The girls that were killed had their teeth pulled. The reader learns, later on in the novel, that they were used to create an ‘ivory’ floor in Amma’s dollhouse. They represent Amma’s desire to have control over others and to manipulate and use others as objects or commodities. She’...
Symbolism is a device in which an object, person or situation is given another meaning beyond its literal one–usually something more abstract or non-rational than the symbol itself. There are many kinds of symbols. Normally, dramatists weave clues into the work to indicate that certain elements...
[Counter-archivists] dive into the past to bring up things that have become rich and strange with the passage of time, like a grain of sand that has become a pearl in the gut of an oyster. By bringing up such things, counter-archivists simultaneously recover a lost or forgotten fact ...
Isolation devices made of polymers, tubes filled with propergol, distributed vibration damping treatments and a number of other structures have vibration characteristics that have a significant dependence on the properties of viscoelasti... E Balmès - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for...
you have to be a devotee of theTwilightseries to fully appreciate this, but they actually have this big framed mural of all of their graduation caps. When you see the series — not if, but when — you will appreciate that I just explained to you the significance of that and how it’...
The article argues that such interplay is based on the material, religious and ritual conception of ancestral objects with their inheritors and the well-being of the community they represent. However, most studies on African religious art objects have focussed essentially on the ...
Sharp and round shapes of seen objects have distinct influences on vowel and consonant articulationCongruency EffectSimon EffectVocal TractObject SizeVocal ResponseThe shape and size-related sound symbolism phenomena assume that, for example, the vowel [i] and the consonant [t] are associated with ...
I have replicas, I'm an expert in textiles, so you see the smoking thing was a hangup for me What was the statement here? Until... and this is key... this is the breakthrough, the pipe is not a pipe really. Obviously there is symbolism at work here. I saw that from the ...
The contemporary colonial world is witnessing struggles for domination and existence that have led to exclusion of some groups on the basis of parameters defined by the powerful. This contribution observes practices and policies of belon... M Hwami - 《Cultural & Pedagogical Inquiry》 被引量: 7发...
and Mrs. Trent would have been capable of faking a photographic negative. A United States Air Force Committee examined the photographs in great technical detail, went to McMinnville, checked every aspect of the story and concluded firmly that "this is one of the few UFO reports in which all...