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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Social ills"”.
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Interaction Between City Managers and City Councils.
… small, and in the struggle to cure the festering social ills which generate communal decay" (Banovetz, 1971).
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Angelic airs/subversive songs: Music as cultural discourse in Victorian literature and society
… idealized music as a transcendent corrective to social ills and feared it as a subversive context for these ills. In Chapter One, I examine Victorian constructions of music to promote patriotism, Christianity, culture, and domestic harmony, and suggest how often these goals were undermined by …
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Youth Moral Degeneration at Makuya area in the Vhembe District Municipality of the Limpopo Province, South Africa: An Afrocentric Approach
… the globe. Juvenile delinquency and diversified social ills are prevalent and manifesting moral degeneration among the youth. This study sought to explore youth moral degeneration at Makuya area in the Vhembe District, Limpopo Province, South Africa. The study is qualitative and exploratory in …
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Capacity Building in Income Generating Activities among Old Aged Social Groups in Ngarenaro Ward, Arusha
… irresponsible drinking of local brews and other social ills. The implementation of this project managed to strengthen MWANGA group members through community sensitization, training of group members in various intensive vocational skills and expanded market for selling traditional handmade items. …
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The Social Benefits of Wilderness
… and institutions are also responsible for many social ills – sexism, homophobia, etc. In particular, “the imperium” is a way of thinking and acting which encourages us to practice a heavy-handed form of standardization; it encourages us to ignore particularity. These habits and institutions – …
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The Social Benefits of Wilderness
… and institutions are also responsible for many social ills – sexism, homophobia, etc. In particular, “the imperium” is a way of thinking and acting which encourages us to practice a heavy-handed form of standardization; it encourages us to ignore particularity. These habits and institutions – …
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Abstention to Consumption: The Development of American Vegetarianism, 1817-1917
… dietary choices could be connected with larger social and political goals was formulated during, and changed dramatically in the nineteenth century. This dissertation charts the rise and evolution of vegetarianism in the United States from 1817 until 1917.</p><p>This project will present the …
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Papadiamantis’ Athenian short stories: social representation and characterization
… oeuvre this thesis sets out to explore the social dimension of his work by focusing on his Athenian short stories. This literary corpus, a significant part of the literature describing the urban environment in the last decade of the nineteenth and the first decade of the twentieth century, …
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Re-Imagining the Street as Placemaking Tool in Claremont CBD
… Cape Town, this is a reality and the resulting social ills such as dead zones, a lack of public surveillance, high crime rates, poor quality of space and lack of sense of place- all which can clearly be seen in this area. To realise the dual role that the street can play as both a public …
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Unbridled: the horses of Géricault’s English Suite
… with a long tradition of using prints for social commentary and a recent concern with the effects of industrialization and urban growth on the lives of the less fortunate. Interest in horses also flourished there, as evinced by a rich and active tradition of equine imagery and new concerns …
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An ideological criticism of David Duke's rhetoric of racism and exclusion
… scapegoating to blame minorities for America's social ills. By using people of color as a scapegoat, Duke effectively excludes them from participating in the debate over social concerns.</p>
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"Colonization is such a personal process" : colonialism, internalized abuse, and healing in Lee Maracle's Daughters Are Forever
… is familiar with stereotypes about ‘Native social dysfunction’. Canada’s present-day “Imaginary Indian” (Francis) is indeed associated with substance and welfare dependence as well as family violence and neglect. However, the mainstream tends not to wonder about the actual social suffering …
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Assessment of Intervention Strategies in Addressing the Problem of Street Children in Dar es Salaam
… Advocacy and Reintegration to address this social phenomenon. The study argues that the Intervention measures applied by different NGOs in Dar es Salaam and Tanzania in particular are inadequate to address the complex causes of street children. Lack of cooperation between the NGOs, lack of …
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F.A. Lange's "standpoint of the ideal" : reform or revolution?
… a socio-political agenda that argues that the social ills of his context are the consequence of a materialist worldview and that, if violent upheaval is to be avoided, a new worldview must be adopted. The worldview that Lange offers is called the Standpoint of the Ideal. As a modification of …
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'Luring the infant into life' : exploring infant mortality and infant-feeding in Khayelitsha, Cape Town
… creative research methods such as the use of social media platforms like Facebook and WhatsApp, WhatsApp interviews, focus groups and pictures. Drawing on concepts of managing risk, this dissertation demonstrates that in a world where life is precarious due to illnesses, poverty and other …
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Among the Giants: Resituating the Environmental Philosophy of John Steinbeck
… interconnectedness and the parallels between social ills and ecological ailments. Yet, for whatever reasons Steinbeck is not granted a position of honor alongside the other giants of American environmental thought. Now witnessing the full blossoming of 21st century environmentalism, it is …
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An analysis of the socio-economic security challenges of urbanisation on the livelihood of the residents of Havana and Greenwell Matongo informal settlements of Windhoek, Namibia
… impetus of the analysis further focuses on other social ills or human insecurities such as prostitution, alcohol and drug abuse, and the escalation of land grabbing. The combination of these socio-economic security challenges are all the products of urbanisation and have to be addressed urgently. …
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Jamaican Composers in the Classical Tradition: Three Vocal Works by Dexter, Ashbourne, and Marshall
… impact. Hybridization has solved a host of social ills in Jamaica and is to be credited for being a significant factor in helping the nation to progress.
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The Intellectual History Of Inter-war British Fascists
… unique in that they forged their solutions from social ills that were distinctly British. British fascists were unabashedly anti-Semitic. They feared a Jewish threat to Britain's economy and culture and sought to counter it on every front. History, according to the British fascists, was rife with …
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John Pearce's Radical Social Enterprise and Alasdair MacIntyre's Ethics: A Critical Synthesis
… the compatibility of Pearce’s conception of social enterprise with MacIntyre’s virtue-practice-institution framework. The aim is that through the synergy of the work of these two authors, a relationship between virtues as understood by MacIntyre and Pearce’s view of social enterprise will be …
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