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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"individual and the state"”.
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Building a federal ideal : juxtaposition of individual and the state
This thesis is about the design of a hypothetical national institution called the American Institute. The Institute consists of a presidential library and archive, a somewhat scholarly center for national debate, and a museum for the public presentation of critical national issues. Included in the …
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The individual and the state in China: being a graduate village official in rural southwest China
The topic of this research is the state and the individual. I conducted one year’s fieldwork by working as a graduate village official in a local government office in southwest rural China, which enabled me to observe at close range the workings of political power and official administration. After …
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Parole as way to reduce overcrowding in Zambian prisons: A Communicative and Participatory Approach
The Prisons Service is one of the agencies of the Criminal Justice System in Zambia. The Zambian Criminal Justice System is founded on the Western concept of criminal justice. The concept is governed by the Roman Philosophy and legal notion Justitia whose justice is generally referred to as …
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Parole as way to reduce overcrowding in Zambian prisons: A Communicative and Participatory Approach
The Prisons Service is one of the agencies of the Criminal Justice System in Zambia. The Zambian Criminal Justice System is founded on the Western concept of criminal justice. The concept is governed by the Roman Philosophy and legal notion Justitia whose justice is generally referred to as …
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The Mythology of Ecphrasis in Rome and Roman Greece (50 BC - 500 AD)
Greek and Latin literature of the Roman empire is full of descriptions of artworks (a phenomenon known as “ecphrasis”). Even though these descriptions have received much scholarly attention in recent decades, Classicists have not yet taken seriously an approach to ecphrasis that was demonstrably …
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Political and social indoctrination in Calderon's La Vida Es Sueno and Kleist's Prinz Friedrich von Homburg
My thesis examines society’s role in the construction of each protagonist’s political and social identity in Calderon’s La vida es sueno and Kleist’s Prinz Friedrich von Homburg. The thesis begins with an introduction to Judith Butler’s theory of performativity, the foundation of the thesis. The …
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Shifting Ground: Spatial Representations in the Literature of the Sixties Generation in Egypt
This dissertation examines the representation of space in the fiction of seven members of the sixties generation in Egypt. Focusing upon the novels of Jamal al-Ghitani, Muhammad al-Bisati, 'Abd al-Hakim Qasim, Baha' Tahir Yahya Tahir 'Abdallah, Ibrahim Aslan, and Sun'allah Ibrahim, I contend that …
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Jewish toleration, assimilation, and citizenship in the British imagination, 1655-1755
… shape a British identity rooted in a secular, rather than in a religious, ethics. This identity was liberal, tolerant, and cosmopolitan. I show how, in response to Britain’s growing mercantile and colonial empire, British writers repurposed Jewish histories and political philosophy to promote …