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Showing 1 to 20 of 125 for “"exceptionalism"”.
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Scale Validation Of American Exceptionalism Index
… to validate a new scale called the American Exceptionalism Index. The current study draws from instruction and examples from academics and professionals who have experience with scale validation – a primer was developed and available to guide future scale development. Following these steps or …
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American Exceptionalism And The Antebellum Slavery Debate
<p> American exceptionalism is the idea that America is or was somehow unique or different compared to other nations throughout history. Many Americans also believed that America had a special mission to be an example to the rest of the world. Many politicians and intellectuals have debated …
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‘Tax exceptionalism': a South African tax law perspective
… to tax law? This is the crux of the concept ‘tax exceptionalism', the misconception that tax law is fundamentally different and therefore should not be governed by the same rule of statutory interpretation that generally apply in the interpretation of all other legislation. For the first time this …
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Ironic American Exceptionalism and the Myth of the Open Self
… rethinks current interpretations of American exceptionalism, emphasizing dynamic relations, especially those we could call "ironic." I am reading Reinhold Niebuhr's The Irony of American History alongside Eric Voegelin's and Woodrow Wilson's philosophical and political treatment of freedom, …
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"The fullest possible account": Knowledge and Exceptionalism in Post-9/11 Literature
… intertwined histories of science and American exceptionalism, contending that the September 11th attacks undermine the nation's sense of its scientific superiority and result in the creation of a body of 21st-century literature that explores the country's position as a technological superpower. …
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"It's Like a Whole Other Country" Texas Exceptionalism and the 1936 Texas Centennial
… promoters accomplished their goals, and Texas exceptionalism and version of exceptionalistic Texas history with the heroic Anglo narrative front and center dominated the Texas narrative for at least fifty years.
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President Joseph R. Biden's Afghanistan Withdrawal Rhetoric: Scapegoating, American Exceptionalism, and Moral Injury
… scapegoating rhetoric and American moral exceptionalism on lives of vulnerable victims in foreign wars. These consequences are that the U.S. allowed further violence to befall vulnerable victims during the Afghanistan withdrawal, such as U.S. veterans and Afghan women.
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Deconstruction of American Exceptionalism in the Collaborative Works of John Adams and Peter Sellars
… of the popular ideology of American Exceptionalism. These two operas have much in common: both adapt history and mythologize it into a cultural narrative; both respond to their own historical moments in order to make statements about American culture; both elicit meaningful questions …
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The Colonial Logics of Exceptionalism: Imperial Feminism in an American and Canadian Case Study
… explores the political rhetoric of Western exceptionalism in both the United States and Canada through two contemporary case studies. The first case study explores the American occupation of Afghanistan and rhetoric that painted this occupation as a mission of liberation for Afghan women. …
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Riders on the Storm: American Exceptionalism, Masculinity, and Frontierism in the 28th Division “Over There,” 1917-18
… ideas of open warfare, aspects of American exceptionalism, and tactics of rifleman adaptability that were seen on past frontiers. Upon arrival in France, the 28<sup>th</sup> was set to train under the British 34<sup>th</sup> Division for three months, but was moved to the front at …
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Neither Capitalist Nor Wage-Labourer: An Economic Examination of the Exceptionalism of Artistic Production vis-à-vis the Capitalist Mode of Production
… of the emergence of the theory of art’s economic exceptionalism in classical political economy gives an alternative historical framework in which to situate the discussion of art’s relationship to capitalism. The rationale for my economic analysis of art – comprising separate critiques of the …
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A discursive historical approach (DHA) to understanding South Africa's leadership aspirations in Africa: state exceptionalism and foreign policy under Mandela and Mbeki
… has been a strong presence of South African exceptionalism which forms a core characteristic of its' national identity (Vale & Maseko, 2002; Mamdani, 1998; Breckenridge, 2004). Leadership foreign policy dispositions and state exceptionalism have persisted through the democratization of the …
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A More Virtuous Empire: The Ideology of Manifest Destiny in American Literature and Film
… of Manifest Destiny repeat the idea of American exceptionalism, the semi-autonomous nature of the work of art works against the grain of these eruptions to show they are also symptomatic of the inability of the American State to reconcile the desire to be both a virtuous republic and a global …
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Solomon on Stage, Representations of Magic and the Occult in Early Modern English Drama
… to the biblical king. My concept of ‘Solomonic exceptionalism’ provides scholars with a framework for understanding this particular branch of magical enquiry which sought to distinguish itself from witchcraft, fairy magic, and prophecy. Solomonic exceptionalism is a concept which reveals …
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An Examination of Agreement and Disagreement in Perceptions of the Morally Exceptional
… to determine the degree to which studying moral exceptionalism is subjective by examining agreement and disagreement in perceptions of moral exemplars across people. To the extent that agreement existed, the second purpose was to identify personality characteristics that may comprise the core of …
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Crumbs To Keep Them Full: Neoliberal Spectacle at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
… highlight multiculturalism as the cornerstone of exceptionalism can also be read as examples of departure from these same values. The thesis argues that the spectacle nonetheless encourages consent for themes that support an economic system in which wealth flows upward. The relationship between …
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Architectures for a Future South: Posthumanism and Ruin in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy
… movement away from humanism (read: human exceptionalism) and toward posthumanism (read: non-, anti-, or after human exceptionalism).</p>
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