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Showing 1 to 20 of 74 for “"Iraq War"”.
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The psychological health of veterans of the 2003 Iraq war
… describes a nested cross-sectional study of Iraq War veterans who deployed in the main war-fighting period of the war (TELIC 1) and those in the UK military during the Iraq War, but who did not deploy at that time. Participants were drawn from a large UK military cohort, stratified by …
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Marketing the Iraq War: Manifest Content Analysis of US Executive Framing
… continuing reign of Saddam Hussein\'s regime in Iraq. Through analysis of individual and group contributions to the three dominant themes created by the executive leadership, namely, the link between the regime of Saddam Hussein and terrorism, the pursuit of weapons of mass destruction, and the …
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A belief analysis of the build-up to the 2003 Iraq War
… project aims to analyse the build-up to the 2003 Iraq war from a doxastic perspective, taking the nuclear and terror belief propositions as the paradigm of the professed rationale for the war. The Bush administration expressed a belief in favour of the given rationale under conditions …
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Making the news: the media and the movement against the Iraq war
… of unusual media behaviour. The 2003 Iraq War precipitated a series of demonstrations of unprecedented scale in a cause that often had majority support and challenged the authority of the government. The media’s well documented tendency to marginalise or ignore protest was at least …
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Wounded Hegemon: The 2003 Iraq War and George W. Bush's Grand Strategy of Primacy
The 2003 Iraq War stands as one of the most consequential events in the post-Cold War period and yet its causes remain its least understood aspect. This project aims to add to existing discussions by providing a more comprehensive understanding of the war. Using neoclassical realism as its …
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Effectiveness of a psychosocial rehabilitation programme for Iraqi repatriated prisoners of the Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988
The literature related to war captivity has reported that most former prisoners of war are still distressed by memories of traumatic experiences of their capture and captivity decades after repatriation. In addition, the earliest investigations of the effects of this traumatic experience on those …
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Military Women A Content Analysis of United States and United Kingdom Newspapers Portrayal During the Iraq War.
… how the tone and roles of women serving in the Iraq War were portrayed in newspaper articles. Issues of how women in the military were portrayed in terms of page and story prominence were also of importance.</p><p>A content analysis was conducted in order to determine the tone, roles, story, and …
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Last Letters Home: The Forgotten Voices of Iranian Volunteer Soldiers During the Iran-Iraq War (1980 - 1988)
… of Iranian Volunteer Soldiers During the Iran-Iraq War (1980 - 1988) Abstract This study focuses on the writings of Iranian volunteer soldiers during the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-88, particularly their will letters. The research explores the motivations and objectives of these soldiers by …
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Last Letters Home: The Forgotten Voices of Iranian Volunteer Soldiers During the Iran-Iraq War (1980 - 1988)
… of Iranian Volunteer Soldiers During the Iran-Iraq War (1980 - 1988) Abstract This study focuses on the writings of Iranian volunteer soldiers during the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-88, particularly their will letters. The research explores the motivations and objectives of these soldiers by …
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Being and Becoming a U.S. Iraq War Veteran: An Exploration of the Social Construction of an Emerging Identity
… this study was, "What is the culture of the Iraq War veteran?" <bold>Study Aim:</bold> The purpose of this study was to describe, from social constructivist perspective, Operation Iraqi Freedom [OIF] veteran cultural identity development. <bold>Study Design and Method:</bold> A qualitative, …
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Comics and Conflict: War and Patriotically Themed Comics in American Cultural History From World War Ii Through the Iraq War
… children, a form of escape.</p><p>As World War II began, however, comic books became an integral part of war propaganda as well providing information and education for both children and adults. This dissertation looks at how specific comic books of the war genre have been used to display …
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How To Find What's Lost When What's Lost Is You: The Presence of Disappearing Bodies in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq War Literature
… disappearing bodies in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq war literature. The term “disappearing body” has several connotations. Disappearing bodies refers to throwaway or neglected bodies, bodies that routinely absorb into the landscape. Women and African Americans typically fall into this category, …
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Do You See What I See?: A Comparative Content Analysis of Iraq War Photographs As Published In the New York Times and the Tehran Times
… and differences in the framing of the 2003 Iraq War. The portrayal of Coalition force soldiers, Iraqi soldiers and Iraqi civilians were examined in 2003 editions of the New York Times and the Tehran Times. There were no significant differences in the overall portrayal of these groups; it was …
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Reconstructing the War in Iraq: Post-9/11 American War Fiction in Dialogue with Official-Media Discourse
This project examines American-authored Iraq War fiction within the context of public discourse. Given that modern, industrialized warfare is as much created by and through official-media discourse as represented by it, fictional accounts of Iraq exist not outside or separate from this discourse …
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Degrees of Access: Factors Preventing Wide-Scope Coverage of the Iraq War by Embedded Reporters--From "Shock and Awe" to "Mission Accomplished" (March 21 - May 1, 2003)
… units during the first two months of the Iraq War (2003-) dealt with a number of impediments the combination of which was previously unseen in the history of war reporting. These included physical proximity, bonding, and shared peril with American soldiers, informal self-censorship based …
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Writing US identities in the wars without frontlines: literary perspectives on the Persian Gulf and Iraq wars
For many cultural commentators, the Persian Gulf War (1990-1991) signalled a new era in which technological advances transformed warfare into what Jean Baudrillard refers to as a virtual experience epitomised by “surgical strikes” and “smart-bombs”. In contrast, the Iraq War (2003-2009) was hailed …
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The Effect of the Sunni-Shi'a Conflict in Shaping Arab Countries' Response to the Shi'a Crescent and a Nuclearizing Iran
… the first time in Arab-Islamic history, when the Iraq War removed Saddam Hussein's Sunni regime from power in Iraq. This rise of Shi'as' political power in Iraq overlapped with the "re-revolutionizing” of Iran in 2005, as Shi'ite fundamentalists regained power in Iran and accelerated its nuclear …
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‘History Engraved on his Shoulder’: A Comparative Study of the Influence of British First World War Poetry on Post 1980 Iraqi War Poetry "embargoed indefinitely"
Abstract This study aims to compare British war poetry of the First World War with Iraqi poetry from the mid-20th century with special reference to Iraqi war poetry of the 1980’s Iraq-Iran War and the period that followed it. It will also investigate the influence of the designated British war …
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Testing American public opinion on the work of the United Nations
… United Nations? Social scientists have put forward an array of viewpoints on the subject, focusing on such things as partisan differences in the attitudes of Americans towards the work of the UN to public skepticism of the organization’s objectives and effectiveness. I argue, in this thesis, …
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Displaced narratives of Iranian migrants and refugees: constructions of self and the struggle for representation
… after the 1979 revolution; the Iran and Iraq war; and Iranians who are recent arrivals in Australia. The narratives of the participants are particularly influenced and contextualized by the 1979 revolution, the 1980 to 1988 Iran and Iraq War and the post 9/11 political framework. It is …
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