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"""Holy Rapes Upon Our Wills"": Donne's Mimetic-Ironic Satire"
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God Wills It: Presidents and the Political Use of Religion
How have American presidents used religious rhetoric? Has it helped them achieve their goals? Why or why not? These are the main questions this dissertation attempts to grapple with. I begin my study by developing a typology of presidential religious rhetoric that consists of three basic styles of …
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In from the cold : Tom Wills – a nineteenth century sporting hero
Tom Wills was the most important Australian sportsman of the mid-nineteenth century, but it is only in the first decade of the twenty-first century that he has grown in profile as a figure of cultural significance. Although Tom Wills is best recalled as the most important figure in early Australian …
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Wills and ways : policy dynamics of HOPE IV from 1992-2002
(cont.) thorough analysis of the stability and change of HOPE VI policy offers insights into the potentials and the pitfalls of this major public housing program and similar federal policies in the American political system. I will suggest strategic ways to deploy political advocacy and to …
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Towards the formulation and inclusion of formalities for the revocation of wills
The revocation of wills is currently regulated in South Africa by common law principles and judicial decisions. This has resulted in conceptual lacunae. In light of the above legal gap, it can be argued that formalities for the revocation of wills should be introduced in order to, among other …
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Silurian Conodonts from the Wills Mountain Anticline, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland
… for complete sections of the Mifflintown, Wills Creek, and Tonoloway formations along the Wills Mountain anticline in the Central Appalachians. Beds in the Central Appalachians formerly called the Rochester Formation have been renamed the Cosner Gap Member of the Mifflintown Formation. The …
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A study of wills and will-making in the period 1500-1533 with special reference to the copy wills in the probate registers of the Archdeacon of Bedford 1489-1533
… function of which they do not fully understand. Wills and testaments from the medieval and early modem periods provide a notable example of this practice; they have been used by historians for the information which they provide on a variety of subjects but have rarely been studied as documents in …
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A comprehensive study of the forms of wills as contemplated in Maltese Law
… to examine the salient features of all types of wills contemplated under the Maltese Civil Code, being the ordinary and privileged wills. Through Throughout the various chapters I will scrutinize both the general and special formalities' of these wills and outline the process of publication and …
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The interpretation of deeds and wills at common law, c. 1536-c. 1616
… approaches to the interpretation of deeds and wills between approximately 1536 and 1616. It identifies the rules and principles used by lawyers to understand these documents, and explores the wider forces that influenced their development. The methodology of the thesis is primarily doctrinal: …
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'My Testament in Englisshe Tonge': A study in the use of the vernacular in medieval wills
… testament before using two specific groups of wills from mid-fourteenth- and late-fifteenth-century London to explore nuances of composition and phrasing. Having established the context and structure of the developed form, a detailed comparative analysis of the testamentary language contrasts …
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Temporal space use dynamics and full breeding cycle survival rates of eastern whip-poor-wills in Illinois
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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It will rain if god wills it : local perceptions of climate change in the Futa Tooro of northern Senegal
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Populations in the Sahel are among the most vulnerable to climate change and variability (CCV). The increased temperatures and rainfall variability predicted by General Circulation Models (GCM) threaten Sahel …
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A Battle of Wills: Morale, Hope and the Army of Northern Virginia during the Last Year of the Civil War
"A Battle of Wills" examines the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the final year of the American Civil War. By investigating the reactions to events such as battles and political happenings that occurred among the soldiers of the Confederacy's primary army we can see how the end of the …
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The Last Will and Testament in The Victorian Novel
… The dissertation focuses on those fictional wills for which we know somthing of the testator's motives, the will's contents, and the will's effects. An introduction explains how social and economic developments in Victorian England help account for the fictional will's popularity. The first …
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The Role of Breeding Habitat Loss in the Decline of Eastern Whip-Poor-Will (Antrostomus Vociferus) Populations in Canada
… in Canada that have lost or gained Whip-poor-wills over time. We found support for our hypothesis: the loss of useable open habitat (e.g., forest clear-cuts, old fields) within 1140 m of Breeding Bird Survey stops predicted the declines in Whip-poor-wills at the same stops. The loss of useable …
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Religiosity, Parental Support and Adult Support Coping as Protective Factors for Drug Refusal Efficacy and Use Among African American Adolescents
… the parental support coping subscale of the Wills Coping measure; Center for Substance Abuse Prevention's Special Event Drug Refusal Efficacy and Friends' Drug use scales; the Exposure to Neighborhood Risk Scale; and a one-item measure of adult support coping from the Wills' Coping measure. …
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The intersection between the Islamic law of inheritance and the South African law of succession
… and implement Islamic inheritance laws in their wills and estates. A socio-legal methodology was adopted to study Islamic inheritance laws as they occur in practice. Empirical research was conducted in the Cape Town metropole area of the Western Cape as it has the largest, oldest, and most …
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Design of Early Ordinaries and Taverns in Montgomery County, Virginia from 1773 to 1823
… Virginia. County court records, including wills, appraisals, licensing records, and court order books revealed that public houses not only existed, but also there were often as many as 5 or 6 operating at one. A license had to be purchased each year from the court and names of proprietors …
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A partial hardening has come upon Israel: Divine hardening and its implications for Jewish evangelism
… the statement that God has mercy on whom he wills and he hardens whom he wills, the hardening Israel is experiencing has God rather than man as it cause. Chapter 4 explores the various reasons Paul gave in Romans 11 for the divine hardening. After refuting the idea that the hardening is a …
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A brief screening instrument for use by lawyers to assess the capacity of older clients with memory deficits
… consultation of a lawyer, such as issues over wills and financial investments. Preventative law advocate lawyers act as therapeutic agents, preventing stress and discomfort in elderly clients making legal decisions. In order for practising lawyers to act as therapeutic agents, an ability to …
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