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Showing 1 to 20 of 170 for “"WWII"”.
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"The Veteran Problem''? The American WWII Veteran
… threat. One frame suggests that a mass influx of WWII veterans into the US economy would cause an economic catastrophe similar to the Great Depression in the 1930s. Another frame indicates that veterans have been indoctrinated into military life and that they had values and beliefs that were …
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Reworking the Gothic: Representations of London, WWII-Present
<p>In my thesis, I argue that there has been a trend in post-World War II British literature that posits London as a Gothic space. This trend occurred as a direct result of London's role in World War II, and the city's resulting damage. The ruins of houses, churches and other buildings established …
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Archaeology in the British Mandate of Palestine between WWI and WWII
The administration of archaeology in the Mandate of Palestine took place in a very particular situation, both within the British Empire and outside of it. The Department of Antiquities (DAP) operated within the rules and framework of a bureaucracy answerable to the directions and ideals of the …
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MODERN MUSIC AND VERSATILITY: POST WWII WORKS FOR OBOE & ENGLISH HORN DOUBLING
There are many situations in the professional world of music where players are expected to perform on both oboe and English horn, but the skill of doubling is often overlooked at the collegiate level. Also, due to the vast quantity and familiarity of “standard” pieces, music of our time is …
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Feminine Identity Confined: The Archaeology of Japanese Women at Amache, a WWII Internment Camp
<p>In 1942, approximately 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry were evacuated from the West Coast to ten different internment camps in the interior of the United States. One of these camps was the Granada Relocation Center, otherwise known as Amache, located in southeastern Colorado. Through the …
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Performing Ero Guro: Erotic-Grotesque Bodies and Normativity in Post-WWII Japanese and Korean Theatre
… of erotic and grotesque bodies in post-WWII Japanese and Korean theatre responded to each nation’s image of the ideal body. Those ideal bodily images were the product of haunting modernity as well as of the following historical circumstances after Japan’s loss in WWII—the Treaty of …
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Urban infill housing in a post-WWII landscape : housing in the City of Dresden, Germany
The goal of this thesis is to develop an approach to reconfigure a district of former socialist housing with two intentions. The first, to create a stronger urban framework in the form of a master plan that is based on the planning department assumptions and values based on my research and …
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Fight at the Museum: An Ethnographic Study Investigating Staff and Volunteers at WWII Museums and Memorials
… context of Japanese and American narratives of WWII as told in prominent national museums and memorials located in Japan and the U.S. Following Japanese anthropologist Takahashi Fujitani (1997), I explore how different representations of major events such as the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor …
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Japanese American Cultural Identity: The Role of WWII, Internment, and the 3/11 Disaster in Japan
… an examination of the historical contexts of WWII, internment, and the 3/11 disasters in Japan. Interview data was analyzed using both interpretive and critical paradigms. I then utilized the Communication Theory of Identity (CTI), the corresponding concept of identity gaps, and …
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Transitions in the Mental Health Field's System of Professions from WWII until the Present: The Case of Dubville
A case study of one mental health field in a medium-sized, steel-belt city over a 50 year period is presented. Through interviews and archive data, the narrative elucidates the transitions that occurred in regards to which professions are dominant, and which services count as mental health …
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The reconstruction and FEA analysis of the decommissioned WWII era destroyer USS Cassin Young in the SolidWorks environment
An attempt was made at reconstructing the now decommissioned World War II era destroyer USS Cassin Young using blueprints on file at the Hart Nautical Museum . After the electronic model was constructed, an attempt was made to run an FEA analysis to determine stress levels in the ship's hull. The …
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From global war to global cities : planning, art, and Post-WWII urban history in New York, Berlin, and Tokyo
… became increasingly global during and after WWII. 'Global' here refers to how, in the context of the war, the roles and meanings of cities in the world were beginning to be understood differently. This dissertation investigates urban histories since the 1940s in their connection to changing …
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Emotions in Work and War: Comparisons of Emotional-Cultures of New Deal CCC Enrollees and WWII U.S. Army Enlistees, 1933-1945
… (CCC) enrollees and U.S. Army enlistees during WWII.</p> <p>The broad intent of this undertaking is to place the cultural history of the Great Depression and WWII in conversation and to show the advantage of inter- and multidisciplinary work by applying anthropological and historical theories of …
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Female sexuality, taste and respectability: an analysis of transatlantic media discourse surrounding Hollywood glamour and film star pin-ups during WWII.
This thesis examines the cultural politics surrounding public femininity in Britain and the United States between 1939 and 1949 in relation to glamour and the figure of the film star pin-up. Using Betty Grable and Rita Hayworth – the era’s most popular Hollywood pin-ups - as its case studies, the …
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Each tale chases another. Metaphorical representations, non-linearity and openness of narrative structure in Italian opera from post-WWII to It makes no difference
… thesis discusses the narrative structure of post-WWII Italian avant-garde opera in conceptual terms and demonstrates how it develops on three principal features: the metaphorical representation of socio-political conditions, the non-linearity of the dramaturgy, and openness to a plurality of …
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The long-delayed repatriation of the Sakhalin Koreans: Cold war challenges and resolutions, 1945-1992
During World War II (WWII), tens of thousands of Koreans were forcibly mobilized to Karafuto (southern Sakhalin Island) to serve as labourers in Japan’s wartime economy. When the war ended in August 1945, the Soviet Union occupied the region and the Koreans ceased to be Japanese colonial subjects. …
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The Post-WWII American Picaro as Prophet of Human Dignity: A Study of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, Flannery O’Connor’s The Violent Bear It Away, and Saul Bellow’s Henderson the Rain King
… explain how American authors in the period after WWII used the picaro and picaresque, a figure and genre that originated in 16th century Spain, as vehicles for their explorations of the question of human dignity. As Mark Grief shows in his<em> Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in …
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The Rise of Anti-immigration Populist Radical Right Parties: The Effect of the Syrian Conflict on Refugee Resettlement and Migration Policies in Germany and Austria
… have historically been settled similarly post WWII, however, Syria is the largest refugee crisis since WWII. It is important to learn how to respond to future conflicts with displacement and resettlement affecting Western countries that are unprepared to respond to a conflict of such magnitude. …
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The homeownership gap : how the post-world War II GI bill shaped modern day homeownership patterns for black and white Americans
… signed by President Roosevelt intended to help WWII Veterans transition successfully from soldier to citizen. Often dubbed the magic carpet to the middle class, provisions of the bill granted eligible veterans free college tuition, job training and placement, generous unemployment benefits and a …
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The importance of corporate ownership and control structures in economic sovereignty
… global economy since the end of World War II (WWII). It examines the major ideological underpinnings and economic features of two distinct periods – the embedded liberal and the neoliberal. In addition, this chapter also discusses the impact of neoliberal globalisation on national economic …
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