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Showing 1 to 20 of 134 for “"Confession"”.
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Confession: A Southern Gothic Immersive Experience
My name is Kady Waldmann, and I am a director, a playwright, and an actor. My project is a self-written immersive and experiential play written in an unapologetic southern gothic style. Deep in the overgrown Louisiana bayou lies a large catholic church. The story follows four characters. Mother, …
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A Comparative Study of Confession Law: The Lesson for Thailand Regarding the Exclusionary Rule and Confession Admissibility Standard
… of evidence, and adopt the proposed model for confession admissibility standard revision as well as other tools to enhance police performance.
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Confession and intimacy in England, 1851-1913
This thesis examines the history of confession as an intimate practice in England through four microhistorical case studies. In the introduction, I briefly outline a broad history of confession and trace the outline of what I argue already forms the history of intimacy. I propose that a promising …
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Models of Confession: Penitential Writing in Late Medieval England
… of these didactic texts produces a "model of confession" that reaffirms the teachings of the church. However, approaching these texts with careful attention to language and to the grammar of sin and penance, I show that each of these undeniably orthodox works departs from traditional accounts …
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Unmasked and Unprotected: An Autistic Poet's Journey of Imperfect Confession
… understand her. Yet, she argues that imperfect confession -done without self-knowledge, resources, or proper self-worth to resist consumption – still has its place. Her collection of twenty-nine self-authored poems serves as a testament to the growth her imperfect confession allowed, outlining …
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Confession, surveillance and subjectivity : a discourse analytic approach to advice columns
… the theoretical ideas of Michel Foucault -viz. confession, surveillance and subjectivity - to advice columns from three South African women's magazines. An interpretative analysis effects of discourse, renders salient the relationship between knowledges, discursive practices, power and …
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The Development Of Auricular Confession In The Coptic Tradition: A Theological And Historical Study In The Book Of Confession By Kyrillus Iii, Patriarch Of Alexandria (+ 1243 A.D.)
… studies the development of auricular confession in the Coptic tradition from the early Church to medieval times. It demonstrates the evolvement of five penitential models through the centuries. In the first millennium of Christianity, auricular confession was neither demanded from the …
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How Does Poetry Confess? Zhai Yongming's Poems and the Landscape of "Confession"
… her poems were largely influenced by American confessional poets such as Sylvia Plath. Chinese critics suggest that Zhai inaugurates the trend of confessional poetry in China. This paper will first contextualize the Chinese translation of American confessional poetry in the Mao and post-Mao …
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Sensitizing the general public: experiential processing alters perceptions of confession evidence and minimization
False confessions are a leading cause of wrongful convictions in Canada, suggesting a lack of protection against false confessions. Moreover, minimization tactics can increase the chance of false confessions. Current educational efforts (i.e., cautionary instructions and expert testimony) do not …
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Still Reforming: The Need for a New Confession in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
… the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) the creeds and confessions collected in the Book of Confessions articulate not only the doctrines of the church, but also the identity and purpose of the denomination. The Book of Confessions contains twelve documents from different periods in the history of the …
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Prayers of Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving and Supplication: A Composition for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble
… between text and music in Prayers of Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving and Supplication - a four-movement composition, fourteen minutes in length, for soprano, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, violin, double bass, and percussion. The text of the composition is taken from the Psalms and The …
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The Changing Uses and Developments of Affectivity in the Practice of Confession (12th-13th centuries)
… people either as a set of external practices (confession and penance), or as an internalised emotional process (contrition). However, this approach kept the focus away from the practical impact that a ‘contritionist’ interpretation of confession, mostly developed in monasteries, would have had …
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Maneuvers in the Oeuvre: The problem of confession in the works of Foucault, Mishima and Winterson".
… discursive penetration despite an ostensibly confessional stance, and establish their works as a site where deliberate incoherence, as much as much, can be produced. In Chapter 1, I argue that Foucault?s works demonstrate the importance of considering the self-representing subject in his …
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The centurion's confession as apocalyptic unveiling : Mark 15 : 39 as a Markan theology of revelation.
… eager to label the centurion's exclamation as a confession in the highest Christian sense more recent writers have broken from this position to suggest that his speech is ironic at best or derogatory and mocking at worst. This project addresses two essential questions related this discussion: …
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Admissibility of confessions in criminal trials
A confession may be defined as an out-of-court statement by a suspect in which he or she voluntarily, knowingly and intelligently acknowledges that he or she committed or participated in the commission of a crime and which makes it clear that there is no defence in law that would make his or her …
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Development of the Interview and Interrogation Assessment Instrument
Confession evidence factors heavily in judicial decision making, and courts may call an expert social scientist to assess the coercive pressures of an interrogation and risk factors for false confession. At present, there exists no standardized methods for performing this task, and each expert uses …
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The fiction of Christopher Isherwood: personality as form
… But when the end of autobiographical fiction is confession, it serves as therapy, not art, and the reader's interest is essentially pathological.</p> <p>Isherwood's fiction is open to this charge of confession, at least in its superficial aspects. In <em>Lions and Shadows</em> (1938), he wrote of …
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Wrongful Conviction Documentaries: Influences of Crime Media Exposure on Mock Juror Decision-Making
… conviction, such as eyewitness errors and false confessions, lead viewers to become more discriminating as jurors, voting to convict when the primary evidence contains little empirical risk, while voting to acquit when that evidence contains significant empirical risk?</p> <p>In an online study, …
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