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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"The Sacrifice"”.
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The sinner, the stranger, the sacrifice maker : an apocryphal autobiography
… as a kind of explanation and expansion upon the work I have taken on the past few months. It explores how the concepts of memory and perspective play a role in the narratives that we create. I accomplish this through my work with board games and theatrical recreations. It further discusses …
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Normative Narratives of Queer ‘Success’: The Sacrifice of the Queer in *Dumbo* and *The Imitation Game*
… marginalised characters becoming heroes focus on the heteronormative and capitalist usefulness of that which renders them Other. Using queer theory, with a broad understanding of queer as anything that deviates from hegemonic conceptions of the cultural normal, I argue that such narratives of …
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Understanding the Sacrifice of the Mass: Development Witnessed Particularly in the Ten-Year Period Following the Mediator Dei of Pope Pius XII, 1948-1958
<p>Even the least well-informed Catholic of our day is aware that over the past several years greater crowds have been thronging to the Communion rail. Even the moderately well-informed are aware that this Eucharistic renewal has received its impetus from a mighty educational endeavor. Catholic …
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The relationship of the son to the father in Justin Martyr
The Introduction contains a discussion on the manuscripts of the works of Justin Martyr and draws attention to inaccuracies in previous authors. The texts of recent editors have been considered and the works of even more recent scholars on Justin have been assessed. To set the entire book in …
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The role of affective (mood) states in perceptions of quality, sacrifice and value
Three studies investigated the way that mood affects judgments of commercial products. Participants who felt either happy or sad as a result of watching a movie or writing about a personal event, evaluated products based on different combinations of brand name (favorable vs. unfavorable), specific …
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Musical perspectives on the Binding of Isaac story in the 20th century: Aharon Harlap and Menachem Zur's Akedat Ytzchak and Steve Reich's The Cave
Genesis 22 is among the most ideologically evasive stories in the Bible. Abraham is prepared to murder his favorite son to show his devotion to God. We, the audience, are left with questions about the disposition of God, the morals of Abraham, and the nature of faith. This dissertation will examine …
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Blackland Prairie
… preface, “Cross Timbers,” that discusses the emerging role of place as a narrative agent in contemporary fiction. The preface is followed by six original short stories. “Parts” depicts the growth of a boy's power over his family. “A Movie House to Make Us All Rich” involves the sacrifice …
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ALTRUISTIC BEHAVIOR AND SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING: A META-ANALYTIC PERSPECTIVE
The purpose of this analysis is to determine meta-analytically whether or not being altruistic leads to flourishing. The literature examining the relationship between different forms of altruistic behavior and flourishing is expansive and varied enough to warrant a meta-analysis in order to …
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Finite Element Analysis of the Connection Behavior of Precast Prestressed Piles to Cast-In-Place Bent Caps
… to perform a parametric study used to determine the connection behavior of precast prestressed pile to cast in place bent caps for various pile sizes and bent cap embedment depths. Current construction practice in South Carolina involves a plain pile embedment to a depth equal to a single pile …
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The trade cycle theories of R.G. Hawtrey and F.A. von Hayek, with particular reference to the role attributed by each to the rate of interest
… be confined to a study of interest alone, in the context of the trade cycle theories of R. G. Hawtrey and F. A. v. Hayek. However it was found that much of the significance of the rate of interest was lost unless changes in the rate were continuously related to the process of the cycle as a …
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Aggregating suburbia : digital information storage as catalyst to intensify urbanity in suburban Iowa
… Midwest experienced its most rapid growth after the age of industrialization, stretching the suburban landscape beyond our wildest imagination, to a state of ubiquity. In the case of Iowa, this suburbanization comes at the sacrifice of the most valuable virgin agricultural land. In the midst of …
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A winter of animal suffering: sacrificial logic, the discourse of animality, and sensory rhetoric in Richard Adam's Watership down
<p>Sacrificial logic separates the animal from the human through the belief that humans are fundamentally different from animals. The origin of this difference can be found in Aristotle’s human-animal divide. The divide permits human violence to be enacted upon animals by utilizing them as …
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The rental and occupancy performance of historic office buildings rehabilitated for tax credit as compared against their modern counterparts
Prior to the mid-1970's enactment of federal tax incentives designed to dove-tail the interests of developers and preservationists, the plight of historic structures seemed bleak. Recognizing that preservation had become a national imperative that could not be accomplished in a meaningful way …
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Stages of Belief: The Nature of Audience Response in Medieval and Early Modern Drama
Medieval theatrical audiences expected that dramatic performances would have some element of truth: they believed that what they saw performed was in some sense factual, and this belief was due in large part to their participation in the dramatic spectacle. By the end of the sixteenth century, …
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The speltermen of Swansea.
This is a study of the spelter (also known as zinc) industry in the Swansea area between 1860 and 1930. A large histiography of the contribution of copper, and later tin and steel, to the Swansea area exists but spelter is virtually ignored despite Swansea being the centre for British production at …
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L'intertextualité comme procédé dramaturgique dans Hécube et Les Troyennes d'Euripide
This study investigates the question of how intertextuality is used as a dramaturgical device in Euripides’ Hecuba and Troades. The intertexts considered here are the Homeric epics and Aeschylus’ Agamemnon. After a presentation of the problems raised by the use of the notion of “intertextuality” in …
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Poetic genetics : family, sexual reproduction, and community in Lucretius' De rerum natura
… Lucretius’ poem De Rerum Natura and reconsiders the importance of these topics in Lucretius’ formulation of Epicureanism for a Roman audience. I argue that Lucretius modifies Epicurus’ teachings about family and sex to render Epicureanism more palatable to a Roman audience. I explore the cultural …
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Having It All For Working Professional Mothers: A Qualitative Study
The crossroads where career and family intersect has become increasingly more complex through the workplace shifts that have occurred over the last several decades. The modern family of today can take on many forms, and the demands being placed on working mothers to meet both their personal …
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