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Showing 1 to 20 of 112 for “"Cain"”.
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Musical exegesis: the Cain and Abel story in Reformation Europe
… as well, the text of which retells part of the Cain and Abel story. “Ubi est Abel” is the liturgical text with which this study is most concerned, and it seeks to answer the question: how did theology influence the production of polyphonic settings of “Ubi est Abel” in the second half of the …
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The Concept of Providence in Cain and Abel Plays: From the Chester 'Creation' to Van Itallie's 'The Serpent'
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A theology of persecution and Christian endurance: Cain, Abel, and a ‘Black Book of Acts’ among the St. Thomas Moravians, 1732-1740
… context through an Augustinian-styled premise of Cain and Abel, this theological approach to ethnohistory introduces a story-based premise to help parse the ongoing historical persecution of Christians and their ability to endure. It regards the sacraments of baptism and the Lord’s supper as key …
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The lobbying activities of provincial mercantile and manufacturing interests against the renewal of the East India Company’s charter, 1812-1813 and 1829-1833
The aim of this thesis is to reassess Cain and Hopkins’ gentlemanly capitalist explanation of British imperialism in Asia during the first half of the nineteenth century through examining the lobbying activities of provincial mercantile and manufacturing interests against the renewal of the East …
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'Spells That Have Lost Their Virtue': The Mythology and Psychology of Shame in the Early Novels of George Eliot
… The Mill on the Floss from the Genesis story of Cain and Abel, which is the type of election. Eliot uses this mythological structure to interrogate the power of shame to produce the very evil behavior it condemns, in Hetty, Maggie, and Mr. Tulliver. I discuss Romantic and Victorian versions of …
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Authentication Schemes' Impact on Working Memory
… during graphical authentication (Still & Cain, 2019). In this study, we take the next step by controlling for task difficulty and contrasting performance with conventional password-based authentication. Baddeley’s model was employed to examine the impact of authentication on verbal, …
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British Imperialism, Liverpool, and the American Revolution, 1763-1783
… the ‘gentlemanly capitalist’ paradigm of P.J. Cain and A.G. Hopkins. In brief, this theory argues that the landed elite and financial-commercial services, concentrated upon the City of London, held sway over British imperial policy-making. This was chiefly because these interests were regarded …
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Spatial Patterns and Population Performance of Mule Deer: Responses to Water Provisioning in Mojave National Preserve, California
… ecology (Broyles 1995, Krausman et al. 2006, Cain et al. 2008). Broyles (1995) questioned the utility of water developments, and further suggested the necessity, benefits, and harmful side effects had not yet been evaluated. Conversely, others contend that water developments provide intrinsic …
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Jezebel's Daughters: A Study of Wilkie Collins and His Female Villains
… Jezebel's Daughter (1880), and The Legacy of Cain (1889), only one was published at the zenith of Collins's career in the 1860s. Each of the villainesses in these novels, their ideas and experiences, are crucial to understanding Collins's "feminist" impulses. Looking at them as powerful women …
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Incumbency Effects in English Local Elections 1974-2010: Assessing the Advantage of Electoral Defence
… of such a phenomenon (Mayhew 1974; Fiorina 1977; Cain, Ferejohn & Fiorina 1987; Gelman & King 1990; King 1991). Conversely, the study of political incumbency in Britain can be attributed to a handful of scholars who tend to consider the repercussions at parliamentary level (Williams 1967, King …
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“God loves you but not enough to save you”: Patriarchal Authority and Feminine Punishment in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and Ethel Cain’s Preacher’s Daughter
… Plath and Preacher’s Daughter (2022) by Ethel Cain. My research links confessional women’s writing and patriarchal authority to examine the oppressive nature exerted by patriarchal institutions over feminine subjects. I observe the characterization of feminine heroine within patriarchal …
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2 Peter 2:4-16: The Redaction of the Biblical and Intertestamental References Dependent on Jude 5-11 and Their Overall Significance for the Document
… second cluster (Jude 11) names three characters, Cain, Balaam, and Korah. 2 Peter 2:15-16 eliminates Cain and Korah, and expands upon the sinfulness of Balaam in 2:15-16.</p><p>While the majority of scholars conclude the 2 Peter is dependent on Jude, they have also made important contributions in …
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Korean English Fever in the U.S.: Temporary Migrant Parents' Evolving Beliefs About Normal Parenting Practices and Children's Natural Language Learning
… a Figured World (Holland, Skinner, Lachicotte, & Cain, 1998), I investigated what motivates parents to undertake the seemingly extreme practice. I conducted an ethnographic study of Korean short-term resident families with 3- to 8-year-old children living in a Midwestern university town. Through …
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The struggles, successes and disappointments of carrying out Action Research: A reflective analysis of a 25 week syllable intervention across two schools focusing on improving reading and spelling in young children aged between five and nine years old.
… out Action Research in the ‘messy environments’ (Cain, 2019) of school. This thesis therefore offers the reader a detailed account of the personal growth which took place as a result of completing this EdD, as well as the change it had on a professional and institutional level.
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Emerging Readers and Inferential Comprehension with Wordless Narrative Picturebooks: An intervention study
… Bowyer- Crane and Snowling, 2005; Oakhill and Cain, 2012) and that begins to develop early in the reading acquisition process, through listening comprehension (e.g., Kendeou et al., 2009). Despite being able to generate inferences, such as cause and effect, as early as four years old (Lynch and …
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Attitudes and intentions of future health care providers regarding termination of pregnancy (TOP) services in South Africa
… legal or illegal (WHO, 2004; Schenker and Cain, 1999). Although some countries, including South Africa, have liberalized TOP laws to allow legal and safe provision of abortion, many barriers continue to impede successful rollout of services. Key among these are the following: * recruiting …
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A CAD-interactive software package for the synthesis of planar disk cams
… and analysis, and the extent of documentation of cain design and the use of conjugate geometry theory in literature. Next, it describes how the C-code integrates with the CADKEY® graphical system. The next sections describe all the design theory used in the software, including all the conjugate …
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CEO Extraversion and Management Earnings Forecasts
… the single most salient personality trait (Cain 2012), on management earnings forecasts. An extraverted individual is characterized as being energetic, talkative, assertive, decisive and sociable (Wilt and Revelle 2009). I examine whether and how CEO extraversion influences the likelihood of …
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Railspace: A Geocritical Study of the Railroad through American Literature and Culture
… Dreiser, <em>Double Indemnity</em> by James M. Cain, and <em>Strangers on a Train </em>by Patricia Highsmith—and their filmic adaptations work together to form the passenger car as a contested railspace of fear and unease. The mobile Hell on Wheels that stations itself at the terminus of …
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'All This 'Pother About a Bird': Consciousness and Conscience in The Rime of The Ancient Mariner by S.T.Coleridge
… of the poem’s forerunner The Wanderings Of Cain. The thesis is a discussion of my interpretation, in the context of a range of academic readings of the poem. In Part One of my thesis I discuss how the albatross came to be incorporated into the poem, what the albatross has signified to …
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