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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Barbed wire"”.
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tree also barbed wire
This manuscript contains poems.
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Brewing Behind Barbed Wire: An Archaeology of Saké at Amache
<p>After the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, approximately 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry living on the west coast of the United States were forcibly removed from their home communities. These people were designated as "evacuees" by the U.S. Government and were …
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Barbed Wire Fever: On Seeking and Providing Refuge (Creative Non-Fiction)
Barbed Wire Fever: On Seeking and Providing Refuge is a work of creative nonfiction that explores my father’s memories of his years as a Holocaust survivor and refugee during the Second World War, my memory of how my father tried to articulate those memories, and how non-refugees responded to and …
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"Our Barbed Wire Ivory Tower": Republican and Irish Republican Army Prison Writing, 1973-1999
<p>A critique of the notion that both prisons and prison literature are monolithic entities, this dissertation demonstrates the shaping power of individual historical moment and physical conditions of confinement upon the literary production of political incarceration in the North of Ireland. …
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Vanishing Voices: The Impact of Life Behind the Barbed Wire on World War II Prisoners of War
… who experienced life on the wrong side of the barbed wire: my father, the late William Austin Burgess, formerly of Hinesville, Georgia; C. Neill Baylor, of Vidalia, Georgia; Herman Cranman, of Savannah, Georgia; and Robert Waldrop, of Beaufort, South Carolina. The impetus for this exploration …
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Novel molecular architectures from iptycene polymers
… a novel chain architecture called molecular barbed wire. This molecular barbed wire architecture not only influences individual polymer chain dynamics but also induces lateral interactions between polymer chains through the minimization of internal molecular free volume. Work began by …
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The role and image of the police in a post apartheid era
… they serve. This wall, although not topped by barbed wire and embedded sliver of glass, still accomplishes the undesirable effect of thwarting communication between police and their communities."
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Essays on the development of the American economy
… development from the introduction of barbed wire fencing to the American Plains in the late 19th century. Farmers were required to construct fences to be entitled to compensation for damage by others' livestock. From 1880 to 1900, the introduction and universal adoption of barbed wire …
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Fences & Fault-lines, Deadfalls & Snares
… edges of property. There–a language to rust the barbed wire. These poems seek that country.
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Fences & Fault-lines, Deadfalls & Snares
… edges of property. There–a language to rust the barbed wire. These poems seek that country.
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An Ambitious Social Experiment: Education in Japanese-American Internment Camps, 1942-1945 by Christopher Su.
… it was delivered from a school located behind barbed wire, where the United States government had detained her because of her Japanese ancestry. Between 1942 and 1945, the United States government removed more than 110,000 individuals of Japanese ancestry residing on the west coast to remote …
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The Sea on the Other Side: The Making of Hamburg and Rostock through the Cold War: 1945-1986
… of the intra-German border. Instead of in barbed-wire fences and walls, this dissertation finds the materiality of Cold War division in the networks of trade and power that ran both across and within these two Cold War states. As a technique to build legitimacy and gain buy-in for spatial …
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"You'll Get Used to It!": The Internment of Jewish Refugees in Canada, 1940-43
… government continued to keep them behind barbed wire for up to three years, reflecting its administration's anti-semitic immigration policies more broadly. Instead of using their case as a signpost in Canada's liberalizing immigration history, this dissertation situates their story in a …
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The Brandenburg Gates : unity, division, and reinvented tradition in post-wall Berlin
… by a long wide empty space, a wall on the west, barbed wire on the east, and occasional checkpoints and military units along the way. Over the last twenty three years, the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment (German: Berlin Stadtentwicklung) has sought to restore, …
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Borderline personality disordered clients' experience and understanding of therapeutic boundaries: a Q methodogical study
… to totally violate them. Thin boundaries. C. "BARBED WIRE": Participants maintained a stance of contradictory and extreme viewpoints, which may inadvertently involve the (re)creation of damaging relationships. Fluctuation between thick and thin boundaries. D. "BRICK WALL": Participants assumed …
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DNA-based hair sampling to identify road crossings and estimate population size of black bears in Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Virginia
… period. I erected a 2.3-kilometer long strand of barbed wire along U. S. Highway 17 to monitor road crossing patterns near the Northwest River drainage. Genetic analysis identified 6 bears (4 males, 1 female, 1 unknown) that apparently crossed the highway in a 10-month period. Five of 6 bears …