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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"Barack Obama"”.
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A Framing Analysis and Model of Barack Obama in Political Cartoons
… a content analysis of 496 political cartoons of Barack Obama covering the time from his presidential candidacy through his first year as president. The proposed frames and identified framing devices are analyzed against the different stages of Obama's campaign and presidency as well as the …
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A Rhetorical Examination of the Barack Obama Phenomenon in the 2008 Presidential Campaign
… the popular press in describing and elucidating Obama’s rhetoric during the 2008 Presidential Campaign by closely examining four speeches, their contexts within the campaign, and the commentary surrounding them to give a richer account of what exactly could be called Obama’s “rhetoric.” Moving …
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Continuing inequity : the conveyance of white supremacy in the education policy speeches of President Barack Obama
… speeches, addresses and statements of President Barack Obama knowingly or unknowingly continue practices and policies of white supremacy within educational policy and practice by constructing education in a neoliberal frame. With his promotion of school choice, quantifiable teacher quality, …
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Richard Wright, James Baldwinn e Barack Obama : da ficção às narrativas autobiográficas e o dilema americano
… e, por último, o atual presidente americano, Barack Obama, cuja autobiografia é bem contemporânea. O tema central da nossa investigação é tentar perceber que evolução histórica, que sintomas evolutivos, ao nível da questão racial, se foram registando na sociedade americana, e que se podem …
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THE IMPORTANCE OF CELEBRITIES IN POLITICAL DECISION MAKING: A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF THE BARACK OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN
… the potential for civic engagement. By analyzing Barack Obama’s calls for a new political framework, through the use of structural criticism; I argue that he created the impetus for a renewed valuation of citizenship. Using the work of Dana Cloud, I argue that such a critique is successful because …
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Political super branding through the use of social media technology : the Barack Obama presidential campaign in 2008
A dissertation submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master’s of Technology: Fine Arts, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2013.
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Visual framing and social networking: a content analysis of the 2012 Barack Obama and Mitt Romney Facebook pages
The purpose of this study is to discover how Barack Obama and Mitt Romney were framed visually on Facebook during the 2012 presidential election. Frame theory has been studied in various forms of media. However, this study is the first, to the researcher's knowledge, to use frame theory to analyze …
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Realignments of Doxa in U.S. American Politics: Tracing the Rhetorical Histories of Franklin Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, and Barack Obama
… of Franklin Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, and Barack Obama as markers of such shifts. In chapter one, I provide a statement of purpose and justification for my study, along with a description of the historical contexts of the 1932, 1980, and 2008 presidential elections. Chapter two includes a …
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Civil society and civil discourse: Eloquence and hope in the communications of presidents Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Barack Obama
… Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Barack Obama each combined elements of taste, common sense, sympathy, propriety—and hope to posit an epideictic ideal: eloquent expressions meant to bring a diverse citizenry an ideal, if not reality, of unity. Each of these presidents’ style …
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The Syrian Refugee Crisis: A Rhetorical Analysis of President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and President Donald J. Trump’s Political Discourse About Syrian Refugees
… Syrian refugees from three rhetors; President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and President Donald J. Trump. As the Syrian refugee crisis continues to grow, political leaders and citizens around the world debate the appropriate way to provide aid to those fleeing Syria. I rhetorically analyze …
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Plan Colombia período 2000 2009
… del P.C cambios con el gobierno de Barack Obama y tendencias de militarismo en A.L.
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The Rhetorical Linkage Between Economic and Political Liberalization: A Case Study of the United States' Foreign Policy Response to the Arab Citizen Revolt
… otherwise known as the "Arab Spring," President Barack Obama addressed the future of U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East and Northern Africa. This thesis argues that the exigence of the president's address exemplifies a crisis in discourse concerning the "natural" connection between capitalism and …
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New knowledge and hopeful spaces : the significance of the frontier in martian history.
… Neil deGrasse Tyson, Elon Musk, and President Barack Obama as case studies. They are placed within G. Thomas Goodnight's argumentative spheres: the personal, the technical, and the public, respectively. Constrained by their sphere of discourse, each rhetor uses the frontier to transition from …
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The New Welfare Queen: A Narrative Analysis of Mitt Romney's 47% Speech
… tax as "entitled,” and guaranteed to vote for Barack Obama. The study argues that the speech, which, when released, had a meaningful impact on polls in swing states and likely voters, appeals to the narrative of the welfare queen, a longstanding social narrative about entitlement spending. By …
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Open Government Data. Dall empowerment del cittadino all innovazione nella pubblica amministrazione: il caso italiano in un ottica comparata
Dal celebre Memorandum di Barack Obama su trasparenza e Open Government (2009) ad oggi il tema della riconfigurazione dei rapporti tra pubbliche amministrazioni e cittadini, e della liberazione delle public sector information, ha assunto un ruolo sempre più centrale nel dibattitto pubblico. La …
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"We Have a Longstanding Critical Problem…All Right?": The Promotion of Domestic Crisis in President Obama's Health Care Rhetoric
Shortly after his inauguration in 2009, President Barack Obama set to work on health care reform. Little more than a year later the President signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which achieved a goal of so many previous administrations, into law. In order to encourage the passage …
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The relationship between representational, beat, and cohesive gestures and speech disfluency in the 2012 presidential debate
… First 2012 Presidential Debate between President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney. Specifically, the frequency and type of speech disfluencies and gesticulations generated by candidates were identified, annotated, and compared. Speech and gesture variables were examined across multiple speech …
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Honor, not sainthood : interpreting scandals and personal flaws in presidential homes, museums and libraries.
The inauguration of President Barack Obama as President of the United States underscored the reality of the different kinds of men who occupied the Oval Office. In many cases, these men have been put on a high pedestal by staff who operate the homes, museums and libraries which tell the story of …
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El multilateralismo en la política exterior de Obama: el caso Libia
… En cambio, la administración del presidente Barack Obama consideró que la estrategia adecuada para este caso era recurrir a la vía multilateral para conseguir el mandato del Consejo de Seguridad bajo la doctrina de responsabilidad de proteger, el apoyo de la comunidad internacional y formar …
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Free Clinics and the Uninsured: The Need for Remote Area Medical in Central Appalachia After Health Reform.
<p>In 2008, the election of President Barack Obama brought health care to the forefront of national discussions and led to the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). The legislation changed the rules of health care delivery in the United States, but the ACA did not do one …
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