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Lai, Paul F. "Civics English| Integrating Civics in Middle School English Language Arts Teaching." Thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10930491.

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English Language Arts has historically been tied to the civic purposes of schools, and this qualitative study of a social design-based project (Gutiérrez & Vossoughi, 2010) examines the intersection of language and literacy learning and youth civic engagement, a problem space I call “Civics English.” In this dissertation, I describe and analyze the experimentation and inquiry process of a Professional Learning Community of English teachers in a diverse middle school as they integrated civic learning and action into their English teaching practices. The dissertation examines this teacher team’s development and shifts through various tensions and challenges that arise, analyzing through the lenses of Cultural Historical Activity Theory the ways their Professional Learning Community operated as an English teaching activity system attempting to integrate the cultural activity of civic engagement, leading to the teachers’ expansive professional learning (Engeström, 2001) about possibilities and challenges of Civics English.

The English teachers implemented various civic action projects, including producing and sharing multimodal civic advocacy essays online, composing and presenting children’s storybooks about civics issues, and organizing and conducting a Town Hall with local leaders about civic dimensions of allyship and youth sports. This study looks at how, contextualized by these civics activities, they adapt and innovate customary English Language Arts practices, such as reading novels, writing in authentic genres with blended text types, and developing literacy and discourse. As the teachers encounter various tensions that arise in their attempts at Civics English, I present evidence of how these tensions emerge from the contradictions of two intersecting cultural activity systems, and what adaptations and innovations the teachers develop to overcome these tensions.

Integrating civics causes shifts in the teachers’ practices of literary study, writing, and classroom discussion, as they orient students’ learning towards public audiences, collective action, and discursive models of political and professional discourse. I identify how reading literature creates an imaginative space for civic deliberation. And I demonstrate how the Town Hall civics project shifts various dimensions of literacy and language activity by recontextualizing them. The potentials and the constraints of these shifts are examined through studying the teachers’ work, students’ language and activity, and the civic event’s efficacy as an English teaching focal point.

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Wright, Kenneth Robert. "Rhetoric, writing, and civic participation : a community-literacy approach to college writing instruction /." view abstract or download file of text, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9998051.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2000.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 147-156). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Böttcher, Jeannette U. [Verfasser]. "Towards a Cultura Franca : Contemporary American Civil and Human Rights Drama in the Foreign Language Classroom / Jeannette U. Böttcher." Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1142096742/34.

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Lea-O'Mahoney, Michael James. "The navy in the English Civil War." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/4078.

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This thesis is concerned chiefly with the military role of sea power during the English Civil War. Parliament’s seizure of the Royal Navy in 1642 is examined in detail, with a discussion of the factors which led to the King’s loss of the fleet and the consequences thereafter. It is concluded that Charles I was outmanoeuvred politically, whilst Parliament’s choice to command the fleet, the Earl of Warwick, far surpassed him in popularity with the common seamen. The thesis then considers the advantages which control of the Navy provided for Parliament throughout the war, determining that the fleet’s protection of London, its ability to supply besieged outposts and its logistical support to Parliamentarian land forces was instrumental in preventing a Royalist victory. Furthermore, it is concluded that Warwick’s astute leadership went some way towards offsetting Parliament’s sporadic neglect of the Navy. The thesis demonstrates, however, that Parliament failed to establish the unchallenged command of the seas around the British Isles. This was because of the Royalists’ widespread privateering operations, aided in large part by the King’s capture of key ports in 1643, such as Dartmouth and Bristol. The Navy was able to block many, but not all, of the King’s arms shipments from abroad, thus permitting Charles to supply his armies in England. Close attention is paid to the Royalist shipping which landed reinforcements from Ireland in 1643-44. The King’s defeat in the First Civil War is then discussed, with the New Model Army, and greater resources, cited as the key factors behind Parliament’s victory, with recognition that the Navy provided essential support. Finally, the revolt of the fleet in 1648 is examined. It is concluded that the increasing radicalism of Parliament alienated a substantial section of the Navy, but that the Royalists failed to capitalise on their new-found maritime strength.

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Loxley, James William Stanislas. "Royalist poetry in the English Civil War." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.319509.

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Gordon, Andrew David Hamilton. "Civic and symbolic space in representation and ritual in the Renaissance." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 1999. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/1523.

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This project examines the conception and imaging of the city in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The thesis aims to chart the ways in which a spatialised reading of the metropolis most fully realised in ceremonial representations of the city informs representational strategies of the time. Chapter 1 looks at the transformations taking place during this period in the practice of land surveying, exploring the implications of the new techniques of geometrical survey for conceptions of civic space. Examining the parallels between the viewing of the estate and the reformation of the Rogationtide ceremonies of perambulating the bounds, the urban context for spatial description is analysed through a reading of John Stow's Survey of London. In Chapter 2 the resistance of the city to a strictly geometrical conception of space is traced through an analysis of early printed maps of the city and the texts of civic ceremonies. The shared interest of these cultural practices in the representation of civic space is interrogated to reveal an understanding of the city as comprising !oth built environment and social body which informs the deployment of the city as a subject of cartographic representation. The next chapter analyses the costume book in the context of a Europewide project of geographical description. The production of a clothed body capable of articulating spatial and hierarchical difference is examined in relation to the available ceremonial models for the negotiation of these intersecting axes of description and the tensions generated by this representational strategy The final chapter undertakes a reinvestigation of the Earl of Essex's rebellion, reading a wide range of materials to argue for the centrality of anxieties over the control of the civic sign to the understanding of this event.

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Robinson, Gavin. "Horse supply in the English Civil War 1642-1646." Thesis, University of Reading, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.343177.

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Wong, Wing-yin Winnie. "The study of the use of written English in the Hong Kong civil service." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1997. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B18736543.

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Temco, Zoe (Zoe Robin). "Foundation settlements of English cathedrals." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111529.

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Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2017.
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In this thesis, the structural and geotechnical components that contribute to the settlement of English cathedrals are analyzed. The stress at the base of tower and nave piers was found and compared to the allowable bearing capacity. The expected settlement range of each cathedral's tower and nave piers was calculated by analyzing the site's soil conditions. The average settlement expected for a central tower pier not founded on bedrock is between 14 and 21 cm, which is greater than the average expected settlement of a nave pier, 7cm. An average differential settlement between the nave and tower piers expected is between 7 and 14 cm, which can contribute to cracking in the masonry or even structural failures. Less differential settlement will occur in areas with firmer soil than with deep clay.
by Zoe Temco.
M. Eng.

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Kwok, Yeung Kwai-ming Hily. "A study of the adaptation of authentic materials for civil service English courses." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1993. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13553872.

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Campbell, D. A. "English public opinion and the American Civil War : a reconsideration." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.597254.

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One nation which paid particular attention to the American Civil War was Great Britain. Sharing a common language, important trade links, and having its largest colony border the United States, the British were, not unnaturally, close observers of the conflict. They were also very nearly participants when, in December 1861, the Union violated international law during the Trent Affair. Despite this, and other disputes over the rights of neutrals, such as the purchase and/or building of Southern sea-raiders such as the Alabama and Northern raids into Canada, Britain neither recognised the Confederacy, nor directly intervened in the war. Nonetheless, when the conflict ended, both former antagonists condemned Britain for allegedly sympathising with the other side. This thesis examines the nature of this sympathy, not from the diplomatic approach, which has already been well-researched, but from that of English public opinion. This latter area remains controversial. There exists a traditional interpretation which, simply put, divides English sentiment between progression on the side of the Union, and reaction on the side of the Confederacy. In response to this has arisen a revisionist approach which openly questions whether English opinion can be so easily divided and has challenged certain aspects and arguments of the traditional interpretation. Despite the revisionists, however, the most recent studies on the subject have largely resurrected the traditional view of English sentiment and the American Civil War. This thesis posits that the revisionist approach, far from over-correcting the traditional interpretation, has in fact been too mild a challenge. That English public opinion was not, in fact, split between two such opposing camps; that most in England were suspicious of both sides in the conflict, and that even each side's partisans were not entirely composed of any one particular social or political group.

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Macadam, Angela Elizabeth Joyce. "'Mercurius Britanicus' : journalism and politics in the English civil war." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.429731.

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Peacey, Jason Tom. "Henry Parker and parliamentary propaganda in the English Civil Wars." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1994. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272385.

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Rea, B. "Rights and the English liberal tradition." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.375983.

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Tsegay, Tesfay Solomon. "English for specific academic purposes : a case study of English for law at the Ethiopian Civil Service College." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.405242.

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The study aimed at exploring the English language problems adult students of law in the Ethiopian Civil Service College (ECSC) face, establishing their needs for the language to succeed in their studies and function effectively in their legal profession and proposing guidelines for English for law courses that would address the established needs and constraints. In addition to solving a practical problem, it was also the objective of the study to contribute to the scarce theory and practice in Ethiopia and worldwide in the fields of English for Specific Academic Purposes (ESAP) in general and English for law in particular. In order to address these issues, the study employed the qualitative case study approach that used varied instruments for data collection and involved different stakeholders in the teaching and learning of English for law. It mainly used semi-structured interviews, participant observation and direct observation, focus group discussions, as well as questionnaires, test results and document analyses. Law students, law and English language instructors, law graduates working in legal and non-legal offices and their immediate heads and or sponsors selected from half of the regional states of Ethiopia participated in the study. It was found out that law students manifested English problems at all levels of the language, that is, in the four skills and also faced serious lexico-grammatical problems. It was also found out that student background, the mechanisms employed by the College in the processes of selection and admission of students, lack of relevance of the current English courses to law study, among others, also contributed to the failure of law students to gain the most out of the English courses offered by the College. This in turn contributed to the difficulty students faced in studying law effectively because it was also established that there is a strong relationship between law discipline and the language it is embodied in and taught thro~ that is, English. It was, thus, concluded that if law students at the ECSC are to study and function in law effectively, the English courses offered by the College need to be relevant for these purposes and address the specified target and learning needs. This could be achieved, it is recommended, by introducing a new English for law syllabus that addresses the needs and alleviates the English language problems of law students.

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Bronson-Bartlett, Blake. "Whitman's inscriptions: the logic of manuscript and civic space in nineteenth-century America." Diss., University of Iowa, 2014. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5722.

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"Whitman's Inscriptions" examines the link between civic space and material practice in the writings of Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, and Louisa May Alcott. Combining media studies, bibliography, and urban history, my dissertation argues that these four authors used manuscript as a medium of civic engagement in their published works. In each chapter, my comparative analyses of manuscript practices and published texts examine the historical layers of storage, formatting, and circulation conventions that assumed new forms in literary writing under the specific technological conditions of the industrial-urban era. Walt Whitman is the central figure of my project, as my dissertation title suggests, because his writings record the "noise" of the mid-nineteenth-century's industrial-urban conditions.

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Ellis, John Edward Kirkham. "Military intelligence operations during the first English Civil War 1642-1646." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2010. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/361576/.

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Antonini, Veronica. "Aviation English: una lingua per volare Analisi linguistica della comunicazione in aviazione civile." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2020. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/20818/.

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La tesi si propone l'obiettivo di esaminare le caratteristiche della lingua dell'aviazione, il cosiddetto Aviation English (AE), rivolgendo un'attenzione particolare alle dinamiche delle interazioni verbali che avvengono tra piloti e controllori del traffico aereo. A partire da un breve excursus sui diversi tipi di linguaggi, da quelli specialistici alle lingue controllate, si cercherà di fornire una chiara definizione dell'AE, delineando gli aspetti che lo rendono una vera e propria lingua e non una semplice varietà di inglese. La tesi passerà in rassegna tutte le convenzioni e le regole che compongono questa lingua e che rendono la comunicazione in volo efficace a livello internazionale. Si vedrà anche come la comunicazione in aviazione sia suscettibile a molti fattori linguistici (e non), il che comporta per gli operatori del settore, l'obbligo di conoscerla a fondo, più della loro stessa lingua madre. In conclusione, si eseguirà un'analisi conversazionale di una comunicazione terra-bordo-terra realmente avvenuta in un'emergenza. Più precisamente, si tratta dell'estratto del volo US Airways 1549, diventato famoso come "il miracolo dell'Hudson". Questo permetterà di mettere in risalto le regole dell'AE, applicate in un caso concreto, quanto singolare, e notare come queste siano efficaci nel gestire, a livello comunicativo e operativo, gli imprevisti.

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Di, Mario Anna Maria. "What Remains and The failure of idealism in the Spanish Civil War." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2013. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4344/.

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This thesis consists of two parts: a creative work and a reader’s companion to the novel which reflects on the process of research. The creative work is a novel entitled What Remains. Set during the Spanish civil war, it has a twin narrative structure, and through alternating chapters follows the fortunes of Michael, a Scottish volunteer fighting with the International Brigades, and Ana, a Spanish woman in Nationalist territory whose husband is fighting for the Republicans. At the start of the novel Michael volunteers to fight in the conflict and the narrative follows his progress through a year and eight months of fighting for the Republic and examines how the harsh realities of war affect his political beliefs. Ana discovers her husband has been captured by the Nationalists and makes a Faustian pact with a Nationalist captain to get her husband out of prison and back home. What Remains is an exploration of how war affects the soldier and the civilian, how they are desensitised and ultimately dehumanised by their environment. The reader’s companion is titled Faith and doubt: The failure of idealism in the Spanish civil war and is intended as an illumination of the process of researching and writing a historical novel. It guides the reader through the historical research, the texts utilised by the writer and the broader themes and contradictions of the war as discovered through the reading of nonfiction and creative works.

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De, Groot Jerome Edward Gerard. "The Royalist reader in the English Revolution." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/535.

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This thesis offers an interpretation of Royalist literature of the first civil war. It particularly addresses the importance of spatial metaphors and material realities to loyalist notions of identity and meaning.I illustrate how royalist space was predicated upon scientific and mathematical notions of authority and hierarchy, and how this sense of 'absolute space' inflected royalist conceptions of a variety of other locations: gender, society, language, the public. The thesis traces how Charles attempted to use economic, political and juridical measures to create a context in which he could impose certain sociospatial relations and structures of identity. Proclamations and royal protocols polemically reconfigured the institutional life of the country. Licensing of the presses provided a controlled textual mediation of information and fostered particular definitions of national identity. Against this background discourse Charles and his court created a model of Royalism which inflected and created social relations and in particular notions of allegiance. Modes of behaviour that seemed outside the bounds of institutionally and socially defined normality were caricatured as external, alien and other. The model of Royalism I postulate throws into new relief studies of Parliamentary texts, and restructures our thinking about allegiance, text and identity during the Civil War period. My thesis falls into two sections. The opening two chapters establish the material contexts and constraints of publication during the war. Chapter one looks in depth at the relocation of the court within the city of Oxford, considering the institutional and political manifestations of this movement. Chapter two analyses censorship and licensing, circulation and the status of text. The second part of the thesis considers a wide variety of texts published at Oxford, considering specific modes (panegyric, elegy) and forms (speeches, satires, epic, topographical verse). These works are analysed by reference to the contexts outlined in the opening section. By considering tracts, newsbooks, sermons, institutional reform, painting, poetry, hitherto unconsidered manuscript material, political theory, translation and linguistic textbooks I contextualise in depth and further our understanding of Royalist culture.

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Du, Bon-Atmai Evelyn. "Competing Models of Hegemonic Masculinity in English Civil War Memoirs by Women." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc848084/.

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This thesis examines the descriptions of Royalist and Parliamentarian masculinity in English Civil War memoirs by women through a close reading of three biographical memoirs written by Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Newcastle; Lady Ann Fanshawe; and Lucy Hutchinson. Descriptions of masculinity are evaluated through the lens of Raewyn Connell's theory of hegemonic masculinity to understand the impact two competing models of masculinity had on the social and political culture of the period. The prevailing Parliamentarian hegemonic masculinity in English Civil War memoirs is traced to its origins before the English Civil War to demonstrate how hegemonic masculinity changes over time. The thesis argues that these memoirs provide evidence of two competing models of Royalist and Parliamentarian masculinities during the Civil War that date back to changes in the Puritan meaning of the phrase “man of merit”, which influenced the development of a Parliamentarian model of masculinity.

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Stoyle, Mark. "Loyalty and locality : popular allegiance in Devon during the English Civil War /." Exeter (GB) : University of Exeter press, 1994. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb36181873p.

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Worley, Katherine E. "Reason sways them: Masculinity and political authority in the English Civil War." View abstract/electronic edition; access limited to Brown University users, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3318372.

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Wallin, Jonathan S. "Civic Participation in the Writing Classroom: New Media and Public Writing." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2010. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2356.

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Public writing evolved from the social turn in composition pedagogy as scholars sought to determine which practices would be most effective in utilizing writing instruction to help fulfill the civic mission of the university and educate not just for vocational training, but to train students as better citizens as well. Based on the scholarship of Susan Wells, Elizabeth Ervin, and Rosa Eberly (among others), public writing scholars strove to distance the theory from old, generic forms, like letters to the editor, and create new arenas where students could be genuinely involved in civic acts and public discourse. As these scholars sought out new venues for their students, they proclaimed the Internet might offer better opportunities for public writing. This article discusses the effect new media, specifically blogging, has had on public writing, and how the promises of blogging in the classroom fall short of our expectations of public writing.

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Hong, Maggie Ngar Dik. "Public Environmental Rhetoric: The Rhetorical Fashioning of Civic Responsibility." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2009. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2823.pdf.

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Gurney, John. "The county of Surrey and the English Revolution." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.364693.

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The aim of this thesis is to provide a study of political conflict and local-national relations during the English Revolution, in the context of the county of Surrey, a county in which a moderate parliamentarian administration was able to survive until 1649. The thesis concentrates in particular on political developments in the period from 1640 to 1653. The character of local society in Surrey before 1640 is examined in Chapter One, as are relations between the Surrey gentry and the government of Charles I. The importance of localism is emphasised, despite the cosmopolitan nature of society in the county. Political and religious developments in Surrey between the autumn of 1640 and the, end of 1642 are examined in Chapter Three; Chapter Four provides a study of patterns of civil war allegiance in the county. In Chapters Five and Six, political conflicts from 1642 to 1646 are studied, and in particular the campaign to remove Sir Richard Onslow and his associates from their dominant position in local administration. It is argued that parliament's sensitivity to localism helped to ensure Onslow's political survival during the 1640's. The Surrey petitioning movement of 1648, the Earl of Holland's rising, and local reactions to the establishment of the Commonwealth in 1649, are discussed in Chapter Six, The final chapter provides a study of the Surrey Digger movement, and of social conflict in the county during the civil war and after. Although it is clear that the Diggers met with considerable opposition in Walton, it is suggested that there was some sympathy for them in Cobham, and that they should not be dismissed as outsiders in that parish.

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Evans, David Sidney. "The Civil War career of Major-General Edward Massey (1642-1647)." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1995. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-civil-war-career-of-majorgeneral-edward-massey-16421647(479e0416-3025-4c0f-8b45-2eb7936427e0).html.

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Kwok, Yeung Kwai-ming Hily, and 郭楊桂明. "A study of the adaptation of authentic materials for civil service English courses." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1993. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31956464.

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Rakoczy, Lila. "Archaeology of destruction : a reinterpretation of castle slightings in the English Civil War." Thesis, University of York, 2007. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/11092/.

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This thesis addresses the archaeology of destruction and the challenges and opportunities it presents to archaeologists. It primarily focuses on the recording, analysis, and interpretation of destroyed buildings, and how the overall life cycle of these buildings affects our understanding of the destruction evidence. At its core are two fundamental arguments. The first is that the deliberate destruction of a society's material culture is a complex social phenomenon with a variety of causes and effects, all of which deserve to be examined closely by the archaeological community. The second is that the methodological challenges posed are so complex that they require a multidisciplinary approach utilising a range of subjects including-but not limited to-history, structural and explosives engineering, building construction, and conservation. These themes are explored by looking at one particularly misunderstood type of destruction: the slighting of castles in the English Civil War, specifically between 1642 and 1660. While the word 'slighting' is generally used as a synonym for destruction, its application to castles has been problematic as interpretations of what this means vary widely. In the absence of a universally recognised definition, this thesis has provided one: the non-siege, intentional damage during times of war of high status buildings, their surrounding landscape or works, and/or their contents and features. In the course of expanding the definition of slighting, several common assumptions regarding the motivation for slighting are challenged. The most prevalent is that slighting was simply a fiscal and military policy by Parliament to save money and 'deny use to the enemy'. Instead, other social, religious, and political factors are shown to be equally if not more significant causes for destruction, including local rivalries, social climbing, gender tensions, property speculating, and religious turmoil. The conclusion is that communities both benefited and suffered from slighting, and played active roles in instigating, stopping, and interacting with the destruction in their midst.

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Kelly, Charles John. "English-speaking war correspondents of the Spanish Civil War : why was objectivity impossible?" Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/2145.

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Clear Blue Waters of the Danube was planned and drafted from October 2007 to December 2012. It is written from the perspective of Daniel Rourke, a young man whose life is changed forever by the arrival into the family home of Marija Kovač, a Croatian refugee. The wars leading to the break-up of Yugoslavia, notably the Croatian War of Independence from 1990-5 and the Bosnian Civil War from 1992-5, provide the novel's historical background. Preparation included interviews with conflict survivors, witnesses, soldiers who fought in the war, and those who were children during the fighting. Research visits to Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina took place during the summers of 2008 and 2009. I also drew upon conversations with former Yugoslav refugees from my time working in London during the 1990s and early 2000s. Other information was selected from biographies, historical records, documentary films, diaries and reports by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Although the novel notes the key moments of Yugoslavia's violent break-up, Clear Blue Waters of the Danube is not a political thriller. It follows a young man on a journey of self-discovery that takes him away from the family home, first to London, then across the Balkans. By establishing the truth about terrible incidents from the past, he comes to a greater understanding about himself and his previous behaviour. More importantly he is able to re-evaluate the relationship with his father that lies at the heart of everything he does, and in whose shadow he has always lived. The question of whether a writer is truly able to separate himself from his/her subject matter is investigated in greater depth throughout my critical project. Planned between October 2007 and June 2008 then written over the following two years, the perspectives of English-speaking war correspondents during the Spanish Civil War from 1936-1939 are examined. Newspaper articles, memoirs, biographies and films are scrutinised. Although the allegiances of British newspapers were split more or less evenly, the majority of writers and reporters supported the Republican effort and invested huge amounts of personal feeling into their work. For a war fought over such contrasting values, a degree of bias was perhaps inevitable. As I began my research, my aim was to investigate to what extent objectivity in such circumstances was even possible. If news reports bore the hallmarks of fiction, what then of the Spanish Civil War novel? The final part of the project deals with Ernest Hemingway and For Whom the Bell Tolls. As a journalist, Hemingway had engaged in propaganda on behalf of the Republic and readily accepted the weak evidence behind the denunciation of Republican dissidents. Following the war‟s conclusion, he returned to Cuba to write his novel of the Spanish Civil War, For Whom the Bell Tolls. Ironically having written newspaper reports to spread misinformation, he elected to use the form of a novel to reveal his version of what had actually happened. Can fiction reveal the 'truth' about events when supposedly non-fiction texts cannot? My thesis asks fundamental questions about why we write and what we choose to write about. Can any writer truly separate him/herself from the subject matter? Can our understanding ever be full and free from bias and prejudice? Or do a writer's values permeate the work to the extent that, whether a newspaper article or a novel is written, genuine objectivity becomes impossible? Is the quest for objectivity a desirable or realistic aspiration?

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McGruer, Ann Canavan. "Arguments for educational advancement and reform during the English Civil War and Interregnum." Thesis, Keele University, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.507943.

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Gladwish, Paul Norman. "The sales of confiscated properties after the English Civil War in five counties." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2002. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272015.

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Saunders, James Benedict John. "English cathedral choirs and choirmen, 1558 to the Civil War : an occupational study." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1997. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/271956.

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Chakravarty, Prasanta. ""Like parchment in the fire" : literature and radicalism in the English Civil war /." New York : Routledge, 2006. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb401679540.

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Rosenbaum, Eve Esther. "Bringing daylight with them: American writers and Civil War Washington." Diss., University of Iowa, 2014. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5990.

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Bringing Daylight with Them: American Writers and Civil War Washington explores the capital during wartime, a city remade by the thousands of new residents and visitors searching for government jobs, for their loved ones in the city's numerous military hospitals, or for a place to escape the bonds of Southern slavery. Among those who made their new homes in the city were writers - poets, novelists, journalists, editors - who then wrote about their experiences and their new city in ways that helped readers see for themselves what Washington was like during the Civil War. This project examines three of those writers - Elizabeth Keckley, Lois Bryan Adams, and Walt Whitman - who produced drastically different takes on the capital and their places in it. For Keckley, a former slave turned dressmaker to Washington's most fashionable women, including Mary Todd Lincoln, the capital was a labyrinth of power and influence. Learning to navigate it was vital to her status as a business woman in the growing free Black community. Adams, a Michigan poet and journalist, was a correspondent for a Detroit newspaper and a clerk in the Department of Agriculture. Her weekly "Letter from Washington" captured the movement and flow of a city made riotous, while coming to terms with the sacrifices of war and questioning a government's responsibility to its citizens during wartime. While so many writers represented Washington as a temporary space for themselves, as it was for so many who found themselves in the capital during the Civil War, Whitman lived there for nearly a decade, experiencing both the rush of war and what came after. Through a study of his poetry and prose, Washington emerges as not just the government seat but ultimately as a place of personal and professional fulfillment. Bringing Daylight with Them reads both the texts of wartime Washington and the city itself to understand how writers built the capital in the public's imagination.

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Kuebrich, Benjamin D. "Praxis and Unfinishedness in the Public Turn: Critical Democratic Pedagogy and Civic Engagement in First-Year Composition." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1218587537.

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Kuok, On Nei Maria do Rosario. "An english language needs analysis of civil engineering students at the University of Macau." Thesis, University of Macau, 2006. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b1637013.

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Lam, Siu-ming Sharman, and 林少明. "A study of the use of written English in the Hong Kong civil service." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1987. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31949095.

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Lam, Siu-ming Sharman. "A study of the use of written English in the Hong Kong civil service." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1987. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31949095.

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Coates, Ben. "The impact of the English Civil War on the economy of London, 1642-1650." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/31024.

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The purpose of this thesis is to ask to what extent and in what ways the economy of London was affected by the English Civil War. This will be placed in the context of the evolution of London's economy and society in the 16th and 17th centuries. Comparisons with the impact of the Civil War on the economy of other parts of England will be made. The focus will be on the short term effects of the Civil War. In the first part of the thesis the impact on the economy of London of Parliamentary taxation, loans and contracts for Parliament's war effort will be assessed, as well as the policies of economic blockade pursued by the belligerents. Subsequently the impact of disruption brought about by the English Civil War on the major props of the London economy will be examined, namely London's role in the internal and external trades of England, and manufacturing in London. It will be argued that the Civil War caused a major economic crisis in London partly because the economy of the metropolis rested on its interrelationship with the rest of England, and also because of its function as the capital as the centre for the social and economic networks of the kingdom. The Civil War disrupted those networks. However, the impact of the war was limited because the disruption of the national economic networks was partial, and because different aspects were disrupted at different times.

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Hayajneh, Abdelnaser Zeyad. "Civil liability for environmental damage : a comparative study between Jordanian and English legal systems." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/3119.

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As environmental degradation continues to grow and presents fatal misfortunes to humankind and nature, efforts have been made to prevent and restore environmental damage as well as compensate its victims. A considerable debate was launched to discuss and figure out how this problem could be best handled. In the centre of this debate was the role of the law and its potential application to protect the environment and compensate victims of environmental damage. A critical question in this context was the role of civil liability. This thesis attempts to investigate the role and application of civil liability rules in environmental damage cases both in the UK and Jordan. The significance of this study lies in the fact that the UK is considered to be the mother of the common law system where courts play a crucial role in forming and revising the law, whereas Jordan follow the Latin or civil law system where the role of courts assimilates in applying the applicable law to cases brought before it. This thesis consists of six chapters through which, the issue of civil liability has been examined where environmental damage is in question. This analysis is made in the hope that it will reveal the different aspects of efficiency and deficiency attached to tort law when used to remediate environmental damage and compensate its victims. The thesis reveals that, civil liability as it stands now does not fit in an environmental context, and there will be an urgent need for reform whether in adapting traditional rules of civil liability to cope with the complications involved in environmental damage cases, or to abandon traditional civil liability rules, and introduce a liability regime to handle the issue of restoration and compensation in environmental damage cases.

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Coates, Ben. "The impact of the English Civil War on the economy of London, 1642-50 /." Aldershot ; Burlington (Vt.) : Ashgate, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39934501g.

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Allen, John David. "Restrained with the Civil Sword: Spenser's "Maye" Eclogue and Donne's "Third Satyre" in the Context of the English Reformation." W&M ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625741.

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Fielding, John. "Conformists, puritans and the church courts : the diocese of Peterborough, 1603-1642." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313470.

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Ramser, Dean Albert. "An Analysis of First-Year College English Composition Course Syllabi about Civic Learning/Community Engagement as a Learning Tool." Thesis, California State University, Los Angeles, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10845955.

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Supporting students transitioning from high school into college continues to be a challenge for many academics and policy makers. In this conceptual content analysis study, first-year composition (FYC) course syllabi were examined based on Kuh’s (2008) High-Impact Practices (HIP) and the Association of American Colleges and Universities’ (AAC & U) rubric and HIP tenets: Civic Learning and Community Engagement that focused on writing assignments, activities, and projects embedded within selected syllabi. Specifically, this study analyzed ten FYC syllabi at one urban, public, four-year university in Southern California during the 2015–2016 academic year. Using Dedoose (2016) the researcher deconstructed the syllabi, identifying two themes: Pedagogical and Conceptual. Overall findings indicate that more FYC course syllabi embedded the Pedagogical theme (88 occurrences) than the Conceptual theme (64 occurrences). While the university’s mission statement suggests Civic Learning and Community Engagement tenets for FYC students, the essence of the Conceptual theme, FYC syllabi embedded more evidence of the Pedagogical theme. It is hoped that HIP practices have the opportunity to minimize further marginalization of students in need of developmental composition support and construct critical thinking, civic learning, and community engagement in citizens during an age when civic leaders are needed the most.

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Worton, Jonathan. "The Royalist and Parliamentarian war effort in Shropshire during the First and Second English Civil Wars, 1642-1648." Thesis, University of Chester, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10034/612966.

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Addressing the military organisation of both Royalists and Parliamentarians, the subject of this thesis is an examination of war effort during the mid-seventeenth century English Civil Wars by taking the example of Shropshire. The county was contested during the First Civil War of 1642-6 and also saw armed conflict on a smaller scale during the Second Civil War of 1648. This detailed study provides a comprehensive bipartisan analysis of military endeavour, in terms of organisation and of the engagements fought. Drawing on numerous primary sources, it explores: leadership and administration; recruitment and the armed forces; military finance; supply and logistics; and the nature and conduct of the fighting. The extent of military activity in Shropshire is explained for the first time, informing the history of the conflict there while reflecting on the nature of warfare across Civil War England. It shows how local Royalist and Parliamentarian activists and 'outsider' leaders provided direction, while the populace widely was involved in the administrative and material tasks of war effort. The war in Shropshire was mainly fought between the opposing county-based forces, but with considerable external military support. Similarly, fiscal and military assets were obtained locally and from much further afield. Attritional war in Shropshire from 1643 to 1646 involved the occupying Royalists engaging Parliamentarian inroads, in fighting the garrison warfare characteristic of the period. Although the outcome of both wars in Shropshire was determined by wider national events, in 1646 and again in 1648 the defeat of the county Royalists was due largely to their local Parliamentarian adversaries. Broadening this study to 1648 has provided insight into Parliamentarian county administration during the short interwar period.

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Hayduk, Ulf Christoph. "Hopeful Politics: The Interregnum Utopias." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/703.

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The period of English history between the second Civil War and the Restoration opened up seemingly unlimited possibilities for shaping the country's future. The period likewise witnessed an unprecedented surge of political imagination, a development which is particularly visible in Interregnum utopianism. More than ever before, utopianism orientates itself to a hopeful and expectant reality. It is no longer fictional or contemplative. Its ambitions and fulfilment are political; there is a drive towards active political participation. Utopianism reshapes its former boundaries and reinvents itself as reality utopianism. Considering this new reality-orientated identity, the utopias of the 1650s are especially useful in providing an insight into the political imagination of this period. This thesis studies three reality utopias of the 1650s: Winstanley's The Law of Freedom, Harrington's Oceana and Hobbes's Leviathan. Each work represents a uniquely different utopian vision: Winstanley imagines an agrarian communism, Harrington revives classical republicanism, and Hobbes stresses absolute sovereignty. These three different utopian visions not only illustrate the range of the political imagination; they provide an opportunity to examine different ways to deal with the existing political and social concerns of the Interregnum and different perspectives for ideal solutions. Interregnum utopianism is shaped by the expectations and violence of the English Revolution and accordingly it is characterised by the heightened hopes and fears of its time. Despite substantial differences in the three utopias, the elemental hopes and fears expressed in these works remain similar. The hope for change and a better future is negotiated textually with a fear of anarchy and violence. In the end a compromise between opportunity and security has to be found. It is this compromise that shapes the face of Interregnum utopianism and reflects a major aspect of the post-revolutionary political imagination in England.

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Hayduk, Ulf Christoph. "Hopeful Politics: The Interregnum Utopias." University of Sydney. English, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/703.

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The period of English history between the second Civil War and the Restoration opened up seemingly unlimited possibilities for shaping the country�s future. The period likewise witnessed an unprecedented surge of political imagination, a development which is particularly visible in Interregnum utopianism. More than ever before, utopianism orientates itself to a hopeful and expectant reality. It is no longer fictional or contemplative. Its ambitions and fulfilment are political; there is a drive towards active political participation. Utopianism reshapes its former boundaries and reinvents itself as reality utopianism. Considering this new reality-orientated identity, the utopias of the 1650s are especially useful in providing an insight into the political imagination of this period. This thesis studies three reality utopias of the 1650s: Winstanley�s The Law of Freedom, Harrington�s Oceana and Hobbes�s Leviathan. Each work represents a uniquely different utopian vision: Winstanley imagines an agrarian communism, Harrington revives classical republicanism, and Hobbes stresses absolute sovereignty. These three different utopian visions not only illustrate the range of the political imagination; they provide an opportunity to examine different ways to deal with the existing political and social concerns of the Interregnum and different perspectives for ideal solutions. Interregnum utopianism is shaped by the expectations and violence of the English Revolution and accordingly it is characterised by the heightened hopes and fears of its time. Despite substantial differences in the three utopias, the elemental hopes and fears expressed in these works remain similar. The hope for change and a better future is negotiated textually with a fear of anarchy and violence. In the end a compromise between opportunity and security has to be found. It is this compromise that shapes the face of Interregnum utopianism and reflects a major aspect of the post-revolutionary political imagination in England.

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Weiss, David S. "Samuel Daniel's 'First Four Books of the Civil Wars' and Shakespeare's early history plays." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2018. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/8165/.

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Literary scholars agree that William Shakespeare used Samuel Daniel's First Four Books of the Civil Wars as a source for his play Richard II, launching an interaction between the authors that lasted for many years. What has not been recognized, however, is that they may have influenced each other's works on English history before the publication of Daniel's epic poem. Textual, bibliographical and biographical evidence suggests that Daniel borrowed from some of Shakespeare's earliest works, the Henry VI plays, while writing The First Four Books, and that Shakespeare could have used a pre-publication manuscript of The Civil Wars to write Richard II. A review of extant versions of The Civil Wars, the Henry VI plays and Richard II reveals a complex relationship between the authors as they wrote and revised works on the Wars of the Roses while both had connections to the Countess of Pembroke and the Earl of Essex. This analysis illuminates the works while disclosing one of the first instances of Shakespeare's plays inspiring another artist, challenging images of Daniel as a poet who disdained theater and Shakespeare as a playwright who cared only about the popularity of his works on stage.

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Ali, Holi. "Omani engineering students' experiences of learning through the medium of English." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2018. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/34548/.

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The focus and the overarching aims of the study are to investigate Omani engineering students’ perceptions of their learning experiences and the challenges which they face due to English being the medium of instruction in colleges of technology in Oman, as well as the strategies which they use to overcome their difficulties. This study also examines the views of engineering, EAP and subject teachers in Oman concerning the skills and attributes which they consider to be important for their students to succeed. Qualitative and interpretative methodologies were combined with a multi-theoretical framework to elicit the students’ experiences and perceptions of study through English as the Medium of Instruction (EMI) provision as well as their responses to it. The data for the study was generated and gathered through semi-structured interviews, observations and the review of course-related documents. The study revealed that the participating students generally held positive views towards EMI, mostly on the basis that it would help them to improve their language skills, which would in turn enhance their employability. The students, however, encountered many EMI-related and non-EMI-related challenges. The most common problems related to lecture comprehension, oral and written communication, and discipline specific issues. Students developed a range of coping strategies, one of the most common being translanguaging. The study indicates that there are a number of issues which need to be considered to improve the in-sessional EAP courses in relation to EMI-related challenges. The interviews highlighted the role and importance of subject teachers in helping students. Engineering students need an array of skills and attributes to function well in engineering programmes taught through the medium of English, including sophisticated communication skills, transferable skills, critical thinking, resilience, flexibility and the appropriate language skills. The study underlines a need to review the pre-college schooling system and foundation programmes in Oman if they are to effectively prepare students for English-medium college programmes. It is also recommended that training to teach through the medium of English should be included in the induction process for new subject teachers in Omani colleges of technology.

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