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Showing 1 to 20 of 192 for “"Affair"”.
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The Affair or the State: Intellectuals, the Press, and the Dreyfus Affair
… thinking of the Dreyfus case. To imagine the Affair without words such as 'capitalism', 'aristocracy', 'nationality', 'crisis', or 'ideology', is not hard, it is impossible.
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Migraine Headache: A family affair.
Chronic illness in a family impacts each individual member of the family. However, the impact may vary from member to member, with each members reactions affecting the others. The primary purpose of this study was to explore the impact of migraine headaches on the male partner of the female …
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Prohibition Era Rochester: A Family Affair
This project researched the largely overlooked historical topic of Rochester, NY during the Prohibition Era. It draws upon a wide variety of sources, including oral history from the author’s family who were directly involved in the illegal sale of alcohol in Rochester. These stories offer unique …
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The Thomas Becket affair: an emotional journey
The dispute between Thomas Becket and Henry II in the mid-twelfth century is one of the seminal events in English medieval history. The struggle between the king and the archbishop is well-known, but the reasons and driving forces behind the struggle are less clear. Although widely accepted as a …
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From Aesthetics to Politics in the Dreyfus Affair
… engagement of French writers in the Dreyfus Affair between 1897 and 1900. I argue that aesthetics has been undervalued by past scholarship on this question, and analyze the engagement of four very different writers - Emile Zola, Ferdinand Brunetière, Henry Céard and Saint-Georges de Bouhélier …
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Mathematics Engagement in Middle School: It's a Family Affair
<p>The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore ways African American families, with middle school students, view learning mathematics and engagement within a theme school environment. The participants in this study included nine parents and ten students at an urban Title I theme school. …
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A family affair: the effects of familial relations on offender recidivism
<p>Prisoner recidivism has and continues to impact families and communities. Traditional methods aimed at reducing this phenomenon have had little success in curtailing this problem. One obvious but often overlooked tool that may play a significant role in dealing with this issue is the importance …
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A family affair: African immigrant families conceptualizing and navigating college choice
The purpose of this study was to understand the postsecondary aspirations, expectations, and access strategies of sub-Saharan African immigrant families in the United States. This study generates knowledge around how 1.5- and second-generation African immigrant college going students and their …
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A Family Affair: The Pre-Kansas Saga of James Henry Lane
… Jim Lane before Kansas was essentially a family affair. Enablers so far largely neglected by historians inspired and helped him along the way.</p>
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"The Indignation of Freedom-Loving People": Emotion, Politics, and the Brooks-Sumner Affair
<p>This thesis blends emotions history and political history by exploring the role of indignation in antebellum American politics, focusing on the northern reaction to the May 1856 caning of Charles Sumner. The study begins by situating indignation in its nineteenth-century cultural context. A …
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The Carrizal Affair: a Study of United States Diplomatic Relations With Mexico, 1916
… maneuvering that followed the Carrizal Affair. Military matters, although extremely important, are mentioned only when they have a direct bearing on the diplomatic affairs being discussed. The primary source material has been the State Department Papers from the National Archives, …
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Framing public health disaster : Chinese newspaper coverage of the contaminated milk powder affair
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This study explores how the news environment might affect the news framing of public health disasters. Specifically, it examines the coverage of the 2008 Chinese milk disaster in four different types of Chinese newspapers. The …
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An Unfortunate Affair: The Battle of Brier Creek and the Aftermath in Georgia
<p>The Battle of Brier Creek on March 3, 1779 has been overlooked for many years by historians of the American War of Independence in Georgia. Because it was so brief and did not include massive field armies, the importance of the battle has been ignored. This is unfortunate as the Battle of Brier …
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The ends of love : vice and charity in The End of the Affair.
The End of the Affair offers a compelling portrait of the two possible ends of natural love. Sarah Miles and Maurice Bendrix are confronted with the choice to let their natural love be subsumed into the love of God, transformed by its inherent capacity to conduit divine love, or else to degrade …
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Memory struggles: Narrating and commemorating the Aum Affair in contemporary Japan, 1994-2015
… the interpretation and commemoration of the Aum Affair. The Aum Affair was a series of crimes committed by new religious movement Aum Shinrikyō between 1988 and 1995, which culminated in the gassing of the Tokyo subway system using sarin in March 1995. The Tokyo attack was the largest act of …
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