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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"the Devil"”.
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Moral Motivation and the Devil
In this paper, I call into question the thesis known as judgment internalism about moral motivation. Broadly construed, this thesis holds that there is a non-contingent relation between moral judgment and moral motivation. The difficulty for judgment internalism arises because of amoral agents: …
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The Devil at the Gates of Heaven
This thesis explores commercial display forms as spaces in which to investigate, through art, the complex interplays of physiological desire, spiritual longing and consumption. The research examines the forms and strategies of commercial retail, particularly in storefront display and advertising. …
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Sympathy for the Devil : American imperialism in film.
… unacceptable justifications for military action, the fumes of imperialistic rhetoric that surround military intervention to this day are not so easily dispersed. The post-9/11 age of the War on Terror has reinscribed a worldview steeped in the omnipresence of ill-defined enemies, and a culture of …
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The Devil in the Details: Popular Demonology, Addiction and Criminology
<p>Theories of diabolism have, since antiquity, made manifest societal fears of the unknown. Demonology, as discipline, flourished within the West accordingly; to function, at the inception of early modern science and during the "transition" to capitalism, as a device to translate alterity. At this …
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The Devil in American literature : a consideration of four texts.
In Wonders of the Invisible World, Cotton Mather says, "About this Devil, there are many things, whereof we may reasonably and profitably be Inquistive." My study of the devil focuses on selected representations in American literature from the colonial to the contemporary period. I have selected …
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The Devil in Virginia: Fear in Colonial Jamestown, 1607-1622
This study examines the role of emotions – specifically fear – in the development and early stages of settlement at Jamestown. More so than any other factor, the Protestant belief system transplanted by the first settlers to Virginia helps explain the hardships the English encountered in the New …
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Comparative morphometric analysis of the Devil Peak Shasta ground sloth, Nothrotheriops shastensis
The remains of the Devil Peak Shasta Ground Sloth ( Nothrotheriops shastensis) is one of the most complete fossils of this species ever discovered. The study's objective is to use the dimensions of the Devil Peak sloth and Aden Crater sloth (the only other complete skeleton of this species known) …
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'The Devil to Pay' and its influence on eighteenth-century German Singspiel
The premiere of Christian Felix Weisse's Singspiel Der Teufel ist los, oder die verwandelten Weiber was presented at the theatre in Quandts Hof, Leipzig, on the 5th May 1766. There it won immediate success which soon spread throughout the German speaking world. The . ensuing craze for similar …
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The Devil is in The Details: The 2005 Virginia Tech Solar House
The central idea of the 2005 Virginia Tech Solar House was to celebrate its solar aspects while integrating the engineering systems and the architecture into a single entity. Through the process of design and construction, the relationship between each detail and the overall architectural concept …
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The Significance Of The Devil And Related Beliefs in Early Modern Welsh Popular Culture
… with a rich folklore tradition concerning the Devil and witchcraft, yet as Clark notes, 'Wales is a region that scarcely registers in the historiography of the so-called witch-craze.' This dissertation examines perceptions of the Devil in early modern Wales, and in the process tries to …
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The Devil Made Her Do It: Three Horror Film Case Studies in the Exorcism Subgenre
… contexts, scholars have yet to fully identify the exorcism film as a subgenre of the horror film. Following Anne Rothe’s (2011) argument that representation of trauma in popular culture may function like “a discursive knot in contemporary culture due to its vast associative powers of generating …
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Between the Devil and the Deep Sea: The Korean American War for Independence (1910-1945)
<p>From 1910 to 1945, while the Korean peninsula was a protectorate- and eventual colony- of the Empire of Japan, Koreans in the United States began an arduous process to maintain their sense of identity in a new land, and struggled to have a voice in a society that rejected their race. As a people …
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Saints, virgins, and the Devil: Witchcraft, magic, and healing in the northern coast of Ecuador
This dissertation presents the ways by which people experience and express social and economic change through rituals and narratives in Muisne, a town in the northern coast of Ecuador. Change is mediated through a complex cosmology based on the opposition between the domain of the divino, centered …
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“If no Divells, no God”: Devils, D(a)emons and Humankind on the Mediaeval and Early Modern English Stage.
This thesis looks at the relationship that humanity has with the devil, the demonic, and the daemonic as it is represented in plays from the mediaeval to the Early Modern period in England. While critics have contradictorily seen the devil as a secular figure on the one hand, and as a vestige of …
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The Devil's in the Diversity: Divergent Parasite Faunas and their Impacts on Body Condition in Two Greenland Caribou Populations
… gastrointestinal parasite faunas and assessed their associations to body condition and fecundity in two populations of west Greenland caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus). Parasite diversity was described using fecal flotations and examinations of abomasa and small intestines. …
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The Devil in the Belfry a rhapsody for viola and orchestra & Edgar Allan Poe, Claude Debussy, and "The Fall of the House of Usher"
This dissertation is in two parts. The first is an original composition, The Devil in the Belfry, while the second is a discussion of Claude Debussy’s unfinished opera, La Chute de la Maison Usher. The Devil in the Belfry is a rhapsody for viola and orchestra based on Edgar Allan Poe’s tale of the …
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