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Showing 1 to 20 of 73 for “"Aliens"”.
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Aliens inferred
The discovery of extraterrestrial (ET) life would be a revelation of scientific and cultural magnitude that rivals Darwin's theory of evolution and Copernicus's hypothesis that the Earth revolves around the Sun. But while conjecture about the existence of ET life predates industrialism, it is only …
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Exploding Aliens and Other Offspring
<p>The goal of <em>Exploding Aliens and Other Offspring</em> is to capture my specific surrealist world point of view provided by the closed-knit crazy community I grew up in alongside my love for cartoonish melodrama. The collection progresses in order of images and the evolution of such themes as …
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Aliens en route : European transmigration through Britain, 1836-1914
… to the companies involved in transporting the aliens, and to the migrants themselves.By exploring these issues this thesis has made a significant contribution to migrant and maritime historiography in the following ways. First, it has broadened the chronological and geographical focus of …
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From aliens to alienation : cinematic interpretations of the punk culture.
… director Penelope Spheeris shows the punks as aliens to the audience. The image portrayed is negative and the audience is never allowed to empathize with those individuals involved in the punk culture. The third chapter analzes Repo Man. Here, director Alex Cox, show the punks as alienated …
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Illegal aliens out! : making sociological sense of the new restrictionist frame
In a 2005 op-ed piece, Wall St. Journal columnist Peggy Noonan queried, "What does it mean that your first act on entering a country is breaking its laws?" Unauthorized noncitizen populations have increased rapidly, from 3 million in 1990 to over 11 million in 2009. In the first decade of the …
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Aliens, bodies and conspiracies: Regimes of truth in The X-files
The X-Files is a television program that first screened on Australian television in 1993. This thesis will investigate the role of The X-Files as a cultural text. The X-Files is a significant program, and has contributed to a shift in the way in which television texts represent ideas about society, …
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The Predicament of Illegality: Undocumented Aliens in Contemporary American Immigration Fiction
… examines representations of undocumented aliens and explores the issue of illegality in contemporary American immigration fiction. It takes as a fundamental premise that in immigration, status matters. The importance of immigration status in the "real world" is evident not only in ongoing …
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“HERE THEY ARE IN THE LOWEST STATE OF SOCIAL GRADATION —ALIENS—POLITICAL—MORAL—SOCIAL ALIENS, STRANGERS, THOUGH NATIVES”: REMOVAL AND COLONIZATION IN THE OLD NORTHWEST, 1815-1870
… successfully constructed them as dangerous aliens within the nation that validated their exclusion. In their resistance African Americans, Native Americans, and their allies adapted, fled, petitioned, ridiculed, and negotiated with colonizationist endeavors to maintain residence in the …
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Aliens, dreams and strange machines: an investigation into thought, interpretation and rationality
Interpretationism about the mind claims that we can gain a philosophical understanding of the nature of thought by considering how we interpret the thoughts of others. My thesis aims to develop a version of this theory which is plausible in the sense that: (1) it has the potential to retain certain …
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Rock, Paper, Aliens: Effects of Labels and Iconicity on Non-Linguistic Cognition
Linguistic labels are not merely passive tags. Instead, emerging evidence suggests that they play an active role in linguistic processing and even aspects of non-linguistic cognition. Labels have been found to augment cognitive functions such as categorisation, and visual discrimination and …
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Manpower Impact and Problems of Mexican Illegal Aliens in an Urban Labor Market
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T23:41:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7726643.pdf: 11232803 bytes, checksum: 77b41ce20351279df1389ba7598c8a96 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1977
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Aliens and atheists: The Plurality of Worlds and Natural Theology in Seventeenth-Century England.
The plurality of worlds has had a long history in England, which has not gone unnoticed by scholars. Historians have tended to view this English pluralist tradition as similar to those found on the continent, and in doing so have failed to fully understand the religious significance that the …
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Aliens Found in Waiting: Women of the Ku Klux Klan in Suburban Chicago, 1870-1930
<p>"Aliens Found in Waiting" is a case study of the Walosas Club chapter of the Women of the Ku Klux Klan in the suburban Chicago community of Oak Park, Illinois. Through the use of a rare manuscript collection this study provides a glimpse into the daily lives of suburban Klanswomen grappling with …
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Searching for SETI: The Social Construction of Aliens and the Quest for a Technological Mythos
This dissertation uses Actor Network Theory (ANT) and Stark and Bainbridge's rational choice theory of religion to analyze an established but controversial branch of science and technology, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). Of particular interest are the cultural, and sometimes …
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The Mexican Power to Expel Aliens in Light of Its International Limitations and the Dimensional Theory of Law : with Some Comparative References to U.S. Immigration Law)
The power to expel aliens is one of the two fundamental pillars of immigration law. To be sure, the other is the power of the host State to admit them into its territory. The expulsion of aliens might inflict an enormous harm not only upon them but also upon other persons, e.g., their family …
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A Comparative Study of the Admission, Exclusion, and Deportation of Aliens in the United States and the Philippines
Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-12T22:33:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 7114727.PDF: 15690210 bytes, checksum: a72b97fc4a9f85de2f8dcf90a75c08b5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1970
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