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Showing 1 to 20 of 86 for “"After Death"”.
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Poe´s Life After Death
… is Edgar Allan Poe and how his life, works and death have contributed to the fact that he is such a renowned name today, even though it has been 160 years from his death. Firstly, after the introduction, Poe‘s life will be accounted for. Poe‘s life was a tragedy and his death is a mystery. His …
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Mortality and regeneration: Bebelibe understandings of life after death.
… People’s views about what happens following death are based on the cyclic flow of kɛbodikɛ (vital force) and mtakimɛ (agentive purpose). Death occurs when kɛbodikɛ and mtakimɛ leave the physical body. Despite this, their bond with it is not completely severed. Only once the flesh has …
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Life after death : techniques for the prognostication of coma outcomes after cardiac arrest
… neurological outcomes of patients in coma after cardiac arrest, but the association between EEG features and outcomes is time-dependent. Recent advances in machine learning allow temporally-dependent features to be learned from the EEG waveforms in a fully-automated way, allowing for …
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Life after death: An interpretative phenomenological study of men who have experienced a sudden bereavement
The presented study investigated the lived experience of suddenly bereaved men. The aim was to identify the felt impact of such a phenomenon, including the meaning men ascribed to their experience, and to provide insight into interventions which participants recognised as helpful and unhelpful in …
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I Shall But Love Thee Better After Death: A Rediscovery of Eleanor Everest Freer’s Sonnets from the Portuguese, Op. 22 (1910)
Though largely unheard of today, Chicagoan Eleanor Everest Freer (1864-1942) was a relentless and effective supporter of early American vocal music and an accomplished composer. Freer not only possessed musical talent and a refined compositional craft, but also the foresight and means to preserve …
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Inheritance and redistribution: exploring the constitutional commitment towards redistribution in the private law of succession
The inevitability of the death of all property owners means that the redistribution of property at death is a basic function of the law of succession. In the systems that recognise testamentary freedom (including South Africa), the right to distribute property after death is considered as a natural …
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Private initiation and the afterlife in classical Greece
… for a fee, offered their clients a better fate after death. I survey the evidence for their activities in classical Greece, and try to determine the date they came into being, which I suggest may be the end of the fifth century, their relation to other forms of religion such as the cult of …
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The Persistence of Place in Appalachia: The Phenomena of Post-Death Migration, 1930-1970
… to find work as the coal fields played out and after the Great Depression often returned, or were returned after death, to their birthplaces for burial. Further investigation revealed that the religious beliefs that were deeply embedded in so many mountaineers' lives played a large part in their …
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Immigrant Views of Hospice and Posthumous Repatriation
… immigrants on their final resting place after death, posthumous repatriation, whether there is a need for repatriation, and if a lack of such need is preventing immigrant groups from remaining in the United States and benefiting from end-of-life services such as hospice. A quantitative …
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Z Word
… Sarah, Frank does his best to deal with life after death.</p>
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The search for salvation: lay faith in Scotland, 1480-1560
… It was necessary to explain lay images of the afterlife in order to understand the path which laypeople chose to attain salvation, so chapters on the Day of Judgement, heaven, hell and purgatory should be seen as the context for understanding the chapters on God, Mary and Jesus. The first …
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Real vision and right language: Browning's poetics and metamorphosis
… the ideas of an other-worldly existence for man after death and of a miraculous rebirth into earthly existence, carry inherent religious significance. But the poet has doubts about the efficacy of language to render them. Whereas some of Browning's personae communicate their understanding of the …
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Underground Radio
… "Ascension," the story of a woman who spends her afterlife as an elevator, captures this rising and falling literally; "The Time My Back was on Television" and the science fiction "Batch 49" explore other life arcs, like the rise to fame and the approach of life's end. For characters in this …
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Death and Commemoration in Late Medieval Wales
… examines the attitudes to and commemoration of death in Wales in the period between the end of the thirteenth century and the middle of the sixteenth century by analysis of the poetical work produced during this period. In so doing, this is placed in the wider context of death and commemoration …
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The Function of Mythology and Religion in Ancient Greek Society.
… with each other. This paper covers what I feel after my study of Greek mythology and religion are the eight functions of mythology: history, education, explanation - both of the natural world and the culture of each society, legality, genesis, what happens after death, and entertainment; as well …
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Mechanical Properties Of The Intervertebral Disc As An Estimator Of Postmortem Interval
… scientists are only able to determine time since death (or postmortem interval) up to the first 60 hours. This is based largely on insect activity. Herein, it is proposed to use the degradation of the intervertebral disc (IVD) after death to determine a relationship between the mechanical …
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