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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"popular memory"”.
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Heritage or Hate?: An Examination of Americans’ Popular Memory of the Confederate States of America and Its Icons
… reabsorbed into the United States. However, its memory and icons continued to be perceived separately. The current debate over whether Confederate icons, such as the so-called "Confederate Flag," Robert E. Lee, and Nathan Bedford Forrest, should be considered symbols of heritage or of hate …
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Recipes for Citizenship: Women, Cookbooks, and Citizenship in the Kitchen, 1941-1945
… in the war effort as homemakers. Despite the popular memory of wartime women as Rosie-the-Riveters, this thesis suggests that working outside the home was a temporary and secondary identity. During World War II, cooking literature re-linked women's work inside the home to political …
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Narrating Jackson State: An Examination Of Power Relations And Mississippi Newspaper Coverage Of The 1970 Shootings At Jackson State College
… the dominant historical narrative and American popular memory. The thesis considers history and journalism theories and methodologies in an interdisciplinary approach that allows for an examination of reports from Jackson newspaper outlets, as well as the social and political environments that …
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'The Tourist Soldier': Veterans Remember the American Occupation of Germany, 1950-1955
… German reconstruction and national identity, and memory of this period from the German perspective. Within the memory analyses, firsthand accounts have been analyzed to understand the perspectives of Germans living through the postwar period. Absent from this historiography is an account of …
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Madness, Scalawagery, and Reconstruction: Dr. William M. Compton and Civil War Era Politics
… this thesis seeks to complicate the historical memory of the era—a memory often dominated by images of irreconcilable Redeemer Klansmen and Radical Republicans—by arguing that moderate white Mississippians played a powerful role in rebuilding their society after the Civil War. This thesis builds …
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An Analysis of British Army Veterans’ Oral Testimony and the Campaign in Northwest Europe, 1944-1945
… evidence, and then considering the effects of popular memory, the individual circumstances of the interviewees, and trauma, in order to gain a well-rounded understanding of the distortions that can arise in veterans’ testimony. The interview evidence is then applied to three key issues of the …
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The Use of Melodic and Rhythmic Mnemonics to Improve Memory and Recall in Elementary Students in the Content Areas
… that use imagery and visual cues to facilitate memory recall are commonly used in the classroom. A familiar tune, song or jingle, used as a mnemonic device is another popular memory aid. Studies of the brain and memory reveal that exposure to music not only alters but increases brain function in …
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Visual communications on a memory-embedded array processor: The Computational*RAM.
… parallel computing. The computational intense, memory-bound problems are next approached from two directions: algorithmic and architectural. Algorithmic approach tends to systematically analyze the flow independence and data independence of a program, while architectural approach tends to gain …
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'A Place Called Slaughter Race': Spectres of conflict in contemporary Disney animation
… significance of my corpus as a form of critical memory. This reformulation goes against the grain of more traditional Disney scholarship that seeks to identify and interrogate an ideological and political programme pursued by the Walt Disney Company at large. Instead, my work complements …
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The Memory of the First World War at its Centenary in Britain: A Study of War Memory at National, Local and Individual Levels
… of between centenary events and cultural memory of the war. Since the Armistice in 1918, the memory of the First World War has been reshaped throughout the past century and the pity of war narrative, as told by poets, of trench warfare that amassed in thousands dead, is the dominant …
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So Others May Live: The Price of Healthcare in Combat
… just the frontline healers that have dominated popular memory but, were men who were responsible for keeping the unit at fighting strength both mentally and physically. This thesis argues that examining caregiving during war allows us to understand the complex nature of the job of a combat …
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Graffiti, memory and contested space : mnemonic initiatives following trauma and/or repression in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Graffiti, Memory and Contested Space: Mnemonic Initiatives Following Periods of Trauma and/or Repression in Buenos Aires, Argentina This thesis concerns the popular articulation ofmemory following periods or incidents of trauma in Argentina. I am interested in how groups lay claim to various public …
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Top: An Infrastructure for detecting Application-Specific Program Errors by Binary Runtime Instrumentation
… System that can trace movement of pointers to memory locations or 32-bit data values and keeps track of all their copies. It also provides an Event Framework that reports the occurrence of events such as function calls or returns. Top provides a programming interface which allows querying for …
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From Victim Hierarchies to Memorial Networks: Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial to Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism
… draws on an entangled understanding of memory production in order to disentangle the social relations and identities that are mobilized in national memorial projects. I define entangled memory in two ways: (1) it refers to the interlinking of dominant memory and oppositional forms in the …
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Cape Town at war: the city, lived experiences and loyalties, 1914-1919
… that although the war has faded in Cape Town's popular memory, it was important to how many Capetonians identified themselves. Moreover it was a significant catalyst for change, informing debates and subsequent policies about health, segregation and the future of South African cities.
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Went off to the Shakers: The First Converts of South Union
… threatening to the outside world. Indeed, the popular imagination has co-opted South Union as quintessentially American. By reclaiming the Shakers from the margins of society, popular memory has effectively erased conversion from the Shaker story. After all, Shaker conversion was never as much …
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Locality-aware cache hierarchy management for multicore processors
… massive data scales. These two factors impact memory access latency and energy consumption adversely. This thesis proposes scalable efficient mechanisms that improve effective cache capacity (i.e., by improving utilization) and reduce data movement by exploiting locality and controlling …