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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Anti-war"”.
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Identity, Agency, and Emotion: Political Activism Among Anti-War Military Veterans
… study of members of Iraq Veterans Against the War explores how identity, institutional context and affiliation, emotions, and the notion of healing come together in the experience of activism. Using an interpretive approach, I employ in-depth interviews and observation derived primarily from …
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Matriarchal myth-making for a postpatriarchal age: The anti-war writing of Virginia Woolf and Hilda Doolittle
… and ideological upheaval when the world wars, lesbian and gay, women's and psychoanalytic movements of their time challenged traditional assumptions about human nature and cultural values. Familiar with influential intellectual circles, both Woolf and H. D. helped develop the challenges …
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Writing Against The War Machine: Wiflred Owen's Poetic Challenge to World War I Pro-War Rhetoric
… Owen, a soldier-poet who fought in World War I, is often labeled an anti-war poet, with some claiming that he was against the war in its entirety. This thesis explores the opinion that Owen is not an anti-war poet but rather that he wrote against anti-pro-war rhetoric. This includes all …
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The Iraq crisis of 2003 and press-state relations :an analysis of press coverage in Finland, Ireland and the UK
… different policies with regard to Iraq: Finland (anti-war), Ireland (neutral) and the UK (pro-war). The study employs both quantitative and qualitative content analysis in order to determine the range of sources, selection of topics and the tone of the press coverage of the Iraq crisis and …
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Influences of the selective services system on sophomore and senior college men
… which college men have joined or participated in anti-war organizations or activities to protest the methods of selecting men for military service via the Selective Service System.The study was conducted at a medium-sized state college in the northern midwestern United States and included 350 …
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A survey of American songs of peace from the colonial era to the present
… evolution and historical development of American anti-war and peace songs. Researching the study has been an adventure into an unknown aspect of American history. No published account of a similar or related study was discovered. The Library of Congress has no catalogue classification for pacifist …
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Insiders and Outsiders: Global Social Movements, Party Politics, and Democracy in Europe and North America
… dynamics in insider and outsider activism in the anti-war movement: insider-outsider cooperation and conflict in protest coalitions; transnational protest events' success in uniting insiders and outsiders; and coupling of insider and outsider tactics such as protesting and voting. Insider-outsider …
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FBI Investigations into the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left
… examined are the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement. Some attention is devoted to the efforts of the counterintelligence program to deter these organizations from accomplishing their goals.</p>
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"Shut It Down, Open It Up": A History of the New Left at the University Of Virginia, Charlottesville
… of the southern desegregation, civil rights, and anti-war struggles. It traces the evolution of social activism in the city and the university from the late 1950s through the early 1970s and demonstrates how local activists and issues interacted with regional, national, and global events during …
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Expanded Cinema and War; Trauma in Hyper-Documented Age
… to conventional narratives surrounding war-torn sites of conflict, this thesis examines a series of experimental animation and kinetic and nonlinear story-driven artworks to develop an alternative grammar for a possible visual, narrative, and technical storytelling style for a future …
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The Powers of Perception: An Intimate Connection with Elizabeth Dilling.
… Eloise Kirkpatrick Dilling Stokes, an American anti-war writer of the 1930s who attempted to get rid of the possible threat of Communism from spreading to the United States. Outside of her written works, she knew that it was important to introduce herself to persons of great importance to …
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A republican dove : George Aiken in the Johnson years, 1964-1968
This study is an examination of the Vietnam War dissent offered by Republican Senator George Aiken of Vermont during the years of the Lyndon Johnson Presidency. Emphasis is placed on analyzing the level of influence Aiken's criticisms had on American policy in Vietnam. Aiken's influence on his …
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El movimiento and Vietnam : the causes and consequences of Chicano protest of the Vietnam War.
… Movement was its opposition to the Vietnam War. This thesis looks at the rise and fall of the Chicano Movement and how the Vietnam War played a part in that demise. First, the paper looks at the historic plight of Mexican-Americans, particularly in Texas. Next, the thesis documents the rise …
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The White Distance: a novel.
… in Australia and Antarctica at the time of World War I. The story focuses on two lovers, Dora and Daniel, who are part of Australia’s vigorous anti-war movement. Each of the lovers comes to the movement for different reasons. Dora’s beloved brother has been killed in France; Daniel is a printer …
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Myths of War: Constructing and Challenging Literary Myths of War in Germany, 1914-1930
… of literature in interpreting the First World War in Germany from 1914 to 1930 and the myths of war that were manifested within and created by such narratives of war. Beginning with an exploration of 'myth' and its relationship to the Great War, it progresses to a consideration of the role of …
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The Sheffield peace movement 1934-1940.
… anniversary of the outbreak of the Great War to the disestablishment and reformation of the Sheffield Trades and Labour Council in 1940 as a result of its support for the anti-war line taken by the Communist Party of Great Britain. The peace movement is treated holistically. Political, …
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The mediation in late twentieth-century English theatres of selected ancient Greek tragedy texts and themes concerned with women and power
… women and sex. Chapter 5 considers the use of Antigone in the field of drama in education, and Chapter 6, the part women theatre practitioners have played in translating Greek drama into English theatres, with special reference to two productions of 'anti-war' plays: the Royal National …
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Responding to children affected by armed conflict: A case study of Save the Children Fund (1919-1999).
… history of SCF, and the associated histories of war and peace, human rights and NGO-state relations. These guiding principles are identified as universalism, utilitarianism and optimistic pacificism. They can be understood as a paradigm to which the social community which made up the founding …
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Privileged Resistance: Prisoners of Conscience in the United States, 1980-2013
<p>This dissertation tells the story of modern anti-war prisoners of conscience in the United States-people who are incarcerated for six months or more as a result of nonviolent resistance. It explores how they intentionally use and learn about their own privilege in solidarity actions that land …
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The Protester as Producer: Militant Action and the U.S. Radical Media
… and public discourse in the context of the U.S. war in Vietnam and its concurrent racial crises. The histories I have unearthed through archival research transform our understanding of protest in the Vietnam era and beyond, revising conventional histories of militancy in this period and instead …
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