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Showing 1 to 20 of 517 for “"American society"”.
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Winged Women: Stewardesses, Sexism, and American Society
… 1950 and 1980 reflected a microcosm of the American feminist movement. Subjected to what feminist theorist Laura Mulvey called “the male gaze,” in which women are viewed as objects who exist for the viewer’s pleasure, they were selected for their youth and beauty and trained to serve. …
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Artificial Intelligence: The Impact it has on American Society
… Intelligence (AI) influences and impacts on society in the United States. It focuses on the challenges and opportunities of AI, the current state of AI, where AI may advance to in the future, how far AI will go and the way people view it, the positive impact of AI on society, and the …
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Cultivating the common good : civic life and religious contexts in American society.
… religion and civic life in the United States. Americans who attend religious services more frequently, who pray more often, and who are more involved in the life of a congregation tend to be more civically engaged than their non-religious counterparts. However, the effects that religion has on …
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Program Administrators' Perceptions of the American Society of Radiologic Technologists' Sponsored Baccalaureate Curriculum
… programs to determine the level at which the American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) proposed baccalaureate curriculum was currently employed and to ascertain program administrators' perceptions of the extent to which each content area should be emphasized in the program of study. …
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Marching Upward: The Role of the Military in Social Stratification and Mobility in American Society
… as well as between Anglos and African Americans. Findings indicate that men serving in the military prior to Vietnam were from somewhat higher socio-economic and educational backgrounds. The background characteristics of Anglo veterans of Vietnam and the AVF were homogenous to their …
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'American Youth' and 'Teenagers': A Sociological Analysis of Two Images of the Adolescent in American Society
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From slavery to equal protection: the misinterpretation of the fourteenth amendment and its lasting effects on American society
… reference landmark Supreme Court cases affecting American society with their rulings based on the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Finally, I provide an alternative interpretation to the understanding of the Fourteenth Amendment. In addition, I make available various options …
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Us vs Them: A Critical Analysis of American Society in the Wake of 9/11 As Seen Through Muslim-American Literature
This essay explores the dominant rhetoric of American society in the wake of 9/11 as seen through fictional narratives by Muslim-American writers, it also delves into how that rhetoric was shaped by politicians and the media. The novels employed in this essay are The Reluctant Fundamentalist by …
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Demographic Characteristics and Academic Measures as Predictors of Success on the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) Medical Technologist Certification Examination
… measures as predictors of success for the American Society for Clinical Pathology Board of Registry Medical Technologist Certification Examination (Certification Examination) Total Score and six Subscores and to find predictive models with relevance to an ethnically and racially-diverse …
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“NATIVE AMERICAN FOLK SONG SUITE”: A STUDY OF TRADITIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN MELODIES, THE ROLE OF MUSIC IN NATIVE AMERICAN SOCIETY, AND ITS TRANSLATION TO THE MODERN WIND ENSEMBLE
<p>Music holds a sacred place for the many Native American tribes of the United States. Over the past 150 years, ethnomusicologists Dr. Theodore Baker (1851-1934), Dr. Frances Densmore (1867-1957), and John Donald Robb (1892-1989) have preserved these songs by sitting down with indigenous Native …
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The Role of Leisure in the Reproduction of Race and Ethnicity Among Korean Americans
Korean Americans developed three different types of racialized ethnic identities: (a) diasporic ethnic identity---developed beyond the confines of a nation state and intermixed with assigned racial identity; (b) ethnic American identity---developed in reference to the American society and combined …
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The Evolving American Landscape in Edgar Lee Masters's [Sic] Spoon River Anthology
… of two myths that have powerfully shaped American society: the Garden and the Wasteland. A careful reading on the Spoon River Anthology informed by secondary texts on Masters' writing and others that discuss the mythic underpinnings of American society shows that Masters achieves a complex …
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American Arctic Exploration: A Social and Cultural History, 1890-1930
The Arctic has long held power over the American imagination as a place of otherworldly beauty, life-threatening elements, and dangerous wildlife. Nearing the end of the nineteenth century, in a time of great anxiety about the direction of American society, the region took on new significance. As a …
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There's a Place for Us: How Ethnic Identities Are Revealed in Ethnic-Specific Organizations
… organizations have long been features of American society. Historically, they have provided ethnic actors with</p> <p>a means of preserving culture and history. They have also been sites where collective interests are pursued. In this dissertation I study two ethnic-specific organizations. …
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Constituting the un-American atheist: Eisenhower's theistnormativity and the negation of American atheists
… prophetic dualism to construct an image of the American people. In doing so he excluded atheists from his description of the American citizenry. In order to understand how atheists fit into the national imagination inspired by President Eisenhower, this thesis explores how Eisenhower talked …
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"""A sturdy native plant"": The American Catholic education system, the American Catholic philosophy of education, and American Catholic identity, 1919-1972"
For much of its existence, the American Catholic Church labored against native Protestant beliefs that its Roman connections hampered Catholic assimilation into American life. Millions of ethnic Catholics lived in a culture dominated by white, Anglo-Saxon Protestants who expected conformity to …
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"What's the matter with bigamy?" : the American family in the wartime comedies of Preston Sturges.
… that movies projected a wholesome image of American society. The purpose of this study was to explore the reflection of America during World War II as a troubled and disordered society through the unconventional depictions of the American family in five Sturges films: The Great McGinty …
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Rapitalism
… hip hop subculture is oppositional to mainstream American society and its ideals. Toward that end, I examine the structure of the hip hop industry and its subculture. While the hip hop subculture in America consistently has projected images of rebellion and resistance to many of the mores, …
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