Browsing Arts (Faculty of) by Title
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Looking Wide? Imperialism, Internationalism, and the Boy Scout Movement, 1918-1939
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-31)The Boy Scout Movement is one of the most influential youth movements of the twentieth century. Begun in the context of Edwardian imperialism as a foil to fears of racial decline, the movement’s militarism became a liability ... -
Losing Your Calm or Losing Control: Two Paths to Retaliatory Deviance in Response to Abusive Supervision
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-03)Retaliation is a well-established response to abusive supervision. Leading edge research explains the occurrence of supervisor-directed retaliation through processes associated with the strength model of self-control ... -
Lost in the Infinite Archive: The Promise and Pitfalls of Web Archives
(Edinburgh University Press, 2016-03-14)Contemporary and future historians need to grapple with and confront the challenges posed by web archives. These large collections of material, accessed either through the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine or through other ... -
Lost in Translation: How the perception of Characters change in the German Translations of J.R.R. Tolkiens "The Lord of the Rings"
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-20)It is an accepted paradigm that translated texts will never be the perfect equivalent to the original text in a different language. It is a fact that foreign literary works will influence a culture through translations. ... -
Love in the Time of Caller ID: Understanding the Role of Smartphone Technology in Committed Relationships
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-23)Smartphones have changed the way our world works, and have had particularly unique impacts on the way human relationships function. Among the most important of those relationships are the ones that people form by choice ... -
“Lucky that East Germany also exists”: Yugoslavia between the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic (1955-1968)
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-14)This dissertation explores the relations between Yugoslavia and the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the period between 1955 and 1968. This is the first analysis using sources ... -
L’affaire Dubuisson : Je vous écris dans le noir et La petite femelle
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-01)Le fait divers est une réalité quotidienne qui fait partie de notre culture et de notre société. Il insiste sur la rareté et l’imprévisibilité d’un incident tout en donnant l’impression, de par sa forte médiatisation, que ... -
L’identification à la langue française chez les apprenants du français langue seconde
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-27)La présente étude se penche sur l’identification à la langue française chez les apprenants du français langue seconde, qui font leurs études universitaires, et explore leurs expériences positives et négatives pendant leurs ... -
Macabre Collectibles: Collecting Culture and Stephen King
(University of Waterloo, 2018-07-09)Objects have a significant place in Stephen King’s horror fiction and the landscape he has created in his numerous novels and short stories. The human-thing relationship in his fiction, however, has been generally reduced ... -
The mad manifesto
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-15)The “mad manifesto” project is a multidisciplinary mediated investigation into the circumstances by which mad (mentally ill, neurodivergent) or disabled (disclosed, undisclosed) students faced far more precarious circumstances ... -
Making Sense of Video Instruction: An Ethnomethodological Analysis of Following a YouTube Croissant Making Tutorial
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-18)With the use of video instruction becoming more prevalent, this thesis looks at the methods learners use to navigate video tutorials through an ethnomethodological lens. As ethnomethodology is concerned with the way members ... -
Manifestation of Religious Authority on the Internet: Presentation of Twelver Shiite Authority in the Persian Blogosphere
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-23)Cyberspace has diversified and pluralized people’s daily experiences of religion in unprecedented ways. By studying several websites and weblogs that have a religious orientation, different layers of religious authority ... -
Manifesting Belief in Canadian Law: What is 'Freedom of Conscience'?
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-19)Of all the freedoms articulated within the Canadian Charter, the least defined continues to be freedom of conscience. Discussions of this freedom within the secondary literature have been relatively superficial, and, to ... -
Manorial Regulation and Negotiation in a Late Medieval Environment: Land and Community at Herstmonceux, 1308-1440
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-17)This dissertation examines the role that environment played in the negotiation of rights and responsibilities on a fundamental socioeconomic institution of rural communities in late medieval England — the manor. It analyzes ... -
A Many Splendored Thing
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-18)A Many Splendored Thing is a summation of my artistic production during my masters. -
Mapping the Complexity of Mining & Peacebuilding in Guatemala
(University of Waterloo, 2022-10-13)This dissertation examines the intersection between foreign owned mining operations and peacebuilding efforts in Guatemala, responding to a number of academic debates and practical issues. Two mines were comparatively ... -
Mapping the Genres of Healthcare Information Work: An Interdisciplinary Study of the Interactions Between Oral, Paper, and Electronic Forms of Communication
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Electronic Patient Records (EPRs) are becoming standard tools in healthcare, lauded for improving patient access and outcomes. However, the healthcare professionals who work with, around, and despite these technologies ... -
Maps of Human Communication: Science and the Arts
(University of Waterloo, 2009)The purpose of this thesis is to examine the function of language as a map that navigates the perception of human reality. In the thesis, attention is paid to the structure of speech, and whether or not it accurately ... -
Marital Communication Behaviour: The Role of Marital Satisfaction, Depressive Symptoms and Proximal Appraisals of Marital Problem-Solving Ability.
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-30)According to Bradbury and Fincham’s contextual model of relationship conflict, communication behaviour is likely influenced by relationship factors at both the distal and proximal level. The overall goal of the present ... -
Maritime Trade of Classical Greece: Commodities Shipped in Transport Amphorae
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-04)Trade practices have long been a concern of anthropological studies but has fallen out of focus in archaeological research. Much can be learned about trade from material remains, especially those from shipwrecks. For this ...