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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"Outrage"”.
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"With ""homage and outrage"": Man Ray and the dangerous woman"
One of the most striking aspects of Man Ray's oeuvre is the artist's fascination with the unmediated female presence and his need to manipulate and control its image. To him, male and female interaction meant conflict and confrontation, and he often used game metaphors and Sadian imagery to express …
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Cleansing Our Recycling Failures: How Guilt and Outrage Lead to Different Types of Pro-Environmental Behavior
… eliciting moral emotions (i.e., guilt and outrage), and motivating compensatory behavior (such as increased recycling). Three studies examined whether watching a video about poor recycling in the U.S. triggers a moral cleansing process. In all studies, participants first reported the extent …
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Art, outrage, dialogue: a McLuhan reading of three visual communicative practices in Cape Town public space
This mini-dissertation places a specific focus on the City of Cape Town and considers the space between aesthetics, commercial interest and social relevance in public visual communication practices. Instead of making a general statement or providing a value judgement, this research examines the …
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Moral Outrage Moderates the Relationships Between System Perception, System Justification, and Intergroup Helping Behavior: A Multigroup Approach
… 2009; Wakslak et al., 2007). Specifically, moral outrage, comprised of anger directed at systems, may attenuate the effects of system perceptions on system justification beliefs. As such experiencing moral outrage about socioeconomic inequality in the US should result in both decreases in …
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Standards, Shame, and Outrage: A Rhetorical History of Sexual Assault and Policy Change in the US Military
The purpose of this study is to examine the discourse surrounding sexual assault and policy change in the U.S. military. As rhetoricians continue to embrace public sphere theory, the field has started asking what rhetoric's role is in solving public problems. My research questions were twofold: how …
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Contamination Running Deep: Oral Histories of Environmental Racism, Injustice, and Outrage of One Family in a Southern African-American Community
This is an inquiry into oral histories of five members of my family that are residents of a southern African American community, Hyde Park located in Augusta, Georgia. These members of my family, Eunice Jordan, Sharon Wells, Ernest Jordan, DeWanna Jordan, and Darius Jordan, have endured the …
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Where Was the Outrage? The Lack of Public Concern for the Increasing Sensationalism in Marvel Comics in a Conservative Era 1978-1993
… encouraged homosexuality. The concerns caused outrage that was encouraged by the press. As a result, comic books adopted a form of self-censorship through the Comic Code Authority. The censorship combined with challenges from other media collapsed the comic book market until the next decade. …
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Winning Hearts and Minds: Using "Ag-Gag" Outrage and Corporate Rebranding to Achieve a Public Image Makeover for the Animal Rights Movement
<p>Despite limited legal victories—particularly in the realm of companion animal protections—the animal rights movement has failed to make substantial progress in other focal areas, including the acquisition of increased rights for food animals on factory farms. The public image of the movement has …
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Comparing extrinsic and intrinsic processes of whistle-blowing: a multi-method approach
… negative outcomes, or because they were morally outraged, i.e., they experienced anger upon witnessing the wrongdoing. I adopted a sequential mixed methods design consisting of two distinct phases: Quantitative survey followed by qualitative semi-structured interviews with some of the survey …
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The Morally Contaminating (and Motivating) Influence of Hate Groups in the U.S.
… thesis, we explore how people react with moral outrage and moral cleansing toward hate groups’ moral transgressions of racial egalitarianism—a strong sacred value among those who desire group-based equality. Across two experiments, we find that people perceive hate groups as immoral social …
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Blame, Desert, And Termination
… respond when an employee is the subject of mass outrage due to performing some allegedly immoral conduct outside the workplace. Since managers often feel pressure to respond swiftly in such scenarios, it is important that they have clarity about the normative issues. The first step of the …
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Language Models as Opinion Models: Techniques and Applications
… stages of a news event and (ii) sustains greater outrage than radio – despite radio’s often explicitly outrage-focused business model. To our knowledge, this is the first large-scale, data-driven comparison between Twitter and traditional media of both outrage levels and the rate of decay of …
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Poetry and politics on the American homefront, 1914-1918
… towards the war, as they moved steadily from outrage at the war and professed neutrality to advocacy of American intervention. This shift is apparent in anthologies published by the major Eastern presses, which by 1917 contrasted the righteous Allies with the barbarous Central Powers and, …
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Protocolo y Ordenación de Banderas. Repercusión Mediática en la Prensa Española
… the news as a breach of the legislation, the outrage to flags or the absence of use. Institutions and groups generate these situations in different communication scenarios to convey their messages to society. To achieve these goals, we will analyze 190 news that comprise the corpus of this …
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Why We Are Angry: Rearticulating Fisher's Narrative Paradigm with Interactivity and Hypertext
… Singh in New Delhi, India sparked international outrage leading to numerous protests. Singh’s story raised many questions regarding sexual violence and rape culture in India. We Are Angry is a digital narrative that responds to sexual assault and misogyny in India through the story of a victim …
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Sexual politics and resistance to law reform: a critique of the South African Law Commission report on women and sexual offences in South Africa
… towards a heightened sense of public anxiety and outrage. Slabbert has argued convincingly that during this period the South African public experienced a “moral panic” regarding rape. Public concern extended to concern for the fate of rape victims and their treatment by the criminal justice …
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Morality and money: a look at how the respectable community battled the sporting community over prostitution in Kansas cowtowns, 1867-1885
… of that vice fostered immediate and often outraged citizen protests. Much of the history of cattle towns in Kansas is therefore the story of “respectable” citizens fighting the vice in their midst. This thesis examines Abilene, Kansas, in particular, and especially focuses upon one peculiar …
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The Role of Herbert Hoover in the Formulation of the American Response to the Far Eastern Crisis of 1931-1932
… business interests to prosper, to show moral outrage at Japanese aggression, and to avoid direct confrontation with Japan. Stimson executed these policies. Although war was avoided in 1932, the policies formulated in this period failed to stop Japanese aggression.
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Public Support For Stricter Gun Control Laws In America Following The Tragedy At Sandy Hook Elementary
… witnessed a considerable increase in public outrage and debates regarding gun control laws, due in large part to several mass shootings across the nation. The purpose of this study is to explore how mass shootings influence attitudes toward gun control. More specifically, this study will …
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With All Deliberate Speed : The Pearsall Plan and School Desegregation in North Carolina, 1954-1966.
… closing of public schools as a result of public outrage, the Pearsall Plan transferred control of pupil assignments, along with the power to request the closing of schools, to local school boards. The decentralization of desegregation allowed communities to determine the level of social change …
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