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Grace from Above: Petitions and Appeals in Farnese Parma, 1631-1727
(2010-03) Rose, Colin S.; Not Applicable; Master of Arts; Department of History; Not Applicable; n/a; Not Applicable; Cynthia Neville; Krista Kesselring; Gregory Hanlon
This thesis analyzes the system of petitions and appeals in the early modern Italian state of Parma, from 1631-1727, considering the role of petitioning in the state under three Farnese dukes. Employing the sciences of ethology and social psychology, it argues that petitions both created and solidified the entrenched hierarchy of ducal rule. It analyzes who the petitioners were and for what they petitioned, and the role of and benefit to the dukes in this system. It uses a random sample of petitions as well as administrative documents to analyze the arrangement of the system, concluding that because of the disparate nature of the petitioners' identities and the issues for which they petitioned, as well as the careful attention paid by the dukes to certain cases and the symbolically important income they received, petitioning was a non-zero-sum game that served to cement structures of authority in the Farnese state.
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The Salvation of Man Through Contemplation and Deification in the De Vita Moysis of St. Gregory of Nyssa
(1965-05) Tobin, Vincent McBain; Not Applicable; Master of Arts; Department of Classics; Not Applicable; unknown; Not Applicable; unknown; unknown
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the way in which St. Gregory of Nyssa conceived of the salvation of man as reaching its fulfilment. The desire of salvation is one which was common to all the religious systems of the ancient world, and these serve both as a background for the doctrines of Gregory and also to a certain extent as the foundation on which some of his theology is based. For this reason, I have given a brief summary of the systems which went before the work of Gregory of Nyssa and of the influences which made themselves felt on him. Such influence came mainly from Greek philosophy and from the work of the Jewish philosopher Philo. Moreover, the doctrine of the Trinity and the relationship of the three hypostaseis to one another is fundamental in the way of salvation as Gregory saw it, as is the doctrine of man created in the image of God. Both these points have required a certain amount of examination before passing to the actual way of man's salvation. This way of salvation, consists in three stages or ways, each way being in itself a complete plan of salvation and also a stepping stone to what is above it, while the two higher stages of salvation are dependent on the first. Thus, there is, as it were, a ladder by which man mounts up to God, attaining each time a higher degree of knowledge of the divine, and culminating in a state which is ceaseless and eternal motion upwards toward God, a state in which the soul is drawn continually nearer to the divine through desire for what is above it, always being filled with the divine and yet always thirsting for more, and through the fulfilment of this desire becoming ever more and more transformed into the image of that eternal and unknowable nature which is God.
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Thomas Aquinas's In Librum Beati Dionysii de Divinis Nominibus Expositio
(1994-04) Murray, Stephen Lawrence MacKenzie; Not Applicable; Master of Arts; Department of Classics; Not Applicable; unknown; Not Applicable; unknown; unknown
The prolonged journey of the Dionysian corpus from the fifth century Eastern Roman Empire brought an often distorted picture of the Dionysian synthesis and occasional condemnation to his new adherents in the twelfth and thirteenth century Latin West. Thomas Aquinas, who quotes the mysterious Dionysius on 1700 occasions in the course of his own work[1], expended considerable effort in arguing the consistency of the Dionysian corpus with Christian truth. It is, therefore, appropriate to undertake a detailed exploration of the content of Aquinas's previously untranslated In Librum Beati Dionysii de Divinis Nominibus Expositio. It is, however, no less necessary to begin with a consideration of the background and logic of the Dionysian corpus as a whole, and the controversy surrounding its arrival in the West.
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The social organization of the fish processing industry in Nova Scotia a community-based study
(1985) Ilcan, Suzan M.; Not Applicable; Master of Arts; Department of Sociology & Social Anthropology; Not Applicable; unknown; Not Applicable; Richard Apostle; Henry Veltmeyer; Jim Stoltzman; Leonard Kasdan; unknown
The structure of the Nova Scotia secondary fishing industry is based on relatively small, rural, resource-dependent fishing communities and a casual and seasonal labour force. This workforce is characterized by a gender division of labour, low skill requirements, poor wages, little job security or promotion opportunities, and a heavy reliance on unemployment insurance benefits. Equally crucial to the social organization of this industry is the fact that fish plant workers, as members of resource-dependent communities, rely upon sufficient resource supply; product demand, international markets, and fishery employment for their livelihoods. In this regard, the fish processing sector generates a number of occupational and industrial cleavages. On the one hand, the occupational structure differentiates workers by gender, income, and duration of employment. On the other hand, the industrial structure tends to bind workers together, to varying degrees, through a shared experience of domination.
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La vieillesse a la queue glissante dans l'oeuvre d'Abla Farhoud
(2006-03) Marcotte, Anika Claire Lepage; Not Applicable; Master of Arts; Department of French; Not Applicable; n/a; Not Applicable; Vittorio Frigerio; Betty Bednarski; Irene Oore
The various aging characters in Abla Farhoud's work allow the concept of aging to be understood in a cyclical context. More precisely, aging is not to be understood as a static condition but as a process that is characterized as much by changes at the physical level as by changes at the psychological level. We examine aging by following the journey that is specific to every character while similar to the other characters' journeys. Through these journeys we explore the privileged moments that aging offers for the (re)construction of identity. Firstly, we consider resignation in order to identify what leads the characters to resigning themselves. Secondly, we examine the disjunction of the self that occurs within the characters and is one of the most striking effects of resignation. Then, we analyse the state of revolt that is underway due to the disjunctions that the characters experience. We also observe the correlation between resignation and revolt. Fourthly, we consider the awareness that stems from the state of revolt. We distinguish the aging characters' desire to understand their various disconnects in the hopes of (re)building themselves. Lastly, we examine the importance of being able to accept what is inevitable in life in order to recognize the moments of happiness.
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Experimental and Numerical Modeling Studies of Arsenic Removal with Wood Ash from Aqueous Streams
(2002-11) Rahman, Mohammod Hafizur; Not Applicable; Master of Applied Science; Department of Chemistry; Not Applicable; unknown; Not Applicable; M. Satish; Mort Fels; P.K. Yuet; Rafiqul Islam
Arsenic, a toxic element, is found all over the earth's crust. It comes in contact with water through the dissolution of minerals and ores. This raises the concentration of arsenic in ground water. Long-term exposure to arsenic through drinking water has proved to be catastrophic for the human body. That is why the US EPA has lowered the allowable concentration of arsenic in drinking water to 5 ppb. The people of the affected area need a cost-effective simple process to combat arsenic problem. While many processes have been proposed in the past, most of them are not cost-effective and/or not efficient to remove As (III), one of the two inorganic species, and ten times more toxic than As (V). In this research, it is found that wood ash has the potential to adsorb both As (III) and As (V) from contaminated water at low concentration levels without any chemical treatment. Wood ash is the inorganic and organic residue remaining after the combustion of wood or unbleached wood fiber. Wood ash is usually found as a disposed waste. Consequently, it can be used as one of the cheapest adsorbent materials- in household level treatment. Maple wood ash was used both for static batch tests and dynamic column tests. Static batch tests with the sodium arsenite (NaAs02) and sodium arsenate (Na2HAs04) solutions of different concentration were conducted. The Langmuir and Freundlich adsorption model have been developed for all the inorganic species that are present in aqueous streams. In dynamic column tests, aqueous streams that were contaminated with arsenic were passed through the column containing ash, which lowered the arsenic concentration to less than 5ppb. Six runs were conducted to show the efficacy of wood ash column. The ash column was modeled using surface excess theory and has been successfully matched with experimental results.