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Showing 1 to 20 of 409 for “"gift"”.
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A gift of stone
A Gift of Stone consists of a novel and a critical commentary written in response to a key event in Irish history, the Great Irish Famine. The novel for this practice-based PhD in Creative Writing imagines two lives – that of a young Irishwoman and her family caught up in the Famine in the 1840s …
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A gift of stones
… of eleven short stories, grouped under the tit A Gift Stones. The key thematic concern is the portrayal of dysfunctional individuals contemplating loss. The author offers a definition of his understanding of dysfunctional in the introduction, and further elaborates on the concept of documentary …
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Blood, society and the gift: An ethnography of change in the gift relationship
… by its links with both Titmuss’ altruism and gift exchange theories. This thesis, using a qualitative ethnographic approach, re-examines and introduces new discourse about blood, challenging the orthodoxy of altruism and seeking new understanding and justification for blood donation. It uses …
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Counterfeit Money or Genuine Gift? Gift, Giving, and Salvation in the Gospel of John
This dissertation studies the concept of gift in the Gospel of John, especially as it relates to God's gift of salvation to humanity. Chapter 1 defines the problem of the gift both for New Testament studies as well as philosophy and sociology. In light of the discussion of the gift historically and …
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The Gift in Old English Literature
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T21:09:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7714940.pdf: 11156294 bytes, checksum: 612b55163749949719b4813d27b79bbf (MD5) Previous issue date: 1977
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The Self and the Gift in Japan: A Cognitive View of Ritualized Gift Exchange in Contemporary Western Japan
… The role of the giver or the recever of a gift is composed of a set of obligations/rights between the self and others. However, when the individual attempts to do his/her role performance for others, he/she always has to recognize the deficiency of the exact prescription of his/her role …
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Toward An Ecclesiocentric Model of Spiritual Gift Identification
… answer the question: "Is the use of a spiritual gift identification instrument the best way for people to find their place of joyful service within the church?" Chapter 1 provides a history of the Church Growth Movement (CGM) through 1972 as an important backdrop for the development of spiritual …
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The gift of prophecy in the New Covenant.
Chapter one surveys recent research, demonstrating different approaches yield different definitions for prophecy, and suggesting a combination of historical, exegetical and biblical-theological methodology. Chapter two concludes that intertestamental Judaism, the old covenant scriptures and the …
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Gift-giving of toys from adults to children.
… giving of toys to children aged 11 and under as gifts. It is borne out of a need to understand why adults buy gifts for children adding to the issues on consumption practices and materialism. It begins by discussing the issues of researching with children, outlining an exploratory artwork session …
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Protecting CHAAC's gift--groundwater protection in Yucatan, Mexico
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1994.
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Does a gift in a captive service make me feel better? Examining gift giving in uncertain conditions that influence emotions and firm performance.
… during the secondary appraisal process through gift giving. Negative consumer emotions can be affected by uncertainties from captive services due to the limitation of consumer power in decision making, control in how decisions are being made, and voicing concerns. Service uncertainties can be …
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RHETORICAL STRATEGIES AND POLITICAL GIFT GIVING IN THE ORINOCO DELTA
… sign systems (in this case language and material gifts) interact, contradict, and support each other. In sum, this dissertation uses the advances of discourse-centered approaches to culture and the anthropological theories of exchange to understand how language and gift giving has shaped history …
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Cognitive-developmental learning for a humanoid robot : a caregiver's gift
(cont.) which are then applied to developmentally acquire new object representations. The humanoid robot therefore sees the world through the caregiver's eyes. Building an artificial humanoid robot's brain, even at an infant's cognitive level, has been a long quest which still lies only in the …
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Presents of Mind: Using Experience Design to Support Online Gift Giving
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