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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Parades"”.
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Imagining a New Belfast: Municipal Parades in Urban Regeneration
… sketches an outline of the process that produces parades, and examines the motivations and intentions behind them. It finds that parades function within a negotiated process of "place-making" to convey idealized visions of a peaceful "New Belfast". In particular the tropes of multiculturalism and …
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Evaluating the fairness of identification parades with measures of facial similarity
… concerns the evaluation of 'identification parades', or 'lineups', which are frequently used by police to secure evidence of identification. It is well recognised that this evidence is frequently unreliable, and has led on occasion to tragic miscarriages of justice. A review of South African …
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Politics on parade : immigration, ethnicity and national identity in Chicago, IL
Parades are many things. They are treasured annual traditions, community gatherings, expressions of identity and pride. Parades interrupt the daily flow of city life, rerouting traffic, crowding sidewalks and public transportation, and interrupting business activities. Parades are revealing. They …
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"Walking the Queen's highway": ideology and cultural landscape in Nothern Ireland
… attempt to forestall and combat loyalist parades through their neighborhoods, while loyalists insist on their “right to walk the Queen’s highway” within the “Queen’s domain.” Loyalists claim that the nationalists misunderstand their intentions, and that their parades celebrate their …
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Party Like It's A Pandemic!
… social interaction. The term drive-by-birthday parades is defined as individuals gathered in decorated vehicles to celebrate a particular individual. The term virtual parties are broader as it represents the gathering of individuals over a communications platform such as zoom, for the purpose of …
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The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker: investigating facial recognition for multiple-perpetrator crimes
… procedure for administering multiple-suspect parades is poorly defined. Furthermore, eyewitnesses must make multiple identifications, and are tasked with a unique memory problem of perpetrator-role assignment. I studied these problems in the following ways: (a) a survey among South African …
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Working Towards the Sustainability of New Orleans’ African American Indigenous Cultural Traditions
… Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs and second line parades were born out of the disenfranchisement of the African American community. Though the practices have existed for over a century and provide social benefits, they have faced hostility from the police department, indifference from elected …
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Singing for Blaine and for Logan! Republican Songs as Campaign Literature in the 1884 Presidential Race
… as a campaign tactic at rallies, meetings, and parades. Their songs may be divided into several categories, such as rally songs, songs of praise for the party and its candidate, "bloody shirt" songs, mudslinging songs, and issue-based songs. Songs provide a perspective on the overall tenor of …
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Automatic assessment of voice similarity and its implications for forensic applications
… for forensic speaker recognition, or voice parades and earwitness assessments. In the past decade, the collection of speech has become much easier, offering the opportunity to assess the suitability of large quantities of speakers for such purposes. However, manual assessment of voices by a …
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The Spirit of Columbus: Civil War Memory in the Fountain City, 1865-1880
… and 1880 was marked by organization of military parades and speech readings during Confederate Memorial Day, and fundraising projects for the creation of the Columbus monument. No research has been done on the work of Columbus’ Ladies Memorial Association. This work is a historic narrative on the …
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Politics, patriotism, pageantry : performing power at the Texas Cotton Palace, 1910-1930.
… political perpetuation of the pastoral ideal in parades and visual rhetoric, Uncle Sam's rousing wartime displays of patriotism in the form of battle reenactments and the prominence of service members in key events, and the Queen of Waco's endorsement of the community elite through the …
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Commemorations and Ethnicity: Victory Day Celebrations Among Elderly Russian Jews in Brooklyn
… the emphasis on Victory has shifted in the local parades and social events in south Brooklyn, where those who celebrate it publicly express an ethnicity and identity that is distinctive to their shared past as Russian-speaking Jews from the former Soviet Union.</p>
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Changing Tactics, Changing Identities: Woman’s Suffrage Protests in Washington, D.C., 1913-1920
… The photographs were separated into two groups: parades/pageants from 1913-1917 and picketing from 1917-1920. Content analysis was used to analyze the photographs in order to determine which identity, civic or feminine, suffragists embraced. The analysis of photographs from the women’s suffrage …
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Tippecanoe and the Party Press Too: Mass Communication, Politics, Culture, and the Fabled Presidential Election of 1840
… not notably deceptive, much less fraudulent. The parades, songs and hoopla that the Whigs sponsored were not new, nor were they the province of only one party that year. Democrats were neither listless nor baffled: in fact their vote total on behalf of President Martin Van Buren was much larger …
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Architecture, festival and order: the history and persistence in the Florentine Feast of San Giovanni and its significance to the city's civic identity
… - every year church processions and civic parades have been augmented by a series of other events that together combine to represent the city to itself and to others. This re-presentation is not a mask that conceals Florence’s "true" identity, or one that invents something that is not …
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Crumbs To Keep Them Full: Neoliberal Spectacle at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
… and the role of advertising. Unlike many other parades and cultural festivals in the world, opposing values and points of view are placed side by side, meant to be consumed as a single package. This thesis argues that today neoliberal ideology engulfs the annual event, as seen in part through …
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Mirages Solidified: Myth, Beautification, and Tourism in the Creation of Santa Barbara's El Pueblo Viejo Landmark District
… twentieth centuries. While many of the pageants, parades, and public displays that defined this regional movement now reside in the pages of history, some architectural examples from this period are still visible today. In many cities, these examples are scattered throughout the community; while …
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Bill -n- (kris'tl) at OSB, Chicago
… espresso, deadlines, ambulances, whistles, bars, parades, politics, dogs barking, news at nine ... bombard the senses. Within this environment the individual must insulate perceptions to cognitively organize the stimulus. Consequently a psychological ambivalence is procured and sensual experiences …
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ORANGEWOMEN SHOW THEIR COLORS: GENDER, FAMILY, AND ORANGEISM IN ULSTER, 1795-PRESENT
… women and children in Orange demonstrations and parades. Evangelical beliefs in women's moral superiority and the necessity of her influence over her family and community provided women with a public presence via Orange processions and female lodges. Men were forced to accept their utility as …
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Deepening Dialogue in Silent Spaces: Ireland’s pedagogy of peace.
… out of control during contentious commemorative parades. This thesis examines the complexities of conflict transformation as experienced by protagonists. It describes a philosophy of education that emerged within communities as a response to the challenges they faced. This philosophy of education …
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