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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Dissidence"”.
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Player dissidence as related to ressentient attitudes of college baseball coaches
… of the selected coaches and the amount of dissidence they perceive in the attitudes of their players?</p><p> Before attacking these main problems, the researcher was faced with two sub-problems: (1) To obtain or devise instruments for identifying and measuring ressentient in selected …
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The Major American Political Parties as Organizations: The Response to Extreme Dissidence
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The individual and society in the GDR under Honecker : orthodoxy, dissidence and internal debate.
The thesis offers a comparative interdisciplinary approach to the examination of the intellectual debates about the relationship between individual and society in the GDR under Honecker. It shows that there was not only a continuum of debate between the academic disciplines, but also from the …
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Rewriting Christina Rossetti : cross-gendered sibling rivalry, fraternal intervention and the counter-poetics of dissidence
Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Michael Rossetti, paying especial attention to unravelling the received tradition that as an artist, Rossetti was indebted to Dante Gabriel's patronage. Instead, I argue that she negotiated her career as a poet against a covertly competitive backdrop of sibling …
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What is the gift of spiritual direction for women going through a season of dissidence, of deconstruction and reconstruction of faith?
My purpose and motivation in this research are to reveal what Spiritual Direction is and how and why it is a gift. In my professional practice a rising number of women going through spiritual abuse, trauma and misunderstanding from Christian pastoral leaders and personally in their faith are coming …
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"Hazme un guagüis" : the politics of relajo, humor, gender and sexuality in teatro de revista, teatro de carpa, and cabaret político in Mexico City
… Jesusa Rodriguez, this study explores a festive dissidence that emerged in Mexico City where the stage became a space in which collective spheres of irreverence and criticism were and continue to be created. By exploring the performance styles and tools developed in these theatrical genres a …
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Citizens Electoral Behavior in Autocratic Regimes, Venezuela, Turkey, Russia
… to turning to violence as a method of repressing dissidence yet voters continue to vote them back into power. Why? Through an examination of the current situations in Venezuela, Turkey and Russia, the thesis reveals that economic performance provides the key explanation. If the country provides …
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From Discourse to Reality: A Critique of the Sustainability Discourse for Activities in Earth Orbits
… suppressing different forms of resistance and dissidence. A sociocognitive critical discourse analysis of major discourses on space sustainability demonstrates numerous ways through which the elites have led a campaign of mind control to justify their expansionist and imperialist activities in …
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Goth Rhizomes: Queer Differences in Minor Gothic Literature
… With a focus on gender transitivity and sexual dissidence, and the insights afforded by queer readings in which queer is framed as a verb, the analysis opens up ways of reading genre through the experimental theories of Deleuze and Guattari. Going beyond identifying major and minor gothic …
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The contribution of warlordism to the disintegration of the western Roman army (c. AD 395-480)
… alternative to usurpation, a tool for military dissidence, fuelled by an economy of violence. Contrary to modern warlordism, the warlordism of the fifth century AD represented a transient phase which no imperial commander was willing to prolong indefinitely. At some stage, given the means, …
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Contemporary gay drama: the end of a modern crusade?
… identity to more recent depictions of sexual dissidence which threaten the traditional boundaries of the gay/straight dichotomy. It relates a selection of plays to thought and to later theories of postmodern sexuality. It examines commentaries of contemporary critics of gay theatre, and takes …
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The politics of poetry in Bosnia and Herzegovina: re-assessing tradition since the late 1980s
… and Herzegovina and establish a tradition of dissidence, which I locate in the marginalised alternative practices of feminists, gays and lesbians, and some members of the younger generations. I record and uphold dissident commitment to re-politicisation in poetry throughout. The networks of …
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The religion of the people in Winchester and Southampton, c.1558-c.1603
… looking for a particular form of religious dissidence, it instead compares similar sources for both cities, looking for any signs of religious belief or disbelief. The survival of Catholicism, the existence of Protestant conformity, the growth of Protestant enthusiasm, and signs of …
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Young and the urban in Addis Ababa: towards a popular history of the 1974 Ethiopian revolution, c. 1950s-1974
… the processes that went into the formation of dissidence, this study asks whether factors (other than university student militancy) were significant to explain the emergence of the Ethiopian revolution. The material for this study comes from three main archives: 1. Non-literary works: …
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The criminal prosecution of heresy in the Theodosian code
… of sectarianism, which states that religious dissidence represented a manifestation of social and political discontent in an era when such discontent could not be expressed through more appropriate avenues, and that the antisectarian measures thus represented a reaction to a secular threat. …
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The local dimensions of defence: the standing army and militia in Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex, 1649-1660
… from Royalist conspiracies and political dissidence, and externally from the danger of a combined Royalist and foreign invasion. The Eastern Counties were of strategic importance to Interregnum governments because of their proximity to London and the Continent, and because of their …
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