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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"the eighties"”.
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Community economic development in Boston : the challenge of the eighties
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1985.
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Economic relations between Brazil and Argentina: The shift in the eighties
This study is a critical view of the effort to improve economic ties between Argentina and Brazil. The detailed historical information used here should help us to better understand the rapprochement between the two countries. Our focus is on the program of economic integration launched in the …
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"Rock Against Reagan": The punk movement, cultural hegemony, and Reaganism in the eighties
1 PDF file (1 volume (unpaged))
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Remediating the Eighties: Nostalgia and Retro in British Screen Fiction from 2005 to 2011
This doctoral thesis studies a cycle of British film and television fictions produced in the years 2005-2011 and set retrospectively in the 1980s. In its identification and in-depth textual and contextual analysis of what it terms the ‘Eighties Cycle’, it offers a significant contribution to …
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Marriage in the eighties : with particular regard to the prevalence and effect of brief or sustained infidelity and the challenge it poses for the clinical social worker
In the modern western world, infidelity or deviation from the monogamous sexually constrained 'till death do us part' marriage is often judged as unhappy, deviant or placing the marriage on the verge of divorce. Marriage areas for is a highly complex relationship, with multiple potential conflict. …
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Montage - transformation - allegory : a study of digital imaging in dialectical film making
The thesis is an attempt to show practically and theoretically how digital image synthesis can be used to help create new ways of making meaning by examining some of the methods that lie at the heart of materialist avant-garde arts practice. In the first instance this involves the technique of …
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Poesie en religie : 1) gelykenisse ; 2) die religieuse tematiek in die gedigte van tagtig met spesifieke verwysing na T.T. Cloete se Job-gedigte
This dissertation investigates the incidence of the religious thematics in the work of Afrikaans poets who published around the eighties of the previous century, with specific reference to the Job poems of T.T. Cloete. By using various theoretical works the concept religious was discussed as well …
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Sector specific regulation in the telecommunication market : the adoption of the 'essential facilities doctrine' as an instrument to open up the market for competition
In almost all countries worldwide the telecommunication sector was characterized by state owned monopolies, and supplying telecommunication services was understood as a public duty. In the eighties of the last century, most countries began to liberalize their telecommunication market and try to …
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Constitución y guerra: Una revisión del sistema de derechos fundamentales de Colombia durante el siglo XX
In the twentieth century, Colombia has always proclaimed itself a republic endowed with constitutions. But why the cult of the law historically has been accompanied by violence?. The last century began with the War of a Thousand Days and continued with the regional war in the thirties. Then came La …
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Players or pawns? : "professionalism" and teacher disunity in the Western Cape, 1980-1990
… teacher groups, this dissertation will describe the remarkable events within teacher politics in the Western Cape in the 1980s, following from the Soweto uprising of 1976. The decade of the eighties marked massive changes in the political and educational context within which teachers worked. …
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Le projet urbain dans la requalification : approche comparative entre l'Italie et la France
… and what kind of meaning give to it? How has the economic and politic transformation process of the town influenced Urban Design? Through a comparative method applied to two comparable geographic realities (Italy and France), this dissertation investigates those actions related to the …
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Crisis or Opportunity: An Investigation to Determine the State of Graduate Programs in Adult Education in the United States and Recommendations for Survival in the 21st Century
The history of adult education has extended over a relatively short period of time in the United States, and so concurrently have the programs of graduate education in the schools of Higher Education. Through the years, the backgrounds and occupations of the students enrolled in adult education …
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Cuando Las Mujeres Leen: Teorizando El Sujeto Y La Narrativa en La Novelistica Femenina Hispanoamericana De Los 80
… and reconsider cultural production through the specific social conscience developed by Spanish American women during the eighties. The political transition from military authoritarian rule to democracy coincides with the emergence of feminist movements and women's organizations throughout …
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A knowledge base approach to the specification of non-functional real-time system requirements
During the late seventies it became necessary to partition the system development life-cycle into layers of conceptualisation and abstraction to provide enhanced information hiding and thus a smoother transition from specification to implementation. The existence of system requirements analysis as …
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The case of church schools in Malta
This dissertation is the result of research carried out through a period of two years. Its primary aim is to narrate and analyse the events which have effected the church schools in these last decades, special emphasis being given to the events which happened in the seventies and eighties. To give …
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Excavating discursivity : Post-Partum Document in the conceptualist, feminist and psychoanalytic fields
… by and contributed to contemporaneous debates in the fields of Conceptualism, feminism, and psychoanalysis throughout the seventies. This dissertation addresses the project's "debate - specificity." The conventional art historical categorization and analysis of an artwork, one based upon its …
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Discursive strategies within Thatcherism: family and market representations in its rhetoric and Community Care Documents
My thesis examines the discursive similarities between the public political voice of Thatcherism and the "bureaucratic" policy voice of Community Care Documents. The similarities I am searching for between the rhetoric and the documents involve mythical representations of the family, the free …
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Historiografía literaria y Sociedad
… different socio-historical tensions undergone by the Latin American modernit(ies), the literary-historical production as well as the reflection on the topic - regional, national, supranational and/or continental – have been part of the critical and intellectual itinerary of very significant …
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Inquiring into architectural texts : towards an interpretation of architectural knowledge
An investigation was carried out on the contents of the architectural texts in order to illuminate written architectural knowledge. The thesis takes as its case study the required reading list for Introduction to Architecture course at Yale College, Yale University, a mandatory course for …
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The Golden Lariat : explaining American aid to Israel
An observational study was conducted to determine the most likely explanation of American support for Israel. Several extant hypotheses were considered, most particularly, and at greatest length, that of a pro-Israel domestic lobby in the United States, but also that it had to do with Cold War …
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