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Showing 1 to 20 of 4836 for “"Debate"”.
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Collective debate
Participating in online debate can expose people to diverse viewpoints, and thereby reduce polarization of opinion over controversial issues. However a lot of online debate is hostile and further dividing -we need tools that facilitate meaningful back and forth discussion. For my thesis work I …
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Mining Ethos In Parliamentary Debate
… a fundamental role in society for centuries from debate in the public sphere to everyday conversation. Most recently computational research into argumentation has focussed upon argument mining, the automatic extraction of reasoning structures from natural language. Although the content of argument …
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Imitation pedagogy: The ongoing debate
Imitation was one of the five teaching methods passed down from the Greeks and was, from antiquity down to the nineteenth century, highly respected among scholars and educators. However, imitation has lost status as a viable pedagogy, and especially perhaps in the field of composition studies.
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Evolutionary Psychology: The Academic Debate
This dissertation examines the academic debate that surrounds the new field called "Evolutionary Psychology." Evolutionary psychology has emerged as the most popular successor theory to human sociobiology. Its proponents search for evolved psychological mechanisms and emphasize universal features …
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A design analysis of parliamentary debate
… undertakes a design analysis of parliamentary debate and draws data from the documentary records of two infrastructure projects. The first is High Speed Two (HS2), the London to Birmingham rail link proposed by the UK Government in 2010. Parliamentary bills were passing through both houses of …
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There you go again: an analysis of Jimmy Carter's debate tactics in his debate with Ronald Reagan
… First, to present a holistic analysis of the debate, this chapter presents an analysis of the questions which were posed to the debaters. Moreover, it argues that Carter's debate preparation books enabled Carter to ignore certain questions and to recite a pre-written answer which reflected the …
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Contemporary Public Debate on Religion: Parliamentary Debate on Church Property Restitution and its Taxation in the Czech Republic
… in the literature and illustrate what a public debate on religion might look like in a country as unchurched as the Czech Republic, this thesis conducted thematic content analysis on two parliamentary debates related to church property restitution. Transcripts of the debates in The Chamber of …
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Continuing the Debate: Abraham Lincoln and Equality
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Job Corps and the public-private debate
One of the most controversial questions in public administration today is the question of effectiveness and how well it is achieved by public and private organizations. Some studies hold private enterprise up as more effective; however, some others have argued the case in favor of the public …
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American Exceptionalism And The Antebellum Slavery Debate
… world. Many politicians and intellectuals have debated America's exceptionality since the founding of the country. The debate over American slavery during the antebellum era was in many ways a debate over American exceptionalism. Could America claim American exceptionality while they held on to …
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Sectionalism and the Representation Debate, 1787-1792
… of Representatives was the focus of spirited debate in American politics. The central issue at stake was the size and influence of each of the sections in future Congresses. The representation issue was first debated during the Constitutional Convention in 1787. After a temporary settlement of …
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PAPERLESS DEBATE: THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE
… a complete program evaluation of a high school debate team’s transition from debating with paper to paperless debate. The study examines if switching to debate without paper has improved the success of the debate team by focusing on the team’s winning percentage, the cost of debate travel and …
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Peacekeeper: a Case Study of Strategic Debate
This thesis is an examination of the strategic debate surrounding the development and deployment of the U.S. Peacekeeper Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. Included is historical background information on the development of ICBMs, the emergence of Mutual Assured Destruction doctrine, the …
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The Darwin debate in Dublin, 1859-1908.
… both the course and the effects of the Darwin debate in Dublin during the first fifty years after the landmark publication of Charles Darwin’s Origin of species in 1859. Darwin’s hypothesis that species evolved gradually over time by a process of natural selection was so vastly contrary to the …
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The Homework Debate: Arguments For/Against Homework
<p>The study of homework and its implications that it is effective in a child’s ability to retain information has constantly been in question since the idea of homework was adopted over a hundred years ago. One of the main goals in education is high student performance. The United States has …
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Remembering Arkansas Debate: The Use of Collective Memory in Analyzing the Role of Intercollegiate Debate at the University of Arkansas
… for nearly a century, the University of Arkansas debate team created many memories and stories from their time in competition. According to the framework of collective memory, the production and dissemination of these stories is what connects the past, present, and future of a debate team …
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The Decision and the Debate: Hiroshima and Nagasaki
This thesis examines the historiography of why we dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It continues with original research on Henry Stimson and Atomic Diplomacy, and concludes with the creation of several lesson plans for High School students, tied to specific NYS Social Studies …
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Sexual assault: public debate and criminal law reform
… and in the media, all of which formed the public debate on the Bill. Key issues were whether criminal law should be used to advance social justice for women, and whether the new law contradicts the "natural order". A major argument against the Bill was that it contravened the fundamental …
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Healthy debate: medical discourses in the early novel
… tool to illustrate and participate in wider debates of philosophical, cultural and social significance during the period. Adopting the methodology of the case study, three contrasting representatives of the early novel are analysed with reference to three important medical debates of …
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The Iroquois Influence Thesis and the "Great Debate".
… thesis examines the arguments of the Great Debate over the Iroquois Influence Thesis. The author researches the history of the thesis origin and its historiography, plus historical facts, which contribute to the Iroquois Influence Thesis existence. Related statements by the Founding Fathers, …
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