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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"divisiveness"”.
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The Politics of Divisiveness: Multiculturalism and the Free Society
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Healing Places
… buildings, raging crime rates, inequality and divisiveness, and poor physical and social health, Baltimore City is in dire need of regeneration. This thesis proposes an urban intervention in Oldtown, Baltimore City, Maryland that employs active design, sustainable design, and specialized …
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Self-Structure and the Rhetorics of Social Discourse in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
… as a Rhetorical Device: Modern Ethos and the Divisiveness of the Self" and ironically rooted in both sociolinguistic and psycho-analytic philosophies. In the end, this study seeks to identify the technique and trace the influence of social discourses on the self-structure of Huckleberry Finn, …
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The German Immigrant Experience in Late-Antebellum Kentucky
… of the strengths and weaknesses, the harmony and divisiveness, and the moderation and radicalism of Kentucky's German-born settlers. The question of cultural assimilation among immigrant groups has frequently fascinated social historians. One of the central themes of inquiry continues to be the …
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The Social Construction of a Public/Private Neighborhood: Examining Neighbor Interaction and Neighborhood Meaning in a New Orleans Mixed-Income Development
… Overall, the evidence illuminates class divisiveness among African American neighbors and demonstrates how the struggle for contested space creates a neighborhood filled with tension.</p>
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From Cuba to Ybor City: Race, Revolution, Nationalism and Afro-Cuban Identity
… patriotic solidarity ultimately trumped racial divisiveness in the Ybor City. Although the Jim Crow Laws deeply penetrated all levels of society in the U.S. South, black and white Cubans coexisted within the tiny bubble outside of Tampa during the last few decades of the nineteenth century. …
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Gender and Space in Jordan: Boundaries and Power in a Middle Eastern Society
… efficient tools for increasing the rigidity and divisiveness of those same boundaries. Consequently, genders in Jordan remain divided between public and private spaces — a social reality shaped, supported, and enhanced by the interaction between both qualitative, emotion-based elements and …
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Built to Last: Exploring Family Strategy in Dynastic Business Families
… hand, dynasties are associated with conflict, divisiveness, conspicuous consumption, and entitlement. On the other hand, dynastic business families employ people, produce and innovate products and processes, and give to community. Linked to values and enacted by strategic leaders, strategy …
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Eloquence and Music: the Querelle des Bouffons in Rhetorical Context
… explorations that use the quarrel's innate divisiveness as a means of creating meaningful dialog. Through a system of multi-layering and intricate referencing—and based on a valuing of the essential and an evacuation of the ornamental—, the quarrel's texts themselves determine the debate's …
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Vers une nouvelle colonisation : le roman du dictateur francophone subsaharien et caribéen
… silence opposition, and actively promote social divisiveness so as to maintain their own privilege and power. Because it is a type of governance based on the colonial model of brutality and repression, it leads to an endless cycle of violence and suffering. These writers seem to be offering a …
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Segmentation, unity, and a church divided: a critical history of churches in Nagaland, 1947-2017
… of the Naga society effected both unity and divisiveness in the Naga churches, which subsequently shaped the beliefs and practices of the churches in the region. Archival data in the form of reports, records and minutes of meetings were collected from church and government offices. …
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Intelligence-Led and Community-Based Policing: The Effects on Community Relations
… of community relations and to report greater divisiveness with different minority groups. This suggests that while OMEM may raise awareness and support, there is still a lack of full organizational engagement with COP and ILP. These results have implications for policy, suggesting that a …
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Debunking the false dichotomy: Developing and applying trans quantcrit at the intersection of trans/non-binary identities and religious, secular, and spiritual engagement in college
… engagement and perceptions of RSS campus divisiveness—that is not also experienced alongside negative discrimination based on one’s RSS identity—can contribute to more positive attitudes towards trans/NB people across all RSS groups (non-religious, RSS majority, and RSS minority). In a …
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TAMILS IN MALAYSIA: PROBLEMS IN SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOR AN IMMIGRANT MINORITY GROUP
… the politics of exclusion and parochial divisiveness. . . . (Author's abstract exceeds stipulated maximum length. Discontinued here with permission of author.) UMI
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Mobilizing Affect: The Rhetoric and Circulation of Popular Political Satire News Shows
… uniquely suited for the spectacle and divisiveness that characterize the current political milieu. Affective rhetorical intervention employs emotion as a rhetorical strategy to dismantle and effect change within dominant arguments and narratives. In my analysis of Last Week Tonight with …
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'Atrocity Suppression': an alternative to 'Humanitarian Intervention'
… has come to be tarnished by the failings and divisiveness of interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya. Considering the need to differentiate classical humanitarian intervention as a unique concept, and responding, moreover, to the opposition of the humanitarian sector to the association …
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"Bringing it home" New Zealand responses to the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
… was limited by appreciation of the potential divisiveness of the issue. The National Party and some newspapers objected to Labour's policy. These "Non-Interventionists" considered the ideological issues of the war irrelevant to New Zealanders and regarded the war largely in terms of Imperial …
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Sexist implications of law’s fidelity to science and reason
… pays to the categorical and epistemological divisiveness of rationality. On the other hand, the emotional attachment which the mother displays for her children and the father becomes synonymous with irrationality or mere sensuality, and this dimension of human life is undervalued or perceived …