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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"World War II Era"”.
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Sentimental Journey?: The Immigrant Experience of World War II-Era War Brides in Montana
During and after World War II, over one hundred thousand American servicemen married women they met in the course of their deployment overseas. In early 1946, these women, commonly known as “war brides,” began to immigrate to the United States to join their husbands. Over one hundred of the women …
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Sentimental Journey?: The Immigrant Experience of World War II-Era War Brides in Montana
During and after World War II, over one hundred thousand American servicemen married women they met in the course of their deployment overseas. In early 1946, these women, commonly known as “war brides,” began to immigrate to the United States to join their husbands. Over one hundred of the women …
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An American rhetoric of globalism: peace through international economic cooperation in the World War II era
… of globalism compelled Americans during the World War II era to imagine a postwar peace that would depend on individual economic security and global economic interdependence. In a time of radical contingency, globalism emerged as an inventive alternative both to the predominant isolationism …
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A game-theoretic analysis of electronic warfare tactics with applications to the World War II era
… of attack (bluffing in time). Two electronic warfare tactics used by the Allied air forces during World War II, representing an example of each, are modeled as dynamic zero-sum games with incomplete information. I show that in most instances, Perfect Bayesian Nash Equilibria dictate that the …
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The Ties That Bind: World War Ii-Era Population Displacement And The Politics Of Family Reunification In The Ussr, 1941-1975
… in the midst of the dislocations of the Second World War. It explores how Soviet citizens attempted to locate family members with whom they lost contact and how the Soviet regime responded to the predicament of war-torn Soviet families during and in the aftermath of the conflict. Based on …
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Post-World War II era of the national mass literacy campaign in Nigeria, 1940-1952: an examination of the roles of the colonial administration and selected non-governmental agencies in the fight against illiteracy
… an interpretive commentary of the first Mass Literacy Campaign in Nigeria from 1940-1952. The researcher traced earlier events and forces as they interacted to shape the Campaign. Within the context in which they occurred, five major areas were examined: (a) various influential forces: (b) …
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Steel, Trade, and Development: A Comparative Advantage Analysis With Special Reference to the Case of Brazil
… industry in the Periphery of the industrialized world--particularly, in Brazil. The current crisis of the world steel industry is analyzed in Chapter I from the standpoint of the economic forces that have been gradually shifting comparative advantage in steel production in favor of less developed …
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The reconstruction and FEA analysis of the decommissioned WWII era destroyer USS Cassin Young in the SolidWorks environment
… 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 ship was …
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The Western Front in the Backyard: The archaeological survey of Camp Howze, Texas
… Texas to become one of the first temporary wartime bases of World War II within the continental US. Operating from 1942 to 1946, Camp Howze was a training group for several hundred thousand military personnel, and a detainment center for thousands of German prisoners of war. This survey …
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Aesthetic representation and political economy in the beat narrative: Structures of feeling in the post-World War II generation
… methodologies, explores the role of the literary text in relation to both Karl Marx's "material conception of history," as well as Raymond William's idea of a "structure of feeling." Using the novels published by Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs in the 1950s (specifically, <em>On the …
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What is the negro woman's story?: Negro Story Magazine and the dialogue of feminist voices
… about African American writing prior to the post-World War II era. This is especially true in the recently emergent school of work surrounding the Chicago Black Renaissance. This thesis focuses on a single literary magazine, Negro Story, in order to explore the complexity of Black female identity …
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Visions of Paradise: The Migration to Oakland and Community Development Efforts of African Americans, 1900-1940
… as a result of the Great Migration. Several factors contributed to Oakland's popularity as a West Coast destination and by 1940 the city contained the second largest Black population in the state. Upon arrival, African American migrants shaped their community through racial uplift, with …
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Parody and the pen: Pippi Longstocking, Harriet M. Welsch, and Flavia de Luce as disrupters of space, language, and the male gaze
<p>In opposition to a literary tradition of damsel-in-distress female characters, Astrid Lindgren’s <em>Pippi Longstocking</em>, Louise Fitzhugh’s <em>Harriet the Spy</em>, and Alan Bradley’s <em>The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie</em> provide examples of empowered, intelligent, and capable …
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Injustice sheltered: Race relations at the University of Illinois and Champaign-Urbana, 1945-1962
… of Illinois and Champaign Urbana from the World War II era to the early 1960s. It tells the story of racial injustice perpetuated within this town-and-gown community and how those who were disconcerted with it struggled, resisted, challenged, and changed aspects of this system. Playing host …
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Definitions, interpretations and the scarce resource : Canadian refugee policy 1947-1993
… became a refugee receiving country in the post World War II era. Today, she resettles approximately 25,000 Convention and humanitarian refugees on an annual basis. This thesis examines the evolution and growth of Canadian refugee policy from its modest beginnings to its modern philosophy and …
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Taking the wheel: Selected aspects of Windsor's automotive working experience, 1920-1938 (Ontario).
… and development of Canadian unions in the post World War II era, the history of the automative workers during the inter-war years has remained relatively unexplored. This thesis is composed of six chapters, each one examining a major aspect of life for Windsor's automotive workers during this …
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Mental Health and Ideals of Citizenship: Patient Care at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., 1903--1962
The post-World War II era witnessed important changes in both psychiatrists' vision of U.S. citizenship and the institutional culture at St. Elizabeths. Physicians took an increasingly liberal view of race relations under Winfred Overholser, who succeeded White as superintendent in 1937 and was …
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Women as Subject and Audience in World War II Venereal Disease Posters
… first became a major health concern during World War I. Venereal diseases were some of the most common infections and led to more hospitalizations among soldiers than wounds or battle-related illness. The Selective Service discovered that almost fifteen percent of those who were eligible for …
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At the Crossroads Commercial Music and Community Experience The Quonset Auditorium - A Roadhouse on the Dixie Highway
… of R&B, gospel and country musicians in the post-World War II era (1947- 1959), illustrates the important role of roadhouses during a time of growth and change in popular music. It situates memories and experiences from the Quonset Auditorium in relation to regional and national movements of the …
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Investigating a countercyclical price level with procyclical inflation
… in particular is that of procyclical prices. Several publications have found empirical evidence that, counter to widespread acceptance, this cycle fact is not always true, and in the post World War II era prices have indeed been countercyclical. It is the goal of this work to replicate this …
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