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    State Gift Tax Jurisdiction

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    Attending to the Beauty of Creation and the New Creation

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    The beauty of the earth, in all its intricacies, is a gift of the creator to us. And its value is not practical or ethical, but is given to us simply to delight us even as God delights in it. And it is powerful. N. T. Wright notes that beauty, whether in God’s creation or in human art, “is sometimes so powerful that it evokes our very deepest feelings of awe, wonder, gratitude, and reverence.”1 Beauty blossoms into appreciation for God’s creation and love of the creator

    Exploring Native American folklore : Little people and giants

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    Republican Journal: Vol. 42, No. 26 - January 04,1872

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    The triumph of earth: a study of the poetry of Edward Thomas

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    The hunting motif in the literature of the United States:1782-1992.

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    The thesis analyses a representative but by no means complete selection of American hunting texts from 1782 to 1992. The first chapter gives an overview of the history of hunting and important contemporary and related literature. It looks at characters such as Daniel Boone and David Crockett, assesses the changes hunting underwent and mentions the recent developments, such as the rise of the horror thriller. The following twelve chapters analyse novels and short stories by twelve different authors. The main research results are: 1) The establishment of a tripartite structure. Hunting texts can be divided into political, pro-hunting and anti-hunting texts. Pro-hunting text tend to have a self-confident firstperson narrator. Anti-hunting texts tend to have a less confident third-person narrator. 2) The use of either an anthropocentric or a biocentric perspective. 3) The animal described in hunting stories is of exceptional size, danger, or beauty. One effect of this is an increased polarisation between hunter and hunted. 4) Several writers employ binary oppositions as a stylistic device, such as life versus death, bravery versus fear, or man versus animal. 5) The hunter is usually described as a lonely, ‘wifeless’ man, either without any relationship at all, or incapable of entering into a relationship. He has also an unusually high potential of aggression, an urge to kill. The diversity and versatility of the hunting motif as well as the large group of texts discovered, and listed in an appendix, demonstrates that hunting stories are an important part of American literature and culture

    Restoring What Has Been Lost: The Mythic Journey of Shakespearean and Tolkien Heroes After the Fall in Eden

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    In order for man to understand where he is going, he must first remember where he began. The intertwining link between the beginning, the in-between journey, and the end of a story, or narrative, has been present since the ancient years of literary criticism. The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle explains that a unified and effective narrative should have a beginning, middle, and end, and the even more ancient realm of mythology tends to follow this format not only in its written structure, but also in its thematic and archetypal construction. These three main segments of a mythic narrative are later redefined by the famed mythological historian Joseph Campbell in his three-fold stages of the hero’s journey The consistent framework that is found in man’s mythic imagination ultimately echoes the structure of man’s own experience at Garden of Eden where all that occurs afterwards stems from the the events found in Genesis 1-4. Therefore, the following chapters will follow and examine thematic and archetypal elements of heroic narratives, primarily through two works by William Shakespeare and J.R.R. Tolkien, as they relate to the universal, historic, and edenic qualities of the three stages of the hero’s journey

    Cities and Wetlands

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    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. From New Orleans to New York, from London to Paris to Venice, many of the world’s great cities were built on wetlands and swamps. Cities and Wetlands is the first book to explore the literary and cultural histories of these cities and their relationships to their environments and buried histories. Developing a ground-breaking new mode of psychoanalytic ecology and surveying a wide range of major cities in North America and Europe, ecocritic and activist Rod Giblett shows how the wetland origins of these cities haunt their later literature and culture and might prompt us to reconsider the relationship between human culture and the environment. Cities covered include: Berlin, Boston, Chicago, Hamburg, London, New Orleans, New York, Paris, St. Petersburg, Toronto, Venice and Washington

    Lost amid the fogs: travel and the inscription of Newfoundland, 1497 to 1997

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