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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Haig"”.
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Allied associates: the relationship between Field-marshal Sir Douglas Haig and General John J. Pershing
Born less than a year apart, Douglas Haig and John J. Pershing were destined to command the armies of their respective nations during the largest conflict the world had yet witnessed. The American seemed an unlikely candidate for such a high position, since he was not the scion of a prestigious or …
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Post-September 11<sup>th</sup> representations of Latin American immigrants in political discourse: An analysis of metaphor
… The rhetorical philosophy of Kenneth Burke, Haig Bosmajian’s <em>The Language of Oppression</em>, and a study conducted in 1999 by Otto Santa Ana provide the framework for analyzing the power of the dominant and secondary metaphors found in these documents. Furthermore, this paper examines …
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‘A matter of persistence’: Lessons learnt by the British Expeditionary Force and its operational development following The Battle of Festubert, 15-25 May 1915
… well the BEF’s First Army, commanded by General Haig, was organised and equipped upon entering the battle. It draws upon First Army’s experience of two previous battles, one in March 1915 and another only six days before commencing offensive action again, to determine what knowledge had been …
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Silence as politics : witness and resistance in contemplation.
… theology, drawing from the work of J.L. Austin, Haig Khatchadourian, and Judith Butler to that of Sarah Coakley, Dorothee Sölle, Meister Eckhart, and Howard Thurman. Contemplative silence thus appears not as retreat or resignation, but as a deliberate act of relational and embodied …
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How was Richard Haldane able to reform the British Army? An historical assessment using a contemporary change management model
… military advisors, who included Major General Haig and Colonel Ellison, Haldane’s success was not, as he claimed, that he entered office without preconceived ideas about army reform, but that he did not announce them. By doing so, he gained the support of the reform-weary Generals in the War …
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Storying Our Experiences: Caribbean Students at U.S. Universities
… framed both by my use of testimonio as method (Haig-Brown, 2003; Pérez Huber, 2009) and the composite lens formed by my use of bricolage (Kincheloe, 2001; Kincheloe, 2004; Kincheloe, McLaren, and Steinberg, 2012), I look at how all these factors influence their academic experiences and their …
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Case and Phi-agreement in Laki: Parametrizing split-ergativity in Kurdish
… of previous research (Johns 2000, Deal 2016a, Haig 2017, Carrier 2020), I conclude that ergativity is not a single phenomenon. Rather, it is a constellation of a range of linguistic properties.
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Diatom-Inferred Changes in Effective Moisture From Gall Lake, Northwestern, Ontario, Over the Past Two Millennia
The boreal forest of Canada extends across 58% of Canada’s land area providing a large range of ecosystem services including flood control, water filtration, and carbon storage. Despite conservation efforts to protect this ecosystem, the boreal region is still under stress from global stressors …
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Teacher perceptions of student speech
Although language variation is widespread and natural,it is subject to judgement. Where a standard language has developed, other varieties tend to be judged against its "standards". While a number of overseas studies have found that this type of linguistic bias occurs in education and negatively …
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The justification of religious intolerance : an examination of the American media's responses to the life and crimes of Nidal Hasan
An examination of the crimes of Nidal Hasan through the lens of American News media. This document examines the production of religious extremism in relation to Islam for the consumption of the American public and how it is reductive and harmful to Muslims.
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The use of solid waste materials as alternative compositions in the development of wood/cement blocks
1 PDF file (xiv, 144 pages)
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Cool For America
<p>Youngish people encounter resistance in the world. Drinks are consumed; chat occurs. Politics are present, irrelevant. Loss is a given.</p>
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Cool For America
<p>Youngish people encounter resistance in the world. Drinks are consumed; chat occurs. Politics are present, irrelevant. Loss is a given.</p>
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The conversant community : HIV health promotion work at Action Séro Zéro
This dissertation is a case study drawn from ethnographic research undertaken at Action Séro Zéro , a community-based health promotion organization in Montréal providing HIV prevention services to gay, bisexual and transgender men. The research focuses on how people working at this organization …
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Continuity and change through transformation : a mixed-use design in a Cape Cod harbor
Change is an ongoing, unavoidable process that may occur for many reasons and in many ways. In this world of uncertainty and often unwanted surprises it is comforting to know that there are some aspects of our physical and social environment that remain constant while others are changing. This …
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Biological Treatment of a Synthetic Dye Water and an Industrial Textile Wastewater Containing Azo Dye Compounds
In this research, the ability of anaerobic and aerobic biological sludges to reduce and stabilize azo dye compounds was studied. Synthetic dye solutions and an industrial textile wastewater were both treated using anaerobic and aerobic biomass, separately and in sequential step-treatment processes. …
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LE INTERAZIONI TRA ECONOMIA DIGITALE E ORDINAMENTI FISCALI: IPOTESI RICOSTRUTTIVE E PROSPETTIVE DI EVOLUZIONE, NEL RISPETTO DEI PRINCIPI EUROPEI E COSTITUZIONALI
… internazionale (segnatamente, il reddito [Haig 1921, Hicks 1939, Simons 1938], nonché il binomio luogo della residenza-luogo della fonte) sono forse obsolete e dunque inadatte a cogliere l’interezza degli effetti fiscali del fenomeno digitale (Capitolo II). Nel compiere questo studio, si …
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Bitcoin Mining under the South African income Tax Act: a case for a common treatment
… as the embodiment of a tax regime based on the Haig-Simons comprehensive model of income. It is known as ‘Capital Gains Tax', or CGT, the tax base of which is all non-trade net accretions to wealth, subject to certain exclusions. In contrast to the gross income definition and associated …
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The origin and development of the art of oral interpretation of verse in the United States
The main purpose of this study is to present the origin and the development of the art of oral interpretation of verse in the United States. During the part 150 years there have been changes taking place in the philosophy behind the art of oral interpretation of verse; during that 150 years the …
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