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Pushing for natural childbirth : a rhetorical analysis of the alternative birth movement

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Coffey, Kimberly Ann

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The purpose of this study is to examine how rhetoric functions in the Alternative Birth Movement (ABM). In particular, communication published by movement leaders will be examined to discover how rhetoric propels the movement from one stage to the next as well as how rhetoric facilitates the goals of the...

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Masters Thesis
The Victory in Vietnam Committee's Manichean Rhetoric : An Analysis of the Campaign to Recall Idaho Senator Frank Church

Creator:

Andrews, Cheri L.

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The purpose of this study is to illuminate the role, the function, and the ironic outcome of the Victory in Vietnam Committee's campaign pamphlet to recall Senator Frank Church of Idaho in 1967. The VVC's political strategy was to build credibility with the media through the recall pamphlet. The analysis...

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Masters Thesis

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manager for the 1957 Civil Rights Bill. Church fashioned the vote swinging compromise necessary to pass
When she was bad : framing female killers in contemporary film

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Finch, Kurstin

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This thesis presents an analysis of seventeen contemporary blockbuster films in which women kill people. The purpose of the analysis is to discover the "frames" with which film producers, directors, scriptwriters and actors portray women in film. The thesis first establishes the model in use in the analysis: Entman's model...

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Masters Thesis

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, and the various James Bonds in their serial action fIlms; they are "good guys" who kill hundreds of