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Showing 1 to 20 of 192 for “"gods"”.
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small gods
small gods is a poetry and creative nonfiction collection that focuses on the life of a first-generation Mexican American speaker attempting to wade through people's perceptions, ideals, and opinions while navigating grief and uncertainty. Each identity-focused poem, such as "Biracial Nomenclature …
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Little Girl Gods
This master’s thesis, Little Girl Gods, is a collection of poems in three parts. The poems presented here aim to follow a speaker through young girlhood, adolescence, and early adulthood, where the speaker struggles with sloughing off the identity of a girl for that of a woman. The second section, …
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No Gods, Only Suffering
… earnest proclamations about the land’s power. No Gods, Only Suffering is a collection about Kansas through and through. The Kansas of this collection is not one of homogeneity or bald dismissals, but of multi-faceted identities, struggles, and ever-changing conceptions of what it is to be human, …
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All the Clawed Feet of Winged Gods
<p>All the Clawed Feet of Winged Gods is a manuscript in free verse poetry, lyric essay, and visual art, exploring the intersections of creating art, natural processes and laws, and processing trauma. Samantha explores the reverberating nature of generational and unknown traumas, as well as recent …
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The Gods of Women and Their Mothers: Stories
<p><em>The Gods of Women and their Mothers</em> is a collection of fictional short stories that discusses themes of religion and spirituality as well as the underlying conditions of shame and emotional distance that often result from exposure to fundamentalism. The characters do not stray far from …
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The Days Are Gods: A Life in Place
<p>"Theorizing voice as a construct in life writing," Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson write, "has not yet been the focus of sustained critical attention." They whittle the myriad ways this idea might be approached down to two elemental questions: "How might we understand our attribution of a …
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Om voor Gods gelaat te staan. Een expositio missae
Contains fulltext : 145579.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Traditional Gods and Civic Religion in Plato’s Later Dialogues
… later dialogues, the traditional and cosmic gods. This thesis focuses on the traditional gods and inquires into their cosmological status and function in the Timaeus and the Critias as well as the ethical value of civic religion in the Laws. In the first chapter, I discuss the place of …
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Neil Gaiman's American Gods: An Outsider's Critique of American Culture
<p>In 2001, Neil Gaiman published American Gods, a novel of American life and mythology. As a British author living in the United States, Gaiman has a powerful vantage point from which to critique American culture, landscape, and ideology. Rich with re-invented deities, legends, mythic creatures, …
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Edward Taylor's "brightest gem" : a religio-aesthetic explication of Gods determinations
This study examines intensively Edward Taylor's Gods Determinations touching his Elect: and The Elects Combat in their Conversion, and Coming up to God in Christ together with the Comfortable Effects thereof. This poetic history was probably written immediately prior to one of Taylor's spiritual …
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George Catlin and the Pipestone Quarry: paradise of the red gods
George Catlin, pioneer, author, ethnographer, entrepreneur, was foremost an artist of exceptional talents. He made five difficult journeys westward from 1830-1836 to paint the Native Americans and their way of life. His artistic work comprised the first pictorial record of western Native Peoples. …
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Gross Gods and Icky Atheism: Disgust Responses to Rejected Religious Beliefs
Disgust is an emotion that plays an important role in the maintenance and protection of physical and moral purity (Rozin, Lowery, Imada, & Haidt, 1999b). Using a repeated taste-test paradigm, the present research extends recent work on moral cognition by investigating disgust reactions to rejected …
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On the Creation of Gods: Lenin’s Image in Stalin’s Cult of Personality
This thesis attempts to explain the continued presence of Vladimir Lenin’s image in Joseph Stalin’s cult of personality in the postwar era, long after the General Secretary no longer had to rely on his predecessor’s image or persona to legitimize his power over the Soviet Union. While the presence …
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Touching the Gods: physical interaction with cult statues in the Roman world
„Touching the Gods: physical interaction with cult statues in the Roman world‟ explores different forms of physical interaction with cult statues in the many cults and beliefs evident across the Roman world, and proposes wide-ranging implications of this for the understanding of Roman religions and …
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Ancient Greek Hymns and Pastoral Gods: Comparative Studies in Poetics and Mythology
… historic-comparative study, expanded to include gods of Indo-European cultures and other contexts as well, helps clarify certain not-yet-well-understood characteristics of these deities. In addition, some possible reasons and explanations for these three gods’ association with hymnic performance …
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The composition and revision of H. L. Mencken's Treatise on the gods
… of one of his finest books, Treatise on the Gods. The extant materials relating to this work include prepublication forms of both the 1930 and 1946 editions and a series of unpublished letters. These documents provide the data for a study of the evolution of Treatise on the Gods. A study of …
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Heroes, saints, and gods: Foundation legends and propaganda in ancient and Renaissance Rome
<p>The paper investigates the way in which Roman leaders, during the classical and Renaissance periods, used foundation myths as a form of persona l propaganda. It shows that men like Julius Caesar used the supposed founders of the city to promote their own claims to power through art and …
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Opdat Gods glorie openbaar worde: de 'Lex orandi' als theologisch verantwoord fundament van orthodoxe missietheologie
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