dissertation
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Walcott-George, who played a major role in setting up the camps and based his dissertation on the work, described the experience as deeply humbling.
From Science Daily • Apr. 18, 2026
Arendt had written her dissertation on St. Augustine, who held curiosity to be dangerous, often tempting one to sin because of an insatiable hunger for one sight after another.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
The deaths of her grandparents in quick succession left her so distraught — they had raised her — that she never finished her dissertation.
From Salon • Mar. 17, 2026
Meanwhile Caroline Cronjaeger, a 25-year-old student, is writing her dissertation on Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway - a book she found on YouTube.
From BBC • Feb. 8, 2026
His name is Ongah, and he is an exchange student from Kenya who is writing a dissertation at N.Y.U. on the French symbolists of the 19th cent.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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