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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Marston"”.
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Playwright and Man of God: Religion and Convention in the Comic Plays of John Marston
John Marston’s literary legacy has inevitably existed in the larger-than-life shadows of his great contemporaries William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. In the last two centuries, his works were hardly taken on their own terms but were perceived instead in overt or implicit comparison to Shakespeare’s …
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An investigation into the use of derivative by 104 of the smallest companies on the main board of the JSE as well as those companies listed on the ALTX
… referred to in the studies of Bodnar, Hayt, Marston and Smithson (1995) and Bodnar, Hayt, and Marston (1996; 1998) and similar studies that followed in various other countries. The objective of the study is to test the hypothesis that… 1. the use of derivative by small South African companies …
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Uncommon Sense in Renaissance English Literature
… English drama, particularly the works of John Marston and William Shakespeare. Unlike Ben Jonson, who incorporated both Senecan tragedy and Elizabethan satire in his drama but did so in different plays (Catiline, Every Man Out), Marston and Shakespeare combined the two traditions in one and the …
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Conditional Love: Imitation, Inheritance and Violent Relations in Early Modern Revenge Tragedies
… Examining revenge tragedies by Shakespeare, Marston, Middleton, Tourneur and Kyd, I argue that the metaphors each playwright uses to portray familial emotions reveal the ideologies underpinning both excessive and normative versions of familial relationships. For example, the pietas that …
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A Mock Rhetoric: The Use of Satire in First-Year Composition
… work with seventeenth-century satirist, John Marston.
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The piano and violoncello sonatas of Ludwig Van Beethoven
… for piano and strings, a body of works which Marston feels contains "extraordinary stylistic development" (1991b, 228). Chapter one provides a background to the development of the cello, the origin's of Beethoven's piano and cello sonatas, and a general discussion of the composer's stylistic …
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Akurasi penggunaan polygraph sebagai alat bantu pembuktian menurut hukum acara Peradilan Agama
… Polygraph yang dibuat pertama kali oleh William Marston awalnya dipakai sebagai pendeteksi kebohongan oleh departemen kepolisian serta agen-agen rahasia seperti FBI dan CIA. Alat ini akan melacak perubahan psikologis pada tubuh jika seseorang berbohong. Penggunaan polygraph sementara ini hanya di …
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'Morbid Exhilarations': Dying Words in Early Modern English Drama
… John Fletcher, Thomas Kyd, Gervase Markham, John Marston, Philip Massinger, Thomas Middleton, John Webster, William Sampson, and Robert Yarington. Chronologically, the scenes span nearly four decades, from Marlowe’s Tamburlaine plays in 1590, to Sampson’s Vow Breaker in 1636. The thesis …
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Religious and secular places: understanding the changing geographies of religion in Ireland
… is often subsumed within other scales. Using Marston et al.’s (2005) work on geographic scale, I propose a new set of relations between the religious and the secular. In this way, I draw the outlines of a map which reconfigures the relationship between religion and the secular as open-ended …
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The Crew / of Common Playwrights: Collaboration and Authorial Community in the Early Modern Theater
… Authors," Francis Beaumont, John Ford, and John Marston. This project provides a new lens through which to view authorship in Shakespeare's time. Rather than presenting a "solitary genius" model wherein the playwright scribbles away in solitude, I provide a more accurate depiction of playwriting …
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Early Nineteenth Century German Idealism and Historical Perspectives in Beethoven's Eroica Variations, Op. 35
… of the Eroica theme in the Eroica Variations (Marston): first, the material is stated in its simple form; then, rhythmic structure, dynamics, tempo, texture, and key transform it. Schenker considers the large-movement form rather than the theme, giving emphasis to the basso del tema. This study …
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The Effect of Individual Instruction versus Group Instruction on Compliance in C.O.P.D. Patients
… follow their medication and treatment programs. Marston estimated that approximately 30 to 35 percent of patients fail to follow their physicians' medical recommendations (Marston, 1970).</p> <p>Discovering a means of insuring patient compliance was a prevalent concern in the nursing and medical …
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Cambodia 1991-94: hierarchy, neutrality and etiquettes of discourse
The dissertation is concerned with how the negotiation of conventions of public discourse correlates to changing political economy. It focuses on Cambodia during the period immediately before and after the 1993 U.N.-sponsored elections. The dissertation develops the idea of "discursive etiquette" …
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Spatial modelling of small mammal distributions in relation to parasite transmission in western China
This research investigates the spatial distributions of small mammal species which actas intermediate host vectors for the parasitic tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis, whichcauses a significant burden of human disease in western China. Small mammal distributionsare modelled in relation to …
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PATH to a ‘better’ life? Exploring the influence of conditional assistance from the Programme of Advancement through Health and Education (PATH) on the lives of its beneficiaries in Jamaica
The Programme of Advancement through Health and Education (PATH) is a Conditional Cash Transfer Programme (CCTP) in Jamaica. PATH provides cash to vulnerable households and as a result, anticipates increased school attendance and performance, and consequently, human capital. Following that, child …
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Human mediated physical and virtual water transfers of the United States: Who uses the water?
Globalization has strengthened and expanded connections between consumers and distant water resources used in production, by enabling consumer demand in one location to be fulfilled with production and resource use in another. Many of the environmental consequences associated with water-intensive …
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An International Comparative History of Youth Football in France and the United States (C.1920-C.2000): The Age Paradigm and the Demarcation of the Youth Game as a Separate Sector of the Sport
This thesis contends that the contemporary phenomenon of youth football is the fruit of a variety of historical developments over the twentieth century. The manner in which the junior game evolved as an independent subset of the sport in France and America was certainly exemplary of the …
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Do freshwater growth opportunities and migration barriers limit recovery of imperiled anadromous Oncorhynchus mykiss populations?
Steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) populations in the Puget Sound Distinct Population Segment are far below their historic abundance and are currently listed as Threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Despite the declines in steelhead abundance, resident O. mykiss populations appear to be …
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Did Nca, Npa, Ols, and Usaid Prolong the Second Sudanese Civil War
<p>Sudan has experienced conflict and war since gaining independence from Great Britain in 1956. This thesis will focus on the second civil war that began in 1983 and ended with the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in 2005, and the roles certain non-governmental organizations, …
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