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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Garden of Eden"”.
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The Gesture of Rage in the Garden of Eden: Cliché and Catastrophe in Anne Carson’s ‘Variations on the Right to Remain Silent’, ’Just for the Thrill’ and The Beauty of the Husband
… published in Plainwater (1998), and The Beauty of the Husband (2001), in order to examine Carson’s imaginative and conceptual use of the terms 'cliché' and 'catastrophe'. These two concepts are central to Carson’s poetics and they are profoundly interrelated.<br/><br/>The introduction explores …
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The Water Imagery in the Psalms: An Inner-Biblical Interpretation
This dissertation examines the use of water imagery in the book of Psalms and argues that the psalmists primarily employed this imagery to allude to four accounts of God's works in the Pentateuch--the waters of creation, the water in the Garden of Eden, the flood, and the crossing of the Red …
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The Light, for Two Narrators and Chamber Ensemble
… orchestra. The two narrators perform the roles of the Apostle John and Moses. After an overview of the piece and a brief history of pieces incorporating narrators, the essay focuses on my compositional process, describing how orchestration, drama, motive, and structure work together in the …
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Pleasure Gardens
This thesis is comprised of a series of paintings that study historical representations of styles, forms and symbols found in gardens. It is less a research project into the history, meaning, and rules of these different gardens throughout time and more of an appreciation, appropriation and …
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"A journey to the land of Eden": a survey of Virginia land use from 1584 to 1884
The attitudes of Virginia explorers and colonists toward the land and its resources and how these attitudes informed their treatment of them was investigated. The effect of the expectation that Virginia was a newly discovered Garden of Eden on plant cultivation was explored, in terms of agriculture …
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Ecofeminist Theology in Islam: The Process and Application of Synthesizing Rosemary Radford Ruether’s Insights, Islamic Feminist Aspirations, and Ecological Concerns
<p>The focal point of this dissertation is theoretical and applicatory in scope; it incorporates three distinct areas of scholarship, the ecofeminist theology of Rosemary Radford Ruether, Islamic feminism, and Islamic environmentalism towards the primary goal of making a case for the construction …
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Regulating lobbying’s influence on trade policy in South Africa to achieve openness, transparency and integrity.
… to American political scientist Lipsen, to the Garden of Eden, where the serpent lobbied Eve to persuade Adam to defy his covenant with God, lending credence to Lipsen’s assertion that lobbying is the oldest profession in the world. In today’s world, biblical covenants have given way to social …
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Mind the Gap: (Re)Reading Narratorial Construction in Selected Novels of Ernest Hemingway
… the narrative structure in selected novels of Ernest Hemingway. Drawn from close textual analysis, the theory works to reconcile critical difficulties by recognizing an implicit gap between the narrator-character construct appearing in the text and its conceptual origin—a new idea and term …
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Paradise Lost: The Biblical Fashioning of the East Indies in Dutch Chorographical Accounts, 1596-1726
… element in early modern Dutch representations of Asia, and played an essential role in the development of European cultures of empiricism. Historians, art historians, and scholars of orientalism have emphasised the imperialist and commercial inflections of Dutch representations of the world. My …
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<i>Paradise Lost</i> and the Medieval Tradition
This thesis is a comparative study of the Medieval influence on the creation of John Milton’s <i>Paradise Lost</i>, and the purpose of this thesis is to establish <i>Paradise Lost</i> as a poem designed to correct what Milton saw as the errors of the Medieval theological worldview. A range of …
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Sanctuary/Temple in Genesis 1-3: A Reevaluation of the Biblical Evidence
… for the sanctuary/temple in the creation and Eden narratives, and if so, what are the implications of this evidence?</p> <p>Chapter I introduces the background to the problem by summarizing the most significant scholarly arguments for and against allusions to the sanctuary/temple in Gen 1-3. …
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THE INFLUENCE OF JAZZ AND ITS PREDECESSORS ON PIANO CHAMBER MUSIC AFTER 1920
… were intrigued and captivated by these new types of music. Composers such as Maurice Ravel, Erik Satie, Darius Milhaud, Igor Stravinsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Leonard Bernstein, among many others, were drawn to jazz style and incorporated its elements into their compositions. This performance …
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The Ceremony of the Red Heifer: Its Purpose and Function in Narrative Context
The present thesis is a synchronic investigation of the ceremony of the Red Heifer of Num 19, which describes a purificatory ritual that cleanses persons who have become defiled through contact with the dead. In seeking the authorial intent and meaning behind the elusive symbolism of the rite, two …
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Stewardship gardening: multifarious meanings through community, ecology, and food
… throughout the United States are creating gardens with a variety of visions and results. Ten such gardens were present in Champaign and Urbana, IL in 2010. This phenomenon of faith-based gardening is designated as stewardship gardening within this thesis. While these gardens are recently …
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'First the Original': the Place of Adam in Seventeenth Century Theories of the Polity
… significances afforded to the Biblical figure of Adam in theories of the polity. It notes the strong impulse in this period of political upheaval to find foundations and patterns for the polity by returning to the original of Adam’s existence in the Garden of Eden as recorded in Genesis and …
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Interart Studies from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era: Stylistic Parallels between English Poetry and the Visual Arts
… an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of literature. The four chapters are unified by an interart analytic methodology intended either to bring a new insight to an unresolved topic in literary interpretation or to offer a new interpretation of a major poem in English literature. The …
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Digital Media Use and Adolescent Christian Formation: A Correlation Study
… fail to ask what effect the frequency and form of technological use is having on the Christian formation of adolescents. If one of the primary goals of Christian education is to promote Christian formation, this must be considered by all Christian educators as well. This research serves to …
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The conflict between property rights and environmental rights under constitutional law
'The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.'(Gen 2, 15) Ever since that time, mankind has the obligation to deal with his environment with special regard to how to use and take care of it. At today's time the concern for a clean environment is …
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What is a “Helpmate”? Using Comparative Semitic Linguistics to Propose New Translations for Ezer Kenegdo
… argues that a comparative Semitic analysis of ezer kenegdo (KJV: “help meet”) in Genesis 2:18, 20 can provide new semantic ranges that enrich the reading of gender roles in Genesis 1-3. The usage of ezer kenegdo in Genesis 2:18, 20 has defied satisfactory interpretation, even though this …
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Truth, history and representation in Margaret Atwoods' Alias Grace
In the Introduction of this minor dissertation, Margaret Atwood as a post-modern writer and her interest in fictional autobiographies are considered, particularly with regard to memory, the formation of self-identity and amnesia. Parallels are drawn between Surfacing and Cat's Eye as fictional …
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