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Showing 1 to 20 of 166 for “"Allegiance"”.
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The Fore River strikers : a study in allegiance dynamics
Thesis (M.S.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics and Engineering, 1948.
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The Catholic church in England: the politics of allegiance and identity 1791-1908
… and that by the end of the century their allegiance to the nation was no longer suspect. Visibility was expressed in three forms. New churches were built throughout the country in every county in England and Wales. Many of these locations had no knowledge or experience of Catholicism since …
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“I Pledge Allegiance”: Examining Motivations for Sport Fanship and Fandom in the American South
… motivations individuals have when establishing allegiances for collegiate sports teams. Through a qualitative investigation of 20 interviews of collegiate sports fans, deep meaningful descriptions of motivations were discovered. Qualitative results were then empirically tested through a survey …
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An investigation of priming, self-consciousness, and allegiance in the diegetic camera horror film
… identification, recognition, alignment, and allegiance to the analysis of the focus films, I examine how the viewer’s mind works when watching these films. Another central concern of this thesis is the way in which mediated realism is constructed in the films in order to attempt to make …
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Allegiance in International Armed Conflicts: The Role of the Duty of Fidelity in International Humanitarian Law
… of contemporary states. Known in English as allegiance, the duty of fidelity is a fundamental concept of law that gains notoriety in times of armed conflicts. However, allegiance has been overlooked by scholars of international law as a factor in the design, interpretation and application of …
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'One nation under God': the pledge of allegiance as a ritual practice in American civil religion
… civil religious ritual of saying the Pledge of Allegiance which most American school children routinely perform at the start of each school day. The methodological approach used in this study of the Pledge ritual is a process analysis formulated by Ronald Grimes which combines the concern of …
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A Missiological Study of the Phenomenon of Dual Allegiance in the Seventh-day Adventist Church Among the Yoruba People of Nigeria
… forms, meanings, and ramifications of dual allegiance among Yoruba Seventh-day Adventists, and, second, to propose an Adventist response to dual allegiance among Yoruba Seventh-day Adventists.</p> <p>Method</p> <p>I used a basic or generic qualitative research approach to gather data for …
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WHEN THE MOB BOSS, DRUG LORD, AND MALEVOLENT QUEEN AREN’T ALL BAD: AUDIENCES’ COMPLEX UNDERSTANDING OF AND ALLEGIANCE TO FICTIONAL ANTIHERO CHARACTERS IN TELEVISION AND FILM
… the nature of their (the audience member’s) allegiance, or sympathetic and/or antipathetic stances towards the antihero character. The findings also highlight the dynamic processing style and mixed automatic/conscious processing that was common across participants in all three studies. Three …
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The role of theory and research in clinical practice: an investigation of therapists' perceptions of the scientist-practitioner model according to stage of professional development and professional allegiance
The scientist -·practitioner model has been widely espoused as the optimum model of professional training and practice for clinical psychologists and increasingly, the related professions of counselling psychology and counselling. However, it has also proved to be contentious regarding the extent …
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Rockbridge County unionism and the secession crisis
… influenced many county residents to maintain allegiance to the federal Union, and shows how this allegiance manifested itself. My study also reveals that Unionism in Rockbridge eroded gradually during the secession crisis. Many Unionists ultimately favored allying Virginia with the Confederacy …
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The Last Patron of Tintern Abbey: The Family and Piety of Roger Bigod
… life is first examined with regards to his allegiance to family, and as context for his religious activities. This is followed by the analysis of his various contributions to religious houses; the pattern of donation allocations and recipients that emerges here shows his loyalty to maternal …
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Religious identities and allegiances in the transformation of Ukrainian national consciousness 2013-2018
… Ukrainians are democratizing vis-à-vis religious allegiance. This culminated, in part, in the 2018 decision to combine two of Ukraine's Orthodox Churches into a united Church recognized for the first time by other Orthodox Churches outside of Ukraine. Meanwhile, the Russian Orthodox Church's …
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The letters of Edmund Garrett to his cousin 1896-1898
… good or ill depended, usually, on the political allegiance of the observers and their views of the cause of the conflict of 1899-1902.
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The State Centralization and Control of the Broadcasting Media in Algeria From 1962 to 1982: Application and Shortcomings
… mismanagement in exchange for political allegiance; (d) it controlled the broadcasting profession; and (e) it allowed for a paternalist conception of the audiences.
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Robert Bruce of Kinnaird and the Resilience of Presbyterianism in Scotland: 1610–1637.
… authority, and his ability to command popular allegiance exemplify the Presbyterian claim to spiritual independence in defiance of Erastian impositions.<br/>The analysis demonstrates that, even when driven underground by Episcopal ascendancy, Presbyterianism remained steadfast as both a …
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The Survival of Traditional Healing in a Contemporary Black Community
… of its appeal. The logic of the cohort's allegiance to ethnomedicine challenges the depiction of ethnomedical believers as misguided or unsophisticated. Indeed, characteristics of ethnomedicine and of its healers, if transplanted to hospitals and clinics, may enhance biomedicine's appeal …
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