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Showing 1 to 20 of 100 for “"Devil"”.
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Moral Motivation and the Devil
In this paper, I call into question the thesis known as judgment internalism about moral motivation. Broadly construed, this thesis holds that there is a non-contingent relation between moral judgment and moral motivation. The difficulty for judgment internalism arises because of amoral agents: …
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Divine and the Everyday Devil (Short Stories)
Divine and the Everyday Devil contains a scholarly preface that discusses the experiences and literary works that influenced the author's writing with special attention in regards to spirituality and sexuality. The preface is followed by six original short stories. "Evil" is a work addressing a …
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The Tasmanian devil : a novella in stories
This collection of short linked fiction develops themes such as race, memory, betrayal, and solitude, explored through the lens of how the young protagonist Rika Noordzij navigates her troubled environment. Somewhat hybrid in terms of genre, these pieces work as self-contained narratives, while …
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The Devil at the Gates of Heaven
This thesis explores commercial display forms as spaces in which to investigate, through art, the complex interplays of physiological desire, spiritual longing and consumption. The research examines the forms and strategies of commercial retail, particularly in storefront display and advertising. …
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Sympathy for the Devil : American imperialism in film.
While empire-building, and imperialism more broadly, are now generally regarded as unacceptable justifications for military action, the fumes of imperialistic rhetoric that surround military intervention to this day are not so easily dispersed. The post-9/11 age of the War on Terror has reinscribed …
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The Concept of "Angel” and "Devil" in Shakespeare’s Plays
… names, nature, office, and rank of angels and devils; such as, angel, cherub, spirit, genius, legion, fiend, demon, tempter, devil, serpent, enemy, Beelzebub, Lucifer, Satan. Then a working bibliography was developed from Ebisch and Schucking and E. K. Chambers. A bibliography on angels and …
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The Devil in the Details: Popular Demonology, Addiction and Criminology
<p>Theories of diabolism have, since antiquity, made manifest societal fears of the unknown. Demonology, as discipline, flourished within the West accordingly; to function, at the inception of early modern science and during the "transition" to capitalism, as a device to translate alterity. At this …
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The Devil in American literature : a consideration of four texts.
… Invisible World, Cotton Mather says, "About this Devil, there are many things, whereof we may reasonably and profitably be Inquistive." My study of the devil focuses on selected representations in American literature from the colonial to the contemporary period. I have selected four of the most …
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Genetics of transmissible cancers in the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii)
… in nature, yet two distinct clones known as devil facial tumour 1 (DFT1) and devil facial tumour 2 (DFT2) have arisen within populations of the same marsupial carnivores: Tasmanian devils. As a consequence of these aggressive infectious cancers and their rapid spread, the species has been …
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The Devil in Virginia: Fear in Colonial Jamestown, 1607-1622
… of fear that revolved around the agency of the Devil in the temporal world. Reformed beliefs of the Devil identified domestic English Catholics and English imperial rivals from Iberia as agents of the diabolical. These fears travelled to Virginia, where the English quickly ʻsatanizedʼ another …
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A Devil of a Coincidence: Study on Milton and Gower
The seventeenth-century epic poem Paradise Lost is one of the most widely studied texts in all of literary history. The work, written by John Milton, depicts Satan's fall from Heaven and subsequent deeds on Earth and in Hell. One of the more remarkable and, often, most overlooked scenes in the …
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Comparative morphometric analysis of the Devil Peak Shasta ground sloth, Nothrotheriops shastensis
The remains of the Devil Peak Shasta Ground Sloth ( Nothrotheriops shastensis) is one of the most complete fossils of this species ever discovered. The study's objective is to use the dimensions of the Devil Peak sloth and Aden Crater sloth (the only other complete skeleton of this species known) …
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'The Devil to Pay' and its influence on eighteenth-century German Singspiel
… he achieved by means of Charles Coffey's The Devil to Pay, or the Wives metamorphosed, an English ballad-opera, and Michel Jean Sedaine's Le diable a quatre, written in the form of a French opera comique. The purpose of this study is to examine Coffey's ballad-opera together with those …
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Handsome Devil: an exploration of contemporary South African girlhood/s through playwriting
The play is set in an all-girls academy in contemporary South Africa.
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The Devil is in The Details: The 2005 Virginia Tech Solar House
The central idea of the 2005 Virginia Tech Solar House was to celebrate its solar aspects while integrating the engineering systems and the architecture into a single entity. Through the process of design and construction, the relationship between each detail and the overall architectural concept …
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"Holy dwarves" and "devil babies": An anthropological world-survey of stigmatization of the disabled
Disability exists as a human universal based upon conceptual categorizations. Positive and negative forms of stigmatization exist cross-culturally, and are examined in a world-survey format in terms of emic socio-cultural level, subsistence economy, and religion. I suggest that responses to …
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The Significance Of The Devil And Related Beliefs in Early Modern Welsh Popular Culture
… with a rich folklore tradition concerning the Devil and witchcraft, yet as Clark notes, 'Wales is a region that scarcely registers in the historiography of the so-called witch-craze.' This dissertation examines perceptions of the Devil in early modern Wales, and in the process tries to …
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The Devil Made Her Do It: Three Horror Film Case Studies in the Exorcism Subgenre
Although interest in exorcism has spiked in real world and fictional filmic contexts, scholars have yet to fully identify the exorcism film as a subgenre of the horror film. Following Anne Rothe’s (2011) argument that representation of trauma in popular culture may function like “a discursive knot …
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