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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"us/them"”.
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Dispensationalism, Islamophobia, and the Mass Media in America
… has played a major role in promoting and sustaining the anti-Islam discourse, often referred to as Islamophobia, in the media and among the mainstream American populace. Islamophobia is best understood as an othering discourse which creates a stark "us/them" dichotomy in which Muslims …
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Holding Court in Old Town: A New Courthouse for Alexandria
… States, the preeminent ideal concerning the justice system is that all people are innocent until proven guilty. The reality of the system, however, is not so cut and dry. Biases, mental health crises, and inequity all play a part in creating unjust circumstances for those accused of a crime. …
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Thinking Globally, Writing Locally: Re-Visioning Critical And Service Learning Pedagogies With Globalization Theory
… at critical and service learning pedagogies, focusing on the numerous critiques that have arisen within contemporary composition scholarship. Critical pedagogy has recently come under scrutiny on the grounds that it opposes students' pragmatic views and career concerns, effects student resistance …
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An exploration of the interface between policy and practice
… domains, and as such, the relationship between them. In this regard, the following trends in the data are interesting : the positive patterns regarding the interface between policy and practice obtained from the data include a team worker, democratic discourse and new world. The above-mentioned …
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Chronicle of a dys-appearance: an autoethnography of a teacher in conflict
… is to open up the "black box" as it were, to use my experiences as an educator to shed some light on how organisational structures and the people working within them can disempower, silence and discipline a dissenting teacher. Although I have used autoethnography as methodology the study is …
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Metaphorical Depictions of the American and Chinese Economies during the 2010 Financial Crisis
… mortgage crisis (2010-2011), with specific focus on China and America. To enrich this field, a corpus-based research methodology was employed within the Critical Cognitive Linguistics (CCL) framework, supplemented by the Pragglejaz Group‘s Metaphor Identification Procedure (MIP, 2007). …
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Patriotiškumo samprata Antano Škėmos publicistikoje /
… published in exile press in Germany and the USA are the subject of this thesis. It also draws on various texts by diaspora authors, including the testimonies of Valdas Adamkus and Antanas Saulaitis, as expressed in interviews prepared especially for this occasion. The aim of the thesis is to …
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Decolonising Pākehā ways of being: Revealing third space Pākehā experiences
… of change occurred for the 13 participants because they became interested and engaged more in ongoing experiences of te ao Māori. I interpreted this process as “Pākehā decolonisation”. In my analysis I found that at the individual level decolonisation helped these Pākehā bridge gaps that emerged …