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Confucians confront Catholicism in eighteenth-century Korea
… contemporaries did not agree. The result was a confrontation that brought disgrace and death to that small band of Korean Catholics. Most Korean Neo-Confucians came away from that first encounter with Western religion convinced that Catholicism was a pernicious force threatening their most …
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Punk pedagogy: Teaching to confront intersecting discourses of domination
<p>Through the utilization of autoethnography and critical discourse analysis, this dissertation explores the applications of punk rock, its ethos and its philosophies, in the world of education. The overarching research questions driving the direction of this work are as follows: (a) What would an …
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The CAR (Confront, Address, Replace) Strategy: An Antiracist Engineering Pedagogy
<p>The CAR (confront, address, replace) Strategy is an antiracist pedagogy aiming to drive out exclusionary terminology in engineering education.</p> <p><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/master-slave-in-engineering/home" target="_blank">“Master-slave” terminology</a> is still commonplace in …
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On What We Confront in Perceptual Experience: Old School Ontologies for New School Realists
… reduce and which are the kinds of things we confront in perceptual experience. Though largely absent from contemporary discussions of ontology, there are various reasons to think they deserve consideration. Species of this family, and similar views, have a prominent role in early analytic …
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A Decentralized Approach to Confront the Debasement of Black Male Student Athletes Who Attend PWI'S
<p>The debasement and "niggering " of Black male student athletes who attend PWI's is an issue that has been well documented since the mid to late sixties (Edwards, 1969, Olson, 1968). This population has been negatively stereotyped as being superior athletically, but inferior intellectually …
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Museum-Making in Women's Poetry: How Sylvia Plath and Emily Dickinson Confront the Time of History
In The Newly Born Woman, Helene Cixous and Catherine Clement note that Michelet and Freud "both thought that the repressed past survives in woman; woman, more than anyone else, is dedicated to reminiscence" (5). Whether or not this is true of woman, that expectation of her—as keeper of the past—has …
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Expository preaching as a means to fulfill Paul's admonitions in the pastoral epistles to confront and correct false teaching
… Paul's admonitions in the Pastoral Epistles to confront and correct false teaching. Chapter 1 defines the thesis and methodology of the dissertation. Chapter 2 provides exegesis of specific texts in the Pastoral Epistles dealing with false teaching. This chapter establishes the biblical basis …
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The Iranian Threat: Iran's Confrontation With The United States And Pursuit Of Middle Eastern Hegemony
… and examine what strategy should be employed to confront this challenge. The second chapter of this thesis examines Iran's ideology and principal objectives, and how these factors have set the Iranian regime against the United states; it also examines the military capabilitis of Iran, and how it …
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Survivors of sexual violence confronting their perpetrators
… disturbing for survivors of sexual violence to confront their perpetrator about the violence. It may bring back painful memories but some survivors choose to do it. On the other hand, it is important to know what kind of reactions survivors should be expecting from the perpetrators, both for the …
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The Impact of the Emotional Tone of Confrontation on Perceptions of Confronters of Sexism
Despite the numerous benefits associated with confronting sexism, many women refrain from doing so due to social consequences and negative perceptions. Utilizing an online scenario study, the present research further examines these perceptions, exploring whether a woman confronting with an angry, …
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Confrontation of Prejudice in the Workplace: The Role of Observer Prejudice Level, Discrimination Type, and Perpetrator Status
The Confronting Prejudiced Responses (CPR) Model (Ashburn-Nardo, Morris, & Goodwin, 2008) describes factors that predict whether people confront prejudice that they witness. The present research examined some of these factors, including: observer prejudice level (low to high), discrimination type …
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Haunted and Hunted: The Gothic and the Ghostly in The Light and Asylum
… story wherein the protagonists must confront the metaphorical and literal ghosts while simultaneously attempting to establish a sense of identity. Applying Gothic theory and ghost theory to the ghostly stories in young adult Gothic horror demonstrates how certain young adult Gothic …
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Roberto Bolaño’s 2666, the Funneling Effect of Capitalism, and the Production, Consumption, and Proliferation of Violence for Profit
… enterprise; one that forces its readers to confront their complicity or outright participation in violence against women; and one that relates directly to violence against women as consumable entertainment in American mass culture.</p>
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Classroom reflection in action
… various types of interactive decisions teachers confront during reading and social studies lessons, the sources of information used to make those decisions, and their effect on student performance, behavior, and interpretation of the learning environment.
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Rhetorical Model: An Aid for Clarifying Literary Terms and for Teaching Literature
… he first begins to study literature, a student confronts a mass of terms. Some will sound familiar to him, others will sound completely foreign. Of course, this experience is not limited to literature courses and studies. Throughout school the student will confront new terms in science, …
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A Background Study for the Preparation of a Handbook Recommended for Use by the A-V Building Coordinators in the Junior High Schools of Tacoma
… to (1) consider the many related problems that confront the audiovisual building coordinator in the operation of a well-organized audiovisual program; (2) consider the policies and procedures of the Audiovisual Education Department of Tacoma Public Schools; and (3) prepare text material for a …
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How has the treatment of marine-based, article XX exception trade disputes differed between the GATT and the WTO?
… when the imperatives of liberalised trade confront the interests of environmental protection, and also, to examine the similarities and differences between GATT and the WTO.
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Artist-educators’ experiences with identity and representation in theatre arts learning spaces
… Artist–educators seem ill-equipped to confront the complexity found with issues of bias, identity, representation, and cultural appropriation within their learning spaces or to facilitate the necessary discourse to contextualize these provocative issues. The goals of this research focus …
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Refrain
… catapults the town into crisis, forcing them to confront their complicity and disregard for Native American life. Told from multiple points of view, including that of 11-year-old Emily, who must reckon with her own racial identity after being visited by her ancestors, the novel excavates the …
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