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Showing 1 to 20 of 198 for “"Political Issues"”.
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Advancing Bioenergy in Europe: Exploring bioenergy systems and socio-political issues
… of bioenergy systems in Europe focusing on socio-political issues. The purpose is to improve understanding of key drivers and barriers for bioenergy, and experiences of supportive (and disruptive) policies and actions.
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Political Issues and the Nationalized Coal Industry in France: 1946-1947
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-05T17:26:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6100219.pdf: 15021355 bytes, checksum: c19d7ad753ff6e62751bb47dea17016c (MD5) Previous issue date: 1960
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The changing social and political issues and their impact on the community design of the False Creek south development
… to a service oriented post-industrial city. A political party founded at this time, The Elector's Action Movement (TEAM), was liberal-oriented and won the municipal election in 1972. Its election co-incided with the False Creek south development. TEAM innovatively administered the development. …
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Political Communication and the Media in Kurdistan
… examines how the Kurdish media communicate political issues in relation to corruption, reform, government performance, and citizens' trust. In particular it investigates how young people understand and respond to political issues across the media and how their social and political …
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It's bigger that hip hop: popular rap music and the politics of the hip hop generation
… the extent to which rap music has addressed political issues important to post-Civil Rights Black Americans, or the "Hip Hop Generation", has gone unexamined. This study attempts to do that by first determining which political issues are most important to this group and, then, analyzing the …
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Social Media Campaign Strategies: A Case Study of Political Issue Framing by 2024 Presidential Candidates in Ghana
Despite extensive scholarship on social media political party strategies or intra-party-political campaigns across digital platforms, it remains relatively unexplored how individual presidential candidates adopt social media to frame their messages on key political issues for voter engagement, …
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An Amikwa Family Through Their Eyes: An Auto-ethnographic Study of an Indigenous Community in Northern Ontario Canada
… used as a platform for discussing larger socio-political issues directly connected to person-hood, and identity politics. Through this discussion, we attempt to unravel the multitude of ways in which knowledge and the production of knowledge can be interpreted and understood in a variance of …
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Actors, Partisan Inclination, and Emotions: An Analysis of Government Shutdown News Stories Shared on Twitter During Dec 2018 and Jan 2019
… in the audience and producer of news stories, political issues are prone to spark a lot of emotional contents online. This present study takes the 2018-2019 government shutdown as the subject of investigation. The results show the prominence in journalistic and political figures in leading the …
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The historical development of the certification of public school principals in the Commonwealth of Virginia
… was investigated. Historical, legal, social, and political issues were considered. A model of the development of certification was proposed as a result of the pattern of changes, revisions, recommendations, and projections. The model identifies Stage I as the development from 1927 to 1987, the …
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Political labels and women's attitudes
… is an exploratory study of women's attitudes to political issues. The thesis poses the broad questions of what is the range of women's attitudes to specific issues, what patterns are there to women's attitudes and how well do traditional political categories describe women's attitudes? Attitudes …
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Paul Simon's "Graceland" and its social and political statements on apartheid in South Africa.
… makes a social statement, but because of the political issues within South Africa during the release of Graceland, many believe the album also makes a political statement. Graceland not only makes the strong social statement Simon intended, but also provides an important political statement on …
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The stereotype caravan: Assessment of stereotypes and ideology levels used to portray Gypsies in two European feature films
… in romantic settings, avoiding social and political issues like poverty, discrimination and marginalization. The fall of communism marked a change, as more films dared to speak against the dominant ideology. This thesis examines the socio-cultural stereotypes used to portray the Gypsies and …
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Eyes on the Platter
… also aspires to examine social, cultural and political issues within the Latino community of Los Angeles in the late 1970's and 1980's. The dichotomy of the public versus the domestic sphere within the urban landscape was also considered in the writing of the narrative. Concepts about the body …
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Rhetorical Byron: An interpretation of his historical tragedies
… as direct responses to the complex social and political issues emerging from both the Industrial and French Revolutions. This claim was demonstrated by using a contemporary concept of rhetoric, Lloyd Bitzer's "The Rhetorical Situation." The major findings of this study were that Lord Byron was …
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Rethinking the female body : gender and nation in Zee Edgell's Belize
… The aim is to discover where sexual and political issues intersect, parallel or reinforce each other in the novels. My findings are contextualized in the conclusions of recent empirical studies on women's conditions in Belize. Considering how knowledge is constructed in Belize's material …
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Memory and Destruction: A Psychiatric Approach to Understanding Literary Depictions of Air Raids in World War II
It is in the context of these psychiatric and political issues that this dissertation explores the bombing literature and their authors. Contrary to Sebald's assertions, the air raids have indeed been a topic of German literature and several narratives are discussed in the thesis (Nossack, …
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The study of the poetry of J.P. Shongwe
… In chapter 2 the focus is on some of the related political issues particularly given that educational issues are highly politicized in the South African context. This chapter also gives a short background on cultural, social, religious aspects and beliefs in Shongwe's poetry. Chapter 3 focuses …
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"As Mind to the Body": Prudence and Artificial Memory in the Illustrations and Commentary of George Sandys' Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished (1632)
… of artificial memory were particularly aimed at political issues and the concerns of rulers. From the work's preoccupation with prudence as appropriate for a ruler, and from the dedication and prefatory texts, it becomes clear that it was intended to provide a means of counsel, or advice, to the …
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How Millennials Engage in Social Media Activism: A Uses and Gratifications Approach
… is that they lack engagement in social-political issues. This study explores how Millennials are engaging in social media activism and whether online activism is driving offline activism behaviors. A quantitative survey of 306 participants was conducted to learn more about the …
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The intersection of political activism and brand advertising
… of Missouri. This document explores the use of political activism in brand advertising, defined broadly as brand promotions that take stances on social-political issues that align with the brand's consumers and stakeholders. Research follows a qualitative visual analysis methodology in analyzing …
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