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Prophet loss
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Geotemporal Dreams (or, the Prophet)
Geotemporal Dreams (or, the Prophet) is an experiment in creating a concert work that ties in elements of theatre and surrealist storytelling, resulting in an evening-length piece for a quartet of flute, clarinet, percussion, and piano. This ensemble is extracted from the common so-called “Pierrot …
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H. G. Wells: Prophet With Honor (Britain)
Critics and biographers of H. G. Wells have commonly disregarded his journalism and much of is nonfiction. After the Edwardian period Wells's reputation as a novelist began to deteriorate. He continued to produce novels, but he turned more to the writing of journalism and nonfiction. Dismissed as …
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Matroid prophet inequalities and Bayesian mechanism design
… equal to the most recent observation. The famous prophet inequality of Krengel, Sucheston, and Garling asserts that a gambler who knows the distribution of each random variable can achieve at least half as much reward, in expectation, as a "prophet" who knows the sampled values of each random …
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Prophet singer: the voice and vision of Woody Guthrie
This project discusses the cultural and political significance of a number of lyrics by songwriter and political activist Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie. By drawing on both the singer's personal experiences and relevant American history, I lay out how larger political and cultural forces in society …
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Liszt as Prophet: Religion, Politics, and Artists in 1830s Paris
… and Urhan stand apart in their pursuit of a prophetic mission, whether in religion, politics, art, or a combination thereof. I contend that their influence--more than any other--shaped Liszt's fundamental identity as a liberal Catholic artist, dedicated to social and artistic progress driven …
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The message of the prophet Haggai : a socio-political approach
… in Jerusalem. It was at this time that the prophet Haggai exhorts all the people to support Zerubbabel and Jehozadak and to reconstruct the Temple of the God of Israel. Haggai succeeds with clever rhetoric to gain the cooperation of the people. In his second major oracle Haggai addresses the …
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Thomas Carlyle, Fascism, and Frederick: From Victorian Prophet to Fascist Ideologue
… pressed Carlyle into service as a progenitor and prophet of their respective totalitarian regimes. Adolf Hitler, in his final days, assuaged his fears of his imminent fall with readings from Carlyle's History of Frederick the Great. This fascist connection to the once esteemed “Sage of Chelsea” …
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Fault prophet : a fault injection tool for large scale computer systems
In this thesis, I designed and implemented a fault injection tool, to study the impact of soft errors for large scale systems. Fault injection is used as a mechanism to simulate soft errors, measure the output variability and provide analysis of the impact of soft errors on the program. The …
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Pastor, prophet, priest, and evangelist: a study of clergy leadership roles
… typology identifying the roles of pastor, prophet, priest, and evangelist. Earle, et al. (1975) used the typology to conduct survey research on clergy identities in the community of Gastonia, North Carolina. This study utilizes qualitative field research within parishes of the Episcopal …
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A prophet unwelcome : motive magazine, the Methodist Student Movement, and midcentury Methodism.
… motive's legacy tells of a progressive and prophetic publication that succumbed to the censure of an oppressive denominational governing board. This thesis, however, will argue that identity politics, organizational instability, and financial troubles were largely responsible for the …
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Profit and the Prophet: Culture and Politics of Islamic Entrepreneurs in Turkey
Theoretically, this study presents a critique of the received ideas on Islam and Islamism that have hitherto conceptualized them outside of and in contradiction with modernity and capitalism. By embedding modernity and capitalism, processes that are often considered within and through a-historical …
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Through The Eyes Of A Renaissance Prophet: Fra Girolamo Savonaorla And The Compendium Of Revelation
This thesis provides the historiographical background and historical context necessary to undertake an examination of Savonarola's Compendium of Revelations and evaluate it as a work of the Italian Renaissance. It conducts such an examination and reaches the conclusion that Savonarola should be …
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The reconstitutive power of Wovoka's prophetic discourse: A rhetorical history of the 1890 Ghost Dance Prophet
… message of peace and renewal. The Ghost Dance Prophet of 1890 outlined a new way of life for "his people" which included every native nation, not just the Paiute. Delegations that came to hear Wovoka speak and letters he sent to the faithful spread the tenets of the religion among the …
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Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498): Fashioning of a prophet and a new Jerusalem in late fifteenth-century Florence
… the fifteenth century who fashioned himself as a prophet. Although there were many prophets in Italy, this study argued that Savonarola primarily emulated the biblical prophets of the Old Testament. Analysis of Savonarola’s discourse was based on electronic or print translations of his sermons and …
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Authoring Authority: The Apostle Paul and the Prophet Joseph Smith--A Critical Comparison of Texts and Power in the Generation of Religious Community
… Apostle Paul and the nineteenth-century Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith.</p> <p>This comparison defamiliarizes and recharacterizes the heroes and origin-stories of the dominant (and my own) tradition to force important questions about scholarly perspectives, interests and deferences (protection, …
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Automatic patch generation via learning from successful human patches
… presents two novel patch generation systems, Prophet and Genesis, which learn from past successful human patches to enhance the patch generation process. The core of Prophet and Genesis is a novel learning technique that extracts universal properties of correct code and a novel inference …
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