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Showing 1 to 20 of 260 for “"Historical Events"”.
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Historical events and supply chain disruption : chemical, biological, radiological and cyber events
… their supply chain operations. However, the events of September 11th were not the first or the only disruptions that the business world had experienced. This thesis reviews past historical events that simulate the effects of a terrorist attack and extracts lessons that can be applied by …
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Essays on historical development in Africa
This thesis adds to the recent historical development literature within development economics and investigates the long-term impacts of historical events on contemporary development performance, to aid our understanding of underdevelopment in modern Africa. In Chapter 2, I first introduce the …
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Naming in the Mzimela tribal area
Naming among Black people results from specific events that have taken place prior or after a certain occurence, for instance, some places and personal names, are named after some historical events and family matters that has taken place. The main aim in this research paper is to get and follow …
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Robert Greene's James IV : a historical approach
… purpose of this study is to point to significant historical elements of James IV that appear to be characteristic of the plays of the late sixteenth century. One major characteristic of the plays of this period is the interest shown in historical events, current and. past. Other characteristics …
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Building Blocks of Chinese Historiography: A Narratological Analysis of Shi Ji
… I explore the role of narrative as a medium in historical works, applying theories of narratology from the French Structualist Gérard Genette to analyze narratives in the Shi ji. By setting the text into this framework, I systematically examine the narrative sequences, such as anticipation and …
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The midwife and birth of conservatism in 1960: Barry Goldwater and the ascendancy of the right in the Gop
… thesis examines its subjects in a rhetorical and historical context by studying the rhetoric and historical events surrounding the ascension of the right and Goldwater's leadership position.
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Subjective well-being in the European Union = Szubjektív jólét az Európai Unióban
… it possible to analyze the well-being effect of historical events like the euro adaptation or the EU accession from the subjective well-being point of view.
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Understanding the dragon's theatre : an Anglophone historiography of Vietnamese theatre.
… on Vietnamese theatre is directly tied to the historical events experienced by these authors. The purpose of this thesis is to detail this scholarship and examine the historiographical developments used in analysis of the theatre. Much like other areas, the Anglophone historiography on …
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The diary and memoirs of William Wright Anderson, Oregon pioneer and forty-niner
… of places, individuals, terms, and events while on the journey and while in Oregon and California were to be included in the study.The diary and memoirs were purposely to be kept as nearly as possible to their original state as not to lose the historical value and flavor of the …
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Showing the Unsayable: Trauma and Juxtaposition in Persepolis and A Child's Life and Other Stories
… interweave personal trauma with the trauma of historical events: Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, which explores coming of age against the background of memory of the Iranian Revolution, and A Childs Life and Other Stories by Phoebe Gloeckner, which explores parent-child incest and coming of age …
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An assessment of uncertainty due to adversary mobility
… than a nimble, cunning one. This thesis examines historical events to identify the source of uncertainty with respect to defensive operations, and proposes that an alternative measure of performance be evaluated to fully characterize the effectiveness and limitations of defensive elements in the …
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A Language-Game Justification for Narrative in Historical Explanation
The problem of historical explanation consists in how historical facts are put together. No mere collection of facts constitutes an explanation: there must be some underlying explanation for why those facts occurred in the way they did. Many competing theories of historical explanation have thus …
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The Authoritarian Personality and Economic Distress
… studies, controlled for extraneous historical events by sampling individuals within the same time period. One hundred and sixty-one employed and 41 unemployed adult manufacturing workers completed a ninety-five-item questionnaire. The questionnaire contained a short version of the …
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Foreign Talent and Its Discontents: A Psychoanalytical reading of the foreign talent issue in Singapore
… the ruling government due to the significant historical events that have shown how severely a political opponent could be dealt with. All the reasons given, therefore, are simply distorted materials from the unconscious that have undergone a process of censorship, condensation and are not what …
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Using Comic Books to Motivate Literacy Development in the Classroom
… social aspects of current society. They make historical events come to life. They entertain, but can also teach. Comic books have a vast potential for classroom use. The intent of this paper is to identify methods to incorporate the usage of comic books into the curriculum, based on the …
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A mirror for the republic : mimesis, racial justice, and American literary realism.
… in this study, used recognizable patterns and historical events that their audience would recognize only to upturn those patterns at emotionally key moments. By creating an emotional connection with the character writers could create a rhetorical space through which they could argue for a new …
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Seismic parameters for the central United States based on paleoliquefaction evidence in the Wabash Valley
… magnitudes in the Wabash Valley far exceed historical events. This geotechnical engineering study of paleoliquefaction sites in southern Indiana and along the Wabash River in Illinois has provided an opportunity to estimate magnitudes and attenuation characteristics associated with strong …
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Heart of the Fathers, for Wind Symphony
… the following information is provided: the historical events that inspired the piece, the musical symbols that characterize the program, and an analysis of the function of the music.
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Property rights in the coal industry: efficiency and legal change
… concentrates on the coal industry, analyzing the historical events surrounding development of the property rights structure. A price theoretic approach is employed to determine whether changes in the property rights structure results in greater efficiency for the coal industry. The evidence …
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Choral activities at the University of Chattanooga from 1886-1969
… and institutions throughout the United States. A historical case study of the University of Chattanooga, a small Methodist-Episcopal college founded in 1886, indicates ideological factors, historical events, and technological advancements that shaped the existence and function of choral curriculum …
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