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Showing 1 to 20 of 208 for “"Beverly"”.
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Making a "black Beverly Hills": The struggle for housing equality in modern Los Angeles
… and earned the ambiguous nickname the "black Beverly Hills," a title that celebrated black achievement, yet kept affluent blacks in the shadow of mostly white Beverly Hills.</p>
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"From Daniel Boone to the Beverly Hillbillies: tales of a ""fallen"" race, 1873-1968"
Since the earliest days of European settlement, the Appalachian Mountains emerged in lore as the manly frontier setting where such figures as Daniel Boone, Davy Crocket, Kit Carson, Andrew Jackson, and others carved out the wilderness and forged a nation. Theodore Roosevelt went so far as to …
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History and technology of Lemuel Chenoweth's covered bridges
… in West Virginia. The timber covered bridge at Beverly is one of Chenoweth's key creations that have been lost, which was at the time located on a key turnpike running through the county seat. The first goal of the following study is to establish the geometry of the Beverly Bridge. To do this, …
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Infilling the middle landscape : suburban zoning codes to retain historical place making forms
… a 100 year old carriage house in suburban Beverly, Massachusetts converted to residential use 35 years ago. A brief critical history of the ongoing evolution of the American suburb and some precedents for architectural response to its shortcomings provides the basis for the design …
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Young Girls Are Coming to the Canyon
… sudden, violent death of their estranged mother, Beverly, and decide to search for their father’s family. As Joni struggles with commitment and Grace is conflicted about impending motherhood, one relative leads to another and they travel across the country to discover Beverly’s secrets, as well as …
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Confederate Brig. Gen. B.H. Robertson and the 1863 Gettysburg campaign
Beverly Holcombe Robertson was a military commander around whose Civil War career controversy always seemed to swirl. Robertson was born June 5, 1827, to Dr. William H. and Martha (Holcombe) Robertson at the family plantation, "The Oaks," in Amelia County, Virginia. With the exception of the fact …
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Optical analysis of the Wallace Astrophysical Observatory 24-inch and Magellan I 6.5-meter telescopes
… optimal mounting location for the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Magellan Instant Camera (MAGIC). The analysis method used for the Magellan I model was then applied to the WAO 24-inch telescope. The results of the optical analysis of the WAO 24-inch model suggest that the optimal layout would …
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Y'all Think We're Stupid: Deconstructing Media Stereotypes of The American South
… shows like The Dukes of Hazzard and The Beverly Hillbillies are analyzed for how they convey stereotypes about the South. Lastly, music of all genres, though primarily country, is considered for the images it conveys. The major aim of this study is not only to reveal these stereotypes but …
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Writing the Young Adult Novel: Analysis and Process
… King by Lloyd Alexander; Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary; Missing Maxj by Cynthia Rylant; A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle; and The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. The plots of the five books differed greatly, and the genres ranged from fantasy (The High King and A Wrinkle in Time) to …
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The Call of the Buffalo: Exploring Kinship with the Buffalo in Indigenous Creative Expression
… Mourning Dove, D’Arcy McNickle, Linda Hogan, Beverly Hungry Wolf, Beth Cuthand, Louise Halfe, Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, Adrian Stimson and Thomas King. This work can be understood as the imperative for Indigenous peoples to remember the kinship relationship shared with the buffalo, including …
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Lucy Larcom in American Literature
… She was born in the pleasant old town of Beverly, on the north-east coast of Massachusetts, and lived a great part of her life there. True to tradition of true Bay-Staters, who have an instinctive love for home, she never adopted another section for her own. She was the next to the …
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Preschool Educators' Perceptions of Practice in Facilitating/modeling Oral Language Acquisition and Development
… Wilcox (2000), Hart and Risley (2003), Ard and Beverly (2004) and Weigel (2007) suggests that oral language (oracy) development is a readiness factor for later reading, writing and listening competencies. Intentional strategies to promote oracy can narrow the reading achievement gap between …
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The 'Apocalyptic' Paul: An Analysis and Critique with Reference to Romans 1-8
… Beker, Martinus de Boer, J. Louis Martyn, Beverly Roberts Gaventa and Douglas A. Campbell. Part 2 analyses these findings and provides a detailed portrait of the contemporary apocalyptic reading of Paul. Second, making use of that portrait, this thesis provides the first detailed exegetical …
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Analyzing the Effect of Moving Resonance on Seismic Response of Structures using Wavelet Transforms
… detail (accelerogram of Northridge earthquake at Beverly Hills) had peak displacement amplified by 6 times compared to the amount of peak displacement expected if the system did not exhibit moving resonance. Based on the analyses results, the characteristics of the ground motion records that don't …
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The Experiences of Panamanian Afro-Caribbean Women in STEM: Voices to Inform Work with Black Females in STEM Education.
… WORK WITH BLACK FEMALES IN STEM EDUCATION By BEVERLY A KING MILLER B.A., Psychology, Nyack College, NY, 1985 M.A., Teaching, National-Louis University, IL, 1992 Ph.D., Multicultural Teacher and Childhood Education, University of New Mexico, 2013 ABSTRACT This grounded theory case study …
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Dynamique des populations de caribous migrateurs (Rangifer tarandus) basée sur des indices de condition corporelle
… herds; the Rivière-George, Rivière-aux-Feuilles, Beverly and Porcupine. I investigated how body condition relates to population dynamics at the individual level by determining how body size, condition and population size impact female reproductive success in the Rivière-George herd. At the …
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TEACHERS’ UNDERSTANDINGS ABOUT SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS INTEGRATION
… S., & Guba, E. G. (1985). Naturalistic inquiry. Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications.
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„það er þúst eins og ég sé eitthvað minni mamma af því að ég er bara einhver krakki“ : reynsla lítt skólagenginna, ungra mæðra af lágstétt af samskiptum við skóla barna sinna
… gagnvart skólastofnunum barna þeirra. Hugtak Beverly Skeggs um virðingasess er einnig hluti af fræðilega bakgrunni þessa verkefnis. Fyrir þessa rannsókn voru tekin viðtöl við níu konur sem eiga það sameiginlegt að hafa eignast barn fyrir tvítugt. Mæðurnar eiga börn um og á miðstigi grunnskóla. …
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An Assessment Of Factors Influencing Student Enrollment Within The Southern Union Conference Of Seventh-Day Adventist Secondary Schools
… SECONDARY SCHOOLS</p> <p>by</p> <p>OLIVIA D. BEVERLY</p> <p>December, 2010</p> <p>Advisor: Dr. Sharon Elliott</p> <p>Major: Curriculum and Instruction</p> <p>Degree: Doctor of Philosophy</p> <p> Secondary schools operating within the Southern Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventist are …
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