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Showing 1 to 20 of 1210 for “"Vice"”.
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A Pence-ive narration of a gendered vice-presidency
… analyzes the gender narrative surrounding the vice-presidency and the 2016 election. It reviews the traditional feminine gender roles assigned to the vice-presidency and as evidenced in Governor Mike Pence’s participation in a 60 Minutes interview, nomination speech at the 2016 national …
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The Vice-Presidential campaign of Geraldine Ferraro : a rhetorical analysis.
… analyzes the rhetoric of Geraldine Ferraro's Vice-Presidential campaign of 1984. Her role as the first female candidate for the second highest office in the nation is studied through a critical analysis of her rhetoric. The paper considers the rhetorical problems she faced with respect to her …
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Description is a drag (and vice versa): classifying trans identities
General controlled vocabularies that are used in traditional library and archival settings are lacking in adequate terminology for works about transgender, gender-nonconforming, and non-binary identities; my research builds on a long tradition of cataloging and classification from a social justice …
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Acting from character : how virtue and vice explain praise and blame
This dissertation offers a theory of praise and blame: praiseworthy acts manifest virtue and blameworthy acts are incompatible with virtue. Despite its simplicity, proposals like mine have been largely ignored. After all, don't good people sometimes deserve blame, and bad people sometimes deserve …
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An examination of the law relating to inherent vice in marine insurance
… thesis to analyse the law relating to inherent vice in South Africa and in so doing to develop a range of tests for application in instances where the defence of inherent vice is pleaded as an exclusion.
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Blockchain-as-a-service : the effect of cloud computing and vice-versa
… Amazon (AWS) and IBM have moved to provide service platforms to enable enterprises, governments and consumers to build and deploy secure Blockchain networks. From common themes like: cost, performance, scalability, identity, privacy and security, this thesis aims to qualitatively evaluate the …
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Vending Vice: The Rise and Fall of West Virginia State Prohibition, 1852--1934
… economic, and political struggles. "Vending Vice" is the story of the temporary victory of northern industrialization and centralized bureaucracy over southern Bourbon Democracy and localism. This tension existed in numerous states during the industrial period, but it was especially …
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The status of the elementary school vice principal in selected cities of California
… to determine the status of elementary school vice principals i regard to their credentials, experience, and scope of professional responsibility in curriculum, supervision, teaching load, and administrative duties.</p><p>Objectives of this investigation are as follows: (1) To discover what …
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Manly Vice and Virtu: State Specters, Secular Rituals, and Public Culture in Taiwan
This dissertation is an ethnographic study of male sociality and public culture in Taiwan. I examine the poetics and politics of disreputable social activities in which cohorts of male friends engage regularly and extensively, including hunting, drinking, and gambling. My analytical point of …
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Duties of Vice-Principals in First Class Districts of the State of Washington
The best person to define the duties of the vice-principal is the vice-principal himself. This, then, is our problem: to survey the duties of the vice-principals in the larger districts of Washington where the secondary school enrollments would be great enough to hire an administrative assistant.
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The ends of love : vice and charity in The End of the Affair.
… love of God. In this he demonstrates the capital vices lust and envy as described in the seven deadly sins tradition. Greene's compelling depiction of how natural love can be pulled toward both demonic vice and the love of God makes The End of the Affair a powerful portrayal of Catholic moral …
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Valerius Maximus on Vice: a commentary on Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 9.1-11
… - a section of the work dealing principally with vice and immorality - this thesis examines how an author employs material predominantly from the earlier, Republican, period in order to validate the value system which the Romans believed was the basis of their world domination and to justify the …
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Partnership of Power: The Relationship Between President Franklin Roosevelt and Vice President John Garner
… President Franklin Roosevelt and his first vice president, John Nance Garner. The document explores the historic partnership’s rise and fall.
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Trusted Assistants: A Look at the Governing and Reelection Roles of the Vice President
… determine if there is a relationship between a vice president of the United States governing influence and his involvement in a presidential reelection campaign. The period for this thesis will begin with Richard Nixon's vice presidency and end with Al Gore's. To find a connection I will create …
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Développement d'une approche afin d'accroître la performance d'une Vice-Présidence aux technologies de l'information
… sous-jacents à l'évaluation de programme à une Vice-présidence aux technologies de l'information (VPTI) afin d’accroître la performance de celle-ci. Pour ce faire, l'auteur définit les concepts sous-jacents à l'évaluation de programme et met en relations les liens logiques entre ceux-ci à …
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Is Pride a Vice or a Virtue? Associations to Well-Being and Physical Activity
The first objective of the present study was to determine patterns of association between authentic and hubristic fitness-related pride to outcomes of well-being and leisure-time physical activity (LTPA). A second objective was to examine motivation as a potential mediator of these relationships. …
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