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From Novel Of Ideas To Pop Phenomenon: The Transmission Of Atlas Shrugged Into Popular Culture, Stephen E. Snyder
From Novel Of Ideas To Pop Phenomenon: The Transmission Of Atlas Shrugged Into Popular Culture, Stephen E. Snyder
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Ayn Rand published her most famous novel, Atlas Shrugged, in 1957. Since then, the novel has continued to grow in popularity, and today, Atlas Shrugged is purchased by hundreds of thousands of people each year, and the philosophy that the novel espouses, Objectivism, continues to influence our culture in a myriad of ways. Atlas Shrugged has not only greatly influenced American politics; it has become a popular culture phenomenon. Representations of her ideas show up in radio talk shows, on nightly Fox News programing, on popular television series, on YouTube clips, Twitter posts, and everywhere between. The influence of Rand …
Lived Experiences Of Graduate Students Who Are The Mothers Of Young Children, Audrey M. Harrington
Lived Experiences Of Graduate Students Who Are The Mothers Of Young Children, Audrey M. Harrington
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In this qualitative study, the experiences of graduate students who were also the mothers of preschool children were explored through the use of narrative interviews and autoethnographic reflections on personal experience. The study examines the various self-perceived identity dimensions of three graduate student mothers (through a series of interviews) and the researcher (via autoethnographic writings). Analysis of the data identified two superordinate themes: a) the identification of systems of support and role models (including presence and absence of said supports) and b) a negotiation of gendered social expectations as the students navigated the context of graduate school. Recommendations include the …
Doodles On The Walls Of The Cave : An Interpretation Of Four Popular Novels, Carole Krysan
Doodles On The Walls Of The Cave : An Interpretation Of Four Popular Novels, Carole Krysan
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There are many possible influences which shape the culture or the way of life of a society. One of the strongest of these influences has been the movies. Movies and moviegoing have been a part of American culture for more than eighty-five years, but the movies as a way of life in America perhaps reached its peak in the period from 1945-1955. This was the post World War II era when there were as many as 90,000,000 paid admissions per week from a population of 150,000,000. By the end of this decade, attendance had dropped to 42,000,000 due mainly to …
The Commonwealth Broadcasting Association As A Balancing Force In The Flow Of Information Between Developed And Developing Countries, Tsoeu Ntsane
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This study attempted to reveal whether the operations of the CBA conform to the MacBride Commission recommendations. It also tried to determine if the activities of the CBA are in keeping with the .spirit of Article IX of the Mass Media Declaration of the 1978 UNESCO General Conference which urges the international community to "contribute to the creation of the conditions for a full flow and wider and more balanced dissemination of information…” It is this same declaration which appears to have strengthened and encouraged the work of the International Commission for the Study of Communication Problems, or the MacBride …