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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Hiroshima"”.
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The Decision and the Debate: Hiroshima and Nagasaki
… 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 Learning Standards. The first …
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When War Becomes Peace: Ruination and Transvaluation in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Peace Memorial Parks
… large part owing to the devastating bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Yet the atomic catastrophes endured by the two cities have become subsumed into what Anne McClintock terms the “administration of forgetting.” The traumas associated with the bombs have been construed in Japan as an …
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Resurrecting Nagasaki: Reconstruction, the Urakami Catholics, and Atomic Memory, 1945-1970
… its image in Japan and the world. In contrast to Hiroshima, Nagasaki did not make its atomic tragedy the dominant theme of its postwar image, and instead strove to rebuild the city in the light of its past as a center of international trade and culture. The most influential group advocating the …
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Ground Zero: Nuclear Weapons and Social Transformation
… From initial press reports of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki through civil defense pamphlets, and ultimately to the science fiction b-movies of the fifties, the popular depiction of such nuclear icons as radiation, survival, and the Bomb, are analyzed for their symbolic, iconological …
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Reading art otherwise
… Screen in 1980 and the writings on the film Hiroshima Mon Amour, a film which datesf rom 1959 and not only documented by its script writer, Marguerite Duras at the time, but subject to critical readings within film theory and testimony studies in the 1990s, drawing upon particularly modem …
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Disco apocalypse : liminal fictoscapes, and, hatricks: where did the white rabbit go?
… who take a road/air journey to Peru, Brazil and Hiroshima. Kit is a film maker whose observational skills bring a visual acuity to the description of places and events in the cities and towns visited out on the road. In the course of the novel Suzy G disappears when her plane goes down over Bass …
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The use of nuclear weapons under the doctrine of self-defence
… where nuclear weapons have been used- in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945- it is necessary to examine three hypothetical situations in which nuclear weapons are used in self-defence to determine if, under any, exceptional circumstances such action could be lawful.
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Memorial Museums and Material Witnesses: Framing Objects as Witnesses to Trauma
… representation in the post-Holocaust, post-Hiroshima, post-Vietnam era” (Leys, p. 267f). This thesis will contribute to the theoretical and museological conversation concerning objects and their representation in the aftermath of trauma, with an emphasis on interobjectivity as a tool to …
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The Questions of Compliance With the NPT Regime and Complex Multilateral Nuclear Negotiations: A Comparative Analysis of North Korea and Iran As Defector States
<p>With the exception of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, nuclear weapons have never been used in a war despite the conditions of international relations characterized by constant conflict and instability. The norm of nuclear nonproliferation institutionalized by the …
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Women Who Return: Revisiting the Figure of Odysseus in Alain Resnais and Agnès Varda
… in contemporary voyage and myth. Starting from Hiroshima mon amour (1959), the first chapter delves into myth’s refashioned vitality, idea and value in the contemporary world. Marguerite Duras’s female protagonist can be aligned with Odysseus, unpacking the relation of space, memory and …
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Land, Water, and Stars: Relationality in Anishinaabe and Diasporic Literature
… Origin Myths(Acevedo), “nogojiwanong” (Simpson), Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57(Vizenor), and Exit West(Hamid), I analyze the significance of two pivotal themes for unfolding relationality’s potential: (i) the concept of decolonial love and (ii) the concept of constellations, as conveyed in the …
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Sustentación de caso: propuesta de un plan estratégico del ingreso al mercado peruano de una empresa del sector fast fashion
… expansión fue abrir la primera tienda UNIQLO en Hiroshima, suceso que le permitió empezar a crecer exponencialmente. En la actualidad, el grupo se ha hecho de siete marcas, algunas de ellas adquiridas y otras desarrolladas, de esta manera ofrece distintas propuestas de valor y llega a varios …
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The neurobiology of central dopamine and progesterone in the reproductive cycle of the ring dove (Streptopelia risoria)
… A collaborative study with the University of Hiroshima, demonstrated increased progesterone concentrations in the diencephalon of male brooding doves compared with non-breeding male doves. Measurement of 3[3-HSD enzymatic activity confirmed the synthesis of progesterone in the ring dove …
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Spiritual, But Not Religious Identities in U.S. Faith-Based Activism: Case Studies in the Nipponzan Myohoji Order and the Catholic Worker Movement
… in Washington, DC, on the anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings; and events at the Buddhist Great Smoky Mountains Peace Pagoda. I argue that these individuals form these alliances because in working with a Catholic and/or Buddhist group, they find a venue for activism …
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Transpacific Transcendence: The Buddhist Poetics of Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder, and Philip Whalen
… literature and culture under the specter of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, influencing poets, musicians, and artists for generations to come.
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Drawing Apocalypse: Architectural Representation in the Nuclear Age and the Imagination of the End
… images of the unprecedented devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were coupled with visual and literary fictions projecting the aftermath of a world-ending atomic war. These fostered an atmosphere in which the possibility of the world’s end was not only real but imminent; a nuclear …
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DISQUIETUDE
… etched on building walls in both Nagasaki and Hiroshima. For the above reasons, I found myself drawn to the topic of terrorism, and began to ask myself questions. This body of work seeks to respond to and answer just some of them. Disquietude seeks to explore the wide range of psychological, …
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DISQUIETUDE
… etched on building walls in both Nagasaki and Hiroshima. For the above reasons, I found myself drawn to the topic of terrorism, and began to ask myself questions. This body of work seeks to respond to and answer just some of them. Disquietude seeks to explore the wide range of psychological, …