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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Civil Unrest"”.
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Civil unrest
This creative thesis is comprised of a novel-in-progress, which currently stands at approximately 72,000 words, representing approximately a quarter of a complete draft. The novel follows the foiling of a domestic terrorist plot during the 2016 election by a middle-aged mother and her teenage son, …
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Civil Unrest in the Untied State of America: Facing the Threat
<p>This essay explores the purpose and function of the police in a modern state. It draws mainly from the ideas put forth by Walter Benjamin in his 1921 essay, Critique of Violence, and focuses exclusively on the events surrounding the Black Lives Matter movement. By applying political theory to …
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Exploring the Correlation between Civil Unrest and the Mobilization of Hate in the United States
… go into why hate crimes continue to persist, but civil unrest seems to be one of the biggest factors. Through correlation analyses and regressions, we see that different types of civil unrest; response to police action, social/economic civil unrest, and politically motivated civil unrest, are …
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The effect of civil unrest on nursing personnel and nursing services in the Cape Peninsula during 1986
Civil unrest has become a feature of South African society and has resulted in varying degrees of social disruption. Health services, particularly those located in residential areas, have been affected. As nurses constitute the largest group of health care professionals in South Africa, and often …
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Forecasting Protests by Detecting Future Time Mentions in News and Social Media
Civil unrest (protests, strikes, and ``occupy'' events) is a common occurrence in both democracies and authoritarian regimes. The study of civil unrest is a key topic for political scientists as it helps capture an important mechanism by which citizenry express themselves. In countries where civil …
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Predictive Model Fusion: A Modular Approach to Big, Unstructured Data
… in an applied setting to predict instances of civil unrest in Central and South America. Finally, model fusion principles of a spatiotemporal nature are developed to predict civil unrest. A novel multiscale modeling is used for efficient, scalable computation for combining a set of …
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The impact of exposure to civil
… aims at examining the effects of exposure to civil. violence on 304 'black' and 'white' children's evaluations of violence whilst controlling for gender and socio-economic status differences. The study tests the hypothesis that children exposed to civil violence tend to accept the use of …
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Fear and Loathing in White, Working Class America: How Political Appeals to Individualism, Implicit Racism, and Religion have Polarized our Two-Party System
… and their fear of economic instability and civil unrest in a populist attempt to gain trust. Through rhetoric coated in conservative American values, politicians equate whiteness with morality and the protestations of liberal elites and minority groups with disorder to keep the social …
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Triumph Over Fear: Is the Experience of Fear Essential to Courage?
… the stark backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, civil unrest, and economic hardships, we are living in a time of unprecedented uncertainty and vulnerability—a time where we have no choice but to confront the physical, emotional, and psychological toll that the pandemic is exacting on us. The …
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Critical- Diversity, Belongingness, Inclusion, and Equity SEL
<p>The social and civil unrest across the United States has ignited a call for more school-based social and emotional learning (SEL) frameworks and practices that are social justice-oriented. The Collaborative for Academic and Social Emotional Learning (CASEL) is one of the organizations that chose …
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A People’s Uprising: The Grenada Revolution and its Origins Among the Public
… Grenada’s collapsing economy, and growing civil unrest. Concerning the second question, it argues that everyday Grenadians offered various forms of assistance to the revolution, including both physical and nonphysical support.
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The Role of Philanthropy in Furthering and Preserving Harmony in International Relations; Reducing Cross-Border, Conflict Spillover by Bolstering Economic Conditions through Innovative Philanthropic Practices
… and unemployment against the eruption of civil unrest and political instability. I illustrate how political instability in one country is a cause for concern for neighboring countries within the region, thereby creating an incentive for the larger, international community to promote, …
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A communication perspective of how local government is equipped to interact with its public: a study of the Ulundi Municipality
… with service delivery is the primary cause of civil unrest. Nepotism in conjunction with bribery and corruption are key reasons for the presence of unqualified staff at most public and social service departments. This research provides a comprehensive study of how local government operates in …
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Driving Demands of a Successful Protest: A Comparative Analysis of Drivers That Leads To a Successful Outcome of Protest
… found that there has been a drastic increase of civil unrest incidents worldwide since 2011. According to the Index, there were 282% more riot cases and 821% more general strikes across the world, with Europe having the most riots, protests, and strikes. Extant literature suggests that protest is …
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The determinants of military expenditure in Rwanda
… a country that has experienced conflict and civil unrest. No studies for Rwanda had been published, regardless of the growing military expenditure. A range of factors such as economic, political, or strategic conditions can drive the demand for defence expenditure. This paper employs a …
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Design and Maintenance of Event Forecasting Systems
… that can forecast population level events like civil unrest, disease occurrences with reasonable accuracy. Event forecasting systems are generally prone to become outdated (model drift) as they fail to keep-up with constantly changing patterns and thus require regular re-training in order to …
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Here we can behold the great machine in motion : the Belfast Monthly Magazine, 1808-1814
… were largely informed by their experiences of civil unrest over the previous three decades.
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Rebels, Activists, and Repairers: Youth and Social Change in Africa
… obstacles as scarcity, economic instability and civil unrest, youth in Africa have expressed leadership, action, and dedication to their communities in an ongoing and unrelenting struggle to establish a peaceful and prosperous social landscape for themselves and generations to come.
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What did y’all do?: Using counter-storytelling to recall student affairs professionals’ response to anti-Black racist incidents at one predominantly White institution in the Midwest
… students, (b) affirm students, and (c) support civil unrest. The goal of this study was to investigate and document the actions of student affairs professionals during the string of anti-Black racist attacks on campus. As a result of this study, professionals that supervise and oversee students …
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The Tambora project: an atmospheric simulation and historical evaluation of the Mount Tambora eruption and its impacts on global climate and society (1815-18)
… cholera pandemic, while famine, refugeeism and civil unrest threatened hard-hit nations from China to Western Europe to New England. Tambora is thus an invaluable modern case-study in the impacts of abrupt, short-term climate change. Because of its impacts on the vulnerabilities of human …
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