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Table of contents 1. The politics of health care reform in the 103rd Congress: A systems analysis 2. Spectacles of Faith: Technology, religion, and modern American fictions 3. Manners of speaking: Linguistic capital and the rhetoric of correctness in late-nineteenth-century America 4. Without mincing words: Presidential rhetoric in the late Cold War era, 1977-1992 5. Generic transgressions: Gender, genre, and hybridity in American science fiction television 6. Theatrical Spectatorship in the United States and Soviet Union, 1921-1936: A Cognitive Approach to Comedy, Identity, and Nation 7. Futurebodies: Octavia Butler as post-colonial cyborg theorist 8. An uncertain poetics of the intoxicated narrative: Drugs, detection, denouement 9. Light, bright, and out of sight: Hollywood's representation of the tragic mulatto 10. Refusing mothers: The dystopic maternal in contemporary American women's literature 11. Race in the Crucible of War: African American Soldiers and Race Relations in the "Nam" 12. Whom we shall welcome: Immigration reform during the Great Society 13. 98.6: Fevers, fertility, and the patient labor of American medicine 14. Mechanics and the essence of technology 15. "Lost in the Master's Mansion": How the Mainstream Media Have Marginalized Alternative Theories of the JFK Assassination 16. Working in the belly of the beast: The productive intellectual labor of US prison writers, 1929-2007 17. "Gasps of Violet Ink:" Female Adolescence, Personal Archives, and Movie Fandom in the United States during the 1910s 18. The politics of community development: A history of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation 19. Discourses of Liberation within African American Literary Culture of the Cold War: Lorraine Hansberry's and James Baldwin's Articulations of Social, Political, and Ideological Freedoms 20. Gospel of giving: The philanthropy of Madam C.J. Walker, 1867-1919 21. Politicians Behaving Badly: The Determinants and Outcomes of Political Scandal in Post-Watergate America 22. American Studies, the Soviet Union: A Cultural History of US-Soviet Encounters through the Cold War 23. Sumptuous soul: The music of Donny Hathaway everything is everything Donny Hathaway, 1970 24. Playing for their share: A history of creative tradeswomen in eighteenth century Virginia 25. Sovereign spirits: Debtors, rebels, and radicals in early American print ____________________________________________________________ Document 1 of 25 The politics of health care reform in the 103rd Congress: A systems analysis Author: Jackson, Alice Maud http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/d ocview/304257030?accountid=14709 Abstract: This study addressed the question "why did health care reform fail in the 103rd Congress?" Although the issue was thought to be most timely, several factors in the legislative process prevented the drafting of a final bill. It was theorized that health care reform failed because of five interrelated reasons: (1) lack of strong presidential and bureaucratic leadership; (2) negative public opinion polls; (3) the work and actions of interest groups; (4) ineffective congressional party leadership; and (5) lack of partisan solidarity. To understand factors which contributed to the failure of the Clinton proposal, it was necessary to use certain parts of the legislative system approach models. These are the classic methodological approaches to study political activity. The systems approach model by David Easton includes the environmental factors. The legislative system segment model postulated by Malcolm E. Jewell and Samuel C. Patterson utilized the legislative subsystem as the major unit of analysis. This model includes the presidency, the constituency, interest groups, political parties and the legislature as participants in the legislative process. Data were gathered from Congressional Quarterly Weekly Reports from November 1992 through September 1994, the CQ Almanac for the 103rd Congress, and articles from The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal for the same period. Testimonies from committee hearings, public opinion polls conducted by The Washington Post/ABC News and The New York Times/CBS in 1992-1994, and party platforms from 1968-1992 were examined. The dissertation is organized into seven Chapters. The first, introduces the issue, states the hypothesis, reviews the literature and discusses the methodological approaches. Subsequent Chapters describe the environment, the presidency, constituents and pressure groups, political parties and the legislature. Chapter 7 contains the summary, conclusions and recommendations. Principal findings of the study are that the lack of strong presidential and bureaucratic leadership; negative public opinion polls; the work and actions of interest groups; ineffective congressional party leadership; and the lack of partisan solidarity in the 103rd Congress caused health care reform to fail. The study concludes with recommendations for future proponents of health reform and future researchers. 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Number of pages: 371 Publication year: 1996 Degree date: 1996 School code: 0088 Source: DAI-A 57/08, p. 3659, Feb 1997 Place of publication: Ann Arbor Country of publication: United States ISBN: 9780591071047, 0591071045 University/institution: Howard University University location: United States -- District of Columbia Degree: Ph.D. Source type: Dissertations & Theses Language: English Document type: Dissertation/Thesis Dissertation/thesis number: 9700808 ProQuest document ID: 304257030 Document URL: http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/d ocview/304257030?accountid=14709 Copyright: Copyright UMI - Dissertations Publishing 1996 Database: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global ____________________________________________________________ Document 2 of 25 Spectacles of Faith: Technology, religion, and modern American fictions Author: Hamner, Everett Lance http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/d ocview/1654998734?accountid=14709 Abstract: According to early secularization theory, science and religion were necessarily enemies. As new technologies appeared, the story went, concomitant expansions in human knowledge would eliminate religious superstition. Instead, the lines between these categories have only become more blurred. This dissertation finds twentieth century American literature and cinema critiquing facile science-religion oppositions and conflations, while also suggesting new possibilities for integration. Examining novels by Sinclair Lewis, Ralph Ellison, Walker Percy, and Ursula K. Le Guin, as well as films by U.S. and Latin American directors, the project seeks to better understand the unique capacities of science and religion. At the same time, it shows how attending to this nexus reframes our broader understanding of American literature, shedding new light particularly on connections between racial and religious violence. Examining narratives from widely varying ideological, ethnic, geographical, sexual, and national perspectives, the study fords a gradual twentieth century expansion from absolute oppositions of fundamentalism and scientism toward an assimilatory civil religion, and then toward more productive integrations of material and spiritual concepts enabled by quantum physics and postmodern theology. Ultimately, Spectacles of Faith sees modern American fiction treating science and religion not as mutually exclusive sources of final knowledge, but as constantly intersecting fields equally founded on historical, linguistic, and interpersonal subjectivity. Along the way, the project indicates how attempted integrations of the material and the spiritual shaped and were shaped by the twentieth century's developments in civil rights, suburbia, feminism, and popular media. Following where fiction leads, the final product contributes to a larger scholarly movement that is reassessing relationships between the religious and the secular more broadly. Links: http://RT4RF9QN2Y.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ver=Z3