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Showing 1 to 20 of 3641 for “"struggle"”.
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Lost In Transition? Republican Women’s Struggle After Armed Struggle
… within an anti-imperial and anti-capitalist struggle, representing significant points of departure from prevailing feminist definitions. Third, the institutionalisation of Provisional republicanism impacted negatively on both women’s roles during peace negotiations and their feminist …
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Two Fingers: Michael's Struggle
… creative production of Two Fingers: Michael's Struggle, a twenty-nine minute documentary video that explores the life of Michael Alan Rasch who suffers from Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. It explains in detail the process of pre-production, production, and post-production of the documentary. It …
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Uncovering hidden fronts of Africa’s liberation struggle: Black power, black consciousness, and South Africa’s armed struggle, 1967-1985
… ‘Uncovering Hidden Fronts of Africa’s Liberation Struggle: Black Power, Black Consciousness, and South Africa’s Armed Struggle, 1967–1985’, broadens our understanding of this movement and moment in South African history by unearthing the little known history of BCM’s unrelenting engagement with …
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Hemingway and the textual struggle of paternity
… being a son, but never seemed to overcome his struggles or find his separate piece. Troubled by his father's suicide, the stunted rearing of his sons, and a tumultuous relationship with his youngest, cross-dressing son Gregory, Hemingway makes fatherhood remarkably present in several texts that …
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Claybrook v. Owensboro: Equality, Integration, and Struggle
In 1883 the case of Claybrook v. Owensboro was one of the first challenges to equal educational funding under the Fourteenth Amendment. The definition of the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause was vague and left blacks with little guidance about their new found constitutional rights. By …
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Camille Claudel: The Struggle for Artistic Idenity
… was interpreted as an allegory of two women's struggle for one man -- the artist Rodin. The sculpture depicts an old woman on the left and at the apex, who leads away a middle-aged man. Reaching toward him is a young woman, appearing on bended knee. Claudel intended L'Âge Mûr to be the means …
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Bernard Malamud and the struggle to connect
… to achieve. Malamud’s world is one of continual struggle. Moral struggle is constantly reflected in physical struggle in an intensely physical Malamudian world. There is no way to evade the harshness of life. “It's a hard life” is Malamud’s pervasive reminder; “life is hard.” Morality is linked …
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Defining Détente: NATO's Struggle for Identity, 1967-1984
… in the Harmel Report? Defining Détente: NATO’s Struggle for Identity, 1967-1984 explores détente’s contested nature and its various meanings for policy-makers and publics in the United States, Canada, and across Western Europe. Détente was an ongoing source of tension in transatlantic relations, …
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A CADMEAN VICTORY: LIBYA'S INTRACTABLE STRUGGLE FOR GOVERNANCE
This thesis seeks to explain the factors that contribute to the outbreak and persistence of the civil war in Libya. Libya’s tribal and colonial past, the Arab Spring upheaval, and the more recent injection of outside forces are examined to identify the factors most salient to explain the civil …
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Psychoanalytic Transference: Julia Kristeva’s Struggle for Maternal Identification
By examining Alice Jardine’s intellectual biography of Julia Kristeva’s life and work, this dissertation engages in intertextual, interpretative, and textually based research, bringing together Jardine’s biography with Kristeva’s psychoanalytic theories and later autobiographical reflections. …
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Oedipus Rex: metaphysics and the fundamental human struggle
<p>The fundamental human struggle is a spiritual struggle demonstrated by a metaphysical analysis of the drama <em>Oedipus Rex</em>. Drama presents a mimesis of human action and dramatic plots are comprised of these physical actions. This fundamental dramatic action consists of the embodied action …
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The politics of indigenous social struggle in Colombia
<p>The core research question that this thesis asks is: How can we conceptualize the resistance of contemporary indigenous social movements? This thesis argues that Arturo Escobar's ideas about the ways in which social movements can critically engage processes of development best allow us to …
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Soviet science under control: The struggle for influence
This dissertation examines the relationship between the political leadership of the Soviet Union and Soviet science. The most frequent characterization of this relationship is dominant and submissive, respectively. Most authors have written that the Communist Party of the Soviet Union exerted …
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Cancer and the clock : chronotherapy's struggle for legitimacy
Circadian rhythms govern almost every process in our bodies. Chronotherapy is the practice of giving medications in synchrony with these rhythms. For cancer chemotherapy, study after study has shown that paying attention timing makes a big difference. Patients receiving chemotherapy at the …
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Civic Culture: Scotland's Struggle for its Political Interests
Politics today is facing a troubling trend towards the empowerment of nationalist movements. With strong historical traditions and a powerful Scottish National Party, Scotland would appear to be a prime candidate for such movements. However, this thesis argues that Scotland represents a nation with …
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Chilean Arpilleras, Social Reproduction and the Struggle Against Coloniality
… of neoliberal economics and inspire collective struggles. This research was conducted during the social revolts of 2019-2020 and the ensuing efforts to replace the Pinochet-era Constitution. These events arguably energised a renewed interest in the use of political textiles as a tool of …
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