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Ian Willis deposited Public art at Campbelltown brightens up the Queen Street precinct in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoKeep your eyes open in central Campbelltown for inspiring public art installations that brighten up dull spaces around the town.
The Campbelltown Arts Centre, in conjunction with Campbelltown City Council and the NSW Government, have a program to re-invigorate the city centre using public art. -
Ian Willis deposited The Camden Fibro Cottage – a not so humble abode in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThe humble fibro cottage in Camden in the 1950s and 1960s is integral to the town’s 20th-century history. The fibro house was representative of the baby-boomer era when drive-ins, Holdens, Chiko rolls, black & white TV, rock & roll and vinyl LPs were the norm. Fibro is evocative of long hot summer holidays by the beach with adolescent love, boogie…[Read more]
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Albert R Haig deposited Dialectic as ostension towards the transcendent: Language and mystical intersubjectivity in Plotinus’ Enneads in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThe theory of language that underlies Plotinus’ Enneads is considered in relation to his broader metaphysical vision. For Plotinus, language is neither univocal nor equivocal, but is something in-between, incapable of precisely describing reality, but nonetheless not completely useless. Propositional knowledge expressed discursively represents a…[Read more]
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Sonia D. Andras deposited Allo, allo, ici le Bucharest du pedigree! The nationalization of women’s fashion in interwar Bucharest (OA) in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThe newly formed Greater Romania engaged in a process of modernization, with Bucharest as its flagship metropolis, striving to be recognized internationally and reach economic stability. Women’s fashion became a marker in substantiating Romania’s self-assertion as a modern state, with great emphasis on creating a viable textile industry. This occ…[Read more]
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Sonia D. Andras deposited Crafting Illusions: Fashion as a Means of Decoding Social and Cultural History in Interwar Bucharest (OA) in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis paper examines the influence of urban fashion ideas disseminated worldwide from France and how they impacted the Romanian ideas of style and beauty, as well as the nature of the communication between Paris and the Little Paris. My aim is to decode the interwar Romanian interpretation of the new woman notion and assess what type of role…[Read more]
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Sonia D. Andras deposited Creating City Chic. The Parisian Influence on Interwar Bucharest Fashion (OA) in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis paper examines the influence of urban fashion ideas disseminated worldwide from France and how they impacted the Romanian ideas of style and beauty, as well as the nature of the communication between Paris and the so-colled ”Little Paris”. My aim is to decode the interwar Romanian interpretation of the new woman notion and assess what typ…[Read more]
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Sonia D. Andras deposited Fashion, Dress, Costume: a Proposed Terminological Clarification in the Historical Research of Women’s Clothing in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis paper delineates the conceptual variations between the notions ‘fashion’, ‘dress’ and ‘costume’ in English-language texts on women’s garment histories using relevant examples from interwar Romanian periodicals. The aim is to offer a more precise formulation, as these three terms have largely been used interchangeably. This paper is built on a…[Read more]
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Sonia D. Andras deposited Fashion, Cinema, and German-American Propaganda in 1930s Bucharest in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis paper explores how Bucharest’s cinema-going public perceived the Nazi influence on Hollywood in the 1930s. The aim is to identify how Nazi propaganda was disseminated and consumed in interwar Bucharest and its similarities to the idea of glamour, relevant both to fashion and cinema. Considering the links between Goebbels’ propaganda mac…[Read more]
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Sonia D. Andras deposited Fashion, Cinema, and German-American Propaganda in 1930s Bucharest in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis paper explores how Bucharest’s cinema-going public perceived the Nazi influence on Hollywood in the 1930s. The aim is to identify how Nazi propaganda was disseminated and consumed in interwar Bucharest and its similarities to the idea of glamour, relevant both to fashion and cinema. Considering the links between Goebbels’ propaganda mac…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited Not a riot, Repression in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoAnalysis of the communal violence that took place on September 14, 2011 in Gopalgarh town of Rajasthan
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Pramod Ranjan deposited दंगा नहीं, दमन in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoराजस्थान के गोपालगढ कस्बे में 14 सितंबर, 2011 को हुई सांप्रदायिक हिंसा का विश्लेषण
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Christopher S. Rose deposited Trial by Virus: Colonial Medicine and the 1883 Cholera in Egypt in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis article explores how public health was transformed in Egypt soon after its occupation by Great Britain in 1882. Over the course of the nineteenth century, the Egyptian state had invested substantially in health to boost the nation’s economic and military strength, and, especially after the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, to address E…[Read more]
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Christopher S. Rose deposited Trial by Virus: Colonial Medicine and the 1883 Cholera in Egypt in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis article explores how public health was transformed in Egypt soon after its occupation by Great Britain in 1882. Over the course of the nineteenth century, the Egyptian state had invested substantially in health to boost the nation’s economic and military strength, and, especially after the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, to address E…[Read more]
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Harald Pittel deposited No More Playing in the Dark: Assembly by Natasha Brown in the group
British History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThe pre-publication praise Natasha Brown received for her debut novel Assembly (2021) from renowned writers like Bernardine Evaristo or Ali Smith is quite remarkable. The author had been virtually unknown to the larger public before winning one of the London Writers Awards in the literary fiction category in 2019. As a young Black British woman of…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited When Peppertrees were all the rage in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoIn the 1890s, Camden Municipal Council started beautifying the town area by planting various trees, including peppercorns. These cultural plantings defined the local urban landscape for decades, yet only a handful remain today.
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Alejandro Quintero deposited The Many Faces of God: Astrotheology of the Bible in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoAngels, as mythical beings, appear and disappear suddenly throughout Biblical Texts, without any clear explanation of their origins or metaphysical ranks. Whether they are considered circumstantial theophanies or entities with granted self-existence and specific divine functions; such metaphysical entities have a vital presence in the religious…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited Triveni Sangh in Literature and the Literature of Triveni Sangh in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoTriveni Sangh’s activities were primarily confined to Bihar, parts of eastern Uttar Pradesh, adjoining Bihar, were also influenced by it. At the political level, the Triveni Sangh’s mission was carried forward by the Shoshit Dal, founded by Jagdev Prasad in 1967 in Bihar.
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Steve McCarty deposited Bilingual Perspectives on Language Teaching: The View from the Goal in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoA goal for language learners is to function in plural languages according to their own needs and purposes. A bilingual perspective starts from that attainable goal. Learners in Japan tend to idealize L2 mastery or becoming bilingual, so it becomes other people’s business. Monolingual teachers tell students by their example, “go where I have not…[Read more]
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Mohammed Gharioua deposited “ Abu Arwas poem ” by Mohammed Gharioua & Abd jlil ould hammouya in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThe literary text is born with its criticism methodology and its criticizer. The creator
stretches his hands out to the reader/criticizer to take their first step towards the text
and remove any ambiguity, symbolism, or metaphors that may be present.
He extends bridges between him and the society that produced the text, or bluff to
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Ian Willis deposited Colonial hotel is still serving in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThe Plough and Harrow Inn at 75-79 Argyle Street is the second oldest hotel in Camden and is still on the original site. The Camden Inn (1841) was the first hotel in Camden. Located on the Great South Road, the Plough and Harrow was part of the fabric of Macarthur’s private village of Camden within the Cowpastures. By the early 20th century,…[Read more]
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