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Showing 1 to 20 of 92 for “"immortality"”.
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Christian Doctrine Of Personal Immortality
357 leaves
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Attitudes toward death and immortality in modern American verse
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1925.
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"Archetypes as patterns of symbolic immortality: Pedro Prado's ""Alsino"""
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Not (Just) Donne: Alchemical Transmutation as Immortality in Shakespeare’s Sonnets
… in order to show how fruitless it is to pursue immortality. The poet urges the fair friend, who himself is like the self-consuming ouroboros, to father a child that will continue his legacy and allow the fair friend to live on via the child. Language associated with the child is alchemical, …
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Personal name and immortality among Shona people : an African philosophical inquiry
… people in particular, have a strong desire for immortality, prompting them to find ways to achieve this elusive dream. Previous research has shown much interest in the topic of immortality, but investing insufficient effort to achieve it. This research work investigates the interplay between …
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The desire to upload: a theological analysis of transhumanist advocacy for life-extension and immortality
… dissertation focuses on the third way, digital immortality, because digitality can serve as a framework for further human enhancement that goes beyond mere life-extension, and thus has nearly unlimited potential to transform the human condition, and also because some forms of digital immortality …
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MATTER(S) OF IMMORTALITY: OIL PAINTINGS ON STONE AND METAL IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES
By the second decade of the twenty-first century, the preponderance of scholarship examining oil paintings made on stone slabs or metal sheets in Western Europe during the early modern period (fifteenth–eighteenth centuries) had settled on an interpretation of these artworks as artifacts of an …
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The Immortality Phantasy: an extension of the instinctual model of creativity and its application to classic literary texts
… the hypothesis that there exists within us an Immortality Phantasy which can help to explain the relationship between creativity and destruction. The Immortality Phantasy occurs in response to sublimation, leading to desexualised libido and the release of self-destructive impulses and can help …
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Failed futures, broken promises, and the prospect of cybernetic immortality: toward an abundant sociological history of cryonic suspension, 1962-1979
"This dissertation offers an interpretation of cryonic suspension, or ""cryonics,"" the practice of preserving human corpses by way of perfusing them with chemical protectants and gradually subjecting them, at the pronouncement of legal death, to extremely low temperatures (-360◦ F, -196◦ C), which …
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Perspectives on Immortality and Eternal Life in the Book of Wisdom and the Gospel of John: A Conceptual Analysis Based on Metaphorical Structuring
Contains fulltext : 159147.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Blasphemous bodies: Transgressive morality as cultural interrogation in romance fiction of the long nineteenth century
… knowledge with a popular tradition of physical immortality. These writers produced an array of texts treating a theme I have identified as “amortality”, a form of bodily immortality that is characterized by a transgression of death's bounds either through artificial prolongevity or reanimation. …
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Death and Value Reignition: Lucky in the Chance to Die
… thesis I examine life-extension and embodied immortality and ask whether these are intrinsically problematic or undesirable. I examine the history of the concept of immortality and find that the usage of the term has nearly always referred to extended but mortal lifespans. I observe that …
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Gene expression analysis of head and neck cancer development
… expression changes consistently associated with immortality in dysplastic keratinocytes and SCCs were identified. The list included genes involves in cell cycle control, signalling, cellular metabolism and maintenance of cellular structure. Validation of the expression of these genes by western …
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Bach as humanist: the influences of the classics and court aesthetics on the design of the six Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046-1051
… carrying the themes of victory, glory, and immortality.
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Fama proditrix: Rumor in Ovid, Statius, and Prudentius
… to previous epic authors and to his own poetic immortality. The second chapter turns to an investigation of Statius’ personification of Fama in the Thebaid, and argues that the Thebaid has a particularly strong focus on the meta-poetic overtones of Fama. This is demonstrated through a study of …
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The electromigration drift velocity and the reliability of dual-damascene copper interconnect trees
… found that at short line lengths, true Blech immortality occurs only for very short lines, at best, due to the ease of void nucleation. Immortality due to void growth saturation is also limited, because, in the absence of the conducting refractory-metal current-shunting overlayers …
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William Faulkner's public and poetic voices: A discussion of the "human condition"
… poetic voice) clarifies what Faulkner meant by "immortality," "evil," "fear," and "failure" and thereby demonstrates that both Faulkner's fiction and his nonfiction do in fact illustrate his belief that "man will prevail.".
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Faire Semblants and Scandalous Worship: Iconophobia and the English Renaissance
… destruction to affirm God's existence and the immortality of cherished loved ones made the metaphor of iconoclasm a powerful engine for transforming human affection into acts of organized violence. This fundamentalist rhetoric, and the language of toleration that developed in response to it, …
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Garden of the mind
… on a feeling of temporary presence. I don't seek immortality; instead, I desire a life of rural simplicity. For the past three years, I have experienced the unique life situation of living far away from my motherland of Taiwan. Exploring the American continent and recalling my past memories and …
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