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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Crisis of Confidence"”.
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Our enemy, ourselves: Political conspiracy in American cinema, 1970-present.
This thesis is an examination of "paranoid conspiracy" films, a film noir subgenre that emerged in mainstream American cinema in the early 1970s and turns on vast, shadowy conspiracies located within U.S. "power structures" (government agencies, the military, the media) and directed against the …
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The Rhetoric of Jimmy Carter: Renewing America’s Confidence in Civic Leadership through Speech and Political Education
<p>July 15, 2019 marked the fortieth anniversary of President Jimmy Carter’s “Crisis of Confidence” speech, a catalyst for what became an often overlooked yet significant turning point in the nation’s history. Carter’s words were both poignant and pointed as he calmly, yet directly, addressed the …
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Representations of law in popular culture: Knowledge constructions, media deconstructions
… a regulatory role that is supported by a range of complementary discourses that accord with society's dominant cultural values. This thesis proposes that while such institutional hegemony is never stable as there is always an expectation of challenge or resistance, law is currently experiencing …
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Who am I to judge? : rhetoric, passion, and rule of law in Aristotle's political thought.
… to what seems to be the greatest political crisis of our time: a politics divorced from reasoned speech (logos) and its most significant political function, judgment. Aristotle's Rhetoric, I propose, provides not only a framework that allows us to see and articulate this contemporary …
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Towards a psychological science of neural network behaviour
The pace of progress in machine learning is astounding. As a community, we have made great leaps forward across a variety of tasks, from complex vision challenges such as scene segmentation and object recognition, to striking language understanding capability and remarkably fluent text generation. …