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Showing 1 to 20 of 86 for “"Confessions"”.
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Admissibility of confessions in criminal trials
… stringent requirements for the admissibility of confessions should also govern the admissibility of admissions and exculpatory statements. Confessions and admissions remain proper elements in law enforcement and it has been shown in some reported decisions that some criminal cases are capable of …
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Confessions of an American Ginseng Addict
<p>Confessions of an American Ginseng Addict uses the Lazy Branch Holler in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky as a setting for a creative nonfiction work, which uses history, confession, remembrances, and digressions to tell the story of a man dealing with loss, mental health issues, environmental …
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CONFESSIONS OF A HIP-HOP HIPPIE
<p>This Statement of Purpose does not give a history of hip-hop or hip-hop poetry but rather how this particular poet fits into the current phase of hip-hop and performance poetry. In it, I discuss and explain the new pro-working class hip-hop performance poetic. This includes extensive discussion …
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Healing through Humility: An Examination of Augustine's Confessions
… into place. This thesis analyzes Augustine’s confessions through the lens of humility to show how Augustine’s revelations do more than bridge the gap between saint and sinner. They speak to the capacity of humility to define the individual in honest and practical ways. Augustine, along with …
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Rhetoric of trans* identities: public reactions to private confessions
The year 2015 provided a hotbed of discussion about trans* identities. Caitlyn Jenner’s public announcement of her identity as transgender shortly followed by Rachel Dolezal unveiling as a woman with Caucasian heritage. Using publically accessible interviews such as the Diane Sawyer interview with …
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Making Confessions: The Confessional Voice Found Among Literary Genres
This graduate thesis will explore the term "confessional" and its application to literature. The term "confessional" varies; confessional writing can take different forms in different genres. In this thesis, works by contemporary authors of personal lyric poetry, memoir, and fiction are discussed …
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Examining the Link Between Moral Minimization and False Confessions
… moral minimization increases the risk of false confessions due to pragmatically implying that a lenient sentence is forthcoming. Using a sample of 88 university students accused of cheating on an anagram task, my study examined if moral minimization led to false confessions, determined by …
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Incarnation, Interpretation and Quotation: Augustine's Cassiciacum Dialogues and Confessions
… I argue that in the Cassiciacum dialogues and Confessions, quotation becomes Augustine’s laboratory for addressing this problem. I see studying Augustine’s use of quotation as a method that allows us to be attentive to his concerns as both a theologian and a writer. As a result, I think that we …
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Confessions of Journalism's Old Gray Lady: Deceptive Reporting at the New York Times
In May of 2003 one of the most respected periodicals on the planet, The New York Times, ran a front page 14,000 word apology in the Sunday Times, for fallacious reporting conducted by Jayson Blair. In his four year tenure at the Times, Blair falsified sources, lied about conducting interviews, and …
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Perceptions of juvenile confessions as a function of police report and questioning quality
… coerciveness and its relation to risk of false confessions in adults if they can see interrogation tactics used, but not if provided with a police report that omits these tactics (Kassin et al., 2017). The present study was designed to extend these findings to a juvenile confession case. The …
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Perceptions of confessions by juvenile suspects: effects of interrogation technique and suspect age
… are far more prone than adults to make false confessions. Two interrogation techniques known as Minimization (gentle, friendly approach used to gain suspect’s trust) and Maximization (coercive approach using harsh questioning and scare tactics) have been used frequently in cases of proven …
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Perceptions of false confessions: Reducing prejudice toward exonerees through the use of educational materials
… story video and/or fact based video) about false confessions and wrongful conviction. Participants who watched the personal story video rated the exoneree as significantly less responsible for his wrongful conviction than participants who did not watch the personal story video. The two different …
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The language of cosmogony: literary experimentalism and metaphor in Plato’s Timaeus and Augustine’s Confessions.
… on cosmogony: Plato’s Timaeus, and Augustine’s Confessions. In analysing these two texts, the thesis makes two main arguments: first, that the problem of ineffability inherent to cosmogony prompts an author’s recourse to experimental literary methods, to new ways of deploying narrative, genre, …
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Terræ Incognitæ as Ego Incognita: Mapping Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
… the movements of Thomas De Quincey in his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by plotting his movements within London and contrasting them to his earlier travels in Wales. I demonstrate that De Quincey’s writing process creates an imaginative London, London imaginis, that has the real …
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James Hogg's the Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner: Background, Text, and Analysis
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T22:39:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7013334.pdf: 10378599 bytes, checksum: b33563aa7183fa0667fa55416bff42a1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1969
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Portrait of the Calvinist as a young killer : confessions, fanaticism, and satanic horror in Hogg's Justified Sinner
James Hogg's Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner innovated several important novel genres in the Romantic literary era. The novel centers around a young man, Robert Wringhim, who, along with his devilish double, Gil-Martin, goes on a religious-based killing spree in late 17th …
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