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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"charms"”.
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The Erotic Charms of Platonic Discourse: Mythmaking, Love Potions, and Role Reversals
Socrates engages his audience in Phaedrus with speeches that include revised or newly composed myths that express his theory of philosophical eros. The aim of the speeches is to generate a love for truth that spills over into dialogue. Speeches are a starting point for dialogue, just like physical …
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Klonopin Collectifs, the “Charms” of Diverted Pharmaceuticals and Other Pleasures of Non-Medical Prescription Drug Use
Much of the epidemiological research conducted on non-medical prescription drug use assumes pharmaceuticals to have fixed, inherent euphorigenic qualities. Quantitative analysis of substance abuse depends on drugs acting predictably. However, this conception of pharmaceuticals has failed to account …
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Klonopin Collectifs, the “Charms” of Diverted Pharmaceuticals and Other Pleasures of Non-Medical Prescription Drug Use
Much of the epidemiological research conducted on non-medical prescription drug use assumes pharmaceuticals to have fixed, inherent euphorigenic qualities. Quantitative analysis of substance abuse depends on drugs acting predictably. However, this conception of pharmaceuticals has failed to account …
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Trinkets and Charms: the use, meaning and significance of later medieval and early post-medieval dress accessories
This is a thematic study of dress accessories of late medieval to early post-medieval date from two regions of mainland Britain. It is an investigation of everyday objects which aims to re-engage the material world with past individuals. An interdisciplinary approach is used to understand how dress …
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No Circe with wicked charms: dialectical mediation of time in South Korea’s cultural formation in the 1980s
This dissertation, from the perspective of Marx’s historical materialism, explores the dialectical mediation process of the South Korea’s cultural formation echoed with the peculiar historical modality of financialization in the 1980s. Taking the conception of time as the constitutive logic of the …
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Not the Simplest Christians: Vernacular Charming and The Limits of Orthodox Practice in Late Medieval England
… homogeneous. They find the impulse to employ charms as rooted in the parishioners’ faith in the ceremonies of the Church, part of either ‘the magic of the medieval church’ or as another element of the ‘multifaceted resonant symbolic house’ of medieval religion. Charms were an expression of the …
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Integrated Thermal and Daylight Performance Comparison of Single and Double Glass Skin Facade for Hot Climate Conditions
… the building interior and exterior is one of the charms of today's architecture. The Double-Skin facade system is a technology that can reduce the drawbacks of using glass in a building's elevation. In fact, the double-skin façade (DSF) offers transparency while reducing energy consumption when …
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The assembled body: Anatomical enumeration and embodiment in Anglo-Saxon devotional texts
… century, such as anonymous personal protective charms and prayers, confessional formulae, monastic execrations, scientific writing and diagrams produced Byrhtferth, as well as a number of Ælfric of Eynsham's vernacular homilies. This project demonstrates how Anglo-Saxon authors employed such …
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A Missiological Study of the Phenomenon of Dual Allegiance in the Seventh-day Adventist Church Among the Yoruba People of Nigeria
… men and women who use enchantments, divination, charms, invocation of the spirit world, etc. They engage in such practices for various reasons which include, to diagnose and treat various ailments, both physical and psychological which plague their clients, a quest to know the future through …
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Retrieving the textual environment of the "Old English Bede": a digital remediation of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 41
… and intellectual scribal engagement: Old English charms, homilies, a fragment from the Old English Martyrology and an extract of the wisdom poem Solomon and Saturn as well as Latin charms, masses, prayers and offices for the liturgical season were added to the manuscript’s margins shortly after …
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The Las Vegas phenomenon
… groups. These separate groups are Magic, Charms and Jinxes, Ritual, Altered-States of Consciousness, and Divining each having a subsequent section in my thesis. The transformative experiences, ideas, and behaviors are like-wise categorized into separate groups. These separate groups and …
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The Relationship Between Superstition and Confidence in Sport
… allows sports psychologists to utilize lucky charms in their application of superstitions and pre-performance routines in sport.</p>
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En/gendering representations of childbirth in fifteenth-century Franco-Flemish devotional manuscripts
… from fifteenth-century childbearing such as charms, lying-in, and churching, can be brought into meaning for the women whose social position required them to conceive and give birth to male heirs.
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Childbirth Beliefs and Practices in England, c. 1400-1580
… medical texts, including prayers, saints’ lives, charms and textual amulets, the thesis relocates and contextualises childbirth therapeutics within late medieval devotion and healing practices. The childbirth space, often considered static and enclosed, is argued here to be dynamic and porous, …
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Perception of the community towards child sexual abuse in Chawama,Lusaka,district, Zambia
… cure and children being perceived to be lucky charms. Men’s heavy alcohol intake and lack of self-control, poverty and a lack of parental guidance among others were seen to contribute factors to the increase of Child Sexual Abuse cases. Participants also reported that children disclose abuse …
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Perception of the community towards child sexual abuse in Chawama,Lusaka,district, Zambia
… cure and children being perceived to be lucky charms. Men’s heavy alcohol intake and lack of self-control, poverty and a lack of parental guidance among others were seen to contribute factors to the increase of Child Sexual Abuse cases. Participants also reported that children disclose abuse …
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Queer Things: Victorian Objects and the Fashioning of Homosexuality
… Wilde's aesthetic practice. Juxtaposing Bosie's charms with those of Algernon Moncrieff in The Importance of Being Earnest, and then moving to the little-read letters which document the final post-prison years of Wilde's life, I suggest that the frustrating states of intemperance and indolence …
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Burns again
… "None certainly ever outshone Burns in the charms--the sorcery I would almost call it--of fascinating conversation……such was the irresistible power of attraction that encircled him--though his appearance and manner were always peculiar, he never failed to delight and to excel." 3 That was …
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Multiple stakeholders’ perception of the long-term success of project: a critical study of Oman tourism resort projects.
… the country to showcase their diverse nature and charms to attract specific segments of tourists. The success criteria and the associated factors for these projects involve a different set of stakeholders that value the long term impacts of such developments. With the research nature being …