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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"American System"”.
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Modernism and the American system: standardization, ugliness, literature, 1900-1930
… economic, geographic, and social normalcy, Americans advocated programs—such as eugenics, ugly laws, City Beautiful movements, and the scientific rationalism of Henry Ford and Frederick Winslow Taylor—that systematically excised forms of difference in the modern scene. In an increasingly …
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Using the Finnish Response to Immigrants in Schools in the American System
… of the Finnish education model to the American model. Critics point to Finland’s relatively uniform demographics and political leanings in contrast to the dramatically varied cultures within the United States as a primary concern with comparing the two systems. While these are …
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System And Hierarchy Of Human Rights: Collision Between Freedom Of Religion And Other Human Rights In The Inter-American System [before doctoral defense]
… reveals implicit hierarchies within normative systems. The philosophical foundation for understanding these hierarchies can be traced from Fichte’s transcendental framework and Kant’s moral autonomy through Hegel’s dialectical integration of rights with social institutions, to contemporary …
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The Populist Dilemma: Frank Capra's Increasingly Unresolved Populist Films of the Depression Era
… of the Great Depression, Hollywood's studio system sought to entertain the masses through a standardized process designed to maximize profit. Frank Capra, a director with more freedom than was customary under the classical model, attempted to reassure the American public of the fundamental …
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The Progressive Movement in the United States: 1900 - 1924
One of the advantages of the American system of government is the possibility it affords politicians with divergent views to organize groups or movements which, because of the pertinent issues that they advocate, rapidly rise and come into prominence. These movements win followers by exposing and …
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Examination of Small Business Administration Minority Enterprise Development
… Government is seeking to preserve and expand the American system of free enterprise and competition. Further, they are seeking to promote opportunities for the expression and growth of personal initiative and individual judgment.
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The Supreme Court and labor policy: A rational choice perspective
… the role that the Court plays in the American system of government.
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Intergenerational Family Learning Programs: Stories of Latinx, Immigrant Families and Their Journeys to and through Higher Education
… to understand their experiences navigating the American system of education and their immigrant stories. Their narratives revealed significant details that can serve as integral elements in the development of an intergenerational learning curriculum based on culture, language, and traditions, …
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My own, private Washington
… this new influx of corporate influence in the American system of government will necessitate the investigation of the line of separation between government and private industry. This new entity of quasi-public, quasi-private distinction must instigate a rethinking of representation in terms of …
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Centralized Control of Power System Stabilizers
… nonlinear controller that acts on power system stabilizers, to cooperatively increase the damping of problematic small signal oscillations all over the system. The structure based on decision trees results in a simple, efficient, and dependable methodology that imposes much less …
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A critical analysis of Resolution 1117/19 of the Organization of American States Permanent Council declaring illegitimate the Presidency of Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela
… by the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) on 10 January 2019, in which it declared illegitimate the second presidential term of Nicolás Maduro, the President of Venezuela. The decision of the OAS Permanent Council merits attention as it represents a significant …
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Economic organization of public education in the United States
This dissertation examines the American system of public education by focusing on the institution which surrounds its provision. Structural aspects of State Departments of Education (SDEs) receive the major emphasis in an effort to ascertain the relationship between structural organization and the …
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Democratic Voices Speaking Loudly: Does Public Participation Yield Accountability In Special Purpose Governments?
The American system of governance includes a network of state and local units identified as either general purpose or special purpose governments. The latter are often aligned with, but operate independently of, general purpose governments. Even as these special purpose or special district …
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Rhetoric and reality in American political pluralism : Jackson-Calhoun controversy in perspective
… general, and persistent. A particular political system, such as that of the United States, can be interpreted as a way of coping with recurring problems. Some of the ways a political system deals with problems may be unique, some commonplace. Because it meets its problems in a particular time and …
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An investigation of farm land credit
… national government has been trying to devise an American system of rural credit, and state governments also, have taken up the problem and are suggesting various solutions. This interest in rural credit is due to the fact that the consumers of the country are demanding larger supplies of cheap …
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The impact of public opinion on Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy
… most skilled practitioners of foreign policy in American history. But while he continues to draw � considerable interest from scholars, one facet of his diplomacy continues to be poorly understood: the impact of public opinion. There was a discernable evolution in his relationship with public …
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How Do Teachers Experience Lesson Study?
<p>For the past 20 years, an increasing number of American educators have employed the Japanese model of lesson study as a process to structure their professional development experience. This study endeavored to understand how teachers experienced this relatively new and foreign process in their …
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Critiquing Atomistic Individualism in Law: Rosenzweig's Beloved Soul as Open and Relational Subject
… justice, this project critically rethinks the American system of law by rooting its failures in its philosophical anthropology of atomistic individualism grounded in Locke, and recommends replacing that anthropology with an anthropology inspired by Franz Rosenzweig's The Star of Redemption. In …
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Reforming the Chinese corporate governance system: a comparative law and economic analysis.
… corporate governance structures of the Anglo-American system. However, little comparative empirical work has so far been undertaken to document systemic differences in ownership structures, institutional arrangement and legal rules betweenthe current Chinese corporate governance system and the …
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