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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Afghanistan War"”.
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The Role of Hardiness in Moderating Parenting Stress in Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans
… exposure and parenting stress in veterans of war. Hardiness, a personality variable that describes an individual's sense of commitment, control, and challenge in light of life stress, has been identified as a protective factor that buffers against the development of psychological symptoms in …
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The Effect of Emotionally Arousing Negative Images on Judgments About News Stories
… a story and images about U.S. involvement in the Afghanistan War. Experiment 2 replicated the design with a story and images about African famine relief efforts. Consistent with predictions of the affect heuristic model of judgment formation, the addition of emotionally arousing pictures had an …
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The External Conflict of Modern War Correspondents: Technology's Inevitable Impact on the Extinction of Nostalgic Combat Reporting
Through historical and content analyses of war coverage, this study qualitatively addresses emotional quality, use of sources, and implied use of technology to better understand the tension between Vietnam and Afghanistan war correspondents and their military counterparts. Early American democracy …
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A veteran's voice: diaspora and fractured identity of the returning warrior, a cultural studies critical analysis of the returning vet using autoethnography and interviews
… States has been engaged in two of the longest wars in its history, one located in Afghanistan and the other in Iraq. In the tenth year of conflict, as the Iraq war scales down and the previously ignored Afghanistan war heats up, the United States is ever increasingly being inundated by active …
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Post Traumatic Story Disorder: The Power of Story Telling and Story Hearing to Heal the Invisible Wounds of War
… wounds they suffer, soldiers traumatized by war often experience the debilitating effects of what psychiatrist Jonathan Shay calls moral injury and shrinkage of the social and moral horizon. Shay’s book Achilles in Vietnam argues that soldiers have suffered these moral and social injuries …
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The Growing Threat of Islamic Radicalism in Europe
… radical Islam, such as Wahhabism, and the Soviet-Afghanistan war. European birthrates and immigration rates are also examined. Following this, two chapters examine how the message of radical Islam is able to grow within Europe by developing a profile of many immigrants and their close nit …
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Outside Influence and Troop Deployment
… the media played in troop deployment during the Afghanistan War. I hypothesized that each variable would influence troop deployment. Using a linear regression, I found that there is a positive relationship between the media and troop deployment. I concluded that media coverage did not influence …
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High-Definition Fiber Tracking Study of the Executive Control Network in Blast-Related Traumatic Brain Injury
… brain injury (bTBI) is common in Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans. However, subtle neural alterations and lack of a definitive biomarker impede clinical detection. The current study evaluated structure and functional correlates of executive control network (ECN) white matter tracts in …
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Patterns in the Chaos: News and Nationalism in Afghanistan, America and Pakistan During Wartime, 2010-2012
… ethnocentric and security-focused, absorbed in Afghanistan and Pakistan, two countries where the United States has acute foreign policy interests? This study draws from two bodies of scholarship that are analogous, yet rarely linked together. The first is on hegemony and the U.S. news media's …
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Military Resilience and Transformation: A Narrative Inquiry Highlighting the Challenges Faced by Military Veterans of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan During Their Transition from Combat to Civil Society
… life experienced by veterans of the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. These transitions include reintegration challenges that deployed military members encounter as they blend back into family, community, church and a peacetime setting, from the war-zone to a civilian career and …
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In Memoir and Memory: US Servicewomen Narrating 21st Century Combat
… twenty years after the initial invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003, much work remains to uncover the stories of US servicewomen. As the collection of oral histories continues and in the absence of letters, postcards, and other mail for analysis, their memoirs provide some of the …
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Afghanistan's Needs: Observations of a Soldier
This thesis examines a father¹s experiences in Afghanistan, observations of village life, children at play, the role of women, the Afghan army, and life as a soldier to contrast with dominant images of violence. Using my father¹s personal journal, I will explore his awareness of Afghanistan.
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Alternative vs. Traditional News: A Content Analysis of News Coverage of the 10th Anniversary of Sept. 11
… study. These articles were analyzed by a software program to determine themes and concepts within both data sets. The analysis revealed traditional media was less varied in themes than was alternative media, with the latter clearly showing an effort to be. Traditional media was found to …
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From Afghanistan 1979 to Afghanistan 2001: How Three Current High School History Textbooks Frame the Origins of the “War on Terror” Historical Analysis and Interviews with William Blum, Noam Chomsky and James Loewen
… history textbooks report on the origins of the “war on terror.” The researcher chose one textbook from each of the three leading publishing houses that supply the high school market: Holt McDougal, Prentice Hall, and McGraw-Hill. The scope of the researcher’s inquiry covers the 1979 Soviet …