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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"Culture and Society"”.
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From Kennedy to Nixon: American Political Mythology
… they expressed themselves in American society under Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon. Examining not only the nature of myth and legend, but their impact on politics, culture and society, the work is divided into three main parts. The first part examines Kennedy's assassination and the myths …
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The experience of discipline in parish communities in Edinburgh, Scotland, 1638 - 1651
From 1638 until 1651, and in response to the unpopular religious innovations of Charles I, the Covenanters, Scotland’s leading Presbyterian divines, enforced a programme of moral reform that was intended to re-shape the lives of every member of society. This thesis is a bottom-up history of their …
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Making America's music: jazz history and the Jazz Preservation Act
… which jazz has been shaped by the music industry and government and their ideas of the place of jazz within American culture and society. The examples demonstrate that the history and traditions of jazz are not fixed entities, but rather constructions used to understand and utilise issues of race, …
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Contemplation in an urban landscape : a contemporary Cistercian monastery
… the Second Vatican Council from 1963 to 1965, landmark decisions called for the inculturation of the Roman Catholic faith - an attempt to have the faith made more accessible within the context of culture and society. This has led to changes in monastic life for the individual monk and his …
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Aesthetic representation and political economy in the beat narrative: Structures of feeling in the post-World War II generation
… Using the novels published by Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs in the 1950s (specifically, <em>On the Road</em>, <em>Dharma Bums</em>, and <em>Naked Lunch</em>), the intent is to gain some understanding of the relationship between the historical moment in which these texts were written …
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Hindi filmigit: On the history of commercial Indian popular music
… musical as well as cultural, social, historical, and technological aspects of this popular song genre. The study examines the unique role of Hindi film song both in Indian musical culture--as an integral component of the commercial Hindi film and as the major form of native, mass-mediated popular …
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“The Day Everything Became Nothing”: Finding Meaning in the Postapocalyptic
… novel, <em>The Road</em>; Douglas Coupland’s novel, <em>Girlfriend in a Coma</em>; and Robert Kirkman’s ongoing serialized comic book, <em>The Walking Dead</em>. After a discussion of apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fictions and their ubiquity and popularity in contemporary culture, each …
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Conscious of Her Own Power: Hester Piozzi's Character Creation in Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson LL.D., During the Last Twenty Years of His Life
… order to analyze her use of accumulated cultural and social capital. I highlight similarities between Anecdotes and Samuel Johnson’s model for biography given in Rambler #60 and show how Piozzi adheres to his advice as she characterizes Johnson as a pious genius, intolerantly opinionated, and …
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Every time you close your eyes.
… York City during two major power cuts in 1977 and 2003. The poem explores ways in which people find connections with each other during the aftermath of a trigger, or a disaster. The poem deals with issues of both real and imagined fear and the way the culture and society of New York changed …
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The Creative Feud of Andy Warhol: A Philosophy of Communication Ethics
<p><em>The Creative Feud of Andy Warhol: A Philosophy of Communication Ethics </em>begins with the assumption that the current historical moment is defined by Gilles Lipovetsky’s philosophical project known as hypermodernity. The dominant paradigm of hypermodernity, as consumption and commodity …
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Social TV : the future of television in the Internet Age
Television's influence on culture and society has been widely acknowledged for many years. On the other hand, with the diffusion of the web and of social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, used in concert with television, the TV experience has become much more interactive and it is now …
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The White Men Are Coming! The White Men Are Coming!: Identifying Navajoness through Reservation Tourism in 30 Days, Jamie's American Road Trip, and Navajo Cops
… typically rendered invisible within contemporary culture and society. Often relegated to the past, within the American and global imagination, Natives are habitually characterized by homogenizing stereotypes, which only contributes to the erasure of tribes’ unique histories, cultures, and …
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Consuming Trade in Mid-Eighteenth Century Albany
… items comprised the majority of internal and external commerce for many of these trading port cities. Albany, New York, a hinterland trading center, mirrored these changes and can act as a case study for many of the global transitions of the eighteenth century. Taken within the broader …
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Kinų tapybos Wu mokyklos sociokultūrinis meno kontekstas: Shen Zhou ir Wen Zhengming atvejai /
… how the cultural background, family ties, and societal norms shaped the artistic expressions of Shen Zhou and Wen Zhengming, within the context of Wu painting. It presents the historical development of the Wu school, emphasizing the role of intellectual families and society in the Yuan and …
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It’s A Business, Remember? How a History of Major League Blunders Killed the National Pastime, and On Baseball’s Future as a Cultural Artifact and Global Sport
… of the sport's struggle to maintain viewership and participation amidst the rise of alternative forms of entertainment and changing media consumption habits. The study adopts an Interactionist Theory lens to analyze how sport influences and reflects societal order. This project delves into …
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Intersections of Race and Class in 1830s Othello Burlesques
In recent years, we have come to better understand how nineteenth-century burlesques critiqued and lampooned the respectable humbuggery of patent theater productions and middle-class culture. Their carnivalesque spectacle and low humor turned topsy-turvy what was falsely revered or pretentious in …
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"A Content Analysis of a Sample of Articles Written on Education in ""The New York Times"
… content analysis was performed on a stratified random sample of 555 newspaper articles identified in the New York Times from 1993 to 1997. The data revealed 168 themes and issues across the following 18 categories: Religion; Home And Family; Community; Education; Schools; Students; School …
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"Common Plowmen's Children": The Frontiers of Ulster Catholicism, c.1680-c.1830
… that Ulster Catholic laity inhabited a social and cultural "frontier" through the early modern period. This mentality shaped how Ulster Catholics perceived and conceived their place and community in the rapidly changing religious, socio-economic and political situation in early modern Ulster …
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'As Dry Leaves That Before The Wild Hurricane Fly': Negotiating Risk And Reality In The South Carolina Hurricanes Of 1752, 1893, And 1989
… focuses on how disasters came to be defined and relief efforts codified in American culture and society. The study examines the 1752 hurricane, the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893, and Hurricane Hugo in 1989 in the context of human agency, or how human actions defined the scope and scale of …
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Knowing his place : How Welsh are the "Border" trilogy of novels by Raymond Williams?
… Williams’ ‘Border’ or ‘Welsh’ trilogy explore and reveal his changing feelings for, and responses to, his Welsh border background, both the physical landscape and the community. This dissertation examines how, for Williams, the novels were a crucial part of his life-long discussion of community …
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