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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Deceit"”.
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Penelope, domestic power and the morality of deceit in Homer's Odyssey.
… little attention has been paid to her role her deceit plays in preserving her own status within the oikos. By raising my focus out of the physical boundaries of Odysseus’ palace and to a more abstract consideration of the concept of the oikos in Homer’s text it is my intent that this …
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Anxious to detect deceit?: An empirical investigation of social defense theory
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2023-12-01
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In the Labyrinths of Deceit: Culture, Modernity and Disidentity in the Nineteenth Century
This thesis examines the nature of identity and the problems implicit in attempts to affirm it within the context of nineteenth century modernity. By exploring a number of texts from Romanticism to the fin de siecle, it can be. seen that autonomous and coherent identity is not a stable entity. …
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Jacob Wrestles Esau: Disguise, Double-Meaning, and Deceit in Genesis 32:24-32
Many readers often believe that the man who appears before Jacob and wrestles him until daybreak in Genesis 32:24-32 is God, an angel, or another supernatural being. However, the aim of this study is to suggest that the exact identity of the man is not only ambiguous, but that there are other …
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The Self-Deception of Julia in Byron's Don Juan
… self- deception. Julia and Inez are victims of deceit through perverted sexual love; Lambro and Suwarrow are examples of deception through a perverted love of country Adeline and Henry are symbols of the hypocrisy of a perverted society. Of all these characters, however, the self-deception of …
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House of Lambs
… through the blinding lights of lust, love, and deceit and the infliction of psychological warfare. Finally, it tells a story about emergence, steadfastness, and transcendence. </p>
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God and Integrity: a Case Study of Walter C. Kaiser Jr. and Norman L. Geisler
… is sometimes portrayed as using and condoning deceit to achieve His purpose, especially when human life is at stake. Two evangelical scholars, Walter C. Kaiser Jr. and Norman L. Geisler, with a shared theological heritage, differ in their interpretation of Exod 1:15-21 and Josh 2:1-7 that …
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Pornography viewing as attachment trauma in pair-bond relationships-A theoretical model of mechanisms.
… by the sexual nature of pornography and the deceit surrounding its use. These two factors combined to produce a loss of secure attachment, particularly for attachment-oriented and attachment-idealizing wives, who hold the belief that pornography use is not appropriate. Overall, it was found …
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Using Deception to Enhance Security: A Taxonomy, Model, and Novel Uses
… computer systems by using means of deception and deceit.
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Outlaws Don't Cry
A childhood built on deceit has prevented an older, meditative Hank from accepting the truth as he recounts his life. Desperate to learn who his father is, a fifteen year-old Hank runs away from his home into the vastness of the American Great Plains in the summer of 1927. He quickly learns that he …
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Deception detection in dialogues
… to waves of fake news and a growing industry of deceit creators and deceit detectors. There is now an urgent need for both theory that explains deception and applications that automatically detect deception. In this thesis I address this need with a novel application that learns from examples and …
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Submit: A Narrative Film Production
… winning back a former love. The story involves deceit and plays with notions of identity and place. The film was shot in seven days throughout the City of New Orleans. The goal of this project was to create a short piece that in turn would be employed to garner further resources to shoot a …
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The Great Green Wall
… has covered it up. The siblings are locked in deceit because of this event in their early childhood. Years later, Greta is involved with a married man and Evan once again intrudes, his mental health deteriorating. Although this intrusion threatens the life that Greta is building, it offers …
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Aggressive vocalizations in feeding guanacos, Lama guanicoe
… of guanacos. In Paper 2, I apply the optimal deceit model to the guanaco feeding group and discuss an alternative hypothesis to interpret the functional significance of aggressive vocalizations;Aggressive interactions were recorded in a captive group of guanacos (adult females, subadults, …
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The Attitudes of Wordsworth Toward Religion
… another kind: the pompous mass, idolotry, popish deceit, and romish treachery. Upon examination of the poetry in which we find these patterns of imagery, the reader discovers that Wordsworth, who is reputed to be a worshipper of Nature, has very definite attitudes toward the Church of England, the …
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Lying strategies in juveniles during Behavior Analysis Interviews
… the Behavior Analysis Interview (BAI) to detect deceit, but it is based on faulty indicators of lying and may be problematic for juveniles due to developmental immaturities. This study compared juveniles’, young adults’, and adults’ reported willingness to engage in truthful and deceitful …
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The social and cultural value of the apple and the orchard in Victorian England
… Christian associations of the apple with sin and deceit.
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Roberto Valcárcel: Renaming Repression and Rehearsing Liberation in Contemporary Bolivian Art
… Valcárcel’s use of play, black humour and deceit as effective devices to escape hidden authoritarianism in society during dictatorial regimes. Chapter Five analyses how Valcárcel’s work unveils the latent repression in the idealisation of indigenous heritage through play and anti-thesis. …
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