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Showing 1 to 20 of 74 for “"September 11th"”.
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Post September 11th Suicide Rates: Durkheim and Communal Bereavement
… study is to determine what, if any, effect the September 11th terrorist attacks had on national suicide rates in the time following the attacks. Two schools of thought seem to give contradicting proposals. The first is the classical Durkheimian model, which predicts that the national integration …
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Corporate Media Framing of Political Rhetoric: The Creation of a Moral Panic in the wake of September 11th 2001
… the years following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and how such frames have been able to generate and sustain a national moral panic. While a number of scholars have explored the effect of presidential rhetoric in generating panic (53; Cohen 1972; Goode and Ben-Yehuda 1994; …
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George W. Bush, September 11th and the rise of the Freedom Agenda in US-Middle East relations: a Constructivist Institutionalist approach
… theorises the relationship between the events of September 11, 2001, and the rise of the Freedom Agenda. Consequently, this research focuses on the narrative constructed in the aftermath of the “crisis”, and how this laid discursive tracks for the evolution of the Freedom Agenda. Furthermore, it …
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Rummaging Through the Wreckage: Geographies of Trauma, Memory, and Loss at the National September 11th Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center
… landscapes of memory. Focusing on the National September 11th Memorial & Museum, The National Flight 93 Memorial, and the National Pentagon 9/11 Memorial, my research examines how cultural memory is mediated through the establishment of `places of memory' within the built-environment. Here, I …
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Internal colonialism and social control in the Age of Terror : the FBI's war on Islamic charities following the September 11th Attacks of 2001
Shortly after the September 11th attacks of 2001, the United States Government launched an effort to fight terrorism at home and abroad. In their domestic efforts they depended heavily upon the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to carry out their mission of shutting down potential terrorist …
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The Effects of Perceived Life Threat and Direct Exposure on Psychopathology in Parents and Their Young Children Following the September 11th, 2001 World Trade Center Attacks
The impact of the September 11th, 2001 World Trade Center attacks was expansive in nature, and so many people were deeply affected by this disaster. In the years following this attack, many researchers attempted to assess this level of impact. Data point to increased prevalence rates of …
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The development of scales for the assessment of religious belief and spirituality in Roman Catholic believers, their validation and relevance for mental health in circumstances of traumatic bereavement on September 11th 2001
Substantive understanding of religious belief hasn’t been explored within Catholicism. The study first investigates multi-faceted aspects of individual religious experience by the development of psychometric scales assessing sensitiveness to Catholicism, contents of Catholic belief and strength of …
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Public-private partnerships : security and emergency response collaboration in a new threat environment
September 11th, 2001 marks the worst terrorist action to occur on United States soil and opens a new period in history in which indiscriminate terrorist acts are possible, if not probable. Many of these possible acts, as well as the actions to prevent and recover, will have an impact on the supply …
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Chain hotels versus independent hotels : an analysis of branding, room revenue & volatility
… This thesis also considers the months since September 11th, 2001 and confirms that volatility for both chain and independent hotels has increased. While longterm trends suggest otherwise, data suggests that for a period following September 11th, independent hotels were actually less volatile …
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Moral Panics and the Criminalization of Immigration: America'S Response to Post-9/11 Federal Regulations and the USA PATRIOT Act
<p>As the September 11th terrorist attacks on the United States left many governments scrambling to find an appropriate anti-terrorist response to potential national security threats, the federal government took a stance on the 'war on terror' with new federal regulations and changes in immigration …
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An Investigation of Sacred Space - The Grove
… and how does this form relate to us today? In September 2002 Congress passed legislation for the establishment of Living Memorials to honor and commemorate the losses of September 11th, 2001. Through a program developed by the United States Forest Service and American Forests, these Living …
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MOVING TOWARD UNCERTAINTY: TRAUMA AND COMMEMORATION IN JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER’S EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE AND COLUM MCCANN’S LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN
This thesis examines post-September 11th literature, particularly two novels: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer and Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann and the issues surrounding working through trauma and commemorating loss through the lens of trauma theory, ethics, …
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MOVING TOWARD UNCERTAINTY: TRAUMA AND COMMEMORATION IN JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER’S EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE AND COLUM MCCANN’S LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN
This thesis examines post-September 11th literature, particularly two novels: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer and Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann and the issues surrounding working through trauma and commemorating loss through the lens of trauma theory, ethics, …
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"The fullest possible account": Knowledge and Exceptionalism in Post-9/11 Literature
… and American exceptionalism, contending that the September 11th attacks undermine the nation's sense of its scientific superiority and result in the creation of a body of 21st-century literature that explores the country's position as a technological superpower. Specifically, because September …
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EXTREMELY VISUAL & INCREDIBLY COMMUNAL: TRAUMA, MULTIMODALITY, AND 9/11 LITERATURE
… circumvented some of the pivotal components of September 11th. To create a holistic literary product, there are three vital elements to be accounted for: the aspect of visuality, the victims’ confusion and grief, and the aspect of a rehabilitative community. Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel …
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EXTREMELY VISUAL & INCREDIBLY COMMUNAL: TRAUMA, MULTIMODALITY, AND 9/11 LITERATURE
… circumvented some of the pivotal components of September 11th. To create a holistic literary product, there are three vital elements to be accounted for: the aspect of visuality, the victims’ confusion and grief, and the aspect of a rehabilitative community. Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel …
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A Falling Sky: A Novel
<p>In the days following the attacks of September 11th, 2001, writers of fiction and non-fiction, poets, and screenwriters struggled with how and when to put to use their craft as a way to, not only express their feelings about the event, but to do their part' to help assuage the grief felt by the …
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