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Thanksgiving (Stories)
<p>This is a collection of short stories. Although fictional, the author often draws from his life, with a focus on relationship and how to connect in an increasingly disconnected world.</p>
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Thomas Traherne's Thanksgiving
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Giving and Thanksgiving: Gratitude and Adiaphora in A Mask and Paradise Regained
John Milton begins his Second Defence of the English People by stressing the universal importance of gratitude: "In the whole life and estate of man the first duty is to be grateful to God." Peter Medine has shown the prominence of gratitude in Paradise Lost, but scholars have not fully appreciated …
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Crumbs To Keep Them Full: Neoliberal Spectacle at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
<p>The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade has been a fall staple in the U.S. for nearly a century. This event has the potential to make a significant impact on national culture due to its immersion in long-held traditions, the extent of media consumption, and the role of advertising. Unlike many other …
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Prayers of Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving and Supplication: A Composition for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble
… and music in Prayers of Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving and Supplication - a four-movement composition, fourteen minutes in length, for soprano, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, violin, double bass, and percussion. The text of the composition is taken from the Psalms and The Book of …
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Weeping at the grave, we make our song : Alleluia - Lament and thanksgiving in Church of England funerals
The thesis considers the changing nature of funerals carried in England over the last twenty years and a possible response by Church of England ministers. Those changes are outlined in terms of the changes in venue of funerals, the changes in content and the changes in officials conducting …
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Consumer holiday structure: an analysis of Christian holiday patterns and consumer ritual practice in America
… as a season of non-consumption is compared to Thanksgiving and Black Friday as the inauguration of a season of consumption and shopping during Advent. Seen from a structural viewpoint, new consumer holidays take prominence in practice, re-defining seasons in relation to consumption, that …
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Patterns in Chicago traffic
… in the period of the dataset such as Christmas, Thanksgiving, New Year’s Day and the Historic Snow Storm that occurred in the region from January 31, 2015 to February 2, 2015 [33]. In the end, we also introduce the Taxisim library [36], which contains algorithms for traffic estimation. This is …
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Silence or Self-Disclosure? Examining the Psychological and Relational Factors Shaping Political Communication Between Gen Z and Their Families
… Z participants (ages 18–28) following the 2025 Thanksgiving holiday. The results reveal a critical distinction between negative and positive privacy boundary strength. Negative boundary strength, characterized by defensive and restrictive regulation, was consistently associated with heightened …
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Handel and the English Chapel Royal during the reigns of Queen Anne and King George I
… services and anthems, and the ceremonial Thanksgiving Services of Queen Anne's reign. Handel's experience of church music In Italy and Germany previous to his arrival in England is described, and the contemporary English anthems of William Croft are examined by way of an introduction to …
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Q 10:21-22 and Formative Christology
… crux interpretum presents the readers with a thanksgiving prayer by Jesus that appears particularly puzzling in its present context in the reconstructed Q. In his prayer Jesus appears to express gratitude to God, whom he calls Father, for something that contradicts the very purpose of the …
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Fulfilling the law apart from the law: A discourse approach to Paul and the law in Romans
… of Romans through the Opening (Rom 1:1-7) and Thanksgiving (Rom 1:8-17) sections. Ultimately, a more comprehensive study building upon this initial attempt at a bottom-up analysis will be needed for a full discourse commentary on Romans. Chapter 5 explores the portrait of ½ó¼o[varsigma] from …
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Music in the Divine Liturgy of Slovak Lutheran worship
… Prayer, Words of Institution, Agnus Dei, and the Thanksgiving--the Post-Communion Canticle of Simeon. Music for the liturgical settings was fairly similar.The Eastern (Slavic) qualities in the music were based on the style of Byzantine ecclesiastical music and the construction of Byzantine …
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The Theology and the Function of the Prayers in the Book of Daniel
… of these chapters. Exegesis is performed on the thanksgiving by Daniel in 2:20-23 and his confession in 9:4b-19, the only two recorded prayers, and their semantic and thematical links with their respective context are described.</p> <p>Centering on the gentile kings, chapter 2 follows a similar …
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Making Miracles in Central Medieval England
… cult of the saints. The fifth chapter focuses on thanksgiving and the relationships between saints, custodians and supplicants. Finally I conclude that the actions of these people were at the heart of the cult of the saints in central medieval England.
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Pilgrimages and syncretism: Religious Transformation Among the Arsi Oromo of Ethiopia
… of Arsi Oromo also take part on in the Irreecha (thanksgiving) ritual by Lake Arsadi in Bishoftu town. As the belief systems and rituals at the shrine of Sheikh Hussein, Sof Umar Guutoo, Faraqqasaa, and the Irreecha ritual indicate, religion among the Arsi Oromo can be arguably perceived as highly …
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In Summaries and Diagrams: Teaching Prayer and Poetry in Lancelot Andrewes and Edmund Spenser
… in the broken gift-cycle of prayerful thanksgiving. Chapter three uses grammatical anaphors and abridgements in Andrewes’s Passion sermons and the Pattern of Catechistical Doctrine to derive a theory of accommodated reading based on metaphorical sizes and imaginary dimensions. My final …
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The Role of Support and Prayer in Enhancing the Psychological Well-Being of Cancer Patients in Canada
… a significant Diagnosis time effect for Thanksgiving and Supplication, and a significant interaction effect for the prayer of Reception and Adoration. Greater support from family, friends, and faith community results in more positive psychological well-being (β=.30, p< .001). Prayer …
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The persuasive impact of autobiographical memories ads: schema-triggered affect or episodic self-referencing?
… ad either for a spring (schema-consistent) or a Thanksgiving (schema-inconsistent) break. The ad either made no explicit reference to the self (product-focus-ad) or made a reference to a past break experience (self- focus-ad). There were three different versions of the self-focus-ad. Participants …
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Pride and kingship: a literary reading of 1 and 2 Samuel considering the role of the poetry in shaping the characterisation of the kings
… in Hannah’s Prayer. Chapter 6 examines David’s Thanksgiving (2 Sam 22:2-51) and David’s Final Words (2 Sam 23:1-7), contending that these poems each highlight different aspects of the preceding narrative. David is shown to be a man who humbly submitted to Yahweh while under attack from his …
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