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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Appalachian Studies"”.
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Appalachian studies in grades 6-12 language arts and English curricula in central Appalachia
… this study are to determine the extent to which Appalachian studies courses or units have become part of the middle and secondary public school English curricula in Central Appalachia and, in relation to these courses, to describe content and learning activities, to assess the effectiveness of …
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Constructing colonialism: medicine, technology, and the frontier nursing service
… influenced interactions of FNS employees and the Appalachians who lived in the area served by them. A case study concerning the clinical trials of the birth control pi11, Enovid, is used to highlight in influence of colonial constructions and mentalities in convincing the trial's investigators …
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Salamanders and Science: Place-based Environmental Education in Rural Appalachia
… in a geographically isolated area of the Appalachian Mountains. The over-arching research question in this study is: how does a Field School program in Appalachia use a place-based environmental education approach to teach students about their local community and environmental issues, …
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The only light shot out as usual: Defining an Appalachian Grotesque
… white persists, the question becomes: how can Appalachian peoples access these negative images as tools of resistance, reformation, and community making? How does an American gothic find home in Appalachian narratives? This project explores clashes between national othering and local othering …
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Recreating and Deconstructing the Shifting Politics of (Bluegrass) Festivals
Utilizing archival research from Berea College's Appalachian Sound Archives and Appalachian State University's Belk Special Collection, more than 45 survey results, 15 extensive interviews, and participant observations from 15 festival field sites, I examine bluegrass festivals as sites of identity …
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Appalachian Regionalism: Reimagining Modernism on the Periphery of American Art
“Appalachian Regionalism: Reimagining Modernism on the Periphery of American Art,” defines and contextualizes the distinctive regional contributions of Appalachian culture to American art production. To further diversify the range of art historical study, my dissertation proposes that from the mid …
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Asking Appalachia: Appalachian English in the Writing Classroom
… the need for better educational practices for Appalachian students. A problem is first established that, because of how Appalachian people and their culture are represented in the media, negative stereotypes are spread about those from the region who are easily identified by their use of …
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Three-Dimensional Analysis of the Development of Upper Arm Musculoskeletal Stress Markers in Late Adolescents and Young Adults of Archaic and Mississippian Populations of Tennessee
<p>This study compares three methods for the evaluation of morphology of musculoskeletal attachment sites. Two methods were macroscopic and the third was microscopic, utilizing three-dimensional laser scanning and fractal analysis The morphology of 19 upper limb attachment sites was observed in 33 …
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Kingdom Come: Stories of Modern Appalachia
<p>This thesis is collection of stories about several diverse residents of modern Appalachia, more specifically the rural mountains of Eastern Kentucky and Southern West Virginia.</p>
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The Return of the Dead: Resurrecting Chappell's Family Gathering
<p>This thesis examines Fred Chappell’s virtually overlooked collection of poetry <em>Family Gathering </em>(2000), and how the poems operate within the mode of the grotesque. I argue that the poems illuminate both the southern grotesque and Roland Barthes’s theory of photography’s <em>Operator, …
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Exploitation of Land and Labor in Appalachia: The Manipulation of Men in Ann Pancake's Strange as this Weather Has Been
… way the coal mining industry has affected the Appalachian people and land. The novel reflects natural ecofeminism, which views the connection between women and nature in essentialist terms. This outdated mode of ecofeminism leads to a reinforcement of gender stereotypes and a misrepresentation …
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SHAKE YA ASS, BUT WATCH YOURSELF: AN INTERSECTIONAL AND DECOLONIAL APPROACH TO EXPLORING THE SEXUALIZATION OF FEMALE RECORDING ARTISTS AND THE EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES
<p>This dissertation, titled Shake Ya Ass, But Watch Yourself: An Intersectional and Decolonial Approach to Exploring the Sexualization of Female Recording Artists and the Empowerment of Women in the United States, critically examines the phenomenon of sexualization of women in the music industry …