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Showing 1 to 20 of 243 for “"Invitation"”.
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Invitation of Echoes: Part One
Four strangers are stranded in an old farmhouse by a winter storm. Gilley lives on the farm. Shadows move of their own volition on the farm, and Gilley talks to echoes and sees the dead reflected in mirrors. Gilley's husband, Frank, disappeared over forty years ago. Jason is a college student who …
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The development of the evangelistic invitation
M. Th., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1958
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Homiletics at the Threshold: Pope Benedict XVI's Invitation
This dissertation explores whether or not the Roman Catholic Church is reticent towards preaching and if it is, why is this so? In an age when people often prefer to hear the Word preached to personal likings and individualistic needs, why would an ecclesial institution, such as the Catholic …
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Interlanguage Pragmatics: Invitation Responses by Advanced Chinese Learners of English
… previous studies have shown dissimilarities in invitational conversations and general refusal strategies (c.f. strategies used to reject an invitation) in Chinese and American English, little has been said regarding invitation-response patterns used by Chinese learners of English in the United …
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An invitation to thought: ambiguity in the apologetic of C. S. Lewis
This thesis examines the role of ambiguity within the apologetic of C.S. Lewis. Though the nature and value of ambiguity remain contested across scholarship, there is agreement that ambiguity has some role to play in creating understanding. That role is almost entirely unexplored within Christian …
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The Legal Limits of Intervention by Invitation of Government in Civil Wars
… UN Charter. This is known as “intervention by invitation.” However, it is clearly open to abuse, especially when invoked as a legal justification for intervening in a civil war, allowing allies of ineffective governments to help suppress genuine popular revolts. Thus, many 20th century writers …
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An invitation to understand: An alternative approach to the corporate voice in public relations
… and practitioners to the benefits of using an invitational rhetoric approach to the corporate voice instead of relying on traditional rhetorical approaches that are grounded in persuasive, authoritative intent. Because of societal changes inspired by changing gender norms, the traditional …
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An Invitation to Change? An Ethnographic Study of a Residential Therapeutic Community for Substance Use
Drawing upon the findings of a 31 month ethnographic study this thesis provides a snap-shot of the intricate workings that take place in a residential Therapeutic Community (TC) in the North West of England for individuals with a history of substance use. The thesis identifies and addresses the …
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"A Multitude of Little Luminosities": Dissociative Multiplicity as an Image of and Invitation to Psyche, through a Case of Dissociative Identity Disorder
<p>This project sought to narrate a process of working with and learning from DID, through the researcher’s case study description of her work with a patient experiencing dissociative identity disorder (DID). The researcher focused on unique ways in which dissociation and multiplicity impacted the …
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That Bird is Singing Us an Invitation to Meet Our Future: Listening to the Call of Sankofa to Develop Memory Practice Methodologies for Performative Practice
This thesis explores the potential of the philosophical, and practical, application of the Akan Adinkra principle of Sankofa, as a memory practice methodology that offers otherwise readings of remembering for lives omitted from or obscured from archives and official documents of history. The common …
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Look for pattern: collage as co-created pedagogical space
… part of this research. This dissertation is an invitation to educators, artist-practitioners, and people interested in working beyond collaboration in museums, higher ed, elementary schools, and family artist residencies. Part of an invitation is acknowledging a request to be with another, and …
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Estudo da evolução dos padrões de comportamento reprodutivo de Cynolebiatini (Cyprinodontiformes - Rivulidae)
… five distinct stages: 1) Courtship displays, 2) Invitation, 3) Submerging (to dig the substrate), 4) Spawning/fertilization, 5) Emerging ( comes back from the substrate ), where some patterns were established and optimized into preexistent phylogenies. The closed unpaired fns of the males during …
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Invitations in American English and Mandarin Chinese
… whereas little research has been done on the invitational act. The present study has been motivated by Wolfson's series of studies on American English invitations, and is intended to investigate the similarities and differences in the invitation patterns of speakers of American English and …
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The legality of Syrian intervention in the Lebanese civil war: 1975-1976
… perspectives: intervention under the rebel's invitation; humanitarian intervention; Lebanese government's invitation, and the effect of invitation on the Lebanese right to self-determination; and finally the legitimization of Syrian intervention through its inclusion in the peace keeping force …
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The Relationship Between Faith Formation Experiences and Spiritual Maturity: A Quantitative Study
… altar calls as a form of a public evangelistic invitation. Since there is no scriptural command with regard to the practice, the literature prior to this study relied solely on opinion, conjecture, anecdotal stories, and the occasional attempt to quantify results from evangelistic crusades. The …
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Barriers to Expansion of Supervision Networks At Genetic Counseling Training Programs
… Society of Genetic Counselors e-blast with an invitation to complete an online survey; Program Directors were emailed personal letters of invitation. Twenty-three Program Directors, 216 supervisors, and 98 non-supervisors completed surveys. Respondents rated the impactfulness of 35 barriers …
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Choosing team members: taking personality and perceived personality into account
… who completed sociometric measures of teammate invitations and personality) demonstrated that individuals tended to send teammate invitations to those: (a) whom they perceive to exhibit higher extraversion and lower neuroticism, (b) with whom they are familiar (i.e., via friendship and prior …
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Intervention in Civil Wars: Intervention and Consent
… forcible intervention undertaken upon the invitation or consent of a government, seeking assistance in confronting armed opposition groups within its territory. This dissertation seeks to analyze the consent-exception in a wide context, and attempting to delineate its limits - including, …
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Personalising Predictive Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease using Electronic Health Records and Genomics
… lifetime impact of novel PRS-based personalised invitation strategies. Key finding 1: By utilising all available primary care records in a large, national database, a novel prioritisation model, eHEART, was developed. We showed that prioritisation, in addition to using optimised age-and sex …
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