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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"vengeance"”.
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Tragedy With a Vengeance: Violence, Vengeance and Identity From Attic Tragedy to Shakespeare
This project explores the relation between violence and identity along one branch of the Western tragic tradition---from its roots in the soil of classical Attica, through Senecan tragedy, and into early modern drama in English. Classical and early modern tragedy is seductive in its sophisticated, …
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Notes of Venom and Vengeance
<p>In this new adult epic fantasy, the land is either poisoned or poisonous, the Gods don’t listen, and the Silvan High Fae have vanished into the mists of time. In the Silgan Empire in the city of Fall’s End, humans run the Kingdom while Low Fae like Madrigal struggle to make ends meet in the …
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Vengeance and the crusades 1095-1216
… possible to clarify the course of the concept of vengeance in general as well as the more specific idea of crusading as an act of vengeance. The concept of vengeance was intimately connected with the ideas of justice and punishment. It was perceived as an expression of power, embedded in a series …
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Psychopathic traits, vengeance, and motivations to punish in criminal scenarios
… (Book & Quinsey, 2004) and this emotional vengeance has been associated with more retributive punishments and increased support for capital punishment (McKee & Feather, 2008). Therefore it is unclear if those higher in psychopathy would punish more retributively than those lower in these …
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Anger, Relational Victimization, and Vengeance in the Context of Relational Aggression
… the rejection-aggression link, we predicted that vengeance would partially mediate the relationship between relational victimization and aggression. We tested each model separately via hierarchical multiple regression using Hayes’ (2018) PROCESS macro for SPSS. As expected, trait anger predicted …
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The Persistence of Vengeance from Early Modern England to Postmodern New York
… of any given period reveals, the subject of vengeance is nearly inescapable; on billboards, websites, and year end lists, revenge represents a curious constant even amid disparate media. This study explores the cultural commonalities that align revenge texts of the English Renaissance and …
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Valences of Vengeance: The Moral Imagination of Early Modern Japanese Vendetta Fiction
… of the avenger, as a character whose pursuit of vengeance affirms those relationships while temporarily loosing him from their bonds and protections, I demonstrate the ways revenge fiction re-imagined and critiqued the individual's relationship with these primary communities. In Chapter Three, I …
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Percy Bysshe Shelley: vengeance as a vehicle for presenting his moral principles
… that Shelley deliberately used the theme of vengeance against tyrannical oppression as an agent for presenting his moral principles. The first chapter introduces Shelley's didactic moral code concerning revenge against tyrannical despotism as revealed in certain philosophical and religious …
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Vengeance and saintly cursing in the saints’ Lives of England and Ireland, c. 1060-1215
… the narrative and theological role of divine vengeance and saintly cursing in the saints’ Lives of England and Ireland, c. 1060-1215. The dissertation considers four case studies of primary material: the hagiographical and historical writings of the English Benedictines (Goscelin of …
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God's wrathful children : toward an ethic of vengeance, retribution, and renewal for a post-apartheid nation
God's wrath results in divine acts of vengeance in favour of the powerless and the oppressed. This manifestation of anger is devoid of hatred and malice, for in the first epistle of John, love is equated with God in such a way that it is the personification of the divine Being (1 John 4:7-12). …
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The Concept of Vengeance in the Book of Revelation in its Old Testament and Near Eastern Context
… problems raised by the call for and rejoicing at vengeance as they appear in Rev 6:9-11 and Rev 19:2, respectively. Central to the study is the question of whether vengeance in Revelation expresses a vindictive human attitude or a divine attribute of justice.</p> <p>In Chapter 1 a review of …
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“I'm No Cactus Expert, But I Know A Prick When I See One” -Image, Text, Therapy and Vengeance in Art by Women
… the roles of text and image, therapy and vengeance in art made by women since the 20th century. It discusses the uses of text and image to create political artworks that can play important roles in feminism in regards to the artistic world and how often vengeance is used as a motivational …
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Imitation of god as a principle for ethics today: a study of selected psalms
… which is expressed in the so-called psalms of “vengeance”, in which the psalmists’ call for god to exercise vengeance against their oppressors is a call for justice and righteousness to prevail. fourthly, the human ethical response is motivated by the blessings and punishment of the righteous …
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Family, Feud, and the Conduct of War in Anglo-Saxon England
… literature that the twin concerns of family and vengeance remained pillars of Anglo-Saxon society and consciousness throughout the period. Given constant warfare and the cultural and social importance of feuding, it would appear logical that warfare was essentially feud writ large, that conflicts …
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Contemporary Opinion of President Wilson's Fourteen Points
… and pacifist did not mean a chance to wreck vengeance on a conquered foe, but rather on opening to secure a ponce settlement which would prevent, if not wholly eliminate, future wars from growing out of the bitterness engendered by the world war.
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From Rehabilitation to Punishment: American Corrections after 1945
… purpose of the justice system is rehabilitation, vengeance, deterrence or incapacitation. This thesis finds that justice and the institution of the prison itself are not immutable facts of modern civilization, but are human institutions vulnerable to the influence of politics, culture and current …
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Writing the screenplay, "Grammy's Grand Slam".
… a silly story about a grandma's quest for vengeance, this project is the result of a lengthy research and writing process. The purpose of this paper is to shed light on that process. Dark comedies are not just comedies with extra bite, but rather, they are stories that have a unique …
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A Validation Study of the Competitive Prosocial/Aggression Continuum Task
… the Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire, the Vengeance Scale, the Life History of Aggression, the Normative Beliefs about Aggression Scale, the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales, the Big Five Inventory, and the Gender Free Inventory of Desirable Responding to establish construct validity. Mixed …
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Holocaust Song Literature: Expressing the Human Experiences and Emotions of the Holocaust through Song Literature, Focusing on Song Literature of Hirsh Glick, Mordechai Gebirtig, and Simon Sargon
… that these people lived, suffered, longed for vengeance, loved, dreamed, prayed, and tragically, died. This repertoire of songs is part of the legacy, the very soul of the Jewish people. This study contains a brief look at the historical circumstances, and through the song literature of Hirsh …
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The Flower Shop
… apart, the exploitation of artists, harassment, vengeance, fantasy versus reality, and the evolving way media is produced and consumed. As protagonist David Fair fulfills his lifelong dream of being a musician, he finds himself not in a place to share his music with the world, but rather a cog in …
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