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Showing 1 to 20 of 122 for “"Memorials"”.
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Traditional war memorials and postmodern memory
… in Ottawa. Although literature on Canadian war memorials is plentiful, the memorials have been primarily discussed in terms of their production and meaning within an historical context. As we enter a new millennium, it is time to look at our abundant heritage of twentieth-century war memorials …
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Roadside Memorials in Five South Central Kentucky Counties
Roadside memorials in Allen, Barren, Butler, Edmonson, and Warren Counties in south central Kentucky mark the sites of automobile fatalities. These informal memorials are construced by family or friends of the deceased. Thirty-one memorials are found throughout these five counties. The majority of …
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Memorial Craze: How War Memorials have been Changed by War
<p>This thesis project argues that memorials constructed after 9/11 were designed specifically in a way that privileged and focused on the dead individually. By taking a look at memorials throughout American history, the study of memorialization sets up the stage for the way the lives of ordinary …
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Planning School Memorials: Feedback from the Columbine Memorial Planning Committee
… previous research on the topic of planning memorials is extremely limited, even more so for school-based memorials. More information is needed to guide practice. As a starting point, this thesis provides a brief overview of childhood and adolescent grief, a historical overview of how …
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Their throats were constricted: nationalism, history, and memorials in Nana Rao Park
… for recreation, but it also houses a group of memorials that work to reinforce certain narratives. Today, the memorials tell the story of the 1857 Rebellion through the lens of Indian nationalism. Before Indian Independence in 1947, however, the park operated as a space to ideologically …
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Networked Memorialization: Victims Of Communism Memorials In Germany, Russia, And The U.s.
This dissertation examines victims of communism memorials in Germany, Russia, and the U.S. to shed light on the current state of Cold War collective memory. Drawing on literature in communication and memory studies, I articulate a key set of taken for question assumptions about the nature of war …
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Cambodian Genocide Museums And Memorials: A Medium For Transmitting Intergenerational Cultural Memory
This paper, based on field research and oral interviews with museum attendees in the United States and Cambodia, examines the role of four memorial museums in promoting shared intergenerational cultural memory from the Cambodian genocide. I focus on four sites: the Cambodian American Heritage …
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The Creation of Roadside Memorials: Art Therapy in Response to Sudden and Traumatic Loss
… clearly has more than one function. Roadside memorials help the bereaved deal with their grief on a more manageable level by providing containment and focus for their grief, symbolic representation of the lost relationship, and a way to continue the bonds that have been severed by death.</p>
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Consequential ground: Memorials of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in Romantic culture 1793-1877
… of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars what memorials of the wars have we inherited? And who bequeathed that inheritance to posterity? From the Victorian monuments that remain, it would seem that the heritage of war was coherently patriotic and evidence of a pro-war, pro-victory popular …
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On stage at the theatre of state: the monuments and memorials in Parliament Square, London
This thesis concerns Parliament Square in the City of Westminster, London. It is situated to the west of the Houses of Parliament (or New Palace at Westminster) and to the north of St. Margaret’s Church and Westminster Abbey. This urban space was first cleared at the start of the nineteenth-century …
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The May 4, 1970 Kent State University shootings: Thirty years of myths, memorials and commemorations
… and analyze the rhetoric relevant to the myths, memorials and commemorations for the students killed and injured at Kent State University. This exploratory process focused on the events from 1970 until the present. The research was conducted through personal interviews with eyewitnesses, wounded …
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An empirical exploration of the use of narrative, symbol, and ritual in creating Christian marital memorials
… examines narrative, symbol, ritual, and memorials as a selection of Scripture's methods for "heart writing" or relationship building. These methods correspond to various uses of the Hebrew root zakhar, for "remember." Following the examination of Scripture's methods of "heart writing" …
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Fight at the Museum: An Ethnographic Study Investigating Staff and Volunteers at WWII Museums and Memorials
… WWII as told in prominent national museums and memorials located in Japan and the U.S. Following Japanese anthropologist Takahashi Fujitani (1997), I explore how different representations of major events such as the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 and the use of atomic weapons against …
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Realms of Remembered Violence: The Emergence of Mass Murder Memorials in the United States, 1986-2012
… the new tradition of creating mass murder memorials in the United States at the turn of the twenty-first century. Using written and oral history sources in combination with memorial designs, I explore the planning processes undertaken by five different communities: Virginia Tech, Columbine, …
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Roadside Memorial Practices: An Examination of Landscapes of Commemoration in Warren County, Kentucky
Roadside memorials commemorating the death of automobile crash victims are scattered throughout the Kentucky landscape. This persistent cultural practice contains symbolic elements oftentimes indicative of religious connotations. Because there is a constitutional separation of church and government …
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People Like Me : Analyzing Universal Themes of the Holocaust Through a Culture-Specific Lens
… to communicate its universality. At Holocaust memorials around the world, educators make strategic rhetorical choices in pursuit of this imperative. However, as communicators present narratives, documentation, and visual rhetoric at memorials, they filter each message through a unique cultural …
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