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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Public consciousness"”.
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Actors in Family Disturbance Related Crimes in a Large Southern City.
… of the problem has remained below the level of public consciousness. Perhaps the public has intentionally disregarded the problem of family disturbances. Typically, Americans seem to ignore unpleasantries until they affect them as individuals. 
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Mold fever : how a bizarre life form penetrated popular consciousness and launched a creeping hysteria
… years, mold has gone from a blip on the radar of public consciousness to a major force in home inspections, insurance, litigation, and testing. Never before have people been so concerned over a group of creatures that--undeniably--have been there all along. This thesis--written as a four-part …
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Racialized Reality: Crime News and Racial Stereotype Framing
… crime news is a primary mechanism for shaping public consciousness surrounding legal order, social morality, and threats present in their citizens communities. This research explores how news media influences negative attitudes towards criminal justice reform and Black identity. Utilizing …
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Gasland: The Rhetoric of Images in the New Media Landscape
… and launched the term "fracking" into the public consciousness. <em>Gasland</em>, nominated for four Emmy Awards, was the winner of the 2010 Environmental Media Award for Best Documentary, the Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize, and the Yale Environmental Film Festival Grand Jury …
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From Blue Heelers to Rifle Wielders: Exploring change within police and the progression and meaning of police militarisation in Australia
… decade has seen policing issues thrust into the public consciousness and academic discourse. An underexamined issue is the militarisation of Australian police. Academic exploration of the matter in an Australian context has not matched these trends. The objective of this study was to build on the …
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“We need to save civilization first”: examining the role of cyberlibertarian design in the disinformation culture of Reddit’s /r/The_Donald
… with the apex of its prominence in the public consciousness during 2017’s Unite the Right rally. By examining this critical site of development of the online far right within the context of the right-wing media ecosystems from which it emerged, I seek to understand the critical …
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The Sheffield Film Co-operative and the Women’s Liberation Movement
… Film Co-operative that attempted to raise public consciousness of women's issues. This thesis will add to a growing body of literature regarding feminist independent film and video and the historical culture of independent film and video in Sheffield. This study will add to existing …
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Animal ethics and contemporary art : an exploration of the intersections between ethics and aesthetics, humans and animals, human and animal injustices
… poetics of art has the potential of transforming public consciousness of thinking about animals in non-binary and non-instrumental terms.
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The influence of pediatric concussion on cognitive control and neuroelectric function
… prevalence of concussive injuries in the public consciousness has engendered increased research efforts in clinical and laboratory settings dedicated to understanding the nature and duration of neurocognitive deficits stemming from concussive injuries. The vast majority of the efforts, …
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Creature Features and Consensus: Genre Fiction's Critique of Postwar Atomic Technology
… product of a specific historical event, and the public reporting of this event. First, by examining news reports about atomic technology in the 1940s this project will reveal the impact governmental censorship had on presentation of the atomic bomb. This work will also analyze how the atomic bomb …
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Psychological Distress Among South African Civil Engineers
… of workers has been more prevalent in the public consciousness in recent years. Research focused on psychological distress has become popular in recent studies due to its close relationship with workload issues and worklife conflict among employees. This study investigates the determinants …
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Feedback control of transient smoke emissions from compression ignition engines
… as a very significant problem because of greater public consciousness of environment damage, and in some countries legislation is now in force limiting the particulate generation. This thesis describes work on the feedback control of diesel smoke, in which a new smoke sensor was used to make …
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Ethics in translation : an exploration through art, dramatization, literary and political texts
… mainly anti-Semitic icons whose integration into public consciousness owed its success to their politically-motivated mis translation of authoritative texts. In my conclusion to the question of ethics in translation, I put the onus on the translator by equating him/her with what is generally …
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Art in Scale: Barbara Marshall and the Fine-Scale Miniature Movement
… and escapism. All three were displayed in public institutions and entered the public consciousness, setting a standard for fine-scale miniature work and inspiring artists of later decades. The fine-scale miniature movement of the 1970s developed in response to the social and cultural …
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Are You Known To Us? Inscribing a Gendered Body Through Play in the Public Built Environment
… involvement in performances of play in the public built environment. Its starting point is the male-dominated practice of skateboarding. Although a popular creation myth presents skateboarding as a subversive, socially resourceful activity born from the natural landscape (the riding of waves …
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Senses In Synthesis: Imaginative Sensing In The 19th Century
… how two French poems brought synaesthesia to public consciousness and prompted a literary movement. In Chapter 2, I explore how poet-painter Dante Rossetti used “acts of attention” and unheard music to demand viewers’ embodied participation. Chapter 3 introduces John Barlas, a relatively …
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The forgotten children: the association of parents of backward children and the legacy of eugenics in Britain, 1946-1960
… learning disabilities became the subject of much public and scientific debate. Yet, eugenic measures, such as compulsory sterilisation and permanent segregation, were never legalised in the UK. Despite this, eugenic ideas of stigma were used to exclude individuals with learning disabilities from …
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Preserving the ethos of industry at the Carrie furnaces: the redevelopment of an industrial heritage site and the interpretation of manufacturing culture
… the Carrie Furnaces could be made to cultivate public memory of industrialism, and examines competing visions of significance, authenticity, and interpretation of heritage sites, particularly in the context of deindustrialization. Four cases studies of internationally renowned projects …
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Objects That Endure: The Epideictic Rhetoric of Seasonal Domesticity
… and ideologies to hold disproportionate space in public consciousness. By moving beyond the confines of encomium and epideictic as speech associated with praise and blame, I present the possibility that objects embody cultural values and operate in their own right through assemblages of …
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Stewards of the earth? : a study of teenagers' pro-environmental attitudes and lifestyles in Devon, UK and Malaga, Spain
… and long term infusion of sustainability into public consciousness. However, despite continuing endeavours to involve teenagers in the sustainability agenda, many remain apathetic despite increases in environmental awareness and literacy throughout society. This suggests there is considerable …
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