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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"An Apology"”.
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The rhetorical dimension of an apology for slavery.
This paper will discuss the theoretical and practical applications of an apology for American slavery. It will focus upon former Representative Tony Hall's 1997 and 2000 request for a congressional apology for slavery. The rhetorical dimensions of the sociopolitical apology in regard to American …
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The Role of Just Desserts, Deterrence, and an Apology in Recommending Punishment for Violations of HIV Non-Disclosure Laws
… Specifically, retribution/just deserts (i.e., an eye for an eye) and deterrence (i.e., general crime prevention) were examined as punishment motivations. Additionally, offender apology was investigated as a potential moderator of the effects of retribution on punishment. A 2 (Just Deserts) X 2 …
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Observer Retaliation: How Apology Components Affect Observing Customers' Negative Word-of-Mouth and Patronage Intentions
An apology is a standard expression often articulated by someone who has wronged another. Prior service failure and recovery literature has explored the impact uncivil acts and subsequent recovery efforts in a service environment, although this research has been focused on the involved customer’s …
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Paving the Road to Peace: Transnational Solidarity for Survivors of Military Sexual Slavery by Imperial Japan through the Observation of the Wednesday Demonstration
… a weekly protest for former comfort women to demand an apology and legal compensation from the Japanese government. This thesis examines the different aspects of the comfort women movement through an analysis of the Wednesday Demonstration and its participants, drawing on participant observation …
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Observations on anencephaly
An apology may seem necessary at the outset for choosing the subject of this thesis from the ever seductive field of the extraordi.nary and the anomalous,when the medical curriculum abounds in 'suggestions of topics which might appear to have a greater claim on the attention, if. only from the …
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Examing the effects of apology and compensation on participants' perceptions of exonerees.
… of social motivation, we investigated whether apology or compensation influenced perceptions of exonerees. Participants read vignettes detailing the release of an exoneree with a video component added in the second study. Study One manipulated exoneree sex as well as the presence of …
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The efficacy of song itself : Seamus Heaney's defence of poetry
… dates back, in English literature, to Sidney's 'An Apology for Poetry' (1595), and the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have seen an increasing number of writers advancing arguments in support of an art form that seems, more than ever, to be under threat. In this thesis, Seamus Heaney's …
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Victim, Aggressor, and Leader: Hierarchy, War Memory, and Foreign Policy of Postwar Japan
<p>How can a country remembered as an aggressor see itself as a victimized country? How do state leaders reconcile tensions between the competing war memories of victimization and aggression with the state's aspirations for international leadership? Analyzing archival documents, history textbooks, …
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Navigating Morality, Agency, and Emotion in Interpersonal Contexts
… interpersonal harms, our practices of blaming, and the process of moral repair. In the first chapter, “Gaslighting and Self-Deception,” I draw a novel connection between the phenomena of gaslighting and self-deception. Specifically, I argue that the victim of gaslighting finds herself in a state …
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Confessions of Journalism's Old Gray Lady: Deceptive Reporting at the New York Times
… one of the most respected periodicals on the planet, The New York Times, ran a front page 14,000 word apology in the Sunday Times, for fallacious reporting conducted by Jayson Blair. In his four year tenure at the Times, Blair falsified sources, lied about conducting interviews, and erroneously …
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Sorry states : apologies in international politics
Are apologies and other acts of contrition necessary to reduce threat and build trust between former adversaries? This has become an accepted conventional wisdom, despite the fact that the effects of contrition have not yet been tested. This dissertation outlines and tests an "apology theory" of …
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Our Identities Are Different: Unpacking the Presence and Absence of Organizational Identity in Corporate Apologies
… statement that they are given. Following Goffman's (1971) classification of accounts and apologies, I argue that public demands for an apology may include an implicit demand for a change in the organizational identity. However, organizational identity and apology literatures do not consider …
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When going to the doctor makes you sick : a case study of the crisis communication strategy of the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada
… as it followed the advice of its lawyers and declined to take responsibility for the patients' exposure or offer an apology. The aim of this study is to illuminate public relations alternatives to apology in instances of corporate transgressions resulting in major harm, to salvage …
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Face to Face: A Reflexive Thematic Analysis of Victim-Offender Mediation
… to the retributive justice system in Canada and the world as a whole. RJ has been appropriated from Indigenous knowledge, which is important to recognize. One example of RJ in our present colonial system is victim offender mediation (VOM), which involves the offender(s) meeting the …
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The Figures of Crisis: The Reflections of the 2008 Financial Crisis as Ideological Discourse of Capitalism
… dissertation, the reflections on the 2008 financial crisis by Henry Paulson, Timothy Geithner and Ben Bernanke are read as literary texts with formal features that perform an ideological function. Their memoirs of the financial crisis contain a set of figures and formal elements that create …
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Anglo-Saxon Poetics in the Linguarum Veterum Septentrionalium Thesaurus Grammatico-Criticus et Archaelogicus of George Hickes: A Translation, Analysis, and Contextualization
… volume represented a major step forward in Anglo-Saxon studies. This study translates the most monumental chapter of the Thesaurus, Chapter 23. Although this chapter \u2015On the Poetic Art of the Anglo-Saxons,\u2016 represents the first sustained attempt to apply a critical and theoretical …
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Gideon's Response and Jotham's Fable: Two Anti-Monarchial Texts in a Pro-Monarchial Book?
… to interpret Gideon's response in Judg 8:23 and Jotham's fable in Judg 9:7-15 within the context of the book of Judges. The book of Judges has recently been seen as an apology for the Davidic monarchy. Studies that have advocated this perspective have focused on the prologue (Judg 1:1-3:6) …
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