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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Swords"”.
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Swords in early modern English plays
… the traditional English “art of defence” with swords and bucklers. This transition was reflected in dramatic works performed in the London playhouses. This dissertation attempts to grasp this changing weaponry and fencing style. Chapter one examines the sword, sword fighting, and the function …
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Crossed swords : divided militaries and politics in East Asia
(cont.) Domestic politics, then, frequently have a decisive impact on strategic planning and produces policies that the consideration of external threats alone would not suggest.
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Performing Danger: Bulls, Swords, and the Acrobatic Body in the Ancient Near East.
North Carolina State University Theses Public History.
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Why Two Swords Were Enough: Israelite Tradition History Behind Luke 22:35-38
… in Luke 22:35-38 that his apostles should buy swords is one of the most enigmatic texts in the gospels. Although previous studies made use of a wide range of standard critical methods, none of these approaches satisfactorily revealed the pericope's meaning. In a fresh re-examination of Luke's …
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Swords into Ploughshares: Agricultural Recovery and Postwar Institutional Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
<p>Civil wars have long been characterized in the comparative politics literature as having profoundly negative economic effects for both individual households and countries on a larger scale. However, variation in postwar economic outcomes indicates that conflict may indeed have some curative …
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Swords and ploughshares: an analysis of the origins and implementation of the US Marine Corps' counterinsurgency strategy in Vietnam between March 1965 and November 1968
This thesis analyses the United States Marine Corps’ counterinsurgency strategy in Vietnam between March 1965 and November 1968, filling a major gap in the existing literature by forensically examining the primary source records maintained by the United States Marines to produce an assessment of …
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"Play Your Fan": Exploring Hand Props and Gender on the Restoration Stage Through the Country Wife, the Man of Mode, the Rover, and the Way of the World
… items (59). Thus, while critics point out that swords and fans ubiquitously appeared on the Restoration stage, most do not consider the important role such objects play in reinforcing gender. While playwrights of the era do not provide a prop list as such for modern readers, through the …
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Feeling the Burn: A Discursive Analysis of Organizational Burnout in Seasonal Wildland Firefighters
… and a can-do attitude serve as double-edged swords in firefighters’ experience of burnout, both enabling and constraining the firefighter experience, while bureaucracy emerged as a hindering force in firefighters’ conceptions of burnout. This paper will discuss the causes of burnout, as well …
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Feeling the Burn: A Discursive Analysis of Organizational Burnout in Seasonal Wildland Firefighters
… and a can-do attitude serve as double-edged swords in firefighters’ experience of burnout, both enabling and constraining the firefighter experience, while bureaucracy emerged as a hindering force in firefighters’ conceptions of burnout. This paper will discuss the causes of burnout, as well …
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The power of belief: Innocents and innocence in children's fantasy fiction
… compass, phantom stags lead the way to hidden swords. This thesis explores the power of belief and its associations with the innocence of childhood as found in J.M. Barrie’s <em>Peter Pan and Wendy</em>, J.K. Rowling’s <em>Harry Potter</em> series, Philip Pullman’s <em>His Dark Materials</em>, …
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African American English in Urban Education: A Multimethodological Approach to Understanding Classroom Discourse Strategies
… the prestige variety (Pandey 2000, Wheeler and Swords 2006), but rarely has the teachers' acquisition of non-prestige forms been examined in any form (a notable exception is Fogel and Ehri 2006). Furthermore, no study to date has taken a multimethodological approach to understanding both student …
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What makes war? Assessing Iron Age warfare through mortuary behaviour and osteological patterns of violence.
… classifying instruments of violence (i.e. swords, spears, hillforts) as functional tools of war and as ritual symbolic devices. Human skeletal remains provide the most unequivocal evidence for violent encounters, but were often missing from these debates in the past. This thesis addresses …
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An Ecotoxicological Assessment of Upper Clinch River Tributaries, Virginia
… requiring extensive evaluations are Big, Lick, Swords, Big Spring, Guest River, Cavitts and Middle Creeks. Tributaries that were deemed healthy (ETRs >80) were Big Stony, Copper, Indian, Stock, Little River and Cove Creeks.
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The Enemy Within: Combatants, Commanders, and Comparative Models in Julio-Claudian Recollections of Late Republican Civil War
… adversity at all societal levels, long after the swords of civil war were sheathed. With respect to the recollection of civil war between Romans, illuminating research has been undertaken on several key periods of Roman history, including the final decades of the Republic, under the Flavians and …
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The Arsenal of the Hebrew Kings and their Neighbors: A Description of Biblical Weapons in the Iron Age
… weapons, and is broken into three sections: (1) swords and daggers, (2) axes, and (3) clubs and maces. In each section, the Hebrew terms are studied, followed by the ancient illustrations, and finally the artifacts. Numerous figures of the artistic evidence from the ancient Near East are …
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Stochastic delay difference and differential equations: applications to financial markets
This thesis deals with the asymptotic behaviour of stochastic difference and functional differential equations of Itˆo type. Numerical methods which both minimise error and preserve asymptotic features of the underlying continuous equation are studied. The equations have a form which makes them …
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Design of nylon-carbon fiber composite gears
Advances in manufacturing and material science have changed fundamental limitations of designs and have allowed designers to redesign components to improve performance characteristics. This work applies traditional gearing standards from the American Gear Manufacturers Association (AGMA) to a …
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