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National literature indicative of national character
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Stendhal and Europe: The Portrayal of National Character and Cross-Cultural Consciousness in the Early Nineteenth Century
… materials, it aims to explore his perception of national character, and the role of inter-European dialogue in his realism. Part One hypothesizes the importance of national identities as integral to Stendhal's anthropological approach. It outlines how Stendhal's European consciousness is …
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The Role of Welsh Language Journalism in Shaping the Construction of Welsh Identity and the National Character of Wales.
… its own legal and banking systems and symbols of national identity were slow to appear. This thesis argues that, while many national institutions are relatively recent innovations, the Welsh language is the most potent symbol of national identity. More importantly, it argues that it was the …
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Truth, Justice and the American Way: Structure, Narrative and Nation in Tourist Performances in Salem, MA
… and parallelizing of various events and characters. These perspectives are analyzed for their broader insight into narratives of national character, examining the way in which national character can be examined not as an objective force influencing production of narratives but as a form …
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An MMPI-based study of the personality characteristics of three groups of South African students
… study is to investigate the specific personality characteristics of three groups of South African students, utilising the MMPI as the assessment tool. The study of South African subjects in an investigation of this type is important as it can assist in facilitating the understanding of the …
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High School Students' Perceptions fo the Treatment of the Mexican-American War in Textbooks: Results froma Private Bilingual Bicultural School in Mexico
… out anything that might reflect badly upon our national character” (Lowen, 1995, p. 13). The examination of Mexican and United States historical textbooks is a quantitative study. It focuses on high school students and their interpretations of historical textbook passages which particularly look …
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Sense of Humour and its Effects on Great Britain's Destination Image
… role in shaping Britishness, and British national character and national identity. It examines how BSOH, British society, and British culture contribute to Great Britain’s (GB’s) destination image and its attractiveness in tourists’ minds. In doing so, it makes an empirical contribution to …
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The State of Culture: Institutional Patrimony in Post -Revolutionary Mexico
… the articulation between ""the people"" and national culture is foregrounded as a governmental claim, a pursuit of popular allegiance and affiliation that while rhetorical has nevertheless solidified into ""truth."" The murals on permanent display in the Palacio de Bellas Artes (Palace of …
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"""They'll Not Love You if You're Witty"": The Literary Humor of American Women Before 1900"
… as to expose the male bias of definitions of the national character and its humor. It traces the tradition from precursors such as Anne Bradstreet, Sarah Kemble Knight, and Judith Sargent Murray to the literary humorists Frances Whitcher, Marietta Holley, and Kate Sanborn. Their lives and careers …
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A Comparative Study on Privatization and Public-Private Partnerships in the United States and China
… privatization in the United States have strong national character, they still have the meaning of guiding for China. Because China is at the initiative stage of implementing privatization, the legislation on privatization is relatively absent. To fill in the blanks in legislation on …
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The language of business interviewing:a study in cross-cultural communication
… conducted in the three countries in the national language of each country. The telephone interviews are transcribed and compared across languages to discover how managers from each country use different language functions to reply to questions and requests. These differences are assessed …
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Double Characters: The Making of American Nationalism in Kentucky, 1792--1833
This study investigates how Kentuckians employed nationalism as they negotiated the important political and social issues of the era. As residents of the first state in the trans-Appalachian West, many Kentuckians in the 1790s were antagonistic towards the new federal government to the point of …
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The ethos in the form making of grand projects in contemporary Beijing City
Capital cities embody national identity and ethos, buildings in the capital cities have the power to awe and to inspire. While possibly no capital city in the world is being renewed so intensely as Beijing, which presents both enormous potential and threat. Intrinsic to this research is a concept …
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The Low-Rodgers Expedition: a study in the foundations of U.S. policy in Korea
… fundamental regional issues of the times and the national character and interests of the United States and the Kingdom of Korea, this thesis: (1) Reveals, for the first time, the original 1871 diary of U.S. Minister to China, Frederick Ferdinand Low, and the wealth of new historical data therein: …
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Aspects of Maltese family life in the first half of the seventeenth century (with special reference to the Parish of Porto Salvo)
… complex system of society, of the vast shades of national character, of the practical operation of government and laws, he knows nothing. He who would understand these things rightly must not confine his observations to palaces and solemn days. He must see ordinary men as they appear in their …
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Human Rights in Postcommunism: Discourse and Parties in the Development of Religious Freedom
… that religion, where it is infused with a national character, is an institution that can be linked by elites to the nation (and prop up an 'established' church model of church-state relations) or be divested of its national prestige (to allow for a pluralist or separation model of …
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Musical knowledge, material practices and the body politic in eighteenth-century France
… of harmony as the summit of French genius and national character in mid-century. It also moves from the negotiation and dissemination of ideas of music through corporeal and material practices, to the uses of harmony as a model for envisaging an ideal socio-political order during the French …
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The Ethereal Promise: Progressive Ideology, Internationalism, and Propaganda In World War II Radio Drama
… act as a tool of progressive domestic and international reform to reshape the postwar world. Central to the ideology of progressive radio propagandists was the idea of incorporating the national character into an international perspective. I present an overview of theoretical modes of …
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A program evaluation of the character education program at a junior high school in Saint Louis County
… affected from the inception of a school-wide character education program to a national character education program recognition. A Pearson's Chi-square test of association was utilized because it is one of the most commonly used statistical approaches to repeated measures designs. The scope of …
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Abusua, age, and nation building in postcolonial Ghana, 1949-2000
… with that ideal as vital components of the national character. Instead of government planning, pronouncements, and policies as ultimate conveyors of a national identity, the extended family and community support system emerged as a wellspring of national values by the start of the …
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