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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"U.S. Embassy"”.
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The Effects of Embassy Security on Public Diplomacy
… a topic critical to U.S. public diplomacy and embassy security policy. This thesis argues that security should not take precedence over the embassy's primary mission. In recent years, U.S. embassies have transformed into fortresses that send messages of fear and aloofness to foreign audiences. …
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Remembering the 1998 Nairobi terror attack: cultural and trauma memory and the reconciliation of a nation
… as it approached the rear entrance of the U.S. embassy building in Nairobi, instigating a brief argument and confrontation between the 'Arab-looking' men in the truck and the embassy guards. This led to a shoot-out between them before a powerful explosion completely tore down half of the embassy …
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The Fulbright Program in Algeria (2008-2016): Higher Education, Soft Power, and Transnational Intellectual Subjects
… country due to the increasing role of the U.S. embassy in Algeria targeting young individuals who are accustomed to strong HE colonial ties. This study contributes to the field of transnational American studies by focusing on Algeria—an understudied MENA region in relation to U.S. …
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News Media Coverage of the Attack on the American Embassy in Saigon During the 1968 Tet Offensive
… many battles of Tet, the attack on the American Embassy in Saigon stands out. It is neither the battle's size nor its casualties that makes it important. The significance of the embassy attack lay in the way it was conveyed to the American public. I argue that the 1968 attack on the American …
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Time Series Analysis of Fine Particulates Matter (PM2.5) in Chaoyang District of Beijing
… 2010 to 31st December 2012, from the U.S. Embassy monitoring site in Chaoyang, Beijing. We calculated the 24-hour and annual PM2.5 concentrations under EPA method and using the Box-Jenkins method to build a SARIMA model (Seasonal Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average). The results showed …
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The Palestinian Liberation Organization: Is Reform Possible?
… Boeing 737 in 1977, the attack on the U.S. embassy and U.S. military compound in Beirut in 1983, as well as the long series of suicide killings in Israel have legitimized the PLO in the eyes of the United Nationa, the European Union, the Vatican and many Protestant churches. The PLO and the …
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Art salvos : aesthetics of figurative acts of war between the US and Cuba along Havana's Malecón
… LED electronic ticker on the facade of the U.S. Embassy Building. The ticker immediately calls to mind the work of artist Jenny Holzer. Laura traveled down to Florida to ask the retired diplomat if he had ever heard of Jenny Holzer. He had not. But in her conversations with him, and with Tomás …
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Finding Their Ground: Nigerian Nursing Students’ Perceptions of Plagiarism
… U.S. values associated with plagiarism. The U.S. Embassy in Nigeria reports that an increasing number of Nigerian students are studying in the U.S., especially in New York and Texas. Little is known about Nigerian nursing students’ perceptions of plagiarism when they become students in U.S. …
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Partnership, dependence and protest: The United States and El Salvador, seen through pockets of internationals
El Salvador is intimately connected to the United States, though most U.S. citizens may not realize it, even if they remember the days of El Salvador’s civil war. As it is for much of the world, the United States is for Salvadorans a promised land of plentiful work and peaceful lives. Unlike the …
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Partnership, dependence and protest: The United States and El Salvador, seen through pockets of internationals
El Salvador is intimately connected to the United States, though most U.S. citizens may not realize it, even if they remember the days of El Salvador’s civil war. As it is for much of the world, the United States is for Salvadorans a promised land of plentiful work and peaceful lives. Unlike the …