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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Desertion"”.
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There Is No Dishonor in Desertion: Army Racial Intolerance and African-American Soldiers' Desertion
The thesis focuses on a study concerning the desertion of African-American soldiers from the United States Army. The data were collected from the period covering the War of Independence to the mid-1960s of the Cold War. The study proposes that there are limits to which these soldiers cannot bear …
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Siraiki : A Sociolinguistic Study of Language Desertion.
The main focus of this thesis is the phenomenon of Siraiki language maintenance language shift in Multan. This is the first study of its kind carried out on any Pakistani language. The study examines the speech practices of rural and urban Siraiki Multanis in the home domain in the light of various …
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Voting with Their Feet: Union Desertion in the Army of the Potomac, 1861-1865
… history of the American Civil War, the study of desertion has received little attention from historians of the conflict. The historiography of the Civil War is saturated with volumes of texts dealing with nearly every topic imaginable. Yet, in a war that is often glorified, it is the rare …
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"It Is Useless to Conceal the Truth Any Longer": Desertion of Virginia Soldiers From the Confederate Army
This study of Virginia desertion differs from other desertion studies in several respects. The statistical analysis of the patterns of desertion within the army is one of the most unique characteristics of this study. Several other scholars have attempted to track desertion across the Confederacy, …
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Nest-site selection, nocturnal nest desertion, and productivity in a common tern (<i>sterna hirundo</i>) colony at Detroit River, Michigan
… success. I monitored predation and nocturnal desertion and determined the behavior was variable between pairs and the detection of a black-crowned night heron (<i>Nycticorax nycticorax</i>) predating chicks at night did not lengthen the nocturnal nest desertion time of common terns.</p>
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The Changing Dynamics of the Perception of U.S. Foreign Policy towards Kurds in Syria: Developing Relations in Light of Ignorance, Cooperation and Desertion (2011-2020)
Kurds have played an significant role in the Syrian conflict since the 2011 crisis, mainly through their strong participation in the fight against ISIS. During the war against ISIS, the U.S. made significant gains both under President Obama and President Trump’s administrations but did not strive …
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From Confederate Deserter to Decorated Veteran Bible Scholar: Exploring the Enigmatic Life of C.I. Scofield 1861-1921.
… in the American Civil War including his desertion of the South in 1862. After becoming a Union loyalist, Scofield excelled as a lawyer and Republican politician before corruption rumors radically altered his life in 1874. By 1882, he emerged as a minister in Dallas, Texas where he built …
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"If it quacks like a sphere" : the million dollar problem
… and try to flesh out the details. His apparent desertion raises questions both about the personal risk of mathematicians working at the highest level and the responsibility of the mathematical community in the verification process.
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Seasonal variation in the reproductive biology of the ring -billed gull (Larus delawarensis)
… May, 1977. It is suggested that this nocturnal desertion behaviour resulted in the enhancement of inter- and intra-clutch hatching synchrony in early started areas and further, that this may in part explain the existence of the behaviour in terms of its adaptive significance.
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Southern Pride and Yankee Presence: The Limits of Confederate Loyalty in Civil War Mississippi, 1860-1865
… trade with the Union army, and Confederate desertion to show how Mississippians acted on co-existent loyalty layers to self, family, and friend-networks that were distinct from national allegiances. Although the Confederate government espoused an all-consuming nationalism, the evidence …
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Productivity of A Resident Giant Canada Goose Flock in Northeastern South Dakota
… d.f.). The main cause of unsuccessful nests was desertion by the nesting pair. Predation and flooding were not major factors in determining nest success. Overall hatching success was 78 percent of 1414 eggs. Nests on ANS had a higher percent hatchability than nests on NNS. Eggs in 213 nests …
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Tetraplegia : the psychosocial problems encountered by black patients once discharged from the hospital
… which are: Negative marital relationships and desertion by the healthier spouse. Disturbed family relationships. Negative self-esteem and lack of self-confidence due to physical limitations. Poor quality of life, stigmatization by the community and inaccessibility in as far as public transport …
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Rural settlement contraction in the East Riding of Yorkshire c.1660-1760 with particular reference to the Bainton Beacon division
… 'shrunken' village was the most common outcome, desertion of villages between 1660 and 1760 also occurred. The study concludes by providing evidence for rural depopulation at this period elsewhere in England, and demonstrates that the experience of the East Riding was far from unusual.
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Karen Horney's Three Character Styles [Neurotic Styles] as Responses to Early Maternal Deprivation and Unmanageable Rage: Three Illustrative Case Studies
… struggling with passive fantasies of death and desertion. Characterologically she moved towards people. A third patient made use of rage as a way to stay away from people. She used intimidation as a way to characterologically move away from people, and preferred to remain alone. Although each of …
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"""I feel impelled to write"": male intimacy, epistolary privacy, and the culture of letter writing during the American Civil War"
… the wartime admissions of fear, doubt, and desertion.
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Regime legitimacy and military resilience : lessons from World War II and Yugoslavia
… Resilient units do not disintegrate through desertion, and furthermore commit themselves actively under fire. In arguing that legitimacy matters, this thesis revives a debate between two theories of military resilience. The first school, which comes out of the tradition of the mass army, …
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The Boy Battery: A Socio-Military Study of the 2nd Missouri Light Artillery
… Well-educated for the times, they had a very low desertion rate. Trained as horse artillery, the unit was often split into sections that served independently. The 2nd Missouri gained a stellar reputation fighting in the Trans-Mississippi and Western theatres. The thesis ends with a brief …
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Conducting L'Histoire du Soldat : a tale of two libretti
… Slovik, the last American soldier executed for desertion. In essence, Vonnegut collaborates with Stravinsky in a posthumous sense, as Stravinsky does with Bach and Bach with Luther. Vonnegut and Stravinsky each write themselves into an existing work, giving it contemporary meaning and a new …
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"An Army of Working Men:" Military Labor and the Construction of American Empire, 1865 to 1915
… period; “quitting” the army was criminalized as desertion. As the United States extended its influence over new parts of the world, its military labor regime also expanded to include local populations. This study examines the army’s attempts to exploit the labor of soldiers and indigenous …
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