditional fairy tales The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories and the novel Nights at the Circus. The thesis also deals with chosen features of postmodernism these two works contain. In the first, theoretical part the author and her oeuvre is introduced, followed by the concept of postmodernism and its selected features. The second, practical part is focused on both books' analysis which attempts to establish whether and how the selected works show the features of postmodernism and to which extent it is possible to trace the notions of Carter's feminism and mythopoetics in them.
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Lehrich, Christopher I. "Hermetic hermeneutics : language, magic, and power in Cornelius Agrippa's De occulta philosophia /." 2000. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:9990569.
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Yen, Hsing-Mei, and 嚴幸美. "Magic Power of The Brand Story and Meaning Perceived by The Consumers." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/77004882232862673071.
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林姿儀. "The Magic Power of Price─ The Impacts of Placebo Effect on Product Evaluation." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/64959735694725359773.
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碩士國立嘉義大學
行銷與運籌研究所
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Abstract In the past, most discussing of placebo effects literatures was in medical field. However, according to Shiv, Carmon, and Ariely (2005)’s finding, it illustrated that product’s external cues will affect consumer’s ability to judge products when they chose products. That means there exists placebo effect in marketing field. Therefore, this study extends Shiv, Carmon, and Ariely (2005)’s finding, and further explores that does product’s external cues lead to different subjective evaluation and response, and then triggers a placebo effect. Moreover, this study explores that does individual difference factor influence consumer’s subjective evaluation and response, and affect a placebo effect’s occur. This study has two experiments, and we chose Chocolate as our experient object. Experient one is a 3(regular price/discount price/no price) between-subjects factorial experimental design, we examine the impacts of the change of price, deliberation, self-confidence on consumer’s subjective evaluation and response. We additional examine the impacts of product effectiveness information on consumer’s subjective evaluation and response. Experient two is a between-subjects factorial experimental design, we examine the impacts of the product’s brand, self-confidence and product effectiveness information on consumer’s subjective evaluation and response. The result from experiment one suggests that with different prices on the same product do not affect consumer’s taste evaluation, but it would affect participant’s grade in the memory test. That means there has a placebo effect. However, consumer’s deliberation, self-confidence and product effectiveness information is non-significant on consumer’s subjective evaluation and response. The result from experiment two suggests that with different brands on the same product would affect consumer’s subjective evaluation, but it does not affect consumer’s grade in the memory test.Besides, consumer’s self-confidence and product effectiveness information is non-significant on consumer’s subjective evaluation and response, and it does not increase consumer’s grade in the memory test.
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Kremmel, Laura R. Dolan Beth Kroll Barry. ""Your words are magic": The possessive power of performance and confession in "Zofloya"." 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1469567.
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Chuang, Sophia, and 莊晛英. "The magic power of Terroir — Green in Hand,Red on Tree,Seven Tea House." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/37586413843154479818.
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Brandejs, David. "Statistical properties of the liquidity and its influence on the volatility prediction." Master's thesis, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-348030.
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This master thesis concentrates on the influence of liquidity measures on the prediction of volatility and given the magic triangle phenomena subsequently on the expected return. Liquidity measures Amihud Illiquidity, Amivest Liquidity and Roll adjusted for high frequency data have been utilized. Dataset used for the modeling was consisting of 98 shares that were traded on S&P 100. The time range was from 1st January 2013 to 31st December 2014. We have found out that the liquidity truly enters into the return-volatility relationship and influences these variables - the magic triangle interacts. However, contrary to our hypothesis, the model shows up that lower liquidity signifies lower realized risk. This inference has been suggested by all three models (3SLS, 2SLS and OLS). Furthermore, we have used the realized variance and bi-power variation to separate the jump. Our second hypothesis that lower liquidity signifies higher frequency of jumps was confirmed only for one of two liquidity proxies (Roll) included in the resulting logit FE model. Keywords liquidity, risk, volatility, expected return, magic triangle, price jumps, realized variance, bi-power variation, three-stage least squares model, logit, high-frequency data, S&P 100 Author's e-mail david.brandejs@seznam.cz Supervisor's e-mail...
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Neal, Lana Carol. "The earliest instrument : ritual power and fertility magic of the flute in Upper Paleolithic culture." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/28717.
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The present study examines the earliest known musical instruments, Upper Paleolithic flutes. Flutes dating to the Upper Paleolithic period are the oldest musical instruments that have survived in the archeological record. These have been discovered at archeological sites in Europe dating from approximately 40,000 to 15,000 years ago. Although humans were most likely creating music prior to this time, the people who entered Europe approximately 40,000 years ago began to create musical instruments that have survived to the present day. This study investigates the significance and function of these instruments in Upper Paleolithic culture. Analysis of the artifacts is followed by discussions of archeological contexts, Upper Paleolithic art, ethnographic comparison, and the flute in mythology. Such diverse sources provide multiple layers of evidence regarding the role of the flute in Upper Paleolithic culture. The phallic shape of the instrument and the fact that it is played with the breath, also a symbol of life, connect the flute with the fertility of humans, plants, and animals, the cycle of life and death, and rebirth after death. There is evidence that the flute was intrinsically linked to these themes even in the Upper Paleolithic period, in which the flute was of vital significance, as it was magically imbued with the power to bestow life.text
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Hwnag, Charng-Fure, and 黃長福. "The study of the number of pandiagonal magic square of order 2 to the m power." Thesis, 1995. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/26171642020049552838.
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碩士淡江大學
數學系
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n階的魔方陣(magic square)是n的平方個正整數，排列在n×n的方陣中， 使得每一列,每一行及兩個主對角線上數字的和，都是相同的。若這n的平 方個整數是從1至n平方的連續正整數，則稱此魔方陣為正規的 (normal) 。一個魔方陣若稱之為泛魔方陣(pandiagonal magic square)，則在每個 平行於主對角線上的n個數的和，也必須與每一行,每一列及兩主對角線上 數字的和相同。由於，本篇所討論的皆是由1至n平方的連續正整數，因此 ，將正規的泛魔方陣簡稱為泛魔方陣。在這論文中，我們利用步法的方式 ，配合著輔助方陣來建構泛魔方陣。在排列泛魔方陣時是將1至n平方個數 的n×n方陣，以相同的步距將n列中的n個數，完全配置在另一個n×n的方 陣中，使得每列中的n個數，保持著相同的步距，而且，列與列之間也保 持著相同的步距。如此，將方陣完全配置在另一個方陣中，稱為步法排列 ；而被排列的方陣，稱為輔助方陣。其中輔助方陣中列的數序與行的數序 皆由特定的步法，將它排列在方陣中，此步法稱之為列步法與行步法。同 時，對於階數為2的 m次方時，我們可以計算其步法的總數，針對每一種 步法，並計算其可產生一個泛魔方陣的有效的輔助方陣的下界，進而得到 利用此建構法，至少可產生 #1 個的2的m次方階的泛魔方陣。 A magic square of order n is a square array of n square integers with the property that the sum of the numbers in each row, in each column and two main diagonals are the same. If the natural numbers from 1 to n square are used then we say the magic square is normal. A magic square is called pandiagonal, if the sum of n numbers which are in each broken diagonal is equal to the sum of the numbers in each row, each column, and two main diagonals. In this thesis, we use the step method and corresponding Auxiliary square to construct a pandiagonal magic square for the order is 2 to the mth power pandiagonal magic squares, we can calculate how many different steps can be used to construct a pandiagonal magic square. Then we figure out the lower bound of the number of effective Auxiliary square of order is 2 to the mth power with respect to each step. We get a formula to count at least we can construct #1 pandiagonal magic square of order is 2 to the mth power.
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Morris, David Roger Neacalbánn McIntyre. "Driekopseiland and the 'rain's magic power': history and landscape in a new interpretation of a Northern Cape rock engraving." Thesis, 2002. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&.
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The rock engraving site of Driekopseiland, west of Kimberley in the Northern Cape is distinctively situated on glaciated basement rock in the bed of the Riet River, and has a wealth of over 3500 engravings, preponderantly geometric images. Most other sites in the region have greater proportions of, or are dominated by, animal imagery. In early interpretations, it was often considered that ethnicity was the principal factor in this variabilty. From the 1960s the focus shifted more to establishing a quantative definition of the site, and an emperical understanding of it within the emerging cultural and environmental history of the region.
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Gani, Safiyyah. "The fortifying and destructive power of love in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/5304.
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The aim of this study is to explore the importance of love in its various manifestations in
the lives of the Harry Potter characters and its power to consequently influence the
paths that they eventually choose to walk. Love is investigated as the reason behind the
choice between good and evil as well as paradoxically both a fortifying as well as a
destructive force. Furthermore, it attempts to examine the importance that love plays in
the healthy or dysfunctional development of the characters.
Numerous philosophies and theories that span two different eras will form the
theoretical framework of this research paper. There will be a constant interplay between
the theories and the main text, that is, the seven Harry Potter books that together
represent the Harry Potter series. Additionally, the author‟s opinion acquired from
invaluable fan interviews will be utilized in order to improve the understanding of the
characters motivations.
The introduction is a brief explanation of key terms and theories that are essential to the
exploration of love in the Harry Potter series. The study comprises five chapters. The
first three chapters are concerned with the three main manifestations of love
represented in the series, namely; parental love, friendship and romance respectively.
Chapter Four focuses on the adaptation of the novels into movies and the subsequent
result that this has on the depiction of love. Chapter Five highlights the finding of the
study conducted.English Studies
M.A. (English)
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蔡慧君. "The Growth and Decline of the Power of the Relatives on the Emperors’ Mothers’ or Wives’ Side Before and After The Disasters of Poisonous Magic in Former Han Dynasty." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/bmxhh4.
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Chien, Lin-Ling, and 簡林伶. "“Teachers, clicking your magic power mouse!”- The role of senior high school and vocational high school teachers’ self-efficacy toward web pedagoical content knowledge in the internet-instruction integration process." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/68216467922291250030.
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This research aims to discuss the teachers’ experiences of integrating internet into instruction, which are presents as follows： the senior high schools and vocational high school teachers’ perspective and strategies regard to internet-instruction integration in the complicated teaching environment. In addition, the study investigates the successful and failure factors of the integration. In the study, the researcher not only emphasizes the process of the internet- instruction integration but also investigates the role of teachers’ self-efficacy of internet-instruction integration in the integration process. The study adopts interpret hermeneutic phenomenological methodology for uncovering the phenomenological nature of thirteen senior high school and vocational high school teachers’ integrating internet into instruction experiences. Semi-structural in-depth interviews were mainly conducted in the study for collecting data, and the teachers’ self-efficacy toward web pedagogical content knowledge questionnaire was adopted for the comparison with information in the interview. The role of integrating internet into instruction is profoundly understood by the analysis and deduction of the text and the inter-subjective agreement with the participants. Based on the results, we found five essential domains regarding to the experiences of integrating internet into instruction: (a) Puzzled, blind, busy in the resource sea. (b) Clicking the mouse, creating the lessons! (c) The teachers’ reflection of integrating internet into instruction. (d) Senior high school and vocational high school teachers’ process of integrating internet into instructional. (e) the role of teachers’self-efficacy of internet-instruction integration in the integration process. In the conclusions, the research makes concrete suggestions to teachers, educational administrations, and further research in the future.
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Demers, Jean-Philippe. "From Slow to Ultra-fast MAS: Structural Determination of Type-Three Secretion System Bacterial Needles and Inorganic Materials by Solid-State NMR." Doctoral thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1735-0000-0023-9968-3.
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Kgatla, Selaelo Thias. "Moloi ga a na mmala (a witch has no colour) : a socio-religious study of witchcraft accusations in the Northern Province of South Africa." Thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17071.
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Witchcraft discourse in South Africa has increasingly permeated all social structures, thereby becoming a real threat to the process of reconstruction and development. The neglect of witchcraft accusations and their resultant consequences can cause the country to lose all it
gained as a result of the liberation struggle. In this study I examine the historical developments of witchcraft accusations around the world in general, and in South Africa in particular as well as the threats they pose to society. I analyse five broad areas:
1) The inborn h tendency to scapegoat; jealousy; and the role religion plays in the
escalation of these problems;
2) The African world-view and its consequences on interpersonal relationships;
3) Colonial and missionary attempts to suppress the African world-view;
4) Ways and means of containing the conflicts arising from the witchcraft problem; and
5) Summary of findings.
The research was occasioned by the untold suffering victims of witchcraft accusations have to undergo in the three Northern Provinces of South Africa. Because of the cruelty and misery such accusations cause the poor people of these rural provinces urgent attention is
needed to contain them, especially since such accusations have not diminished despite all governmental efforts to curtail them. At the centre of witchcraft accusations there are stress, hatred, vindictiveness, and aspirations to become famous. The fear that one may be
victimised by either being accused of witchcraft or being bewitched is very real even today. The relevance of the study is apparent when one considers the feelings of helplessness that paralyses the opponent of this carnage, such as government and the churches.
A number of resources should thus be employed to counter would be put into it. This threat which is aggravated by the abject poverty prevalent in the rural communities of the three Provinces. The prevailing conditions of abject poverty play a definite role in the creation, promotion and escalation of the scourge. Policy makers should therefore have clear grasp of the extent to which poverty has influence on society in any effort to contain witchcraft accusations.
I conclude the study by ~ecommending transformational paths to the Government, NonGovernmental Organisations and other Community Leaders to follow in attending to improve the lot of the poor. This is done by highlighting ten findings that emerged during the study. The findings were the result of analyses of archival records, literature and case studies on witchcraft accusations. Because the subject of witchcraft is so wide and emotive I have employed several sociological and anthropological theories to cover as wide a field as possible. The
incorporation of so many theoretical approaches into the study presents on interpretive and analytical explanation of the causes, effects and containment of witchcraft accusations. The overall conclusion is encapsulated by the title of the study Moloi ga a na mmala (A witch
has no colour). A witch remains unidentifiable, but witch-hunters and sniffers know how to identify their witches. Although the process remains paradoxical, it is practised on a daily basis.Religious Studies & Arabic
D.Litt. et Phil. (Religious Studies)