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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"strongholds"”.
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A Training Curriculum Based on the Five Step Healing Model at Vineyard of Harvest Church, Walnut, California
… is needed for people who suffer from sinful strongholds. (5) In the epistle of James, church believers are commanded to pray for one another for healing. Chapter 3 discusses the theoretical and practical issues related to healing prayer ministry. For effective healing prayer ministry to take …
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Reading Reverence: Literate Practice in Ambrose of Milan's Expositio evangelii secundum Lucam
… text, championing the cause against pagan strongholds in Roman culture, and instructing the Church in pious lifestyles, Ambrose's level of scriptural literacy is still ambiguous at best. Ambrose placed his intentions and abilities in scriptural literacy into question in his Expositio …
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Rap music: popular perceptions and its affect on the lives of adolescents attending Jackson Middle and Grimsley High Schools of Guilford County, North Carolina
… noisy, nonsensical, and absent of sustenance by strongholds of popular culture. Rap's controversial landscape tends to be inundated with the following questions in regard to its affect on the lives of adolescents: Can violent images incite violent action; can music enhance the political …
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Gender equality and human development in Macedonia during transition (1991-2006)
… rights. Gender equality, as one of the main strongholds of the concept of human development is measured through the application of nine gender relevant capabilities in a Case study conducted within selected municipalities in the country. Through the analysis of the Macedonian constitutional …
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The Emotional Rhetoric of the Later Crusades: Romance in England after 1291
… in 1291 and the evacuation of the last Christian strongholds in the Levant was characterized by a mixture of enduring enthusiasm and fascination, but also of concern, anxiety, and self-questioning, engendered by the enterprise's failures. The loss of the Holy Land had enduring repercussions on …
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An Analysis of Voter Turnout in Cuyahoga County, 1840-1860
… partisanship and the shift in traditional party strongholds during the last decade of the century. The Democratic party of the Gilded Age, they argued, became the haven of religious pietists, groups unwilling to set the country's moral tone through governmental action. The Republican party, on …
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Faunal Analysis of the Mesa 12 Archaeological Site (45GR144): Grant County, Washington
… They are hypothesized by some researchers to be strongholds, refuges, or defensive sites. Faunal material recovered from these sites has been in storage unanalyzed for over 40 years. The largest excavation was at Mesa 12 where 33 units were excavated. Six radiocarbon dates indicate a Cayuse Phase …
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Making the Scene: Vancouver's Cellar Club and Other Co-operative Jazz Clubs in Canada 1955–1964
… platforms. These co-operative jazz clubs created strongholds for jazz in Canada beyond the major urban centres of Toronto and Montreal, providing widespread cultural traction for jazz in this country.
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A comparative study of massacres during the wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1641-53
… namely following sieges, following assaults on strongholds, in the aftermath of battles, and as premeditated massacres in other settings. These categories will provide the basis for the comparison, and constitute the four main chapters of this dissertation. The thrust of the thoughts and …
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Terroir after the terror : landscape and representation in nineteenth-century France
… of ports, from images of the nation's coastal strongholds painted by Joseph Vernet in the eighteenth century to engravings produced by his nineteenth-century successor, Louis Garneray, as a form of visual border control; the third, the impact of a stringent forestry code passed in 1827 on …
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The challenges and risks inherent in Welsh language revitalization and the Cymraeg 2050 Strategic Plan
… of retention rate of speakers. The traditional strongholds of the Welsh language are shrinking, with in-migration reducing Welsh speaker numbers in percentage terms, and out-migration reducing them in absolute terms. Retention is considered not only in terms of quantity of speakers, but also …
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A Decolonial Perspective of Knowledge, Power and Place in the Eastern Cape Education System
… a role in their perceptions. Ultimately, the strongholds of coloniality in the entire education system not only impacts the endeavor to decolonize the university but also to redistribute land and decolonize places in South Africa.
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Behaviour of large mammals during the formation of Lake Kariba
… of dry marginal areas in Rhodesia, the remaining strongholds of large mammals in the territory. This paper aims at describing some of the effects of the formation of lake Kariba on large mammals and their response not only to flooding, but also to the over-populated conditions which arose on …
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Symbolic Franco: Spain’s Dictator in the American Conservative Imagination, 1950-1980
… resist any vestiges of Marxist or socialist strongholds among the US political elite.</p> <p>In this essay, I argue that Franco was utilized as a symbolic figure for the American conservative movement to underscore key themes of modern conservatism and instill them into American politics. …
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Political culture and the labour movement: a comparison between Poplar and West Ham, 1889-1914
… Poplar and West Ham,that ultimately became strongholds of the Labour Party. The thesis attemptsto answer the crucial question of why, prior to 1914, it seemed as if Labour had succeeded in South West Ham but had failed to achieve similar representation in Poplar. This thesis considers that …
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Measuring the production of migratory Westslope Cutthroat Trout in tributaries to Priest River, Idaho
… these tributaries, particularly Big Creek are strongholds for WCT exhibiting a migratory life history form, and account for a large proportion of migratory WCT throughout the CFPOR. Implications for the persistence of migratory fish in this system highlight the importance of these populations. …
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The Elephant in The Room: Human-Elephant Conflict in Central District, Botswana
… and human expansion into previous wildlife strongholds has exacerbated and increased Human-Elephant Conflict notwithstanding the impacts of an increase in the human population worldwide. Human-Elephant Conflict usually occurs in areas adjacent to protected areas with little know of the …
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Investigating the decline of the Martial Eagle (Polemaetus bellicosus) in South Africa
… in protected areas, including the traditional strongholds of the Kruger National Park (54% decline) and the Kalahari National Park (44% decline). Independent survey data, undertaken in the Kalahari National Park, confirmed these declines and reinforced the validity of using the two SABAP …
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Understanding the performance of the Left Party (die Linke) in Western Germany : a comparative evaluation of cartel and social cleavage theories as explanatory frameworks
… towards the Left Party, notably in SPD strongholds. The thesis concludes that class cleavage and class-based voting more strongly account for the Left Party’s electoral breakthrough. The originality of the thesis lies in its approach of combining theoretical analysis with an in-depth …
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Early mine and railway housing in South Africa: a two-part study of ideology and design in working-class housing.
… into the social fabric of towns - the cultural strongholds of English-speaking whites - when the custom of housing railway families on the opposite side of the railway line to the town gave rise to the association thereof with 'living on the wrong side of the tracks'.
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