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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Contemporary History"”.
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Kentucky Principal Preparation Programs: A Contemporary History
<p>In this era of expectation that school principals will lead continuous improvement initiatives in their schools, this study investigates if principals receive instruction in continuous improvement concepts, methods, and tools through their formal principal certification program. This research …
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Byron's Use of Contemporary History in Don Juan
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Contemporary History and Its Publics in Italy, 1640-1740
This dissertation investigates the writing of contemporary history in Italy and the emergence of a reading public during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. In accordance with humanist conventions, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century historians were often retired statesmen, who …
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Public sexuality: a contemporary history of gay images and identity
… Through these examinations, I create a kind of contemporary history of the gay political rights movement. In the study, I examine theoretical approaches to identity from several postmodern theorists and then use these approaches to support my work in the three chapters. In each chapter I focus …
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A contemporary history of the origins and development of UK Biobank, 1998-2005
… structure. Methods: I conducted 76 oral history interviews with academic scientists directly and indirectly involved in UK Biobank, representatives of all four funding bodies, and representatives of UK Biobank Limited (the company set up to manage UK Biobank). I also conducted archival …
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The 1970 student strike: the children's crusade at MIT; a study in contemporary history.
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Humanities, 1973
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Trading the Apron for the White Lab Coat: A Contemporary History of Dietetics in Canada, 1954 to 2016
This dissertation explores the history of the dietetic profession in Canada through the lens of a feminist sociology of expertise—a theoretical framework that I develop throughout this dissertation. Dietetics arose from home economics in the early 20th century. Although home economics has been the …
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Learning to Be Home: Perspectives from a Year in Patagonia
… four-letter word, home, and a depiction of contemporary history of the people and landscape of a remote and rapidly changing region.
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Learning to Be Home: Perspectives from a Year in Patagonia
… four-letter word, home, and a depiction of contemporary history of the people and landscape of a remote and rapidly changing region.
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Courtship, relationship, marriage and the state: regulation of contemporary Chinese popular media
… regulation of sex-related popular media text in contemporary China, across the expected lifespan of procreative heterosexual marriage. The three case studies encompass regulation of television programming, television drama, and film. The regulative actions vary from public notices to official …
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Radicalism at the Margin : The New Emergence of the Chinese Trotskyist Movement in Hong Kong, 1969-1981
… have rarely been mentioned in the modern and contemporary history of Chinese politics. This is what led to my academic interest in discovering the “unknown” Trotskyist history of Chinese radicalism. Compared to previous studies on Chinese Trotskyism in mainland China prior to 1952, based on …
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Enriquecimento de animosidades: o início da política nuclear brasileira.
… and Center for Research and Documentation of Contemporary History of Brazil (CPDOC). As the chosen method, we will analysis by Foreign Policy Analysis, through the theoretical model proposed by Margaret Hermann (2001).
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Betwixt the Popular and Academic: The Histories and Origins of Memetics
In this thesis I develop a contemporary history of memetics, or the field dedicated to the study of memes. Those working in the realm of meme theory have been generally concerned with developing either evolutionary or epidemiological approaches to the study of human culture, with memes viewed as …
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The People's Republic of China's Preeminent Power Ambitions: An Assessment of Its Maritime Efforts
… become a major power in a multipolar world. In contemporary history, lessons learned from the fall of the Soviet Union, the 1991 Gulf War, the war in Kosovo, and the revolution in military affairs have also affected China's evolving strategic and military doctrines Through a study of China's …
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Esthétique, affectivité et réflexivité. Essai sur la dimension interculturelle de l'anthropologie existentielle de Jean-Paul Sartre
Using existential anthropology in understanding contemporary history I try to reveal the value of the Sartrean model of intentional consciousness in understanding the human relationships and the political conflicts of our time. I examine the cultural aspects of Sartre’s thought. Sartre’s …
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A history of failure
A history of failure implies several things. It can point to a chronology of the concept of failure, like so many contemporary history books that chart a minute aspect of culture. It could refer to a personal record, like a criminal having a history of violence. The implication is also there that …
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Rivonia
… concludes with a discussion of the way contemporary epic poets use myth in the creation of heroic figures, problems which arise when using contemporary history as a basis for an epic poem and an argument for the continued relevance of epic poetry.
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A brief history of Formosa
… island itself. The story of its importance, its history and its development will be the purpose of the balance of this study.</p><p>It is not to be the purpose of this treatise to present an exhaustive study of all the various facets of the life of Formosa’s many classes and types of people. …
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Representations of Pan-Africanism in the contemporary post-Apartheid South African high school history classroom
… study on the representation of Pan-Africanism in history classrooms in high schools in contemporary post-apartheid South Africa. The subject History is part of the curriculum's stated vision to mould learners' identities in relation to key national and continental post-colonial foundations, such …
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Meaning and Function of Charles Stewart Parnell in the Writings of James Joyce
… panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history. . . . It is . . . a step toward making the modern world possible in art." | With the Daedalus and Ulysses parallels, Joyce certainly has made his modern world, Ireland, into art. But Joyce does not limit himself to antiquity, …
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