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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Sputnik"”.
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The Sputnik Crisis And America's Response
On 4 October 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world's first artificial satellite, and the Space Age had arrived. While not an American achievement, Sputnik stands as a significant juncture in United States history. This thesis explores the resulting American political crisis, its …
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Space Race: African American Newspapers Respond to Sputnik and Apollo 11
… space race. One event is the Soviet launch of Sputnik on October 4, 1957. The second is the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20, 1969. Space Race investigates how two scientific accomplishments achieved during the Cold War and the civil rights movement stimulated debate within the newspapers, and …
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Making policy for making selves in science and engineering: from Sputnik to global competition
This dissertation is a cultural history of the making of policy for education and human resources in science and engineering for the American nation. The main thesis of this work is that national narratives, mostly made up by images of nation, its problems and solutions, as defined by powerful …
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The Mirrored Body: Doubling and Replacement of the Feminine and androgynous Body In Hadia Said'S <em>Artist</em> and Haruki Murakami'S <em>Sputnik Sweetheart</em>
… and Murakami's works <em>Artiste</em>, <em>Sputnik Sweetheart</em>, and <em>Kafka on the Shore</em>, with a nod to the androgynous body in Hagio's <em>The Heart of Thomas</em>. The analysis will be done in regard to the formulation of identity in a local and trans-national setting, as the …
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Rage From Within the Machine: Protest Music, Social Justice, and Educational Reform, a Collective Case Study
… have been occurring since the launching of Sputnik by the U.S.S.R. in 1957. These efforts have largely been internal, within school reforms, with little consideration given to external variables such as poverty that affect student achievement. Given the pervasive link between poverty and …
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National technological and military prestige heavily influenced the development of early United States space policy
… will examine the impact the Russian satellite, Sputnik, had on the American people and the reaction of the United States. The thesis will also look at the beginning of the Apollo program and the decision to send man to the Moon. In conclusion, the thesis will look at a possible future for the …
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The hardest to achieve, the easiest to imagine: an examination of predictions about outer space during The Space Race in the Huntsville Times, Houston Chronicle, and Orlando Sentinel
… launch of the first artificial Earth satellite, Sputnik I. This event marked the beginning of The Space Race, a fierce competition between the United States and Soviet Union that changed the world forever. American newspapers not only aided in documenting the Space Race, but also featured …
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The National Council of Teachers of English and Federal Education Policy, 1958-1966
<p>Following the launching of Sputnik in 1957, Congress passed the National Defense Education Act of 1958 that primarily funded research for the teaching of science, foreign language, and math. English was omitted, but in 1961, due to persuading from the National Council of Teachers of English …
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Sovereignty, Salt, and Space: The Linkages Between International Space Law and the International System
In October 1957 the USSR launched SPUTNIK, the first artificial satellite to be placed into orbit around the earth. The United States launched the second satellite the following summer. These events began the unique development in a relatively short time of a new dimension of international law. | …
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Characterization and Mitigation of Terrestrial and Astrophysical Foreground Effects in 21cm Cosmology
… and Noise-level Interference in the Karoo (SPUTNIK) is presented. I describe how a low-cost RFI monitoring system, using solely consumer-off-the-shelf (COTS) components, directly contributes to the analysis efforts of a precision 21cm cosmology instrument. A SPUTNIK system overview is …
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Opening the black box of outer space : the case of Jason-3
… into outer space since the fateful launch of the Sputnik in 1957. Though enlightening in some respects, the realist perspective oftentimes obscures the heterogeneous complexity of the actors, actions, limits and possibilities that have constructed this very humanized outer space. This paper looks …
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The Missile Gap: A Moral Panic for an Atomic Age
… concern over the technical gap represented by Sputnik 1's launch was utilized by interested actors to accomplish their goals. During the second phase, this concern transformed into an institutional technique utilized for deflecting institutional challenges when the moral panic moved into an …
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A Nation at Risk and Education Reform: a Frame Analysis
… reform frames, such as for the period after Sputnik, as well as modern frames from the post-9-11 period, and how they continue to influence educational policy.
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Challenges to American Military and Economic Dominance in Space
… throughout the Cold War. Losing to the Soviet Sputnik and failing to achieve the first manned flight in space hurt US pride and gave credibility to Russian missile claims. Rising to this challenge under the leadership of President Kennedy, the nation rallied behind the cause of sending a man to …
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Examining Teacher Collaboration in a Kindergarten Building: A Case Study
… grade school. Additionally, since the launch of Sputnik in 1957, Americans have identified the need for school reform to better prepare their children to compete on a global level. The author of this dissertation views kindergarten programs and school reform to be at a confluence where school …
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The state of education in Louisiana: trend analyses of student achievement, student matriculation, and student behavior in the accountability era
… Historical events such as the Soviet launch of Sputnik in 1957, the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, and repeated media reports that U.S. students were outscored by students in many other countries on international tests each prompted federal and state legislation aimed to reform …
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Scientists and the Ethics of Cold War Weapons Research
… industry, and the military? During the post-Sputnik science boom, many elite physicists used their policy influence to encourage government support for scientific research and to secure stronger arms control measures, an effort that culminated in the ratification of the Partial Test Ban …
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Social Networking Sites as Intermediaries of Authoritarian State Propaganda: How Facebook and VK Disseminated Predominantly Kremlin-Friendly Political Content Before and During Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine
… as well as Russia’s foreign broadcasters, RT and Sputnik, and their audiences. By contrast, little research has examined the global reach of Russia’s state-aligned domestic news content, specifically on US- and Russia-based social networking sites that significantly differ in the level of the …
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The vision politic : the multiscreen film presentations of Charles and Ray Eames
… period starting just after the launch of Sputnik, the Eameses employed multiscreen film as a means to generate a desire for capitalist-style consumerism in the USSR and to promote progressive education in the US. Throughout the dissertation I will argue how creating this new mode of …
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A history of the Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association: 1959-2009
… Education Association; this decision was a post-Sputnik reaction to gain academic credibility and become "more than just a festival association" (a mantra used by MSBOA leaders of the period) by focusing on such matters as curriculum development and the creation of string programs. The …
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