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Showing 1 to 20 of 914 for “"historical context"”.
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Open diary : biography/autobiography as historical context
… is in part determined by the art-theoretical context in which they are set. The forced shift in medium, therefore assists this author in questioning some of the familiar mental, visual and emotional landmarks by which thinking has been oriented over the past 20 years.
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African development : the historical context of NEPAD
Includes bibliographical references.
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Recycled rhetoric: brand Israel "pinkwashing" in historical context
<p>Since the early 2000s, queer organizations have been at the forefront of exposing and challenging an Israeli government sponsored public relations campaign named Brand Israel. Brand Israel advertizing campaigns portray Israel as a safe-haven for gays and lesbians and Palestine as a regressive, …
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William Sterndale Bennett's Fantasia in Its Historical Context
The examination of 134 works introduced in London and Germany between 1818 and 1838 illuminates some of the contemporary styles of fantasia writing in Bennett's time, and provides a number of comparative reference points to his fantasia, Op. 16. Two fantasias of the most influential composers …
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Jan Van Scorel, His Style and Its Historical Context
<p>This thesis includes documents discovered by the</p> <p>author while conducting research on Jan van Scorel in The</p> <p>Netherlands and the implications of these documents. The</p> <p>archival information brings the author to a two-fold conclusion:</p> <p>l)that the Italianate style in the …
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John Donne's Doctrine of Marriage in Its Historical Context
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T22:38:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6604230.pdf: 23222190 bytes, checksum: b9f411bc1bba22dbfaafe954a9027f42 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1965
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The Fairness Doctrine in Its Historical Context: A Symbolic Approach
The Fairness Doctrine is a policy of the Federal Communications Commission requiring broadcast licensees to seek out and cover controversial issues of public importance and to present such coverage fairly. In practice, this has meant that broadcast licensees have had to grant response time for …
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Laura Netzel's Works for the Flute: New Editions with Historical Context
Romantic-era composer Laura Netzel ranked among the most-performed Swedish female composers during her lifetime but is now all but forgotten by scholars and performers. This dissertation examines how Netzel’s social class, gender, choice of instrumentation, and choice of compositional genres …
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Ethics in Technical Communication: Historical Context for the Human Radiation Experiments
… the human radiation experiments by providing a context of the military, political, medical, and rhetorical milieu of the 1940s to the 1970s; closely examining and analyzing actual human radiation experiment documentation, including proposals, letters, memos, and consent forms, looking for …
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Considerations for Contemporary Design and Land Use Within Existing Historical Context
… contemporary design is appropriate for existing historical context. This is inherently a wicked problem that is becoming increasingly important to designers in the 21st century. Wicked problems, as the connotation implies, are those that are multi-faceted, unique, and with innumerable possible …
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Historical Context, Institutional Change, Organizational Structure, and the Mental Illness Career
… a unifying theoretical framework based on historical analysis. This historical analysis covers three phases of treatment beginning at the end of World War II to the present. This framework identifies mechanisms through which changes in larger levels of social structure can change the …
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Places for people: housing in historical context in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia
… this design thesis was to look carefully at the historical environment of the chosen site, and with the understanding developed from this exploration, to design a group of houses that would answer to the desires of the individual and the needs of the collective, or simply: to create places where …
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Kant’s Universalism in Historical Context: Repoliticising the Foundations of a Seminal Political Philosophy
… history of political theory, firmly rooted in historical materialism. Diverging from abstract interpretations of political theory, this method seeks to historically recontextualise Kant's ideas within their original social, political, and class contexts. To illuminate Kant's universalism from …
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The life of a book: British Library manuscript additional 35157 in historical context
This dissertation is an investigation into the social history of British Library Manuscript Additional 35157 (hereafter Add.35157), which is a late fourteenth-century copy of William Langland's alliterative poem Piers Plowman. Part one contains the text of the dissertation. In chapter 1 a general …
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The library of the Kiev Mohyla Academy (1632-1780) in its historical context.
This study of the history of the library of the Kiev Mohyla Academy (1632-1780), is a piece of interdisciplinary research, which looks into the intellectual sources of the long term development of Ukrainian and Russian culture and education. The Kiev Mohyla Academy, founded as a college in 1632 on …
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Across Imagined Boundaries: Understanding Mexican Migration to Georgia in a Transnational and Historical Context
The Mexican immigrant community in Georgia grew at a dramatic rate between 1970 and 2000 as individuals entered the area to participate in the states burgeoning economy. Social networks played an integral role in this process, transferring information about Georgia through family and friendship …
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Julius Otto Kaiser and his method of systematic indexing: an early indexing system in its historical context
… investigation is to provide a more detailed and historically informed account of SI and its creator than has hitherto been attempted so as to contribute to a better understanding of the design features of the system and the rationale underwriting them. To this end, the study addresses three …
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