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Showing 1 to 20 of 330 for “""The Grave""”.
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Weeping at the grave, we make our song : Alleluia - Lament and thanksgiving in Church of England funerals
The thesis considers the changing nature of funerals carried in England over the last twenty years and a possible response by Church of England ministers. Those changes are outlined in terms of the changes in venue of funerals, the changes in content and the changes in officials conducting …
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Taken to the grave. An archaeozoological approach assessing the role of animals as crematory offerings in first millennium AD Britain.
The crematory funerary rites practiced by those living in parts of mainland Britain during the first millennium AD included burning complete or parts of animals on the pyre. This thesis highlights the potential for archaeozoological analysis of faunal pyre goods using assemblages from the first …
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'The grave and solemn Earl' : a political study of John Kennedy, sixth Earl of Cassillis during the Covenanting movement, 1637-1651
The Scottish Covenanting Movement can be viewed as a reaction to the absentee monarchy of Charles I and his liturgical innovations designed to bring Scotland into religious uniformity with England. The Covenanters asserted their right to uphold Presbyterian church governance and rebelled against …
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The Commemorative Activity at the Grave of Munich Air Disaster Victim, Duncan Edwards: A Social and Cultural Analysis of the Commemorative Networks of a Local Sporting Hero
The Munich Air Disaster claimed the lives of 23 people in a plane crash in Munich in 1958. It is a significant event within modern England’s cultural history as a number of Manchester United footballers, known as the Busby Babes were amongst the dead. The players who died have continued to be …
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Grave Desires
<p>For my thesis, I am submitting collection of short stories called Grave Desires that could be categorized as speculative fiction containing supernatural, fantastical, or futuristic elements. More specifically, each story falls under the genre of fantasy, magic realism, or science fiction. The …
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Every Spot a Grave: The Poetry of Abraham Lincoln
… mission statement: "All men are created equal." The nation's most successful politicians have understood the power of words. Theodore Roosevelt claimed the nation's chief executive could lay out his agenda from the "bully pulpit," while Franklin Delano Roosevelt calmed the public's fears …
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Stretched Out On Her Grave: The Evolution of a Perversion
The word "necrophilia" brings a particular definition readily to mind that of an act of sexual intercourse with a corpse, probably a female corpse at that. But the definition of the word did not always have this connotation; quite literally the word means "love of the dead," or "a morbid attraction …
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Dying Traditions: The History of Community Grave Diggings in Unicoi County.
<p>The subject of this thesis deals with instances where members of the community dig the grave for the grieving family. This thesis is limited to Unicoi County. Looking at past and present occurrences of this practice, this project will explain how it came to be and why it is still being …
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Whodunnit? Grave-robbery in early medieval northern and western Europe
This thesis brings together all that is currently known of early medieval grave reopening in northern and western Europe. It investigates in detail an intensive outbreak of grave-robbery in 6th-7th century Kent. This is closely related to the same phenomenon in Merovingia: an example of the import …
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From cradle to grave: The influence of mRNA metabolism on plant stress responses
The sessile nature of plants necessitates complex molecular responses to external stimuli, including environmental change. As the intermediary between DNA and protein, mRNA is a crucial cog in plant gene expression, and consequently a key regulatory target. During stress, control of mRNA metabolism …
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From cradle to grave: The influence of mRNA metabolism on plant stress responses
The sessile nature of plants necessitates complex molecular responses to external stimuli, including environmental change. As the intermediary between DNA and protein, mRNA is a crucial cog in plant gene expression, and consequently a key regulatory target. During stress, control of mRNA metabolism …
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Grave expectations : participatory greywater management in two Western Cape shack settlements
South Africa faces enormous challenges in the face of burgeoning urbanisation and the growth of underserviced shack settlements. Waste water disposal is but one of many aspects of basic services that are lacking. This anthropological dissertation is focused upon a Water Research Commission funded …
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Dying to be seen : an interpretive study of porcelain portraits on grave markers
This article explores the roles that porcelain portraits on grave markers play in identity construction and performance. Through semi-structured interviews, the biographies of five individuals are examined and then compared to determine norms or differences regarding their views on sepulchral …
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Stretched Out on Her Grave: Pathological Attitudes Toward Death in British Fiction 1788-1909
… as necrophillic or obsessed with death. While the label of necrophilia is an apt description of the fetishistic representations of dead women prevalent at the end of the century, it is too narrow to fit literature produced earlier in the century. This is not to say that abnormal attitudes …
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