The Use of Hand Gestures and Smiles in the Inaugural Addresses of Presidents of the United States

2002 ◽  
Vol 142 (5) ◽  
pp. 670-672 ◽  
Author(s):  
George I. Whitehead ◽  
Stephanie H. Smith
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Hand Gestures ◽  
Inaugural Addresses

Values in Presidential Inaugural Addresses: A Test of Rokeach's Two-Factor Theory of Political Ideology

1984 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 683-686 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Mahoney ◽  
Constance L. Coogle ◽  
P. David Banks
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
The United States ◽  
Underlying Factor ◽  
Inaugural Addresses ◽  
Political Ideologies

Values expressed in the inaugural addresses of the presidents of the United States were hypothesized to reflect an underlying factor structure characterized by historical value citations of “Freedom” and “Equality,” identified by Rokeach in 1973 as relevant to major political ideologies. A positive emphasis on both values yields a socialistic perspective, while rejection of both values generates fascism. Capitalism endorses “freedom” but rejects “equality,” while an emphasis on “equality” to the exclusion of “freedom” reflects Communism. Blind raters (with interrater reliabilities of .88 to .92) content analyzed the 50 inaugural addresses of 40 presidents, from Washington through Reagan, with reference to eight values (economy, equality, freedom, justice, morality, peace, power, and religion) identified as historically consistent themes in inaugural addresses. Factor analysis yielded two basic dimensions clearly identifiable as “Freedom” and “Equality,” lending substantial support to Rokeach's findings.

scholarly journals The Use of Language Aspects as Rhetorical Devices in Obama’s Inaugural Addresses

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Widya Oktarini
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Figurative Language ◽  
The United States ◽  
C Language ◽  
Verbal Language ◽  
Rhetorical Devices ◽  
Inaugural Addresses ◽  
Informal Method ◽  
Language Styles ◽  
Negative Connotation

This research analyzes language aspects as rhetorical devices in inaugural addresses of the presidents of The United States, Barack H. Obama. Specifically, this research aims at describing the use of diction and language style found in the inaugural addresses. This research is descriptive qualitative using discourse analysis approach. In collecting the data, it uses listening method and note-taking technique. In analyzing the data, it uses contextual method by using socio-pragmatics theory. In presenting the result of the analysis, it uses informal method by verbal language. The result of analysis show: the use of language aspects found in inaugural addresses of Obama includes: (a) diction which includes the positive and negative connotation, (b) reference which includes inclusive and exclusive references, (c) language styles includes inclusive and exclusive references, (d) language styles includes repetition (e) the use of figurative language includes metaphor.

Correlative microscopy in distrubuted (client/server) computing environments: tools for catalyzing the rapid dissemination of information about the cell biology of the human prostate

1995 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 682-683
Author(s):  
A. Hakam ◽  
J.T. Gau ◽  
M.L. Grove ◽  
B.A. Evans ◽  
M. Shuman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Tissue Bank ◽  
The United States ◽  
Prostate Adenocarcinoma ◽  
Correlative Microscopy ◽  
Client Server ◽  
Critical Elements ◽  
Transplant Organ

Prostate adenocarcinoma is the most common malignant tumor of men in the United States and is the third leading cause of death in men. Despite attempts at early detection, there will be 244,000 new cases and 44,000 deaths from the disease in the United States in 1995. Therapeutic progress against this disease is hindered by an incomplete understanding of prostate epithelial cell biology, the availability of human tissues for in vitro experimentation, slow dissemination of information between prostate cancer research teams and the increasing pressure to “ stretch” research dollars at the same time staff reductions are occurring.To meet these challenges, we have used the correlative microscopy (CM) and client/server (C/S) computing to increase productivity while decreasing costs. Critical elements of our program are as follows:1) Establishing the Western Pennsylvania Genitourinary (GU) Tissue Bank which includes >100 prostates from patients with prostate adenocarcinoma as well as >20 normal prostates from transplant organ donors.

Digital image acquisition, processing, and analysis in a polymer microscopy laboratory

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 454-455
Author(s):  
Vinod K. Berry ◽  
Xiao Zhang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Image Analysis ◽  
Digital Image ◽  
Image Acquisition ◽  
Image Transmission ◽  
The United States ◽  
Quantitative Image Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Image

In recent years it became apparent that we needed to improve productivity and efficiency in the Microscopy Laboratories in GE Plastics. It was realized that digital image acquisition, archiving, processing, analysis, and transmission over a network would be the best way to achieve this goal. Also, the capabilities of quantitative image analysis, image transmission etc. available with this approach would help us to increase our efficiency. Although the advantages of digital image acquisition, processing, archiving, etc. have been described and are being practiced in many SEM, laboratories, they have not been generally applied in microscopy laboratories (TEM, Optical, SEM and others) and impact on increased productivity has not been yet exploited as well.In order to attain our objective we have acquired a SEMICAPS imaging workstation for each of the GE Plastic sites in the United States. We have integrated the workstation with the microscopes and their peripherals as shown in Figure 1.

Silence of the Land: On the Historical Irrelevance of Territory to Congressional Districting and Political Representation in the United States

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (01) ◽  
pp. 53-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Rehfeld
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
House Of Representatives ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Representative Government ◽  
Congressional District ◽  
Congressional Districts ◽  
Communities Of Interest

Every ten years, the United States “constructs” itself politically. On a decennial basis, U.S. Congressional districts are quite literally drawn, physically constructing political representation in the House of Representatives on the basis of where one lives. Why does the United States do it this way? What justifies domicile as the sole criteria of constituency construction? These are the questions raised in this article. Contrary to many contemporary understandings of representation at the founding, I argue that there were no principled reasons for using domicile as the method of organizing for political representation. Even in 1787, the Congressional district was expected to be far too large to map onto existing communities of interest. Instead, territory should be understood as forming a habit of mind for the founders, even while it was necessary to achieve other democratic aims of representative government.

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