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Garda As A Contemporary Film Narrative Of Gerry Boyle As Heroic Outlaw And Post-Colonial Trickster, Jeanne M. Armstrong Ph.D.
Garda As A Contemporary Film Narrative Of Gerry Boyle As Heroic Outlaw And Post-Colonial Trickster, Jeanne M. Armstrong Ph.D.
Jeanne M Armstrong Ph.D.
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Encounters Of A Conflict Tourist: Concept And A Case Study Of Northern Ireland, Kenneth Elvig
Encounters Of A Conflict Tourist: Concept And A Case Study Of Northern Ireland, Kenneth Elvig
Occam's Razor
International tourism is a broad and diverse industry that caters to several kinds of tourists. Traditionally, international tourists travel to “must see" destinations, and go through rituals of tourism such as snapping pictures,touring museums, and buying souvenirs. In recent years, newer forms of tourism have emerged such as ecotourism, community-based tourism, and other “alternative or non-traditional forms of tourism. One new, but uncommon, form of tourism is based on conflict. Conflict tourism is a form of dark tourism (tourism relating to death, disaster, destruction, etc.) where the tourist travels to current conflict areas or areas where conflict has occurred. In …
Occam's Razor Vol. 2 - Full (2012)
Garda As A Contemporary Film Narrative Of Gerry Boyle As Heroic Outlaw And Post-Colonial Trickster, Jeanne Armstrong Ph.D.
Garda As A Contemporary Film Narrative Of Gerry Boyle As Heroic Outlaw And Post-Colonial Trickster, Jeanne Armstrong Ph.D.
Western Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
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Harvey Milk And California Proposition 6: How The Gay Liberation Movement Won Two Early Victories, Ramy K. Khalil
Harvey Milk And California Proposition 6: How The Gay Liberation Movement Won Two Early Victories, Ramy K. Khalil
WWU Graduate School Collection
The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) movement scored two historic victories in California in the late 1970s. Despite difficult odds, the movement succeeded in electing Harvey Milk as the first openly gay male candidate to political office in the country. The election of Harvey Milk to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors took place at time when anti-gay ballot initiatives were being approved by large majorities of voters in states across the country. Furthermore, the LGBT liberation movement succeeded in defeating an anti-gay ballot initiative in California in 1978, Proposition 6. Based on extensive primary source research, this thesis …
The World's Fare: Food And Culture At American World Fairs From 1893-1939, Elizabeth Badger
The World's Fare: Food And Culture At American World Fairs From 1893-1939, Elizabeth Badger
WWU Graduate School Collection
Why is the American culinary tradition as conflicted as it is? How is it that processed foods, foreign cuisine and home cooking can all be lauded as American ways of eating? This paper highlights the conflict between top-down government and corporate prescriptions on how we should eat and the reality of what was consumed by using American World Fairs as snapshots of particular points in time. Utilizing guidebooks, cookbooks, magazine articles and advertisements, this paper aims to show that these trends, rather than suddenly appearing, were already beginning to develop in part due to ideas presented at these fairs intentionally …