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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"social unrest"”.
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Predicting social unrest events in South Africa using LSTM neural networks
… demonstrates an approach to predict the count of social unrest events in South Africa. A comparison is made between traditional forecasting approaches and neural networks; the traditional forecast method selected being the Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA model). The type of neural …
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Violence and Social Unrest: Implications of the Reconstruction Amendments for African Americans in the Post Civil War South, 1863-1877
… Constitution. These rights became part of the social, political, and economic fabric of America after a long and bloody Civil War. Though Democrats and Republicans differed dramatically on their principles of equality for African Americans, these rights became part of the Constitution and …
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The political and economic influences on the Mexican Industrialization Program
… of coproduction. Critics also predict that social unrest stimulated by exploitative work conditions endanger this arrangement in the developing country. However, this paper concludes that in the US the impulse to protect jobs from relocation has been blunted by the desire to permit US firms …
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Decentralization, Structural Change and Regional Disparities in Colombia
… centralization. Since a decentralized system and social unrest conditions still persist in Colombia, the adoption of a redistributed component as well as the incorporation of a spatial dimension may be advanced as important considerations for to the modification of policies designed to reduce …
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Pauper education in Victorian England: organisation and administration within the new poor law 1834-1880
… initiatives on working class education to combat social unrest and political protest. Pauper schooling involved central supervision, inspection and local management and was inextricably linked with Poor Law strategies to depauperise and to administer strict relief policies. Poor Law organisation …
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Another City
… of a deity, the pressures of personal grief and social unrest upon Stevens' desire to remain a detached observer, and Stevens' inability to produce a vision liberated from Christian rhetoric.Another City is a collection of poetry that explores family trauma and the role of the imagination as an …
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James Mill and Dugald Stewart on Mind and Education
… 18th Britain was experiencing the beginnings of social unrest fueled in part by the American and French Revolutions. The established two class social system was being challenged by the emergence of a middle class seeking something more than traditional agricultural work. While they subscribed to …
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Good for Her: Catharsis and Empowerment in Contemporary Literature
… transgression beyond traditional expectations of socially acceptable feminine behavior by situating revenge arcs to celebrate actions that otherwise would have been perceived as reprehensible. The emergence and popularity of the genre in the post-2016 sociopolitical climate in the United States …
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Canadian University Statements and University Community Responses Following the Murder of George Floyd
… research universities to respond to widespread social unrest. This study employs content analysis and critical discourse analysis to examine how power was integrated into statements issued by Canadian universities in spring and summer 2020. In the first phase, 12 themes were tracked, such as …
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You give me fever : practical protection for metropolitan neuroses
… national and international policies. Much like social unrest, wars and illnesses have in the past, the new pandemic crisis will shape architecture and urbanism dramatically. It will require a responsive and adaptable architecture that provides a nuanced relationship between living, working and …
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Win the lead! Television news philosophy and the life cycle of a social movement
… is to investigate what effect the evolution of a social movement has on the depth of broadcast news coverage. By focusing on the American Indian take-over of Alcatraz Island 1969-71, this study examines whether a television news story has a life cycle of its own which contributes and/or detracts …
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Anticorruption Television Dramas: Between Propaganda and Popular Culture in Globalizing China
… a number of influential writers, in a context of social unrest fueled by corruption. At the content level, anticorruption dramas are ideologically complex products, providing a certain degree of openness for negotiation. Although the dominant narrative about corruption is provided by the official …
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Espace de l'Espérance
… a large role in the current state of global social unrest. In parcitular, tension between practitioners of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity seems to be unavoidably high. Not only that, but populations declaring themselves as followers of these three organized religions are expected to …
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Doctorow's Ragtime journalism
… affected unnamed families and caused much social unrest and change.</p><p>Doctorow's solutions is what might be called ragtime journalism. The new journalism attempted to create realistic novels that convinced us of their factual veracity by using real people and scenes to present an …
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CAN SOCIAL PROTESTS CHANGE LOCAL SENTENCING PATTERNS? EVIDENCE FROM THE 2015 BALTIMORE UPRISING
… distributes punishment and exerts formal social control. At the same time, criminologists and sociologists agree that courts do not operate in a social vacuum but are embedded in layered contexts. Although some court research examines contextual effects, it has treated them as relatively …
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Elementary Grade Students’ Perspectives on the Impact of Adult Behaviors on School Climate
<p>Social and emotional learning (SEL) had become a focus of educators around the world because of global events such as the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing social unrest that hurled the topic to the forefront of today’s educational conversations (Bozkurt, et al., 2020) Despite this recent interest …
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Schooling in the Afterlives: Neoliberalism, Anti-Blackness, and Fugitive Pedagogies in Black Education
… in the summer of 2020 coincided with significant social unrest following the state killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. This period saw wide-spread protests against systemic racism and police brutality, leading to various corporate and institutional responses, including those in the public …
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Gentlemen’s Anxiety: Contesting Authority in Shakespeare’s Plays
… gentility in Shakespeare's drama as a broad social identity or a loose symbolic repository of moral and cultural values, this study approaches Shakespeare's representation of gentility as a historically situated form of authority that is inherently unstable and consistently contested. Drawing …
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Environmental refugees : defining environmental migrants, and long term solutions to deal with environmental migration
… around the world today who flee political and social unrest. Those who migration due to the degradation of their environment are environmental refugees. Environmental refugees will only be created if certain conditions exist in a region. This form of migration is also mostly the result of …
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