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Showing 1 to 20 of 74 for “""American exceptionalism""”.
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Scale Validation Of American Exceptionalism Index
… thesis sought to validate a new scale called the American Exceptionalism Index. The current study draws from instruction and examples from academics and professionals who have experience with scale validation – a primer was developed and available to guide future scale development. Following these …
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American Exceptionalism And The Antebellum Slavery Debate
<p> American exceptionalism is the idea that America is or was somehow unique or different compared to other nations throughout history. Many Americans also believed that America had a special mission to be an example to the rest of the world. Many politicians and intellectuals have debated …
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Ironic American Exceptionalism and the Myth of the Open Self
<p>This work rethinks current interpretations of American exceptionalism, emphasizing dynamic relations, especially those we could call "ironic." I am reading Reinhold Niebuhr's The Irony of American History alongside Eric Voegelin's and Woodrow Wilson's philosophical and political treatment of …
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President Joseph R. Biden's Afghanistan Withdrawal Rhetoric: Scapegoating, American Exceptionalism, and Moral Injury
… the United States constructs an identity for the American “people” through rhetorical processes that can influence unity and division. In this project, I answer, “How and why did President Joseph R. Biden attempt to unify the American “people” through scapegoating the Afghan people during the …
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Deconstruction of American Exceptionalism in the Collaborative Works of John Adams and Peter Sellars
… that stigmatization, I have chosen two seminal American operas by composer John Adams—1987's <i>Nixon in China</i> and 2005's <i>Doctor Atomic</i>—and examined their presentation and deconstruction of the popular ideology of American Exceptionalism. These two operas have much in common: both …
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Riders on the Storm: American Exceptionalism, Masculinity, and Frontierism in the 28th Division “Over There,” 1917-18
… Hancock’s insufficiencies were by-products of American military doctrine of the time being dominated by General John Pershing’s ideas of open warfare, aspects of American exceptionalism, and tactics of rifleman adaptability that were seen on past frontiers. Upon arrival in France, the …
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The Colonial Logics of Exceptionalism: Imperial Feminism in an American and Canadian Case Study
… explores the political rhetoric of Western exceptionalism in both the United States and Canada through two contemporary case studies. The first case study explores the American occupation of Afghanistan and rhetoric that painted this occupation as a mission of liberation for Afghan women. …
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"The fullest possible account": Knowledge and Exceptionalism in Post-9/11 Literature
… the intertwined histories of science and American exceptionalism, contending that the September 11th attacks undermine the nation's sense of its scientific superiority and result in the creation of a body of 21st-century literature that explores the country's position as a technological …
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A More Virtuous Empire: The Ideology of Manifest Destiny in American Literature and Film
… Destiny and the effects of its transmission into American literature and film. I argue that though eruptions of Manifest Destiny repeat the idea of American exceptionalism, the semi-autonomous nature of the work of art works against the grain of these eruptions to show they are also symptomatic of …
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Species Panic: Interspecies Erotics in Post-1900 American Literature
… is under threat. In this project’s post-1900 American literary archive, species panic is often provoked by nonhuman eros, which provokes and threatens the fantasy of human exceptionalism. Theoretically, this project yokes animal studies and posthumanism (Donna Haraway, Dominic Pettman, Kathy …
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From Native to Nation: Copway’s American Indian Newspaper and Formation of American Nationalism
… argues that the publication of Copway’s American Indian (1851) challenges accepted representations of nineteenth-century American Native peoples by countering popular stereotypes. Interrogating a multiplicity of cultural artifacts at the moment of their meeting and investigating the …
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The Communal "I": Exclusion and Belonging in American Autobiography
<p>The Communal “I” in American autobiography emerges as an aesthetic response to the pressure of using “the master’s tools” to write from a community on the margins to disclose identity in the conflicts of exclusion and belonging. In this case “the master’s tools” to refer to several distinct …
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Children of men: the American jeremiad in twentieth and twenty-first century science fiction and film
… resilient influence of the jeremiad, an early American religious and literary mode, on contemporary American literature and culture. It argues that the polemical, dystopian, and apocalyptic narratives so abundant in twentieth-century literature and film participate in an ingrained literary …
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Picturing the American story: John Steuart Curry’s limited editions club illustrations and the Regionalist vision in American literature
… examines the late-career illustrative works of American Regionalist painter John Steuart Curry (1897–1946), focusing specifically on his commissions for the Limited Editions Club, a subscription book company, between 1940 and 1946. While Curry is most often celebrated for his painted depictions …
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Sermons in Stones: Mormon Chosenness and the Politics of Land in the American West
… era informs symbolic labor that reaffirms Mormon exceptionalism. Three case studies illustrate the cycle in action: Brigham Young’s integration of labor and theology, Walter Cottam’s unsuccessful push for ecological restoration, and the Sagebrush Rebellion’s successful reframing of anti-federal …
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Of Minutemen and Boomers: Fallout and Doing History in Imagined Space
… 23, 2077, the world as known to the average American ends abruptly with the onset of the Great War, transforming the United States into a nuclear wasteland and setting the stage for the Fallout series of role-playing video games by Interplay Entertainment and Bethesda Softworks. Set in a …
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American Apotheosis: Ceramics and the Production of National Identity in Post-Revolutionary New York City
… present with questions about the genealogy of American national identities in a time when they are fraught, exclusionary, and often dangerous. It examines ceramic tablewares and teawares from the post-Revolutionary War period in New York City, seeking to uncover the identities that were formed …
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The archive on the hill : the Presidential Library and the architecture of American history
… define publics through the transformation of American history into images and ideas. The presidential library is a uniquely American institution where national history plays out in a mitigated exchange between the representation of memory and the record of political action. On the one hand, …
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