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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"Assassination"”.
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Assassination: An Assessment
… thesis is an assessment of the possible use of assassination by the United States against those who threaten U.S. interests through acts of terrorism and warfare. With the terrorist bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania on 7 August 1998, the United States government and its citizens …
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ASSASSINATION AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE
… Southern Illinois University Carbondale. TITLE: ASSASSINATION AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE MAJOR PROFESSORS: SCOTT GILBERT AND KEVIN SYLWESTER The goal of this dissertation is to investigate how assassination attempts affect economic performances. The challenge is that assassination attempts may not …
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Fake Realities: Assassination and Race in Popular Culture
… to the use of target killing, commonly known as assassination as a way to eliminate enemies of the United States. A majority of those killed are of Middle-Eastern descent and/or are followers of Islam. Elements of American popular culture since 9/11 have portrayed assassination, with the …
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Assassination of Michael Collins: A Revival in Gaelic Nationalism
This paper examines the link between the assassination of Michael Collins, the leader of the Irish Republican Army and then the National Army, and the rise in Gaelic Nationalism across Ireland after his death. Ireland struggled to gain independence from England throughout history because England …
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Impact of inter-parental character assassination on children post-divorce
… regardless of their parent’s role in character assassination. Eastern Washington University undergraduate students were recruited from the Psychology department to complete a survey made available to them through SONA Systems Department Recruiting system. Data was analyzed using a paired-sample …
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A Paranoid Style? : The JFK Assassination and the Politics and Culture of Conspiracy Theory
… the phenomenon of conspiracy theory, using the assassination of President John F. Kennedy as a case study. Doubt is the root cause of conspiracy theory, stemming from both the innate biases all humans exhibit, and a traumatic experience – in this case the assassination of JFK. This thesis argues …
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The Partisan's Violence, Law and Apartheid: The Assassination of Matthew Goniwe and the Cradock Four
This dissertation is a study of an instance of political violence that took place during 1985 in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, but which had a wider resonance across the country. It involved the killing of four prominent anti-apartheid activists, known as the Cradock Four, by a state …
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A Rhetorical Study of the Reaction of the Protestant Pulpit in the North to Lincoln's Assassination
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Funk My Soul: The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. And the Birth of Funk Culture
… life. In this dissertation, I argue that the assassination inspired musicians, producers, artists, and consumers across the nation to reconstruct soul music and, in its place, construct the cultural idiom known as funk. Narrating the process by which black artists' embraced and popularized …
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Shooting the President: A Critical Study of the Films JFK and Death of a President
… In this instance it compares two films about the assassination of the President of the United States. One is JFK, a depiction of the true events of John F. Kennedy’s assassination which is directed and written for the screen by Oliver Stone and the other is Death of a President, a fictional …
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The diffusion of crisis information: a computer simulation of Soviet mass media exposure during the Cuban missile crisis and the aftermath of President Kennedy's assassination.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Political Science. Thesis. 1970. Ph.D.
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Worshiping Leadership: Morality, Revolutionary Values, and the Politics of Magnicidio (Assassination) in the Case of Camilo Torres and Fabio Vásquez with the ELN, Colombia 1963-1978
This research explores cult formation and sect-like worship in the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN), around the figures of both the priest and guerrilla fighter Camilo Torres (1929-1966), and Fabio Vásquez, leader and founder of the group in 1963-1978. I examine the relationship between …
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From Kennedy to Nixon: American Political Mythology
… main parts. The first part examines Kennedy's assassination and the myths that grew from that event, paying close attention not only to the myths themselves, but also to how and why they were formed. It is shown that, after his death, Kennedy was perceived as the good king of Camelot who had …
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The End of Camelot: An Examination of the Presidency of John F. Kennedy in 1963.
… to them, and what followed after Kennedy's assassination. This thesis was created by using books published about Kennedy, articles from magazines, documents, telegrams, speeches, and Internet sources. What has been disclosed is that many of the legends attributed to Kennedy simply are not …
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The Rhetorical Criteria of Kennedy's Camelot
… memory of cultural trauma following Kennedy's assassination suggests a promising continuation of the Camelot myth. Because the four rhetorical categories (visual, campaign, crisis, and collective memory) worked in tandem, all were essential for creating Kennedy's legacy. </p>
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Queer life and moral policing in the time of Hindutva
… of Rights) Act 2019, moral policing and the assassination of a journalist all (re)create and help extend Hindu nationalism. While the killing of Lankesh was explicitly violent, I suggest that the Transgender Act and moral policing inflict violence in implicit ways upon queer and transgender …
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Hazel Brannon Smith: an Examination of Her Editorials on Three Pivotal Civil Rights Events
… of Mississippi in 1962, and Medgar Evers' assassination in 1963. Results indicate that Smith was unwavering in her opinions on all three events. Considered a liberal during the time, Smith became a champion for civil rights, she won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing.
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