Dissertations / Theses: 'Tall tales'

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Wicken, William C. (William Craig). "Encounters with tall sails and tall tales : Mi'kmaq society, 1500-1760." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=28551.

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This thesis examines the history of the Mi'kmaq people inhabiting Kmitkinag (Nova Scotia) and Unimaki (Cape Breton Island) from before contact to 1760. While contact precipitated change in Mi'kmaq society, the process was gradual, the result of the particular historical circumstances in which interactions between the two societies evolved. In the late seventeenth century, the Mi'kmaq established an alliance with the French Crown, made possible by previous social and economic relationships between Mi'kmaq families and French traders, fishermen and settlers. As European settlement increased and imperial rivalry in North America intensified in the eighteenth century, tensions emerged in the alliance, revealing the cultural differences between the Mi'kmaq and France's subjects. The thesis demonstrates that economic and political factors were more important than national identity in influencing the texture of Mi'kmaq-European relations.

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Ingberg, Arvid. "Tall Tales : examensarbete tillsammans med Oskar Alex." Thesis, Kungl. Musikhögskolan, Institutionen för jazz, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kmh:diva-1806.

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Seller, Robbyn. "Tall tales of tradition : Solomon Island Kastom stories in transition." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=24105.

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Historical conditions of colonialism, and more recently, the emergence of a post-colonial state and urbanization, have brought about rapid socio-cultural change in the Solomon Islands, characterized by heterogeneity and the influx of new cultural products. Throughout this process, notions of tradition have emerged, iterated largely through the multivocal category of kastom which is fundamentally construed in opposition to notions of Christianity and modernization. This thesis examines how these changes have affected stories, specifically a group of narratives called "kastom stories," told by students in the urban setting, and how these narratives have become a space for tradition to be stated and created. Notions of genre are explored to discover how such an amalgam of stories as that of the kastom stories regarded here could be considered as a group. I examine story structures to understand how elements from diverse sources could become integrated to the stories, and look at transformations which, in distanciating the stories from their original socio-cultural context of production, serve to recontextualize them in their present socio-cultural setting.

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White, Deborah. "Masculine constructions : gender in twentieth-century architectural discourse : 'Gods', 'Gospels' and 'tall tales' in architecture." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2001. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phw5834.pdf.

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Includes 2 previously published journal articles by the author: Women in architecture: a personal reflection ; and, "Half the sky, but no room of her own", as appendices. Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-251) An examination of some texts influential in the discourse of Australian architecture in the twentieth century. Explores from a feminist standpoint the gendered nature of discourse in contemporary Western architecture from an Australian perspective. The starting point for the thesis was an examination of Australian architectual discourse in search of some explanation for the continuing low numbers of women practitioners in Australia. Hypothesizes that contemporary Western architecture is imbued with a pervasive and dominant masculinity and that this is deeply imbedded in its discursive constructions: the body housed by architecture is assume to be male, the mind which produces architecture is assumed to be masculine. Given the cultural location of Australian architecture as a marginal participant in the wider arena of contemporary Western / international discourses, focuses on writing about two iconic figues in Western architecture; Le Corbusier, of international reknown; and, Glenn Murcutt, of predominantly local significance.

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Fee, Margery. "Howard O'Hagan's Tay John: Making New World Myth." Canadian Literature, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/11676.

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In making the point that no story is complete, O'Hagan undermines to varying degrees several dominant and interconnected Western ideologies: idealism, Christianity, patriarchy, class and capitalism. He also shows how a borrowed indigenous myth can be adapted to immigrant needs in a way that will distinguish Canadian novels from others.

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Martin, Emanuel Henry. "Days of the Endless Corvette." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2007. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/16.

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Set in mythical Humble County, Georgia, Days of the Endless Corvette tells the story of Earl Mulvaney, a high-school dropout and auto mechanic. Earl loves Ellen, the brainy and beautiful girl next door, who unfortunately must marry Troy, the star of the high school football team. Throughout the book Earl labors on his “Endless Corvette,” a project as impossible as trying to build a perpetual motion machine. Earl has noticed that each time he takes something apart and rebuilds it, there are leftover parts. He reasons that by disassembling and reassembling his boss’s ’59 Corvette, and saving the leftover pieces each time, eventually he will have enough parts to build an entire car, leaving the original behind. The novel ends with the suggestion that perhaps Earl has succeeded at his project, which stands as a metaphor not only for Earl’s hopeless love, but other searches for answers to life’s perplexities.

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Baumli, Joseph Walden Potts Louis W. "Prairie trails, iron rails, and tall tales : the settling, town building, and people of Nodaway County, Missouri, 1839-1910." Diss., UMK access, 2004.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Dept. of History and School of Education. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2004.
"A dissertation in history and urban leadership and policy studies in education." Advisor: Louis W. Potts. Typescript. Vita. Title from "catalog record" of the print edition Description based on contents viewed Feb. 22, 2006. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 363-372). Online version of the print edition.

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Alex, Oskar. "Att Skriva Musik Tillsammans." Thesis, Kungl. Musikhögskolan, Institutionen för jazz, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kmh:diva-1807.

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GIER, CHRISTOPHER T. "PAUL BUNYAN AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE TALL TALE." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1132066290.

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Zigman, Jane. "From tales of enchantment to tales of empowerment, finding women's voices through fairy tale narratives." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0021/MQ58524.pdf.

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Smith, Jacqueline Nichole. "Fairy Tales en pointe: Fairy Brides, Ballerinas, and Ballets that Made the Tale." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2020. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/8968.

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The relationship between ballet and fairy tale is by no means a new or unique discoveryâ€”to either dance history or literary studies. However, aside from relatively brief mentions of ballets as examples of fairy-tale adaptation, ballet's relevance to fairy-tale studies has been somewhat undervalued. While scholars often relegate ballet to a smaller part in fairy tale's influence through the performing arts, fairy-tale ballet deserves to have its own, independent academic conversation because ballet contributes uniquely to both fairy-tale history and canon. Ballet can be credited with both giving new life to an old tale and creating a brand new one through an amalgamation of formalistic fairy-tale motifs and figuresâ€”particularly when it comes to female figures. Through an analysis of nineteenth-century Romanticism, fairy-tale form, and the narratives created by three of the most famous fairy bride ballets--La Sylphide, Giselle, and Swan Lake--we can distinguish how Romantic ballet affects fairy-tale studies because of the special conditions this "feminized" art placed on narrative and character. The pervasion of the fairy bride character and motif in ballet indicates a potentially unique tale type, and these three fairy brides together reveal a different dimension to our view of female fairy-tale characters by actively shaping their own stories according to Romantic values that place them outside of traditional fairy-tale roles. Thus, fairy-tale ballets significantly substantiate Romantic imagination beyond the bounds of literary form, and therefore both emphasize and nuance the fairy-tale female paradigm by making unique contributions to the fairy-tale canon.

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Borgefeldt, Therése, and Ingrid Entin. "Att tala och att komma till tals : En undersökning om vilka som kom till tals i 1940 års skolutredning." Thesis, Södertörn University College, Lärarutbildningen, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-1029.

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The purpose of this study is to examine who were given the opportunity to express their opinions in the government proposition concerning the future of the school system – particularly regarding the proposal that pupils do compulsory military service - submitted to the Swedish parliament 21 March 1941. Our focus is mainly on three parts of the proposition: the proposal to introduce shooting- and grenade practice for all pupils, the proposal to introduce an obligatory military leadership training course for teachers and the proposal to introduce an obligatory summer camp for all pupils.

Using primarily a qualitative method we examine how different opinions and views are expressed in the statements and utterances responding to the pending proposition and who the responders are. We will attempt to clarify who were considered to be undisputed authorities and experts, and whose opinions, for that reason, carried a lot of weight in the decision making process, comparing them to the statements and utterances submitted on a voluntary basis by non-experts. And finally, to what extent the opinions in the statements and utterances were allowed to guide the propositional work.

Results show that the statements and utterances were submitted by authorities, chapter, county administrative boards and religious, non-profit and political organizations as well as different types of schools, representatives from the Board of Education and elementary school boards not a part of county councils or other types of associations. Government authorities, chapter and county administrative boards were given priority in the proposition and it was their opinions that the proposition came to rely on. The rest were seen as “guiding” rather than deciding factors, and then only selectively, as they were generally lumped together and treated collectively. Most of the time, their opinions were not heard, and when they were it was usually to support and corroborate decisions already made by the decision making and implementing instances.

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Garcia, Mariechristine. "Explorations of Women's Narrative Agency in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2155.

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This paper explores the extent to which the female characters in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales exercise any degree of narrative agency. Using both literary and historical approaches, this paper specifically discusses the cases of three of Chaucer’s women: Virginia, Griselda, and the Wife of Bath.

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Kozlowski, Eugene Zeb. "Comic codes in the Strugatskys' tales Monday Begins on Saturday and Tale of The Troika." The Ohio State University, 1991. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1345565772.

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Kozlowski, Eugene Zeb. "Comic codes in the Strugatskys' tales Monday Begins on Saturday and Tale of the Troika /." The Ohio State University, 1985. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu148768850750493.

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Spink, Benjamin. "The tale of the tail : the role of myosin VI tail domains in processive stepping /." May be available electronically:, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU1MTUmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=12498.

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Martin, Chelsea R. "Individual Spirituality and The Canterbury Tales: An Analysis of the Philosophical Connection Between The Tale of Melibee and The Parson’s Tale as It Operates within the Narrative Framework." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2012. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1465.

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An analysis of both the placement and the philosophical connections between The Tale of Melibee and The Parson’s Tale suggests that a highly individual spiritual philosophy is being presented within The Canterbury Tales. This philosophy is exemplified via an analysis of both the role of The Tale of Melibee within the work, and the manner in which it is historically developed. The highest form of individual spirituality is revealed within The Tale of Melibee, through the spiritual developments occurring within the character Melibeus and his wife Prudence. This development serves to unify the exemplified extremes of satire and spirituality presented throughout the work, as well as to illustrate the manner in which the individual human being develops his or her own individual spirituality through an active engagement with life, which in turn promotes a unity of the aforementioned extremes.

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Astley, Joanne I. "The Tale." Ann Arbor, Mich. : Proquest, 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:1435443.

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Selby, Sharon Dawn. "Chaucer's crisis of faith in "The Miller's Tale," "The Clerk's Tale," and "The Pardoner's Tale"." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0002/MQ41775.pdf.

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Chamberlain, Hugh Jonathon. "Heterodoxy and humour in the Nun's Priest's Tale, a study of the tale's clerical satire." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq21532.pdf.

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Persson, Penzer Anna. "Modern Day Fairy Tales : A comparative study between Amy Plum's Die for Me and the Western Fairy Tale Tradition." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Engelska, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-24632.

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Brandon, Robert R. II. ""And Gladly Wolde He Teche": Chaucer's Use of Source Materials in the "Clerk's Tale."." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2003. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/748.

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Few of Chaucer’s works provoke such animosity as does his “Clerk’s Tale.” Modern critics are divided by the social and gender issues that to which the tale lends itself. However, the tale was immensely popular to Middle Age audiences and was one of the best loved of the Canterbury Tales. Therefore, to dismiss this tale’s literary values outright, as some critics have done, is a mistake. By examining the history of the Griselda story, Chaucer’s use of his source materials, and the tales placement within the Canterbury Tales, this thesis is an attempt to examine the tale in more culturally, religiously, and historically appropriate way.

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Krajcovic, Krystal A. "Fairy Tales: A Continual Work in Progress." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1494204822838754.

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Kachuba, John B. "The Reich photographer's tale." Ohio : Ohio University, 2003. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1057252182.

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Rubin, Ariel. "The Tale of Tomorrow." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1681.

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I am analyzing Nietzsche's idea of independence found in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, and Genealogy of Morals. I am arguing that democracy can lead us to the ultimate form of independence, yet Nietzsche seems to disagree.

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Sarrazin, Timothy M. C. "Reading the Handmaid's tale." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25262014.

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Skillmark, Albin, and Sara Lundwall. "Sch, alla måste få komma till tals : - om kommunikativa handlingar i tal och praktik." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Akademin för humaniora, utbildning och samhällsvetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-14173.

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Studien undersöker hur talutrymme och talstruktur kommer till uttryck i klassrumsmiljö. Avsikten är att skapa en förståelse för och synliggöra hur talstrukturen ser ut mellan lärare och elever. Ansatsen som används för att undersöka syftet är kvalitativ och studien har genomförts som en kombinerad observations- och intervjustudie. Två klassrumsobservationer har genomförts och tre yrkesverksamma lärare har intervjuats. Ett sociokulturellt perspektiv samt teorin om social responsivitet är studiens viktigaste teoretiska utgångspunkter (Asplund 1987, Säljö 2000, 2005). Observations- och intervjudata har tolkats utifrån en hermeneutisk förståelseram. Slutsatsen vi drar pekar mot ett konsensusperspektiv gentemot tidigare forskning på området. Lärares handlingar styr i stor utsträckning hur talstrukturen kommer till uttryck i klassrumsmiljö samt hur talutrymmet fördelas mellan klassrummets sociala aktörer. Vidare kan klassrummet ses som en social praktik där disciplinerad social responsivitet utövas. Elevers kommunikativa möjligheter i klassrumsinteraktionen är begränsade vilket i uppsatsen uppmärksammas som problematiskt ur ett sociokulturellt perspektiv på lärande.

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Fitzhugh, Joshua M. F. "'Had but the tale a warbling teller' : biblical poetics, ideological narrative and the tales of C.S. Lewis and G.K. Chesterton." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2010. https://pure.qub.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/had-but-the-tale-a-warbling-teller-biblical-poetics-ideological-narrative-and-the-tales-of-c-s-lewis-and-g-k-chesterton(52a6937c-48c9-43c9-96ef-878b2272ad7d).html.

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Stern, Caroline, and Sophie Texén. "Tals additiva del-helhetsrelationer : En litteraturstudie om elevers förståelse av tals additiva del-helhetsrelationer." Thesis, Jönköping University, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-48097.

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Aritmetik är den del inom matematiken som behandlar räknande och innefattar tals egenskaper och hur räknesätten fungerar och kan sättas i relation till varandra, däribland räknesätten addition och subtraktion. Förståelsen av tals egenskaper benämns vanligtvis som taluppfattning vilket innefattar olika aspekter av tal såsom bland annat tals del-helhetsrelationer. Tals additiva del-helhetsrelationer syftar till relationen där kvantiteten, helheten kan delas upp i två eller flera delar. Till exempel kan talet 7 delas upp i följande sammansättningar 6│1│7, 5│2│7 och 4│3│7 där 7 ses som helheten och där sammansättningarna visar de olika delarna. Syftet med denna litteraturstudie är att lyfta fram hur matematikdidaktisk forskning beskriver elevers förståelse av tals additiva del-helhetsrelationer. Arbetet är en litteraturstudie där vetenskapliga publikationer inom matematikdidaktisk forskning har lästs och analyserats. Litteraturstudien visar på hur elevers förståelse av de första naturliga talens additiva del-helhetsrelationer kan underlätta för elever att lösa addition- och subtraktionsproblem. Det har framkommit att förståelse av tals additiva del-helhetsrelationer kan underlätta för elever att se samband mellan addition och subtraktion, att se additionens kommutativa egenskap samt att använda de tio första naturliga talens additiva del-helhetsrelationer även för additions- och subtraktionsproblem med tiotalsövergång genom att använda tio som referenspunkt. Det har även framkommit faktorer i undervisningen som främjar elevers förståelse av tals additiva del-helhetsrelationer däribland aktiviteter där eleverna ges möjlighet att utforska och kommunicera om deras förståelse. Litteraturstudien visar även att läraren har en viktig roll för att skapa en undervisning som främjar elevers förståelse. Med hjälp av strukturella representationer kan läraren synliggöra relationen mellan delarna samt mellan delarna och helheten. Vidare belyser litteraturstudien vikten av att läraren använder gester och tal för att rikta elevernas uppmärksamhet på det som undervisningen avser att lära.

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LaBurre, Jennifer. ""Wood Leoun" . . . "Crueel Tigre": Animal Imagery and Metaphor in "The Knight's Tale"." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2011. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/125.

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The people of the Middle Ages believed animals were disconnected from themselves in terms of ability to reason and ability to resist passions. Humans and animals were created by God, but he bestowed man with a soul and the ability to resist earthly delights. When men were described in terms of their bestial counterparts it was conventionally meant to highlight some derogatory aspect of that character. Chaucer makes use of the animal-image throughout The Canterbury Tales, especially in "The Knight's Tale," to stress a break in each character from humane reason or to emphasize a lean towards a bestial nature. The degree of this departure is showcased in the ferocity of the animal-image in question and the behavior and nature of the character, i.e. the animals of a more timid nature or neutral standing highlight a much less negative nature than the ferocious predators present in the battle scenes.

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Worley, Cassie. "Many are the deceivers /." Online version of the thesis, 2006. https://ritdml.rit.edu/dspace/handle/1850/3334.

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Ledwick, Lisa-Mari. ""Soliloquy: the untold story of Sleeping Beauty's dreams"; a re-vision of Charles Perrault's "The sleeping beauty in the woods."." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/3155.

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Taken as a whole, the purpose of the practical and theoretical components of this research aims to contextualise and present a contemporary fairy tale heroine who recuperates and re-values traditional aspects of femininity within a feminist context.

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Prägert, Markus Julius. "TALE nucleases as antiviral factors." Diss., Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 2014. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-164787.

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Vrang, Gustav. "A Tale of Two Suburbs." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-156055.

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This short thesis starts as a comparison between the history and fate of two quite different suburbs in Södertälje, Sweden; it continues into an investigation of the mechanincs behind one of them; it ends with ideas on the nature of the "single family home".
I detta examensarbetebörjar jag med att berätta historien om två ganska olika villaförorter iSödertälje. Fortsätter leder in bakom kulisserna på ett av dem. I avslutning presenterarjag mina funderingar kring vad och för vem en villa skulle kunna vara.

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Schutz, Katelin. "A tale of two particles." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/92688.

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Thesis: S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Physics, 2014.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 122-136).
It was the earliest of times, it was the latest of times, it was the age of inflation, it was the age of collapse, it was the epoch of perturbation growth, it was the epoch of perturbation damping, it was the CMB of light, it was the dwarf galaxy of darkness, it was the largest of cosmic scales, it was the smallest of Milky Way subhalos, we had multiple nonminimally coupled inflatons before us, we had inelastically selfinteracting dark matter before us, we were all going direct to the Planck scale, we were all going direct the other way. Motivated by apparent discrepancies between the standard theory and observation, we analyze two astrophysical systems in the context of new particle physics. Taking a phenomenological approach, we calculate observable consequences of novel particle models during two different stages in the development of our universe. First, we explore the possibility that nonminimally coupled multifield inflation can generate a large primordial isocurvature fraction and account for the "low-multipole anomaly" in the Cosmic Microwave Background. Second, we consider the effects of dark matter that inelastically self-interacts to determine the effect on the structure and abundance of Milky Way satellites and dwarf galaxies. The disparity of time and energy scales examined in this thesis serves to highlight the range of ways to use observables in the sky as a probe of new particle physics that may be elusive at current experiments on the ground.
by Katelin Schutz.
S.B.

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Jackson, Mary. "Forgotten Things: A Historian's Tale." Otterbein University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=otbnhonors1620458342340454.

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Irwin, Ron. "A prisoner's tale : a novella." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19707.

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McDevitt, Michael David. "The Shooting: A Cautionary Tale." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1431008737.

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Pereira, Jorge Fernando Brandão. "A tale of two bioprocesses." Doctoral thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/12280.

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Doutoramento em Engenharia Química
Bioprocesses use microorganisms or cells in order to produce and/or obtain some desired products. Nowadays these strategies appear as a fundamental alternative to the traditional chemical processes. Amongst the many advantages associated to their use in the chemical, oil or pharmaceutical industries, their low cost, easily scale-up and low environmental impact should be highlighted. This work reports two examples of bioprocesses as alternatives to traditional chemical processes used by the oil and pharmaceutical industries. In the first part of this work it was studied an example of a bioprocess based on the use of microorganisms in enhanced oil recovery. Currently, due to high costs of oil and its scarcity, the enhanced oil recovery techniques become very attractive. Between the available techniques the use of microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR) has been highlighted. This process is based on the stimulation of indigenous microorganisms or by the injection of microorganism consortia to produce specific metabolites and hence increase the amount of oil recovered. In the first chapters of this work the isolation of several microorganisms from samples of paraffinic Brazilian oils is described, and their tensioactive and biodegradability properties are presented. Furthermore, the chemical structures of the biosurfactants produced by those isolates were also characterized. In the final chapter of the first part, the capabilities of some isolated bacteria to enhance the oil recovery of paraffinic Brazilian oils entrapped in sand-pack columns were evaluated. In the second part of this work it was investigated aqueous two-phase systems or aqueous biphasic systems (ABS) as extractive strategies for antibiotics directly from the fermented broth in which they are produced. To this goal, several aqueous two-phase systems composed of ionic liquids (ILs) and polymers were studied for the first time and their phase diagrams were determined. The novel ATPS appear as effective and economic methods to extract different biomolecules or/and biological products. Thus, aiming the initial antibiotics extraction purpose it was studied the influence of a wide range of ILs and polymers in the aqueous two-phase formation ability, as well as their influence in the partitioning of several type-molecules, such as amino acids, alkaloids and dyes. As a final chapter it is presented the capacity of these novel systems to extract the antibiotic tetracycline directly from the fermented broth of Streptomyces aureofaciens.
Os bioprocessos utilizam microrganismos ou células de forma a produzir e/ou obter determinados produtos. Nos dias de hoje estes bioprocessos assumem uma posição fundamental como alternativa aos processos químicos tradicionais. Entre as diversas vantagens associadas ao seu uso pelas indústrias químicas, petrolíferas e farmacêuticas destacam-se o seu baixo custo, facilidade de “scale-up” e menor impacto ambiental. Este trabalho reporta dois exemplos de bioprocessos utilizados como alternativa aos processos químicos utilizados pelas indústrias petrolífera e farmacêutica. Na primeira parte deste trabalho foi estudado um bioprocesso alternativo recorrendo ao uso de microrganismos para a recuperação avançada de petróleo. Actualmente, devido aos elevados preços do petróleo e à sua escassez, as técnicas de recuperação avançada de petróleo tornaram-se muito atractivas. Entre as várias técnicas tem-se destacado o uso da recuperação avançada de petróleo com microrganismos (MEOR), técnica que se fundamenta na estimulação de microrganismos indígenas ou injecção de consórcios de microrganismos de forma a produzir metabólitos específicos e consequentemente aumentar a quantidade de óleo recuperado. Nos primeiros capítulos deste trabalho descreve-se o isolamento de diversos microrganismos de um óleo parafínico brasileiro e a caracterização das suas propriedades tensioactivas e de biodegradação. Posteriormente caracterizaram-se as estruturas químicas dos biosurfactantes produzidos. No final desta primeira parte foi avaliada ainda a capacidade de algumas das bactérias isoladas na recuperação do óleo parafínico brasileiro aprisionado em colunas de areia. Na segunda parte deste trabalho apresenta-se um exemplo da utilização de sistemas de duas fases aquosas ou sistemas bifásicos aquosos (ABS) para a extracção de antibióticos directamente do meio fermentativo no qual foram produzidos. Neste contexto foram estudados pela primeira vez sistemas de duas fases aquosas constituídos por líquidos iónicos (LIs) e polímeros e onde se determinaram os respectivos diagramas de fase. Os novos ABS surgem como uma metodologia eficaz e economicamente viável para a extracção de diversas biomoléculas e/ou produtos biológicos. Assim, e tendo como objectivo final a extracção de antibióticos de um meio fermentativo, foi estudada a influência de uma vasta gama de líquidos iónicos e polímeros na formação destes sistemas, bem como o seu efeito na partição de diferentes moléculastipo, como aminoácidos, alcalóides e corantes. Como capítulo final apresentase a capacidade destes novos sistemas de duas fases aquosas para extrair o antibiótico tetraciclina directamente do meio fermentativo de Streptomyces aureofaciens.

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Claiborne, J. Taylor (John Taylor). "Maelstrom: the Last Coyote Tale." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1997. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278915/.

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It is a dark future, where corporations have taken the place of governmental bodies, and Earth is a myth, forgotten in the reconstruction after the Second Dark Age. One man--a clone--investigates a murder [that] leads him deep into a spirit quest of his own that will answer the questions of Man's heritage as well as his own identity. This story is a science fiction, but it is similar in structure to a Coyote tale and involves quite a bit of Navajo mythology. The use of Native American imagery is not an attempt to capitalize on another culture, but rather to study the culture and use allegorical elements that transcend many cultures. It must also be noted that non-Native American writers wrote all texts available on the subject. This fact should be taken into consideration by the reader.

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Sundberg, Jenny. "Nykonstruktion 1700-tals möbel : Hörnskåp." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Avdelningen för design, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-37542.

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Uppsatsen beskriver nytillverkning av ett 17/1800-tals hörnskåp i gustaviansk stil. Den beskriver tillverkningsprocessen, problem som uppstått på vägen och hur de löstes. Det ursprungliga utseendet har bevarats så långt som möjligt. Konstruktionen har anpassats efter träets rörelser, bland annat genom spår för bakstycket istället för sammanfogning med naror och gradspår för hyllbärarlister istället för spik. En dold låda i skåpets nedre del har byggts för att ta till vara ett oanvänt utrymme.

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Becker, Sebastian [Verfasser]. "Analysis of TALE repeats of aberrant length and identification of novel candidate target genes for Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzicola TALEs / Sebastian Becker." Hannover : Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität, 2021. http://d-nb.info/1238220967/34.

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Harvey, Jana. "'n Evaluering van kommunikatiewe tweedetaaltoetsing in die junior-sekondêre fase / Jana Harvey." Thesis, Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/9963.

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L2 teaching has been subjected to •significant changes over the last few years. These changes can mainly be attributed to the fact that more attention has been given to the needs and aims of L2 learners. Agreement has been reached that language is essentially a tool for communication and that the most important need of L2 learners is the need to use the L2 for communicative purposes. Since the implementation of the communicative syllabus for English L2 for std 5, 6 and 7 pupils in 1986, the focus has been on communication. An indisputable link exists between teaching and testing. This implies that, should the overriding aim of a L2 syllabus be communicative competence, then the natural result of this should be the periodic testing of the communicative abilities of the pupils. Communicative teaching has already been explored to a considerable extent. One can assume that the amount of literature available on communicative teaching has resulted in a (positive) change in L2 classrooms. Communicative testing has not been explored sufficiently, however. In fact, there is enough reason to believe that the co-ordination that should exist between L2 teaching and L2 testing is lacking. In this mini-dissertation an attempt has been made to give guidance to L2 teachers in the bridging of the gap that exists between L2 teaching and L2 testing. Test construction has become a specialized field, and L2 teachers should get sufficient training in this field, so as to enable them to measure the progress of their pupils scientifically. In this mini-dissertation the following aspects of testing are discussed: validity, reliability, subjectivity/objectivity, the characteristics of communicative testing, the use of different scales for the evaluation of communicative competence, and techniques that can be applied in the testing of communicative competence. Knowledge of the above-mentioned aspects could lead to more scientific approach to L2 testing and this may help to eliminate the disharmony currently existing between L2.~eaching and L2 testing. It is concluded that communicative language testing in the junior secondary phase is indeed possible if the techniques proposed in this mini-dissertation are followed.
Skripsie (MEd)--PU vir CHO, 1990

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My, Linderholt. "The ’tail’ of Alice’s tale : A case study of Swedish translations of puns in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-49541.

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This study investigates the use of different strategies for translating puns in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The material chosen for this study consist of the two Swedish translations by Nonnen (1870/1984) and Westman (2009). Six puns were selected for the analysis which greatly relies on Delabastita’s (1996) eight strategies for translating puns, and Newmark’s (1988) translation methods. The analysis shows that Westman empathises with the readers of the TT while Nonnen empathises with the ST. This entails that Westman tends to use a more ‘free’ translation and is more inclined to adapt the ST puns to make them more visible for the readership of the TT. The priority for Nonnen, on the other hand, is to remain faithful to the contextual meaning of the ST. Paradoxically, to be faithful to the ST does not necessarily entail that the translator respects the semantic aspects of the ST, but that they adapt the culture of the ST to better fit the cultural and linguistic framework of the TL. Since Westman adapts the ST puns so that they are still recognised by the reader of the TT, her translation appears to be more suitable for the TL readership than Nonnen’s.

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Engel, Brian Christopher. "Lighting design of The Winter's Tale." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/9288.

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Thesis (M.F.A.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2009.
Thesis research directed by: Dept. of Theatre. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.

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Lee, Peter U. "A Tale of Two (Philippine) Industries." 名古屋大学大学院経済学研究科附属国際経済政策研究センター, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/11953.

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Houghton, Stacey Bridges Margaret Park. "A tale in motion : ascended learning /." Thesis website, 2007. http://www.taleinmotion.com/.

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Chen, Robert Chang-che. "A tale of two testing tools." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p1453658.

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Thesis (M.S.)--University of California, San Diego, 2008.
Title from first page of PDF file (viewed July 25, 2008). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Includes bibliographical references (p. 86).

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Leion, Johanna. "Barns delaktighet - Kommer barnen till tals?" Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-26475.

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Det finns idag brister kring hur barn görs delaktiga i sitt eget ärende i kontakt med socialtjänsten. Syftet med denna studie var därför att undersöka hur socialsekreterare beskriver hur de arbetar med barns delaktighet i praktiken. Detta gjordes genom kvalitativa intervjuer med sex socialsekreterare. Barnens röster kring hur de kan uppleva kontakten med socialtjänsten har i denna studie gjorts hörda genom citat från tidigare publicerad litteratur. För studiens analys har Shiers delaktighetsmodell använts.Det studien visar är att barn görs delaktiga kring delar av ärendeprocessen, men det förefaller som att delaktigheten är bristfällig när det rör beslut om insats och dess innehåll. Det informanterna lyfter som en negativ påverkande faktor i arbetet med att göra barn delaktiga är framförallt tidsbristen. I studien framkommer även att det i organisationernas riktlinjer finns en otydlighet kring hur och i vilken omfattning barn ska göras delaktiga. Dessutom saknas det en klar definition av vad barns delaktighet innebär.
Today there are deficiencies about how children are involved in their own case in contact with the social services. The purpose of this study was therefore to investigate how social workers describe how they work with childrenʼs participation in practice. This was done through qualitative interviews with six social workers in Skane. In this study, the childrenʼs voices on how they can experience the contact with the social services have been heard through quotations from previously published literature. For the studyʼs analysis, Shierʼs pathways to participation has been used. What the study shows is that children are involved in parts of the case process, but it seems that participation is deficient when it comes to decisions on treatment and its content. What the informants highlight as a negative influencing factor in the work of involving children is, above all, the lack of time. The study also shows that there is an ambiguity in how and to what extent children should be involved in the organizationsʼ policies. In addition, there isnʼt a clear definition of what childrenʼs participation entails.

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Benson, Elizabeth M. "Disordered: A Tale of the Body." DigitalCommons@USU, 2009. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/373.

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While a body of creative nonfiction writing exists regarding experiences with various psychological disorders, few personal accounts have been written about the physical complications of Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Some memoirs tell a tale of serious illness in a straightforward narrative line. On the opposite end of this spectrum, other memoirs intentionally blur the lines of truth and heighten the confusion of a disorder. This thesis is as much a narrative of my experience with Generalized Anxiety Disorder as it is a response to the void in creative nonfiction surrounding this specific disorder and the narrative forms others have chosen to utilize while writing about the body. In this thesis, I manipulate traditional narrative forms to expose the truth of my experience. The first chapter contains a straightforward narrative of my experience in the Pioneer Tunnel Coal Mine in Ashland, Pennsylvania, to provide a framework for a thesis regarding the redemption of a ruined landscape, or an ill body. The second section follows the guidelines of a psychosocial interview and intake form used by therapists and reveals the particular physical manifestations of Generalized Anxiety Disorder. The third and final section is fragmented into fiction, drama and memoir. The combination of my personal story with illness and the geological, social and industrial history of central Pennsylvania coal mining and the mutation of form used to convey it permits a deeper level of understanding for the complexities surrounding collapsed bodies, landscapes and narratives.

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