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Showing 1 to 20 of 118 for “"defiance"”.
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Unconquerable Defiance: Richmond Newspapers and Confederate Defeat, 1864-1865
This thesis describes and analyses how the Richmond press operated as a propaganda machine during the final year of the Civil War. It argues that the newspapers of the Confederate capital regularly exploited the propaganda value of the news they reported, employing methods including distortion of …
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An Inert State: Tracing a double-defiance of death via photographic poiesis
… specimen as a way of revealing a double-defiance against the Freudian concept of the death-drive. From this, a new concept photo-dermy was established and explored via the production of five museum-based practice-projects. Examination of the photo-dermy concept necessitated the practical …
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A Unity of Contraries: Dorothy Day and the 'No-Alibi' Rhetoric of Defiance and Devotion
… of Dorothy Day (1897-1980) as a Rhetoric of Defiance and Devotion and it is illustrated by selected metaphors associated with Martin Buber and M. M. Bakhtin. Concepts of conscience, community and the complexities associated with being authentically human are engaged within an interpretive …
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A study of the auglaize hydro-electric development of the Defiance Gas and Electric Company
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1924.
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The Benjamin Franklin Randolph Monument: A Symbol of Remembrance and Defiance In the Age of Reconstruction
… blacks and Republicans in a form of nonviolent defiance against Democrats and white militant groups that sought to collapse the Republican-controlled state government.</p>
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Songs of Deviance and Defiance: Subjectivity, emotions and authenticity in Bhawaiya Folk Songs of North Bengal
Bhawaiya is one of the most popular folk song genres to Bengalis. While all Bangla folk songs express the emotions and the stories of the most marginal people, Bhawaiya is significant for expressing the female passion grounded in day to day material reality through the stories of the female subject …
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Between defiance and compliance: the Lutheran Landesbischöfe of Hanover, Bavaria and Württemberg in the Third Reich
… that lay somewhere between the parameters of defiance and compliance. In order to demonstrate the collective contribution of the Landesbischöfe to maintaining the status of the German Protestant Church amidst heightening Nazi tyranny, this dissertation traces how, with reference to external …
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Compliance and defiance in patron-client state relationships: a case study of Pakistan’s relationship with the united states, 1947-2013
… confident in the knowledge that while its defiance might lead to occasional tensions with the patron, its continuing strategic importance will prevent a complete rupture and the consequent termination of material assistance.
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Compliance and defiance in patron-client state relationships: a case study of Pakistan’s relationship with the united states, 1947-2013
… confident in the knowledge that while its defiance might lead to occasional tensions with the patron, its continuing strategic importance will prevent a complete rupture and the consequent termination of material assistance.
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The introduction of Bantu education and the question of resistance, co-operation, non-collaboration or defiance?: the struggle for African schooling with special reference to Cape Town, 1945-1960
The purpose of the Bantu Education Act was to extend the state's direct political control over African communities: African resistance modified this control and shaped the implementation of Bantu Education. Through the centralization of the administration and the financing of African schooling the …
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The Effects of Childhood Irritability on Adolescent Outcomes and Treatment Response in Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
… dimensions in the DSM-5: irritability, defiance, and vindictiveness. ODD is highly comorbid with Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), which has been shown to exacerbate impairments in interpersonal and psychosocial functioning compared to impairments related to irritability …
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Prometheus in sound : one hundred years of musical adaptations of the myth of Prometheus: Beethoven, Shubert, Liszt, Wolf, Parry, Fauré and Scriabin
… - the fire rather than with the rebellion and defiance associated with the demigod who took action against the tyranny of Zeus.
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Andre Gide, the nonconformist
… his early mature years which was his period of defiance, and his later years which was his period of leadership. By studying his life the growth of his individualistic approach to everything and his reasons for not conforming to the pattern established by tradition will be traced.
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Relational Transformation through Dialogue: Conflict mediation in a secondary school in the UK
… cases, and attacking and defiance appeared most frequently in Conflict-not-transformed cases. Resolution-Only cases lie between these two categories. These findings suggest that conflict mediation favours elicitive and empathetic facilitation, and leads to the …
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Natural Resource Revolutions: Mexico and Cuba Within the Sphere of U.S. Hegemony
… Mexico and Cuba been able to practice successful defiance of the United States hegemon of the twentieth century? And how has that defiance helped to define U.S. foreign policy in Latin America? This dissertation presents a detailed examination of the contexts surrounding both the Mexican and Cuban …
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The limits to openness: The impact of glasnost' and perestroika on the Baltic Republics
… Georgian SSR, have been punished for such vocal defiance of central authority.
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Salt in the wound : a visual exploration of societal and experiental aspects of female reproduction and abortion
… to perceive abortion in terms of a feminine defiance against a societal norm of maternal self-sacrifice.
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Seeing the future, speaking to the past : nomadic projects and thoughts
… announcement and silence, interrogation and defiance. Through my experiences as a global nomad, I create new vehicles that bridge the disparate cultures I encounter.
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