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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"Vices"”.
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‘It’s all a cover up!’: An Examination of Epistemic Vices and Conspiracy Theories in the Internet Age
… I will introduce my theory ‘Epistemic Cluster Vices’ to categorise each recognised vice into their respective groups and assess whether other epistemic vices can off-shoot from the is a central/ capital vice. It must be stated that my theory is in its embryonic stage and further academic …
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A sociolinguistic study of euphemisms on HIV and aids by Manenberg’s youth and adults
… It focuses on the community’s socio-economic vices such as gangsterism, drug trafficking, drug addiction, prostitution, lack of education, poverty, unemployment, domestic violence and so forth (c.f. Salo, 2004; Willenberg & September, 2008). Taking these factors into account, the research …
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Shakespeare’s Historical Tetralogies: Compared and Contrasted
… its virtues and its follies and some of its vices, and even its physical appearance, so sensitively and memorably." These words were spoken of William Shakespeare, literature’s greatest dramatist. These words can be verified easily enough by anyone who has read the many plays produced by this …
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Giving and Thanksgiving: Gratitude and Adiaphora in A Mask and Paradise Regained
… of this strategy stems from the fact that the vices gratitude guards against?self-indulgent ingratitude, stoical ingratitude, and idolatry?are the vices that underlie licentiousness and superstition, the primary abuses of the doctrine of things indifferent. Milton's privileging of gratitude …
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Female Types in Literary History
… has modeled anew the face of woman altering her vices and her virtues to the tastes of the time. |While thumbing through the pages of some old magazines one day, the author encountered this rather unusual statement. It challenged an investigation which resulted in the following study. Four widely …
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The ends of love : vice and charity in The End of the Affair.
… love of God. In this he demonstrates the capital vices lust and envy as described in the seven deadly sins tradition. Greene's compelling depiction of how natural love can be pulled toward both demonic vice and the love of God makes The End of the Affair a powerful portrayal of Catholic moral …
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A Statistical Analysis of the Factors that Potentially Affect the Price of A Horse
… level of training, temperament, location, color, vices, markings, registration, and if the horse was being sold by a private individual or a barn. Of these features only height, breed, type of training, and level of training were found to be significant in determining the value of a horse. The …
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The Virtue Screen: An 18th Century Biombo at Virginia House
… show emblems that depict images of virtues and vices. The source of the emblems on the Virtue Screen is Otto Van Veen's Homtii Emblemata. The text on the screen is taken from a Spanish translation of the Horatii Emblemata entitled the Theatro Moral de toda la Philosophia de los Antiguos y …
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"We are simply Filipinos" : gendered, sexual, and religious scripts in the making of the Philippine nation.
… family was key to the survival of the nation. Vices such as gambling, prostitution, and alcohol abuse also took on gendered dynamics as they posed a threat to this familial construct. Before annexation, Filipino revolutionaries were already exploring with notions of citizenship where the …
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Serving the Lord with Gladness: Situating Christian Humor in Three Historical Contexts
… to parishioners’ indifference toward church services, a consequence of factors such as boring sermons and dissatisfaction with clergy and church leaders. As a result, many Christians of the time refused to attend or participate in church services, opting instead for more pleasurable activities …
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Conversation and Performance in Seventeenth-Century French Salon Culture
… immodest, undignified, or malicious, the same vices commonly attributed to lowly stage performers. My study proposes answers to the following two questions: How did salonniers endeavor to reconcile performance artistry with the aristocratic ideals of naturalness and civility? How did salon …
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Defining the alter orbis : the Roman view of Parthia in the early Principate
… antithesis of their own values, embodying the vices of despotism and licentiousness. In the absence of a decisive military victory, the Roman people used this image of the Parthians to assert their own sense of superiority, while also acknowledging the formidable military strength of their …
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Combatting Skepticism Against Religious Nationalism (With A Special Focus On Pakistan)
… than secular nationalism fail to see that the vices within religious nationalism are a direct result of nationalism itself, not religion.
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The use of Grimm's fairy tales to understand the moral content in fairy tales
… the moral content found in fairy tales such as: vices and virtues, the intentions behind the deeds, and in certain cases reason about them using orientations of care, justice and empathy. The quality of participation in the dramatisations, artistic and storytelling components ascertained that the …
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Epic of Civil War in Lucan, Statius and Silius Italicus
… war of the self fought within one’s soul against vices and passions – a legacy of markedly (though not exclusively) Stoic brand destined to great fortune among later Christian poets.
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Empire's Law: A Hartian Critique of the Potential of Fuller's and Radbruch's Theories to Address Legal Colonialism
… inner morality, at best, cannot preclude these vices and, at worst, can reinforce them. Contra Radbruch, I argue that supra-statutory law is a problematic solution to British Columbia’s statutory lawlessness since it fails as a system of primary and secondary rules. More crucially, I show how …
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A Tocquevillean analysis of the democratic peace research program and modern liberal foreign policy
… he viewed as one of democracy’s most dangerous vices. Examining his foreign policy positions in light of the lessons he learned in writing Democracy in America is the only way to discover the consistent goal of his life—namely, to educate and guide the future generations of democracy—and thus to …
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A correlation-based method for direction finding of multipath signals in frequency hopping systems
… the new method is easy to implement as analog de-vices can be used to measure the correlations of received signals. Future work can be carried out to reduce the computational complexity by de-creasing the number of unknown parameters. Further analysis can be done in the tracking scenario if more …
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Limited Conventions about Morals
… deed the evaluative points of the virtues and vices in question. Finally, I discuss how conventions and similar forms of guidance provide a way for individuals to participate in their community’s moral life without having a full understanding of the principles that underlie it, or even if they …
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Contestations and conflicts over land access between smallholder settler farmers and nomadic Fulani cattle herdsmen in the Kwahu Afram Plains South District, Ghana
… destruction, burning of grasses, and alleged vices perpetrated by the herders. The findings of the study also reveal that the mitigation measures put in place to address the conflict have been ineffective because of corruption, poor land governance, and greedy chiefs. The study concludes that …
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