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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"socio-political climate"”.
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Student development in the University of Cape Town residences : a training needs analysis of house commitees
… to the changing student profile as well as the socio-political climate, which focused on personal and institutional transformation.
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Ethnic Identity of Mexican American Children in the Post Industrial Age
… of Mexican American children under the current socio-political climate was studied. Mexican American children were expected to display symptoms of ethnic ambivalence and self-rejection. Using the Kenneth and Mamie Clark (1947) Brown doll/White doll experiment as a model, data were gathered using …
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Memory, time and place in The Ballad of Rosalind Ballingall
… period, partially in response to the oppressive socio-political climate of the country at the time.
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Democracy in Ukraine after the Orange Revolution : youth activists' insights on past events, present efficacy, and future prospects
… Their perceptions of the revolutionary events, political self-efficacy as one of the identifiers of civil society, and futures of democracy in Ukraine will help to depict the socio-political climate inside the country and in Europe. The dissertation employs three research methods: content …
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12 Degrees of Alienation: A Socio-Political Exploration of Hanns Eisler's Use of the Twelve-Tone Method during Exile (1938-1948)
… has been, until recently, overshadowed by political controversy. It is especially the period of Eisler’s American exile (1938-1948) that provides an area of research ripe for investigation with a fresh perspective. This thesis will utilize Eisler’s writings about music, politics, and his …
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How the Vikings inhabited Scotland: a social zooarchaeological approach
… as social expression in the context of the wider socio-political climate of Scotland.<br/>A review of faunal assemblages from published and unpublished settlement sites across the Norse inhabited regions of Scotland was conducted and a comprehensive database of Viking burials compiled, to …
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How did Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart adjust his compositional technique when writing for a Mezzosoprano en travesti? A comparison between the roles of Cherubino and Sesto
… secondary aim was to determine the influence of socio-political climate on the perception of these roles by past and present audiences, as well as to uncover the various difficulties facing contemporary mezzosopranos. Recommendations aimed at mezzo-sopranos were formed from a mezzo-soprano’s …
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(In)Visible: performances of gay and lesbian dramatic literature on the American stage from 1910 to 1969
… to the how the plays' queer content reflects the socio-political climate during the periods in which the plays debuted. The plays analyzed were selected as representative works from each of the seven decades that preceded The Stonewall Riots. Because plays are primary sources, they serve as the …
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The impact of Saudi systemic factors on investigative journalism
… The study attempts to elucidate the ways that political, cultural and religious considerations influence investigative journalism. The mixed method approach adopted in this study combines interviews with editors-in-chief and questionnaires with journalists from all Saudi newspapers. Gatekeeping …
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How do clinicians respond to the faith identity of young Muslims in a London Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) clinical context? An interpretative phenomenological analysis.
… further thought, particularly in the current socio-political climate, and discusses why the area of faith identity in general, and Muslim faith identity in particular, might be difficult to explore in the therapy room. In order to reflect the concerns of young Muslims in the interview …
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Wearing masks : an investigation of generational differences between Zulu adolescents and their parents in the Durban region from the adolescents' perspective
… to the socialization of adolescents, the socio-political climate in which present-day Zulu parents grew up under the now gone Apartheid system and the socio-economic climate in which the present generation or urban Zulu adolescents have grown up since the introduction of the new democratic …
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Identity, religion, and clothing : the lives of British Muslim women
… are both veiled and non-veiled in the current socio-political climate.
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Johanna Kinkel’s Lieder Compositions as a Socio-Political and Cultural Mirror of Her Time: A Reflective Interpretation
… combines both an unusually strong cultural and socio-political engagement on the one hand and the self-perception of a typical nineteenth-century mother on the other. This dissertation seeks to examine the relationship between Johanna Kinkel’s artistic and theoretical oeuvre and her …
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Media, Representation, Persistence and Relief: the Role of the Internet in Understanding the Physical and Social Dynamics of Catastrophic Natural Hazards.
… natural hazards within the context of the wider socio-political climate. It is proposed that the geophysical processes involved within each hazard event type, coupled with event-specific characteristics (fatalities, location etc.), control the subsequent news media coverage of an individual …
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Admonition and the academy : installation, video, and performance art in Reform Era China
… and indirect admonitory messages about China's socio-political climate - a contemporary inhabitation of the traditional elite scholar-artist and his obligation to criticize immoral or unjust policies or actions. This admonitory practice was built by artists educated in elite academies …
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Speaking Through Sacrifice: Rhetorical and Social Functions of Sacrifice within Long-Form Contemporary Fantasy Literature
… Jemisin’s Broken Earth. The case-studies draw on sociological, cultural, theological, and literary theory to understand the social nature of these acts of sacrifice, and this framework is then applied to the acts playing out in the imagined societies. From this combination of theory and textual …
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Exilic Vision and the Cinematic Interrogation of Britain: The Joseph Losey and Harold Pinter Collaboration
… Empire. Losey and Pinter foreground these socio-political issues through a complex modernist film aesthetic, which challenged the classical Hollywood and British narrative film structure by bending genre conventions and archetypes in The Servant, and later fusing elements of modernist …
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The Rise and Rites of Tantric Kingship in the Sāmrājyalakṣmīpīṭhikā, a Hybrid Nibandha from Vijayanagara
… into royal ideology, as well as the 16th-century socio-political climate, much more pronouncedly than its predecessors of the same genre.
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Cultural diversity and identity discourses in the design and implementation of the New Zealand curriculum key competencies: a Bernsteinian analysis
… that underpin the key competencies, and broader socio-cultural and social justice issues within their respective countries (e.g., Crick, 2008; Sjøberg, 2016; Takayama, 2013). This research investigated who and what influenced the design and implementation of the key competencies in the 2007 New …