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Showing 1 to 20 of 95 for “"Bombing"”.
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Memory, Margins, and Materiality: The Philadelphia MOVE Bombing
… middle-class West Philadelphia neighborhood. The bombing and the decision to allow the fire to burn killed five children and six adults – all members of a controversial group called MOVE – and destroyed 61 rowhomes. This dissertation employs insights from memory studies, critical race theory and …
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The Historiography of the Allied Bombing Campaign of Germany.
… historiographical study concerning the strategic bombing campaign of Germany during World War II. The study questions how effective the campaign was in comparing the prewar theories to wartime practices. Secondly, it questions the morality of the bombings and how and why bombing techniques changed …
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The legality of aerial bombing during World War II in Europe
1 PDF file (iii, 115 pages)
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AWPD-1: America's Pre-World War II Plan for Bombing Germany
… in the development of American strategic bombing doctrine in World War II. This plan was not only the first in the Air War Plans Division. but it was the first of its kind in the world. Beyond the history and importance of the plan itself, this study testifies to the success of a handful …
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Secondary Traumatic Stress Disorder in the Therapists from the Oklahoma City Bombing
… who provided services for the Oklahoma City bombing. Predictors were therapist social network involvement, years of counseling experience, and amount of self-reported empathy experienced from others. Indicators of secondary traumatic stress were the Frederick Reaction Index-A, the Compassion …
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The development of British strategic area bombing 1918-1945 : a study in theory and practice
… issuesaround which the doctrine of strategic bombing developed during theinter-war period that an attempt can be made to achieve a clearunderstanding of the controversial character of the area bombingoffensive against Germany during the Second World Var, including thecrucial issue of …
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Strategic Bombing in the European Theater of Operations During World War II: Experiment and Conclusion
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
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Securitizing Air Spaces: How the Pan Am 103 Bombing Led to a New Extraterritorial Aviation Regime
… dissertation seeks to explain. Hijackings and bombings of airplanes in the 1970s and 1980s culminated in a significant bombing in 1988: the destruction of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. This event became a critical juncture in the management of airspace. The U.S. state used its …
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Why Was the RAF So Committed to the "Area Bombing" of Germany in the Second World War?
… focus on the origins of the policy of 'area' bombing, showing how the idea became popular after the German raids against British cities during the First World War, and the widespread feeling in the years thereafter that a more 'humane' form of warfare must replace the stalemate of the …
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In the Shadow of Terror: An Exploration of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Attachment Styles and Coping Strategies: Response to the Experience of being in a Bombing Attack among Iraqi People
Despite the widespread prevalence of bombing in Iraq, no study has investigated its psychological impact on civilians. This thesis aimed to address this gap in the literature. Four studies were conducted consequently using civilians in Iraq. The first study aimed to explore the subjective …
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Media Influence on Executive Police Decision-Making: A Case Study of Police and Media Interaction During the Oklahoma City Bombing Investigation and Trials
… police and media during the Oklahoma City bombing investigation and subsequent trials of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. Findings indicate that media influence police executive decisions when police and media interact closely. It was found that during the Oklahoma City bombing …
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The socio-technical construction of precision bombing : a study of shared control and cognition by humans, machines, and doctrine during World War II
… the creation and initial use of the precision bombing system employed by the United States Army Air Forces during World War II in the opening phase of the Combined Bomber Offensive against Germany. It presents the system as distinctly sociotechnical, constructed of interdependent specially …
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Suicide Terrorism: A Future Trend?
… in terrorism's lethality? Second, does suicide bombing as a tactic explain the increased lethality of “new terrorism”? The study demonstrates three findings. First, it was found that religiously inspired terrorist groups are more lethal, though not more indiscriminate. Second, that suicide …
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The law enforcement approach to combating terrorism : an analysis of US policy
… from 1988 to 2000 using five case studies; the bombing of Pan Am flight 103, the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, the bombing of the US barracks in Saudi Arabia in 1996, the bombings of two US embassies in Africa in 1998 and the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000. The thesis begins by …
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Ties out of bloodshed: Collective memory, cultural trauma, and the prosecution and execution of Timothy McVeigh
In the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing, processes of reconstructionremembering victims, caring for family members and survivors, and punishing the perpetrators-" -began even as dcbris from the Murrah Federal Building was bcing cleared. This dissertation explores how collective memory of the …
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"""Empty chairs, broken lives"": The Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum"
… documents a historical context that situates the bombing and the subsequent memorial within a rich and complicated urban history. The dissertation describes the constructed Memorial and the Memorial Museum in Oklahoma City, designed by Hans and Torrey Butzer and Sven Berg, built to honor the 168 …
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Experiences of GSA employees involved in the re-establishment of federal operations after the bombing of Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building: A qualitative work-family study
… re-establishment of federal operations after the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. A qualitative research method combined with a phenomenological research strategy provided the researcher an opportunity to understand the unique experiences of the GSA employees. The …
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Long-term effects of living through both evacuation and the bombing of London during the Second World War as perceived by those who experienced them : A qualitative study
… World War such events as evacuation and the bombing of London affected millions of people, there is very little psychological research and therefore literature investigating the long-term effects. Several previous studies have been quantitative in nature, relying on questionnaires to explore …
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