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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"Public image"”.
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Actress Hedy Lamarr, Inventor: A Public Image Reframed
… and hours, which films they acted in, their publicity and public-facing personas, including through contractual morality clauses regarding their personal lives. Lamarr’s beauty was her defining characteristic in Hollywood marketing schemes, but she was more than a beautiful face. She was an …
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Influence of public image of nurses on nursing practice
… to investigate the relationships among the public image of nurses, nurses’ self concept, personal and collective self-esteem, job satisfaction, and performance. A total of eighty registered nursing students were invited to participate in this study by completing seven types of questionnaires …
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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
… rights for food animals on factory farms. The public image of the movement has taken a hit in recent years, due in part to effective campaigning by opposing lobbies and corporate entities and in part to self-inflicted damage from failed messaging and tactics. The perceived alignment of animal …
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Managing within the challenges & tensions facing the 21st Century UK NHS Managers: NHS Managers’ perceptions of their public image & the implications for their self and work identity.
… recognised that the NHS managers believe the public hold a generally negative view of them, this study also develops an understanding of the implications of the NHS managers’ negative perceived public image for their self and work identity. The importance of how managers perceive their self …
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Postmodern View of the Hidden Curriculum
… system, and part of this crisis is the public image that the educational system presents to the public eye through the hidden curriculum. Every institution has a public image or the side of it which first meets the eye, but often these images are deceptive. Schools present a public image …
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A study of image: Maillardville British Columbia
… a physical transformation. Although place images may be an intangible urban quality, they are not difficult to study. Careful observation and resident interviews are efficient and economical tools to discover the various components of the urban image. From there it is possible to develop a …
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Inventing George Whitefield: Celebrity and the making of a religious icon
<p>This dissertation explores the making of the public image of eighteenth-century Anglican missionary George Whitefield through his use of trans-Atlantic public print networks. Whitefield, who was a consummate self-promoter and publisher of his own work, played a central role in the development of …
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in National Periodicals: 1991-2000
… of the effect of those writings on the Church's public image. National periodicals may serve as an important gauge of the Church's public image because they address topics of national interest and also help to formulate public opinion on those topics. This study thus provides a basis for …
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Biographies about Abraham Lincoln for children (1865-1969): Portrayals of his parents
Publications related to Abraham Lincoln have been abundant, and such writings have been analyzed in numerous historiographical essays. One area of Lincoln literature that has received little attention from scholars, however, is that portion intended for children. Yet these writings must be …
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A Transparent Hillary Clinton Through the Lens of Apologia Discourse
… Presidential Election, Clinton has been under public scrutiny for lacking transparency. Clinton has had to employ strategic means in order to repair her public image. This study utilizes Benoit’s Image Restoration Theory’s typology to analyze Clinton’s rhetorical responses to the email …
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Academic presidential leadership: A study of the presidential leadership of Edmund J. James for the University of Illinois, 1904-1919
… tranquility, and (c) protecting the university's public image.
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The Image of "Aggiornamento" 1959-1965 : the Coverage of the Second Vatican Council by "Time"," Newsweek", and "U.S. News and World Report"
… renewal between 1959 and 1965? What were the publications' attitudes, emphases, expectations, and qualities regarding their reporting of the council? Procedure: Pope John XXIII announced Vatican II in January 1959; and Pope Paul VI solemnly closed the council, after four sessions, in December …
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The Role of Judicial Discourse in Distorting the Public Inquiry Image: Is the Inquiry Becoming an Endangered Species?
The goal is to explore the construction of the Public Inquiry image and its persona via judicial decision-making and legal discourses that are utilized to justify the final product of an inquiry. For instance, while the commissioner is generally equipped with extensive coercive and discretionary …
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A Rhetorical Approach to Greek Life Scandal
… that seek to restore an organization’s public image in the face of grave public offense. This thesis demonstrates how SAE national headquarter de-emphasize the idea of “tradition” that grounds its organizational character in order to avoid generalization from the public regarding the …
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Roesia De Verdun, Thirteenth Century Femme Sole
… These objects reveal how Roesia curated her public image and asserted agency through symbolic representation. By tracing her influence across familial, legal, and commemorative domains, this study contributes to broader conversations about medieval women’s autonomy, dynastic strategy, and the …
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School Web Sites within the Educational Marketplace: A Case Study Investigating the Parents as Engaged Consumer-Users
… In a sense, then, web sites are the public face of education; those that are well-designed and multi-featured can enhance a district's public image and create the perception of excellence and competence. This case study explores how one suburban, K-8 school district approaches web …
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Legions or legends : assessing U.S. Army and Marine effectiveness in the Korean War, 1950-1951
… of a conscious effort to maintain a positive public image.
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The Making and Unmaking of Colette: Myth, Celebrity, Profession
… in the creation and policing of this durable public image, tracing both ways that Colette maintained her image, and ways that she profited from it, focusing in particular on her eponymous literary collection, the Collection Colette, and her "produits de beauté" cosmetics line and a beauty …
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