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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"America--History"”.
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Gay Comics and Queer Male Comics in America: History, Conventions and Challenges
This thesis is focused on American gay male comics and queer alternative comics. I argue that the field of gay male comics' production is dominated by two key genres: gay porno comics and gay ghetto comics. The conventions and characteristics of these genres help to construct and reinforce a …
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Collective Action of the American State, Collective Action of the American Masses
… Action through the Eyes of Revolutionary America Collective Action of the American State, Collective Action of the American Masses in the 21st Century Applications of New Knowledge: Student-Centered Resources Focusing on Collective Action in America History
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Educating the Army's Jedi
… refinement in the first ten years of its history. The other line of inquiry in the dissertation is the development, introduction and refinement of the concept of operational art and the operational level of war into U.S. Army doctrine, primarily in the 1982, 1986 and 1993 versions of Field …
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Boxing the Boundaries: Prize Fighting, Masculinities, and Shifting Social and Cultural Boundaries in the United State, 1882-1913
… the ways in which power was distributed in American society. Accordingly, my dissertation examines how cultural autonomy affected the socially organized forms of power. As an intersectional study of prize fighting, my dissertation also criticizes the reductionist, structuralist, and binary …
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Enterprising Women and Village Banking in Urban Paraguay: Current impacts and future implications for social change
This thesis examines Fundación Paraguaya's Comité de Mujeres Emprendedoras (village banking) program and analyzes its potential as a tool for poverty alleviation, female empowerment and social change in Paraguay. The data for this thesis was collected over a three month period in 2007, and is based …
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The divergence of Donald McGavran's church growth movement in North America, 1955-2000
… Growth Movement (CGM) has occurred in North America from 1955 to 2000. As a result of this divergence the force of the movement has weakened, because the focus of the movement has shifted. Chapter 2 details the historical development of the Church Growth Movement in North America. Significant …
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Para los hijos y nuestro futuro: Reconceptualizing Costa Rican identity through the Civil War
<p>After the 1948 Civil War, Costa Rican people redefined their society and democracy, and created a nation that, unlike many others in the region, was able to withstand pressures toward corruption and violence. By examining personal narratives, this study observes how various groups such as Costa …
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The Ever Present Past: Thoreau's Perception and Use of History in Walden
… perspective and to examine how his perception of history is reflected in his major work <strong>Walden.</strong> Regarding the scope of the project, three dimensions of Thoreau's perception and use of history were treated: his belief in a historical continuity of experience; his belief in …
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The American phantasmagoria: The rise of spiritualism in nineteenth-century America
… century which gained popularity within America. This thesis aims to widen the scope of spiritualism’s historiography by exploring spiritualists’ lives to reveal a more complex answer to why this movement gained a large following in antebellum America. The stories of spiritualists show …
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Grant's Third Charge : a Tale of Scapegoating, Atonement, and Affirmation During the Era of Reconstruction (1863-1877)
… as his work to advance civil rights for African Americans in the Jim Crow South, a more moral and humane American Indian policy, and affirmative action for American Jews in a post-Civil War America. All told, this dissertation by design will help us better understand the maligned enigma that is …
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An analysis of the ministry of Charles H. Spurgeon, with implications for the modern Church Growth Movement
… and ministry. This chapter also includes a brief history of the CGM and addresses various criticisms raised within the modern CGM. Attention is given to the reasons why an analysis of Spurgeon's ministry offers constructive implications for the modern CGM. Chapter 2 examines Spurgeon's commitment …
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"We will be prepared" : scouting and civil defense in the early Cold War, 1949-1963
… children and young adults as essential to American civil defense. Youth-oriented, voluntary organizations, including the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) and the Girl Scouts of the United States of America (GSUSA), assisted the federal civil defense programs by promoting civil defense messages …