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    • "This Third Space": Real-and-Imagined Spaces in Turn-of-the-Century American Settlement Fiction 

      Pound, Melissa (University of Waterloo, 2012-06-22)
      This thesis is a literary analysis of American settlement fiction, using a spatially-informed cultural historicist approach. The settlement movement in the U.S. was both a Progressive Era reform movement and a precursor ...
    • Thought Suppression 

      Purdon, Christine (Oxford University Press, 2020-01-30)
      The idea that suppressing an unwanted thought results in an ironic increase in its frequency is accepted as psychological fact. Wegner’s ironic processes model has been applied to understanding the development and persistence ...
    • Threads of Memory: A Culture of Commemoration in Kenya Colony, 1918-1930 

      Clarke, Timothy (University of Waterloo, 2021-01-05)
      The centenary of the First World War (2014-2018) proffered new interpretations of the conflict as a global war that stretched far beyond the Western Front. Historians of the Great War, however, have continued to characterize ...
    • Three Chapters on the Labour Market Assimilation of Canada's Immigrant Population 

      Su, Mingcui (University of Waterloo, 2010-12-03)
      The three chapters of my dissertation examine immigrant assimilation in the Canadian labour market. Through three levels of analysis, which are distinguished by the sample restrictions that are employed, I investigate ...
    • Three Empirical Essays on Job Training, Income Support Programs, and Household Debt 

      Amery, Behnoush (University of Waterloo, 2016-04-29)
      This thesis consists of three essays examining the effects of education and job-related training on promotions and wages in Germany, the effects of a reduction in Unemployment Insurance duration on the likelihood of joining ...
    • Three Essays in Labour Economics and Public Finance 

      Legree, Scott (University of Waterloo, 2016-04-27)
      This three-chapter thesis evaluates the potential for two major government policy levers to influence income inequality in Canada: the tax and transfer system, and the labour relations framework. The first two chapters are ...
    • Three Essays In Policy Evaluation 

      Arcila, Andres (University of Waterloo, 2020-04-20)
      This thesis consists of three chapters that study the effect of public policy on several economic and environmental outcomes. In the first chapter, we investigate the effect of a change in tax policy affecting cars on car ...
    • Three Essays on Financial Modelling with Price Limits 

      Lin, Xiao Yan (University of Waterloo, 2015-10-21)
      In this thesis, a class of clustered censored distributions are proposed in various financial modelling processes. In particular, the proposed distribution can accommodate many stylized (observed) phenomena across different ...
    • Three Essays on the Economics of Innovation as Adaptation to Climate Change 

      Li, Hongxiu (University of Waterloo, 2017-12-11)
      This thesis consists of three chapters on technological innovation as adaptation to climate change. The first chapter adopts a non-cooperative game theory model to investigate the relationship between adaptation technology ...
    • Three Minutes to Midnight: Civil Defense in the Late Cold War Period 

      Donelson, Brendan (University of Waterloo, 2014-01-20)
      This thesis examines civil defense in the United States under the Nixon, Carter and Reagan administrations. Throughout the late Cold War period civil defense policy planners employed a philosophy of dual-use. The Defense ...
    • Three Papers on the Effects of Competition in Engery Markets 

      Choi, Wai Hong (University of Waterloo, 2013-08-29)
      This thesis comprises three papers examining the impact of competitive pricing or competition on participants in energy markets. The scope of each paper is narrow but focused, dealing with one particular aspect of competition ...
    • Three Years and Two Continents Apart: A Comparative Study of the Great Sioux War and Anglo-Zulu War 

      Winter, Cameron (University of Waterloo, 2021-11-26)
      In 1876 and 1879, the American and British armies suffered extremely similar disasters at, respectively, the Battles of the Little Bighorn and Isandlwana. Though these two colonial reversals have often been compared to one ...
    • Till We Have Faces: C. S. Lewis's Textual Metamorphosis 

      Zehr, Tamar Patricia (University of Waterloo, 2012-09-12)
      C. S. Lewis’s novel, Till We Have Faces, has been misunderstood by both scholars and readers alike. This paper seeks to read the text through the lens of Lewis’s own literary criticism. It begins by presenting Lewis’s ...
    • Time Allocation and the Weather 

      Shi, Jingye (University of Waterloo, 2012-07-31)
      The overriding theme of my dissertation is the use of short-term weather fluctuations to study how people allocate their time across activities. In Chapter 1, a theoretical model is developed to distinguish malfeasant from ...
    • The time-course of contextual valence and self-relevance effects on the perception of faces with direct versus averted gaze 

      McCrackin, Sarah D. (University of Waterloo, 2017-08-29)
      We see faces every day within a rich situational context. Previous ERP research has demonstrated that priming faces with contextual sentences varying in self-relevance and valence alters electrocortical and emotional ...
    • The time-use of Canadian immigrant families: differences in time inputs on child raising 

      Mascella, Allison (University of Waterloo, 2021-09-21)
      This thesis contains three chapters in cultural effects and integration experienced by parents born abroad and their Canadian-born children empirically measured using daily time diary records. Immigration policy introduced ...
    • To Approach or to Avoid: The Role of Ambivalent Motivation in Attentional Biases to Threat and Spider Fear 

      Xu, Mengran; Rowe, Katelyn; Purdon, Christine (Springer, 2021-01-03)
      Background People with anxiety difficulties show different patterns in their deployment of attention to threat compared to people without anxiety difficulties. These attentional biases are assumed to play a critical role ...
    • To Catch A Glimpse of Things 

      McLean, Paula (University of Waterloo, 2019-05-22)
      My exhibition To Catch a Glimpse of Things is an exploration into concretizing and prolonging temporary, ephemeral gestures. Through the repetition of ambiguous forms as well as the recurring imagery of distorted, amorphous ...
    • To Heal the Nation: the Creation of President Ford's Clemency Program 

      Dunton, Joshua (University of Waterloo, 2009-09-03)
      The war in Vietnam divided America into two groups, those who supported the war and those who opposed. At wars end, the divisions did not disappear. Instead, the nation was split on the question of amnesty for draft and ...
    • To Hurt the Pain: An Ethical Criticism of Nathanael West 

      Stiles, Stefanie (University of Waterloo, 2012-08-30)
      Nathanael West is typically considered to be a “major minor” American writer of the late modernist period. Best known today for Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) and The Day of the Locust (1939), West wrote four dark novellas that ...

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