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Showing 1 to 20 of 169 for “"1950's"”.
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The expansion of television in the 1950's and 1960's: institutions, society and culture.
… the expansion of British television in the 1950s and 1960s and its relationship to social and cultural change. During this period, television developed into an industry and mass medium and this coincided with a cultural shift from a seemingly consensual society of post-war austerity to a …
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The problem with harmony : constructs of proportionality, music and the Modulor in the 1950's
Throughout the late 1940's and early 1950's the re-popularization of the relationship between architecture and music took on several forms of expression. This relationship was to be verified through the notion of harmony that would in turn reflect not only a resurfacing of Humanist ideals and …
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The Beat Avant-Garde, The 1950's, and the Popularizing of Zen Buddhism in the United States
… would be continuous over the remainder of the 1950's, one almost seeming to imply or be synonymous with the other. This dissertation looks at how these writers use aspects of Zen philosophy and aesthetics as avant-garde discourse to position themselves as radical other in relation to the …
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Making art modern : the first decade of Vie des arts magazine and its contribution to the discourse on the visual arts in Quebec during the 1950's and 1960's
This study attempts, from a socio-historical perspective, to assess the contribution of Quebec's longest-running art periodical, Vie des Arts, to the discourse surrounding the visual arts in Quebec. The period under analysis, from 1956 to 1966, signaled the completion of Quebec's accession to …
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Reflections of Fear: Mass Hysteria in Cold War Cinema 1946-1991
… in the movies of the time, starting in the 1950’s with the fear of Communism right to the 1980’s with the fear of World War III and a post-apocalyptic world. This thesis will look at how these fears were reflected in the movies that were being produced. I will first look at the 1950’s with …
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NAVSPASUR sensor performance study
… (NAVSPASUR) has been in existence since the late 1950's. Operating with a formidable array of three large transmitters and six receiving stations, the command has carried out the mission of surveilling and cataloging a
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El Ritmo del Westside: Exploring the Musical Landscape of San Antonio’s Historic Westside
… diverse musical landscape throughout the 1950’s and 1960’s, demonstrating the results of cross-cultural exchanges reflected in music. From Conjunto and Ranchera music, to R&B and Jazz, a wide range of music genres was celebrated in the historic westside, eventually shaping the birth of the …
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Religious language: Its role in nativizing Caribbean English
… with their genesis. With the emergence in the 1950's of generative linguistics, the focus of language study gradually shifted to more formal, rule-based descriptions. Subsequently, pidginization/creolization became the framework from which CE would be studied.
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Subterranean Prose : The Thematic Similarity in the Novels of Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Kenneth Patchen
… into the historical events of the 1940's and 1950's and into the initial underground works of the more prominent Subterranean writers, Jack Kerouac, Henry Miller, William S. Burroughs, and Kenneth Patchen. Findings. The restrictive literary and cultural climate of the time encouraged a …
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Women in twentieth century South African politics : the Federation of South African Women, its roots, growth and decline
… to white supremacist rule in South Africa, the 1950's stand out as a period of intensive legal resistance by black political bodies on an unprecedented mass scale. Undoubtedly, for all its weaknesses and difficulties, the Congress Alliance, with the African National Congress its senior partner, …
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Internal Control in Automated Data Processing
… enterprise to satisfy this need. In the early 1950's, American business experienced the coming of the "Electronic Age" - a revolution of data-processing equipment. The need for applying internal controls to this new system of processing information and keeping records was immediately recognized …
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Spatial and temporal analysis of radial growth in an Appalachian watershed
… showed a sharp decline in growth from late 1950's to late 1960's, which was evidently caused by several years of below average precipitation. The more conservative species, red oak, chestnut oak and red maple, showed a mild response to the drought compared to yellow-poplar which experienced …
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The impact of educational reform on the Wolverhampton School of Art and Design
… the school from the early 1850's to the mid 1950's in four stages of its development: the Government School of Practical Art for Wolverhampton and South Staffordshire, the Municipal School of Art, the Municipal School of Art and Crafts and the early years of the Wolverhampton College of Art. …
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Rich, Attractive People In Attractive Places Doing Attractive Things
… memoir of a dead Manhattan socialite from the 1950's named Sunny Marcus. The novel is Sunny's monologue from Hell and features many well-known figures from American pop culture including Truman Capote, Ernest Hemingway, Clark Gable, William Powell and Babe Paley. It traces the upward trajectory …
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Labor Force Participation of Married Women When Wages and Employment Are Risky: Theory and Estimation
… while the rapid real wage rate growth of the 1950's and 60's virtually disappeared during the 1970's, participation rates grew steadily throughout the period. Thus, the principle source of participation rate growth for married women, as identified by the literature of the last three decades, …
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Seismic behavior of bridge pier column lap splices
… overpasses designed and constructed in the 1950's to 1970's, are now recognized to have substandard design details and to constitute a cause for major concern.
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La "responsabilità sociale" dell'imprenditore negli ambienti cattolici lombardi dagli anni Trenta alla Ricostruzione
… and managers in Italy between the 1930's and the 1950's. The main source of my study is the archive of an organization called Unione Cristiana Imprenditori Dirigenti [Christian Entrepreneurs and Managers Association], which was founded in Milan in 1945 with the pedagogic intent to foster higher …
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A full length play:‘Sounds like Home’ and accompanying critical analysis
… with old ones and rediscovers her love of 1950’s records and nostalgia. Secrets unravel, characters self-destruct and people fall in love. Sounds like Home deals with issues of control, identify, violence and sexuality. The critical analysis of this script is a systematic reflection of the …
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Voice of America And the Civil Rights Movement: A Comparative Critical Discourse Analysis
… the civil rights struggles in America in the 1950's and 1960's. This comparative discourse analysis identifies media frames and answers the question if there was an influence by the State Department in news output that was targeted towards audiences in the Soviet Bloc. The goal is to examine …
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Cross borehole induced polarization to detect subsurface NAPL at the Savannah River Site, South Carolina
… which were periodically released from the 1950's through the 1980's at the A-14. Measurements were made at 1/4 and 1/16 Hertz and the first four odd harmonics. Data inversion for model parameters was performed with the use of proprietary Earth Resources Laboratory inversion codes. Results …
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