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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Historical importance"”.
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West Virginia University ceramic arts production studio program
… techniques program, its educational impact, and historical importance.
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Axis + elements: a library for Lexington, Virginia
… on a comer site in a downtown area of some historical importance. The character of the surrounding buildings demanded that the library acknowledge its context. This acknowledgement occurred through the use of an axial organization from the site and a transformation of formal elements from …
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A Window To The City
… sites along the water front, a site of historical importance. Its location in relation to the city offers a strong visual and the necessary physical connection to the city and the surrounding existing recreational spaces. The panoramic view of the city, a compelling element of the site …
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The Low-Rodgers Expedition: a study in the foundations of U.S. policy in Korea
… Frederick Ferdinand Low, and the wealth of new historical data therein: his misgivings and motivations; his plans and failings; and his appreciation for the historical importance of the mission which today bears his name; (2) Provides deeper analysis of the contemporary events bearing on the …
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The Historical Influence And Legacy Of The Alaskan Boundary Dispute
<p>This thesis was an investigation into the historical significance and interpretation the Alaskan boundary dispute played in the tripartite relations of Canada, the United States, and Great Britain.</p> <p>The first purpose of this work was to fully examine Hay- Herbert Treaty, emphasizing the …
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Conflict, Cooperation, and the Creation of the Postcolonial African Regional Order, 1957-1963
… in post-colonial African history. Its real historical importance, this thesis contends, is its contribution to the formal adoption of the lasting nation-state system in Africa as all signatories gave their unanimous support to the sanctity of their states’ right to sovereignty. This thesis …
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Land and land conflict in the Palestinian-Israeli peace process:1990-1999
This thesis examines the importance of the debates and struggle over land in the Oslo Accord and immediately post-Oslo. It does this by first situating the conflict over land in the historical context of the spread of Zionism from the 1880s, culminating in the establishment of the State of Israel …
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A Review of the Government Sponsored Offensive Biological Programs, Weaponized Biological Pathogens and their Countermeasures
… bioweapons produced by these two programs, their historical importance, clinical symptoms, and the available countermeasures in the case of exposure. It then opened a discussion on the selection criteria modern bioweapons programs may utilize in the 21st century and the role many of these …
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Assessing the potential of agritourism at Neudamm, Namibia
… nomination of Neudamm as a place of heritage importance due to its historical importance. Furthermore, policy directives such as Affirmative Action Loan Scheme (AALS) and National Agricultural Credit Program (NACP) need urgent review thirty two years after Namibia’s independence, to foster …
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Smell as Self-identity: Capitalist Ideology and Olfactory Imagination in Das Parfum’s Multimedia Storytelling
… By establishing the theoretical ground upon the historical importance of scent, the thesis focuses particularly on its close interrelationships with the politics of identity, an issue elaborated in Patrick Süskind’s novel <em>D</em><a …
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Saving Salt City: Fighting Inequality Through Policy and Activism in Syracuse, NY, 1955-1975
… recognition and political power illustrates the historical importance of individual agency as well as contingency. Although the civil rights movement collapsed with many of its goals unrealized in the mid-1970s, Syracuse experienced more than a decade of concerted activism to disrupt racial …
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Consumer Symbolicum: The Advertising Legacy of Pierre Martineau (Social Research, Marketing)
… can be grouped into two major areas of historical importance: First, he devoted his professional life to legitimizing qualitative research (currently known as social research, or "VALS," i.e.--Values and Lifestyles research) in advertising. In 1953, after nearly twenty years in editorial …
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August Ludwig Schlözer and Enlightenment in the ‘Age of Parallels’
This dissertation investigates the historical and political thought of the Göttingen professor August Ludwig Schlözer, who provocatively called the period of the French Revolution the ‘Age of Parallels’. It seeks to examine the question as to how Schlözer’s historical parallels addressed the crisis …
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From Vandals to Vanguard: Vanguardism through a Neoinstitutional Lens: Case Study of the Sandinista National Liberation Front
… event in Nicaraguan history. Because of its historical importance and distinctive socio-cultural context, the Sandinista Revolution offers significant opportunities for scholarly inquiry. The literature on the Sandinista Revolution is substantial. However, little is known about the …
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Las Inquisiciones de Jorge Edwards
… Edwards between 1973 and 1987 respond to the historical Chilean context that they seem to address, openly in some instances and evasively in others. It examines the way in which the novelist represents the Chilean situation under the dictatorship of Pinochet. In the novels, Los convidados de …
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E.K.K. Matlala : Mongwadi Wa Ditaodišo Tša Mathomo Tša Sepedi (Sepedi)
… by Fort Hare University in 1943 is an event of historical importance in Sepedi literature. This research study investigates Matlala’s essays. The aim of this study is to focus on all various possible types of essays, including the four types that Matlala wrote, namely descriptive, analytical, …
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The future of the past : on conserving the Mellah of Rabat, Morocco
… The proposal acknowledges the Mellah's historic importance but relates it neither to the restoration of the urban fabric nor to its future maintenance. Would preserving the Mellah as an irreplaceable monument best serve to represent, communicate and maintain its historical importance and urban …
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Embodiment - Architecture, Body and Mind (Inhabiting Urban Markers)
… Bodies also have to be aware of their own historical development and their boundaries. This can only be applied to human beings, because only human beings are capable of asking questions and being aware of things. For non-human beings their existence is only experienced by its "showing" to …
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Zulu cultural traditions : a draw card for tourism in KwaZulu Natal with special reference to the Lebombo spatial development initiative
… at re-awakening the interest in the places of importance in KwaZulu Natal, interest in the revival of the cultural traditions, the beliefs, food preparations, crafts and being aware of the job opportunities offered by the government's plans about the Lebombo Spatial Development Initiative …
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