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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Commercialism"”.
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Commercialism, subsistence, and competency on the Western Virginia frontier, 1765--1800
Since the early nineteenth century, Americans have frequently associated the pioneers of the Appalachian Mountains with subsistence farming, economic independence, and a certain degree of hostility toward capitalism. This thesis disproves the myth of pioneer self-sufficiency by demonstrating how …
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ART FOR THE MARKET: COMMERCIALISM IN REN YI'S (1840-1895) FIGURE PAINTING
… for the ready art market in Shanghai. Such commercialism is best manifested in three categories of Ren's figure painting, i.e. portraits, narratives depicting mythological, legendary and historical figures, and genre scenes of ordinary people. The three categories of Ren's figure painting …
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Class, commercialism and community in the originsand development of northern Rugby Football Union, 1857-1910.
… class players for payment and the growing commercialism of the sport in the North undermined amateurism and made its implementation, despite the vigorous efforts of its partisans, impossible.</p> <p>The breakdown in the consensus among rugby's leaders about how to deal with mass working …
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"Nobody with a Good Car Needs to be Justified": Materialism and Commercialism in Flannery O'Connor's Fiction
… will focus on the role post-war materialism and commercialism play in Flannery O'Connor's work, with a close emphasis on how those ideas manifest in her novel <em>Wise Blood</em>. In a novel where the controlling motif of spiritual blindness is so pronounced, O'Connor chooses to keep the …
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Commercialism in Public Schools: A Study of the Perceptions of Superintendents Accepting Corporate Advertising in Virginia
… technology resources, and sports equipment. The Commercialism in Education Research Unit (CERU) at Arizona State University has monitored media references to commercialism in schools since 1990. There has been a 473% increase in commercial activity within schools since the 1990 inception of …
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The culture of crime: representations of the criminal in eighteen-century England
… triumphs and moral dilemmas of life in an age of commercialism. The conclusion reads Gay’s criminal narrative as the culmination of a nation’s early and ambivalent experience with the marketplace. Its implication is that in the modern age, commercialism makes us all in some sense criminals.
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A Society in Transition: Badenoch, 1750-1800
… gradual improvement, not just through increasing commercialism, but also through the government’s military requirements for its imperial and European wars – a massive economic boost across the social spectrum.<br/>Change inevitably caused friction between the social classes over issues like rising …
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Fiction Free Form
… vary and explore diverse topics such as commercialism, relationships, family, animals, plants, people, fashion, technology, spirituality, dogma, and balloons. Experiences that are commonplace and ordinary things are used to create meaning; appropriate topics for poetry can and should …
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"Blessed be the critics of newspapers": journalistic criticism of journalism 1865-1930
… the 1890s, criticism focused on the downsides of commercialism, expressing the fears people felt toward the new corporate giants. During the progressive period, the writings of press critics revealed the pride they felt in the civic services journalism provided. But World War I brought an end to …
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Rapping Back: Counter-narratives from Auckland, New Zealand
… Hip Hop scene. Their music critically questions commercialism and conformity in a culture shaped by a history of colonialism. This makes their message starkly opposed to the normative values of New Zealand. The musicians of Homebrew and @Peace, a mix of Polynesian and Pakeha (people of European …
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The Schizophrenic Virgin (Original writing, Short stories)
… Falls is renowned for its beauty, majesty, commercialism, honeymooners, tourists, daredevils, death, and above all else---the extraordinary. The Falls itself is a natural phenomenon, which refuses to be capitalized upon, but it is nevertheless exploited. It is a place rich in history and …
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La publicité professionnelle : problématique soulevée dans le cadre de la déontologie du médecin-dentiste
… as we know it, in danger of loosing ground to commercialism? Has the consumer truly profited by the modifications to our laws and has the monetary aspect really worked out in his favour?Publicity wanting it or not has become a reality to live with. How well the profession will deal with it is …
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Wear That Tape Out: Punk Rock Cassettes, DIY Histories, and Materializing the Self
… tape remains a powerful signifier of anti-commercialism for punks. This dissertation considers the legacy of the cassette tape as a companion to punk rock and as a recording and playback medium that democratized the means of documentation through its accessibility, portability, durability, …
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Made in Hong Kong : re-envisioning the pedestrian interface
… conflict between the usurpation of open space by commercialism and citizens' needs for daily use of it. The thesis aims to reintegrate the original diversity and ambiguity into current open spaces of Hong Kong. The author addressed this problem by researching the contemporary and historical making …
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"How the Fishes Live in the Sea": Shakespeare's Daughters and the Market of Romance
… as his means to critique a burgeoning London commercialism. Through Cymbeline’s Imogen, Shakespeare conveys a somewhat rose-colored glance on a feudal order in the wilderness of Wales that drastically contrasts from the play’s version of Rome, itself highly redolent of early modern London. …
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Being Jacques Villeneuve: Formula One, 'agency' and the fan
… driver, Jacques Villeneuve. Despite its rampant commercialism, innovative mediation, prestige and popular status within global sport, Formula One is surprisingly an under-researched topic in academia. Moreover, 'intense' fandom has often been stigmatised; at worst associating such individuals …
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An American spectacle: college mascots and the performance of tradition
… that are uniquely shaped by industrialism, commercialism, capital acquisition and expression, mass democracy, and the nation-state. An innately political practice that, while recognizing multiple identities, privileged young, male, white, middle-class, and athletic as powerful and …
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Embodying the intangible at Princess Vlei : Capturing memory, history and imaginings in landscape and architecture
… The increasing pressure of urbanisation and commercialism have led to contestation over the use of land on the eastern bank of the wetland. The proposal of the City to sell the land to private developers for the construction of a mall on the wetland's banks inspired counter-proposals by …
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The Architecture of Suburban America
… styles. For example, today's strongest culture, commercialism, is using images and icons as if laughing at those who declared "the death of images and values". Even some contemporary philosophers, like Jean Baudrillard, argue everything is the result of images: "Simualtion". Thus, it seems …
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