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Showing 1 to 20 of 80 for “"marginalizing"”.
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All of Us? Marginalizing Dissent in Toronto's Jewish Community
Mainstream Jewish institutions like the Canadian Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs and B'nai Brith Canada largely communicate the impression of community-wide support for Israeli government policies and actions to the broader society. When Jewish individuals and groups in Toronto who do not …
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Biased language usage and age in reinforcing marginalizing behavior
… situations of exposure to derogatory and marginalizing language usage or behavior. The study suggests that most language is first encountered within the family and school settings between the ages of 4 to 10 years. Within the environmental aspects of the interviews, it was noted that the …
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De-Marginalizing Science in the Early Elementary Classroom: Fostering Reform-Based Teacher Change through Professional Development, Accountability, and Addressing Teachers' Dilemmas
To develop a scientifically literate populace, students must acquire the motivation and foundational skills for success in science beginning at an early age. Unfortunately, science instruction is often marginalized in elementary schools for reasons including teachers' lack of confidence in teaching …
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The Rhetoric of Substance Use Disorder
<p>A critical discourse analysis of the marginalizing language present in the field of rhetoric and composition and cultural studies around those with substance use disorder. </p>
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The impact of HIV/AIDS on poverty in the Eastern Cape: a case study of Lusikisiki
… sector, employment/unemployment, poverty, marginalizing a section of the population and tearing families apart. The study was aimed at exploring more issues that evolved around HIV/AIDS and poverty and also to determine if HIV/AIDS can be closely linked to poverty, because it has been …
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Manufacturing Dissent: The News on Abortion-Related Protest in 1991
… the conflict over abortion irresolvable while marginalizing activism. The news, then, constructs a mythical, homogeneous community of 'Americans like us' whose boundaries are shored up by the outsiders or activists ('them'). Through these portrayals the news works to dismantle potent critiques …
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Constitutive Visions: Indigeneity, Visual Culture, and the Rhetorics of Ecuadorian National Identity
… to establish a claim to social place even while marginalizing actual indigenous participation. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)."
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Created in the image of: Mormonism and the rhetorical production of identity in privately-published family histories
… of identity often results in silencing and marginalizing certain ancestors, such as those whose actions or values don't mirror the author's or the family's preferred identity---an identity greatly influenced by the communal discourse and identity of the Mormon Church.</p>
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Stock Stories Versus Counterstories: A Contemporary Retelling and Centering of Disenfranchised Narratives
… dominates academic institutions, noting the marginalizing effects this dominant ideology has had on minoritized students, teachers, and administrators. Understanding that the narrators have remained at the margins in their own stories, this study seeks to address this shortfall by exploring …
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Menstrual Equity within the Homeless Community: The Good, the Bad, and the Bloody
… making these efforts less effective and further marginalizing these populations. A basic application of feminist theory would ensure a more intersectional approach to both understanding and solving issues of homeless menstruation.
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SHIFTING DREAMS: INTERSECTIONS OF THE RHETORICAL IMAGINATION OF U.S. IMMIGRATION POLICY AND THE WRITING PRACTICES OF DREAMERS
… analysis, I examine how the DREAMers respond to marginalizing textual features of the Act. DREAMers appropriate genres and rhetorical moves of the dominant discourse to combat four problem features of the DREAM Act, namely the criminalizing nature, the erasure of the affected subjects (migrants), …
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"A Lot of Us Struggle with Food": Investigating the Communicative, Intersectional, and Systemic Nature of College Food Insecurity
… Insecurity, (d) College Student Identity as a Marginalizing Identity, and (e) Institutional Responsibility. Together, these themes explain the role of communication, identity, and higher education in sustaining college food insecurity as a systemic issue. These findings address gaps in …
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Law and Indigenous Religion: Theorizing a Complex Relationship
… between law and Indigenous religion without marginalizing perspectives, such as those germane to Indigenous religion, that fall outside law’s frame (often figured, erroneously, as ‘objective’ and ‘neutral’). The research grounds itself in the only Supreme Court of Canada case that, to date, …
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Cultural resilience--a currency of social capital: Counteracting student marginalization in two urban--suburban high schools
… development of cultural resilience counteracted marginalizing conditions related to diversity in the high school experience. An articulated and captured vision of leadership for social justice, beginning with and courageously modeled by the educational leaders of the district, is key to the …
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A Legacy Cut Short The Impact of Pepperdine University on African Americans and South Los Angeles from 1937 – 1981
… against African Americans with the intention of marginalizing African Americans' existence and limiting their economic opportunity. The Church of Christ was largely a Southern and Midwestern religion that was one of the last church denominations and its educational institutions to integrate. …
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Interactive Framing Dynamics and Ideological Boundaries in the American Abortion Debate
… by weakening collective identity ties and risk marginalizing and alienating certain movement adherents.
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Southern Discomfort: Performing Femininity In The Deep South
… impact our body image as they preserve “norms,” marginalizing anyone who does not conform. The mixed-media installation, Southern Discomfort: Performing Femininity in the Deep South, examines this process and its impact on young girls. The young, blonde, female figure who appears multiple times …
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Societies, Politics, Cults and Identities in pre-Islamic Arabia
… which grants autonomy to the Arabians from marginalizing (mostly Western produced) narratives framing them as ‘barbarians’ inhabiting the fringes of Rome and Iran and/or deterministic analyses in which they are depicted retrospectively as exemplified by the Muslims’ definition of the period …
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Everyday I'm Hustlin? Hiphop Rhetorics and the Art of Makin? Do
… white males, as the most important voices, while marginalizing rhetorics from other communities such as people of color, women, and queer folks. This dissertation makes interventions in the field of Rhetoric and Composition by privileging rhetorics created and innovated by communities centering …
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Constructing conscience: freedom and self-governance in colonial New England
… dissent by authorizing some differences and marginalizing others. I will therefore interrogate the function of institutionalizing such an “interiority” in the first place, in order to understand how and why American society works the way that it does. Using three cases from …
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