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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Bombings"”.
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The "War on Terror," Mortality Salience, and American Prejudice Before and After the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombings
… Arabs and Muslims. The 2013 Boston Marathon bombings occurred in the middle of data collection, allowing us to see whether this terrorist event strengthened mortality salience effects. A sample of 120 undergraduates was surveyed. Results were inconsistent with our hypothesis, leading us to …
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W.G. Sebald’s Luftkrieg und Literatur: German literature and the allied bombings of German cities in World War II
… implications of a cultural memory of the Allied bombings of German cities in the Second World War. Since then, the essay has come to be understood as a foundational moment in the discourse surrounding 'German victimhood' in representations of the bombings and the expulsions of ethnic Germans from …
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Bombs and ballots : estimating the effect of the Madrid bombings on the March 2004 general elections in Spain
… before the elections (and therefore, before the bombings in 2004) on the voting pattern in both years. A linear approach finds mild evidence that bombs undermined support for the incumbent conservative party and increased the share of the vote for the opposition socialists, similar to previous …
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An exploration of the impact of external experiences upon the evolving sense of self.
… explore the psychological impact that the London Bombings may have had on young Asian men living in London. Method: Ten participants aged between 19 and 32 were interviewed about their experiences in the aftermath of the London Bombings. Semi-structured interviews were employed so that there was …
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The Decision and the Debate: Hiroshima and Nagasaki
… reflect upon what they know and feel about the bombings, analyze what the textbooks say about them, research the differing historical perspectives, and write a passage that both provides information about the bombings and covers the historical controversy behind them. The second lesson is …
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Safety at what price? : setting anti-terrorist policies for checked luggage on US domestic aircraft
… the consequences of successful terrorist bombings, and the anti-terrorist effectiveness of both the partial and full PPBM implementations. Calculations showed that there were circumstances under which each policy was the most cost-effective of the three. Of the three options, not …
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The Historiography of the Allied Bombing Campaign of Germany.
… Secondly, it questions the morality of the bombings and how and why bombing techniques changed throughout the course of the war. Lastly, the study looks at a recent topic in the historic community, which is the question of remembrance and Germans as victims of the war.</p><p>This study …
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The law enforcement approach to combating terrorism : an analysis of US policy
… 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 outlining the minimum requirements for a counter-terrorism policy. They are; that a policy must either deter terrorists from attacking the …
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Assassination: An Assessment
… 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 were once again forced to confront the realities of international terrorism. Osama bin Ladin has been indicted for these bombings, as …
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Architecture, ‘coming to terms with the past’ and the ‘world in common’: Post-war urban reconstruction in Belgrade and Sarajevo
… capital of socialist Yugoslavia after the aerial bombings typical of the Second World War. Second, it analyses reconstruction debates in the same city after the 1999 NATO bombings, a high-tech operation, framed by NATO as a preventative, humanitarian intervention against a ‘perpetrator’ state. …
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Essays on the Economics of Unhealthy Behaviors
… an unexpected terrorist attack, Boston Marathon Bombings. The second one is the turmoil caused by the Great Recession of 2008, which is the most serious economic downturn since the Great Depression during the 1930’s. This dissertation consists of the following two chapters:</p> <p><strong>Chapter …
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Memory and Destruction: A Psychiatric Approach to Understanding Literary Depictions of Air Raids in World War II
… In addition, German-Jewish accounts of the bombings (Kemperer, Biermann), displaying the mixed view of them as both horror and signs of freedom, reveal the complexity of the issue. Interestingly, some of the best literature about the air raids comes from non-German authors (Vonnegut, …
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From global war to global cities : planning, art, and Post-WWII urban history in New York, Berlin, and Tokyo
… but Japan's experience of war and nuclear bombings led to the creation of urban models that were more global in scope. An analysis of Japanese involvement in world's fairs and of architectural and urban thought in response to the nuclear bombings connects these threads. In different ways, …
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Risk Assessment of Aviation Security and Evaluation of Aviation Security Policies
… history is fraught with examples of airport bombings, hijackings, and sabotage terrorist attacks. The most destructive of which is the tragedy of September 11, 2001, the cornerstone of today's aviation security policies. This study uses risk assessment tools to determine the dimensions of …
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Al-Qa'Ida and the United States 1979-2001: Lessons Learned
… States and the al-Qa’ida group from 1979 to the bombings of 11 September 2001. This analysis will conclude by presenting five lessons that United States should learn from its experiences with al-Qa’ida in order to prevent similar mistakes from recurring in the future.
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While America Slept
… attacks on the military barracks in Riyadh, the bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Zambia and Kenya, and the attack on the U.S.S Cole in Yemen. This study examines the effect public opinion had on the President and Congress and their reactions to the public pressure. The primary purpose of this …
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Resurrecting Nagasaki: Reconstruction, the Urakami Catholics, and Atomic Memory, 1945-1970
… story that sheds a different light on the atomic bombings and their aftermath, not only in comparison with Hiroshima but with other cities destroyed by area bombing and the course of their subsequent reconstruction.
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Lila & Other Stories
A survivor of the Chimoio bombings, conducted by the Rhodesian Security Forces against the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (ZANLA) headquarters in Mozambique, attempts to send a dog to the moon. After seven years of failing to conceive a couple gives birth to a baby plagued by an infinite …
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