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Showing 1 to 20 of 690 for “"ethos"”.
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Mining Ethos In Parliamentary Debate
… (logos) is a funda- mental part of persuasion, ethos, the character of the speaker, also plays a significant role in communication as one of Aristotles modes of persuasion. This is identified within both argumentation (e.g. argument from expert opinion) and within conversation and debate, as …
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Archilochus, Telephus, and the warrior ethos
… argued that the poet consistently advocates an ethos of cautious courage, in accordance with which every warrior is required to remain with the fighting unit and individual action is discouraged. This ethos is situated within the context of the historical development of the hoplite phalanx, and …
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Exploring Classical and Contemporary Conception of Ethos Applied Case-The Rhetorical Ethos of President George W. Bush
… and contemporary conceptions of rhetorical ethos, this thesis assembles theories of analysis and then applies them in the form of rhetorical analysis of the rhetorical ethos exhibited by President George W. Bush in his presidential speeches. The theoretical investigation reveals the …
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La Pasionaria: The Ethos of a Leader
<p>Abstract</p> <p>La Pasionaria: The Ethos of a Leader was directed by Lois Agnew. This dissertation project inserts Latina activist Dolores Huerta into the feminist rhetorical tradition and traces the complicated ways in which ethos is constructed from multiply oppressed bodies within the context …
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Essentially Christian in character? Ethos in integrated schools
… focusing on what might be termed an ‘integrated ethos' and within that context, there is no research exploring the nature of the Christian ethos within integrated schools.<br/><br/> In order to explore this under-researched area, the author carried out two case studies, in two integrated primary …
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Black ethos: the northern urban negro, 1890 -1930
… to gather at least some insights into the ethos of ordinary black America.</p> <p>Implicit in this study, then, is the idea that the antecedents of today's Black Revolution are discernible in the changing ethos of the northern black communities of the last decade of the nineteenth century …
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The art school ethos across cultures: UK and China
This research investigated the culture and identity of art and design institutions through making comparisons between British and Chinese independent art schools and art schools in multidisciplinary universities, and the cultural contexts behind these art schools in the two countries. The study …
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A study of the relationship between dogmatism and ethos
… the audience.</p><p>Granting the importance of ethos, any study casting further light on this vital portion of rhetorical theory would be of value to the overall knowledge of public address. The general purpose of the study to follow is to conduct such an investigation. More particularly the …
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Training Bodies: Performances of Ethos in 21st Century Sportswomen
… class, and gender may influence how one performs ethos and how that performance of ethos is received by an audience. Through a rhetorical analysis of the performances of ethos by elite female athletes such as Brandi Chastain, Serena Williams, and Michelle Wie, this study demonstrates the dynamic …
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Developing a recovery ethos for psychiatric services in New Zealand
This thesis is about developing a recovery ethos for psychiatric services in New Zealand. The argument of the thesis is that currently a procedural ethos is dominant in psychiatric services in New Zealand, based on eclectic ways of facilitating recovery. Recovery from mental illness, is based on …
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Material worlds : [de]constructing the ethos of concrete in Mumbai
… that inhabits it - I investigate what I call the ethos of concrete in Mumbai as a way of understanding the state of some aspects of the city's society. It must be emphasized that I look specifically at ethos of production rather than reception of concrete framed buildings in the city of Mumbai. …
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Identity, Ethos, and Community: Rhetorical Dimensions of Secular Mommy Blogs
… of identity enables her to construct individual ethos. Furthermore, I illustrate how the individual ethos of each blogger contributes to a group ethos representing the entire secular parenting community. Ultimately, I show how these mothers rhetorically set themselves apart from other …
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At Our Service? The public service ethos in community safety partnerships
The public service ethos (PSE) has spent thirty years - since the advent of New Public Management - in flux. In the late 1990s, partnership working appeared to offer an alternative to NPM, as part of a perceived shift to network governance. What impact has partnership and network governance had on …
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Before ethics? : a study of the ethos of the medical profession
… understanding of the role of a profession’s ethos in relation to its ethics. In so doing, it also offers a valuable insight into GP thinking at what proved to be a unique moment in the history of that branch of the medical profession. Using historical and empirical data, the thesis first …
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The Piratical Ethos: Textual Activity and Intellectual Property in Digital Environments
<p>The Piratical Ethos: Textual Activity and Intellectual Property in Digital Environments examines the definition, function, and application of intellectual property in contexts of electronically mediated social production. With a focus on immaterial production - or the forms of coordinated social …
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