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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Cultural legacy"”.
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AFGANTSY: THE SOCIAL, POLITICAL, AND CULTURAL LEGACY OF A FORGOTTEN GENERATION
Characterized by General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev as a “bleeding wound,” the Soviet-Afghan War left a broad imprint on the domestic front during the Soviet Union’s transition from stagnation to dissolution. From the onset of war on 25 December 1979 to the 40th Army’s withdrawal on 15 February …
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Melancholy and Satire: Representation of Islam and Nationhood in the Works of Salman Rushdie and Orhan Pamuk
… is: what are the literary results of migration, cultural or religious conversion within the increasingly diversifying metropolitan centers? I find that such double consciousness of the migrant artist provides an exilic writing that instigates two types of perspectives: satirical and melancholic. …
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Community Narratives for Architecture Spaces; Christiansburg Institute
… a historically African American school, and its cultural legacy. Materiality, lighting, and programming articulate specific memories within the spaces of this project. It is essential to have moments highlighting the past, present, and future while individuals maneuver through the site. There is …
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Memorable, Legible, and Accessible Cities: Co-Stewarding Historic Preservation and Public Transportation Agendas in Boston and Hong Kong
… have accommodated transit needs alongside the cultural legacy of their built environments—resulting in positive and negative impacts on achieving sustainable development goals. Insights from Hong Kong and Boston neighborhoods, gleaned through interviews, on-site observations, and mapping …
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Echoes of the Russian Revolution In Greek Wartime, Resistance, and Post-War Music
… or eventually, provoked social, political, and cultural transformations beyond the geographic and political borders of the Soviet Union. Anchored in the egalitarian ideals and aspirations of the Revolution, Soviet cultural politics and aesthetics inspired artists across the world—beyond just …
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The making of place and occasion: art school and museum in Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C.
… the Fine Arts have in everyday life and in its cultural legacy.
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Envisioning Antiquity: Yi Bingshou and the Politics of Memory in the Qing Dynasty
… historical events, and reconstruct lost sites of cultural legacy. This methodological trend, known as kaozheng, or Evidential Scholarship, stresses the importance of textual analysis to the attainment of authentic knowledge of the past. Intrigued by the materiality and archaic scripts of these …
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Wrestling’s Grip on the Past: A Comprehensive Study of Ancient Greek Wrestling
… the end of antiquity, leaving behind a large cultural legacy over a period of a thousand years. This long history reflects a level of importance and prestige associated with the sport that is deserving of further study. By applying a modern and practical understanding of grappling sports to …
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Little Egypt: A Critical Biography
… hoochie-coochie—and considers the character’s cultural legacy. The work draws on nineteenth and twentieth century newspapers, advertisements, photographs, and official publications and archival records from the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. Chapter one takes a new look at the World’s …
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The image of human condition: Sidney’s Arcadia and the Conflicts of Virtue
… The primary inheritor of Sidney’s political and cultural legacy, Robert Devereux, despite being associated with court factionalism, also draws, I argue, on the optimistic and conciliatory philosophy signified by Sidney’s New Arcadia. Sidney’s romance affirms its author’s piety, in which human …
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Looking for truthiness : a personal investigation into bicultural poetry from the Bay of Islands presented in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters in Creative Writing at Massey University, Albany, New Zealand
… and institutional racism, by embracing biculturalism and by making room for an indigenous Māori perspective in their lives, alongside whatever other cultural legacy they inherit from those whose shoulders they stand on.
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Analysing visitors’ emotions, testing the DRAMMA model, and using reflective practice for guided walk development
… with tour guides in addressing Torbay's cultural legacy. Two additional key points involve providing training for tour guides and utilising social media marketing strategies to evoke nostalgia, emotions, atmosphere, and narrative in the development of future guided walk tourist …
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The Effectiveness of Periodically-Harvested Closures in Meeting Ecological and Socioeconomic Objectives
… efficacy of PHCs for achieving their historical cultural objectives of periodicity and efficiency of harvest, simultaneously with achieving contemporary fisheries objectives of fisheries productivity and conservation is undetermined. As a result, the utility of PHCs for supporting contemporary …
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Heritage discontinued: tracing cultural ecologies within a context of urban transition
… in sustainable human development. This dominant cultural paradigm mainstreamed by UNESCO is subscribed to by government and other role-players within the domain of culture and urban development. Despite its significant achievements, it however comes with a specific heritage conceptualisation, …
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Beyond mourning and melancholia: depression in the work of five contemporary North American women writers.
… from this discursive field by focusing on the cultural legacy of their devalorised status. Freud's essay, 'Mourning and Melancholia', first published in 1917, is cited as an important conceptual model exercising considerable influence over subsequent theoreticians working within this area. My …
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In the shadow of war: continuities and discontinuities in the construction of the masculine identities of British soldiers, 1914-1924
… also draws on recent historical research on the cultural legacy of the war. The first chapter explores the subjectiver esponsesto becoming a soldier through an examination of personal memoirs; largely unpublished sources drawn from memories and written or recorded by men as narratives of their …
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Performing Black Feminisms in Diasporic Contexts: Sub-Saharan Women Negotiating Identity across Cultures
… the U.S., must simultaneously take into account cultural parameters of their home country and host culture. I use the term “Black feminisms” as an umbrella term to advocate for an interdisciplinary approach to Black feminist thought and African feminism as tools for analyzing the lived …
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Warfare by Other Means: The Rhetoric of War and Sport in the Twentieth Century
… one of the thesis examines the metaphors and cultural practices of energetics in European sporting life until the Second World War. The first chapter presents a cultural history of ‘sporting aviation’ between the Wright brothers’ first European flight in 1908 and the declaration of war in …
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An analysis of Intellectual Capital within a social enterprise context
… to practice is argued for in respect of the cultural legacy of staff transferred into the organisation (Kong, 2010b), informal methods of performance management (Sillanpaa, 2010) and the need to more effectively manage stakeholder groups (Frooman, 1999; Fletcher et al. 2003).<br/><br/>The …
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