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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"20th century america"”.
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A Quest for Spirituality in 20th Century America
… States, in the second part of the twentieth century, is characterized to a great extent by the existence of many new spiritual movements, particularly those of non- western origins. This thesis looks at the relationship between wealth and spirituality in the United States. It argues that the …
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In search of voices: questions, comments, and opinions on architecture and design in late 20th century America
Through a series of examinations of new and renovated buildings, interviews with architects, clients, and planners, and studies of design-related issues at a wide range of scales, the author seeks to develop a critical voice through which to contribute significantly to public and professional …
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A REANALYSIS OF BOAS’S HEBREW IMMIGRANT DATA: COMPARISONS OF FOREIGN-BORN AND US-BORN CHILDREN LIVING IN EARLY 20TH CENTURY AMERICA
… United States might affect the morphology of the American population. Seeing this as a chance to undermine racial typologies, Boas took many measurements of immigrants and their children and concluded that observed changes between foreign-born and US-born children were a result of the move into a …
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A REANALYSIS OF BOAS’S HEBREW IMMIGRANT DATA: COMPARISONS OF FOREIGN-BORN AND US-BORN CHILDREN LIVING IN EARLY 20TH CENTURY AMERICA
… United States might affect the morphology of the American population. Seeing this as a chance to undermine racial typologies, Boas took many measurements of immigrants and their children and concluded that observed changes between foreign-born and US-born children were a result of the move into a …
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The Persistence of Vengeance from Early Modern England to Postmodern New York
… Renaissance and exploitation films of late 20th century America. As in-depth inquiry reveals, numerous ideas and narrative tropes popularized during the Early Modern period are pushed to their logical extremes in these films. The central factor that aligns London during the Renaissance and …
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Dostoyevsky And Wright On Becoming The Underground Man
… of Determinism and Rational Egoism in 19th-century Russia, exposing the flaws of these ideologies through satire. In contrast, Wright recontextualizes this character to address racial injustice in mid-20th-century America, using Fred Daniels' descent into a literal underground to highlight …
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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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Institutes for innovation : the emergence of academic-industrial cooperation and narratives of progress in the early 20th century
Early 20th century America is a critical context for understanding industrial innovation. Departing from a focus on innovation itself as manifested through the creation of new products and consumer opportunities, this project focuses instead on an important infrastructure for innovation - …
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Unity through diversity? Assimilation, multiculturalism and the debate over what it means to be an American.
In late 20th century America, multiculturalism emerged as a doctrine of equal respect and a popular ideological framework for resolving intergroup relations. Despite its dramatic presence, many sociologists conclude that the rather vigorous and often contentious academic inquiries into …
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The Spiritual Curation of American Modernism
… study of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century seekers, they join seances in Vermont farmhouses, attend Theosophical lectures on Karma, get lost in copies of Jnana-Y oga, journey to Buddhist temples in China, and consume spiritual manuals on Mentalphysics. But where do they go after …