The first of any formal education in music that can be found from the records or from the memories of those who were present at the time was the singing school. One ranch in the Blair community has files in which records were found of all import ant events of the school and community life. These files relate the coming of the singing school regularly every summer. Shaped notes were taught front hymn books. At the end of the course, a certificate was given to those who graduated. The teacher of the school then moved on to the next engagement.

Submitted by Alexis Petri Magalhaes Costa (alexis.petri.costa@gmail.com) on 2017-02-22T19:36:54Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao.pdf: 1279843 bytes, checksum: b21e4e76b5b7742d95c444d256cd3ec9 (MD5) / Rejected by Renata de Souza Nascimento (renata.souza@fgv.br), reason: Alexis, boa tarde Para que possamos aceitar seu trabalho, por gentileza, retire as páginas em branco que constam no trabalho entre a capa, contracapa e folha de assinaturas. Inclua também o resumo em português (mesmo o trabalho estando em inglês). Após correções, submeter o arquivo novamente. Att on 2017-02-22T19:41:54Z (GMT) / Submitted by Alexis Petri Magalhaes Costa (alexis.petri.costa@gmail.com) on 2017-02-23T15:29:04Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao.pdf: 1281154 bytes, checksum: 674d2d72b6ef337a490c5cc1124c144e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Renata de Souza Nascimento (renata.souza@fgv.br) on 2017-02-23T15:51:19Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao.pdf: 1281154 bytes, checksum: 674d2d72b6ef337a490c5cc1124c144e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-02-23T17:25:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao.pdf: 1281154 bytes, checksum: 674d2d72b6ef337a490c5cc1124c144e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-01-31 / This work assesses the validity of applying the Taylor Rule to the Brazilian market. Several variables, tools and features were analyzed. Among its variables, inflation, inflation target and output gap were included to determine a basis scenario. On top of that, exchange rates and exchange rate related information was tested. Both the crude market input (spot rate) and a trade-weighted currency are included in this analysis. Also extracted from the market, the carry-trade premium was calculated from future exchange rate quotes. Among its tools, the smoothing factor was evaluated. The series were tested for regime breaks, unit root and cointegration, residual autocorrelation, normality, heteroskedasticity and coefficient linearity. Among its features, special attention was paid to the proper timing of each variable. The regressions being forward looking, it was important to line up the actual information available for the Brazilian Central Bank at the time of each decision. Timing was again a factor when considering different cutoff periods, and for synchronizing market data, especially for constructing the carry-trade payoff. This work concludes that evidence of a Taylor Rule being a response function for the Brazilian Central Bank is shaky, especially given the number of misspecification indicators found. Results also suggest that, assuming there is a need to protect the local economy from sharp capital flows consequent of interest rate changes, the implicit future exchange rate premia is not a good indicator of such risk. / Esse trabalho avalia a aderência da Regra de Taylor à política monetária brasileira. Diferentes variaveis, ferramentas e características foram avaliadas. Entre suas variáveis, essa dissertação avaliou inflação, gap de inflação, e hiato do produto, para determinar um cenario base. Sobre este, informações referentes a câmbio foram testadas. Fez-se regressões incluindo o spot de mercado e o câmbio ponderado pela balança comercial. Testou-se também o prêmio implícito em um carry-trade hipotético utilizando o primeiro futuro de dolar da BM&F. Entre as ferramentas estudadas, o 'smoothing factor' foi analisado e não foram encontradas melhorias significativas. As séries foram testadas para quebras de regime, raiz unitária, cointegração, autocorrelação dos resíduos, normalidade, heteroskedasticity e linearidade de coeficientes. Entre suas características, esta dissertação leva em consideração o 'timing' de cada variável. As regressões sendo 'forward looking', buscou-se exatamente o valor para cada variável disponível ao Banco Central do Brasil no momento de cada decisão do COPOM. Esse mesmo cuidado foi tomado para sincronizar os dados de mercado, especialmente para construir o 'payoff' do carry-trade. Esta dissertação conclui que há evidências apenas fracas de que a função resposta do Banco Central esteja em linha com a Regra de Taylor, especialmente dado o número de problemas de especificação encontrados. Os resultados também sugere que, supondo que haja a inteção de proteger a economia local de choques de fluxo de capital consequentes de mudança na taxa SELIC, o prêmio implícito no 'carry-trade' não é um bom indicador desse risco.

Throughout his Preparatory Meditations, Edward Taylor used many images to deprecate himself. These images reflected his Puritan religious beliefs rather than an extremely low self-image. The themes of his poetry were taken from the Bible, but they reflected the many duties which befell him in conjunction with his ministry at Westfield. By using images which were most familiar to him and the rhetorical devices of the seventeenth century, Taylor sought to seek God's forgiveness by doing His will--confessing personal guilt, asking for forgiveness, and praising God's mercy. Because the meditations were directed only to God, Taylor never sought to publish them. Like the child he so desperately wanted to be looked upon as, he sought only his father's favor.

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This essay explores whether the notion of ‘hallowing’ provides a profitable lens through which to read and evaluate the soteriology of British theologian P.T. Forsyth, and it suggests that the hallowing of God’s name is, for Forsyth, the way whereby God both justifies himself and claims creation for divine service. It proposes that reading Forsyth’s corpus as essentially an exposition of the first petition of the Lord’s Prayer is an invitation to better comprehend not only his soteriology but also, by extension, his broader theological vision and interests. Chapters One and Two are concerned with questions of methodology, and with placing Forsyth in the social context of his day, with introducing the theological landscape and grammar from which he expounds his notion of reality as fundamentally moral, and with identifying some of the key but neglected voices that inform such a vision. Chapter Three explores the principal locale wherein the first petition of the Lord’s Prayer is answered: in Jesus Christ, whose confession of holiness ‘from sin’s side’ justifies God, destroys sin and creates a new humanity. Chapter Four examines Forsyth’s moral anthropology – specifically, the self-recovery of holiness in the human conscience – and considers holiness’ shape in the life of faith. Chapter Five inquires whether Forsyth’s theology of hallowing finally requires him to embrace dogmatic universalism, and identifies what problems might attend his failure to so do and consequently threaten to undermine his soteriological program.

Thesis (MMed)--Stellenbosch University, 2014. / No abstract available

The Devonian Taylor Group, in the Olympus Range area, southern Victoria Land (SVL), Antarctica, is separated from the basement by a regional nonconformity (Kukri Erosion Surface). A second localized unconformity within the Taylor Group called the Heimdall Erosion Surface separates the New Mountain Sandstone and older units from the younger Altar Mountain Formation. The depositional environment of the New Mountain Sandstone has long been under contention. The New Mountain Sandstone Formation is a predominantly quartzose cross-bedded sandstone. Its newly defined Mt Jason Member is a coarse arkosic small scale cross-bedded pebbly sandstone that grades up section into the rest of the quartzose New Mountain Sandstone with large scale cross beds. The New Mountain Sandstone has been divided into five lithofacies including the Basal Conglomerate Lithofacies, Pebbly Sandstone Lithofacies, Granule Cross-bedded Lithofacies, Pinstripe Cross-bedded Lithofacies and Cross-bedded Sandstone Lithofacies. Deposition was in a shoreface environment with minor coastal aeolian deposition. The environment changed from upper shoreface to lower shoreface up section, forming transgressive to highstand systems tracts. The Heimdall Erosion Surface truncates the Cross-bedded Sandstone Lithofacies and the Pinstripe Cross-bedded Lithofacies and was formed due to relative sea level fall leading to exposure and erosion of underlying sedimentary and basement rocks. It forms a type 1 sequence boundary. The New Mountain Sandstone was partially or totally lithified before erosion as shown by the jagged morphology of the eroded cross beds on the surface. It is not known when cementation of the NMS took place or how much of the formation has been eroded. The Heimdall Erosion Surface and Kukri Erosion Surface converge locally due to erosion on the Heimdall Erosion Surface and relief on the Kukri Erosion Surface. The Heimdall Erosion Surface became a shore platform and the site of deposition as relative sea level rose. The Altar Mountain Formation with its Odin Member is a cross-bedded, massive and bedded feldspathic and quartzose sandstone that fines up section and is deposited on the erosion surface. The Altar Mountain Formation is divided into four lithofacies including the Conglomerate Lithofacies, Trough Cross-bedded Lithofacies, Cross-bedded Bioturbated Lithofacies and Bedded Fine Lithofacies. Deposition was in a shoreface environment, changing up section to an inner shelf environment with minor estuarine/tidal influence near the top of the section forming transgressive to highstand to regressive system tracts. The sedimentary rocks are derived mainly from the Granite Harbour Intrusives and Koettlitz Group, which underlie the sandstones, but were exposed elsewhere in SVL. The sandstone clasts within the Conglomerate Lithofacies could be derived from underlying older Taylor Group rocks or exotic sources from outside the field area. Correlation with data from adjacent areas suggests deposition of the New Mountain Sandstone occurred in a shallow sea that existed from the Olympus Range, southwards into the Asgard Range and included Vashka Crag. The area around Sponsors Peak and to the north was exposed and supplying feldspathic and quartzose sediment and pebbles into the depositional basin. As relative sea level fell due to either tectonic uplift or eustatic processes a large area of southern Victoria Land was exposed including the Olympus and Asgard Ranges and Bull Pass-St Johns Range area. This lead to erosion of the New Mountain Formation and basement rocks. Deposition of the New Mountain Sandstone continued further south shown by the gradational contact between it and the overlying Altar Mountain Formation. Relative sea level rise led to deposition of the Altar Mountain Formation. Shallow seas once more dominated the southern Victoria Land with deltas in the east (in the Bull Pass-St Johns Range area) feeding feldspathic sediment into the depositional basin (Odin Member). Further sea level rise drowned the delta region and a shallow marine to inner shelf environment led to deposition of the rest of the Altar Mountain Formation.

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The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between manifest anxiety and orality as related to smokers and non-smokers as indicated on the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale and the Blaky Pitres Test (4). From the above theoretical background, the following relationships are hypothesized: Hypothesis I: Smokers will show more anxiety than nonsmokers. hypothesis 2: Female smokers will show more anxiety than male smokers. Hypothesis 3: Among the high anxiety group smokers will show more orality than non-smokers.

This study will attempt to verify the Hullian drive theory, E = f(HxD), as others have done before, but with one exception. The H, or habit strength, will be held to be neutral so that the E, or excitatory potentials, will be a function of drive alone. Without any habit to reinforce, any increase in excitatory potential can be related directly to increase in drive. Four hypotheses were investigated: The first hypothesis was that the HA, or high-anxiety groups, will also be the high-drive groups, and this will follow for the NA and LA groups, to be determined by the performance on the digit-span test. The second hypothesis was that the high-drive groups will perform better on the digit-span tests than the low-drive groups. The third hypothesis stressed that in accordance with Hullian theory, with increased stress being introduced with a single habit tendency, the low-drive groups will be outperformed by the high-drive groups. The fourth hypothesis presumed that verification of the first three hypotheses will show the "Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale" to be capable of differentiating between high and low manifest anxiety groups and will verify the Taylor-Spence hypothesis based on Hullian theory that the HA's will outperform the LA's in a stress situation.