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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Santa Claus"”.
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The Santa Claus Girl: A 90-minute Teleplay
<p>"The Santa Claus Girl" is a 90-minute fictional holiday story screenplay for television based on the life of Virginia O'Hanlon Douglas and the most famous editorial in print journalism history: "Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus." Written for a popular audience, "The Santa Claus Girl" …
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The Tree of Knowledge: Children's Knowledge and their Perceived Morality
… media from children and support belief in Santa Claus, a fictional entity. One possible reason for these behaviors is that people perceive that children who are more knowledgeable are less innocent and pure, and therefore less moral. Two studies in this thesis tested whether increased …
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The Collective (A Novel): Part One
… of a dramatic defamiliarization of the Santa Claus myth. I’ve turned everything about the myth around, made it more realistic in terms of working-class environs, attitudes. I’ve brought it into the 21st century, and the years haven’t been kind. The Santa of “The Collective” has outgrown …
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"To keep Christmas well": gender and consumerism in the Age of Industrialization
… who morphed over time into the figure known as Santa Claus, usher in a new and popular dimension of the holiday that included children, he encouraged widespread consumerism, propelled further by the Industrial Revolution. This dissertation examines how industrialization altered Christmas and …
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Essays in Applied Microeconomics
… first part shows how fictional figures such as Santa Claus can help solve a parent’s commitment and monitoring problem in trying to influence children’s behavior. The second part shows how and when political leaders co-opt religious institutions in order to incite law-abiding behavior in the …