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Showing 1 to 20 of 266 for “"dissent"”.
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College students and the rhetorical dissent goal: Associations between dissent goal, dissent target, and perceptions of instructor power
… problem-solving behavior called instructional dissent. Three types of dissent have been identified: rhetorical, expressive, and vengeful. Student perceptions of instructor power influence if and how students dissent. This study explored the relationship between instructor power and rhetorical …
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Defoe, Dissent, and Typology
This dissertation investigates how Dissenting writers, among them Samuel Annesley and Richard Baxter, influenced the religious thought of Daniel Defoe. Though some critics, most notably G. A. Starr and J. Paul Hunter, have positioned Defoe within a broad "Puritan" tradition, his religious ideas are …
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Isaac Watts and the Culture of Dissent
… culture to which he belonged and preached: the Dissenters. Watts’ hymns were not the only texts that had an impact on the Dissenters. The psalters were considered by many (Calvin, in particular) to be the only acceptable songs for use in worship. Watts responded to this belief with his hymns, …
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Epistemic Implications of Scientific Consensus and Dissent
Consensus and dissent play important roles in science. Both scientific consensus and dissent are said to be epistemically beneficial: consensus is often taken as a mark of knowledge and as a basis for informing decision-making and policy, whereas dissent is often taken as being necessary for …
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The language of dissent : the defense of eighteenth-century English dissent in the works and sermons of James Peirce.
… theology was the catalyst for the division of Dissent in 1719, must be considered in relation to his hermeneutic of history. For Peirce, history was the telling of truth or events, but an inherently rhetorical recounting, fashioned by the historian to express the "sense" of the "original" in …
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Dissent and the Church of Scotland, 1660-1690
… These chapters divide the history of dissent into three periods. First, a period of weakness (extending from early 1663 to roughly 1668-1669), when conventicles were few and most Scots conformed. This weakness was largely the result of the initial unpopularity of the covenanting cause …
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Internal Dissent: East Tennessee's Civil War, 1849-1865.
<p>East Tennessee, though historically regarded as a Unionist monolith, was politically and ideologically divided during the Civil War. The entrance of the East Tennessee and Virginia and East Tennessee and Georgia railroads connected the economically isolated region to Virginia and the deep South. …
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Political protest and dissent in the Khrushchev Era
This thesis addresses the subject of political dissent during the Khrushchev era. It examines the kinds of protest behaviours that individuals and groups engaged in and the way that the Soviet authorities responded to them. The findings show that dissenting activity was more frequent and more …
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Conceptions of Authority, Political Orientations and Political Dissent
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IMF Conditionality and Political Dissent in Developing Nations
… conditionality can in effect cause political dissent in the developing nations, and whether or not the process of conditionality violates the sovereign rights of nations. In this research study three Latin American countries (Brazil, Argentina, and Costa Rica) were utilized as case studies to …
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All of Us? Marginalizing Dissent in Toronto's Jewish Community
… public communications reflecting responses to dissenting Toronto Jews and narratives to identify some of these discursive techniques. I also explore how aspects of selected mainstream Jewish Canadian histories can serve to marginalize present-day dissent.
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Seventh-day Adventism and Apocalyptic Political Dissent, 1898-1919
… American imperialism and the protest culture of dissenting Protestantism in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century through the lens of an American-born apocalyptic movement: Seventh-day Adventism. Invoking biblical apocalypticism to foreground their anti-imperialism, Adventists developed …
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The Oath Keepers: Patriotism, Dissent, and the Edge of Violence
<p>This dissertation investigates a prominent group in the patriot/militia movement called the Oath Keepers. It explores how the group uses references to core political ideas and important political events from American history. It argues that these rhetorical strategies serve three purposes: (1) …
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Conformity, Dissent, and the Death of Henry Barrow, 1570-1593
… officials regarding the punishment of religious dissent. Though Conformist officials and authoritarianism would ultimately triumph over Puritan efforts to speed reform in the Church of England, the case of Henry Barrow illustrates the fractured state of opinion which was present even among the …
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Manufacturing Dissent: The News on Abortion-Related Protest in 1991
The news on abortion-related protest in 1991 ultimately constructs a narrowly defined vision of abortion-related activism in which there are three main actors; extremist pro-lifers, extremist pro-choicers, and regular people like us. In addition, the news's polarization of the issue, and its …
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