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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"Jonah"”.
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The Talus
… and into a cats-cradle of mystery and humor. Jonah Tinderwunkel, the protagonist, mistakenly cast a curse upon himself at the age of fourteen. Now, twenty-eight years later he is a high-tech loner and loser who finds himself seeking help after a great fall. With a cracked cranium and smashed …
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The new Suffolk hymnbook : a novel
Sing, cries Jonah, softly, under his breath, as if the word were his last. To sing would be to release the sum of his afflications to the sky.
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Aurora
… she was 16: an affair with her math teacher, Jonah Andrews. Jonah left town before they were discovered, but she knows rumors, suspicion, and secrets are still alive and well. While celebrating the wedding, Leah meets 19-year-old Mallory Sloane, who is in Aurora Canyon after his brother, Erik, …
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Playing Jonah's Hand: Poems
Playing Jonah's Hand: Poems is a collection of poems with a critical introduction. The introduction consists of two independent essays, both of which examine intersections between poetry and Christian theology. In the first essay I identify the imaginative faculty as the primary source of agency …
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Rereading Zora Neale Hurston through the lens of "What white publishers won't print".
… over race and exceptionality throughout Jonah's Gourd Vine, Dust Tracks on a Road, and Seraph on the Suwannee.
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“I must turn idolator”: religious inversion and the quest for genuine faith in Moby-Dick
… covenant people. Using Father Mapple's sermon on Jonah as a paradigm through which to see the other religious inversions, I will explore how Ishmael repents of a false view of immorality, finds redemption through an immoral union, and follows a wicked captain who offers the hope of expiating …
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Reclaiming happiness of the city and the soul : Augustine's engagement with Cicero and Porphyry in the City of God.
… identifies Rome with Nineveh in the Book of Jonah, and that such re-conceptualization reflects the evangelistic attitude toward his contemporary intellectuals.
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Violence Against Architecture: The Lost Cultural Heritage of Syria and Iraq
… Archaeological Site, Nergal Gate, Shrine of Jonah, Nineveh (Mosul), Iraq</p> <p>I will argue that the destruction of architecture by Da’esh and other militant organizations represents the conduct of criminal and immoral warmongers. The destruction by Da’esh of some of Palmyra’s archeological …
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Essays on the Economics of High School-to-College Transition Programs and Teacher Effectiveness
… treatments. My third essay, coauthored with Jonah Rockoff, considers ways in which policymakers can improve teacher accountability systems. Using data from New York City public schools, we study the relative predictive power of value-added performance data and subjective evaluations (made by …
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A mapping system for an autonomous helicopter
… I would like to thank Mohan Gurunathan, Jonah Peskin, and Bill Kaliardos for their advice and moral support. Finally, I would like to thank my entire family for years of encouragement and support. It is to my mother, father, and sister that I dedicate this thesis. Rusty Sammon May, 1999.
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Towards Infinity And Beyond Branding, Reputation, and the Critical Reception of Pixar Animation Studios
American author and journalist Jonah Lehrer declared in 2012 that Pixar Animation Studios was ‘the one exception’ to the oft-cited maxim that, in Hollywood, ‘nobody knows anything.’ Patrick Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times spoke in similar terms in 2008, writing that, ‘critics and audiences are …
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The Worlds of Samuel Felsted: Music and Society in Late Eighteenth-Century Kingston, Jamaica
… has focussed on the rediscovery of his oratorio *Jonah*, and the list of subscribers that was published alongside it in 1775. Some biographical details about Felsted, his family, and the white elite Jamaicans surrounding him have also been discovered, but information about the contributions and …
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Compression effects, perceptual asymmetries, and the grammar of timing
This dissertation reports the results of two English experiments on timing and perception. The first experiment demonstrates asymmetries in timing between consonants and vowels, which depend on the manner of the consonant. The second experiment shows that these asymmetries in speech production are …
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A zsidó identitás "üvegszilánkjai", avagy értelmezési kísérletek Chaim Potok A kiválasztott című regényéhez
… – the double ties and the Theory of the Jonah Complex, – the importance of the names in the story, – the title of this literary work focusing on the role of the characters, – the study of the working title of the novel through historical events, – father-son relationship, and – the …
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The Post-WWII American Picaro as Prophet of Human Dignity: A Study of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, Flannery O’Connor’s The Violent Bear It Away, and Saul Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King
… her picaro Tarwater, as he did with the prophet Jonah, that all are created in his image and therefore have dignity, even the disabled and the corrupt. In <em>Henderson the Rain King</em> (1959), Bellow’s picaro Henderson overcomes the apocalyptic romanticism—the belief that humanity is …
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Biogeographic Patterns, Predator Identity, and Chemical Signals Influence the Occurrence and Magnitude of Non-lethal Predator Effects
… native rock crab Cancer irroratus (Say, 1817), Jonah crab Cancer borealis (Stimpson, 1859), and the invasive green crab Carcinus maenas (Linnaeus, 1758). Nucella use chemical cues emanating from their most common predator (Carcinus maenas) and crushed conspecifics to evaluate predation risk. …
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The Gawain-Poet and the Textual Environment of Fourteenth-Century English Anticlericalism
… example of a single character, the prophet Jonah, who shirks his duties as an absentee priest. These contextual readings situate the poems within the rich textual environment of 14th-century anticlericalism, including the works of archbishop Richard FitzRalph; poets John Gower, William …
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Mapping urban growth and investigating its potential impact on surface water quality in Chattanooga, Tennessee using GIS and remote sensing
Urban development involves the conversion of land cover from pervious to impervious surfaces. Impervious surfaces (IS) can have ramifications for urban stormwater and facilitate the movement of pollutants and other substances to nearby water bodies. This study investigated the changes in IS in and …
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An evaluation method for the evaluation of big data based streaming analytic clinical decision support systems
This thesis presents a methodology for evaluating a scalable clinical decision support systems (CDSS) that uses high frequency streaming physiological data using a holistic approach that includes the presence of population health indicators. The plan applies concepts and uses indicators suggested …
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