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Skip to Search Results- 1Hazanovitz-Jordan, Samuel
- 1Lock, Rebecca Ann
- 1Metz, Martina L.
- 1Schulz, Suzanne.
- 1Switzer, Andrew
- 1Unger, Matthew P.
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Fall 2013
This dissertation relies on the wager that we live in an age in which seemingly archaic religious symbols contribute to how people orient themselves, respond to, and explain things in the world. Drawing from Paul Ricoeur’s early texts on religion, symbolism, evil, and defilement, I analyze three...
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Spring 2013
This study explores Grade Seven students’ experiences of doubt and certainty in mathematics. During nine months of (bi-monthly) sessions, students responded to several mathematical prompts; their interactions with each other and with the teacher- researcher were video-taped, transcribed, and...
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Spring 2013
This thesis is an exploration of aspects of Sigmund Freud's (1856–1939) theories of psychoanalysis as analytical strategies for understanding works by Franz Liszt (1811–1886) and Clara Schumann (1819–1896). My analysis of Liszt's "Transcendental Etude No. 10” S.139 employs Freud's primary...
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Fall 2010
This thesis examines how female athletes relate to and interpret their experiences of pain. Starting from the position that the meaning of pain is not given but is interpreted, this thesis takes as its central question: what compels athletes to interpret their pain in the ways that they do?...