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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"social vision"”.
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An analysis of Dwight Moody's Urban Social Vision
… analysis of the origins of Dwight Moody's urban social vision. Specifically it studies the role Moody's theology played in the formation of his approach to the various urban ills that emerged during the mid to late nineteenth century in the United States and the United Kingdom. The thesis seeks …
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"The Sudden Thrill of That Change": Framing George Eliot's Social Vision
… work evince her engagement with the thinking of social theorists, particularly Ludwig Feuerbach. The project contends that Eliot internalizes Feuerbach's view that "man is God to man," injects that view into the formal techniques of her fiction, and then wields those techniques in an effort to …
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An analysis of the social vision of post-independence Zimbabwean writers with special reference to Shona and Ndebele poetry
This dissertation analyses creative trends in Shona and Ndebele poetry published after the attainment of political independence in 1980. The research tries to establish the close link between poems in the two national languages and post-independence Zimbabwean history in order to examine the link …
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The 'poor and the rich' in Luke-Acts : a socio-cultural and ideological analysis of Luke's social vision for the new Christian community
… society will be analysed. These include the social, cultural, political, economic and religious dimensions, all of which will be used to construct a particular understanding of Luke’s attitude to the issues of wealth and poverty in his own setting. I argue that the specific features of urban …
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Finding Steinbeck's Utopia in Cannery Row and Tortilla Flat
… how he crafts his utopia in concordant Marxist, social, and ecological frameworks. These two novels possess striking commentaries regarding Steinbeck’s views on social status, materialism, and freedom all in conjunction with his larger socio-ecological confines. It is in this symbiotic social …
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Poet/censor/reader: Shelley's struggle for a popular reading audience
… In fact, censorship is one of the key social forces which furthered the establishment of ""literature"" as a specifically ""imaginary"" discursive form concerned more with ""eternal Truths"" and ""ideals"" than with the muck and mire of real, historically contingent human affairs. …
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Planning for Sustainable Development in Senegal
… decision-makers seek to provide economic and social well-being to their population, while ensuring a rational and sustainable use of ecological resources. They have demonstrated their commitment to sustainable development in official planning documents and several development programs. …
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Altered states: feminist utopian literature
… Tower Sargent’s definition of utopianism as “social dreaming” and Tom Moylan’s understanding of critical utopia. It also develops and expands Lucy Sargisson’s definition of feminist utopianism as subversive, fluid, ambiguous and committed to ongoing personal and social transformation. …
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A theopolitical study concerning the interrelation between the Government of National Unity and religion in post-apartheid South Africa (1988-1999) with specific reference to the Dutch Reformed Church and the Anglican Church
… challenges us all to live better lives. This social-democratic society is a secular expression of a Biblical social vision. Within the juxtaposition of Theopoiitics and secularism, this research explicates the challenges of liberal and secular laws as imposed on a fervently religious country. …
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An investigation into the design, production and display contexts of industrial safety posters produced by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents during WW2 and a catalogue of posters
… WW2 are evidence of a politically progressive, socially engaged and mass-produced graphic communication in Britain. These characteristics allow the RoSPA posters to qualify, by Walter Benjamin’s criteria, as exemplars of Modernist cultural production in the age of mechanical reproduction. The …
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Liberty for Individuality
… ideal, together with a positive political and social vision (a new constitutional order or a "good society.") Assuming such a transformation is appealing to its members, how might a new vision look? This thesis offers one possible vision, and it does so by criticizes existing libertarian …
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Recasting the Subject: Curriculum, equity, and the educated ideal in secondary English classrooms
… considers the effects of these versions against social equity outcomes and the development of broader education ideals. The focus on choice and flexibility is important because their prominence and appeal shape secondary English in ways that may further reproduce social class inequalities. This …
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Beyond the Cheated Eye: Modern American Poetry and the Perils of Post -Romantic Subjectivity
Though resurgent interest in social context has reinvigorated literary studies during the past generation, my dissertation argues that we have not adequately considered how subjectivity defines the threshold of the social. I focus on American poetry from the mid-nineteenth to the late-twentieth …
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Reimaginando A Bolívar En La Cultura Latinoamericana
… that have appeared as attempts to offer a revisionist perspective with regard to the hegemonic discourse of the Bolivarian official history, exploring how these recent representations of the so-called “hero” contradict the already established scheme of national identity. In order to …
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Making space for sharing in the global market: the Focolare Movement's Economy of Sharing
… depth. It is argued that this movement offers a social vision, rooted in the idea of a Trinitarian perspective, which therein contains concepts of economic life and its relationship to other dimensions of human existence not present within contemporary economic discourses. The thesis considers, …
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Creating the Leader-centred Modernity: the birth of the successor in North Korea
… of political succession in the professedly socialist state of North Korea. Against the backdrop of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the general disillusionment with socialist ideals, I examine how North Korea self-consciously bypassed the transience of the charisma of the leader …
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Temporal and spatial contextual modulation of walking direction in biological motion
The direction in which we perceive another person walking offers a crucial cue to their intentions, but how the brain encodes walking direction remains relatively unexplored. The present thesis investigates the effects of temporal and spatial context on perceived walking direction, employing …