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The Legacy Of Andre Smith
Jules Andre Smith was an architect and an artist with an aspiration to build a retreat where artists could explore and develop new ideas. In the late 1930s, due to the generosity of a benefactor named Mary Louise Curtis Bok, Smith embarked upon an undertaking that fulfilled his ambition. He created …
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Joseph Smith, Mormonism and Enochic Tradition
… the bona fides of the Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith (1805-1844). First, Nibley compared Smith’s extract of the prophecy of Enoch, written in 1830-31, with the pseudeupigraphic 1 Enoch, written prior to the first century CE, and Nibley found numerous parallels. Second, in a seven point argument, …
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Johnny Smith: Melodic Interpretation and Improvisational Techniques
… and analyzed further in regards to their use in Smith's larger catalogue of works. By providing an analysis of Smith's harmonic and melodic approach to individual pieces, as well as his characteristic improvisational devices, this paper provides a complete break down of the playing style of one …
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Adam Smith and the Consequences of Inequality
This is the first book-length study of Adam Smith’s thoughts on inequality. The scholarly literature on Smith is vast, but hitherto comparatively little has been written on this feature of his thought. The prevailing interpretation of Smith as a thinker primarily interested in the plight of the …
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Smith Purcell radiation from femtosecond electron bunches
… theoretical and experimental results from a Smith-Purcell radiation experiment using the electron beam from a 17 GHz high gradient accelerator. Smith- Purcell radiation occurs when a charged particle travels above a periodic grating structure. The electron beam consists of a train of 15 MeV, …
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A productivity study on Smith Mountain Lake
… in the upper end of the Roanoke River arm of Smith Mountain Lake has caused much concern. Eutrophic conditions have been established in this portion of the lake since 1965, when it was first brought to operating level. A multiphase productivity study was conducted on Smith Mountain Lake and …
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Re: Reading Ashley Smith: Critically Unpacking Government by Discursive Figures of Ashley as Girl Produced in the Smith Case
In this dissertation, I explore how Ashley Smith has become socially understood as a “case.” I perform a critical discourse analysis of figures of Ashley Smith as technologies of governance. I argue that the Smith case ought not to be read as a case of anomalous system failure but as an extreme, …
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Amir Smith Córdoba : del blanqueamiento a la negritud
El pensamiento de Amir Smith Córdoba se puede articular desde dos categorías: blanquemiento y negritud, rastreadas en tres de sus textos: Cultura Negra y Avasallamiento Cultural de 1980, Vida y Obra de Candelario Obeso y el Negro Robles editado en 184 y Visión sociocultural del negro en Colombia de …
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Honor, Supremacy, and the Lynching of Henry Smith
… violence through the unique story of Henry Smith, an African-American brutally lynched in Paris, Texas during the 1890s. Through an examination of primary documents – newspaper articles, photographs, eyewitness testimonies, etc. – and secondary literature, the author will reconstruct an …
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John Smith: A charismatic and transformational religious leader
John Smith is best known as the charismatic leader and president of God's Squad Motorcycle Club, which seeks to proclaim and incarnate the Christian gospel in Australian outlaw motorcycle subculture. Smith is in fact an evangelist and public figure in his own right. As well he is a teacher and …
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Four Sermons of Henry Smith: A Critical Edition
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T22:39:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6812110.pdf: 8932341 bytes, checksum: 1b42b6669178699a546576f8bccefa4d (MD5) Previous issue date: 1968
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Narrating Literary Transnationalism in Zake Smith and Dave Eggers
… and it uses two representative examples: Zadie Smith's novel <em>White Teeth</em> and Dave Eggers' novel <em>What Is the What</em>. Smith's work focuses intently upon the friction people experience in the face of transnationalism when they refuse to let go of their colonial mindset. Eggers' text …
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M̀oral sense' from the Cambridge platonists to Adam Smith
… more astute philosophies of David Hume and Adam Smith were the basic presumptions behind the notion of a natural moral sense examined with renewed care. David Hume, I argue, retains the veneer of a moral sense theory, while providing arguments able to challenge it severely. Only with Adam Smith, …
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M̀oral sense' from the Cambridge platonists to Adam Smith
… more astute philosophies of David Hume and Adam Smith were the basic presumptions behind the notion of a natural moral sense examined with renewed care. David Hume, I argue, retains the veneer of a moral sense theory, while providing arguments able to challenge it severely. Only with Adam Smith, …
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The strength deformation properties of Smith Bay arctic silts
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1986.
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Examining "The Adam Smith Problem": Individuals, Society, and Value
In this paper I offer an analysis of the Adam Smith Problem. This Problem arises from perceived inconsistencies between Smith's economic work, The Wealth of Nations, and his moral theory, the Theory of Moral Sentiments. I argue that far from being inconsistent with Smith's economic theory, his …
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