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Zanini, Gaia <1974>. "The Holiness of Healing: "Un Corso in Miracoli" e la questione dell'esoterismo." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2007. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/257/.
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Richards, Emily R. Cranz. "Marine Hybrids, the Lombardo Workshop and the Immaculate Virgin of Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Venice." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1290093592.
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Wilson, Louise Elizabeth. "Miracle and medicine in medieval Miracula ca. 1180 - ca.1320." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610374.
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Kavan, Katrina Jill. "Art and miracle." Thesis, Courtauld Institute of Art (University of London), 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.243374.
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Oakes, Hannah. "Preying For A Miracle." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/512.
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For my BFA Capstone exhibition Preying For a Miracle I analyzed the Biblical book of Job found in the Old Testament in relation to my own life. My interest in the Book of Job stems from a human desire to understand suffering, especially suffering that is unprovoked. At the beginning of the book of Job, Job is described as “blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil”. (Job 1:1) As the first chapter of the book progresses, Satan comes to God and presents a wager. Satan insinuates that Job is only faithful to God because God has “put a hedge around him”. (Job 1:9) Satan proposes that he can make Job curse God’s name if he removes the abundant blessings he has received. God accepts this wager and declares that as long as Job’s life is spared Satan can do with him as he wants, which begins a series of brutal trials. I found myself asking how can such violence and human suffering be justified?
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Burgel, Guy. "Le miracle athénien au XXe siècle /." Paris : CNRS éd, 2002. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb38879653q.
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Texte remanié de: Th.--Lettres--Paris 1, 1975. Titre de soutenance : Athènes, étude de la croissance d'une capitale méditerranéenne.Rééd. de l'ouvrage paru en 1981 sous le titre : "Croissance urbaine et développement capitaliste : le miracle athénien", du même auteur. Bibliogr. p. 353-355. Index.
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Luck, Morgan. "The metaphysical definition of a miracle." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.431989.
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Ferrari, Francesco <1986>. "Il laboratorio del Concilio: Chiesa e industria nella Milano del “miracolo economico”." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2016. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/7311/.
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La presente ricerca si propone di studiare i legami tra la Chiesa milanese e il mondo del lavoro industriale nel contesto delle trasformazioni innescate dallo sviluppo economico che interessò alcune zone di Italia tra il 1953 e la metà degli anni Sessanta e dalla convocazione e svolgimento del Concilio Vaticano II (1958-1965). Si sono utilizzati prevalentemente documenti originali provenienti dall’Archivio diocesano di Milano e dall’Archivio per la storia del movimento sociale cattolico in Italia presso l’Università cattolica del capoluogo lombardo integrati dall’analisi di periodici e riviste dell’epoca e dei principali studi monografici che hanno affrontato i temi in esame.
La ricerca contribuisce a mettere in luce i molti contrasti ma anche il dinamismo del cattolicesimo ambrosiano favoriti soprattutto dal coevo dibattito politico e dalle trasformazioni economiche e sociali che stava subendo in quel periodo la società italiana. La diocesi di Milano si presenta così, nel periodo compreso tra la metà degli anni Cinquanta e il 1965, come un laboratorio che prefigurò alcune delle tensioni e delle linee di tendenza perseguite dal cattolicesimo mondiale a seguito della conclusione del Concilio Vaticano II.My research focuses on how the Church of Milan related in many ways with the industrial labour’s world during the transformations triggered by the economic development that hit some part of Italy between 1953 and the mid-Sixty’s – and by the Second Vatican Council (1958-1965) from its calling to its completion. I mostly referred to original papers stored in the Archivio diocesano di Milano (Archive of the diocese of Milan) and in the Archivio per la storia del movimento sociale cattolico in Italia (Archive for the history of the catholic social movement in Italy) at the Università cattolica di Milano (Catholic University of Milan) analysing them through the comparison with reviews and journals of the time, also exploiting the main critical studies related to these issues. Within this frame, my research contributes to reveal the conflicts but also the dynamism of the Ambrosian Catholicism mostly supported by the political debate and by the economical and social transformations that the Italian society was undergoing in those period. The Milanese dioceses presents itself – in the time span between the mid Fifties and the 1965 – as a laboratory that anticipated some of the tensions and trends followed by the worldwide Catholicism after the end of the Second Vatican Council.
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Pazderic, Nickola Lee. "Success and failure in post-miracle Taiwan /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6469.
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Settis, Bruno. "Il “contratto sociale” fordista : le relazioni industriali dall’America taylorismo all’Europa del miracolo economico." Thesis, Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019IEPP0016.
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La thèse porte sur la complexe évolution des théories et pratiques des relations industrielles, depuis les années trente jusqu'à la croissance économique de l’après-guerre. “Fordisme” est le mot d’ordre qu’on fait habituellement correspondre aux relations entre l’entreprise, le travail et le gouvernement dans cette période ; d’une façon plus générale, il est associé au contrat social qui est censé résulter de la structure de la production de masse elle-même, et à son prétendu cercle vertueux avec la consommation de masse. Dans ce sens plus large, le Fordisme a été souvent couplé, parfois superposé, à la macroéconomie keynésienne, au dirigisme économique, à l’état social. La thèse essaye donc de démêler et remettre en question ce concept de “Fordisme”, soi-disant simple, en traçant son histoire à multiples facettes et sa circulation internationale. Ainsi, elle engage une discussion générale des conflits entre le management et le mouvement ouvrier et se concentre sur trois études de cas : l’histoire de la doctrine des “relations humaines” d’Elton Mayo, entre ses origines en Australie et ses mises en oeuvre en Europe ; l’évolution du système de surveillance chez Fiat à Turin, à partir de la fin du fascisme jusqu’aux années soixante ; l’expérience du juriste Gino Giugni en tant qu’étudiant à Madison, Wisconsin, et par la suite en tant que traducteur en Italie des théories états-uniennes du mouvement ouvrier et des relations industrielles, entre les années cinquante et les années soixanteThe dissertation deals with the complex evolution of theories and practices of industrial relations between the interwar years and postwar growth. “Fordism” is the catchword usually associated with relations between the corporation, labor and government in this period and, more generally, with the supposed social compact arising from the very structure of mass production and its supposed virtuous circle with mass consumption. In this wider sense, Fordism has often been coupled, sometimes overlapped, with Keynesian macroeconomics, government economic interventionism, and the welfare state. The dissertation attempts to disentangle and discuss this supposedly simple notion of “Fordism” by tracing its manifold history and international circulation. Therefore, it involves a wide discussion of the conflict between labor and management in the mass production industries, and a focus on three case studies: the history of Elton Mayo’s “human relations” doctrine, from its origins in Australia to its applications in Europe; the evolution of the surveillance system at Fiat factories in Turin, from the last years of the Fascist regime to the late 1960s; labor scholar Gino Giugni’s experience as a student at Madison, Wisconsin, and later as a translator of American theories of the labor movement and of industrial relations, in the 1950s and 1960s
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Harris, Courtney Ann 1965. "Taiwan's economic miracle: Presentations of culture and ideology." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291581.
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Native commentators on Taiwan's recent industrialization consider culture a key factor of the nation's modernization drive. Indigenous writers present Chinese culture as not only economically fit, but also morally superior. Such presentations, I argue, have unspoken ideological goals. Legitimation of the government, paternalistic claims on citizens and workers by the state and employers, and the rhetorical war against communism are some of the tacit agendas I discuss.
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Record, Rachael A. "CULTIVATING MIRACLE PERCEPTIONS: CULTIVATION THEORY AND MEDICAL DRAMAS." UKnowledge, 2011. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/gradschool_theses/148.
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This thesis reports the results of a study designed to investigate the influence of exposure to televised medical dramas on perceptions of medical miracles. Four hundred and eighty-one college students participated in a survey in which they responded to different questions about their medical drama viewership and their different beliefs with regard to medical miracles. Results found that heavy medical drama viewers perceived belief in medical miracles to be less normal than non-viewers. Similarly, heavy viewers perceived medical miracles to occur less often than non-viewers. Interestingly, heavy viewers perceived medical dramas to be less credible than non-viewers. In addition, this study found that personal experience with medical miracles affected responses across all three measured viewership levels. The study concludes that, when compared to no exposure to medical dramas, heavy exposure has the potential for creating a more realistic view of medical miracles. Future research should continue to study genre-specific cultivation effects with regard to health perceptions.
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Lewis, Eric P. "Descartes and tradition : the miracle of the Eucharist /." Thesis, This resource online, 1995. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06082009-171023/.
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Mendoza, Waldo. "The Peruvian Miracle: Good luck or good policies?" Economía, 2014. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/117224.
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The Peruvian economy has performed extraordinarily over the last 10 years. The 2012 per capita GDP is 66 percent above that of 2002, and more than double its 1992 level. In a long term perspective, the cumulative growth of GDP per capita recorded in the last 10 years has been the strongest since 1900. This is the «Peruvian miracle». This paper aims to find the determinants of the Peruvian miracle. In theory, countries’ macroeconomic performance can be determined by two factors: i) the «good (bad) luck effect» that relates to the international context, which may be favorable or unfavorable, and ii) the «good (bad) policies effects», associated with short-term macroeconomic policies or structural reforms,which are policies that alter the current development model. The hypothesis of this work is that the Peruvian miracle of the last 10 years has much to do with good luck, and, in part, with good short-term macroeconomic policies.La economía peruana ha tenido un desempeño extraordinario en los últimos diez años. El PBI per cápita de 2012 está un 66% por encima del de 2002 y es más del doble de su nivel de 1992. En una perspectiva de largo plazo, el crecimiento acumulado del PBI per cápita registrado en los últimos diez años ha sido el más vigoroso desde 1900. Este es el «milagro peruano». Este artículo tiene como propósito encontrar los factores determinantes del milagro peruano. En teoría,el desempeño macroeconómico de los países puede estar determinado por dos razones: i) el «efecto buena (mala) suerte» que tiene que ver con el contexto internacional que puede ser favorable o desfavorable; y ii) el efecto «buenas (malas) políticas», asociado a las políticas macroeconómicas de cortoplazo o a las reformas estructurales, que son políticas que alteran el modelo de desarrollo vigente. La hipótesis de este trabajo es que el milagro peruano de los últimos diez años tiene mucho que ver con la buena suerte y, en parte, con las buenas políticas macroeconómicas de corto plazo.
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Drolet, Kathi. "The priest, the leper, and the Lord dimensions of healing in Matthew 8:1-4 /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1987. http://www.tren.com.
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Tran, Cong, and Yuriy Seleznyov. "A study of Pond's Age Miracle Customer Perceived Value." Thesis, Mälardalen University, Mälardalen University, School of Business, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-4318.
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Background
After a successful launch in early 2007 Pond’s Age Miracle, Unilever Vietnam’s anti-aging skincare product, is now experiencing falling sales and a declining market share having failed to complete its mission of counter-attacking its main competitor – P&G’s Olay Total Effect. This predicament poses a question of how Unilever Vietnam can improve market performance of this product.
Purpose
To determine Pond’s Age Miracle customer perceived value and propose recommendations on how to improve it.
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A combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches was pursued. In-depth interviews with consumers were used to discover relevant attributes of anti-aging skincare. A consumer survey was employed to measure relative importance and relative performance of the identified attributes – a basis for determining Pond’s customer perceived value.
Findings, Analysis and Conclusion
Customer perceived value of Pond’s Age Miracle was found to have a negative character on the entire market scale and across most of the listed consumer groups.
Recommendations
A re-launch of the upgraded version of Pond’s is suggested to maintain the current consumers and recruit the potential anti-aging skincare users.
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Bailey, Anne E. "Representations of female pilgrimage in twelfth-century miracle collections." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.527276.
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Matisonn, Heidi. "Miracle or misery? : understanding democratic participation in South Africa." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2010. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/290/.
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On 27 April 1994 the most hated flag in Africa was lowered, signifying the end of the Apartheid regime. As the world watched the transformation of South Africa taking place – without the bloodshed that the state‟s direst cynics had predicted – words like "miracle" and "inspirational" abounded. Since then, the world has continued to watch South Africa‟s transition to democracy and even those who were its greatest supporters have begun to ask questions about the quality and quantity of democratic reforms. The increasing centralisation and monopolisation of power by the African National Congress, declining rates of formal participation by citizens and considerable failures in service delivery are major factors contributing to the concerns about the long-term prospects for democracy in South Africa, especially given the record of democratic failure across the rest of the continent. While significant contributions have been made to the study of South African democracy – both theoretical and empirical – there are few, if any, that have sought to combine both these methodologies and hence the scholarship is not, in my view, paying the dividends it should. This research thus explores contemporary politics in South Africa, examining its assets and liabilities in order to provide a clearer picture of the state of democracy in the country. It does so by measuring practices in South Africa in terms of the role accorded to participation in three conceptions of democracy: liberal representative accounts, deliberative accounts and what I term the "categorical" account. In so doing the research will show that although concerns about democracy in South Africa are justified, if we shift our focus from the instrumental value of participation to its categorical one we may find a way to ensure that the miracle continues.
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Jackson, M. G. St A. "Prayer and miracle in the spirituality of St. Augustine." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.377225.
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Lafond, Patrick Boutry Philippe. "La France et le miracle économique italien 1945-1963 /." Créteil : Université de Paris-Val-de-Marne, 2007. http://doxa.scd.univ-paris12.fr:8080/theses-npd/th0394860.htm.
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Thèse de doctorat : Histoire des relations économiques internationales contemporaines : Paris 12 : 2004.Version électronique uniquement consultable au sein de l'Université Paris 12 (Intranet). Titre provenant de l'écran-titre. Bibliogr. : 130 réf. Index.
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Harrelson, Jeremiah James. "The miracle narratives in Luke allusions to classical mythology? /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2002. http://www.tren.com.
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Etien, Kouassi-Lazare. "Le miracle économique ivoirien : analyse d'une politique de développement." Nice, 1985. http://www.theses.fr/1985NICE0025.
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Balzamo, Nicolas. "Miracle et société en France (vers 1500-vers 1620)." Paris, EPHE, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011EPHE5025.
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Le miracle se situe aux confluents de croyances et de pratiques fondamentales dans le système religieux en vigueur à la fin du Moyen Age : culte de la Vierge et des saints, dévotion aux images et aux reliques, vœux et pèlerinages. Dans la mesure où la Réforme a répudié en bloc le miracle et tout ce qui s’y rattachait, elle est généralement comprise comme une étape clé dans le « désenchantement du monde » qui verrait le christianisme être peu à peu épuré de ses éléments magiques. L’étude du miracle dans la France des années 1500-1620 montre qu’il n'en a pas été ainsi. Le savoir théorique dont le miracle était l’objet n’a guère connu de changement du début à la fin de la période considérée. On peut en dire autant des pratiques qui s’y rattachaient. Les relations que les hommes entretenaient avec les êtres surnaturels dont ils espéraient une aide tangible obéissaient à une économie du don et du contre-don depuis longtemps codifiée et qui n’évolua guère tout au long du XVIe siècle. Même les protestants, censés avoir rejeté le miracle et tout ce qui s’y rattachait, restaient partiellement fidèles aux conceptions traditionnelles. Chez les théologiens, un providentialisme radical avait réintroduit la possibilité d’interventions directes de Dieu dans le monde terrestre. Quant aux simples fidèles, ils étaient nombreux à faire encore confiance aux saints, aux vœux et aux reliques en lesquelles ils voyaient une aide efficace contre les difficultés de la vieAt the end of the Middle Ages, the miracle was at the crossroads of fundamental religious beliefs and practices : cult of the Virgin Mary and of the saints, devotion to images and relics, vows and pilgrimages. Since the Reformation has rejected the miracle as such and everything connected with it, it is often regarded as a crucial step in the « disenchantment of the world » which results in the progressive purification of Christianity of its magical elements. The analysis of miracle during the period from 1500 to 1620 in France shows that this was not the case. The theoretical comprehension of miracle remained practically unchanged through over the considered period. The same should be stated concerning the practices connected with the miracle. The relations that people had with supernatural beings whose assistance they hoped for were based on the principle of gift and counter-gift codified long time ago, which underwent no change during the sixteenth century. Even the protestants, supposed to have rejected the miracle and the beliefs and practices attached to it, shared to some extent traditional attitudes. On the theological level, a radical providentialism allowed to reintroduce the possibility of direct divine interventions in the material world. As for the simple believers, great number of them continued to rely on saints, vows and relics, which appeared to them as an efficient help against the vicissitudes of existence
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Lafond, Patrick. "La France et le miracle économique italien : 1945-1963." Paris 12, 2004. https://athena.u-pec.fr/primo-explore/search?query=any,exact,990003948600204611&vid=upec.
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Comment les Français ont perçu le miracle économique italien après la deuxième guerre mondiale, malgré les rancoeurs accumulées entre les deux pays ? C'est seulement à la fin des années cinquante que ces difficultés s'estompent véritablement. Pourquoi ce décollage économique de l'Italie à partir de l'extrême fin des années quarante et comment ses raisons ont été perçues par les dirigeants et responsables français ? De même nous avons cherché à préciser à partir de quand ces dirigeants ont pris conscience de ce remarquable essor du voisin transalpin. Nous nous sommes demandés en quoi certains débats italiens pouvaient avoir une influence sur la façon qu'ont eu les dirigeants français d'envisager des problèmes hexagonaux. La question de la construction de logements est particulièrement révélatrice de cette influence italienne au début des années cinquante. A ce titre l'étude de trois problèmes concernant les deux pays est essentielle : l'union douanière à la fin des années quarante, l'émigration italienne, le tunnel du mont Blanc. Mais tout cela suppose d'arrêter notre travail en 1963-1964 qui sont des années stratégiques en Italie tant sur les plans économique que politiqueHow French have perceived the economic miracle of Italy after second world war, in spite of accumulated resentment between the two countries ? It's only at the end of fiftee's that tese difficulties disappeared realy. Why this italian take off from extreme end of fortee's ? And how its reasons were perceived by french leaders ? In the same direction we are looking for the moment from which these leaders have understood this remarkable development of Italy. We are looking for the inflluence of interne debates of our neighbour on the french leaders way of approaching french problems. The question of housebuilding is particularly revealing of this italian influence at the beginning of fiftee's. As such the study of three problems implying the two countries, is very important : the union customs at the end of fortee's, the italian emigration and the tunnel of Mont Blanc. But all these requires to stop our study to 1963-1964 who are strategics years in Italy, economic and politic speaking
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Sampathkumar, Antoni Raj. "Les récits de miracle dans les Actes des Apôtres." Université Marc Bloch (Strasbourg) (1971-2008), 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990STR20017.
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Les actes des apotres rapportent que l'annonce de l'evangile est toujours accompagnee "de signes et de prodiges". Quelle est la relation entre les "signes et les prodiges" et l'annonce de l'evangile ? notre etude, apres examen des recits de miracle dans les actes, arrive a la conclusion que les miracles soutiennent l'annonce et la rendent ainsi credible ; invitent les juifs ainsi ue les gentils a la conversion ; montrent la puissance de la parole qui triomphe de tous les obstacles ; attestent le respect du aux porteurs de la parole ; servent comme signe du salut universel et marquent la continuite du temps du salut de jesus a l'egliseThe acts of the apostles narrates that the proclamation of the gospel is always accompanied by the "signs and wonders". What is the relation between the signs and wonders, and the proclamation of the gospel? our study after examining the miracle stories in the acts of the apostles arrives at the conclusion that the miracles support the proclamation and make it credible ; invite the jews as well as the gentiles for conversion ; display the power of the word which triumphs over all the obstacles ; bear witness to the honour of the bearers of the word ; serve as sign for the universal salvation and mark the continuity of the time of salvation from jesus to the church
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Ransom, Michael R. "It's a Miracle: Separating the Miraculous from the Mundane." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1304531829.
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Wu, Jaushieh Joseph. "Toward another miracle? : impetuses and obstacles in Taiwan's democratization /." The Ohio State University, 1989. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487672631602026.
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Santos, Cristiane Sousa. "“DE MIRACULIS APOSTOLI SANCTI JACOBI”: NARRATIVAS DE MILAGRES NO CODEX CALIXTINUS." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, 2018. http://tede2.pucgoias.edu.br:8080/handle/tede/3986.
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This dissertation has as main objective to deal with the pilgrimages and the cult of the Apostle James the Greater in Santiago de Compostela, from the Liber Sancti Jacobi, a codex elaborated in the twelfth century, and which encloses in itself all the nuances of reverence for the disciple in the Galicia region. In order to do so, we are guided by theoretical methodological assumptions for the analysis of the representations in the present source, according to the aspects of the myth and the Social Imaginary, present in the quotidian of the century. From the revelation of the existence of a sepulcher made in the ninth century, attributed to the disciple who would have been according to the Holy Scriptures, one of the closest of the Messiah, a cult that according to tradition has been forgotten for centuries, would thus have resurfaced. Since then, a series of narratives and the itinerary towards the Galician city, were being written and perfected. At the apogee of the cult of relics in the twelfth century, the Compostela Cathedral under the prelate Diego Gelmírez, there was an extension to the elaboration of these documents aimed at legitimizing the presence of the relics of the apostle in "Hispania", among the most notable of these chronicles, is the Liber Sancti Jacobi or Codex Calixtinus. Based on the narratives present in the codex, information about the presence of James the Greater in the Iberian Peninsula was expanded. Thus, our research developed from the research on the writing and the origin of the tradition of the narratives reproduced in the codex. As well, we turn our attention to the relevance and influence of the pilgrimages to Jerusalem and Rome, primordial to the investigations that investigate the amplitude and importance of the trips and pilgrimages in Average Age. Finally, the attention is directed to the analyzes of the myth of St. James and his miracles narrated in the Liber Sancti Jacobi and their interferences, motivations and inspirations for the construction and promotion of the way of Santiago de Compostela.
Essa dissertação, tem como objetivo principal, tratar a respeito das peregrinações e o culto ao apóstolo Tiago, o Maior em Santiago de Compostela, a partir do Liber Sancti Jacobi, um códice elaborado no século XII, e que encerra em si todas as nuances da reverência destinada ao discípulo na região Galiza. Para tanto, nos direcionamos a partir de pressupostos teóricos metodológicos de análise das representações existentes na fonte em apreço, segundo os aspectos do mito e do Imaginário Social, presentes no cotidiano do século da redação desta. A partir da revelatio da existência de um sepulcro feita no século IX, atribuído ao discípulo que teria sido conforme as Sagradas Escrituras, um dos mais próximos do Messias, um culto que segundo a tradição esteve esquecido por séculos, teria assim, ressurgido. Desde então, uma série de narrativas e o itinerário em direção à cidade galega, foram sendo escritas e aperfeiçoados. No apogeu do culto às relíquias no século XII, a Sé Compostelana sob o prelado D. Diego Gelmírez, houve a ampliação à elaboração desses documentos que visavam a legitimação da presença das relíquias do apóstolo em “Hispania”, dentre as mais notáveis dessas crônicas, encontra-se o Liber Sancti Jacobi ou Codex Calixtinus. Fundamentados nas narrativas presentes no códice, se expandiram as informações sobre a presença de Tiago, o Maior na Península Ibérica. Dessa forma, nossa pesquisa, se desenvolveu a partir da investigação sobre a redação e a origem da tradição das narrativas reproduzidas no códice. Assim como também, voltamos nossa atenção para a relevância e a influência das peregrinações à Jerusalém e à Roma, primordiais às pesquisas que investigam a amplitude e a importância das viagens e peregrinações na Idade Média. Por fim, às atenções são destinadas às análises do mito de São Tiago e dos seus milagres narrados no Liber Sancti Jacobi e suas interferências, motivações e inspirações para a construção e promoção do caminho de Santiago de Compostela.
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SILVA, MARCELO AUGUSTO FELICETTI DA. "FROM MIRACLE TO CURSE: SERGIO BERNARDES AND BRASILIA (1968-74)." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2016. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=28475@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
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A produção do arquiteto carioca Sergio Bernardes (1919/2002) é tão vasta quanto desconhecida. Assertivo e questionador, desde o início da carreira mostrou-se avesso à formatações conceituais, estilísticas ou projetuais. Graduado em 1948 pela Universidade do Brasil, atuou até os anos 1990 no campo alargado do projeto com significativa mudança da escala projetual nos anos 1960/70. Experimentando o aço como partido estrutural da arquitetura, aventurou-se pelo universo das geometrias não euclidianas, pendurou pavilhões como ponte e residenciais como teleférico; testou materiais leves na construção; impulsionou a produção industrial desenvolvendo elementos para fabricação em série. Num caminho ambicioso entre associações multidisciplinares do conhecimento, pesquisa laboratorial e investigação experimental no canteiro, perseguiu uma espécie de idealismo sistêmico, fundamentado num virtuosismo tecnológico. De arquiteto a inventor social , Bernardes reafirmou a crença no sujeito moderno, no poder da razão, na potência do projeto e numa ação preventiva do futuro. No contexto arquitetônico brasileiro dos anos 1960/70, apostou alto na renovação de sua arquitetura, aproveitando-se da proximidade com o poder militar, principalmente, durante o período de pujança econômica (alta concentração de rendas) e desenvolvimento progressista do país sob a Ditadura, o assim chamado período do milagre brasileiro (1968/73). Momento em que o arquiteto assume protagonismo na construção da então recém inaugurada capital federal – Brasília. Esta pesquisa analisa quatro projetos emblemáticos de Sergio Bernardes para Brasília – a sede do Instituto Brasileiro do Café – IBC (1968/71); o edifício do Ministério da Marinha – MM (1970/73); a Escola Superior de Guerra (1970/74) e o Monumento ao Pavilhão Nacional (1972) –, todos destinados ao governo militar e realizados no período do milagre , buscando entender em que medida eles significaram uma possibilidade sem precedentes para sua arquitetura e, ao mesmo tempo, abriram o caminho da maldição que assombra sua obra desde então.
The production of the Brazilian and native of Rio de Janeiro architect Sergio Bernardes is as vast as unknown. Assertive and questioner, since the beginning of his career, he presented himself against the conceptual, stylistic and projective formats. Graduated in 1948 at the Universidade do Brasil, he worked until 1990s in the large field of the project with abrupt change in the architectonical scale of the 1960s and 1970s. Starting from the experimentation of more restrict and defined programs, he interspersed a complex universe of the megastructures and headed prospective and visionary to the territory scale. By experimenting steel as structural source of architecture, he threw himself into the universe of the non euclidianas geometries; he hung pavilions as bridges, houses as cable cars; tested light materials in the construction, and increased the industrial production through the development of elements for series manufacturing. Through an ambitious way of multidisciplined associations of knowledge, laboratorial research and experimental investigation of the construction site, he pursued a type of systemic idealism, based on a technological virtuousism. From architect to a social inventor , he reassured his belief in the modern individual, in the power of reason, in the potency of the project and in a preventive action of future. In the Brazilian architectonical context of the 1960s and 70s, he truly believed in the renovation of his architecture, taking advantage of the good relationship he had with the Military, especially, during a period of economical force (concentration of incomes) and the progressive development of the country during the Dictatorship era, the Brazilian Miracle (1968/73). A moment in which, the architect takes over the protagonism of the just built, Federal Capital, Brasilia. This research is about four of the Sergio Bernardes emblematic projects for Brasilia– Instituto Brasileiro do Café – IBC (1968/71); Ministério da Marinha – MM (1970/73); Escola Superior de Guerra (1970/74); Monumento ao Pavilhão Nacional (1972) – all destined to the military government and finished within the period of time called the miracle , in order to understand how much of a possibility without precedents they meant for his architecture, and at the same time, how much of this opened the way to a curse that haunts his work since then.
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Abdul, Nabi Saleh Ali. "The concept of the Sufi Saintly Miracle: A Literary Approach." University of Western cape, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7302.
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Masters of Artstudy analyses the concept of al-Karāmah al-Sūfīyah (the Sufi Saintly Miracle) in both its religious and literary dimensions. The researcher will shed more light on this genre of narrative literary phenomena by developing its definition and placing it in the social and historical context of the Sufi thought as a whole. Many communities in the Islamic world embrace and practice the Sufi doctrine and also believe in the Ṣūfī Sheikhs’ saintly miracles and its paranormal aspects, which they also consider to be parallel in its sacredness to the miracles of the Prophets. Furthermore, in this study the researcher will not only focus on the religious significance of the saintly miracle but also on their literary approach and aesthetic dimensions. In fact many of the contemporary Arab scholars and Litterateurs categorize this narrative discourse to fall under the cloak of al-Adab al-‘ajāibī (miraculous literature) due to the nature of its narrative style and structure from which it achieves its goals, such as: Myth – Legend – Superstition – Storytelling, etc. The study will be mainly qualitative. It is a content analysis study in the sense that the researcher will analyse the stylistic, formal and rhetorical techniques of the saintly miracles’ discourse with specific reference to extracts taken from al- Sheikh al-Hassan al- Shadili and al-Sheikh Abdelssalam Bin Machich. The study will use an eclectic theoretical and conceptual framework which combines the historical approach with the reception theory.
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Bean, Kent Richard. "Policing the Borders of Identity at The Mormon Miracle Pageant." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1124572144.
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Millou, Yves. "Phénoménologie de la surprise et de l'étonnement face au miraculeux." Thesis, Normandie, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018NORMR008/document.
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Le miraculeux se comprend comme une catégorie événementielle à connotation profane ou religieuse : c’est cette dernière, dans sa perspective chrétienne, que ce travail prend en compte. Mais afin que ce point de vue croyant puisse signifier quelque chose pour l’observateur impartial, le choix a été fait d’examiner les réactions de surprise et d’étonnement éprouvées par les bénéficiaires de ces événements. Celles-ci pourraient-elles nous informer sur ce qui a supposément lieu dans le miraculeux ? La méthodologie phénoménologique mise en place pour pouvoir répondre à cette question prend appui sur deux corpus : l’un consiste en des textes scripturaires, où les réactions de surprise et d’étonnement accompagnant les miracles sont évaluées pour comprendre comment elles opèrent dans le mécanisme de révélation à l’œuvre dans ces textes ; l’autre se compose de récits de « miraculés », interviewés dans le cadre de la méthode microphénoménologique en 1ère personne. Ces récits, une fois analysés, permettent de disposer de ressources expérientielles qui montrent la façon dont le miraculeux est éprouvé dans le vécu, comment il a surpris et bouleversé. La phénoménologie de la surprise ainsi extraite, puis confrontée à celle qui découle des récits bibliques, permet d’abord de mieux comprendre comment opèrent les affects de surprise et d’étonnement lors d’événements irruptifs dits miraculeux, et comment leur matérialité, associée à la foi des sujets-témoins, peut rendre compte de ce vécu si particulier. Le travail contribue aussi à caractériser la surprise et l’étonnement comme des outils phénoménologiques à part entière dans l’entreprise de connaissance de l’humain face à ce qui le dépasseThe miraculous can be understood as a category of event, either profane or religious. Only the latter, in its Christian perspective, will be dealt with in this present work. But in order for this believer’s point of view to mean anything to the impartial observer, the choice has been made to examine the reactions of surprise and wonder felt by the beneficiaries of these unusual events. Could these reactions inform us about what supposedly takes place in the miraculous? The phenomenological methodology which has been implemented in order to answer this question relies on two corpuses: one consists in a set of New Testament texts, in which the reactions of surprise and wonder which accompany the miracles are evaluated to understand how they operate in the mechanism of revelation at work in those texts; the other is composed of narratives told by beneficiaries of miracles who have been interviewed within the frame of the micro-phenomenological 1st person method. Once they have been transcribed and analyzed for their emotional content, these narratives make available experiential resources which exemplify how the miraculous is lived by the beneficiaries, how it surprised and overwhelmed them. The phenomenology of surprise thus brought forward and confronted to that which can be drawn from Scripture narratives enables, first, to understand better how affects of surprise and wonder operate during so-called miraculous irruptive events, and how their materiality, can account for such an experience. But the work also aims at characterizing surprise and wonder as full-fledged phenomenological tools usable for the understanding of the human reality confronted to what exceeds it
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Oppitz-Trotman, Gesine Elisabeth. "Between history and hagiography : aspects of William of Canterbury's Miracula Sancti Thome." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.539340.
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Herselman, Marietjie. "Vitamin D : miracle cure-for-all or cart before the horse?" Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/86816.
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Inaugural address delivered on 2 November 2011Marietjie Herselman was born in the Langkloof, where she matriculated at the McLachlan High School. She obtained a BSc (Physiology and Dietetics) degree at Stellenbosch University and for the next 18 years worked as a dietitian at Tygerberg Hospital, where she specialised in renal nutrition. She obtained a master’s degree in nutrition in 1985 and in 1991 was appointed as a lecturer in the Department of Human Nutrition, Faculty of Health Sciences, at Stellenbosch University. In the same year she obtained her PhD in nutritional sciences at this university, where she was later promoted to senior lecturer (1995), associate professor (2001) and full professor (2010). From 2008 to 2010 she was appointed first as acting head and later as head of the Division of Human Nutrition. She served on the Professional Board of Dietetics from 1998 to 2003 and also on various sub-committees of the Board. She regularly reviews papers and research applications for scientific councils/associations as well as five national and four international scientific journals. Currently, she serves on the editorial boards of four international scientific journals and in 2008 she was elected as the co-editor (Africa region) of the international journal Nutrition. She successfully delivered 17 master’s students and published 29 scientific papers in national and international journals and three chapters in textbooks. Marietjie also presented papers at 19 international and 37 national conferences. Three international and four national awards were bestowed on her for her research in renal nutrition. She played a leading role in the initiation of the Community Nutrition Security Project (CNSP) in the Breede Valley, as part of Stellenbosch University’s HOPE Project, as well as the NOMA master’s programme in Nutrition, Human Rights and Governance in collaboration with the universities of Oslo and Akershus (Norway) as well as Makerere and Kyambogo (Uganda).
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Jefferson, Lee M. "The image of Christ the miracle worker in early Christian art." Diss., Freely available online, 2008. http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/ETD-db/available/etd-09052008-145010/.
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CALMON, NATHALIA CORREA. "THE MIRACLE OF THE BODY FROM JERUSALÉM BY GONÇALO M. TAVARES." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2009. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=14344@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROEste trabalho oferece ao leitor uma composição em mosaico, de uma voz subjetiva, que se alia em uma primeira instância à voz de Gonçalo M. Tavares (sobretudo em seu romance Jerusalém), e posteriormente, às vozes de: Gilles Deleuze, Georges Bataille, José Gil, David Lapoujade, Antonin Artaud, Samuel Beckett e Clarice Lispector para juntos percorrermos a questão do corpo em sofrimento bem como seus possíveis milagres.
This work offers its readers a mosaic arrangement of a subjective voice that connects, in the beginning, Gonçalo M. Tavares’ voice (mainly in his novel Jerusalém), and afterwards the voices of Gilles Deleuze, Georges Bataille, José Gil, David Lapoujade, Antonin Artaud, Samuel Beckett, and Clarice Lispector — so that together we can run through the question of the body, its sufferings and possible miracles.
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Martinez, Amanda Rose. "The unfinished miracle : how plastics came to be lost at sea." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/60842.
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Thesis (S.M. in Science Writing)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, Graduate Program in Science Writing, 2010.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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Plastic trash is an increasingly significant source of pollution in the world's oceans. In some remote ocean regions, it is aggregating by the ton. This thesis investigates plastic trash as an emerging marine contaminant, with a specific focus on: the history of plastic trash in the ocean; areas of aggregation; potential sources; remediation efforts; behavior of the material in terms of degradation in the marine environment; impacts to sea life and marine ecosystems; and scientific research, both ongoing and planned, that will attempt to determine further potential impacts to marine ecosystems and human health. The second part of this inquiry provides a brief explanation of what plastics are, the history of plastic polymer development and the significance of the material's incredible contributions to society. It explores briefly the growing social backlash against plastic as a result of the publicized impacts of plastic ocean trash, and concludes with an argument, which states that the problem of plastic marine pollution is not due to the nature of the material itself, but rather lies in the ways we have chosen to use it.
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Pagliardini, Joseph. "Comédie à l'italienne et condition masculine dans l'Italie du miracle économique." Aix-Marseille 1, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009AIX10061.
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La comédie à l'italienne est un genre cinématographique qui voit le jour à la fin des années cinquante, à la faveur d’une période de grande prospérité économique en Italie et d’une transformation profonde de la société. Rapidement, ce genre révèle sa capacité à devenir le miroir fidèle de son époque, des changements en cours et des disparités qui en résultent. Parmi les caractères constitutifs de la comédie à l’italienne figure une hégémonie masculine que cette thèse s’emploie à transformer en hypothèse critique de recherche, en brossant par touches successives et cumulatives le portrait de l’Italien moyen protagoniste du genre. Considérant une période qui va de la seconde moitié des années cinquante à la première moitié des années soixante, l’étude montre comment les protagonistes masculins de la comédie à l'italienne sont représentatifs ou révélateurs des contradictions et des dérèglements de la société dans laquelle ils vivent.
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Wicks, Laura H. "Rwanda's Miracle: From Genocide and Poverty to Peace and Economic Prosperity." FIU Digital Commons, 2014. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1526.
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The purpose of this thesis was to examine how liberalization and the introduction of pro-poor policies can be successful in post-conflict countries using the Rwanda coffee market as a case study. My research supports the notion that economic development, political stability and peace can be a result of liberalization when policies that are pro-poor and focus on the largest sector of the population are created. The study examines why and how Rwanda chose to liberalize their economy in the way they did by focusing on the intentions of the actors and the effects their actions have had on the coffee market and country as a whole. The findings suggest that Rwanda’s coffee market liberalization has been successful and has contributed to stability and economic development in Rwanda. The conclusion indicates that pro-poor liberalization policies with the assistance from a variety of actors and institutions can lead developing countries on the path to development in ways the international community has not seen before.
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Taylor, Faye C. "Miracula, saints' cults and socio-political landscapes : Bobbio, Conques and post-Carolingian society." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2012. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12805/.
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Despite the centrality of monastic sources to debates about social and political transformation in post-Carolingian Europe, few studies have approached the political and economic status of monasteries and their saints' cults in this context, to which this thesis offers a comparative approach. Hagiography provides an interesting point of analysis with respect to the proposition of mutation féodale, and more importantly to that of the mutation documentaire and its relation to monastic 'reform', which Part I discusses. Parts II and III consider Bobbio and Conques, and their miracula (dedicated to San Colombano and Sainte Foy) within their respective socio-political environments, since the best of the recent scholarship concerning the millennial period has emphasized the specificity of regional experience. At Bobbio the closeness of the king physically and some continuity in royal practices between the tenth and eleventh centuries shaped monastic experience. It directed and sometimes restricted monastic discourse, which maintained an older tradition of general service to the kingdom, although innovations in relic usage helped monastic negotiations with the sovereign. At Conques, the waning of royal control created space for literary and cultic advances that served to bolster the monastery's position within local power structures. In this landscape older forms of public authority were purposefully minimized and hierarchy and landownership were negotiated between aristocrats, including Sainte Foy at the head of Conques. Whilst the categories of the 'feudal transformation' debate can offer a useful framework for the analysis of two very different monasteries and their local societies, the comparison demonstrates that placing monasteries at the centre of our debate is crucial to understanding the documents they produce, and therefore questions the potential that these have to shed light on wider societal change. Concerns over land and autonomy were central to both institutions, although these operated on different conceptual planes, because of different bases of landed patrimony dating back much further than the tenth century. Each monastery negotiated hierarchy and clientele through their miracula and according to local socio-political rules. Therefore, whilst related documentary and cultic transformations were inseparable from socio-political pressures, these were not necessarily pressures simply reacting to mutation féodale, but were formative processes in the direction and shape of social change.
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Dejardin-Bazaille, Cécile. "Les miracles de Saint Benoît par André de Fleury : transcription, traduction et commentaire historique." Aix-Marseille 1, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003AIX10045.
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Les Miracles de Saint Benoît par André, moine de Fleury-sur-Loire (Orléanais), figurent au rang des oeuvres littéraires majeures du XIe siècle par l'importance de l'hagiographie et de l'histoire. La transcription du manuscrit original (Cod. Reg Lat. 592) fut établie et complétée par la traduction française du latin. L'auteur et son environnement socioculturel, la structure et le contenu de l'oeuvre, le contexte politique furent étudiés. Ceci était indispensable pour la problématique : en composant ses Miracles, André a-t-il agi en hagiographe ou historien ? Les thèmes principaux furent dégagés du vocabulaire et des récits. Le surnaturel est récurrent : les divers intervenants, les péchés et châtiments le prouvent. Puis ont pu être étudiés des espaces et relations institutionnelles à différents niveaux ; la diversité des personnages permit de dresser un tableau social. Ainsi l'auteur mêlant les genres, par son érudition, son vocabulaire, fait des Miracles une source aux multiples apports.
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Lagré, Mårten. "OS-hockey som TV-sändning, dokumentär och fiktionsfilm : Sportens betydelse för den nationella identiteten." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Akademin för utbildning och ekonomi, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-12054.
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Syftet med denna uppsats var att studera sportfilmen som genre och se hur denna genre konstruerar nationell identitet på nationell och lokal nivå. Ytterligare ett syfte var att undersöka hur en sporthändelse televiseras, dokumenteras respektive fiktionaliseras. Jag har genomfört en jämförande analys av likheter och skillnader mellan mer dokumenterande genrer och fiktion. Jag har analyserat skillnaderna mellan den TV-sända hockeymatchen vid OS 1980 mellan USA och Sovjet (även kallad ”Miracle on Ice” eftersom USA vann matchen mot de på förhand tippade som helt överlägsna Sovjet), dokumentären om matchen, Do You Believe in Miracles från 2001, och fiktionsfilmen Miracle från 2004 som bygger på nämnda match. Det resultat jag kommit fram till är att både dokumentären och filmen om matchen är uppbyggda för att förstärka den amerikanska patriotismen. Genom att spela på nostalgi och gamla minnen ämnar båda filmerna, som kom i en för USA orolig tid att få det amerikanska folket att känna stolthet igen, på samma sätt som de gjorde efter att de vann mot Sovjet. För att ytterligare förstärka stolthetskänslorna har fiktionsfilmen Miracle även ändrat på en hel del i skildringen av själva matchen för att få USA att framstå som mer hårt arbetande, ärligare och bättre än de egentligen var. Även händelser utanför isen är ändrade eller tillagda för att ge filmens tittare ännu mer att känna stolthet för.
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Pieters, Toine. "Biology meets drug development the biography of a 'miracle' drug, the interferons /." [Maastricht : Maastricht : Universiteit Maastricht] ; University Library, Maastricht University [Host], 1999. http://arno.unimaas.nl/show.cgi?fid=6879.
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Vandepeer, Charles. "The east Asian miracle and human capital : square pegs and round holes /." Title page, abstract and contents only, 1997. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arv2275.pdf.
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Yarrow, Simon. "Saints' shrines and miracle narratives in twelfth-century southern England : negotiating communities." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.312627.
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Thouroude, Véronique Joséphine Gabrielle. "Sickness, disability, and miracle cures : hagiography in England, c.700-c.1200." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b9c42b2d-9d25-454c-bed9-169ef79e223b.
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This thesis considers how religious literature represented sickness and disability in Anglo- Saxon and post-Conquest England. Based on Gospel accounts of Jesus's healings, narratives of miracle-cures were highly valued within medieval Christian culture. By analysing a selection of miracle-cure narratives from the main period of miracle writing in England, from the age of Bede to the late twelfth century, this project considers the social significance of such stories. All miracle-cures followed the pattern of a spiritual triumph over the material world, but this thesis focuses on how hagiographers represented human experiences of sickness and disabilities. The first two chapters of this thesis address the conceptual structure of the project. The first explains the two areas of scholarly theory that underpin this thesis. These are the use of narrative sources for historical study; and sociological conceptualisations of bodily difference. The second chapter orientates the case-studies selected for this project in their context. Miracle-cures were recounted in relation to other aspects of the culture of medieval England, most importantly the theology of sainthood and of sin. The remaining three chapters of the thesis provide detailed thematic analysis of selected miracle-cure narratives. The third chapter asks how the spiritual experience of bodily difference was understood. The next chapter considers the physical understandings of a body that was affected by either sickness or disability, and the links between miracle-cure narratives and contemporary medical theory. The fifth and final chapter addresses the representation of social aspects of sickness and disability in these texts, in particular the moralising rhetoric of such texts in favour of community support. This thesis concludes with a discussion of how modern Disability Studies and scholarship on medieval culture benefit from interaction with one another.
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Lewis, Kevin D. "“The Miracle of Unintelligibility”: The Music and Invented Instruments of Lucia Dlugoszewski." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1321641867.
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Samms, Daniel Christopher. "Incarnation and the nature of miracle Thomas Forsyth Torrance's view of the Incarnation /." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 2008. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.
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Friedman, David (David Bennett). "The misunderstood miracle politics and the development of a hybrid economy in Japan." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/15073.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1986.MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHVES AND DEWEY.
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Wjuniski, Bernardo Stuhlberger. "Multiple exchange rates and industrialization in Brazil, 1953-1961 : macroeconomic miracle or mirage?" Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2017. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3781/.
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This dissertation revisits Brazil's experience with multiple exchange rates (MERs) between 1953 and 1961. Exchange controls such as MERs were common across the world during the early days of the Bretton Woods arrangement, despite the resistance from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which assumed they caused instability and balance of payments crises. Latin America’s use of exchange controls was widespread, with different exchange rates also adopted as instruments to stimulate import substitution industrialization (ISI). Brazil’s MER system was, however, a unique experiment, with all the country’s imports included in a regime of auctions of foreign exchange, resulting in a controlled depreciation process with different sectoral exchange rates. The experience had two phases, the first of which diverged from other cases in the region in lasting much longer, maintaining stable macroeconomic conditions, and avoiding IMF interventions. The second phase resulted in a decline of the system's macroeconomic effectiveness and its eventual collapse in 1961. This research investigates the peak and decline of Brazil’s MER systems by analyzing a new quantitative dataset that is further complemented by qualitative sources. The main thesis is that Brazil’s MER regime was a ‘successful’ experience during its first phase, with a singular design that supported the stabilization of macroeconomic conditions. Officials were ‘guiding the invisible hand’ of the market to help balance macroeconomic variables. The dissertation also shows that the MER system was not a protectionist instrument to stimulate import substitution in advanced sectors and did not generate distortions to sectoral industrial growth. It was, however, transformed during its second phase into a mechanism to subsidize private sector imports and increase the government’s direct participation in the industrial effort, which was an industrial deepening process with costly macroeconomic consequences.