Dissertations / Theses: 'Love'

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Johansson, Alva. "LOVE." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-14883.

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This project explores the dimensional relationship between body and dress through using features of corsetry. Where is the garment tight? Where do we place volume and where do we show skin? This project addresses these questions and the construction of dress through broadening the concept of corsetry. With the vision to improve the relationship between body and dress through exploring new methods for an existing technique. Searching for alternative construction techniques in dress which enhances the circular relationship between body, dress and form. By exploring new working methods that includes the body in the process of constructing garments, the corsetry tools has been used to investigate how the garment stays on the body in terms of how we tighten it to the body and by that also give the garment its shape. The project is practice based and built on concrete experiments. The relationship between body, fabric and form has been explored through working hands on with the material on the own body. The design method was developed in the beginning of the project. Further, it was carried out through using rectangular and tube shaped fabrics together with features of corsetry, mainly focusing on eyelets and lacing. Resulting in both a new method for an existing technique, as well as a result that expresses new possibilities in the composition of the dressed body. It also proposes alternative ways of constructing and wearing garments, where the body and the garment work together.

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Gillette, Margaret. "Love is Work| Work-Based Platonic Love Theory." Thesis, Alliant International University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10935947.

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The purpose of this research was to understand how people working in California’s San Francisco Bay Area/Silicon Valley technology industry love one another platonically in the workplace, as well as what effects they perceive from this love. Through this constructivist grounded theory study, a theory was developed. This Work-based Platonic Love Theory involves workplace relationships that are heavily centered around work itself. These relationships can begin in admiration for one another, conflict with one another, or even dislike. They are transformed into loving relationships through shared experiences of work-related hardship, challenging or innovative work, and/or spending long work hours together. Participants describe the relationships as familial, often team-oriented, caring, and rooted in work. Effects of these work relationships include the perception of greater individual and team success, high performance, and shatterproof teams. Work-based Platonic Love Theory resulted from data produced by in-depth interviews with 17 participants who reported experiences with platonic love in San Francisco Bay Area/Silicon Valley technology firms. The study underscores the value of platonic love in the workplace to the work itself, to teams, and to individuals. It also suggests a heavily work-centric nature of loving relationships within the technology industry in the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley.

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Stillman, Johanna. "Love Song." Thesis, Konstfack, Institutionen för Konst (K), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-5791.

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Love Song is an essay about romance, passion, obsession, attraction, Eros, intoxication, infatuation, to fall in love and love. Love songs, as artworks, are almost always directed towards a nameless “you” and this essay wants to talk to you. The text might be seen as a way to create and rewrite something, a performance to understand other performances, a dwelling on past relationships, a love letter, or just a text for me to vent you with others that have been thinking about you. I would love to hear Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Chris Kraus, Beyoncé, Bell Hooks, Anaïs Nin and Taylor Swift talk to each other about art and romances, but because that is an impossible dream I try to connect them and many other thinkers, artists and singers through language. One of them, Roland Barthes once wrote: "Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had worlds instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my worlds."[1] Love Song is, more than anything else an attempted to touch you, a strategy to better understand the way you made and make me feel. [1] Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse – Fragments, original: Fragments d’un discours amoureux, 1977, translation from French: Richard Howard, Edition du Seuil, 1978, p. 73.

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McLean, Robert Andrew James. "Enduring Love." Thesis, University of Canterbury. School of Humanities, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/3162.

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Antón, Dávila María Fiorella, Nalvarte Luzmila Zoila Inés Condemarin, Escobar Roberto Carlos Huamán, Quispe Sebastián Alejandro Meneses, and Bohada Juan Carlos Ramírez. "Deco - Love." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/625356.

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El presente trabajo de investigación se realizó para validar la viabilidad de crear una empresa dedicada a la decoración temática de habitaciones de dormitorio para parejas de la ciudad de Lima que desean evitar la infidelidad; es así como se crea DECO-LOVE una empresa que permitirá experimentar un momento romántico y fantasioso. A Continuación, se mencionará las partes más relevantes del trabajo de investigación: El Planeamiento Estratégico sirvió para tener una visión clara de las oportunidades que existe en el entorno. En el cual, se verificó que existe una tendencia alta de crecimiento sobre los temas sexuales. La investigación de mercado ayudó a conocer cuáles eran las necesidades del público objetivo. Y con ello se decidió perseverar en el proyecto, ya que en el mercado no existe una empresa que pueda satisfacer esa necesidad. En el plan económico y financiero se visualiza que el proyecto es rentable ya que el VPN es mayor a cero y cuenta con una TIR del 20 % para este proyecto y el 23 % para el inversionista. En base a lo mencionado en las partes relevantes, se puede hacer una idea de lo atractivo que sería el proyecto en el mercado, debido que no existe competencia alguna. Esta oportunidad, haría que la empresa sea uno de los pioneros en el sector. Finalmente, se recomienda la implementación del proyecto ya que los resultados obtenidos son favorables para su ejecución y para el inversionista.
This present research work was done to validate the viability of creating a company dedicated to the thematic bedroom decoration for couples in the city of Lima who want to avoid infidelity; that is how DECO-LOVE is created as a company that allows to experience a romantic and imaginative moment. Relevant parts of the research work will be mentioned as follows: The Strategic Planning served just to have a clear vision of the opportunities that exists in the surroundings. It was noticed that a high growth tendency exists related to sexual issues. The Market Research helped to know which the target audience’s necessities were and with that, it was decided to persist in the project because there is no company within the market that can satisfy such necessity. It can be seen that the project is profitable within the economic and financial plan because the VPN is greater than zero and has a 20% IRR (Internal Rate of Return) for this project and 23% for the investor. On the basis of the relevant parts, it can be thought how attractive the project would be in the market due to the non-existing competition. This opportunity would make the company lead the way in its area. Finally, it is recommended to implement the project because the obtained results are favorable for its execution and investor.
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Mitchell, Gail. "Computing Love." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 1987. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/579.

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Walker, Aaron. "Voodoo Love." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2006. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/439.

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"Voodoo Love" is a music video for jazz saxophonist, Lance Ellis. Set at The Turning Point Lounge in New Orleans, as well as the countrysides of Madisonville and Bush, Louisiana, the video takes us into a world where classic Motown style meets the world of campy horror films. Voodoo Love is also the first local jazz video to be produced in high-definition video. It includes appearances by Lischelle Brown, Mardi Gras Indian Big Chief Alfred Doucette, blues player Big Al Carson and the singing trio Mahogany Blue. The video was authored to DVD and includes extras features on the making of the video, including an extended behind the scenes documentary.

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Kish, Kevin. "Ugly Love." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2012. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1453.

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deVeer, Erica F. "Rampant Love." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2016. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2141.

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Grecco, Krista. "LOVE from." The Ohio State University, 1998. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1327597529.

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Mailloux, Catelyn Jean. "Love Hours." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1523544897130337.

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Karlsson, Pierre. "LOVE HOME." Thesis, Konstfack, Grafisk design & illustration, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-7960.

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Weaver, Grace. "LOVE STORY." VCU Scholars Compass, 2015. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3861.

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I think of my paintings as pop songs. My aim in the work is to embrace a complicated femininity, championing and questioning the aesthetics of girliness, cuteness, and whimsy. This is the realm of the Young-Girl. The text that follows will chart a path from the cliché to the empathic—holding hands with philosophical comrades in that same territory, ranging from Taylor Swift to Kaja Silverman—seeking the way in which the paintings relate to the grand tradition of the love story.

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Bourgeois, Wendy Renee. "Love(Other)." PDXScholar, 2010. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1398.

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The following manuscript is a collection of poems composed largely as direct address to an idealized reader, "the Beloved Other." The poems enact and describe the vagaries of relationship, familial and romantic as well as mystical and intrapersonal.

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Farber, Kim Elyse. "Love-suicide| Destructive reconstruction in the kingdom of love." Thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3733831.

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This hermeneutic study explores the phenomenon of love-suicide using Cleopatra VII as a case study. This research explores a variety of depth psychological perspectives of death and destruction, suicide, and romantic love in order to gain an understanding of the meaning of death for the psyche and the archetypal underpinnings of suicide in the context of romantic love. Through investigating how the experiences and situations generated by love and generated in love may enliven the archetypal energy of suicide, defined as “destructive reconstruction,” this investigation establishes a basis for the notion that the shadow side of love may pull the soul to suicide.

This study uses the myth of Cleopatra’s love-suicide to test the ideas developed regarding the soul’s pull to suicide in romantic love. By imagining and exploring the projections and identifications Cleopatra may have held and how they may have impacted her love relationship with Antony and her suicide, this study demonstrates how the alchemy of being in love can deconstruct and reconstruct psyche and how love can dissolve the ego and materialize new life. The study concludes that this deconstructive process, an alchemical dissolution, is directed by the Self and ultimately may lead to physical death. This study’s symbolic inquiry into Cleopatra’s love-suicide illustrates that unlocking the mausoleum of the heart and exposing the interior darkness is a destructive process that is also potentially creative. That is, it may uncover the buried treasure within or bury the body that houses it.

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Blowers, LaVerne P. "Love divine all loves compelling missionary motives in the Wesleyan tradition /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.

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Behr, Nina. "Love, Power and Respect : Marie's Empowerment in Erdrich's Love Medicine." Thesis, University of Gävle, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-4802.

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The essay studies the character Marie's search for empowerment in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine. As a mixed-blood she has difficulty to find respect within the white community because she is considered Native American Indian. However, the Native American Indian community sees her as ´dirty and lowlife´due to her whiteness. She tries different strattegies to form an identity and to find love, power and respect. In the convent she wants to be the best Catholic and find respect within the white community whilst later in life she returns to her Native American Indian tribe where she searches for respect throught marriage and motherhood. The theory used is sociology of religion.

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Fu, Xiaowei. "The LOVE IS A UNITY Metaphor in Love Song Lyrics." Thesis, Kristianstad University College, Department of Teacher Education, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-5803.

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Masolane, Tseliso Chrisjan. "Beasts we love." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/63098.

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My thesis is a novella in flash, written as political crime fiction. It is set in contemporary South Africa and tells the story of Rafau Lekopo, a teacher from a little township called Dikgohlong, whose life is changed forever after he finds his wife and the mayor in bed and shoots them both dead. The information contained within the dead mayor's notebook proves to be explosive, showing that the mayor is far more than he seems, and that he is in fact in the employ of a foreign intelligence service. After his release from prison, the embittered Lekopo sets about his revenge against powerful men who abuse their political power. He takes refuge in Lesotho, masterminds a series of heists, car-hijackings and human trafficking, and expands his syndication back in South Africa. Using the contacts and information from the mayor's notebook, he manipulates the Lesotho government into a diplomatic feud with South Africa which treatens to escalate into a military conflict.

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Serviss, Shirley A. "Un/conditional love." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ30198.pdf.

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Ratliff, Marguerite Z. "Love of Nature." VCU Scholars Compass, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10156/1670.

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Johnson, Aubrey. "Love and leadership." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p068-0593.

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Wilkinson, Eleanor Kate. "Spaces of love." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.540760.

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李仕芬 and Shi-fan Lee. "Love and marriage." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1989. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31208721.

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Prezioso, Debra Nicole. "Love and Repair." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2004. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/424.

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Rinne, Pärttyli. "Kant on love." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/10833.

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S, Todorovych O. "PHILOSOPHY OF LOVE." Thesis, Національний авіаційний університет, 2017. http://er.nau.edu.ua/handle/NAU/28084.

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Shenker, Maura Ilan. "Vandalized love map." The Ohio State University, 1996. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1334336622.

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Montagne, Twyla Dawn. "Paradox of Love." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1212514785.

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de, la Pava Velez Benjamin. "Celluloid love : audiences and representations of romantic love in late capitalism." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2017. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3602/.

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My doctoral research analyses contemporary North American romantic films and the meanings brought to and made from them by socially and economically diverse audiences in London. It does so in the context of a historicised and ideologically alert account of connections between biological, psychoanalytic, anthropological and sociological theorisations of romantic love and its screen depictions. In particular, my audience-led textual analysis of discourses of Euro-American romantic love is driven by an engagement with three claims: First, that neoliberal or late-capitalist individualism has engendered a ‘crisis of romantic love’ which has reshaped the social and personal promises of coupledom and intimacy. Second, that popular film, the prime contemporary medium of representation for romance, cynically portrays this supposed crisis in an effort to capitalise on audience fears; and third, that audiences of these films experience the ‘crisis’, fashioning their romantic identities and practices in its shadow. Methodologically, the study involved a reflexive and recursive textual analysis of five North American films: Blue Valentine, (500) Days of Summer, Don Jon, Her, and Once. Using these films, I carried out 36 group interviews with (87) inhabitants of the multicultural Borough of Hackney, in East London, the results of which then fed into and informed my readings of the films. Subsequent thematic coding of group interviews revealed overlapping areas pertinent to the project: Technology, class, gender and coupledom. Findings include the suggestion that both romantic films and their audiences in Western Europe are currently adapting strategies, practices and ideas of romantic love and relationships to a new environment of precarious intimacy, technological mediation, and anxiety over economic, professional and personal stability. My analysis concludes that while intersections of class, race and gender continue to inflect audience experience and meaning-making, the current romantic environment that audiences are navigating - and that romantic films purportedly represent - is indeed markedly different from that of the last century. However, claims about the crisis of romantic love are not only greatly exaggerated, but usually also erroneously conflate the pain, anxiety and frailty of contemporary relationships and intimacy with a narcissistic, ego-centric definition of love as a form of consumption.

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Copas, Leigh. "Courtship, Loe, and Marriage in Othello: Shakespeare's Mockery of Courtly Love." TopSCHOLAR®, 2006. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/449.

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Othello is the forgery of a comedic play turned tragedy, for the play begins where the ordinary comedy would end. While many critics prefer to discuss the racial and exotic aspects of William Shakespeare's tragedy, there are several critics who focus on the role of love and the marital relationships that are also important in terms of interpreting the actions of key characters. Carol Thomas Neely, Maurice Charney, and several other literary critics have focused primarily on the role of marriage and love in Othello. The topic of marriage is generally discussed in terms of the wooing scene (Act 1, scene 3) and the perverted consummation of the marriage rights (Act 5, scene 1), but there is little reflection on the courtly love rules and conventions from most critical approaches. Courtly lovers were a dying breed in Shakespeare's time, yet he employs the use of basic courtly love principles not only in Othello, but in many of his works, particularly comedies like the Merry Wives of Windsor and As You Like Lt. The use of such principles allows ridicule and scorn to take place in the plays, but in Othello, courtly love introduces the themes of cuckoldry and, most importantly, women's loss of power. Women's loss of power is another issue that critics often deconstruct, yet this concept is also linked to the principles of courtly love. Within the courtly love tradition men were often submissive to women—in Chretien de Troyes' Lancelot and Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Tale," men tended to bend to the will of women, often finding happiness and true love by doing so. The Moor General Othello is first presented as a submissive husband, but as the play progresses, the embarrassment of Desdemona's presumed infidelity begins to unravel his ideas of love. Instead of following the courtly conventions of dealing with adultery, Othello transforms into the Renaissance ideal Petrarchan lover, one who seeks spiritual love over physical love and views sexuality as sinful. The ideas and rules of courtly love contradicted the principles of the Renaissance Petrarchan lover. However, Shakespeare employed the tradition of courtly love to emphasize mockery and satire as overall themes of the play. For example, Othello and Desdemona are presented first and foremost as lovers that uphold the conventions of courtly love—they try to keep their relationship as secretive as possible and Othello appears subject to the will of his beloved. However, later in the play, instead of listening to the guidance and innocent speeches of his beloved, Othello returns to the love philosophies of antiquity. To the philosophers of classic love philosophy, love, and therefore passion, was considered sinful and untrustworthy, especially as a firm foundation for progress. Ultimately, it is Othello's devotion to his militaristic and social images that outweighs his love for Desdemona. Yet, instead of separating from his wife, the Moor feels that the only way to win control over the lord-vassal relationship is to murder her, or as he claims in Act 5, scene 1, to "sacrifice her." Othello depicts the ideas and rules of courtly love outlined and recorded by Andres Capellanus in The Art of Courtly Love. Whilst his contemporaries still dreamed of fair maidens with sparkling eyes, Shakespeare explored other methods and conventions from the Middle Ages and combined, as well as contrasted, them with the newer conventions of the Renaissance. His story is one of anti-courtly love—a story focusing on the death of chivalry, romantic courting, and Othello's inability to love. The play detests, destroys, and mocks the ideas of courtly wooing, marriage, and fidelity. A play of power, Othello reflects such characteristics through a verisimilitude of circumstances, specifically seen in the wooing of Desdemona, the marriage bed of Othello and Desdemona, and the loss of women's power in the play. Tainted with "honorable" murder, jealousy, and the fabliau tradition of cuckoldry, Othello has been preserved as Shakespeare's great tale of love gone awry.

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Vakharia, Vanessa. "Peace, love, and pi : imagining a world where Paris Hilton loves mathematics." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28788.

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This thesis is a conceptual piece that explores how incorporating marketing theory and notions of cool into the realm of mathematics education may help to prevent qualified female students from self-selecting out of mathematics. It begins by exploring current perspectives on the problem of female attrition in educational and career trajectories involving math. Focusing on girls from Toronto, Ontario, who generally see themselves as part of the mainstream culture, this thesis speculates as to how these girls understand mathematics and their relationship to mathematics. The central purpose of this research is to understand whether these girls choose not to pursue math beyond the compulsory level because they are selecting courses to construct their identity on the basis of cool, using the same evaluation process they would when selecting products for consumption. Drawing extensively on literature, this thesis presents a novel perspective with which to view female disinterest in mathematics. This conceptual framework is then illuminated with participants’ data obtained through qualitative methodology to provide an experiential account of the conceptual. Grounding the empirical data atop the conceptual brings to life the interconnection of perspectives of scholars such as Walkerdine, Mendick, Demetriou, and Gladwell, illustrating how femininity, consumerism, and mathematics comprise our socially constructed reality. This thesis argues that treating math as a consumer good by marketing it accordingly might give rise to increased mathematical participation and enthusiasm by this particular segment of girls who rely on identity marketing for many of their consumption decisions. Finally, this argument is illuminated by a sample marketing plan that provides a practical example of how the ideas emergent from this study might applied. In conclusion, this thesis addresses the limitations and controversies that arise from the use of marketing as a means to promote education, the challenges of unfixing and subverting femininity, and the macro level possibilities that are opened up with the help of a micro level nudge in a different direction.

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Karekla, Melina. "Women look into love : reimaginings of heterosexual love in contemporary women's fiction." Thesis, Durham University, 2013. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/7742/.

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This thesis explores how contemporary women writers write about heterosexual love, considering not only the ways it has been implicated in patriarchal models and traditional romance plots, but also its portrayal in light of developments in feminism and fiction in the 1990s and 2000s. The thesis examines Carol Shields’s The Republic of Love (1992), Toni Morrison’s Jazz (1992), Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine (1993), Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup (2001), Ann Patchett’s Bel Canto (2001), Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin (2000) and Doris Lessing’s Love, Again (1995). In this study it emerges that as well as illustrating continuities, the scope of the treatment of love is opened up further in recent fiction as aspects like age or social, economic and historical factors are centralised and considered in interesting ways. The thesis also identifies some positive approaches to heterosexual love, as in, for example, the emphasis on men’s capacity for emotions. However, this is not always the case, as a writer like Lessing further develops a vision of love without providing an affirmative view. Thus, the contemporary women writers’ work can be said to contribute to understandings of heterosexual love on many different levels, even as feminist criticisms of repressive, patriarchal forms of romantic relationship continue to remain relevant.

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Harpela, J. (Janne). "Love, Kylie or metaphors of love in the lyrics of Kylie Minogue." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2015. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201506051789.

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This master’s thesis studies the metaphors of love in the selected lyrics of Kylie Minogue. Despite Minogue’s esteemed status as an internationally known performer, no extensive study has been conducted on concentrating the lyrics she herself has written. Furthermore, Minogue’s skills as a songwriter have been largely unacknowledged. This study analyses 33 song lyrics Minogue has written or co-written, focusing on metaphorical linguistic expressions with love as the target domain. The songs have been released either on Minogue’s albums, compilation albums or singles from the 1990s to the 2010s. The song lyrics have been gathered from the sleeve notes, from www.allmusic.com or transcribed by the author of this thesis. The conceptual metaphor theory by Lakoff and Johnson works as the theoretical framework through which the metaphoric expressions are approached. The theory has been further developed by Kövecses, for example, whose study is of great importance in my analysis as well. The data is divided into categories based on conceptual metaphors of love given by Lakoff and Johnson and Kövecses. Some conceptual metaphors have been adopted from other scholars as well or invented by the author of this thesis. These conceptual metaphors working as categories for the metaphorical expressions found in the data are further organised under the three main types of conceptual metaphors given by Lakoff and Johnson: structural, orientational and ontological metaphors. The hypothesis is that the figurative language Minogue uses is creative instead of consisting of mostly recycled conventional metaphors. The metaphorical expressions found in the data are analysed based on their source domains. Furthermore, the type of love in each metaphoric expression is examined, based on the traditional Greek types of love discussed in detail by Lewis and Tissari, for example, whose study on the matter plays an important role in analysing the metaphoric expressions. In addition, popular music, pop music and pop lyrics in general are discussed, giving background for the analysis. The lyrics include fresh metaphorical language and extended use of metaphors instead of consisting of simple, sporadic use of figurative language. Further study concentrating on only one type of conceptual metaphor, ontological container metaphors for example, would be very interesting, as would approaching the data through gender or queer studies
Tässä pro gradu -tutkielmassa tutkitaan rakkauden metaforia valikoidussa otteessa Kylie Minoguen sanoituksia. Huolimatta Minoguen asemasta arvostettuna kansainvälisenä esiintyjänä, laajempaa tutkimusta hänen omista sanoituksistaan ei ole tehty. Lisäksi Minoguen taitoihin lauluntekijänä ei ole kiinnitetty suurta huomiota. Tutkielman aineisto koostuu 33 sanoituksesta, jotka Minogue on joko kirjoittanut itse tai joiden kirjoittamiseen hän on osallistunut. Tutkielman fokus on metaforisissa ilmauksissa, joiden kohteena on rakkaus. Kappaleet on julkaistu joko Minoguen studioalbumeilla, kokoelmalevyillä tai singleillä 1990-luvulta 2010-luvulle. Kappaleiden sanoitukset on kerätty joko levyjen kansilehdiltä tai verkkosivustolta www.allmusic.com, tai sitten tutkielman tekijä on litteroinut ne henkilökohtaisesti. Tutkielman teoriakehys rakentuu pitkälti Lakoffin ja Johnsonin luoman kognitiivisen metaforateorian varaan, jota esimerkiksi Kövecses on myöhemmin kehittänyt eteenpäin. Sanoitusten rakkausteemaisia metaforisia ilmauksia tulkitaan tätä teoriakehystä vasten. Tutkimusaineisto on jaoteltu kategorioihin, jotka perustuvat sopiviin käsitemetaforiin, joita Lakoff ja Johnson sekä Kövecses tutkimuksissaan mainitsevat. Joitakin käsitemetaforia on lisäksi omaksuttu toisilta tutkijoilta ja muutamia tutkielman kirjoittaja on luonut itse. Nämä käsitemetaforat on jaoteltu kolmen käsitemetaforatyypin mukaan strukturaali- eli rakennemetaforiin, orientaatiometaforiin ja ontologisiin metaforiin. Tutkielman hypoteesina on, että Minoguen sanoitusten kuvakielisyys on uutta luovaa eikä ainoastaan vanhojen konventionaalisten metaforien kierrättämistä. Aineistosta löytyvien metaforisten kielellisten ilmausten analysointi tapahtuu niiden lähteiden perusteella. Lisäksi jokaisen metaforisen ilmaisun kohdalla pohditaan, mitä rakkauden tyyppiä ilmaisu edustaa. Tässä analyysi pohjautuu antiikin Kreikan filosofiasta nouseviin rakkauden tyyppeihin, joista esimerkiksi Lewis ja Tissari ovat kirjoittaneet. Lisäksi tutkielmassa perehdytään tarvittavissa määrin populaarimusiikkiin, popmusiikkiin ja poplyriikoihin, mikä omalta osaltaan tukee analyysia. Sanoituksissa esiintyy tuoreita metaforisia kielikuvia ja laajennettuja metaforia satunnaisen kuvakielen käytön sijaan. Hedelmällisiä jatkotutkimuksen aiheita olisivat keskittyminen esimerkiksi ontologisiin säiliömetaforiin tai aineiston tarkasteleminen gender-tutkimuksen tai queer-teorian kautta

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Whitt, Brendan. "THE PASSION OF LOVE OR THE LOVE OF PASSION IN A-MINOR." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1559945514692331.

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Nilsson, Magnus, and Tobias Sandberg. "Mutual Love and Attachment : A cross-sectional dyadic study exploring asymmetrical love." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för psykologi (PSY), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-85619.

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The overarching question of the study was how common mutual love is, and to what extent attachment relates to relationship asymmetries. Four research questions and four hypotheses were posed and explored using a cross-sectional survey design with data analyzed using quantitative methods. Instruments were employed to measure passionate love, companionate love, partner value, emotional involvement and attachment. All four hypotheses found partial support. The main result show that a) asymmetries are relatively common on all scales b) mutual love means increased satisfaction, but mainly for women c) for most couples partners take turn at being the strong link, and this fluctuating dynamic leads to increased satisfaction c) attachment anxiety is related to asymmetries in romantic obsession rather than general passion d) avoidance in men relate to asymmetries in passionate love whereas avoidance in women relate to asymmetries in companionate love e) it seems common to have some form of positive illusions about whether one’s relationship is mutual or not. Finally, disagreeing about emotional involvement affects satisfaction more than actual asymmetries in love. The conclusion drawn is that honest communication is more important than mutual love.

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Parrish, Leslie. "Love and Low Serotonin." TopSCHOLAR®, 2008. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/371.

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The following is a novella that depicts a young man and woman in search of differing goals, but the essence of their goals does have something in common: each of their pursuits, if obtained, allows for self-control and recovered lifestyle. However, their lives are far from average throughout the story. Themes such as bulimia, drug use, loveless sex, voyeurism, lucid dreaming and emergency room healthcare are explored in the form of fiction. Both of the main characters in this story explore their world with a measure of obsession, and like any worthy character, their obsessions transform into decisions and actions that highlight aspects of society and psychology; in this case it is American college culture and youthful minds. It is up to the reader to become an explorer also. S/he may turn the pages with an objective mind, or with a sympathetic one. Either will be presented with the same questions: questions concerning self-image, companionship, healthcare socioeconomics, and deviant behavior.

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Ristic, Nevenka. "Food, philosophy and love." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007478.

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This thesis is a metaphilosophical investigation into how food can be handled philosophically. The first chapter considers the question of whether food can be the subject matter of philosophy, and concludes that there are three possible ways: Foodist Philosophy, Philosophy of Food, and Philosophy and Food. This thesis focuses on the category Foodist Philosophy. The second chapter develops an account of foodist philosophy: it is a style of philosophy that assumes that our food and eating practices are fundamental aspects of the human condition. The third chapter analyses Plato's concept of love in the Symposium and these conclusions are objected to in a foodist critique in the fourth chapter.
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Sutton, Eleanor. "Love : a noble madness?" Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/27493.

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Throughout literary history, love has been described as a form of madness, which bears a likeness to a manic state in its simultaneous mix of euphoria and dysphoria. The aim of this study is to explore empirically the similarities and differences between the states of love and mania. It is hypothesised that "passionate" love is part of the spectrum of mania in terms of symptomatology, equivalent to hypomania in level of psychological disruption. It is proposed that emotion regulation plays a mediating role in the expression of manic symptoms in either state. Data relating to symptoms reported in mania by 121 adults with bipolar disorder were compared to symptoms reported by a control group relating to recalled episodes of love. A sub-group of 18 individuals with bipolar disorder completed questionnaires relating to episodes of love. Comparisons were made between symptoms of love and mania between and within groups. The profile of manic and depressive symptoms in love and mania were found to share striking similarity and were significantly correlated. Emotion regulation strategies were found to correlate with the degree of severity of symptoms reported. The finding that love and mania share such similar profiles is discussed in terms of implications for diagnosis and classification of spectrum disorders. The mediating role of emotion regulation in the manifestation of psychopathology in love and mania is explored. Attachment theory is proposed as a useful framework for conceptualising the underlying system shared by both states. The role of cognitive appraisal of emotional states in the severity of psychological and functional disruption in love and in mania is discussed and proposed as an appropriate level for clinical intervention.

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Beaudin, Giselda. "After love [short stories] /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2006.

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Jones, Thomas Paul. "The phenomenology of love." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.484203.

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Hess, Terry L. "Love has funny faces." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2000. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/198.

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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf.edu/Systems/DigitalInitiatives/DigitalCollections/InternetDistributionConsentAgreementForm.pdf You may also contact the project coordinator, Kerri Bottorff, at kerri.bottorff@ucf.edu for more information.
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Cook, Robin. "Divine impassibility, divine love." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2006. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/55419/.

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Since the idea that God is loving is a non-negotiable part of Christian theism, it is important that the impassibilist try to show that the idea of a loving but impassible God is intelligible. Particular problems in this respect include conceptually reconciling the undisturbed blessedness of God's life with His care and concern for the world; trying to explain how a God who cannot have subjective experiences of suffering and emotion can fully understand the human condition; finding a suitable analogy for divine love from human experiences of love; and showing that the idea of love does not essentially involve emotions.

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Neoh, Weng Fei Joshua. "Law, love and freedom." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/285411.

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How does one lead a life of law, love and freedom? This inquiry has very deep roots in the Judeo-Christian tradition. Indeed, the divergent answers to this inquiry mark the transition from Judeo to Christian. This dissertation returns to those roots to trace the routes that these ideas have taken as they move from the sacred to the secular. The argument of this dissertation is threefold. First, it argues that the concepts of law, love and freedom are each internally polarized. Each concept contains, within itself, conflicting values. Paul's equivocation in his letters is a striking manifestation of this internal polarization. Second, it argues that, while values are many, my life is one. Hence, one needs to combine the plurality of values within a singular life. Values find their coherence within a form of life. There are, at least, two ways of leading a life of law, love and freedom: monastic versus antinomian. Third, it argues that the Reformation transformed these religious ideals into political ideologies. The monastic ideal is politically manifested as constitutionalism, and the antinomian ideal is politically manifested as anarchism. There are, at least, two ways of creating a polity of law, love and freedom: constitutional versus anarchic. To mount the threefold argument, the dissertation deploys a whole range of disciplinary tools. The dissertation draws on analytic jurisprudence in its analysis of law; ethics and aesthetics in its analysis of love; political philosophy in its analysis of freedom; biblical scholarship in its interpretation of Paul; the history of ideas in its study of the formation and transformation of these ideas; and moral philosophy in concluding how one could lead a life of law, love and freedom.

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Clausen, Ginger Tate, and Ginger Tate Clausen. "Love and Organic Unities." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/620833.

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Love is crucial to a good human life; it animates our most meaningful relationships, and it also reveals to us what we value and who we hope to become. My research focuses on the relationship between love and valuing, and defends a version of the quality theory of love. According to quality theories, love's fittingness is determined by properties of the beloved. Quality theories face many objections. In the first part of my dissertation, I argue that five prominent objections to quality theories miss the mark. In the second part, I argue that a less-appreciated objection to quality theories, the problem of love's object, has not yet received a satisfying response. In the third part, I present a new quality theory that both avoids the problem of love's object and is independently well-motivated. Brief summaries of these three parts follow. Quality theories, again, hold that love's fittingness is determined by properties of the beloved. These theories contrast with relationship theories, on which love's fittingness is determined by features of the (substantive, historical, ongoing) relationship between lover and beloved. I motivate quality theories by arguing that loving someone and valuing a relationship are distinct phenomena, subject to different norms. I then defend quality theories in general against several objections. The most important of these is the fungibility objection: if love is fitting because of qualities of the beloved, then the lover should gladly swap out a loved one for a qualitatively similar other. I argue that this objection rests on the moralistic fallacy, which involves treating norms extrinsic to an emotion-e.g. moral or prudential norms-as if they were intrinsic to it. I show how the quality theory can accommodate the importance of loyalty to relationships without requiring the impossible - that our loved ones be the most fitting of all possible candidates. Next, I turn to an objection that is harder to answer than most quality theorists allow, the problem of love's object. Briefly, if we love people on the basis of certain of their properties, then our love must be for these properties, not for the person who has them. Some (Delaney, Keller) respond to this problem by distinguishing the ground from the object of love: even if some of the beloved's properties ground love-i.e. make it fitting-the beloved as a whole is nevertheless the object of love. I argue that the ground/object distinction is no more than a narrow, technical fix. To address the problem meaningfully, the quality theorist must explain why the object of love is also valued by love. Kolodny attempts such an explanation, but implausibly maintains that the beloved is valued only extrinsically. Others (Velleman, Badhwar) respond to the fungibility objection and the problem of love's object together, by making the beloved's "true self" both the object and the ground of love. This is more promising, but neither account works; in answering the fungibility objection, each winds up still vulnerable to the problem of love's object. Finally, I propose a new quality theory that answers the problem of love's object and is independently well-motivated. I argue that in loving someone, we value them for qualities attributable to them as an organic unity, not for qualities that constitute merely a part of them. That is, love does not value some aspect of a person, like her wit or good looks; rather, love is a way of seeing the whole person as possessing some valuable property, such as beauty or goodness, that is attributable to organic unities. This general approach has many advantages. It allows the quality theorist to say that love intrinsically values the whole person, because the valuable property is attributable only to the beloved as a whole, not merely to some of her parts. It also explains why love is fitting, because the properties in question really are worthy of a positive emotional response. Finally, because the valuable property needn't depend on common base properties, the organic unity view offers an expansive account of what we might fittingly love.

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Spencer, Perveez Mody. "Love-marriage in Delhi." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2000. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272298.

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Mohamed, Ferial. "The worship of Love." Master's thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32820.

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Rania, a young introverted woman, lives in a traditional Muslim family. It is a working class family, of Indian and Cape Malay heritage. Her parents married each other against her paternal grandmother's plans for her son, and because of their disapproval of Rania's mother, it caused a rift isolating both Rania and her mother from them. Rania feels stuck in an environment where she doesn't fit in and feels that she doesn't belong. Feeling like this, she escapes into a dream world of books and art to survive her overbearing mother, Shazia, who is both emotionally repressed and verbally abusive toward her. Her father, Ismail (Miley) Ahmed, fuels the drama with his obsessive control which Rania questions, yet obeys. Shazia, heartbroken from a previous love lost, pretends not to be interested in the silliness of love, and feigns disinterest in her husband's suspected extramarital affairs, yet does everything she can to hold onto him. Until he humiliates her beyond her capacity to forgive and she throws him out, but still secretly holds onto a hope that he will want to come back to her. Amara is Shazia's daughter from her previous husband, Rania's stepsister, and Shazia's favourite. Shazia has great plans for her, but she is a strong and free spirited young woman, and rebels against her doting mother by following her own bliss. She chooses happiness over security, even if it means defying her mother's wishes and breaking her mother's heart. Rania, obedient and lonely, yearns to meet someone she can connect to, someone who can save her from the world she believes her parents are keeping her trapped in, but she may be the one blocking herself. It is a coming of age story where three women struggle to find happiness amid difficult circumstances. The events which unfold, change their lives forever.

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Blissett, Brandon. "The Aesthetic of Love." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33343.

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Indigenous architecture is a loving response to the natural conditions surrounding oneâ s inhabitation of architecture. It is designed and built by those who will inhabit it and is necessarily designed in coordination with both environmental considerations and practical (or use-oriented) considerations. The product of such a building shows the love present in it both as an independent architectural entity and as an inhabited structure. The late 20th century has seen a revival with regard to appreciating this aesthetic. The â greenâ movement had hoped to open peopleâ s eyes to a certain aesthetic of conservation but unfortunately has lost sight of the ideological foundations of its existence. My proposal is to look back to these roots of architecture. Not to revert architecture to mere building, but to find the aesthetic through the love put into the creation of a purposeful structure intended for a specific set of criteria and inhabitants for an intentional duration in a specific spot. We must look intently at the indigenous builders for how to find the balance of sustainability, response to environment and the physical aesthetic.
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Henderson, Lisa A. "The Story of Love." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1144759270.

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Hayden, Alexander. "No Love for Illusion." VCU Scholars Compass, 2013. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3097.

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I remember being young and being told that birds had special pads on their feet which prevent them from getting electrocuted when they sit on electrical lines. I was told on a different occasion not to put my finger into electrical sockets, so, one day I tried a key. I do not have special pads on my hands. In middle school science class I explained the fascinating pad theory to my class only to find out that I was wrong, and if I aim to be so serious sometimes, perhaps I could at least be funny.

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