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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"letters to the editor"”.
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Collective Memory of the War In Iraq: An Analysis of Letters to the Editor and Public Opinion Polls, 2003-2008
<p>This dissertation utilizes the War in Iraq as a case study for an analysis of letters to the editor and public opinion polls, seeking to tie these representations of opinion to the concept of collective memory. With a three-pronged grounded theory approach, two working hypotheses and two …
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Discourse of whiteness in post-apartheid South Africa, as reflected in letters to the editor in the Cape Argus and Cape Times
South Africa's post-apartheid era of democracy has required whites to renegotiate their identities within a new dispensation; a task whites have responded to in ways ranging from deep acceptance to strong resistance. For whites who resist the new dispensation, the aim is to find ways of maintaining …
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Scuds and Patriots: A Content Analysis of Letters to the Editor in The Tennessean and The Washington Post During the Persian Gulf War
The purpose of this study was to examine the content of 186 war related letters to the editor written to TheTennessean and The Washington Post during three time periods during the Persian Gulf War. The time periods included the week before, of, and after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, the beginning …
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Media concentration of ownership and its effects on editorial page vigor of West Virginia daily newspapers
This study examines the effects of media concentration of ownership on editorial page vigor of West Virginia daily newspapers that changed from independent to non-independent ownership from 1965 to present. A content analysis over two-time periods, a one-week constructed sample while under …
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Resilience and Resistance: Public Narratives from Post-Katrina New Orleans
… resilience and resistance are applied by public editors in post-Katrina New Orleans in hopes of reordering the city's ruptured narrative. Using qualitative methods and grounded theory, the textual analysis of local newspaper editorials and letters to the editor, collected from the six month …
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Refracting Immigration Rhetoric: The Struggle to Define Identity, Place and Nation in Southern Arizona
<p>This thesis examines the refraction of immigration rhetoric in a local context through a collection of letters to the editor of southern Arizona’s largest and only daily newspaper, the <em>Arizona Daily Star,</em> for the period 2006-2010. The purpose is to further insight into the process by …
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That's not what I heard : synchronized sound cinema in Montreal 1926-1931
This thesis recognizes the introduction of synchronized sound cinema as a point of departure into a study of the cultural and social dimensions of moviegoing. This research focuses on Montreal between 1926 and 1931 where the first Canadian demonstrations and exhibitions of synchronized sound cinema …
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A History of Manassas Park City Schools
The purpose of this study was to document the history of the development of the Manassas Park City School system. This study utilized historical research methods to preserve information that would otherwise be lost. This was a study of local school history. It looked at how and why the school …
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"The Love of America is on Move:" Victimization, Cold War Consensus, and the Hungarian Revolution, 1956-1957
… 4, 1956, Soviet forces brutally suppressed the Hungarian Revolution in Budapest. Although Nikita Khrushchev had attempted to "repair" the Soviet Union's image by denouncing Stalin's crimes, the Soviet invasion of Hungary damaged the Soviet Union's legitimacy in the international community. …
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Teaching English using newspapers (Zurrieq Primary Year 6)
The study explores whether an English-language newspaper can help improve the students' knowledge and mastery of English. It was carried out in Year 6AA, Year 6A and Year 6B at Zurrieq Primary. This action research comprised of a set of seven thirty-minute lessons. Each student had a free copy of a …
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THE GENEALOGY OF THE PROSTITUTE: DEFINING AND DISCIPLINING PROSTITUTION THROUGH JOURNALISM IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND, 1809-1886
This dissertation is an exploration into the changing definition of a prostitute during the nineteenth century in Britain and the actions taken in response to that changing definition. I argue that different definitions of "prostitute" that emerge during this time correspond to the various means of …
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The Columbia Gardens Amusement Park: Company Sponsored Community in Butte, Montana
… acres of land east of Butte, on which he created the Columbia Gardens amusement park. Clark ran his park at personal expense, refusing to charge admission and regularly offering special deals so that Butte residents, particularly children, could enjoy the park. After Clark’s death in 1925, his …
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The Columbia Gardens Amusement Park: Company Sponsored Community in Butte, Montana
… acres of land east of Butte, on which he created the Columbia Gardens amusement park. Clark ran his park at personal expense, refusing to charge admission and regularly offering special deals so that Butte residents, particularly children, could enjoy the park. After Clark’s death in 1925, his …
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Structural changes observed in the German language as used in Namibia: A study on the basis of texts from the Allgemeinen Zeitung
This study titled Structural changes observed in the German language as used in Namibia: A study on the basis of texts from the Allgemeinen Zeitung analyses and examines the structural changes in German Language as it is used in Namibia. The German language found its way to Namibia during the …
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Texts in black and white: co-constructing racialised identities in post-apartheid South Africa
This thesis poses the following question: are post-apartheid racialised identities constructed relationally? More specifically, this thesis investigates the co-construction of black and white racialised identities within the realm of South African public discourse. To this aim, it draws on …
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Mutiny on the Bounty : California Newspaper Reaction to WPA Strikes in July 1939
<p>What would be the reaction of American citizens to welfare recipients striking against the government which aided them?</p> <p>In July, 1939, over one hundred thousand Works Projects Administration (WPA) workers protested a change in working hours and salary by striking. WPA, created by …
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The Last Frontier; or, Going Critical; or, Nuclear Deference in Las Vegas
<p>Perhaps there is no subject we so much prefer to let someone else think about as nuclear issues. Since the revelation and proliferation of nuclear technologies in the mid-twentieth century, American responses have followed an uneven path: spikes of attentiveness are followed by long periods of …
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Within their sphere? Women's correspondence to Aberdeen daily newspapers, 1900-1918.
This research provides an insight into the motivations and agenda of women correspondents to Aberdeen local newspapers during the period 1900-18. This was achieved by undertaking a content analysis of all printed letters to the editor identified as being by women correspondents to the Aberdeen …