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Random Acts
<p>Random Acts explores the various stages of a woman’s life, from adolescence through middle age, and the people who support her along the way, all of whom ultimately prepare her to face some of life’s most painful challenges with love, humor, and strength.</p>
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Design acts
… about built use. We give reasons for intentional acts and are responsible for knowing that the reasons we give for design acts are as relevant and correct as we can know them in terms of their built use. The reasons we give for design acts distinguish them from other acts, such as drawing, which …
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Careless Human Acts
The novel is divided into three sections, a few days at a three times in an 18-year relationship. Part One is set in June 1976. A dissolute couple is flying home from Europe to Johannesburg. Elsa, who has concealed sexual contraband, is nervous. Her irascible husband, Derk, is drunk; plagued by …
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Acts of Liturgy
This project is a Catholic church located in downtown Blacksburg, VA. Whereas many religious buildings seem to rely heavily on iconography in order to designate the building as sacred, this project explicitly seeks an architectural expression of the liturgy that exists independently, but not …
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Community Transportation Acts Archive
The Community Transportation Acts Archive is a planning and design approach for advancing transportation planning based in the experiences of individuals with mobility challenges and/or transit reliance. “Community transportation acts” are actions taken by residents—whether within systems or …
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Illocutionary Acts and Transformational Grammar
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T17:07:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6812100.pdf: 17007771 bytes, checksum: c6ffafc755af1029005514966d09daa6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1968
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The Motif of Lovesickness in the Acts of Paul and Thecla and the Acts of Andrew
… in two early Christian ascetic texts - the Acts of Paul and Thecla and the Acts of Andrew. In order to argue that the authors of these texts utilized lovesickness as a motif, I contextualize the illness in contemporaneous literature including medical texts, Greek poetry and literature, and …
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Modelling Speech Acts in Conversational Discourse
… relationship and interaction of speech acts in conversational dialogue, especially those features which preceding research has failed to represent. Speech acts are defined by means of schemata that match the state of the prevailing conversational context space. Each possible contexgt …
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Acts of Resistance: Nurses' Personal Narratives
Acts of resistance can be expressions of creativity, protest or non-cooperation by oppressed groups. Resistance is seen as always present in the face of domination. Acts of resistance can help us to understand how the powerless mediate power relations, and they can actually give hope to the …
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The Random Occurrence of Parallel Acts
… as a whole illustrate the destructive repetitive acts of four generations of addiction and how these acts influenced each coming generation. They also demonstrate the inability to see events clearly when in the middle of turmoil. Through the use of reflection and recollection each piece links to …
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Alterpieces: Artworks as Shifting Speech Acts
… artworks, under certain conditions, are speech acts. They have propositional content, and they have a certain force: they can do things such as assert, protest, and criticise – things we would normally do with words. I defend these contested claims against several dissenters, and explore some …
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Women and the Gospel in Luke-Acts
Th. D., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1955 [January Mid-Session Convocation]
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Acts of Writing: Writings on Contemporary Performance
… can disclose the dynamics of performance. The 'acts of writing' are seen as an active as well as reflective methodology - an engagement with the event of performance understood as a located, contextualised practice. The published work presented here sets out some of the underlying conditions and …
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"Beowulf maþelode....": text linguistics and speech acts
… the structure of the speeches; and speech acts because they attempt to examine what people “do” when they speak. Each time Beowulf says something in the poem, we are prompted to ask what he is doing and what his intentions are. Speech act theory is a systematic attempt to answer such …
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Capital: A Contemporary Opera in Two Acts
Capital is a two act opera which incorporates a range of different stylistic elements as a means of communicating with a broad audience and promoting discourse about the future of the city of Canberra. This dissertation encompasses a detailed exegesis of my research as well as the final score of …
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Capital: A Contemporary Opera in Two Acts
Capital is a two act opera which incorporates a range of different stylistic elements as a means of communicating with a broad audience and promoting discourse about the future of the city of Canberra. This dissertation encompasses a detailed exegesis of my research as well as the final score of …
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Planning multisentential English text using communicative acts
… motivated an integrated theory of communicative acts which characterizes text at the level of rhetorical acts (e.g., describe, define, narrate), illocutionary acts (e.g., inform, request), and locutionary acts (e.g., ask, command). Taken as a whole, the identified communicative acts characterize …
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