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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Marmion"”.
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Paved with Good Intentions: The Road to Racial Unity in the Episcopal Diocese of Southwestern Virginia
The Right Reverend William Henry Marmion was consecrated as bishop of the Diocese of Southwestern Virginia on May 13, 1954, days prior to the Brown v. Board of Education decision and just over a decade after the Episcopal Church's General Convention formally opposed racial discrimination. A …
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One virtue and a thousand crimes”: (Re-)writing narrative poetry, an ekphrastic approach
… was inspired by two source texts, Walter Scott’s Marmion (1808) and Lord Byron’s The Corsair (1814), chosen as the apotheosis of popular narrative poetry. The Adept is informed by themes that emerged from close reading of the source texts, adopting an ekphrastic approach – the concept of …
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Understanding heritage: multiple meanings and values.
This research aims to explore the ways in which people understand and value heritage through a focus on the lay rather than the expert view. This focus was considered important in order to move beyond the emphasis on expert knowledge within heritage discourses and in turn, privilege lay …
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Academic Professionals and Faculty in a Research-Oriented University: An Introductory Comparative Study
Non-faculty, non-classified personnel have become more numerous and more vital to the operation of large, public, research-oriented universities as these organizations respond to the pressures created by expanding information and technology, and by increasing demands for service and accountability …
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Sources and supply of kelp detritus : quantifying mechanisms of production
… Australia. Most of the work was conducted in Marmion Lagoon located 20 km North of Perth, south-western Western Australia, a region strongly influenced by oceanic swell and winter storms. The study comprised of four major components: the impact of kelp morphology on the drag forces acting on …
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Cosmology and galactic angular momenta
<p>The plan of this paper is to present some observations and then in subsequent chapters to examine the two basic cosmological ideas in the light of these observations.</p><p>The first of the observations involves an estimate of the angular momentum in a given volume of space and the ratio of this …
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Comparisons of habitat use and diet of herbivorous kyphosids (Genus Kyphosus) in tropical and temperate reefs
… has been investigated across 20 sites within Marmion Marine Park, on the south-west coast of Australia. All temperate Kyphosus species were found to be significantly more abundant in high-relief reef areas (P < 0.01) and particularly inshore areas (0 to 1 nm from the coast). Juveniles (Lt < 30 …
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"Imagined crusaders: the ""Livre d'Eracles"" in fifteenth century Burgundian collections"
"The following study analyzes the conception and reception of the illuminated volumes of the crusade history the ""Livre d’Eracles"" (hereafter ""Eracles"") as it was conceived and collected in the fifteenth-century court of Burgundy, centered in the Burgundian Netherlands. It considers four …