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Filtering by: Creator Byrne, John Vincent, 1928- Remove constraint Creator: Byrne, John Vincent, 1928- Degree Name Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies (M.A.I.S.) Remove constraint Degree Name: Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies (M.A.I.S.)

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  • Building Character Through Metaphor and Ideology: A Rhetorical Examination of John F. Kennedy’s Use of Metaphor to Combat the Religious Issue in 1960

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    Smith, Jonathan Michael
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    On September 12th 1960, just two months prior to one of the closest Presidential elections in American history, John F. Kennedy faced the Houston Ministerial Association and delivered a powerful speech on religion and Americanism. The "religious issue" of the 1960 campaign drew immense interest and trumped other issues pertinent...
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    Ideology: A Rhetorical Examination of John F. Kennedy’s Use of Metaphor to Combat the Religious Issue in

  • Pottery manufacture analysis : an experimental means for assessing technological continuity in the Altamont region

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    Stoltz, Arleyn Winifred
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    Pottery manufacture analysis, an aspect of experimental archeology, is developed and used to compare and test through experimental reconstruction, data on pottery from the Altamont region (southern Alberta, Canada and northcentral Montana, U.S.). The analysis uses major variables of (1) manufacturing process and (2) product characteristics to formulate models of...
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    Complex (Byrne 1973:691, Fig. 32) 15 3. Intermountain Tradition Pot (Hulloy 1958:197, Fig. 71) 17 4

  • Brenda Ueland : Early Feminist and Writing Theorist

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    Firmin, Mary Ann
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    Brenda Ueland is a writer whose most noted work is a book which explains her theory about how to write. She also published an autobiography and a co11ection of essays as well as achieving some notoriety as a magazine writer to the twenties and thirties. Ueland's writing theory is based...
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    exercise and eating. Mrs. Vincent, a professors wife, and Dr. Owre, a dentist, walked ten or twelve miles

  • Devil Dog Diplomacy and the abandonment of military tradition : United States Foreign Policy in Central America and the Caribbean, 1915-1934

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    Geissler, Eric L.
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    During the U.S. military interventions in Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti between 1915 and 1934, Washington equipped members of the its armed forces with civil and political powers that represented a radical departure from the North American military tradition. This abandonment of tradition decisively contributed to both the disappointments...
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    political processes is indisputable. For as John Fitch reminds us, "Since the end of the Second World

  • The Indian New Deal and the Effects it had on Federally Recognized Tribes

    Creator:
    Hall, Gabriann
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    This paper covers the impact of Franklin D Roosevelt's, "Indian New Deal" and the effect it had on federally recognized Indian tribes. I have taken an in-depth look at specific areas of New Deal legislation including the Indian Reorganization Act, the Johnson O'Malley Act, and the Indian Arts and Crafts...
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    . However, it was Roosevelt's Commissioner of Indian Affairs, John Collier, who called for a New Deal

  • China and France in the Nineteenth Century

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    Leggatt, Nick
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    In studying Western, especially French, imperialist action in China during the nineteenth century, this thesis argues that contemporary Sino-Western relations took various forms across various social strata on both sides, and the general terms used to classify them are erroneous: in effect, there was no "Chinese" response to "the West,"...
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    domestic and international trade, as John Fairbank remarks, "cuts the foreign invader down to size

  • Governing By Nature

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    Rhodes, Mericos H.
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    The choice of what to eat is political, and food systems shape and are shaped by political and economic power. During the last several hundred years, agricultural and food power has been consolidated to an unprecedented degree, and this consolidation continues today. This paper will describe this process as “Governing...
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