This thesis looks at the function of signatures in visual art using the theory of Jacques Derrida and a series of paradigmatic historical examples. Specifically, it departs from ‘Signature Event Context’ (SEC) to establish signature outside the idiom of visual art as a social pr…
To be successful in today s turbulent business environment it is very important for a company to exhibit flexibility in its processes, activities and interfaces. Such a flexible approach enables firms to adapt and improvise in order to achieve the best possible outcomes. In spit…
Problem and Purpose. The Seventh-day Adventist Church has a deep concern for youth and young adults' spirituality. Hence the church established institutions of higher learning with the aim of restoring in youth and young adults the image of God in which they were created. There …
The California-Nevada Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church exhibits a faster rate of decline than the already declining Protestant church in the United States. American consumerism and the professionalization of the church reveal a broken ecclesiology and missiology.…
Social scientists have long been interested in the ways that early life and educational attainment are related to racial health disparities among older adults in the US. With this dissertation, I contribute to this literature by developing an approach to studying “race” and heal…
In this interdisciplinary dissertation, I propose a relational and nonhuman-centered ethical disposition for street photography. I argue that an ethical disposition is necessarily relational, since to exist is to exist in relation—to human and nonhuman others. This dissertation …