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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"US American"”.
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The Gun in US American Life: An Ethnographic Christian Ethics
<p>Guns hold a vexingly unique place in US American life. The United States has by far the highest rate of private firearm ownership and firearm-caused death among high-income nations in the world. Further, guns and conservative evangelical Protestantism stand in an intimate cultural relationship …
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Ruptured Lives: Narrative Accounts of US American Adult Converts to Evangelical Christianity over the Life Course
… few decades, there have been significant discussions regarding the rupturing effect that conversions to Christianity have in indigenous contexts. Individuals who have converted to Christianity from indigenous religions frequently speak of a disruption between their pre-conversion and …
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Hypermasculine Victim or Psycho-Sexual Perpetrator? The Filmic Representation of Postmodern Masculine Identity-Formation in Taxi Driver and Falling Down
… of (white) masculinity that is now commonly discussed in both populist and academic environments and discourses. The paper compares the two movies Taxi Driver and Falling Down in their representation of their protagonists' struggle in delivering a convincingly masculine performance of identity in …
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Saudi Arabian Students' Perceptions of Teacher Care in the United States
… students’ perceptions of teacher care in the US. Fourteen male and female Saudi students at a large Midwestern US university were interviewed. This study offers a literature review about Saudi students’ cultural backgrounds, which make studying their educational experiences more …
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Going with the flow : social context, uncertainty and decision-making
… receiving favourable support from potential users. And often, while people have seen the benefit of an AWS project for the community as a whole, individuals have been reluctant to use water from alternative sources themselves. The AWS literature has given limited attention to …
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Going with the flow : social context, uncertainty and decision-making
… receiving favourable support from potential users. And often, while people have seen the benefit of an AWS project for the community as a whole, individuals have been reluctant to use water from alternative sources themselves. The AWS literature has given limited attention to …
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The Acoustics of Identity: Linguistic Passports Beyond Empire and Essentialism
… case studies, the author argues: (1) Standard American English (SAE) is not neutral, but rather clearly associated with a professional, educated, ""white,"" US-American, middle class experience; (2) Even more so than grammatical knowledge, the mastery of an accent (phonological repertoire) …
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Between afrocentrism and universality : detective fiction by black women
This paper focuses on mysteries written by the Afro-American women authors Barbara Neely and Valerie Wilson Wesley. Both authors place a black woman in the role of the detective - an innovative feature not only in the realm of female detective literature of the past two decades but also with regard …
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European Biographical Graphic Novels about Canonical Painters: An Analysis of Form and Function in the Context of Art Museums
… works of well-known visual artists appeared in US-American educational youth magazines, representing the birth of the comics genre of the artist’s biography and inaugurating its first publishing boom. The start of the twenty-first century signalled the genre’s second publishing boom. As part of …
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Economic consequences of family dissolution
… however, a lot of countries have simultaneously expanded provisions and transfers for families. Bringing together the macro analysis of policy variation and household income changes on the micro-level, the main research question of the dissertation is to what extent economic consequences …
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Facilitating Euro-Moroccan Musical Encounters: the Process and Politics of Jazz Interculturalism in and beyond Morocco
… of early jazz encounters in Morocco, it focuses on the development of the Moroccan jazz scene since the 1990s. It specifically investigates how Euro-Moroccan musical encounters through jazz are facilitated by individuals and institutions during a time period that has seen significant …