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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Indignation"”.
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"The Indignation of Freedom-Loving People": Emotion, Politics, and the Brooks-Sumner Affair
… and political history by exploring the role of indignation in antebellum American politics, focusing on the northern reaction to the May 1856 caning of Charles Sumner. The study begins by situating indignation in its nineteenth-century cultural context. A respectable type of anger, indignation …
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Satire in Chaucer
… when his "high seriousness" was whipped into the indignation of a true satirist by the existing evils of his day? These and many more questions beg research as soon as the term "satire" is linked with the name of the Father of English Poetry.
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The effects of cultural orientation on perceptions of power threat
… of power, responded with a greater sense of indignation, and were more likely to seek high status products to compensate for this power loss. The responses of consumers with other cultural orientations revealed distinct power associations that did not reflect personal power threat. Together, …
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Undestanding dishonest behavior: what motivates it, how to prevent it, and how people respond to it
… as liars are surprised and react with moral indignation. Much of the research on lying focuses on the lie-teller, whereas the lie-receiver remains understudied. We provide an overarching view of how people respond to possible lies and articulate the motivations behind those responses. We find …
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The Heart of the Sectional Conflict: Emotion, Politics, and the Coming of the American Civil War
… back into its cultural context. Emotions such as indignation, jealousy, and grief were deeply embedded in antebellum understandings of religious piety, political theory, and moral judgment and the ways in which antebellum Americans interpreted these feelings were deeply influenced not only by …
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Childhood Chronic Illness: Impact on Well Siblings
… toward the children. This reaction is often indignation but may be envy, jealousy or sorrow. Making Nice is giving a deceptively attractive or explanation for an uncomfortable or unappealing experience. These children "gloss over" the burdens or difficulties in their lives, dealing with the …
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Conflict and Reconciliation: Representations of Christianity in Contemporary Native American Literature by Women
… expressions of anger, consternation, and indignation over the ravages of colonization and Christianity’s participation in it. The same texts offer creative expressions of possibility and hope for a future marked by distinctive Native American cultural contributions and a revised and …
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Acting from character : how virtue and vice explain praise and blame
… character but do not warrant resentment or indignation; blameworthy actions call for these attitudes. But I argue there is no privileged part of our psychology that can serve the role of 'ethical character' as it appears in the proposal. A better view falls out of the second chapter. On my …
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Essays on Race in Policing
… policing controversies have led to global indignation over racial disparities in policing and perceived police brutality. This paper explores three different dimensions of race in policing. The first chapter of this dissertation examines whether the presence of female and minority police …
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Trade liberalisation vs public morality : can the European Union seal ban be justified under the GATT Article XX (a)?
… a Member State purely based on moral beliefs and indignation.
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Satire in Oliver Goldsmith's The citizen of the world
… intense emotions of moral contempt and righteous indignation, the unacceptable examples of vice and folly, the emphasis on man's responsibility for his own actions, and the normative values-generate satire that is, at least in several respects, moral, moderate, reasonable, amusing, and powerful. …
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English privateering during the Spanish and French wars, 1625-1630
… expedition to Cadiz in 1625, the opposition and indignation felt against Buckingham exploded in 1626 with an attempt to impeach him. In 1628, parliament refused to consider any motion concerning supply until the crown accepted the Petition of Right. Relations between crown and parliament failed …
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The New England Emigrant Aid Company and the response in Massachusetts to its goals and efforts to create a free Kansas, 1854-1856
<p>A wave of indignation and shock swept over the North following Stephen A. Douglas' introduction of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill in the United States Senate in January, 1854. The South conceded Nebraska to the North, because of the Territory's geographic proximity to Northern transportation routes …
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Iconoclasm in modern British drama
… Morning, and The Churchill Play can only arouse indignation in the audience and not a renunciation of received images. As I have shown, many spectators and critics were offended by, say, Arden's treatment of Nelson or Bond's degradation of Queen Victoria and William Shakespeare. The audience …
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Chinese Spirit, Russian Soul, and American Materialism: Images of America in Twentieth-Century Chinese and Russian Travelogues
… technological and economic power is paired with indignation over the social problems plaguing the richest country in the world. Second, all writers underscore the natural beauty of the United States and the innovative genius of its people. Third, ideology plays equally significant roles in both …
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Understanding political and citizen participation on digital platforms for civic mobilization. Analysis of cyber-activism in Spain through Change.org
… participation in Spain. Citizens display their indignation with the political elite and public institutions and aim to find new opportunities to get involved in the democratic community (Stoker, 2006; Hay, 2007; Presno Linera, 2012; Innerarity, 2016). In this context, cyber-activism provides an …
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Love, self-constitution, and practical necessity
… always have third-personal analogues (such as indignation). In contrast, I argue that the type of hurt feelings associated with love is a second-personal reactive attitude that does not have a third-personal corollary. I take this as evidence that the expectations involved in love are not …