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International Terrorism:Role ,Responsibility And Operation Of Media Channles, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr Nov 2008

International Terrorism:Role ,Responsibility And Operation Of Media Channles, Ratnesh Dwivedi Mr

Ratnesh Dwivedi

"Terrorism" is a term that cannot be given a stable defintion. Or rather, it can, but to do so forstalls any attempt to examine the major feature of its relation to television in the contemporary world. As the central public arena for organising ways of picturing and talking about social and political life, TV plays a pivotal role in the contest between competing defintions, accounts and explanations of terrorism. Which term is used in any particular context is inextricably tied to judgemements about the legitimacy of the action in question and of the political system against which it is directed. …


Kentucky Save Outdoor Sculpture Project, 2005-2008 (Mss 217), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2008

Kentucky Save Outdoor Sculpture Project, 2005-2008 (Mss 217), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 217. Survey questionnaires and photos related to 15 outdoor sculptures in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Questionnaires also available in PDF format and photos in digital format.


William King, First Governor Of Maine: His Known Portraits And Their Stories, Deanna Bonner-Ganter Jun 2008

William King, First Governor Of Maine: His Known Portraits And Their Stories, Deanna Bonner-Ganter

Maine History

This article studies the known studio portraits of William King (1768-1852), first governor of Maine, finding that the leader’s personal life and professional travels led to sittings with such noted master painters as Gilbert Stuart, Edward Greene Malbone, and Chester Harding. These living portraits reflect period styles, while later likenesses require a broad understanding of formal state portraiture and its historical elements. One portrait, having resurfaced recently, was found to have hung in the Hall of Flags in the State Capitol for almost thirty years; others required considerable research to determine their provenance. The Honorable James G. Blaine played an …


Duckett, Edward Austin, 1920-2008 (Sc 1620), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2008

Duckett, Edward Austin, 1920-2008 (Sc 1620), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Cards and letters sent to architect and Bowling Green native Edward Austin Duckett while he was a resident of Hopkins Nursing Facility, Woodburn, Warren County, Kentucky. Also includes copies of his will and obituary.


Learning From Foxwoods: Visualizing The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, Bill Anthes Apr 2008

Learning From Foxwoods: Visualizing The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, Bill Anthes

Pitzer Faculty Publications and Research

The author discusses the Pequot Tribal Nation's use of income from their highly profitable casino venture to fund cultural revitalization projects and articulate Native sovereignty.


After Abolition: Britain And The Slave Trade Since 1807, Marika Sherwood, Christian Hogsbjerg Mar 2008

After Abolition: Britain And The Slave Trade Since 1807, Marika Sherwood, Christian Hogsbjerg

African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Native American Pottery: Ancient And Evolving Traditions In The American Southwest, Megan R. Conner Mar 2008

Native American Pottery: Ancient And Evolving Traditions In The American Southwest, Megan R. Conner

MALS Final Projects, 1995-2019

No abstract provided.


Thomas, Mazie Lee (Allen), 1906-2001 (Mss 199), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Thomas, Mazie Lee (Allen), 1906-2001 (Mss 199), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Scrapbook of artwork created by Mazie Lee (Allen) Thomas, an African American folk artist from Adairville, Logan County, Kentucky. The scrapbook was compiled by Thomas's niece, Vicki Lawrence. Also includes a biographical sketch, slides of four oil paintings, news clippings and a short videotape.


Artwork In Government, Humboldt State University Jan 2008

Artwork In Government, Humboldt State University

Art and Music

Bibliography of a display of government documents from Humboldt State University, California.


Andrea Sulzer: After Nature, Bowdoin College. Museum Of Art, Katy Kline Jan 2008

Andrea Sulzer: After Nature, Bowdoin College. Museum Of Art, Katy Kline

Museum of Art Exhibition Catalogues

" ... accompanies an exhibition of the same name at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art from June 17 through August 27, 2008"--P. 16

Essay by Katy Kline.


James Bowdoin Iii: Pursuing Style In The Age Of Independence, Bowdoin College. Museum Of Art, Vernon Scott Jan 2008

James Bowdoin Iii: Pursuing Style In The Age Of Independence, Bowdoin College. Museum Of Art, Vernon Scott

Museum of Art Exhibition Catalogues

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art from Sept. 9, 2008, through June 7, 2009.

Essay by V. Scott Dimond


George D. Green: Influences Behind His Work, Dustin Klein Jan 2008

George D. Green: Influences Behind His Work, Dustin Klein

The Journal of Undergraduate Research

NOTE: This paper is part of a collective project that is published online in the Michigan based Undergraduate Research Journal for the Human Sciences, 2008 Special Edition: “Eye Deceptions: The Evolution of George Green’s Painting from the Late 1970’s to the Present” (http://www.kon.org/urc/v7/v7a/george-d-green-painting-evolution.html). Our sincere gratitude to Dr. Dorothy I. Mitstifer, Executive Director of the Undergraduate Research Journal for the Human Sciences, the Honors Society Kappa Omicron Nu and the Association of College Honor Societies, for authorizing the separate publication of this paper, as individual contribution, in the 2008 SDSU Journal of Undergraduate Research. All the reproduced images of paintings …