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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Abdication"”.
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The Social Reproduction of Education Inequality: Still Separate Still Unequal
… If the students view this reliance as an abdication of authority, this may be an important factor in student achievement.</p>
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"Your Most Affectionate Good Sister": Rhetoric, Diplomacy and Self-Presentation in the Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots
… networks both during her reign and after her abdication. The letters examined in this thesis come from both published collections of Mary's letters from the nineteenth century and from original transcriptions of archival material of letters than have not been previously published or examined.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Ever-Evolving Art of Self-Reliant Reading
… Journals VII: 521), which is the gradual abdication of self-doubt, and that this secret is manifest in passages that describe the act of reading throughout Emerson's Essays. However, that secret--like many of Emerson's concepts--evolves over his career and takes on new shades of meaning, …
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“Quisiera ver los que suelen componer estos libros de pastores donde todo es primavera”: campo literario y literatura del campo en España y la América colonial (1516-1808)
… throne of Charles I in 1516 until the infamous abdication of Charles IV in 1808. My analysis of hegemonic intellectual production shows how the bureaucracy conceived the displacement and concealment of the working class and populations of color. My research offers a comprehensive grasp of the …
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Constraints on the mother foundresses : contrasts in Anglican and Roman Catholic religious headship in Victorian England
… but none so severe as to bring about the abdication of the foundresses. And, paradoxically, if obstacles beset the foundresses in establishing their works at home, abroad they were welcomed by diocesans. Hence, their work expanded around the world: throughout the British Empire amongst the …
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Accessibility of Legal Services in the United States: Lawyer Regulation by Whom, to What End?
… or transparency and in the wake of near total abdication by state authorities who, on paper, actually have regulatory power. The result? As regards “accessible and affordable civil justice,” the World Justice Project Rule of Law Index ranks the US 96th of 113 countries. Countries like …
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Assessing the Success of Dual Use Programs: The Case of DARPA's Relationship with SEMATECH—Quiet Contributions to Success, Silenced Partner, or Both
… associated with the U.S. government's abdication of direction setting prerogatives, DARPA still managed to make contributions that were necessary to the success of SEMATECH's commercial and competitive objectives. Conclusions include indications that policy structured using SEMATECH as …
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Twitter and the body parodic : global acts of re-creation and recreation
… contract, a contract shaped by user demands, the abdication of traditional authorities, and Twitter's own interests. This social contract has uneven globality-as chapter 6, Of Policyness and Global Polysemy, shows through examining Twitter's parody policy across languages. Finally, in the …
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Psychological aspects of risk and safety management in the UK offshore oil and gas industry.
… visiting the worksite; Work group participation; Abdication of responsibility for subordinates safety; Pressure to get the job done: focus on production; Safety communication. The third study used a self-completion questionnaire method in an attempt to replicate the above results. The combined …
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Brunei's political development and the formation of Malaysia : 1961-1967
… in May 1961 by Tunku Abdul Rahman up to the abdication of Sultan Sir Omar Ali Saifuddien III in 1967. As background, the thesis also examines the proclamation of the Brunei Constitution in 1959. However, the implementation of the Constitution did not give sufficient power for the people to …
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Of (un)Sound Mind: Louis-Ferdinand Céline and the Phenomenology of Reading and Perception
… fact bolstered, however grotesquely? Far from an abdication of ethical responsibility, an in-depth examination of such an appeal, however unsavoury, and how it operates, has implications for how we think about contemporary manifestations of hatred and its rhetoric. Throughout the thesis, I attend …