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Showing 1 to 20 of 120 for “"Canons"”.
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The canons of television: An application of the five canons of classical rhetoric to television program development
… television program development based on the five canons of classical rhetoric. Ronald Primeau (1979) first introduced the canons to the electronic media. His book uses the canons as a guide to television viewing. He argues that by understanding the television industry, an audience can better enjoy …
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The Literary Reception of Paul Hamilton Hayne and His Place in the American and Southern Literary Canons
… that Hayne deserves inclusion in the literary canons of American and Southern literature as an important representative nineteenth-century Southern poet writing within the Anglo-American tradition.
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The Augustinian canons in the Diocese of Worcester and their relation to secular and ecclesiastical powers in the Later Middle Ages
In the later medieval period the Augustinian canons flourished in England, yet they have received relatively little scholarly attention. This thesis attempts to integrate the evidence for the eight houses in the diocese of Worcester and contribute to the knowledge of the Augustinian canons by …
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A Decision Making Construct for Complex Situations
… to the appropriate research methodology. Canons for research are typically based on philosophical foundations of rationalism or empiricism; hence this research derives a set of generalized canons based on a specific definition of knowledge, which must be instantiated as specific research …
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Merton Priory as a Centre of Learning 1117-1538
… history connected to the learning of its canons, with two underlying themes: a) the nature of learning within the priory, and b) the contribution of the canons of the priory to wider scholarship and learning during the Middle Ages. Chapter 1 contextualises Merton within the more general …
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The Sweetness of Suffering: Community, Conflict, and the Cult of Saint Radegund in Medieval Poitiers
… that led to outbreaks of physical violence. The canons of Sainte-Radegonde also challenged the abbess's claims and flouted her authority. While the abbess insisted that Sainte-Radegonde was a dependent community obliged to serve Sainte-Croix, the canons sought to increase the independence of …
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Toward a Rhetoric of Marketing for High-Tech Services
… marketing messages. This study examines the five canons of rhetoric in their classical context, and then examines how the first professional teachers, the Sophists, used rhetoric to promote their services. The canons of rhetoric are then analyzed to show their modern significance. This study also …
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Social conflict : towards a methodological and theoretical position
… the methods of science embodied in the general canons of the scientific enterprise (particularly in relation to theory formulation and validation) constitute the realm of theoretical practice from which to develop a methodological and theoretical position relevant to the phenomenon of social …
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A rhetorical analysis of first inaugural addresses of Samora Machel, Robert Mugabe, Sam Nujoma and Nelson Mandela
… examine how the four speakers employed the three canons of rhetoric, namely invention, arrangement and style to persuade the audience. The study is the first of its kind in the countries mentioned above and in the region to undertake a rhetorical analysis of four inaugural addresses ever delivered …
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Masking the Drama: A Space for Revolution in Aphra Behn's The Rover and The Feign d Courtezans.
… of woman s representation follows some specific canons where man, for long, has decided what the woman can do and what she cannot, strengthening the patriarchal binary thought and imposing a dominant sexual politics. Nevertheless, the Lady Cavaliers in Aphra Behn s comedies The Rover and The …
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The law of taxation in relation to the exploitation of income tax payers: A look at alternatives for government
… the basis of taxation is no exception. Where the canons of income tax are not properly understood by government and thus not given effect in the law governing tax,overburdening of tax payers is inevitable. Overburdening is an undesirable problem because it can eventually bring grave consequences …
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The False Intent-Purpose Distinction In Textualism
… be discerned by application of long-established canons of construction, the most important of which is that the text means what its words convey; and (2) a legislative text means what it meant at the time it was enacted. This paper examines the first principle, and in particular Scalia and …
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Sitting in Judgement: Moral Constraints on Judicial Reasoning within the Bounds of Law
… reasoning in accordance with second-order canons of responsible moral reasoning is a realizable demand. Consistency is itself a useful and important factor to take into account when evaluating judges’ decisions since only if such decisions comply with these canons can the decisions be …
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Dr Sam Nujoma's rhetoric: An analysis of selected epideictic speeches during his tenure of office as President of the Republic of Namibia
… logos in his speeches, and to investigate the canons of classical rhetoric in Nujoma’s speeches i.e. arrangement (disposition), style (elocution), delivery (pronuntiato and action) and memory (memoria). In the analysis of speeches, the researcher uses the Aristotelian theory and video …
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The insular reception of the Eusebian canon tables: exegesis and iconography
… the Insular examples discussed in this work, the canons appear as a preface in medieval Greek, Armenian, Georgian, Syrian, Coptic, Ethiopian and Gothic Gospel books.
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The nature of episcopal authority in the Church of the Province of Southern Africa : (with special reference to the Constitution and Canons, recent Commissions on Episcopacy and the Metropolitan, and the Third Draft of the Plan of Union) : a contribution to the church union debate
… was defined and limited by the Constitution and Canons. Episcopal authority is inherently spiritual, and is exercised in a number of episcopal functions, which are the special ministry of the bishop. A premium! of this thesis is that the 1:e.sic unit of church organisation is the territorial …
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The Act of Judging in Nigeria: A Matter of Interpretation and Judicial Discretion
… to interpretation of statutes and established canons of statutory interpretation and emphasizes that it is now more important than ever for judges to use 'appropriate' discretion from a social perspective when interpreting statutes. This is especially the case with ambiguous statutory …
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O modelo brasileiro de governança acadêmica e seus efeitos na produtividade científica
… especially altmetrics, aiming to revisit the canons of scientific communication and project what we can do to ensure that certain principles are maintained, while appropriate to and designed the way to do science in the 21st century.
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The aisleless cruciform church: its occurrence and meanings in romanesque Europe
… buildings in the eleventh and twelfth centuries—canons, rather than monks—and focusing on the hitherto undetected phenomena of the frequent appropriation of these churches by monks, as well as their replacement by aisled structures. A paradigm is proposed in the shape of the Basilica Apostolorum, …
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