Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 586 for “"Burial"”.
-
Green Burial: Poems
Green Burial is a collection of original poems that comprises three interrelated sections. The first section, titled “The Trash Heap,” utilizes the image of the landfill as a metaphor for the accumulation of harmful substances that humans consciously and unconsciously allow to enter their bodies. …
-
The African burial ground
This thesis is tripartite. It is at once a search for the universal principles of good architecture, an architect's personal search for what is valuable, and the exploration of some particular ideas in a particular project. The successful thesis joins the universal and the particular and calls into …
-
Hydrodynamics of mine impact burial
… inputs to subsequent portions of any Impact Mine Burial Model. The model vertical impact velocity and impact angle are compared with experimental data, vertical impact velocities and impact angle to validate the model mechanics and accuracy. The three dimensional model results are compared through …
-
Burial Practices in Southern Appalachia.
… in an attempt to determine whether certain burial practices are unique to the people of Southern Appalachia. Eight individuals were interviewed, including a minister and a funeral director. As a result of the research, it was found that, although a strong sense of community and religion …
-
Sacred Groves in Burial Grounds
… purify their souls and refresh their spirits. In burial grounds, there also are sacred groves which could be a place for praying and commemorating. Since sacred groves are seen as spirits of life, it is necessary to think about the relationship between sacred groves and burial grounds. The thesis …
-
Sheol and Pre-exilic Palestinian Burial Practices
Th. M., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1965 ; Made available through permission of the author
-
Modern(izing) Burial in Interwar American Literature
… as reflections of modernity. The study of burial in United States history tends to focus on mid- to late-nineteenth century movements that distance the dead from the living. This dissertation argues that these practices left Americans ill-equipped to process the influx of death from the …
-
Red of Split Water: A Burial Rite
<p>The following creative dissertation is a fictional exploration of several modes of trauma, including historical and personal events.</p>
-
Children and child burial in medieval England
… into children in medieval England through burial, the most archaeologically-visible evidence for the treatment and conceptualisation of children in life. It examines whether children were distinguished in burial from adults in parish cemeteries of the 10th-16th centuries. Selected …
-
Necropolis: burial & afterlives in Cape Town
Necropolis is a proposal for a public burial and memorial park in Cape Town for obliterated (cremated, aquamated etc) and bone remains. It explores an architecture for the final farewell to the body and spirit of the deceased, and for personal and collective remembrance. In contrast to other South …
-
PUBLIC AWARENESS OF AND ATTITUDES TOWARD GREEN BURIAL: AN EXPLORATION OF MESSAGING INTERVENTIONS TO INCREASE ACCEPTANCE OF NATURAL BURIAL PRACTICES
Green burial (or natural burial) is a method of caring for the dead that seeks to have a lower impact on the environment and human health than cremation or conventional burial, which involves an embalmed body in an ornate casket buried within an impermeable concrete or metal grave liner. The main …
-
Death of the cemetry : burial ground as park route
Mini Dissertation (MArch(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2015.
-
The Early Bronze Age Burial Customs of Karataş-Semayük
… and amplified knowledge of third millennium burial customs in western Anatolia." Dissertation adviser: Machteld J. Mellink</p>
-
Religion and Burial Roman Domination, Celtic Acceptance, or Mutual Understanding
<p>The effects of Romanization were believed to be devastating to the cultures conquered by Rome, but Britain was an exception. The Romanization of Britain began through trade with the continent long before the invasion by Claudius. But the natives of Britain did not accept the Roman culture as …
-
Leakage conductance of concentric-neutral direct-burial underground primary cable
… conductance to earth of the neutral of direct-burial concentric-neutral underground primary cable. This study was suggested in conjunction with a paper by Mr. D, L. Stone of the Rural Electrification Administration, "Reduced Concentric Neutral Primary Cable for Underground Rural Distribution." …
-
RECENT RIVERINE CARBON OF THE YELLOW RIVER: FLUXES, OUTGASSING AND BURIAL
Riverine carbon transport is an important component of global carbon cycle. Based on historical records and recent sampling during the period 2011-2012, the riverine carbon transport characteristics in the Yellow River were qualitatively and quantitatively investigated. Due to chemical weathering …
-
Sedimentology of Marine Vertebrate Burial in the Miocene Pisco Fm., Peru
… in channels; the details of the other four burials are too disparate to meaningfully group together in categories. Chapters 3, 4, and 5 describe and discuss the six specimens found in channels, while Appendix A contains descriptions and discussions of the other four locations.</p> <p>The …
Page 1 of 30