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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"The Giver"”.
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The Spirit as the Lord and the Giver of Life: Recovering Relational Pneumatology and Its Significance for Being Church in Postcolonial Nigeria
This dissertation seeks to recover the relational quality of the Holy Spirit who is the Lord and the Giver of life as enshrined in the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed (381). Neo-Scholastic theology had utilized the conceptual categories of Aristotelian metaphysics with its orientation to …
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The Messiah and the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit: The Christological Significance of Jesus' Role as the Giver of the Spirit in Luke-Acts
Without rejecting the general consensus among scholars that Luke emphasizes the humanity of Jesus, this dissertation attempts to contribute to the field of Lukan Christology by contending that there is more to the Lukan portrait of Jesus than what is generally acknowledged. Through his particular …
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Architecture Exists Between Man and Time
The light is the giver of presence. Nature is eternal in time. Man's life is transitory. Architecture is the joint between man and light, man and nature.
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Both borrowers and lenders: Time banks and the aged in Japan
The rapid ageing of Japan’s population is occurring in the midst of accelerating social change, causing a rethinking about what it means to grow old. Some older Japanese are pioneering new models for ageing through their involvement in groups known as time banks. These are non-profit organisations …
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Both borrowers and lenders: Time banks and the aged in Japan
The rapid ageing of Japan’s population is occurring in the midst of accelerating social change, causing a rethinking about what it means to grow old. Some older Japanese are pioneering new models for ageing through their involvement in groups known as time banks. These are non-profit organisations …
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Literature-Based Exploration: Efferent and Aeshtetic
<p>Efferent teaching asks the student to read for a predetermined answer, focusing on another person's ideas of the text's meaning. Aesthetic teaching allows for literature to be read and experienced as art through the reader's personal transaction with the text which focuses on one's own interest …
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Subteen, preteen, tween: Preadolescent literature inside and out
<p>This thesis focuses on the inside and outside of preadolescent literature, a subgenre that has been widely neglected by literary scholars, educators, and book publishers. In Chapter 2, I analyze the themes within The Giver by Lois Lowry and use the developmental stage of preadolescence to define …
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The Self and the Gift in Japan: A Cognitive View of Ritualized Gift Exchange in Contemporary Western Japan
"Oseibo exchanges provide a site to explore the relationship between the self and others in contemporary Japanese society. The role of the giver or the recever of a gift is composed of a set of obligations/rights between the self and others. However, when the individual attempts to do his/her role …
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The Gift of Living Water: A study of the relationship between water symbolism and the Spirit in the Gospel of John
… symbol to reveal progressively that Jesus is the Word Incarnate which brings about transformation and divine revelation. This dissertation examines the extent to which John deliberately develops an increasingly intimate relationship between water symbolism and the Spirit in the Fourth Gospel. …
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Creating a world of books, friends and flowers: gift books in America, 1825-1860
… formally acknowledged such a tradition when they published a genre of books known as literary annuals or gift books. Elegantly-bound collections of prose, poetry, and illustrations, gift books appeared in bookstores each year in anticipation of Christmas and New Year's. ☐ As an object-driven …
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Tracing the weave: reading and interpreting young adult fiction
This dissertation demonstrates how the study of young adult fiction can be illuminated by a working knowledge of contemporary literary theories, viewing these theories as strategies, approaches to interpretation. The text reflects the author’s education in theory, his belief that a basic knowledge …
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Negotiating Hope and Honesty: A Rhetorical Criticism of Young Adult Dystopian Fiction
<p>Young adult dystopian fictions follow the patterns established by the classic adult dystopias such as George Orwell's <em>1984</em> and Aldous Huxley's <em>Brave New World</em>, but not completely. Young adult dystopias tend to end happily, a departure from the nightmarish ends of Winston Smith …
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A communal and exchange relationship orientations and experience a thoughtful or required benefit predcitive of feeling of gratitude or indebedness
… indebtedness, which may be based in part on whether one tends to develop communal or exchange relationships with others. Two studies investigated whether communally oriented individuals experience more gratitude while Exchange oriented individuals experience more indebtedness. It was further …
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Counterfeit Money or Genuine Gift? Gift, Giving, and Salvation in the Gospel of John
This dissertation studies the concept of gift in the Gospel of John, especially as it relates to God's gift of salvation to humanity. Chapter 1 defines the problem of the gift both for New Testament studies as well as philosophy and sociology. In light of the discussion of the gift historically and …
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The Role of Care Practices, Mutual Aid, and Racial Formation in Black Newcomer Practitioners’ Lived Experience Within Organizations: A Critical Qualitative Inquiry
… defined as people who have migrated to the United States regardless of legal status, are one of the fastest-growing immigrant groups. (Morgan-Trostle et al., 2016). Within this population, a small percentage work within the social service sector with other migrants. Using critical …
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Effects Of Improvement Size On Contentment, Aspiration Level, Perceived Strength, Perceived Conflict, And Instrumental Action Escalation
This dissertation investigated whether improvement can sometimes increase the likelihood that the recipient will use increasingly more coercive actions to attempt to obtain further improvement from the giver. It also investigated how it would do so. The source of the research question was a …
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Pandangan hakim Pengadilan Agama Kota Malang tentang hibah wasiat: Perspektif KHI dan hukum positif dalam pasal 968 dan 992 KUH Perdata
… ENGLISH: Will Grant is giving one person to another when the giver is going to die. Grants will also one institution that has long been recognized before Islam, although in some periods of history will grant could be misused to do injustice. This study aims to determine how the views of …