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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Weddings"”.
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Second weddings : a new kind of fairy tale
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Although most girls look forward to getting married, and the marriage market is a very lucrative business, a sometimes-overlooked market is the remarriage market. This study will look at how Bride Magazine addressed the changing …
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Ritual and Narrative in the Contemporary Anglican Wedding
… important rituals in contemporary England, weddings are of great interest in any attempt to describe and account for the place of ritual in contemporary life. As events which are simultaneously acts of Christian worship, efficacious legal ceremonies and popular cultural rites, Anglican …
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An Exploratory Study of Spending Patterns, Obstacles and Traditions Among Same-Sex Marriage vs Heterosexual Marriage: Who's the Bigger Spender?
… in the amount of money spent on same-sex weddings versus heterosexual weddings. The results of this study would assist both the wedding and hospitality industry by providing much needed financial and planning information.</p> <p>A descriptive, four-section survey was distributed online via …
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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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Turn: Essays on Growing Up
… essays range from crushes to dog walking, from weddings to working at a New Orleans snoball stand. The essays deal with how much more complicated the world turned out to be than as a child I expected.
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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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VIP: Finding Important People in Images
… preserve memories of events such as birthdays, weddings, or vacations by capturing photos, often depicting groups of people. Invariably, some individuals in the image are more important than others given the context of the event. This work analyzes the concept of the importance of individuals in …
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Scripture as Architecture
… missions and ministries; and accommodates weddings, funerals, and baptisms. These functions are performed in obedience to the Word of God. They are expressions of Scripture. In the past, the church building itself expressed Scripture. The cruciform plan of the great cathedrals was the most …
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Mashairi: a surviving art of the Swahili Muslim peoples of Lamu Town, Kenya
… specifically performed by women during Swahili weddings. It is an art that has existed for hundreds of years dating back to the 11th century through oral sources. I begin by defining the East African region, who the Swahili people are, while providing a historical background of their origins and …
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Flowers, Interaction and Emotion
… and interaction, and the role of flowers in weddings and funerals. It is this gap in the research that this research addresses. This study applies a sociological perspective to explore on a micro level the role of flowers in social interaction within ritual spaces, whilst also examining the …
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Making social relations and identities through consumption: A Botswana case study
… draws people back for kinship events, such as weddings and funerals, which act to connect people together. White weddings, driven by the fantasy of the bride, are big consumptive events, and yet may be read as being less about conspicuous consumption than an objectification of love which …
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Ewiges Deutschland as an Examination of Popular Political Culture in National Socialist Germany 1939-1940
… popularly disseminated book in Nazi Germany for weddings, Ewiges Deutschland likely enjoyed a more satisfied audience of readers. A study of all five original volumes published totaling approximately 1,800 pages of primary source material, together with secondary supporting resources, suggests a …
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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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A study of Sipelu music and dance among the Masubia people of the Zambezi region of Namibia
… in their villages. Dancing also takes place at weddings, political rallies, beer parties or school meetings but never at a funeral. Each Sipelu group composes its own songs, making its repertoire completely unique from the other dance groups. The composed songs and dances symbolise unity, always …
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Consumer identity & Nigerian wedding rituals : a blended netnography approach
… white wedding consumer culture with Nigerian weddings. Here, thematic analysis was applied, uncovering the paths where Nigerian culture mixes, resists and elaborates on (global) white wedding consumer culture. The findings indicate a complex use of wedding rituals at performing, negotiating …
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GIOSTRE E TORNEI EQUESTRI NELLE CITTÀ REGIE DELLA SARDEGNA TRA XVI E XXI SECOLO: FENOMENOLOGIA ED EVOLUZIONE DELLA SARTIGLIA DI ORISTANO
… of extraordinary events such as births or weddings of princes and from the 19th century, started marking the days of the carnival. The thesis analyzes the different phases of the historical evolution of the carousel, demonstrating how the main stages are closely linked to the institutional …
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GIOSTRE E TORNEI EQUESTRI NELLE CITTÀ REGIE DELLA SARDEGNA TRA XVI E XXI SECOLO: FENOMENOLOGIA ED EVOLUZIONE DELLA SARTIGLIA DI ORISTANO
… of extraordinary events such as births or weddings of princes and from the 19th century, started marking the days of the carnival. The thesis analyzes the different phases of the historical evolution of the carousel, demonstrating how the main stages are closely linked to the institutional …
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Space and Place in the Out-of Doors settings of the Farsas Y Eglogas by Lucas Fernandez, Spanish Playwright (1474-1542)
… such as a palace or a church to celebrate weddings, good fortune or Christ's birth or death, which are the major events in Fernandez’ plays. Rather, the out-of-doors, the place where all the characters gather, offers ample room for structuring these events—both secular and sacred—in a less …
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Pronounced Absurdity: The Wedding-scape Outside a Conical Field
… highly dense urban fabric and city image around weddings. The double-image phenomenon in a wedding park is paralleled in a dummy cake, a cake whose sponge has been wholly or partially replaced with polystyrene blocks. The dramatic counterpose between its sumptuous profile and inedibility becomes …
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