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A Transmogrifying Discourse of Sexual Violence: Resisting, Redressing, and Re-writing Racial Scripts in Contemporary African American Women's Theatre
(University of Waterloo, 2019-02-14)This dissertation examines contemporary African American women's theatre that addresses the absented and erased reality of black women as victims of sexual violence. This thesis investigates how contemporary African American ... -
Transnational Dialogues and Community Making in the Syrian Digital Space
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-18)This thesis examines the ways diasporic and transnational Arabs, and particularly Syrians, utilize and engage in the virtual space to voice their experiences and engage in transnational dialogues, while overall taking part ... -
Transnational Identity in Online Discourse – Netflix’s Sense8 and accompanying Twitter communication
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-28)Digital media has become ubiquitous and immensely shapes communitarisation, and thus identity construction. As media does not rely on physical border crossing to bring us in con-tact with different subject positions, ... -
Transplantation and the Nature of the Immune Self
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-02)There are many theories regarding the nature of the immune self. However, existing theories have not accounted for the clinical experience of transplantation. Kidney transplantation provides a unique opportunity to examine ... -
Transposition of Joy in C.S. Lewis
(University of Waterloo, 2015-02-09)C.S. Lewis’s lifelong pursuit of ‘Joy,’ in addition to being the focus of two autobiographical texts (Surprised by Joy and The Pilgrim’s Regress) is also manifested throughout his fiction writing. His earliest poetry ... -
Transtextual Narratives about the European Union. A qualitative research on structuring, sense-making constructions of reality from a linguistic perspective
(University of Waterloo, 2024-03-28)Narratives are never finished products, but constantly evolving linguistic constructs. Actors use them to position themselves and develop the narratives further in the process. In this respect, narratives are to be understood ... -
Trauma and Beyond: Ethical and Cultural Constructions of 9/11 in American Fiction
(University of Waterloo, 2012-06-19)My dissertation focuses on a set of Anglo-American novels that deal with the events of 9/11. Identifying thematic and stylistic differences in the fiction on this topic, I distinguish between novels that represent directly ... -
The Treatment of Accounting Changes in Covenants and Debt Contracting Efficiency
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-04)Debt contracts contain accounting-based covenants that could be affected by changes in generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). There are three types of contractual treatment of GAAP changes: excluding GAAP changes ... -
Triangular Epistolary Diplomacy with Rome from Judas Maccabee to Aristobulos I
(Société Latomus, Brussels, 2020-05-18)Scholarly opinions tend to converge towards accepting that Roman commitment to Judaea was very limited: sources attesting treaties of friendship and alliance are either seen as fabricated or not reflecting the real ... -
Trois voix libres délibèrent en l’an 1562, à l’aube des guerres de Religion ; Étienne de La Boétie, Pierre de Ronsard et Sébastien Castellion
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-25)Cette thèse de maîtrise étudie le Mémoire sur l’édit de janvier d’Étienne de la Boétie (1530-1563), le Conseil à la France désolée de Sébastien Castellion (1515-1563) et les deux premiers poèmes des Discours des misères ... -
The Troubled Life and Loves of Lady Anne Lennard: Illegitimacy, sexuality, and mistressdom at the court of Charles II, 1690-1720
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-20)Despite her infamy, the life of Lady Anne Lennard, formally styled the Countess of Sussex, has never received an in-depth examination. As the natural daughter of King Charles II of England born via his mistress Barbara ... -
The Trumpets
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-07)The work of my MFA thesis exhibition comes directly out of the physical processes that constitute my studio practice. It is work that embodies the labour of my hands and the decisions that guided them in their struggle ... -
“tu_s oben DRAUFlegen”: tun-constructions as context-sensitive practices in German
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-21)There are a variety of syntactic formats available to get others to do something in German interaction. To make a request or give an instruction, speakers of German may use an imperative, a declarative, a single word, or ... -
Turf & Twig
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-25)In Turf & Twig solitary figures are depicted at the boundaries of salable land, performing surreal and fruitless tasks. The objects they interact with recall a manufactured domesticity that seems displaced and almost ... -
Twinning: An Exhibition of Video and Sculpture
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-05)Marianne Burlew’s installation Twinning affords space for contemplating our body’s unique sensory knowledge and its role in mediating perception. The exhibition consists of four stations that present sculpture in the form ... -
Uebersetzungsentscheidungen im kulturellen Kontext: Drei deutsche Uebersetzungen von J.D. Salingers <em>Catcher in the Rye</em>
(University of Waterloo, 2006)This master's thesis examines the three German translations of J. D. Salinger's novel <em>The Catcher in the Rye</em> (1951): <em>Der Mann im Roggen</em>, published in 1954 by Diana Verlag and translated by Irene Muehlon; ... -
ULTRA
(University of Waterloo, 2006)This thesis paper is meant to serve as a supporting document for a thesis exhibition that was held the University of Waterloo Art Gallery. The show consisted of paintings on Plexiglas and sculptural installations with ... -
Un pastiche de l’écrivain québécois Jacques Poulin
(University of Waterloo, 2015-06-01)Ce projet de pastiche a commencé à l’été 2014 pendant mon cours indépendant avec le professeur François Paré sur les œuvres de Jacques Poulin. Mon récit, dont les premières pages ont été écrites pendant ce cours, s’inspire ... -
(Un)Reasonable, (Un)Necessary, and (In)Appropriate Biographic Mediation of Neurodivergence in Academic Accommodations
(Centre for Biographical Research, 2019-12)Biographic mediation of disability through accommodations bureaucracies in the academic workplace attempts to contain and control difference in such a way as to leave intact the fundamentally ableist set of values, practices, ... -
Uncertain Memory
(University of Waterloo, 2016-06-24)"Uncertain Memory" features a series of figurative oil paintings on canvas and paper inspired by photographs from my family archive. My paintings are developed in stages; beginning with a process of mining and selecting ...