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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"September 11th 2001"”.
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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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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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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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Reflective journalistic practice in an environment of uncertainty and change
… following the attacks on the United States on September 11th, 2001. The work which I am presenting for examination includes a book, Reporting conflict (Palgrave MacMillan, 2012), three articles from peer-reviewed journals, and television, radio, and internet journalism which I produced when …
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That's Not What Your Friends Say: Does Self-reported Posttraumatic Growth Translate into Friend Ratings of Improvement?
… measured longitudinally among survivors of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attack, in order to explore whether participants' reports of posttraumatic growth were associated with, supported or contradicted by friend ratings of improvement. In this context, participant-reported posttraumatic …
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Fake Realities: Assassination and Race in Popular Culture
<p>Since the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks the United States had been involved in conflicts across the globe. These conflict have given rise to the use of target killing, commonly known as assassination as a way to eliminate enemies of the United States. A majority of those killed are of …
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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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Constructing the "Other": Discursive Mechanisms at Play in the Sentencing of Post 9/11 Canadian Terrorism Cases
Since the renowned terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, exclusionary narratives or “othering” have proliferated in the securitized West. Prominently associated with media campaigns, popular culture, or political debates, exclusionary discourses operating within the Canadian judiciary have …
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Port security and information technology
The terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001 on New York and Washington DC shed light on the many security shortcomings that sea ports and the entire import and export process face. A primary source of these problems is the information sharing process which makes it hard to track the source of a …
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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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White Opinions Of United States Immigration: Testing Rival Hypotheses, 2004
… personal identity brought about by the events of September 11th, 2001.
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Public Perception of the Use of Biometrics Post 9/11
… attack in the United State of America on September 11th, 2001 marked the beginning of a major overhaul of the federal government actions in terms of its policy making and investment into biometrics technologies. This study investigates whether the publics’ perception of the risks and …
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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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From normalization of relations to war: United States-Libya relations 2001-2011
… fluctuating United States-Libya relations from September 11th, 2001 to the 2011 international military intervention in the Libyan conflict. Both world events critically shaped the course of U.S.-Libya relations in conflicting courses and therefore raise important questions on the economic, …
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A constructivist account of Pakistan's political practice in the aftermath of 9/11. The normalisation of Pakistan's participation in the 'war on terror'.
… in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001. The study seeks to explain how Pakistan¿s state practice in the aftermath of 9/11 was normalised and made possible. In explaining the state practice, the study draws on a constructivist conceptual framework; which is further …
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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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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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Reinventing geopolitical codes in the post-Cold War world with special reference to international terrorism
… War world. Focusing primarily on the events of September 11th 2001 and their aftermath, the research questions the sustainability of the state as conceived by (neo)realists in the context of new regional and global actors and the processes underpinning these. From a critical realist perspective …
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