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Showing 1 to 20 of 160 for “"Obama"”.
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Obama the Populist?
… is a rhetorical analysis of President Barack Obama's 2010 Cooper Union speech concerning financial industry reform. I argue in this thesis that Obama utilizes a populist persuasion in order to rally support for his financial reform legislation. Using Michael Kazin's theory on populist …
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White racial attitudes in the age of Obama
… nature of White racial attitudes in the age of Obama? This dissertation project seeks to answer this question in three distinct ways. The first empirical chapter examines the role of economic insecurity and education on White racial attitudes. The second empirical chapter evaluates the relative …
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El multilateralismo en la política exterior de Obama: el caso Libia
… cambio, la administración del presidente Barack Obama consideró que la estrategia adecuada para este caso era recurrir a la vía multilateral para conseguir el mandato del Consejo de Seguridad bajo la doctrina de responsabilidad de proteger, el apoyo de la comunidad internacional y formar una …
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A Framing Analysis and Model of Barack Obama in Political Cartoons
… analysis of 496 political cartoons of Barack Obama covering the time from his presidential candidacy through his first year as president. The proposed frames and identified framing devices are analyzed against the different stages of Obama's campaign and presidency as well as the ideological …
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After the honeymoon: The Obama effect on political attitudes and participation
… the possibility of a <em>lasting</em> Obama Effect on the political attitudes and behaviors of Obama supporters from 2008. Defining the Obama Effect as the extraordinary enthusiasm surrounding Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign, I argue that a <em>short term</em> Obama Effect was clearly …
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A Rhetorical Examination of the Barack Obama Phenomenon in the 2008 Presidential Campaign
… the popular press in describing and elucidating Obama’s rhetoric during the 2008 Presidential Campaign by closely examining four speeches, their contexts within the campaign, and the commentary surrounding them to give a richer account of what exactly could be called Obama’s “rhetoric.” Moving …
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Shifting Away From Cold War Nuclear Thinking? Nuclear Strategy under the Obama Administration
… of Cold War nuclear thinking. Despite the Obama administration’s pledge to shift away from the legacies of the Cold War, this concept still seems to be relevant to describe many aspects of the current U.S. nuclear weapons policy (although in some cases this might not be a bad thing, and in …
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Reducing the threat of nuclear terrorism--a report card on the Obama administration's efforts
This thesis seeks to explain if President Barack Obama's efforts to reduce nuclear terrorism have had a meaningful impact. Key areas of observation include how well efforts have been implemented and how effectively the president has fostered domestic and international support. Early in his …
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Access to Success: Truman, Obama, and the Evolution of Presidential Agendas for Community Colleges
… on Higher Education and President Barack Obama's 2009 American Graduation Initiative, to understand how the federal government's mission for community colleges has evolved from one of student access to student success over the past 65 years. Using John W. Kingdon's agenda setting model, …
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Priming Bush (vs. Obama) increases favorable evaluations of American brands: An intersubjective value perspective
… of iconic American businesses and priming Obama decreases it, despite the fact that Americans generally like Obama more and do not endorse the values Bush and American businesses represent (Study 2).
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The post-racial imaginary: Visual logics of race in the Obama and Trump eras
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-12-04 without embargo terms
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A policy story of continuity and change : reflections on the Obama Administration's Metropolitan Agenda
President Obama was sworn into office on January 20, 2009 and within the first month of his presidency, against a backdrop of staggering concerns about financial reform, energy efficiency, and the need to allocate $787 billion dollars of stimulus funds, he began to focus the form and function of …
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U.S. Senate Deliberations on the War Powers Resolution during the Bush and Obama Administrations
… Democratic Administration of President Barack Obama. Both administrations were involved in multiple deployments of U.S. forces abroad, and experienced opposition from both parties. The study found that Democrats displayed consistency across both administrations, indicating a preference for …
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Forging a New Democratic Party: The Politics of the Third Way From Clinton to Obama
… a quarter century – stretching from Clinton to Obama and possibly beyond.
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Discourse and Conflict: The President Barack H. Obama Birth Certificate Controversy and the New Media
… public dissent in the case of President Barack Obama’s eligibility controversy. This non-fiction narrative culminates with the author’s analysis and observations on both his personal experiences and the state of public speech and political power in contemporary America.</p>
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Continuing inequity : the conveyance of white supremacy in the education policy speeches of President Barack Obama
… addresses and statements of President Barack Obama knowingly or unknowingly continue practices and policies of white supremacy within educational policy and practice by constructing education in a neoliberal frame. With his promotion of school choice, quantifiable teacher quality, academic …
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Richard Wright, James Baldwinn e Barack Obama : da ficção às narrativas autobiográficas e o dilema americano
… por último, o atual presidente americano, Barack Obama, cuja autobiografia é bem contemporânea. O tema central da nossa investigação é tentar perceber que evolução histórica, que sintomas evolutivos, ao nível da questão racial, se foram registando na sociedade americana, e que se podem detetar, …
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