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The Tideland Oil Controversy
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The natural gas controversy
… of the Eighty-Fourth Congress the natural gas controversy evolved into a vital national issue. Not only was the issue "hotly" contested in Congress but it was also highly controversial at the state, city and community levels. Actually the issues over natural gas regulation is one of the most …
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The federal wire tapping controversy.
… inconsistent in their views of the wire tapping controversy. Although prohibited, wire tapping is wide spread throughout the Nation. Congressional action on wire tapping is the only corrective measure that might be suggested.
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Communicating controversy in the mass media
… the third focused on the silicone breast implant controversy<sup>3</sup>.<br/><br/>2. Project Two (discussed in chapters 8-11) consists of programs on nuclear energy,<sup>4</sup> Gulf War Syndrome,<sup>5</sup> and genetically modified foods<sup>6</sup>.<br/><br/>3. Project Three (discussed in …
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The Affective Dimensions of Social Controversy
<p>Social controversy is a sustained, mediated debate between at least two oppositional parties which is more than just a difference of opinion; rather it is a persistent conflict over the political and cultural implications that dominant forms of communicative reasoning, practices, and norms have …
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Elia Kazan controversy: past, present and future
… ceremony. He received the award but amongst much controversy. Whether or not he deserved the Oscar has been debated, but the answer to that question is not the larger goal of this study. The purpose of this study is to examine what Elia Kazan's testimony to the House on Un-American Activities …
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Honey Bee Communication: The Dance-Language Controversy
… both theoretical and experimental grounds. The controversy is reviewed and the main issues are isolated and discussed. The fundamental obstacle to the resolution of this important dispute has been that dancing bees advertise a food location with specific odor information as well as with symbolic …
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Controversy and counternarrative in the social studies
This qualitative study sought to explore reasons why social studies teachers chose to teach controversial issues and counternarratives in their classroom in an era where doing so is dangerous for teachers and their job security, and how they go about doing so in their classrooms. The theoretical …
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"Ecclesiastical History And Controversy In ""paradise Lost."""
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T19:35:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7500265.pdf: 8915287 bytes, checksum: 9c776436c10fae33caefe2775652d749 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1974
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The South African flag controversy, 1925-1928
… to produce a comprehensive history of the flag controversy. Narrative, analysis and description are the stuff of written history and their blend must vary according to the nature of the topic tackled. In a comprehensive history of a most complex subject such as the flag controversy, a story …
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Exploring political solutions to the chlorine controversy
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1995.
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He descended into hell: an English Reformation controversy
During the Reformation of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, almost all of the reformers appealed in some way to the writings of the early fathers in their polemical debates against the Roman church. But the English church made the claim that their purpose was only to teach that which was …
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A Structuralist Controversy: Althusser and Lacan on Ideology
<p>Slavoj Zizek argues that, if Althusser was an adamant structuralist who reduced subject to a mere function of ideology, Lacan was a genuine critic of such a position, who showed how the subject can separate itself from the symbolic structure of ideology. Zizek's portrayal of the debate, however, …
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Choice in education: A controversy of paradigm significance
School vouchers.
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Choice in education: A controversy of paradigm significance
School vouchers.
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English Public School Controversy in Fiction: 1899-1939
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-03T20:52:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6303295.pdf: 22159773 bytes, checksum: 35a8351315301e73ae63ea5e37c46d83 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1962
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Preying on the predator : the shark fin controversy
The consumption of shark fin soup dates back to the Ming Dynasty in China, when it was served to emperors. Today, the cultural delicacy represents wealth, status, and power. Over the past 30 years, with the rising middle class in China, the demand for shark fins has surged. To address the …
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Experiment as rhetoric in the cold fusion controversy
… of the role of experiment in the cold fusion controversy is offered. It is argued that experimental results served as rhetorical tools in the service of actors in the controversy. Discourse analysis informed by actor network theory is employed to analyze the verbal and textual discourse of …
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A study of the link-chain LIFO controversy
The accounting literature contains no evidence on the reliability of the link-chain variant of dollar-value LIFO as a method of inventory accounting as compared to the double-extension variant. The research produced the first evidence on the topic. Process analyses of the two methods found both to …
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