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151	Tragic America: Terror, Metaphor, and the Contemporary American Novel Mauro, Aaron 31 May 2012 (has links) Since the attacks of September 11th, 2001, the literature of the United States has become increasingly concerned with telling tragic stories. While the literature written about the attacks is considerable and operates as the climax in this dissertation, the literature of the ensuing decade has been marked by a return to tragic terror more broadly. A distinct feeling of anxiety and fear continues to animate a strong tragic tradition in the contemporary novel. Through an analysis of motifs, figures, and metaphors derived from classical dramatic sources and the attendant philosophical tradition, this dissertation investigates the complex formal processes through which tragic American lives occur and their political contexts. This dissertation argues that American literary production in the first decade of the twenty-first century requires a critical return to the so-called Myth and Symbol School that inaugurated American Studies and established an American literary tradition with New England Transcendentalists. Emerson’s claim that America must be made great through and by its ability to perceive “the terror of life” resonates in today’s post-9/11 political and economic climate. This study illuminates the ways that the contemporary novelists have seen fit to incorporate classical tropes and narratives into traditional stereotypes of identity and nationhood. Linguistic life, it might be said, directly influences political life. Tragic America is an aggregation of tragic manifestations that finds political extensions and interpretive applications through provisional and figurative relationships. Relationships negotiated through this metaphoric sensibility are, I believe, the only honest means of comparison in our radically heterogeneous culture. / Thesis (Ph.D, English) -- Queen's University, 2012-05-31 10:01:52.902 9/11 post-nationalism ecology economy debt terrorism identity gender intersexuality American literature ideology life nationalism American Studies visual culture tragedy
152	Crackdown and Consent: China’s War on Terror and the Strategic Creation of a Public Discourse in the U.S. Jai, Kehaulani R 01 January 2016 (has links) Scholars have extensively detailed China’s conflation of the Uyghur issue in Xinjiang with the international war on terror following September 11, 2001. Less studied is how the U.S. responded to China’s framing of the Uyghur as terrorists, and of the Chinese government’s characterization of Xinjiang as a region fraught with violence and extremism. On the whole, scholars who have addressed this latter issue conclude that China successfully coopted the U.S., and consequently cracked down on Xinjiang without substantial international outrage. On the basis of a review of official U.S. documents before and after 9/11, I argue that the U.S. response to China’s framing of the Uyghur is not as clear-cut, and that multiple and conflicting U.S. responses emerged to the Uyghur-terrorist discourse. Specifically, the U.S. shifted from purely framing the Uyghur as victims of human rights abuses to projecting three new frames onto the Uyghur: victims of the war on terror; a minority group that may resort to violent methods of protest; and suspected terrorists. This new interpretation holds important ramifications for how scholars should understand China’s treatment of the Uyghur, as well as for Sino-U.S. relations. China terror Muslim Sino-U.S. relations terrorism; terrorist Uighur Uyghur war on terror Xinjiang XUAR 9/11 American Politics Comparative Politics International Relations
153	Les mécanismes de construction du sens dans le discours sur l’événement en cours : étude de sémantique sociocognitive sur le direct de CNN le 11 septembre 2001 / The mechanisms of constructing meaning in discourse on the current event : study of sociocognitive semantics on CNN live on September 11th, 2001 Danino, Charlotte 19 December 2014 (has links) Comment parle-t-on de quelque chose lorsque l'on n'est pas sûr de savoir de quoi il s'agit? Comment construit-on du sens au beau milieu d'une crise sémantique? Et Pourquoi? Cette thèse envisage la production linguistique dans un corpus choisi pour sa haute spécificité: le direct de CNN le 11 septembre 2001. La première partie décrit et justifie le choix de la situation de l'événement en cours et la constitution du corpus, qui bénéficiera d'une double approche, inductive et déductive. La seconde partie analyse les cadres du discours contraints par la situation et contraignant les productions: le direct télévisé et l'interaction y sont caractérisés et analysés. La typologie des profils sociodiscursifs conduit à une analyse en termes de modes de discours. La troisième partie envisage les contraintes cognitives, en intégrant les apports de la psycholinguistique. Négociation de la référence, construction du common ground, structuration de l'information y sont considérés dans le corpus, qui présents bien souvent une déviation par rapport à la situation en langue générale. Une conclusion revient sur le parcours théorique et méthodologique qui aura été nécessaire ainsi que sur certaines conclusions d'analyses. / How do we talk about something when we do not know what it is we are talking about? How do you construct meaning when it escapes? And why do we dot that? The dissertation explores linguistic production in a corpus chosen because it is highly specific: CNN's live broadcast on 9/11. The first describes and justifies this choice in terms of the situation of an ongoing event and in terms of corpus methodology; since its analysis blends inductive and deductive approaches. The second part considers frames of discourse as constrained by the situation and constraining linguistic productions: the TV live broadcast and the interaction are characterized and analyzed. Sociodiscursive profiles emerge that correlate modes of discourse. The third part considers cognitive constraints on verbalizations from the point of view of theories of common ground, bridging linguistics and psycholinguistics. Reference construction, information structuring, the notion of key-words confirm the specific quality of the corpus, deviating from general norms. A conclusion retraces the complex theoretical and methodological considerations and sums up analytical contributions. Sémantique Sociocognitif Discours Événement 11-Septembre Parole Production linguistique Coda Semantics Sociocognitive Discourse Event 9/11 Speech Linguistic production Coda 400
154	Úroveň motorických dovedností a pohybové aktivity u dětí školního věku (9-11 let). / The level of motor skills and physical activity in young school-age children (9-11 years). Šorna, Tomáš January 2018 (has links) Title: The level of motor skills and physical activity in school-age children (9-11 years) Author: Bc.Tomáš Šorna Supervisor: Mgr. Jakub Kokštejn, Ph.D. Objectives: An aim of the work is to find out, in one week of monitoring, a relationship between physical activity of young school-age children and their level of motoric skills with respect to their age. The aim is also to find character of mutual relationships between indicators of physical activity and motoric skills. Methods: The target market of the thesis are pupils of third, fourth and fifth classes (n=73; 10,3 ± 0,8 years) in one of the primary schools in Příbram. In the thesis has been applied method of analysis Actigraph GT3X, which has analysed physical activity and TGMD-2 test (Test of Gross Motor Skills - 2nd edition) to find out needful data of motoric skills. Results: Average figure of moderately to high physical activity exceeded recommended level of physical activity good for health development (70 ± 38,7 min). However, 70% of young pupils reached below-average to low results. Moderately strong relationship (p < 0,01; r = 0,405) has been found out between physical activity (average medium to high intensive physical activity per day) and motoric skills (total performance during TGMD-2 test). Impact of the age has not been found...
155	Hope for today and tomorrow : G. C. Berkouwer's doctrines of providence and resurrection with regard to the current topics of the 9/11 terrorism attack on America and the rise of hyper-preterism Loomis, Van L. 06 1900 (has links) This dissertation argues for the hope that is found in G. C. Berkouwer’s doctrines of providence and bodily resurrection in relation to the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, and the rising pervasiveness of the doctrine of hyperpreterism among American Reformed circles. In Part I of the dissertation, Berkouwer’s doctrine of providence is explained and then evaluated and applied. By way of explanation and exposition, Berkouwer’s knowledge of providence is examined, along with his theology of providence in sustenance and government, in relation to miracles, and the dilemma of the existence of God and evil. Following that is an evaluation and application of the doctrine to the 9/11 terrorist attack on America. In Part II, a theological/doctrinal study is undertaken concerning the doctrine of resurrection. Hyper-preterism is examined, along with its leading proponents, and placed into interaction with Berkouwer’s views of the doctrine of the physical resurrection of the body at the eschaton. / Theology / M.Th. (Philosophy & Systematic Theology) Hyper-preterism Resurrection 9/11 terrorist attack Theodicy Providence 261.70973 Religion and politics -- United States Ressurection -- Biblical teaching Providence -- Government of God Eschatology Second Advent
156	Leituras e imagens do 11 de setembro: reavaliações da história em Falling Man (2007), de Don DeLillo e em Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004), de Michael Moore Mariano, Márcia Corrêa de Oliveira [UNESP] 17 February 2012 (has links) (PDF) Made available in DSpace on 2017-03-14T14:10:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2012-02-17. Added 1 bitstream(s) on 2017-03-14T14:42:42Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000685750.pdf: 67781 bytes, checksum: 3c54d1cb16730767c0361aa0d3ec3549 (MD5) Bitstreams deleted on 2017-07-28T12:36:26Z: 000685750_20161231.pdf,. Added 1 bitstream(s) on 2017-07-28T12:37:14Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000685750.pdf: 55765135 bytes, checksum: 4bf6c4444b278ebc053c3f7c0ff2844b (MD5) Bitstreams deleted on 2017-08-07T14:09:17Z: 000685750.pdf,. Added 1 bitstream(s) on 2017-08-07T14:10:21Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000685750.pdf: 55765135 bytes, checksum: 4bf6c4444b278ebc053c3f7c0ff2844b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:29:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2012-02-17Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:39:38Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 mariano_mco_me_sjrp_parcial.pdf: 61686 bytes, checksum: 85be7b5b66db2f567cf2e052286f85d3 (MD5) Bitstreams deleted on 2015-02-09T14:35:41Z: mariano_mco_me_sjrp_parcial.pdf,Bitstream added on 2015-02-09T14:36:21Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000685750_20161231.pdf: 1506390 bytes, checksum: 5a7c60850c69475431d99fde8a4b98d6 (MD5) Bitstreams deleted on 2015-02-09T17:15:04Z: 000685750_20161231.pdf,Bitstream added on 2015-02-09T17:15:41Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000685750_20161231.pdf: 1506390 bytes, checksum: 5a7c60850c69475431d99fde8a4b98d6 (MD5) / Item merged in doublecheck by Luiz Galeffi (luizgaleffi@gmail.com) on 2017-07-26T12:49:03Z Item was identical to item(s): 149682, 98273 at handle(s): http://hdl.handle.net/11449/149233, http://hdl.handle.net/11449/99137 / Os atentados de 11 de setembro originaram diversas manifestações artísticas buscando não apenas explicações para a tragédia, mas também tentando repensar os acontecimentos. Neste sentido, esta pesquisa apresenta uma investigação a respeito da maneira como um romance e um documentário se apropriaram desse episódio para reavaliá-lo. Com os ataques, os Estados Unidos experimentaram uma forte sensação de vulnerabilidade, desencadeando reações do governo americano, que formulou com bastante rapidez uma nova doutrina de segurança nacional, baseada no combate ao terrorismo. Esta dissertação analisa as estratégias narrativas utilizadas pelo autor americano Don DeLillo no romance Falling Man (2007), e pelo cineasta Michael Moore, no documentário Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004), e como eles abordam fatores históricos, socioeconômicos e políticos que desencadearam a tragédia, a fim de reexaminá-la. Textos teóricos e críticos sobre a relação entre Literatura e História, ficção Pós-Moderna, aspectos do documentário e questões sobre terrorismo fundamentam as discussões apresentadas no trabalho. Este estudo objetiva ampliar os questionamentos acerca dos fatos que levaram à catástrofe e suas consequências, examinando personagens e grupos ligados ao 11 de setembro, revelando múltiplas verdades, condicionadas social, ideológica e historicamente / September 11 has originated a wide range of artistic manifestations which have not only searched for plausible explanations for the tragedy, but also tried to review the events. In this sense, this thesis aims at showing how a novel and a documentary reevaluate this episode. The attacks made the United States experience a strong sense of vulnerability, triggering reactions from the American government, who quickly established a new national security strategy, associated with the war on terror. This thesis analyzes the narrative strategies employed by the American author Don DeLillo in his novel Falling Man (2007) and by the filmmaker Michael Moore in the documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004), as well as the way they approach socioeconomic and political factors that caused the tragedy in order to reevaluate it. The debate of the topics is based on texts concerning the relationship between literature and history, postmodern fiction, documentary aspects and issues on terrorism. This study contributes to enrich the discussion related to the events that led to the catastrophe and its aftermath, examining characters and groups linked to the September 11 terrorist attacks, revealing multiple truths subjected to social, ideological and historical conditions Ataques terroristas de 11 de setembro American literature - September 11
157	Risk Assessment of Aviation Security and Evaluation of Aviation Security Policies Yalcinkaya, Ramazan 08 1900 (has links) Comprising many airplanes, airports, aircrew, and employees, aviation industry is a large sector that is very vulnerable to attacks, whether it is from terrorists or criminals. Aviation history is fraught with examples of airport bombings, hijackings, and sabotage terrorist attacks. The most destructive of which is the tragedy of September 11, 2001, the cornerstone of today's aviation security policies. This study uses risk assessment tools to determine the dimensions of danger and threats against the aviation industry and addresses how vulnerable the aviation sector is. After vulnerabilities and threats are examined, possible impacts of attacks against the aviation security are discussed. This study also explores the pre and post September 11 policies that governments and policy makers develop to reduce risks in aviation sector. In addition, it discusses weaknesses and strengths of these policies which surfaced during the implementations. Finally, this study proposes some recommendations based on vulnerabilities and threats of aviation security. aviation security risk assessment aviation security policies air terrorism 9/11 attacks
158	Storytelling and the National Security of America: Korean War Stories from the Cold War to Post-9/11 Era Jingyi Liu (7901657) 21 November 2019 (has links) <p>My dissertation is an interdisciplinary study of the Korean War stories in America in relation to the history of the national security state of America from the Cold War to post-911 era. Categorizing the Korean War stories in three phases in parallel with three dramatic episodes in the national security of America, including the institutionalization of national security in the early Cold War, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the bipolar Cold War system in the 1990s, and the institutionalization of homeland security after the 9/11 attacks, I argue that storytelling of the Korean War morphs with the changes of national security politics in America. Reading James Michener’s Korean War stories, <i>Invasion of the Body Snatchers</i> (1956), and <i>The Manchurian Candidate</i> (1962) in the 1950s and early 1960s, I argue that the first-phase Korean War stories cooperated with the state, translating and popularizing key themes in the national security policies through racial and gender tropes. Focusing on Helie Lee’s <i>Still Life with Rice</i> (1996), Susan Choi’s <i>The Foreign Student</i> (1998), and Heinz Insu Fenkl’s <i>Memories of My Ghost Brother</i> (1996) in the 1990s, I maintain that the second-phase Korean War stories by Korean American writers form a narrative resistance against the ideology of national security and provide alternative histories of racial and gender violence in America’s national security programs. Further reading post-911 Korean War novels such as Toni Morrison’s <i>Home</i> (2012), Ha Jin’s <i>War Trash</i> (2005), and Chang-Rae Lee’s <i>The Surrendered</i> (2010), I contend that in the third-phase Korean War stories, the Korean War is deployed as a historical analogy to understand the War on Terror and diverse writers’ revisiting the war offers alternative perspectives on healing and understanding “homeland” for a traumatized American society. Taken together, these Korean War stories exemplify the politics of storytelling that engages with the national security state and the complex ways individual narratives interact with national narratives. Moreover, the continued morphing of the Korean War in literary representation demonstrates the vitality of the “forgotten war” and constantly reminds us the war’s legacy.</p> Literature History North American Literature American literature The Korean War the National Security State of America the Cold War post-9/11 America Asian American literature literature and national policies
159	The Sharia of Lawful Military Jihad: Sayyid Imam, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, and the Dispute Over the Islamic Legality of 9/11 Kamolnick, Paul 12 October 2013 (has links) No description available. sharia lawful military jihad Sayyid Imam Ayman Al-Zawahiri islamic legality 9/11 Sociology and Anthropology American Politics International Relations Near and Middle Eastern Studies Terrorism Studies Theory, Knowledge and Science
160	“DOUBLE REFRACTION”: IMAGE PROJECTION AND PERCEPTION IN SAUDI-AMERICAN CONTEXTS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY Ghaleb Alomaish (8850251) 18 May 2020 (has links) <p>This dissertation aims to create a scholarly space where a seventy-five-year-old “special relationship” (1945-2020) between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United States is examined from an interdisciplinary comparativist perspective. I posit that a comparative study of Saudi and American fiction goes beyond the limitedness of global geopolitics and proves to uncover some new literary, sociocultural, and historical dimensions of this long history, while shedding some light on others. Saudi writers creatively challenge the inherently static and monolithic image of Saudi Arabia, its culture and people in the West. They also simultaneously unsettle the notion of homogeneity and enable us to gain new insight into self-perception within the local Saudi context by offering a wide scope of genuine engagements with distinctive themes ranging from spatiality, identity, ethnicity, and gender to slavery, religiosity and (post)modernity. On the other side, American authors still show some signs of ambivalence towards the depiction of the Saudi (Muslim/Arab) Other, but they nonetheless also demonstrate serious effort to emancipate their representations from the confining legacy of (neo)Orientalist discourse and oil politics by tackling the concepts of race, alterity, hegemony, radicalism, nomadism and (un)belonging.</p> Art Literature History Disability Studies Gender studies Language North American Literature Other Literatures in English Middle Eastern Literature Comparative Literature Studies Literary Theory Aesthetics Epistemology Feminist Theory Hermeneutic and Critical Theory Comparative Religious Studies Islamic Studies Gender, Sexuality and Education British History Saudi culture American Saudi-American Orientalism Orientalism in art neo-Orientalsim Desert oil Cultural studies Arabian Gulf migration Diaspora Studies blackness slavery literature Mormonism Mormon biblical studies disability studies geopolitics 9/11 post-9/11 post-9/11 America Post-9/11, fiction terrorism extremism radicalism visual studies orientalist painting postcolonial Postcolonial Discourse Otherness Alterity munif cities of salt urbanism Modernity tradition Islamic feminism Islam whiteness studies

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