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(2020-04-02)Department: ReligionThe female body has historically been a site of struggle in western society. The dualism of the mind and the body, or flesh and spirit, has generally associated the female body with lesser nature or matter while associating ...
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(2013-04-15)Department: GermanThis dissertation is concerned with the topic of storytelling, and by extension narrative, in the works of Walter Benjamin and Hannah Arendt. My interest is aimed not only at storytelling as a topic in the authors’ works, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-09-30)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-06-23)
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(2016-03-18)Department: ReligionTwo common doctrines in virtue ethics, eudaimonia and the unity of the virtues, simplify certain virtues that might otherwise prove troublesome. This dissertation is an exploration of what might become of those troublesome ...
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(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2003)In their introduction to a fine new edition of Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop claim that "[i]f the twentieth century has been an American century, it is because the ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-05-14)
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(Vanderbilt University, )
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of History, 2008-04-23)
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(Law and Contemporary Problems, 2004)What do the following cases have in common? In Boy Scouts of America v. Dale,2 the Court upheld the right of a private organization to ignore a generally applicable state statute prohibiting discrimination on the basis of ...
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(1860-01-01)
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2019-04-17)Since the late 20th century, densely populated urban areas expanded with a rapid increase of the human population, causing stress to existing food resources. Currently, cities struggle with availability and accessibility ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008-04-09)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008-04-10)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2019-04-24)Around the start of the fifteenth century, Gutierre Díez de Games, standard bearer of the Castilian knight Don Pero Niño, wrote in his biographical chronicle of Niño about “How our Lord Jesus Christ desired for victors in ...
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(2021-03-14)Department: EnglishThe concise packaging of war for either basic educational purposes or public memory produces a simplified collective perception — a “war myth,” to borrow Samuel Hynes’ term — through which a population can ascribe neat and ...
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(Christian Century, 2010)
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(2008-03-27)Department: NeuroscienceChanges in the number, size, and shape of dendritic spines are associated with synaptic plasticity, which underlies cognitive functions such as learning and memory. This plasticity is attributed to reorganization of actin, ...
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(Vanderbilt News Service, 2006-05-23)