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Showing 1 to 20 of 117 for “"Angels"”.
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‘Behold, the Angels Came and Served Him:’ A Compositional Analysis of Angels in Matthew
This thesis seeks to elucidate the role angels play in the narrative of Matthew’s Gospel by investigating how angel traditions have contributed to his portrait of Jesus. Angels have been significant in Christological research due to their primary function as messengers and mediators between heaven …
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Rebel angels: political theology and the fall of the angels tradition in old English literature
“Rebel Angels: Political Theology and the Fall of the Angels Tradition in Old English Literature” argues that the story of the fall of the rebel angels provided Anglo-Saxon authors with a rich discursive field in which to ground earthly business – political power, legal order, communal identity, …
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A Time of Angels : a novel
These are the experience as a prisoner of war at Zonderwater of Romeo's father, Umberto; Ruth's memory of her father checking the list of Holocaust survivors' names, posted outside Salisbury Synagogue, as it was updated; Geraldine's description of her elderly neighbour's drawers full of embroidered …
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Business angels--attitudes, behaviors and characteristics
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1996.
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An analytical study of "The masque of angels"
… is to show how the music of “The Masque of Angels” articulates and supports the drama. The various musical techniques which make the complete composition will be examined to show how the composer draws them into one statement and proves himself the dramatist. The effect of the music on the …
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Chief Amongst The Angels? International Prosecutors And The Modernist Project
… by many as featuring among humanity’s better angels. Indeed, they might well be characterised in world affairs as chief amongst the angels. But, at the same time, these politico-legal actors, whose mandates are derived from, and re-inscribe, particular configurations of power emerging in the …
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Organic Angels: Innocence, Conversion, and Consumption in the Antebellum American Novel
Midcentury American novelists variously reworked the traditional conversion narrative to reflect a marked cultural shift in attitude towards human "nature," newly conceived as innocent and inclined to salvation. This liberalized aesthetic of conversion takes shape through the trope of the "organic …
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An Analysis of the Angels in the Poetry of John Milton
… of the poem. In the greatest of his works, the angels emerge as factors so dominant to the action, mood, and end of the poem that without them the work simply could not be. In the following study, I propose to consider Milton’s treatment of the angels from two main points of view. First, I shall …
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The Darker Angels Of Our Nature: The South In American Horror Film
How does one make a region horrific? For well over half of a century, the American South has functioned as a site for national anxieties over race and modernization. This study uses an inter-disciplinary approach in order to understand the various forces involved in the construction of the South in …
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Broadway noir: Film noir and musical comedy in City of Angels (1989)
City of Angels (1989) uniquely transforms the structural, thematic, and visual elements of film noir through the conventions of musical comedy and thereby subjects both genres to affectionate satire. This essay explores the connections between these idiosyncratic forms of entertainment, …
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A City of Angels: Philanthropy and the Public Good in the Fragmented Metropolis
<p>This dissertation will examine philanthropy and capital in Los Angeles in two parts: the first to produce a breakdown of the ideological assumptions of the most dominant forms of philanthropy in the United States—big philanthropy, voluntary associations, and mass campaigns. The second part …
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Réttur stjórnvalda til að takmarka eða banna mótorhjólasamtökin Hells Angels með hliðsjón af félagafrelsi
… þeirra heimilda. Stofnun Íslandsdeildar Hells Angels mótorhjólasamtakanna hefur vakið sterk viðbrögð í samfélaginu og settar hafa verið fram kröfur um að samtökin skuli banna á Íslandi. Verður í þessari ritgerð farið yfir áðurnefnda heimild stjórnvalda ásamt því að löggjöf, sem miðar að því að …
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Truly An Awesome Spectacle: Gender Performativity And The Alienation Effect In Angels In America
Tony Kushner's two-part play Angels in America uses stereotypical depictions of gay men to deconstruct traditional gender dichotomies. In this thesis, I argue that Kushner has created a continuum of gender performativity to deconstruct these traditional gender dichotomies, thereby empowering the …
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The Intellectual and Imaginative Concept of the Angels in Certain Works of John Donne
… Donne's thought and expression in regard to the angels in six of his sermons and two of his poems in order to determine his intellectual and imaginative concept of the angels and his purpose in and method of utilizing his abstract ideas in concrete expression. The angel. were selected as the …
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Bound to Sin: New Interpretations of the Fallen Angels in Select Early Christian Fathers
<p>The story of the fallen angels recalled in the Book of the Watchers located in the first thirty-six chapters of the Jewish apocryphal text, 1 Enoch, develops an obscure text from Genesis 6:1-4. Composed circa the 3rd century B.C.E., the narrative tells of the lustful desires of a group of …
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