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Showing 1 to 20 of 147 for “"Wedding"”.
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The jackal's wedding.
‘The Jackal’s Wedding’ is the story of Miss Meyer, a psychologically damaged but physically striking woman in her late twenties masquerading as a white Namibian, and her road trip across America and Southern Africa with Joules, one of her three eighteen year old admirers. Following in pursuit for …
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Defining wedding exhibitors and their wedding exposition return on investment practices
… in nature. Data was collected from 201 wedding exhibitors within the United States via mailed self-administered questionnaires. The results of this study are used to create a standard wedding exhibitor profile including basic marketing activities, market positioning, and company …
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The wedding at Buchenhorst; a narrative
A translation followed by a critical essay presented to the faculty of The Eioe Institute In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts In the Department of German.
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Malay wedding culture and traditions in Singapore
… or even misconstrued; particularly the Malay wedding culture and traditions. This study is focused on the actual culture practices and traditions being performed in a typical Malay wedding. The concentration includes the rituals, protocols and normalities in such a socio-cultural event which …
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Expected Happiness, Love, and Longevity of Marriage: Effects of Wedding Type Preference, Gender, and Location of the Wedding Ceremony.
<p>Gender and wedding type preference affect views of those who get married in a courthouse as opposed to a church. The participants for this study consisted of 198 unmarried, undergraduate students that planned to marry someday. Participants responded to a wedding location scenario then completed …
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Impact of Disability on Celebration of Wedding Anniversaries
… to determine how married couples observe their wedding anniversaries. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 19 couples (four of which one partner has a disability) to determine how they celebrate their wedding anniversaries. This data was compared to how having a disability within the …
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Ritual and Narrative in the Contemporary Anglican Wedding
Contemporary wedding ritual is a little-explored area of both the Christian theology and the English social reality of marriage. As persistently important rituals in contemporary England, weddings are of great interest in any attempt to describe and account for the place of ritual in contemporary …
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Consumer identity & Nigerian wedding rituals : a blended netnography approach
(Global) White wedding rituals is the chosen consumption sphere for this study due to its preference for intense consumption of symbolic artefacts and its global reach. The materialistic tendency of the global white wedding allows for its infiltration and deterritorialised usage in most local …
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As Time Goes By: Ritualized Remembering Through Wedding Photography
… and sustain social bonds and values. American wedding photography is a strong example of an instance in which remembering becomes a formalized symbolic performance through an intricate system of idealization as prescribed by various authorities. An examination of the production and exhibition …
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An extensive analysis and testing of wedding dress fabric
… and silk taffeta that are utilized in the wedding gown industry today. Each of the five fabrics are extensively tested in the laboratory to determine cover factor, drape, abrasion, crocking (wet & dry), stiffness, tensile strength, and seam strength. These fabric properties are usually …
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Pronounced Absurdity: The Wedding-scape Outside a Conical Field
… and cropped backdrop in a picture frame, a wedding park is an architectural complex that provides spectacular and romanticized scene settings like a proscenium stage for wedding photographs. In order to satisfy the bourgeoisie lifestyle fantasy, architectural symbols out of the in situ …
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Landscapes For Celebration; An Investigation and Design of Wedding Gardens
… lives. The focus of this work is landscapes for weddings. The goal is to illuminate the importance of these spaces for celebration as well as reveal how landscape architectural design can have a profound influence on how these places are perceived by the user and their experience of their …
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IN PURSUIT OF A BLACK IDENTITY IN CONTEMPORARY SOUTH AFRICA: CULTURE, CLASS, AND GENDER IN WEDDING REALITY TV SHOWS, TV AUDIENCE COMMENTS, AND WEDDING SPEECHES
… this study analyzes the representation of weddings in Our Perfect Wedding and Top Billing Weddings, two South African wedding reality television programs. In addition, the study examines the TV programs’ audience narratives in online spaces. Analyzing online conversations helps to show how …
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On the Verge of Change: Eudora Welty's <em>Delta Wedding</em>
… lifestyle depicted in Eudora Welty's <em>Delta Wedding</em>. This thesis focuses on the female characters who adapt to the absence of the husbands during wartime. Wars are the catalyst for societal change in the novel, and the women must adapt to the new social changes that are encroaching upon …
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An ethnographic study of communication and gender performance in a modern day Latino wedding
… intersect at a contemporary Mexican-American wedding. Prior studies have focused on one factor but did not examine how all three can affect a wedding. The bride in this study tries to negotiate challenges between her Mexican-American culture and her American culture. This research is an …
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TILL DEATH DO US PART? A STUDY OF AMERICAN WEDDING RITUALS AND MARITAL OUTCOMES
… activities to once-in-a lifetime events. Weddings are arguably the most elaborate, complex, and rare couple ritual. Few studies have examined the association between wedding rituals and marital outcomes, yet millions of Americans marry and celebrate weddings each year. The purpose of the …
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