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James Boswell: Writer and Advocate
Although the picture that we have of James Boswell has been constantly changing in recent years, many students retain the impression that the great biographer was something of a fool or a buffoon who hovered at the coattails of the great, taking down their conversations, noting their gestures and …
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Out of Johnson's Shadow: James Boswell as Travel Writer
James Boswell has generally been regarded as a key figure in the evolution of the biography via his work on Samuel Johnson. Ranging over his public, published writing, his private-public unpublished journal writing (read by his friend John Johnston), and his private-private unpublished writing (his …
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“I think myself as good as anybody” : nationalism, manliness, space and identity in Boswell’s London Journal
James Boswell (1740-1795), biographer of Samuel Johnson and lifelong diarist, provided one of the most detailed descriptions of eighteenth-century London life in his London Journal: 1762-1763. In it, Boswell chronicled his self-conscious attempts to refashion himself from the uncultivated Scottish …
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Alienation and Dwelling: The Pursuit of Happiness in Late Eighteenth-Century Literature
… of the thesis explores how four writers — James Boswell, Laurence Sterne, Mary Wollstonecraft, and William Wordsworth — respond to alienation in their respective works. All four of them might broadly be described as autobiographical writers and have been chosen because, in writing the self, they …
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Challenge and hinderance stressor appraisals, personal resources, and work engagement among k-12 teachers
… associated with negative outcomes (Cavanaugh, Boswell, Roehling, & Boudreau, 2000). The current study had three objectives: 1) to investigate occupational level stressor appraisal by K-12 teachers, 2) to explore how the perception of the availability of resources influences individual level …
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The Effect of Closed versus More Liberal Visitation Policies on Work Satisfaction Beliefs and Nurse Retention.
… Stamps (1997) Index of Work Satisfaction and the Boswell Beliefs Inventory. Statistical analyses were conducted to discover nurses level of satisfaction and beliefs related to the new policy.</p><p>Results indicate that nurses were more dissatisfied with the components of pay, task requirements, …
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Taking Parties Seriously: Gendered Sexuality and Hook Up Culture at Greek Social Events
… look at fraternities as isolated organizations (Boswell and Spade 1996, Sanday 1990), this research takes into consideration that sororities and fraternities are constantly interacting within the Greek system and therefore must be analyzed together. I intervie14 sorority and fraternity members in …
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Continuum models for fungal growth
… derived by Davidson and co workers (see e.g. Boswell et al.(2007). These models are of a complex mathematical structure, comprising both parabolic and hyperbolic parts. Thus, their analytic and numerical properties are nontrivial. The objectives of this thesis are to: (i) obtain a solid …
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Isililo sikaNandi: imagining dithyrambic dirge to performatively score the precarity of blackwomnhood
… self' (2005: x) in conjunction with Barbara Boswell's ‘creative re-visioning' (2010:1) and what Audre Lorde defines as ‘autobiomythography' (Lorde, 1996). In order to do this, the study employs a Practice as Research approach to explore alternative ways of staging heterogeneous experiences of …
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Learning in Place: Teachers' Experiences with a Place-based Language Arts Curriculum in Rural Appalachia
… attention (Plucker and Callahan, 2014; Lewis and Boswell, 2020), yet inequities in rural gifted services continue to challenge educators in their efforts to meet the needs of a unique population (Azano et al., 2014, 2017). Understandings about existing systemic structural challenges in rural …
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Collective Woundedness: Exploring intergenerational trauma and healing in Barbara Boswell’s Grace, Mohale Mashigo’s The Yearning and Kopano Matlwa’s Period Pain
… novels, namely Grace (2019) by Barbara Boswell, The Yearning (2017) by Mohale Mashigo, and Period Pain (2016) by Kopano Matlwa. These texts all reckon with the wounds of the past, and the different ways in which one can arrive at a form of healing. In Grace, the protagonist reconciles …
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Towards a black poetics: alternative modes of visibility in representations of post-apartheid black trauma
… from scholars like Makhosazana Xaba, Barbara Boswell, Pumla Gqola, Saidiya Hartman, and Audre Lorde, I identify the poems' modes of visibility according to three main tropes: the physical body, domestic spaces, and South Africa's botanical landscape. These representational forms radically …
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A Critical Analysis of the Theological Method of F. Leron Shults
… METHOD OF F. LERON SHULTS Joshua Philip Boswell, Ph.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2012 Chair: Dr. Stephen J. Wellum This dissertation evaluates the theological method of F. LeRon Shults. Shults's attempt to develop theology in light of the postmodernism milieu is a …
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The influence of the Book of Common Prayer on the prose style of Samuel Johnson's prayers
… he was such a good Church of England man that Boswell records in the Life at least two occasions when Johnson was offered a position in the Church.<sup>3</sup>3 Furthermore, Johnson was preeminently a prose writer and used an ornate style. This combination of devoutness and literary ability …
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Sùilean Gàidhlig, Speuclairean Beurla - Dathan ann an Litreachas agus Dualchas Nitheil
… writers to the Highlands and Islands like Boswell and Johnson, Gaelic language and culture has suffered as English speakers look for their own markers of so-called civilisation, and failing to find them, have declared the other culture to be devoid of sophistication when in reality, they …
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Benchmarking San Luis Obispo's Municipal Energy Use: An Audit Implementation Plan
… had already completed climate action plans (Boswell, Greve, & Seale, 2012, p. 24). A major factor in reducing energy use, and subsequently greenhouse gas emissions, is in making buildings more energy efficient. According to the EPA, buildings account for 36 percent of overall energy use in …
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The culture and rhetoric of the answer-poem:1485-1625:with a supplementary 'Select catalogue of answer-poetry in print and manuscript, 1485-1625'
This thesis examines the culture and rhetoric of the answer-poem during the Tudor and early-Stuart periods, charting the phenomena that led answer-poetry to become a prominent mode of social interaction in Renaissance literature. The answer-poem is symptomatic of a culture fixated with codes and …
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The effect of a muscle energy stretch on suboccipital tenderness
Background and objective: Muscle Energy Technique (MET) is commonly advocated by authors of manual therapy as a means of treating spinal pain and dysfunction, but there is little evidence of its role in pain modulation. This controlled and single blinded study aimed to investigate the effect of MET …
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Cyril Against Julian: Traditions in Conflict
<p>When the Roman Emperor Flavius Claudius Julianus—better known to many as Julian the Apostate—perished on a Persian battlefield in 363 CE, his efforts to turn back the Christianizing currents of the Roman Empire died with him. In the final decades of the fourth century, subsequent Christian …
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