Browsing Arts (Faculty of) by Title
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The Heritage Inquisition: A Comparative Analysis of Archaeological Heritage Legislation from Around the World
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-16)Around the world, archaeological sites and their excavation are governed by laws. These laws regulate things such as what must occur when land that may contain archaeological sites is going to be disturbed, as well as who ... -
Heritage Languages: The Case of German in Kitchener-Waterloo
(University of Waterloo, 2002)This thesis investigates the assimilation and/or integration of German families in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario into Anglo-Canadian culture. By administering questionnaires to and interviewing members in three three-generational ... -
Heroism "at a Pinch:" The Story of the Structures of Middle-earth
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-15)Discussions of the heroic element in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings generally focus on Frodo and/or Aragorn. But Sam Gamgee is in some ways the best representative of the sort of heroism that Tolkien most admired, ... -
Heroism, Gaming, and the Rhetoric of Immortality
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-08)This dissertation examines rhetorics of heroism and immortality as they are negotiated through a variety of (new) media contexts. The dissertation demonstrates that media technologies in general, and videogames in particular, ... -
Heuristic Evaluation for Gameful Design
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2016-10-16)Despite the emergence of many gameful design methods in the literature, there is a lack of evaluation methods specific to gameful design. To address this gap, we present a new set of guidelines for heuristic evaluation of ... -
The Hidden Cost of Hiding Feelings: Emotion Suppression and Inauthenticity in Social Anxiety
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-26)Social anxiety is associated with an unusually high level of negative affect, yet little is known about the strategies used by socially anxious individuals to manage and regulate their emotions. The present research examined ... -
The High German of Russian Mennonites in Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-20)The main focus of this study is the High German language spoken by Russian Mennonites, one of the many groups of German-speaking immigrants in Canada. Although the primary language of most Russian Mennonites is a Low German ... -
A History Cast in Stone: Geochemical Chert Sourcing Using Portable X-Ray Fluorescence (PXRF) in Southern Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-14)To test the validity of portable X-Ray Fluorescence (PXRF) for chert sourcing, 32 chert artifacts from the Waterloo Region Museum in southern Ontario were compared to 56 chert source samples. The use of PXRF in archaeology, ... -
Hoax, Parody, and Conservatism in Harry Potter
(University of Waterloo, 2002)This essay examines the ideology or value system implicit in Joanne Rowling's Harry Potter series. Many of the images in the series, despite being fantastic or empirically unprecedented, are minor transformations of ... -
Hobbes' foundation for peace and property
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-26)I defend Hobbes’ foundation for peace and property. His foundation for peace and property is his major argument for why society’s moral order (i.e. collection of rules of interaction) should be based on the principles of ... -
"Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour": William Blake's Visions of Time and Space in the Light of Eastern Traditions
(University of Waterloo, 2013-07-23)This thesis examines William Blake’s conceptions of time and space in the light of the philosophies of Hinduism and Islam. In order to perform this analysis, source material, often from rare and neglected texts, is utilized ... -
Hoping for the Best, Preparing for the Worst: Employee Reactions to Automation at Work
(University of Waterloo, 2022-07-08)Automation is increasingly becoming a disruptive force in modern workplaces. For individual workers, the consequences of automation are varied; In some cases, employees may be harmed by automation (e.g., job loss), whereas ... -
Horticultural Landscapes in Middle English Romance
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-23)Gardens played a significant role in the lives of European peoples living in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. By producing texts in which gardens and other cultivated landscapes are used as symbol and setting, ... -
Hostility in the context of depression: Testing the relevance of perceived social ranking
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-29)Theoretical positions (Sloman & Gilbert, 2000), current research (Robbins & Tanck, 1997) and clinical observations (APA, 1994) have generally concluded that depressed populations tend to demonstrate an elevated level of ... -
The housing market impacts of wastewater injection induced seismicity risk
(Elsevier, 2018-11-01)Using data from a county severely affected by the increased seismicity associated with injection wells since 2009 in Oklahoma, we recover hedonic estimates of property value impacts from nearby shale oil and gas development ... -
How do tax and accounting policies affect cross-border mergers and acquisitions?
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-21)Using a large sample of mergers and acquisitions from 27 countries over a 16-year period, I investigate how differences in tax and financial reporting policies affect the premium and structure of cross-border mergers and ... -
How Does Economic Pressure Relate to Family Processes? A Systemic Test of the Family Stress Model
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-24)Background: When evaluating family well-being, it is important to disentangle dyadic, individual, and family-wide variability. Presently, few studies have considered the role of social disadvantage and mental health across ... -
How Exposure to Personal Distress With and Without Self-Compassion Affects Emotional Distress Tolerance: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial Conducted in a Sample of University Students and a Sample of Community Adults
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-15)Emotional distress tolerance refers to the perceived ability to tolerate one’s negative emotions (Simons & Gaher, 2005). Low emotional distress tolerance is a transdiagnostic marker of psychopathology (Leyro et al., 2010) ... -
how Gabriotto writes a letter to his loved one Philomena—the narratological function of letters in Jörg Wickram’s “Gabriotto und Reinhart“
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-31)The following thesis deals with the twelve letters, more explicitly, love letters in Wickram’s “Gabriotto und Reinhart” and their narratological function for the story, plot and narration itself. At first I will talk about ... -
How incentive contracts and task complexity influence and facilitate long-term performance
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-07)The purpose of this study is to investigate how different incentive contracts that include forward-looking and contemporaneous goals motivate managers to make decisions consistent with the organization’s long-term objectives, ...