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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Cover-up"”.
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Uncovered : the cover-up of the My Lai massacre.
… days. American troops, ranging from privates up through corporals and captains, knew of the event and what had occurred. For nearly a year the events were kept secret under a U.S. Army cover-up. Using the Peers Commission report, this study will show that the United States military …
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‘It’s all a cover up!’: An Examination of Epistemic Vices and Conspiracy Theories in the Internet Age
… each recognised vice into their respective groups and assess whether other epistemic vices can off-shoot from the is a central/ capital vice. It must be stated that my theory is in its embryonic stage and further academic examination is necessary to cement this idea into vice epistemology.
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'Peeling away the layers:' A study of a local authority budgetary process
… district council. Unusually, it is based upon 'behind the scenes' participant observation, primarily of politicians in key financial roles. Influenced by "grounded theory" (Glaser and Strauss: 1967), Part I provides context and a study of accounting in action which successfully generates …
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Fort La Présentation and its time
… matter how successful it was, served only as a cover-up.
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BECAUSE: A Son’s Odyssey to Expose a CIA Coverup and Find the Father He Never Knew
… is killed in Vietnam, his youngest son James discovers hundreds of his letters spanning over two wars. The letters compel James to learn more about the father he lost as a child. And when he discovers the details of his father’s death are inexplicably classified, his journey for the truth …
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ADVANCING COMMUNICATION OF MEDICAL ERROR: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN TRANSGRESSION AND TRANSPARENCY
… toward medical errors - from concealment, cover-up, and turning a blind eye to transparency, acknowledgment, and prevention. Medical error is a pervasive problem, with the Institute of Medicine estimating that between 44,000-98,000 people die annually due to preventable errors. There is …
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Incidentally
This thesis primarily deals with two concepts in painting that I explored during my Graduate studies at the University of New Orleans. Both concepts are similar in execution but have two distinctly different results.
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Examining the effects of demographic and situational factors on childhood animal cruelty methods
… and have sex with animals. Inmates who were not upset after committing animal cruelty were more likely to choke and have sex with animals. Those who grew up in rural areas and those who did not cover up their animal cruelty acts were more likely to shoot animals. Those who committed recurrent …
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Designing With Climate: Using Parking Lots to Mitigate Urban Climate
… by which to mitigate them. Parking lots can cover up to half of the land area in cities and offer a great opportunity to correct urban climate problems. This thesis looks at current United States parking lot ordinances to determine if and how well principles of designing with climate have …
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An erratic act : a solo descent into an altered landscape
… take their usual course, the old quarry is up for either a reclamatory cover-up or abandonment. The thesis considers the afterlife of this altered landscape through the workings of a singular, external agent, an architect, or more appropriately, a student of the discipline. It's a staging of …
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The Wakefield Phenomenon: A Rhetorical Examination of the Resurgence of the Anti-Vaccination Movement in the 20th & 21st Century
… points in its resurgence in the late 20<sup>th</sup> and early 21<sup>st</sup> century following the now redacted publication by the former Dr. Wakefield asserting a correlation between children receiving vaccinations and children exhibiting the onset of developmental disorders, with …
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Living with the dead
… as a picturesque park that has been embraced to cover up the deceased since 18th century despite the continuous urbanization, and explores alternative configuration, materiality, spatial quality and events associated with the burial process.
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The wild olive bowl
… in Grahamstown, this novel explores how the discovery of the dead body of a street child under the walls of St Jude’s Chapel sets events in motion that provoke the spiritual crises faced by the two protagonists. Father Philip Riley, the non-stipendiary curate at St Jude’s who had come to South …
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Morning light : the secret history of the Tagish Lake Fireball
… A week after the fall, outdoorsman Jim Brook discovered black meteorites on the frozen surface of Tagish Lake, in northern British Columbia. He kept the stones pristine: frozen and untouched-a first for any meteorite fall. He made his discovery known to a few scientists only after they agreed to …
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Exploring teachers’ experiences in the teaching of civic education as part of the social studies subject in selected schools of Luanshya district.
… practices and provided of remedial works to cover up on time. Based on the findings of the study, it was recommended that MoGE should train more teachers of Social Studies, provide schools with the necessary teaching and learning resources, schools should engage in seminars, workshops and …
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The social imaginary, Jacques Lacan, and the African Christian diaspora in Europe
… of identification and cognition that serves to cover up this void. This perspective allows us to re-think 'imagination' in terms of signification as, for Lacan, the writing of the self hinges on the subject's appropriation of signifiers. Similarly, the social imaginary could be understood in …
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Addressing idiom avoidance in culturally and linguistically diverse students through biography-driven instruction
… Idiom avoidance might be a learners’ strategy to cover up their discomfort with idioms by not taking risks of making mistakes and thus looking good in the eyes of other people. Biography-Driven Instruction (BDI) strategies were designed to help lower students’ affective filter and alleviate their …
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Provision of broadband Internet in Oman by joining LTE-A with TV white space (TVWS)
… and WiMAX. These telecommunication services have covered major cities and towns in the country, but due to the vast and inhospitable terrains of Oman with its geographical, demographical and social factors, it has been very problematic to cover major rural and urban areas of the country with …
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Essays on Dynamic Incentives
… by unavoidable setbacks. The contractor can cover up delays from shirking either by making false claims of setbacks or by postponing the reports of real ones. The sponsor induces work and honest reporting via a soft deadline and a reward for completion. Late-stage setbacks trigger …
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Out of control: organizational defensive routines.
… factors with eight items, namely organizational cover-up and organizational pretense. Additionally, ODRs at an individual level are measured by a scale with two factors and six items, namely embarrassment avoidance and rigidity at work. Equipped with the newly developed measurement of ODRs, the …
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