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Showing 1 to 20 of 649 for “"Allison"”.
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Force and the United States after Vietnam: Allison applied
… Politics paradigm proposed by Graham Allison. To test the explanatory power of this decision making model in the post-Vietnam era, this thesis applies the specific propositions of Graham Allison's "Governmental Politics Model" concerning the use of military force, to selected case …
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Music Education in Prince George's County, Maryland, From 1950 to 1992: An Oral History Account of Three Prominent Music Educators and Their Times
… George's County, MarylandLeRoy Battle, Maurice Allison, and Dorothy Pickardwhose careers from 1950 to 1992 spanned the period of school desegregation and its aftermath. The professional lives of Battle, Allison, and Pickard, their philosophies of teaching, and the instructional strategies they …
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Cheat River
… self-preservation. That is what's at stake for Allison and Andrew McKenna, a pair of siblings in rural Appalachia who must endure their father's abandonment and their pregnant mother's breakdown. At first, the two find solace from their parents' problems on the banks of the river from which the …
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Mad Dog Nutrition Program Consult: A Qualitative approach to Perceptions of Task and Barrier Self-Efficacy, and Long-term Adherence
… can benefit from an anti-inflammatory diet (Allison & Ditor, 2015; Allison et al., 2016). Although able to reduce inflammation and improve other health related measures, adherence to the diet was substantially lower one year later (Allison & Ditor, 2018). Investigation into factors impacting …
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Weighing in on teacher attitudes of obese students: a descriptive correlational design
… were: (a) Attitudes Toward Obese Persons Scale (Allison, Basile, & Yuker, 1991) (b) Beliefs About Obese Persons (Allison et al., 1991); and (c) Rosenberg Self-Esteem Survey (Rosenberg, 1965). The sample size was 893 certified educators representing all grade levels in Central, Northern, and …
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Scatterbrain
<p>Praised by poet Allison Joseph (Confessions of a Bare-faced Woman) for its range of imagery and subject matter, SCATTERBRAIN explores the many shapes loss can take; from the loss of childhood, autonomy, and identity, to the simple sting of the everyday ways we lose our minds. </p>
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From the Shadows: a Collection of Flute Music by Living Black American Composers
… Pied Piper of Harlem for solo flute (1980) 2. Allison Loggins-Hull, Homeland for solo flute (2018) 3. Brian Raphael Nabors, Énergie for flute and fixed-format electronics (2015) 4. Allison Loggins-Hull, Pray for flute and electronics (2010) 5. Brian Raphael Nabors, Theme and Variations for Alto …
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British Dialect for the American Stage
… The Cocktail Party by T.S. Eliot performed by Allison Gregory, beginning with Received Pronunciation, transitioning to Cockney, and then to Estuary.
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The Hat
<p>The Hat is a story about a young woman, Allison, an art teacher in Albuquerque, who goes to Chicago around the winter holidays for the funeral of her stepfather Vince, who has died suddenly of a stroke. Adding to the tension is the approach of Christmas, supposedly a happy time, and the vivid …
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Free solution electrophoresis measurements and their theoretical relationships to net protein valence
… more recent boundary element (BE) modeling by Allison with experimental results.</p><p>The electrophoretic behavior of a macroion is affected in a complex manner by a variety of forces which arise from the applied field. Coupling of the macro-ion and small ion flows gives rise to non-conserved …
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Skinning the Deer: A Love Story
… by the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Dorothy Allison, and Salman Rushdie, Skinning the Deer weaves together magical realism, trauma narrative, and myth; it is a novel about sexuality, betrayal, and what we sacrifice for redemption.
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Examining <em>Wonder Woman</em> through a Feminist Voice: How Patty Jenkins’ 2017 Adaptation Upheaved her Creation, Representation, and 80 Year Legacy
… <em>Wonder Woman: Ambassador of Truth</em>, Allison Harvey’s <em>Feminist Media Studies</em> and other scholarship as well as reviews of the film and articles pertaining to the feminist movement Patty Jenkins portrays in the film. First, I will explore Wonder Woman’s Creation and Intent. …
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Salt In The Deep Marine
<p>ABSTRACT</p> <p>Rachel Allison Bollinger: Salt in the Deep Marine</p> <p>(Under the direction of Dr. Christine Butterworth-McDermott and Dr. John McDermott)</p> <p>The surface tension present between liquid and air is due to the fact that liquid molecules are highly attractive to one another. …
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I eat shit food and am not worthy: Negotiating the queer weight of "white trash" embodiment in Dorothy Allison's Corpus
This thesis argues that Dorothy Allison’s work—and specifically the women who hate me (1983), Trash (1988), and Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature (1994)—explores the unexpected alliances and radical difference and desire produced by interactions between fatness, queerness, and “white …
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Failure in the Writer's Journey: How New College Composition Instructors Experience Failure as Writers
… in writing, but as composition scholar Allison Carr has argued, this narrative masks the complex emotional landscape that renders failure a profoundly affective and transformative experience for writers. This qualitative case study uses phenomenography and mindset theory to analyze the …
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Some Major Figures of Speech in the "De Beata Vita” of St. Augustine
… |The following texts have been used: Ruth Allison Brown; P. E. Tourscher, O.S.A. Other works are given in the bibliography.
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Licking behavior as a function of deprivation, stimulus quality and experience in rats
… of the stimulus solution. Furthermore, Allison (1971) and our own pilot work have shown that these components can show "differential fractionation,” to borrow a term from the Classical Conditioning literature. This simply means that these components, although closely interrelated, may …
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Identification of grapevine Pectate Lyase genes altering Berry Texture during ripening
… full ripening (E-L 38). The commercial cultivar ‘Allison’ was selected as a representative firm variety, whereas ‘Misket Dunavski’ and ‘Rosina’ were chosen as soft table grape varieties, in order to perform analysis in contrasting phenotypes. The gene expression of VviPL14 and VviPL16 were higher …
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Pocket Monsters And Pirate Treasure: Fantasy And Social Platforms In The 21st Century
… from three major theorists: Thomas LaMarre, Anne Allison, and Ian Condry as well as major anthropological theorists such as Pierre Bourdieu. As an ethnography, the project was split into two sections: one consisting of interviews with eight anime-manga subculture participants drawn primarily from …
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