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Ramalepe, Tshepiso Promise. "Effects of pollution and metazoan parasites on the health and oxidative stress biomarkers of two cyprinid fish species in the Olifants River System, South Afrrica." Thesis, University of Limpopo, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/1525.
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Thesis (M. Sc. (Zoology)) -- University of Limpopo, 2015<br>The unprecedented expansion in human population and industry, since the industrial revolution in the late 1700s, has led to increased anthropogenic activities which have indisputably impacted freshwater ecosystems and biological communities therein, including fish. Although this has understandably been the focus, under natural aquatic conditions, no organism is only affected by pollution. Parasites have also been shown in a number of interdisciplinary studies to affect the health of aquatic hosts (amphibians, crustaceans, fish, and mammals). This is illustrated in a number of comprehensive studies the detrimental effects parasites exacerbate when their hosts (fish) are stressed. Therefore, the ability of parasites to interact with anthropogenic stressors, as well as effects they have on the genetic, cellular or tissue level of their host is crucial in conservation and sustaining aquatic biodiversity. As such, the present study examined the combined effects of pollution and metazoan parasites on the health and oxidative stress biomarkers, evaluated for the first time for silver carp, Hypophthalmichthys molitrix (Valenciennes, 1844) and rednose mudfish, Labeo rosae Steindachner, 1894, in one of South Africa’s impacted freshwater ecosystems, Flag Boshielo Dam, Olifants River System, Limpopo Province. Seasonal surveys were conducted from February 2012–January 2013. A total of 111 H. molitrix and 116 L. rosae fish specimens were collected using conventional angling gear, scoop and gill nets with stretched mesh sizes of 30–110 mm. The two selected cyprinid fish species were assessed for oxidative stress biomarkers [Glutathione S-transferase (GST), lipid peroxidation (MDA) and Total Antioxidant Capacity (TAC)] and parasitism of metazoan parasites. Concentrations of biomarkers of oxidative damage and antioxidant defense in the gill and liver tissue were measured to assess how these major organs of the immune system responded to oxidative stress associated with parasitic infections. In addition, water quality analyses were carried out by testing an assay of physico-chemical parameters to establish the level of contamination. Fish health was assessed using the Health Assessment Index (HAI), refined Parasite Index (PI), Inverted Parasite Index (IPI) and Condition Factor (K) protocols. Relative to previous studies at Flag Boshielo Dam, water quality results showed an increase of nutrients, major ions and several metals which may have adverse effects that may comprise fish health; however, this dam remains moderately polluted in a mesotrophic state. The fish health assessment results indicated that H. molitrix was more affected in terms of the necropsy and parasite based assessments (HAI, IPI and K) with mean±SD of 65.68±35.51; 68.29±25; 0.82±0.20, respectively, as compared to 39.14±22.44; 28.79±18.33; 1.17±0.21 for L. rosae during the study. In addition, significantly higher parasitic infections (mean prevalence of infection with any species of parasite = 45.3±0.13) were observed for H. molitrix than L. rosae (12.0±0.05). Furthermore, there was considerable variation in biomarker concentration between highly infected and non-infected fish, for and between each species and tissues with regard to parasite infection, suggesting that the specific functions of each tissue are associated with their susceptibility to oxidative stress, as well as their ability to defend against oxidative damage.
These results illustrate that although fish are affected by aquatic contaminants they are to an extent affected by parasites, which may act synergistically on the health of the two fish species. Most importantly, it was suggested that knowledge on the parasites of alien H. molitrix when compared to indigenous L. rosae may give an indication of how adaptive this fish are to new localities as well as expands the information on the rarely studied biology, epizootiology and ecological interactions of these two cyprinid species.
Keywords: Health Assessment Index, refined Parasite Index, Inverted Parasite Index, Condition Factor, water quality, lipid peroxidation, Glutathione S-transferase, Total Antioxidant Capacity, Hypophthalmichthys molitrix, Labeo rosae, Flag Boshielo Dam.
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Hughes, Peggy Janeane. "Paradise Lost." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2016. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5953.
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The worldwide gap between rich and poor is widening. Status seeking and status keeping are fueled by the conspicuous consumption of luxury goods. These bright shiny objects are staples in a restricted economy in which only the wealthy participate. The notion of gaining riches for the purpose of helping the poor is fading. Materialism, luxury and riches have been the subject of religious and secular inquiry. In this quest, wealth has been condemned and applauded. Prestige-obsessed consumers are becoming blind to worsening social conditions.
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Bell, Suzy. "Paradise Valley." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12441.
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Collins, Pete James. "Impossible paradise." FIU Digital Commons, 1998. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2410.
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IMPOSSIBLE PARADISE, a collection of five nonfiction stories, profiles the most skilled and Inventive South Florida con artists of the last ten years. These swindlers have both fascinated and repulsed Miamians with their criminal behavior.
A murder landed Danny Faries in the Dade County Jail, where he performed one of the largest credit card scams in U.S. history. Tommy Williams scammed limousine rides, luxury hotel stays, even escaped from jail, impersonating judges and celebrities. Richard Hayward was “The Romeo Bandit.” Henry Gherman convinced prominent Miami Beach surgeons that he was a financial genius. He spent their earnings, then fled the country. Daniel Lugo emerged from federal prison with a Medicare fraud idea. The scheme unfolded disastrously, resulting in two killings.
In writing these true tales of trust and betrayal, I employed the theories and techniques recommended in The New Journalism by Tom Wolfe.
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Olson, Jonathan Randall. "Paradise revised : The formal and material revision of Paradise lost." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.526845.
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Djukic, George. "Essentialism : Paradise lost /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1997. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phd626.pdf.
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Reich, Savannah. "Paradise Park Zoo." Research Showcase @ CMU, 2015. http://repository.cmu.edu/theses/101.
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Shotton, William Howard. "Birds of Paradise." OpenSIUC, 2012. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/861.
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Bell, Amy M. "Transcendence Toward Paradise." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1176233381.
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Décriaud, Anne-Sophie. "Les personnifications cosmologiques sur les mosaïques romaines tardives d’Orient. Traditions iconographiques et lecture symbolique." Thesis, Paris 4, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA040043.
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L’une des questions primordiales dans l’étude de l’Antiquité tardive concerne le passage de l’ancienne religion polythéiste au christianisme. Or, les découvertes archéologiques faites dans la partie orientale du Bassin méditerranéen ont révélé de nombreux pavements chrétiens (ou juifs) tardifs décorés de riches mosaïques polychromes réutilisant des figures issues de la tradition iconographique grecque, parmi lesquelles des personnifications d’éléments cosmologiques. On rencontre ainsi des éléments du temps, comme les quatre Saisons (Tropai) ou les Mois (Ménès), la Terre (Gê) parfois accompagnée de ses Fruits (Karpoi), certains astres comme le Soleil (Hélios), la Lune (Séléné), parfois accompagnés du Zodiaque, l’Élément marin féminin (Thalassa) ou masculin (Okéanos, Abyssos) et les quatre Fleuves du Paradis (Géon, Phison, Tigre et Euphrate). Cette présente thèse se propose d’étudier chacune de ces personnifications, leur iconographie et leur symbolique, en contexte religieux, mais aussi profane, dans une analyse stylistique et comparative. Cette étude a ainsi pour but de mettre en relief la spécificité de cette partie orientale de l’Empire romain, entre le IVe et le VIe siècle, et d’insister sur la pérennité de la culture grecque et de ses traditions iconographiques, malgré un changement de religion officielle<br>One of the primordial questions in the study of Late Antiquity concerns the transition from the ancient polytheistic religion to Christianity. The archaeological discoveries that have been made in the Eastern part of the Mediterranean Basin have revealed a number of late Christian (or Jewish) pavements decorated with rich polychrome mosaics that reuse figures stemming from the Greek iconographic tradition, which include personifications of cosmological elements. In this manner elements of time can be encountered, such as the Four Seasons (Tropai) or the Months (Menes), the Earth (Ge) sometimes surrounded by her Fruits (Karpoi), specific celestial bodies such as the Sun (Helios), the Moon (Selene), sometimes accompanied by the Zodiac, the female marine Element (Thalassa) or the male (Okeanos, Abyssos) and the four Rivers of Paradise (Geon, Phison, Tiger and Euphrates). This thesis makes a stylistic and comparative analysis of each of these personifications, their iconography and their symbolism, in a religious context, but also in a secular one. The object of this study is to emphasise the specificity of the Eastern part of the Roman Empire between the Fourth and the Sixth centuries. And also to insist in particular on the longevity of the Greek culture and its iconographic traditions, despite an official change in religion
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Tellman, Barbara, Richard Yarde, and Mary G. Wallace. "Arizona's Changing Rivers: How People Have Affected the Rivers." Water Resources Research Center, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/326060.
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Cowser, Steven John. "The politics of sacred history in Eikonklastes, Paradise Lost and Paradise Regain'd." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.554362.
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This thesis examines the political dimension and underlying continuities of John Milton's use of biblical and reformation history in Eikonklastes, Paradise Lost, and Paradise Regain 'd. In Chapter I, the rhetorical tactics of Eikonoklastes-particularly the prefatory material-represent an attempt to outline a different notion of civic and spiritual security, independent of monarchical oversight, and are presented as crucial contexts for the political ambitions of Milton's later epic poetry. The discussion of Paradise Lost as a text deeply interested in the contemporaneous rhetoric of security is contained in the prolegomena and Chapters II and Ill. Chapter II is a consideration of Milton's redaction of Old Testament history in the epic catalogue of Book I, in which I argue that key elements of its interaction with epic convention have been overlooked; this reading offers a more appropriate understanding of Milton's own perception of societal decline and proposes an oppositional commentary on the shortcomings of Restoration England's polity. I argue that Milton's presentation of both Edenic security and prelapsarian prayer in Chapter III are not only distinct to him, in literary and social terms, but are also explicable as interventions on contemporary anxiety over the relationship between Church and State. Finally, in Chapter IV I contend that Paradise Regain 'd is the most authoritative poetic expression of Milton's mature political thinking via a re-examination of its genre, protagonist, and non-traditional banquet temptation. Having established the conspicuous political identity of the poem's content and form, I then discuss how the poem's use of biblical history is structured to oppose contemporaneous appeals to the 'common good' and quiescence at any price.
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Kudelka, Amy. "Just left of paradise /." Full text available online, 2006. http://www.lib.rowan.edu/find/theses.
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Cunningham, Hugh Kern. "Adams house in paradise." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23291.
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Moller, Lars Christian. "Sharing transboundary rivers." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2005. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13124/.
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This thesis is a collection of three essays on the economics of transboundary river management (contained in chapters 2-4) the contents of which is outlined below: Chapter 2 examines the equity-efficiency trade-off on a transboundary river where an upstream and a downstream riparian withdraw irrigation water. Equity is defined as ‘equal sharing of waters’ - a notion consistent with egalitarianism and equality of opportunity. Property rights are undefined, a priori, but riparians can enter an equal quota cooperative agreement (with side payments and restricted trade in water quotas). We find that the equity-efficiency trade-off is relatively insignificant, in prevalence as well as magnitude, and limited to special cases where the upstream riparian has a substantial relative cost advantage and/or water is very scarce. Chapter 3 examines a transboundary river conflict arising when upstream hydropower water releases do not coincide with the seasonal irrigation needs of a downstream riparian. We consider and rank the qualitative impact of a range of infrastructure investments, potentially initiated and co-financed by multilateral development banks (MDBs). Basinwide social efficiency and regional stability can, under certain conditions, be improved through Pareto-improving investments, including enhancement of upstream hydropower efficiency and expansion of downstream reservoir capacity. The findings are used to analyse proposed infrastructure projects in the Syr Darya Basin shared by Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. Chapter 4 examines riparian cooperative behaviour on the Syr Darya river. To resolve their conflict of interest, riparian states have resorted to annual cooperative agreements. This arrangement, however, has largely failed due to lack of trust between the parties. Striving for self-sufficiency in irrigation water, Uzbekistan has initiated new reservoir construction. The chapter examines their economic impact. We report a laboratory experiment modelling the Syr Darya river scenario as a multi-round three-player trust game with non-binding contracts. Payoff schemes are estimated using real-life data. While basinwide efficiency maximisation requires regional cooperation, our results demonstrate that cooperation in the laboratory is hard to achieve. Uzbek reservoirs improve the likelihood of cooperation only weakly and their positive economic impact is limited to low-water years.
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Hu, Yuanlong 1964. "On tropospheric rivers." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8058.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 2002.<br>Page 231 blank.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-230).<br>In this thesis, we investigate atmospheric water vapor transport through a distinct synoptic phenomenon, namely, the Tropospheric River (TR), which is a local filamentary structure on a daily map of vertically integrated moisture flux. Firstly, an automated procedure for identifying and tracking these rivers (named TRICKS, i.e., the Tropospheric River Identifying and traCKing Scheme) is described and its performance is evaluated. This procedure enables the maxima of moisture flux (so-called TR cores) to be detected and accurately located. The relationships among the adjacent TR cores are then evaluated to construct the axes of rivers. A river is tracked from birth to termination and its life cycle properties are recorded, thus allowing various statistics of TR distributions and movements to be estimated. All these stages of the scheme are performed without intervention once a number of governing constants have been decided upon. We then apply the scheme to the vertically integrated moisture flux calculated from 43 years of 6-hourly NCEP/NCAR reanalyses and present a climatology of mean TR behavior. On average, there are 4 - 5 rivers per analysis in the Northern Hemisphere and 5 in the Southern Hemisphere. Northern Hemisphere TRs form and intensify near the eastern seaboards of Asia and North America. They move eastward and poleward during their lives before weakening in the two principal graveyards: over the Gulf of Alaska and the region to the southeast of Greenland. In comparison, Southern Hemisphere TRs are more evenly distributed and tend to form in a band extending from the southeast coast of South America into the Atlantic, across the Indian Ocean, and throughout much of middle latitudes of the Pacific sector.<br>(cont.) The corresponding genesis regions are also found to be adjacent to (or slightly equatorward to) the maximum SST gradients in these regions. It appears that both TR genesis and termination maxima tend to be displaced near the upstream equatorward flanks of cyclogenesis and lysis maxima. We suggest that the TR formation and termination could be a leading predictor for the occurrence and decaying of extratropical cyclones. TR axis length appears to be longer during the warmer season and in the Southern Hemisphere. The distance traveled by TR systems shows a broad distribution and a sizeable fraction (-25%) of systems travel in excess of 3000 km. One unique feature is that although TRs occur very actively over the Indian ocean sector with highly densed tracks, large translational speeds, and intensities, they contribute little to meridional water vapor transport, while the reverse situation can be found in the South Pacific where southward transport is sometimes comparable to those over or off the east coast of South America. The rivers seem to account for a substantial fraction of the total meridional moisture transport in both middle and subtropical regions. Finally, we complete the TR climatology with an analysis of the variability and trends exhibited by many aspects of rivers during the 43-year period. The annual average number of TRs per analysis has undergone an overall increase during the last couple of decades and is more significant in the Southern Hemisphere. The greatest increases occur in the 50⁰-30⁰S and 50⁰-70⁰N belts ...<br>by Yuanlong Hu.<br>Ph.D.
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Learmonth, Nicola. "Self-perception in Paradise lost." Thesis, University of Canterbury. English, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/7058.
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Milton's God can derive satisfaction from relationships with the Son, the angels and Man, and hold these creatures accountable for maintaining this union only if he allows them free choice. Creatures demonstrate their love and obedience, and so maintain their relationships with God, by choosing to carry out the divine will. The choice either to maintain or break union with God must be deliberate, and involve an internal process if that creature is to be free and held accountable for their actions. The intellectual faculties of reason, will, and self-perception enable created beings to exercise their freedom consciously. All free agents must apply their self-knowledge to comprehend and fulfil their respective roles in Creation. An accurate creaturely self-perception involves creatures knowing their identity and nature; understanding the limits of their power to act; appreciating God as the source of their existence and their power to act; and recognising their places and roles in the divine order. Self-understanding is connected to happiness and together these form an appreciation that motivates free agents to establish and continue their alliances with God. The Son, Satan, Adam and Eve all behave in accordance with the way they understand themselves. The Son's selfless obedience to God is motivated by his appreciation for God as his Maker, and his perception of his role in the divine order as the physical manifestation of God's will. This frees the Son to pursue his desire to promote the divine purpose without consideration for himself. Inaccurate self-perception is self-deception, allowing creatures to believe that their happiness consists in independence from God. Satan deceives himself into believing that he can be God's adversary and that opposition to God is a realistic possibility. Adam's and Eve's individual acts self disobedience are the result of a gradually developing inaccuracy in their self-perception. Adam comes to believe that Eve is the source of his happiness, and this misconception is confounded with his fear of solitude. He disobeys God after allowing his immoderate love for Eve to become a higher priority than his relationship with God. Eve's self-perception is confused when she becomes aware of a disparity between her husband's assessment of her and her own understanding of herself because hitherto Adam has been her primary source of knowledge about God, Creation, and her being. The Serpent inspires a sense of injured merit that corresponds with Eve's impression that Adam judged her unfairly. She disobeys God's law because she comes to believe that obeying God impedes her happiness. These creatures behave in accordance with the way they understand themselves, and can make righteous choices by applying their reason in conjunction with their self-knowledge.
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TANIMOTO, Chikako. "Milton's Eve in Paradise Lost." 名古屋大学大学院国際言語文化研究科, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/19726.
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Killmer, Paul F. "Paradise in the Parking Lot." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/44997.
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Parking lots can no longer be the inhospitable, pedestrian-minimalizing, environmentally-degrading uses of valuable open space that are accepted and tolerated as the â normâ . The open space that makes way for parking lots is too precious to be wasted on places that provide little or no comfort to the user while also contributing to the degradation of the environment.
By inserting a fantastical landscape â one which engages the senses through color, texture, and smell â into the mind-dulling landscape of a large surface parking lot, the resulting comparison is a waking call about the missed opportunities of celebrating beauty and the environment. This gives value to the landscape in todayâ s mobile society where the natural world appears to be losing ground to the automobile.
This thesis proposes a series of landscape structures over a vast surface parking lot â Potomac Yard Shopping Center in Alexandria, Virginia â that provide open space,the ecological benefits of absorbing storm water runoff and preventing UV bounce back, while ultimately repositioning and rejoining the pedestrian with the landscape.
The project does not set out to eradicate parking.
Rather, the project recognizes the need for parking in todayâ s mobile society but prioritizes the important connection that must exist between people and nature within that context.<br>Master of Landscape Architecture
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Graham, E. A. "Milton and seventeenth century individualism : language and identity in 'Paradise Lost', 'Paradise Regained' and 'Samson Agonistes'." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.376133.
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Learmonth, Nicola K., and n/a. "Definitions of obedience in Paradise regained." University of Otago. Department of English, 2007. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20071108.162331.
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The thesis has two parts. Part One surveys the debate on how to define Christian obedience and Milton�s prose contributions to that discourse. In the century leading up to Milton�s prose writings there was much debate in England over how to define spiritual obedience. Civil authorities argued that matters of religion fell within state jurisdiction and that an individual�s spiritual obedience should be subject to outward scrutiny and external control; but these definitions were contested by Protestant reformers. Chapter One traces the issue up to Milton�s contributions.
Chapter Two traces Milton�s thinking about obedience, spiritual and secular, through his own prose writings: Milton defines obedience as a responsible freedom which requires continual critical assessment of authority. In reaction to the political and ecclesiastical developments of his own time, Milton places increasing emphasis on the role of the individual in defining and expressing obedience to God by means of scriptural study and open discussion. Milton argues that liberty is a necessary pre-condition for giving true obedience to God, and this idea comes to the fore in the later prose tracts, which respond to political and ecclesiastical developments that Milton interpreted as threatening the individual�s liberty of conscience.
Part Two examines Paradise Regained (1671), in which Milton advances his interpretation of obedience through his characterisation of the Son of God. Chapter Three shows how Milton links those forms of Christian obedience which he rejects in his prose writing to either Satan or satanic influence. Through his depiction of the Son�s responses to Satan, Milton indicates that Satan�s versions of obedience are designed to distract the Son, and any other believer, from giving proper obedience to God.
Chapter Four traces how Milton�s depiction of the Son of God demonstrates his understanding of the right reasons for, and ways of, giving proper obedience to God. The Son�s firm obedience is a state of mind and comprises knowledge of God through scriptural study, conversation and meditation. This exemplary obedience is motivated by an appreciation for and desire to participate in God�s glory (ie., Creation), and Milton indicates that it is this appreciation of divine glory that enables the Son of God to successfully resist Satan�s temptations.
Chapter Five examines Milton�s final episode, the pinnacle temptation, in terms of the obedience which he has approved throughout the poem. This chapter addresses Milton�s handling of the reader�s expectations for this scene, and the symbolic language and setting of the pinnacle episode. Unlike any other writers on the temptations in the wilderness, Milton invests the Son�s victory (and Satan�s defeat) on the pinnacle with symbolic power by depicting the Son standing in firm obedience to God. Thus Milton presents his reader with the definitive expression of humanity�s obedience to God: the Son�s stand is a symbolic return to the "Godlike erect" stance ascribed to prelapsarian humanity in Paradise Lost (PL, IV.289), and with this firm, upright obedience Milton shows the rest of humanity how to regain Paradise.
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Leonard, J. K. "Names and naming in 'Paradise Lost'." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.355884.
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Phillips, G. Randall. "Prophecies and paradise the Shamballa Ashrama /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.
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Smith, Charles Roy. "Procuring the urban house in paradise." Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, 2001. http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/4919/.
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The ambition of the thesis was to consider the performance of urban dwellings, and more specifically to develop a series of benchmarked criteria that holistically define the performance of an urban dwelling throughout its lifecycle, then to create an assessment tool that extends the scope of existing environmental evaluation models. The benchmarks for each of the criteria define the quantitative and qualitative performance values of firstly, a dwelling built to current regulation standards, secondly a European comparison, and thirdly one of the drawn studies undertaken as part of the research methodology; finally the performance of the 'urban house in paradise' is proposed, based upon advances to the above. These benchmarks provide a generic framework that describes the integrated performance of adwelling. The tool advances existing assessment models by responding to their identified shortcomings, which includes taking account of the interrelation between criteria and evolves significance weightings in terms of the relative priority of the criteria to each other. By attempting to resolve the linkages between the criteria, the tool as developed will model how these interrelated benchmarks effect each other within agiven project, so that a holistic set of vaJues, the ideal balance of priorities, can be developed. This will enable a designer to determine the best overall balance of a dwelling's performance, taking account of the identified relative significance of each of the criteria, to bring the sustainability of a project as close as possible to the idealo f the 'urban house in paradise'.S uch a development provides an advance upon existing techniques in defining and assessing the ecological performance of adwelling. The contributions to knowledge made by this thesis are primarily in increasing the depth and scope of assessing the performance, and in particular the environmental performance, of dwellings. The field of criteria in existing environmental assessment methods is extended to include not only a broader, and therefore more holistic range than any other environmental assessment model, but also those relevant to socio-economic areas of sustainability. Prioritisation and interrelation between the individual criteria was developed in the assessment tool's methodology: interrelation is crucial, as sustainability demands a holistic view. Assessment and prioritisation methods are based on the philosophy of Deep Ecology, and not an anthropocentric orientation, therefore potentially creating a radical reappraisal of the criteria considered important in other assessment models. The prioritisation extends between fields, in search of most significant criteria within a holistic view and has identified, within the boundaries of what is technically feasible, the criteria that can contribute most to achieving more ecologically sustainable dwelling in a Deep Ecological sense.
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Neves, Cláudia Ramos. "Returning to zamunda to find paradise." Florianópolis, SC, 2004. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/87806.
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Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras/Inglês e Literatura Correspondente.<br>Made available in DSpace on 2012-10-22T02:13:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1
203457.pdf: 1761887 bytes, checksum: 490de326fa14cb7a5f3b3107984dd622 (MD5)<br>O objetivo desta dissertação é oferecer um estudo inter-disciplinar, sobrepondo Estudos de Cinema e Estudos Culturais dentre territórios afins como Crítica Feminista e Psicoanalítica, entre outras abordagens correlacionadas. O corpo para análise são as representações comunicadas pelo filme americano Um Príncipe em Nova Iorque ( Coming to America ), escrito e interpretado por Eddie Murphy. Levando-se em consideração a especificidade do cinema como gênero, tal como mise-en-scene (iluminação, cenário, e figurino) e a estruturação de tempo e espaço da narrativa, a análise tem como objetivo o aspecto parodico do filme com relação ao estilo clássico de Hollywood já que Um Príncipe em Nova Yorque sugere uma tentativa de subverter representações estereotipadas. A estruturação formal da trama, além das funções específicas de cada personagem também são consideradas. Trechos de várias cenas do filme são investigados em termos da intenção discursiva por detrás das imagens e diálogos, no que diz respeito a seus comprometimentos com prerrogativas eurocêntricas. Perspectivas teóricas de estilo fílmico, de acordo com David Bordwell, as implicações políticas do gênero parodico, por Linda Hutcheon, questões sobre estereótipo, por Ella Shohat, e conceitos sobre o negro e as identidades culturais dentro da representação cinematográfica, por Stuart Hall e Clyde Taylor, são usadas para se conduzir a investigação. Além disso, os resultados mostram que forma e conteúdo são traços importantes na construção do sentido (de acordo com Seymour Chatman, Robert Burgoyne e Mikhail Bakhtin) e que a procura por retratos #positivos# para os negros pode não ser suficiente para garantir uma orientação menos euro-centrada.
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Rheams, Genevieve A. "We Will Plant Birds of Paradise." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2019. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2703.
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Scott, Amber. "Crested Butte: the Paradox of Paradise." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1734.
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I have attempted to denaturalize and historicize tourism in Crested Butte as an economic, social, and physical phenomenon that fits into the broader histories of Colorado and the West, as well as the broader histories and realities of travel and tourism. Why do people seek out certain places and experiences in the name of pleasure? How did these activities and spaces come to qualify as desirable? What about people who fall outside temporally limited definitions of tourist, such as those who come to Crested Butte for only a season or a year, or second homeowners who stay for months at a time, or, really, any resident? All these people value the place and their experiences in the exact same ways, influenced by the same physical and psychic constructions of desirability. These current constructions are informed by a long history of evolving tastes and interests, the products of converging local, national, and international dynamics. In tracing a history of tourism and especially tourism in the West, I used a variety of secondary sources authored by scholars of tourism, the West, and Colorado. In charting a history of Crested Butte, I utilized archived local newspapers. I spoke to a number of current Crested Butte residents to understand how Crested Butte locals view themselves, their community, their lifestyles, and their town.
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Wedén, Hanna, Fanny Fellman, and Moa Grönroos. "Välkommen till Paradise Hotel : En kvantitativ studie om tv-tittares motiv för att titta på Paradise Hotel." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Avdelningen för medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-21593.
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Välkommen till Paradise Hotel Fanny Fellman, Moa Grönroos och Hanna WedénVetenskaplig Rapport B MK045G 7,5 hp Höstterminen 2013-2014 Problemformulering och syfte Syftet är att undersöka tv-tittarnas motiv för att titta på Paradise Hotel och hur upplevelsen av programmet påverkar tittarna.Metod och materialEnkätundersökningar där svaren redovisas i stapeldiagram med beskrivande texter.HuvudresultatResultatet vi kom fram till var att majoriteten av tittarna tycker i största allmänhet att dokusåpor är bra. Tittarna följer Paradise Hotel för att se andra människor göra bort sig på TV och de ser på programmet för att det är ett tidsfördriv. Det som underhåller tittarna är spänningen i att bevaka dramat bland deltagare och i gruppen. Den större delen av tittarna påverkas inte av serien och tittarna upplever programmet som att deltagarna enbart deltar för att bli kända senare.
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Contant, Jacinthe. "Phytoplankton Communities in Temperate Rivers." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/20623.
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The structure of phytoplankton communities was examined seasonally across five rivers with a focus on small cells and their relative importance. Picophytoplankton (0.2-2 μm), previously considered insignificant in rivers, reached densities as high as those observed in lakes and oceans (~ 10e4-10e5 cells/mL). Their relative importance was not a function of trophic state with the highest contribution to algal biomass found in the most eutrophic river. Body size distributions were analyzed from both chlorophyll-a size fractions and taxonomic enumerations; no significant effect of river or season was detected, suggesting that phytoplankton size distribution is not a useful metric of change in rivers. Unlike lake ecosystems, the rivers were uniformly dominated by small cells (< 20 μm). Taxonomic analyses of the seasonal succession did not reveal a common periodicity of particular divisions (e.g. diatoms). However, strong dominance was more typical of eutrophic rivers even though taxa richness was similar.
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Green, Anthony P. E. "Geomorphological modelling of meandering rivers." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.430480.
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Brewer, Paul A. "Sediment reduction processes in rivers." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.323787.
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Clark, Ezra. "Microthermal habitats in British rivers." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.267237.
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McLaughlin, Seamus Pius. "Only Our Rivers Run Free." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 1986. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/761.
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Rosado, Joana Isabel Caeiro Condeço. "Ecosystem functioning of temporary rivers." Doctoral thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/12178.
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O presente estudo abrange questões relevantes sobre o funcionamento de rios temporários.
São abordados diferentes tópicos tais como a problemática da escassez de água
particularmente na bacia Mediterrânica, a biodiversidade aquática e ripícola, a dinâmica de
nutrientes e fatores fundamentais para a gestão e conservação de rios temporários
Mediterrânicos. O principal objetivo é estudar alguns dos processos que ocorrem ao nível da
bacia de drenagem e galeria ripícola associada, fazendo sempre a ligação dos resultados
obtidos com a importância de uma correta gestão da bacia hidrográfica. Os resultados obtidos
demonstraram uma necessidade urgente de implementação de estratégias de gestão
adequadas ao nível das bacias hidrográficas de forma a reduzir a vulnerabilidade dos rios
temporários. A tese pretende acima de tudo adicionar informação sobre rios temporários dada
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This research intended to address some relevant issues concerning the functioning of
temporary rivers. It will be approached different topics such as water scarcity particularly in the
Mediterranean basin, aquatic and riparian biodiversity, nutrients dynamics and key factors in
the management and conservation of temporary Mediterranean streams. The main aim is to
study some of the processes that occur within the river basin and subjacent riparian gallery,
always linking the obtained data with the importance of a correct river basin management. The
results showed an urgent need to implement suitable management strategies at river basin
level to reduce the vulnerability of temporary rivers. This thesis intends most of all to increase
the knowledge on temporary rivers given their important worldwide representativity.
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Carr, Genevieve Margaret. "Prediction of periphyton in rivers." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/29083.
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Periphyton communities are often the dominant primary producers and an important energy source to higher trophic levels in rivers and streams. Empirical models of periphyton biomass (chlorophyll a) that have high predictive power are generally lacking. The goal of this research was to assess and improve the predictability of periphyton in rivers. A historical river monitoring data set from Alberta showed that, in general, land use in the drainage basin was a good surrogate for instream nutrient concentrations in regression models of periphyton biomass. Land use explained up to 34% of the variability in chlorophyll a whereas models based on instream nutrients explained up to 24% of the variability in chlorophyll a . A field study showed that bacterial abundance in periphyton explained an additional 26 to 29% of residual variance of chlorophyll a, after taking nutrients into account. The relationships between algal and bacterial abundance and production estimates were positive, suggesting bacteria and algae coexist in a mutually dependent association. The sampling design for bacteria in the field study was based on the relationships between sample means and variances of published bacterial abundance and production data. The number of replicates needed to sample periphytic bacterial abundance and production was determined from these relationships. A meta-analysis of published periphyton regression models was used to evaluate model predictive power. Once corrected for the number of observations, terms, and sampling replicates in the models, predictive power of periphyton models has not improved over the last 30 years. Geographic extent of the study area and the type of predictor variables used also had almost no effect on predictive power. The theoretical limit of model precision has approximately been reached for models predicting temporally averaged periphyton biomass. In contrast, residual variances of models predicting instantaneous mean chlorophyll a were, on average, 4.5 times higher than theoretical pure error. Precision of temporal mean models will only be improved by obtaining more precise estimates of mean chlorophyll a. Models that predict instantaneous chlorophyll a may be made more precise by including variables that better reflect the recent site history.
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Nygren, Sirinard, and Jenny Persson. ""Lite snyggare, lite mer partyaktiga, lite mer Paradise" : En kritisk diskursanalys av kön och sexualitet i Paradise Hotel." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-101710.
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The purpose of this thesis is to examine how power structures concerning gender and sexuality emerge through the use of language in the Swedish reality show Paradise Hotel. Of particular interest is the representation of heterosexual relations in the show. Because of its interest in the relationship between power, gender and sexuality, the thesis is based on theories from gender and discourse studies. The specific theories referred to are Michel Foucault’s understanding of power, stereotypes according to Stuart Hall, Yvonne Hirdman’s gender system and contract theory, Judith Butler’s heterosexual matrix and R.W. Connell’s theory of hegemonic masculinity. The empirical data consists of eight episodes of Paradise Hotel from 2014, which has been transcribed and analysed through the use of Norman Furlough’s critical discourse analysis (CDA). The results showed that Paradise Hotel portrays the male and female participants as fundamentally different and therefore they are allowed to behave in different ways. Among other things, it appeared that men have a high sex drive and they expect to get this need satisfied. The women on the other hand are discredited if they have sex with many partners. As a part of the concept of Paradise Hotel is to share rooms with a partner of the opposite sex there are certain expectations of intimacy. The male participants exercise power by claiming their partners as possessions. Neither do they respect the female boundaries regarding their bodies and sexuality. The women also participate in maintaining the patriarchal order in the show. However, some of the female participants oppose to a norm saying women should be sexually passive. For competition purposes they use their bodies and cunning in order to influence the men. Notably, while some of the discourses that emerged in the analysis reflect social power structures, others are reserved to Paradise Hotel since there are rules that only apply to the show.
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Tait, Simon Joseph. "The physical processes of bed armouring in mixed grain sediment transport." Thesis, Available from the University of Aberdeen Library and Historic Collections Digital Resources, 1993. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?application=DIGITOOL-3&owner=resourcediscovery&custom_att_2=simple_viewer&pid=59561.
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Doyle, Paul Norman. "The effects of human activities on stream water quality case studies in New Zealand and Germany : thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the degree of Master of Applied Science, Earth and Oceanic Sciences Research Institute, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand, September 2005." Full thesis. Abstract, 2005.
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de, Voss Vida V. "The identity challenge in Toni Morrison's Paradise." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2010. 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:1476362.
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Suartika, Gusti Ayu Made School of the Built Environment UNSW. "Vanishing paradise : planning and conflict in Bali." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of the Built Environment, 2005. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/20631.
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This thesis is about the continuing life of Balinese culture and traditions currently under threat from unregulated economic development, mass tourism, and migration. Critical to this study are considerations surrounding the control of land and its improvements, as well as the success and failure of urban planning within the sphere of cultural conservation. The thesis argues that ???State planning systems as imposed by the Indonesian government are inappropriate in the Balinese context.??? While this statement seems fairly straightforward on the surface, it involves a complex understanding of the forces mentioned above, of their interaction and their effects on local culture. This study adopts a hermeneutic approach to theory seeking greater depth of meaning rather than discovering new facts, and embodies three main strategies. The first explains the relationship between society and space using a cultural matrix derived from anthropologist E.T.Hall. The second strategy deploys qualitative research method using focus groups, and third, it uses in-depth personal surveys at physical sites. The thesis therefore reveals the eroding impacts of tourism on local culture. Focusing on territoriality, it embraces two contradicting sets of values represented in the traditional Balinese system of Adat, and those of the market-based system of the Indonesian State. Resulting conflicts are demonstrated through specific and generic case studies. Here, the dominant position of modern state planning establishes the legal foundation on which capitalist practices, the dominating role of private enterprise, corruption, and collusionary attitudes are nourished. While the role of the government in promoting tourism, and the economic significance of the industry are acknowledged, the study measures these against the costs of such advantages to the Balinese way of life. Overall, the thesis reflects upon ongoing territorial problems that have been experienced in Bali for more than forty years. It provides an in depth analysis of how state imposed planning systems are locked in critical conflict with the proven and functioning traditional Balinese Adat. Finally, the necessary features of future planning systems are proposed in order to revitalize local culture. Hence the thesis demonstrates that modern systems of planning are inappropriate to Balinese cultural conservation.
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Avin, Ittamar Johanan. "Bliss Delight and Pleasure in Paradise Lost." University of Sydney. English, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/484.
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There have been many studies of keywords in Paradise Lost. Over the last fifty or so years words such as �wander�, �lapse�, �error�, �fruit�, �balmy�, �fall�, �hands�, among others, have attracted critics� attention. The present enquiry brings under scrutiny three linked keywords which have up to now escaped notice. These are the words �bliss�, �delight�, and �pleasure�. The fundamental proposition of the thesis is that Milton does not use these words haphazardly or interchangeably in his epic poem (though in other of his poetic productions he is by no means as fastidious). On the contrary, he self-consciously distinguishes among the three terms, assigning to each its own particular �theatre of operations�. Meant by this is that each keyword is selectively referred to a separate structural division of the epic, thus, �bliss� has reference specifically to Heaven (or to the earthly paradise viewed as a simulacrum of Heaven), �delight� to the earthly paradise in Eden and to the prelapsarian condition nourished by it; while �pleasure�, whose signification is ambiguous, refers in its favourable sense (which is but little removed from �delight�) to the Garden and the sensations associated with it, and in its unfavourable one to postlapsarian sensations and to the fallen characters. Insofar as the three structural divisions taken into account (Hell is not) are hierarchically organized in the epic, so too are the three keywords that answer to them. Moreover, in relating keywords to considerations of structure, the thesis breaks new ground in Paradise Lost studies.
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Arvin, Ittamar Johanan. "Bliss, delight and pleasure in Paradise lost /." Connect to full text, 2001. http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/adt/public_html/adt-NU/public/adt-NU20030129.094154/index.html.
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Kolpien, Emily R. "Queer 'Paradise Lost': Reproduction, Gender, and Sexuality." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/657.
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In the span of this thesis, I investigate the queer nature of John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost, and argue that in spite of the biblical subject matter it is in fact a text filled with instances of queer transgression. I focus on preexisting feminist critiques of Milton in my introduction in order to ground myself within the academic field, and in order to illustrate how I will be branching out from it. In my first chapter, I discuss the queered nature of the poem’s landscapes, such as Chaos and Hell, and the specifically queer and masculine nature of reproduction, such as Sin’s birth out of Satan’s head and Eve’s birth from Adam’s rib. I then turn to an in-depth discussion of Sin in Chapter Two, illustrating how she is punished with reproduction and sexual violence, and how this contrasts with her queer birth while illustrating the poem’s problematic stance toward fallen women. In my final chapter, I tackle the character of Eve, and argue that her narcissistic scene at the lake after her birth reveals her queer sexual desire for her feminine reflection. I also discuss how the poem sexualizes Sin and Eve, and how their physical appearances illustrate the state of women in the poem. I finish by arguing that a queer perspective of Milton is important because it allows modern critics to view as both illuminating and empowering.
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Davanzo, Anthony P. "Practical Paradise: Ethics for a Modern Age." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1248.
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This play demonstrates an interpretation of Nietzsche's philosophy in practice. The main character experiences loss and confusion, however, through this struggle arrives at a discovery of profound truth. If you've ever wondered how to live your life in the best way possible, the main character believes he's found the answer.
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Hiller, Alice. "Paradise traduced : transatlantic travel writing, 1777-1840." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.248215.
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Tresch, John. "Mechanical romanticism : engineers of the artificial paradise." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.421655.
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Lou, Sabrina. "Paradise girls : contemporary realistic young adult fiction /." Access resource online, 2009. http://scholar.simmons.edu/handle/10090/12593.
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Vansickle, Laura Elizabeth. "Female teaching and learning in Morrison's Paradise." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2009.
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Reid, Joshua. "Angelic Viscosity: Dali and Dante in Paradise." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2864.
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Adlard, Michelle Catherine. "The garden as a metaphor for paradise." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002187.
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In this half thesis the use of the garden as a metaphor for paradise has been explored. The English word “ paradise“ was derived from the Greek word “ paradeisos” which in turn was derived from the Old Avestana “ pairi-daeza,” meaning an enclosure. In Ancient Persia the concept applied to an enclosed garden in the modern sense of the word. For this reason the thesis begins with an examination of the development of the garden in this desert region. A more-or-less continuous chain of development in both the physical and allegorical nature of the garden is traced through history from these Ancient Persian beginnings to the height of Mughal architecture (epitomised by the Taj Mahal), by way of the Muslim expansion through Central Asia and Europe. While the core elements of garden design were set in Ancient Persian times, and recur throughout the period studied, the impact of Islam on the local Persian culture brought about a new development of allegorical meaning associated with the garden. This allegorical development reached its apex, too, in the Taj Mahal in which, it is argued, the metaphorical representation of paradise in the garden tomb was made astonishingly explicit. The research for this mini thesis was gathered from secondary sources, including many published books and academic papers, photographic and diagrammatic evidence of extant ancient gardens, and reproductions of carpet designs.