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With a Great Story Comes Great Responsibility: Role of Narrative in Leadership Development
New Directions for Student Leadership, Volume 2025, Issue 185, Page 81-87, Spring 2025.ABSTRACT Comic books reside uniquely within American culture. Historians have contended comics are more than just sequential artwork mixed with engaging stories, but rather, a framework by which the generations make sense of who they are. These stories are a reflection of cultural conscience; a lens through which we can view the world and a mirror ...
Sean Connable
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Separate but Equal? Gettysburg’s Lincoln Cemetery
, 2018 The most well-known cemetery in Gettysburg is, of course, the Soldiers’ National Cemetery. Another cemetery in Gettysburg that receives less attention is the Lincoln Cemetery, currently located on Lincoln Lane.
Labbe, Savannah A.
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Vocalizing the Vindications of Our Veterans: Evaluating the Needs of Our Returning Soldiers [PDF]
, 2013 The soldiers of the United States devote their lives, families, and careers in order to ensure our limitless opportunities of liberty and justice. It is therefore our duty, as grateful citizens of America to meet their needs upon return from war.
Rawson, Alexandra
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The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The 2024 UK general election saw candidates make frequent rhetorical references to parents and grandparents. But what are the political functions and implications of such references? Drawing together recent research in political psychology and sociology, this article interprets such references as attempts to articulate ‘vicarious identities ...
Joseph Haigh
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Engineering ProceedingsMuscle cramps often accompany a soldier’s high physical readiness in a tactical environment. Close monitoring of the muscles is required during the downward jump training at a certain height, which combines isometric, isotonic, and isokinetic movements ...
Lobes Herdiman, Hendrawan Candra Purnama
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The Lives of Soldiers in World War II
, 2015 An examination of soldiers\u27 quality of life during World War II.
Bosworth, Caroline M.
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[Review of] William L. Burton. Melting Pot Soldiers: The Union\u27s Ethnic Regiments [PDF]
, 1994 The title is somewhat misleading if the reader is expecting the author, William L. Burton, to include all ethnic groups in this book. The book is about foreign born ethnic soldiers in the Union Army and excludes Native Americans and Black troops. In fact,
Patrick, Michael
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.The contested dynamics of slum gentrification in Rio de Janeiro came into focus during the brief period of relative peace brought by the pacification policy leading up to the 2016 Olympics. In this unprecedented moment, Rio's South Zone favela residents experienced a respite from the daily confrontations with police operations and drug trade violence ...
Angela Torresan
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Child Soldiers in Colombia: The Recruitment of Children into Non-state Violent Armed Groups [PDF]
Based on in-depth interviews with former child soldiers in Colombia, this article presents the findings from fieldwork conducted among demobilized child soldiers in Colombia.
Ingunn Bjørkhaug
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