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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Contemporary events"”.
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History of the theological method of Reinhold Niebuhr : a study of the relationship between past and contemporary events in Niebuhr's theological method
… a method which must be made explicit for the contemporary debate in Christian ethics. Since we have summarized our argument at the beginning of each chapter, it is necessary here only to indicate the main outline of this thesis. The contemporary debate in Christian ethics forms the subject of …
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English Catholic Eschatology, 1558 - 1603.
… the Catholic eschatological understanding of contemporary events affected political action. It investigates early modern English Catholic eschatology in the context of proscription and persecution of Catholicism between 1558 and 1603. Devotional eschatology was the corner stone of individual …
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Poetry and politics on the American homefront, 1914-1918
… between 1914 and 1918 not only commented on contemporary events but also represented the aims and ideals of major political groups, they are arguably more central to American culture than the more aesthetically distanced modernist poems which literary critics favor. Genteel poets and editors …
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Islamist Radicals in Latin America
… Understanding the motivations as well as contemporary events unfolding in the region will assist with evaluating the scope of the radical Islamist presence there. Based on this evaluation, recommendations are offered that could assist with designing appropriate measures for securing U.S. …
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Soviet Union: New Thinking Or Old Con?
… are analyzed with the assistance of history, contemporary events, and the views of other Soviet and non-Soviet commentators. The skeptic's perspective is given a special section due the fact that there is so much that is uncertain concerning the future of the Soviet Union and therefore for the …
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Sites of British History: The Revival, Creation, and Unmaking of a National Narrative
… project explores how locations where significant events took place come to be viewed as heritage sites. The project is framed around case studies of six sites where notable events occurred. The story told in this dissertation begins during the Victorian period, a time that saw both the foundation …
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NO COUNTRY AN ISLAND: ICELAND'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO NATO SINCE 1949
… power of small states. The thesis then turns to contemporary events and sources to explain NATO’s heightened state of alarm in the face of an increasingly aggressive and opportunistic Kremlin. Western air and naval forces have witnessed a marked increase in confrontational incidents with Russian …
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Is there a solution to climate change?
… change. As I made the work for this exhibition, contemporary events included the 2018 mid-term elections and the International Panel on Climate Change released their report on the impacts of our rising global temperature. These are both relevant and pertinent to the thesis. While the media …
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The French Conundrum: The Unsettled Relationship between the Colonial Past, Identity Construction, and Immigration in the Musée National de l’Histoire de l’Immigration
… to address its colonial past in the context of contemporary events and movements concerning systemic racism, Islamophobia, and immigration. In doing so, the paper engages with contemporary questions about the construction of identity, systemic racism and xenophobia in France, and the role of …
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Welsh Manipulations of the Matter of Britain
… of how the separate narratives were shaped by contemporary events. Ultimately, this thesis shows how the Cotton Cleopatra Brut is essentially a propaganda piece was modified by its translator to reflect and inflame the pro-Welsh nationalistic sentiments that developed shortly after the …
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The Low-Rodgers Expedition: a study in the foundations of U.S. policy in Korea
… and antecedent of other closely interrelated events in an unbroken time continuum. Concentrating on the fundamental regional issues of the times and the national character and interests of the United States and the Kingdom of Korea, this thesis: (1) Reveals, for the first time, the original …
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Identity and representation under occupation: cultural conflict in contemporary cinema
… is considered to understand its influence on contemporary events in each conflict. The films suggest that it is impossible to understand ethnic or national identity without considering history and its support for a fixed identity. Within conflict, identity seems locked in the past, in a …
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Reinventing Poetry: Popular Audiences And Polyphonic Space During The Song-Jin-Yuan Transition (1050–1300)
… integrated into urban life, which also reshaped contemporary political dynamics. Drawing evidence from historical miscellanies, excavated artifacts, local literary collections, and court documents, this project maps out an expanding poetry market and the emergence of professional poets who wrote …
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Reform and Opposition in the 1830s as viewed through the Illustrated Press of Ireland and Britain
… of political and religious polarization. The contemporary events and issues surrounding the parliamentary reforms, industrial and technical innovations, evangelical activities and the church reform and anti-tithes movement all contribute to the contextualization of this study. The pictorial …
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Legacy effects of temperature alterations on microbial resistance and resilience to drying and rewetting
… adaptations are reflected in their response to contemporary events. How they respond can determine the fate of soil organic matter and have relevant feedback to climate systems. In this thesis, I address how the legacy effects of a soil microbial community affect its response to a drying and …
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Forms of Enclosure: The Convent Plays of the French Revolution
… genre. They all combined fictional sources and contemporary events with pre-existing theatrical codes in order to create new, gendered narratives of secularization. Convent plays overwhelmingly ended with a nun's decision to leave the convent in order to marry a patriot. I suggest that this …
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In times of “crisis”: Puerto Rican activism, gender, and belonging in Orlando
… metropolitan area that directly addresses contemporary events or moments of “crisis,” such as the fiscal crisis in Puerto Rico, the shooting at Pulse nightclub, the 2016 U.S. elections, and Hurricane Maria. Based on 24 months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2016 and 2018, this …
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A place to pray
… Africa. The story unfolds through a series of contemporary events—family gatherings, WhatsApp conversations, and the legal steps we are currently taking to reclaim the land. These present moments act as windows into the past, uncovering deep connections between land, identity, and belonging At …
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Dramatic narratives and the holocaust
… of history out of its continuum to service contemporary political needs. This thesis aims to show that narratives and representations of the Holocaust both in Israel, Germany and Austria mutate according to contemporary events. Today, whilst it is generally agreed that there is no such thing …
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