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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"superstition"”.
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Shakespeare and superstition: A study of how shakespeare uses superstition and vision in Macbeth and Julius Caesar.
This thesis is a critical analysis of the use of superstition in some selected plays by William Shakespeare. The main purpose of the study was to analyse how Shakespeare uses superstition and visions in the two selected plays, Macbeth and Julius Caesar to structure his plays. The study investigated …
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The Relationship Between Superstition and Confidence in Sport
… study was to examine the relationship between superstition and confidence in sport. The Superstitious Rituals Questionnaire, a single-item confidence question, the confidence subscales from the Athletic Coping Skills Inventory- 28, Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2, Ottawa Mental Skills …
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The Effects of Superstition as Destination Attractiveness on Behavioral Intention
… under risk. The study therefore examines how superstition attitude will impact potential tourists' intention to visit a destination so that relevant organizations (e.g. destination management/marketing organizations) could better understand potential tourists' behaviors, identify a niche …
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The spectral imagination: American art between science and superstition in the late nineteenth century
… explores how tensions between science and superstition were embedded in and constitutive of the visual arts in late nineteenth-century America. By focusing on the work of artists Henry Alexander (1860–94), William Merritt Chase (1849–1916), Edwin Romanzo Elmer (1850–1923), and Irving Ramsay …
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The haunts of language: superstition and subterfuge in Henry James's <i>Stories of the Supernatural</i>
<p>My dissertation presents the comic and catastrophic results of James’s characters’ mania for verbal deception. By focusing on the humorous ingenuity of James’s fictional presentations, my study illuminates the literary artistry in each story. Traditional interpretations of James's short fiction …
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The Odd Witch
… with her lack of ability to wield the power of superstition.</p>
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Essays on Applied Microeconomics from the Perspective of Taiwan
… studies with a background in Taiwan. First, superstitions have been shown to influence people’s decision-making in various areas. However, little research discusses how superstition affects people when they make medical decisions. Using a reduced-form model with a sample of administrative …
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The Enlightening Supernatural: Ghost Stories in the Late Eighteenth-Century Germany
… ghosts could simply be lingering remnants of superstition in an age where they no longer belong, but my project argues that they play a central role in the Enlightenment and its ideal of progress. The key texts analyzed in this context include three versions of the story of the Weiße Frau, as …
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Religion, Folk Belief and the Sacred Landscape in Women’s Writing in Wales, 1847 – 1909
… the representation of religion, folklore and superstition, and the sacred landscape, in twelve novels by six Anglophone women writers in Wales: Anne Beale’s <i>Traits and Stories of the Welsh Peasantry</i> (1849), Eleanor Griffiths’ <i>World Worship</i> (1853), L.M. (Louisa Matilda) Spooner’s …
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The Complete Poems of Anne Bannerman
… including <em>Poems </em>(1800), <em>Tales of Superstition and Chivalry </em>(1802), and <em>Poems, A New Edition </em>(1807). A comprehensive introduction provides information on Bannerman’s life and background, and examines her work in the context of British Romanticism, the Gothic, Scottish …
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"Let heaven kiss earth!": The Function of Humanism and Animism in Shakespeare's Richard II and Henry IV, Parts I and II
… an animistic perspective that valued nature and superstition to a humanistic perspective based on reason and personal relationships. In Richard II, Shakespeare creates characters that fall on either side of this divide, and he shows humanism triumph over animism when Henry deposes Richard. In 1 …
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Chinese Peasants on the Wheels of Change: Rural Reform and Its Impact in a Tianjin Village
… endorse the state's application of the science/superstition, modernity/tradition divides to their own ritual practices; they believed these possessed valuable knowledge and wisdom. Yet, they continued to hold strong commitment to the basic tenets and values of the modernization ideology …
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Lucky Pennies and Four Leaf Clovers: Young Children's Understanding of Superstitions
… theories. For example, children learn of popular superstitions (e.g., a four-leaf clover bringing good luck) that employ causal mechanisms outside the realm of natural laws governing the physical world. This concept raises the question of whether or not children with a fairly sophisticated …
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Advent of the Everyday Cathleen: Katharine Tynan and Motifs of Irish Identity 1911-1921
… of Irish identity revealed through storytelling, superstition, religion, motherhood, spirit and landscape, and female personifications of Ireland, including her creation of an ‘everyday’ Cathleen Ni Houlihan.
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Young Childrens' Understanding of Superstitions
… was to examine young children's understanding of superstitions—specifically bad luck superstitions. Children between the ages of 4 and 9 received a set of interview questions concerning their experiences with superstitions, their beliefs about the efficacy of superstitions, and their knowledge of …
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Medical pluralism in central Mexico in the early colonial period
… was a combination of science, religion and superstition, it explores the dynamic between licensed and unlicensed medicine, evaluating the ways in which they served and were served by mixed colonial populations. The domain of the curandero is re-evaluated in order to better understand what …
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Studies in the Regulation of Gastric Acidity
… and tribes were full of magic, mysticism and superstition. Either demons or different humors existed in the body to direct the natural digestive processes. | The ideas of the ancients were not essentially different from those of the Greeks, whose philosophy exercised so profound an influence …
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Religion, Heritage, and Power： Everyday Life in Contemporary China
… of Christianity and denigrated as feudal superstition in the official discourse of scientism, materialism and atheism. The contrast between Christianity as an orthodox religion and Chinese ritual practices as feudal superstition contributes to the religious hegemony of Christianity over …
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The Relationship between Superstitious Behaviors of Sports Fans, Team Identification, Team Location, and Game Outcome
… location and game outcome, and filled out the Superstition Questionnaire to measure their desire to complete superstitious behaviors based on the vignette. They also filled out the Desirability of Control Scale, and the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales to account for the possible covariates of …
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