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Commercial persuasion: the evolution of an advertising vocabulary in England from 1300 to 1972
Thesis
Jones, J. C. Commercial persuasion: the evolution of an advertising vocabulary in England from 1300 to 1972. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413496

This thesis is a descriptive and annotated survey of the persuasive words and phrases cultivated by generations of English advertisers. It considers the spoken and chanted words of street vendors, the printed offers to treat made in newspapers, magaz... Read More about Commercial persuasion: the evolution of an advertising vocabulary in England from 1300 to 1972.

The Jew as myth in recent Jewish-American fiction, with specific reference to the novels of Saul Bellow
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Miller, M. J. The Jew as myth in recent Jewish-American fiction, with specific reference to the novels of Saul Bellow. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413497

The premise of this thesis is that the European Holocaust, the systematic genocide practised upon the Jews by the Nazis in World War II, gave a new moral authority to the Jew in American literature; and that the onset of philo-Semitism combined with... Read More about The Jew as myth in recent Jewish-American fiction, with specific reference to the novels of Saul Bellow.

Response to change - a study of guidance and counselling in secondary and grammar schools and technical colleges in Northern Ireland
Thesis
Fulton, J. F. Response to change - a study of guidance and counselling in secondary and grammar schools and technical colleges in Northern Ireland. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413499

The roots of guidance and counselling are to he found in the works of the great philosophers who have written on education. However, the modern concept of guidance, as a service distinguished from normal classroom practice, is a relative newcomer on... Read More about Response to change - a study of guidance and counselling in secondary and grammar schools and technical colleges in Northern Ireland.

The evolution of history teaching in British and French schools in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with special reference to attitudes to race and colonial history in history schoolbooks
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Glendenning, F. J. The evolution of history teaching in British and French schools in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with special reference to attitudes to race and colonial history in history schoolbooks. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413500

A consideration of the development of history teaching in Britain and France in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries demonstrates the growing acceptability of history as a school subject. World History was only approved for schools after the Second... Read More about The evolution of history teaching in British and French schools in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with special reference to attitudes to race and colonial history in history schoolbooks.

Some aspects of the treatment of the industrial and urban working classes in British prose fiction, 1832-1914
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Miles, E. C. Some aspects of the treatment of the industrial and urban working classes in British prose fiction, 1832-1914. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413519

This study of attitudes to and the presentation of the industrial and urban working classes in prose fiction written between 1832 and 1914 begins with two chapters on the urban environment. The first, which concentrates on books written before 1880,... Read More about Some aspects of the treatment of the industrial and urban working classes in British prose fiction, 1832-1914.

A sociological analysis of educational change: the introduction of comprehensive secondary schools in England and Wales
Thesis
Piper, J. S. A sociological analysis of educational change: the introduction of comprehensive secondary schools in England and Wales. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413520

Following a review of the sociological literature concerning the relationship between education systems and the wider society, a model of institutional change is presented and developed in terms specific to education, and decision making in education... Read More about A sociological analysis of educational change: the introduction of comprehensive secondary schools in England and Wales.

The questioning of an absolute in the art of T.S. Eliot
Thesis
Gledhill, . S. J. The questioning of an absolute in the art of T.S. Eliot. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413534

T. S. Eliot's Unitarian family background coupled with his interest in Idealism provided him with a particular view of life which invaded his early poetry and criticism. The intellectual climate at Harvard University during Eliot's undergraduate and... Read More about The questioning of an absolute in the art of T.S. Eliot.

The influence of German romanticism on Russian linguistic philosophy: with particular reference to the period 1844-1891
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Phillips, K. H. The influence of German romanticism on Russian linguistic philosophy: with particular reference to the period 1844-1891. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413545

The main purpose of this thesis is to draw attention to the valuable contribution made by Russian linguists during the course of the nineteenth century, with particular reference to the period running from the date of publication of Buslaev's O prepo... Read More about The influence of German romanticism on Russian linguistic philosophy: with particular reference to the period 1844-1891.

Russian materialism: an investigation of the pre-revolutionary materialist tradition
Thesis
Chant, C. Russian materialism: an investigation of the pre-revolutionary materialist tradition. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413615

The principal aim of this thesis is to take a step towards a fuller coverage in this language of the history of Russian materialism and atheism« It is divided into Three Parts« The first discusses the transition from German idealism in the 1830s to m... Read More about Russian materialism: an investigation of the pre-revolutionary materialist tradition.

A study of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the rise and fall of the nonviolent civil rights movement
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Fairclough, A. A study of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the rise and fall of the nonviolent civil rights movement. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413619

Despite its lack of membership and vague organizational structure, the Southern Christian leadership Conference was the most effective of the various groups which composed the Southern civil rights movement: the SCLC's campaigns in Birmingham and Sel... Read More about A study of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the rise and fall of the nonviolent civil rights movement.