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Believe: A Collection
Believe is a collection of short stories that revolve around a common theme. Each story shows a brief slice of a young woman's life. They encapsulate the struggles and insecurities one might experience when deeply involved in a religion that is restrictive to women. Each story is meant to stand …
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We Believe in Nothing
<p>A discussion of the important aspects informing my work, including, ideology, and feminism among other issues.</p>
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Urban Legends: Why Do People Believe Them?
… study answers questions about why some people believe urban legends and why these legends continue to thrive in today’s society. Despite displaying the tell-tale signs of an urban legend and the number of websites and other sources available for a quick check of the legitimacy of a legend, new …
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I Want to Believe, But I Can't Tom O'Day
This Thesis is an overview of the processes and practices that I employed for transferring abstract ideas into concrete visual forms, while I was in the graduate program at the University of New Orleans. The description is accompanied by images of the works; they follow in the order they made.
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"I Believe": The Credo in Music, 1300 to 1500
<p>The Credo is a liturgical and musical outlier among the movements of the mass ordinary. It is the longest text of the ordinary, was the latest addition to the mass, and is the locus of several odd musical phenomena, such as the proliferation of dozens of new monophonic settings of the creed …
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Make-believe : claiming the real in contemporary fiction cinema
This thesis examines the ways in which certain contemporary fiction cinema posits its narratives as real. Looking at a broad overview of realist movements through the history of cinema, it draws out the codes and conventions which filmmakers have employed and suggests that realist cinema is …
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Do you believe in atheists? Trust and anti-atheist prejudice
Recent polls (e.g., Edgell, Gerteis & Hartmann, 2006) have consistently found that atheists are the least liked group in America today, a type of prejudice that has barely been researched. This anti-atheist prejudice is surprising because atheists do not constitute a cohesive, recognizable, or …
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Personality Traits that Nursing Faculty Believe are Necessary for Their Graduates
… different registered nursing education programs believe are necessary for their graduates. Procedure: One hundred twenty three nursing faculty members of diploma, associate degree, and baccalaureate nursing education programs in the state of Iowa ranked 20 personality traits by completing the …
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Would You Believe Me If I Said I Didn't Need You
<p>This thesis is an attempt to expand upon the ideas that permeate the practice of art making that has developed over the past two years. Art criticism, theory, history, and practice are used to give definition to the boundaries of my ever-shifting body of work. Focusing on the elusive nature of …
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"Believe in these things": magical realism's postmodern use of religious language
Magical realism has expanded from a genre squarely located within postcolonialism to one that includes many non-colonial, Western writers such as Karen Russell and Helen Oyeyemi. Using Russell’s Swamplandia!, Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, and Oyeyemi’s The Icarus Girl as representative …
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Can You Believe It? A Case for Meaningful Control of Belief
… is an important issue, which many philosophers believe it is, then it seems fruitful to specify why it is important and frame the debate around the question whether we possess the type of control necessary to secure that which we value. I employ this approach and subsequently argue that we …
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Telling the Truth: How Journalists Believe a Story is Told Truthfully
What is the role of the journalist in a democratic society? The wide range of answers to this question has led to the development of two approaches to doing journalism: civic journalism and traditional journalism. Critics of civic journalism say it is boosterism while supporters say it leads to a …
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"Believe Me!" : An Ethnography of Persuasive Interaction at the Farmers' Market
Farmers' markets have been growing in recent decades and one contributing factor is that customers have more interpersonal contact with sellers at farmers' markets than they do at grocery stores. Increased interpersonal interaction means customers gain more personalized service, the ability to …
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Access, Perceive, Interpret, and Believe: A Longitudinal Phenomenology of Undergraduate Engineering Recognition
How undergraduate engineering students believe that others see or recognize them as engineering people influences how they see themselves as they author an engineering role identity. Despite the importance of recognition in the development of engineering identities, less is known about how the …
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Permission to believe: descriptive and prescriptive beliefs in the Clifford/James debate
… is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence (1877, 1879:186). Its universal, absolutist language seems to hide something fundamentally correct. We first argue for excluding prescriptive beliefs, and then consider further apparent counter-examples, …
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Believe It or Not: Examining the Case for Intuitive Logic and Effortful Beliefs
The overall objective of this thesis was to test the Default Interventionist (DI) account of belief-bias in human reasoning using the novel methodology introduced by Handley, Newstead & Trippas (2011). DI accounts focus on how our prior beliefs are the intuitive output that bias our reasoning …
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We believe in the Communion of Saints : a proposed Protestant reclamation of the doctrine.
… explication of their creedal claim that "we believe in the Communion of Saints." Hence there is a Protestant need for a recovered doctrine of the Communion of Saints as including the dead no less than the living. This proposed reclamation of the doctrine of the Communion of Saints living and …
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