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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Western civilization"”.
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Global Islamism: The Threat to Western Civilization
… While the United States and the rest of the Western countries mobilized after this attack to fight against international terrorism, not a great deal of attention was given to the fundamentalists, or Islamists, that reject the use of violence but still work within the political process. …
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The Positioning Of Iran And Iranians In The Origins Of Western Civilization
… position Iran and Iranians in the origins of Western Civilization. Western Civilization history marginalizes, misrepresents, misappropriates, and/or omits Iran’s positioning (Kincheloe, 2004; Daryaee, 2005; Anvarinejad, 2007; Daragahi, 2010; Ahkami, 2014; Vahdati, 2014). Further, the …
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Echoes of Laocoön's Warning in Letters from an American Farmer
… America. When the letters are juxtaposed with a Western myth of origin such as Virgil's Aeneid, it becomes clear that Crèvecoeur is forcing his narrating persona to repeat a pattern of civilization – destruction, renewal – on which all of Western civilization is based. The sudden pessimism that …
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Indigeneity on Display: Ethnographic Adventure Film in Amazonia
… indigenous first contact and the superiority of Western civilization. Focusing on a 1931 expedition to the Amazon which resulted in the creation of the first sync-sound ethnographic adventure film, titled Matto Grosso: The Great Brazilian Wilderness, I argue that despite flaws in its conception, …
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Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, . . . and C. S. Lewis? Two Revolutionary Philosophical, Moral, and Cultural Critiques
… themes including the following: the history of Western civilization, the nature of reason and rationality, human nature, the subject-object relation, the question of ethical normativity, the human struggle against and conquest of nature, the increasing detachment of science from practical life, …
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From aliens to alienation : cinematic interpretations of the punk culture.
… audience. The documentary film, The Decline of Western Civilization and the dramatic film, Repo Man, are the films analyzed to see if the audience's interpretation of the message is the same. In the first chapter I will examine the history of the punk culture. This shows the orgins and gives …
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Fall of the Burgundians. Continuity in Legend and History
… of the 4-5th century marked a dramatic shift in Western Civilization. The arrival of the Huns on the eastern fringe of Europe set off a chaotic chain of events that would radically change the ethnic, linguistic, and political landscape. By the time the dust had settled the classical world that …
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Asleep in the Arms of God
… to make a critique of the exploitative rage of Western civilization.
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The Creation and Evolution of the International Terrorist Organization Al Qaeda
… threat to the security of the United States and Western civilization itself. Osama bin Laden, the co-founder and leader of al Qaeda has officially declared war on the United States and its allies multiple times, vowing to destroy all those who support the nation of Israel. This thesis examines …
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Vonnegut's criticisms of modern society
… experience but to the rise and fall of entire civilizations, as well. When studying what they believe to be the cycles of civilizations, scholars have observed that each cycle is a well-rounded unit of history characterized by stages of birth, growth, decline, and death. These cycles occur even …
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The Women's Royal Australian Naval Service : a study in discrimination 1939-1960
… to achieving the ends through violent means. As Western civilization progressed however, women became restricted to “womanly” duties and separated from the official military sphere. The power to make war became exclusively men’s. In Australia immigration patterns, geographic features, and a …
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Something Got Into Their Minds: The Rise of Radicalization Discourse in Canada
… racially-charged concept that characterizes anti-Western violence in ways that relieve Western states of culpability for their colonial provocations. Evidence of such provocations is diluted through prevailing radicalization discourses that inform counter-terrorism frameworks and shape popular …
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Faithful Form: On Religion and Politics in German Modernist Lyric
… of society. Trakl’s poetry prophesies the end of Western civilization on the brink of the First World War and develops mystical practices of kenosis (emptying one’s particular will—or in the case of Trakl, the normativity of collective forms—as preparation for receiving the divine) within the …
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Facing God: Contemporary American Devotional Poetry
… Allen Grossman argues is the most important in Western civilization—from a unique and yet scripturally archival point of view. At the same time, each features a strong individual speaker, one of the hallmarks of contemporary poetry. Osherow identifies the speaker of her psalms as a version of …
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Depression and 'crises of meaninglessness' in the political-economic theology of the money-God
… the climbing rates of depression in contemporary Western civilization is still up for grabs. That’s what the thesis sets out to investigate. In order to accomplish this aim, the study builds upon the classical accounts of Georg Simmel, Émile Durkheim and the more contemporary ideas of Dany-Robert …
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The Biblical Design Purpose of Sex Applied to Issues of Personal Sexuality
… ethical sexual activity. Historically, both Western civilization and the church have largely condemned autoeroticism, often referred to as masturbation, viewing it as immoral due to perceived causes (e.g., insanity, immaturity) or adverse effects (e.g., “spilling the seed,” feminization). …
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The Strange Commodity of Cultural Exchange: Martha Graham and the State Department on Tour, 1955-1987
… as the postwar home of freedom, modernity, and Western civilization to an established power that attempted to set international standards of diplomacy. Graham and her works, read as texts alongside State Department country plans, United States Information Agency publicity, other documentary …
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A Latter-day Saint Home Education: Passing On a Goodly Heritage
… difficulties in education. The secularization of Western civilization and education is described. The history of public schooling in America is examined, and the current status of the public school system is analyzed. On the basis of this analysis, parents are urged to be more vigilant in …
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The semantic development of some Roman ethical concepts in the second century B.C. : based on contemporary literary epigraphical and numismatical evidence
… ethical concepts form the firm foundation of Western civilization. Augustine used the Roman spirit of sacrifice for the common good as an example for the inhabitants of the City of God. Dante claims that the Roman people were ordained by nature for empire by foregoing their own advantage to …
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Theological and Ecological Foundations for Youth Ministry in Relation to the Archdiocese of Mbarara, Uganda - East Africa
… in the traditional kingdom of Nkore in southwestern Uganda, is undergoing societal shift. Due to the pervading influences of Western civilization and technology, the conservative and often static culture of native tribal communities with their adherence to informal education, traditional …
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