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Showing 1 to 20 of 173 for “"Historical narrative"”.
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Historical Narrative in the Music of Sid Meier’s Civilization VI
… strategy video game in which the player leads a historical civilization from 4000 BC to the present. The <em>Civilization</em> series is the subject of much scholarly writing, especially its representation of history and non- Western cultures. My work builds on Karen Cook’s research (2014) on the …
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Students As Historians: The Historical Narrative Inquiry Model's Impact on Historical Thinking and Historical Empathy
… middle-school students' abilities to engage in historical thinking. I dispute the Hallam-Piaget model, which discourages analytical thinking through the assumption that children lack skills to think critically about history. My historical narrative inquiry model (1) teaches procedural knowledge …
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"Giving new meaning to ""Mound City"" landfills as a historical narrative of St. Louis, Missouri"
This thesis presents the position that waste management policies impact the physical urban fabric of a place, as well as its ecological environment, and cultural significance. It illustrates that landfills have shaped the built environment. Landscapes are often perceived as natural, though the …
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The great shout of the wolves’ mouth: Indigeneity, social change and historical narrative in the Ecuadorian Andes
This thesis is a historical ethnography of the parish of Simiatug, from the turn of the twentieth century to the present but focused mainly between 1970-2020. Simiatug is a rural parish located in the Bolívar province in the central highlands of Ecuador, where Kichwa indigenous communities, a major …
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A Historical Narrative on the Role of Mrs. Esther Brown in the Development of Desegregation Policy in Public Education
… in public education in the contemporary public narrative on desegregation policy in the early1950s, the challenges to the implementation of the desegregation of public education, and the local context that led to the national fight against desegregation. The significance of this study is to …
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Co-ordination of enterprise skill formation: a sociological and historical narrative of professional, market and state initiatives in South Africa
This thesis analyses the sociological and historical genesis of enterprise skill formation in South Africa and its effective coordination. South Africa’s late nineteenth century development as an emerging economy contributed to the state often taking the lead and being at the forefront of efforts …
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Desegregation in post-Brown Dallas, Texas: a historical narrative attributing the response and social activism efforts of African American Dallasites, 1950s-1970s
… Through the use of discourse analysis and narrative storytelling via: interviews, newspapers, handwritten letters, judicial proceedings, judge’s notes, scholastic assessments, audio recordings, and field reports, this investigative study examines how Dallas, a once segregated Southwestern …
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Ways of seeing women's history: an action research study of student responses to a document-based lesson sequence centring black women in a historical narrative
… additions to the traditionally male-centred narrative. Gaps identified in the disciplinary and critical approaches to teaching history provide a theoretical framework for foregrounding the necessity of examining the impact of affect in enabling as well as in obstructing student learning. …
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American pseudo-realism: the subversion of black agency in George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess (1935)
… as propaganda that has shaped the dominant historical narrative regarding American opera and the representation of blackness therein. Considering the opera both in its premiere iteration and as an institution of tokenization that has supplanted the equitable representation of black artists …
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Reputation versus Reality: An Oral History of Vidor, Texas
… memory study oral history project chronicles the historical narrative of Vidor and Vidorians based on oral histories of the interviewee’s point of view. It then highlights my mastery of relevant public history and oral history literature while reviewing the best practices of oral history as both a …
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"I'd Rather Be Forgotten Than Dishonored": An Oral and Life History Project with a Vietnam Veteran
… understand their experiences within the existing historical narrative. Using the life history of Warrant Officer James Scott, Hayley Hasik argues that Vietnam veterans—particularly helicopter pilots—are an underrepresented group that, through oral history, can provide an alternative narrative to …
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Narrating Jackson State: An Examination Of Power Relations And Mississippi Newspaper Coverage Of The 1970 Shootings At Jackson State College
… remains largely absent from the dominant historical narrative. This study posits that the contradictory accounts published by various Jackson-area news outlets blurred the lines between facts and subjective perspectives and as a consequence limited the resources used by historians to …
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Political textbooks in a political world: A case-study of an Estonian history textbook
… textbook and state. This study analyzes the narrative of an Estonian national history textbook produced in the mid 1990s and uses the product of that narrative analysis to map the shifting political winds as represented in the professional rhetoric of the Estonian head-of-state over the …
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The dinner party
… form highlights the process of constructing historical narrative, focusing on innovations and failures made by historical amateurs, connecting their work in various fields to my own interdisciplinary practice.
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Toward a rhetoric of symbolic reparations : overlapping genres in George W. Bush's apology for slavery.
… create an America which is mythic, rewrite the historical narrative with black agency responsible for emancipation, and begin a process of identification which is at the heart of reconciliation rhetoric. He both atones and engages image-restoration discourse, and in doing so, avoids many of the …
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HAIGHT-ASHBURY AND ITS CONTRIBUTION TO THE COUNTERCULTURE MOVEMENT
… and widely known. This thesis provides a themed historical narrative of the Haight-Ashbury, specifically about its role in the Counterculture Movement. There are three major themes that explore the history of both the Counterculture Movement and Haight-Ashbury. Significant planning and …
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Alfred Schnittke’s quest for a universal musical language in the Penitential Psalms (1987–88)
… Russia (988–1988). Given the vast scope of this historical narrative, Schnittke decided that his composition must take into account a wide range of textual and musical developments. The analysis of the work proceeds along two complimentary axes: a discussion of the historical antecedents of the …
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The International Monetary Fund and Social Safety Net Construction Failure in Indonesia 1997-1998
… in Indonesia from October 1997 until May 1998. A historical narrative using Constructivism as a theoretical framework is used to explain the relationship between the IMF, Suharto and the effect their interaction had on social safety net construction. This historical perspective reveals that rather …
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Translating historical documents of Longwood's lost interiors into a virtual reality representation of the rotunda
… would have looked like, if finished. Using the historical narrative inquiry method, this investigation sought to discover to what extent an accurate virtual representation could be created of Longwood’s rotunda based on existing primary and secondary resources.
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Whitewashing or amnesia: a study of the construction of race in two Midwestern counties
… dissertation utilizes sociological and historical research methods for a critical comparative analysis of the material culture as reproduced through murals and monuments located in two counties in Missouri, Bates County and Cass County. Employing Critical Race Theory as the theoretical …
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