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An analysis of the player avatar protagonist in video game narratives

Turgay, Murat Doğa

Video games depict various fantastic scenarios that players engage in. Fantasy has been a point of interest for humans for much of recorded history and fantasy fulfilment isan important appeal for people to play video games. The experience of such a fantasy can significantly enhance the player’s experience in games. Players experience fantasy in games through its elements:Culmination of gameplay, narrative story and the design of protagonist character(s) are how this fantasy is relayed to the player. The design of these three parts is significant in shaping the player’s fantasy and overall exp ...Daha fazlası

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The investment strategies of art funds

Angün, Pelin

This thesis study examines the conditions that laid the groundwork for art funds in particular, their formation and development processes, and subsequently analyses the properties of art funds as a type of investment fund, and their structure and diversity, ultimately closely examining their investment strategies in detail through examples. Although artworks have been known to be valuable for centuries, the classification and acceptance of artworks as an asset class is a newer phenomenon that occurred in the last century. The operating mechanisms unique to the art markets evolved within the li ...Daha fazlası

Preprint 2023 Yeditepe University Academic and Open Access Information System 105 Görüntülenme

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Sociological factors affecting the judicial decision making of judges in contentious cases in Turkey

Bayır Oğuz, Arca Begüm

The judicial decision-making process refers to the judge’s process of concluding a case. According to legal formalism, the judge decides based on legal rules in their decision- making processes. As opposed to legal formalism, legal realism argues that judges are affected by multiple factors in their judicial decision-making processes, such as their life, education, professional experiences, personal beliefs, etc. The research question is, what are the sociological factors that affect the judges’ judicial decision-making processes in controversial cases in Turkey? The significance of this resea ...Daha fazlası

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Absurdism in communication based on Albert Camus

Durak, Gülberk

Albert Camus, one of the pioneers of existentialism and absurdism, identified the search for meaning in a meaningless universe as "absurd" by defining the limits of absurdism in his work The Myth of Sisyphus. According to him, a person knows that he will die while trying to add value to his life. This contradiction brings out the "absurd". Because death is a tragic end for Man. Another absurd work of Albert Camus, The Stranger is dominated by an incongruous sensibility. This novel of Camus, who argues that the world is absurd and meaningless, is considered one of the most important works o ...Daha fazlası

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The case of Marginalised Victorian women: An analysis of Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist and hard times through Kate millett’s feminism

Kırmızıgül, Tuba

The present dissertation aims to analyse Victorian society and its reflection in the 19th-century novels such as Hard Times and Oliver Twist within the feminist framework. Discriminative attitudes in a patriarchal society and how females meet abuse from childhood are among the main concerns; therefore, these are also examined with a great emphasis and added to the research. Their miserable condition inspires the author of this study to shed light upon the women and children within their fictionalisation both in the Victorian novels and in different periods. Kate Millett’s Sexual Politics is co ...Daha fazlası

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The Turkish right and the Republican People's Party - the case of 1977 general elections

Arslan, Fahri Kaan

The definition of ideological cleavage in Turkish political life through the concepts of right and left began with the orientation of the Republican People's Party to the Left of Center in the 1960s. This separation evolved into a deep polarization and social crisis that would turn into a low-intensity civil war during the 1970s. The 1977 General Elections were held in this crisis atmosphere. In this framework, the political characteristics of the period within the scope of our study have been tried to be scrutinized through the right-left divergence. This thesis aims to analyze the points of ...Daha fazlası

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Power and beauty relations in the picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde and Lady Audley’s secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Özkan, Elif Sarah

This thesis endeavours to explore the enchanting power of beauty and its history. This thesis aims at examining the enchanting power of beauty on selected characters in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray and Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret. It further aims at examining the effects of possessing the power of beauty on the characters that possess it, namely Dorian Gray and Lady Audley. This thesis particularly focuses on the descriptions of the portraits of the protagonists in the two novels, on their effects on whoever looks at them and on the complex relationship between pi ...Daha fazlası

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Semiotic analysis of lovecraftian cosmic horror movies and an evaluation of horror genre in Turkish cinema

Önder, Melih

Cosmic Horror, developed by H. P. Lovecraft, is a subgenre of science fiction, fantasy and horror. Cosmic horror is about the fear of the unknowable. It is usually about threatening beings from outer space or ancient malevolent mysteries. It has also played a key role in the development of horror cinema. Unlike stereotypical horror themes, deep stories about the pains of human existence are included in the cosmic horror subgenre. This thesis presents a research on feature films that are directly or indirectly related to thecosmic horror genre. With this aim, some sample films were selected and ...Daha fazlası

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Effect of 12 September 1980 coup on Turkish foreign policy

Aykan, Güven

This study aimed toexamine the 12 September 1980 coup d'état in detail and to evaluate its impacton the Turkish foreign policy. Therefore, literature reviewmethod was utilized in this study. Firstly, the reasons leading to the 12 September 1980 coup d'état were mentioned and then, Turkey's relations with other countries after the 12 September 1980 coup d’état were analyzed. The impact of the 12 September 1980 coup d’état on the political relations between Turkey and other countries was evaluated andthe effects and evaluations on Turkey's foreign policy were interpreted and expressed. In this c ...Daha fazlası

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Assessing media literacy: an analysis of university students

Özdinçler, Balkı

Media literacy refers to the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and create messages in a wide variety of media modes and formats. Even though the media is so globalized and easily accessible, it is necessary to correctly perceive and read the messages, make sense of them, analyze, evaluate, criticize, etc. Before accessing media literacy equipment, the individual is only in a passive position in front of the messages presented by the media. However, with the media literacy equipment, individuals take an active position that evaluates questions, analyzes the media messages, and keeps a disti ...Daha fazlası

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The meaning of ideology: a comparative analysis of George Orwell’s Animal Farm and Yaşar Kemal’s The Sultan of the Elephants and Red Bearded Lame Ant

Özpınar, Ece

In this work, the novels Animal Farm by George Orwell and The Sultan of the Elephants and Red Bearded Lame Ant by Yaşar Kemal are analysed comparatively through the Marxist literary theory benefiting from Georg Lukács, Terry Eagleton and Lucien Goldmann. This study examines how Orwell and Kemal from different geographies, nationalities and traditions have been influenced by the Marxist literary tradition. The figures in the two novels are compared according to their characteristics/profile, the changes they have gone through, and the protagonists’ endings in their own story. The features of th ...Daha fazlası

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The adaptation study of the brief form of the affective Neuroscience personality scales (BANPS) to Turkish

Uçar, Nehir

The aim of this study is to adapt Brief Form of Affective Neuroscience Scales (BANPS) into Turkish culture and examine its reliability and validity. BANPS was originally developed by Barrett and colleagues (2013) to shorten and improve the psychometric properties of ANPS (Davis et al., 2003). The BANPS consisted of 33 items and six scales which aim to assess personality traits on the basis of six affective systems (SEEK, PLAY, CARE, FEAR, ANGER, SADNESS). The reliability and validity analyses of Turkish BANPS were conducted with three groups of participants, including all participants (N= 873) ...Daha fazlası

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Koleksiyon [1]

İlgili Araştırmacılar [18]

Ambargo Durumu [1]

Tam Metin [1]

Eser Adı [20]

Yazar [Asıl] [20]

Yayın Tarihi [1]

Yazar Departmanı [20]

Yazar [KatkıdaBulunan] [20]

Yazar [KatkıdaBulunan] Kurum [20]

Konu Başlıkları [Genel] [20]

Yayın Türü [Ortam] [1]

Dil [1]

Yayıncı [1]

Erişim Hakkı [1]

Yayın Turu [Akademik] [1]

Turgay, Murat Doğa

Angün, Pelin

Bayır Oğuz, Arca Begüm

Durak, Gülberk

Kırmızıgül, Tuba

Arslan, Fahri Kaan

Özkan, Elif Sarah

Önder, Melih

Aykan, Güven

Özdinçler, Balkı

Özpınar, Ece

Uçar, Nehir