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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"post-war society"”.
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Building the 'Sri Lankan nation' through education: The identity politics of teaching history in a multicultural post-war society
… of cultural diversity in Sri Lanka’s plural society. Within education, history teaching in secondary school acts as the main focus of the research, due to the relevance of this goal to the subject of history as well as the ability of history to shape the attitudes and perceptions of youth. As …
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Sarah Livingston Jay, 1756--1802: Dynamics of power, privilege and prestige in the Revolutionary era
… of the American Revolution and reconstruction of post-war society have long been underestimated. She understood the complex political and financial dynamics beneath the decision to declare independence from Great Britain and the international alliances necessary for success. Intelligent, educated …
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Public Service Broadcasting and the Construction of the Angolan Nation: Audiences’ perceptions of News at 8pm and Muangolé José Paulo
… and how they interplay with Angolan politics and society. Public service broadcasting (PSB) has been included in these researches only as part of the media and rarely researched separately, despite its strong impact in this country. There have been no studies on PSB audiences or public …
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Notes from the Suburb: the Image of Helsinki in the works by Kjell Westö
… and linguistic transformations of the Finnish post-war society took place. Starting with the neo-marxist discourse elaborated by Marshall Berman in his essay "All that is solid melts into air", and taking into account contributions from the neo-marxist school, such as Pierre Bourdieau's, Terry …
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Turning Back the Tide: Patriarchy and Post-War Femininity in Agatha Christie’s Taken at the Flood.
… Taken at the Flood is also a valuable record of society in post-war Britain. Christie was a social diarist, and her works record the changing world in which she lived and wrote. Taken at the Flood is one of only a few of Christie’s works that are set at a precise point in time: in this case 1946. …
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Military fictions: Stories about soldiers, 1914-1930
Much criticism of the fiction of the Great War has relied on certain assumptions: that Britain's involvement in the War was futile, and that good writing about it must necessarily be ironic; that only fighting soldiers knew War's truth, while civilians were kept ignorant by censorship and …
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‘The Grin upon the Deathshead’: A Study of Satire in 1920s British Art.
… to answer these questions, consideration of the post-‐war context with its rapid, unsettling modernisation and profound social change is crucial. I begin with Wyndham Lewis, whose ‘Tyros and Portraits’ exhibition in 1921 seems to mark the emergence of a new, more bitter and cynical, brand of …
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Sam Spade as the detective next door: industry, culture, and class in post-war radio adaptations of hardboiled detective fiction
… networks, NBC, CBS, and ABC. However, by the post-World War II period, all three networks prominently featured series starring characters adapted from the work of popular hardboiled detective writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. This thesis examines The Adventures of Sam Spade …
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The role of Christianity in post-war Liberia : an assessment of how Christianity can play a role in mending societal fragility
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2016.