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Showing 1 to 20 of 250 for “"Misunderstanding"”.
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The United States and Paraguay, 1845-1860: Misunderstanding, Miscalculation, and Misconduct
… an Impasse over a period of years because of misunderstandings, miscalculations, and the misconduct of the governments and agents of both nations. The culmination of these events was the dispatching of a large United states naval force to Paraguay.</p> <p>The object of this paper is to explore …
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Dissecting the Charrúa Extinction Narrative in 2025: Dissonance, Hope, and Misunderstanding
In this thesis, I will discuss my research on the indigenous Charrúa people of Uruguay. My goal was to explore the perception of the general public and Charrúa themselves surrounding the Charrúa extinction narrative. My fieldwork consisted of eleven interviews with indigenous activists, artists, …
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Cross-cultural linguistic politeness: Misunderstanding between Arabs and British speakers of English.
This research investigates misunderstanding between Arabs and native speakers of English in verbal interaction. It examines the factors that might influence understanding and interpretations of politeness in interactants' linguistic utterances at the cultural and contextual levels. Its main …
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"Racism is a misunderstanding": Rhetorically listening to white students' performances of race
<p>This study describes white student talk about race in terms of performance. I show what white talk regarding race looked like in my study, thus inviting the reader to reflect on her own experiences in terms of performativity and common sense. Recognizing student talk as a complex performance …
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United States-Russian Relations, March Through November 1917: A Study of Misunderstanding
This paper will study the relationship between the newly established Russian Provisional Government and the United States, March through November of 1917. The purpose of this study is to describe the diplomatic relations between the two governments and to illuminate the shortcomings of the United …
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Counting Errors: How Misunderstanding of China's Local Population and Employment Counts Affects Economic Analysis
… employment and local per capita income. This misunderstanding of China’s local population and employment counts may lead researchers astray and could contribute to wrong conclusions and mistaken policy implications. An analogous error would be to study the economic geography of, say, the …
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Communication, John Dewey's Sacred Quest: The Pragmatic Church and Catholic Pragmatism
… addressed was denoted by Stephen Rockefeller, a misunderstanding of John Dewey’s religious philosophy by fundamentalists. The point of departure is one which Dewey himself suggested in his eulogy for William James. This work explores the reasons and causes for the misunderstanding as well as …
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A Model That Combines IRT and Latent Class Models
… whether that is rule of operations or particular misunderstanding, or to give descriptive information of knowledge possessed by examinees. The Latent Class models require severe constraints, namely possession of complete knowledge of latent classes, and has the indeterminacy of number of ordered …
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36 Yellow Fields to One White Rhino
… truth, ugliness and beauty, geography and home, misunderstanding and understanding, autobiography and the political, among others. </p>
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"Excellent Propaganda" Zbigniew Brzezinski's Narrative for the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
… those objectives, and how important his willful misunderstanding of Soviet intentions in Afghanistan was to the legacy of America’s involvement in that nation’s affairs.</p>
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Exploring the value of 'The Rwandan genocide Film' as a pedagogical tool for raising awareness
… represent. This scrutiny is accompanied with a misunderstanding of what exactly genocide films are. I will be looking at four thematic topics to alleviate this misunderstanding: how the films represent the history of Rwanda and the genocide; physical violence and death during the genocide; the …
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In search of the whole story: a reconstruction of organisational communication
… provides insight into how interpretation and misunderstanding are shared. This thesis grows out of awareness that, over the past five years or so, the way in which an organisation can use, share and disseminate corporate stories.
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Beethoven’s an die Ferne Geliebte
… the writer hopes to dispel some of this misunderstanding of Beethoven's vocal music.
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Breathing Through the Night
… author examines the moments of understanding and misunderstanding, the moments of fear, coping, and relief that occur during her husband’s deployment to Iraq and upon his return. The experiences of this military family serve as a magnifying lens through which the author explores means of coping …
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In Defense of the Individual: Jean-Paul Satre's Quest for Authenticity
<p>This thesis aims to prevent the possible misunderstanding that Sartre’s philosophy is solely pessimistic. It is my position Sartre the individual is not destined to impotence and isolation. Rather, the individual, for Sartre, is ultimately the bearer of significant meaning, an agent of …
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Alfven-Rossby Waves in Rotating Magnetized Stars
… Hamiltonian methodology, we clarified a common misunderstanding of the origin of kinematic drifts. We studied the weakly nonlinear interactions between linear Alfven-Rossby waves. We used a spherical harmonic representation in which the fully nonlinear MHD equations are replaced by an equivalent …
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Presidential power and constitutional public administration.
… management and oversight is the result of a misunderstanding of the separation of powers promulgated and institutionalized during the Progressive-Era in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Viewing the separation of powers as primarily a system of checks and balances that inhibited …
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How to Use Literature in the Second Language Classroom
… They also help to decrease the risks of misunderstanding, which is often rooted in unknown cultural differences. The aim of language teaching is to raise adaptable, tolerant and sensitive citizens, and literature and culture contribute to this process.
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Data-Driven Database Education: A Quantitative Study of SQL Learning in an Introductory Database Course
… and errors, identify common areas of student misunderstanding, and investigate the student problem-solving process. We present an interactive web application used by students to complete SQL lab exercises. In addition, we analyze data collected by this application and we offer suggestions for …
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