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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"War Rhetoric"”.
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Writing Against The War Machine: Wiflred Owen's Poetic Challenge to World War I Pro-War Rhetoric
… Owen, a soldier-poet who fought in World War I, is often labeled an anti-war poet, with some claiming that he was against the war in its entirety. This thesis explores the opinion that Owen is not an anti-war poet but rather that he wrote against anti-pro-war rhetoric. This includes all …
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Making the Case for War: The War Rhetoric of Presidents George H. W. Bush, William J. Clinton, and George W. Bush
… and George W. Bush) shows a clear pattern of “war propaganda” in their speeches. By evoking the “Just War Theory” and the concept of the “Rogue State”, each president made a moral justification for military intervention. An examination of the situation in each country before, during, and after …
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From Surviving to Metaviving: A New Rhetorical Formation in Metastatic Breast Cancer Patient Discourse
… death sentence to a potentially chronic disease. War rhetoric, of which the survivor trope is a part, has been the primary mechanism by which healthcare defines the cancer experience. Using Celeste Condit's framework of rhetorical formations, I question if a new rhetoric of breast cancer is indeed …
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From crisis to war: prophetic dualism in President George W. Bush's September 20, 2001 address
… his Administration's first deliberate official rhetorical response to the events of 9/11 and the first instance of the "Bush Doctrine." Although 9/11 has become an increasing topic of scholarly review and this speech is the first presidential policy response, few have explored Bush's choice of …
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President Joseph R. Biden's Afghanistan Withdrawal Rhetoric: Scapegoating, American Exceptionalism, and Moral Injury
… an identity for the American “people” through rhetorical processes that can influence unity and division. In this project, I answer, “How and why did President Joseph R. Biden attempt to unify the American “people” through scapegoating the Afghan people during the Afghanistan withdrawal from …
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'The Tourist Soldier': Veterans Remember the American Occupation of Germany, 1950-1955
Studies of postwar Germany, from 1945-1955, have concentrated on the American influence as a military occupier, the development of German reconstruction and national identity, and memory of this period from the German perspective. Within the memory analyses, firsthand accounts have been analyzed to …
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Slums, Squatters and Urban Redevelopment Schemes in Bombay, Hong Kong, and Singapore, 1894-1960
… urbanism during the late 1930s and Second World War. Analysing the divergent consequences of patterns of urban growth in Bombay, Hong Kong, and Singapore throughout the late-1930s, this chapter considers late-colonial efforts to house the urban poor as well as the extent to which the war recast …
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The “Identity Biennial” & the Politics of the Interstice
… the role it played in the late-century culture wars, multiculturalism, and renewed debates on the quincentenary of Columbus’ 1492 “discovery” of America. Yet, artworks like Willie Varela’s film A Lost Man (1992) and Miguel Gandert’s photo series Tierra O Muerte (1988) remain under-examined …
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Equipment for Dying: A Dramatistic Critique of Heroism and the Crises Assaulting Returning Soldiers
… soldiers and the current U.S. construction of warrior heroism through the theoretical lens of “Equipment for Dying.” Equipment for Dying theorizes that each specific crisis or challenge faced is a contemporary incarnation of an archetypal challenged faced by all soldiers and the societies that …
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The Malthusian Paradox: weapons rhetoric before the bomb
The Malthusian Paradox: Weapons Rhetoric Before the Bomb is a longitudinal case study of weapons rhetoric leading up to WWII. It examines how influential weapons rhetors negotiated a technological conundrum that I call the “Malthusian Paradox.” The Malthusian Paradox is the commonplace belief that …
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Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Words of War: Their Speeches and Correspondence, November 1940-March 1941.
… their fight against the Axis Powers during World War II.</p><p>These speeches resulted from their personalities, preparation, and correspondence; and the speeches directed Allied conduct and challenged Axis aggression. The speeches examined here pertain to Lend-Lease in November, 1940-March, …