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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"Breton"”.
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The Cape Breton fiddling narrative : innovation, preservation, dancing
With the fear of decline of the Cape Breton fiddling tradition after the airing of The Vanishing Cape Breton Fiddler by the CBC in 1971, both the Cape Breton community and ethnographers clamored to preserve and maintain the extant practices and discourse. While this allowed for performance contexts …
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L'ecriture Automatique Surrealiste Et La Psychanalyse. Breton Avec Freud Et Lacan
… is a symptom, and ""words are making love"" (Breton), writing about love implies writing with one's symptom. It is what I finally discern in Breton's Les vases communicants (Communicating Vessels) and The mad love (L'amour fou)."
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Applying the Reference Condition Approach to bioassessment of Cape Breton Island streams
… nature of relatively pristine streams on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia as a comparison to assess sites that have various degrees and types of exposure to human activities, including sites that have been remediated from acid mine drainage related to coal mining. RCA models consisted of general …
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Mississippian stratigraphy and geologic history of central Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Geology, 1959.
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New speaker language and identity: Practices and perceptions around Breton as a regional language of France
For the past thirty years, much work on Breton has highlighted various apparent differences between two groups of speakers, roughly equivalent to the categories of new speakers and traditional speakers used more universally in more recent work. In the case of Breton, the conceptualisation of these …
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Stratigraphy and paleontology of the Windsor group (Upper Mississippian) in parts of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Geology, 1952.
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The highland heart still beats : Cape Breton cultural identity in the fiction of Alistair MacLeod, Sheldon Currie, and Lynn Coady
… of a "Scottish Folk" identity in Cape Breton, first developed by the Nova Scotia government in the 1930s to strengthen the tourism industry. I read fiction by Alistair MacLeod, Sheldon Currie, and Lynn Coady, as well as the film Margaret's Museum, for their reaction to this simplified …
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The Global Unions in the system of global governance. The embedding of Trade Union political demands in the Breton Woods Organitations
In 2002 a formalized dialogue between the Global Unions and the International Financial Institutions (IFIs) was established. The Global Unions include the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), the nine Global Union Federations (GUFs) and the Trade Union Advisory Committee (TUAC) which …
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Time Travel at the Fortress of Louisbourg: The Implications of Social Media and Digital Tools Affecting Visitation of Parks Canada National Historic Sites, Cape Breton Island, Canada
… unique national historic site on Unama’ki (Cape Breton Island). The fortress has seen a decrease in visitation annually throughout recent years; it is unclear why. Using a mixed methods approach, this method of study investigates the current methods of social media and digital tools used by Cape …
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Assessing the Effectiveness of Louisiana's Freshwater Diversion Projects Using Remote Sensing
… Structure, built in 1991 to divert water to Breton Sound. Satellite imagery data covering the period from 1974 to 2006 were analyzed by computing several spectral indices including NDVI, VI, IR/R, Sqrt IR/R, T-NDVI, and NDWI, as well as principle component analysis. The resulting enhanced …
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Situace surrealistického subjektu
… elements of cognitive processes. André Breton apprehends this dialectics under the perspective of love life and relates it to values of love, freedom and poetry. Nevertheless, this conception changes in the immanent development of the surrealist consciousness from Breton over the work …
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A preconcentration-spectographic method for the determination of trace elements in plant materials and the application of the biogeochemical method at the Silver Mine lead deposit Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
… sulphide deposit at Silver Mine, Cape Breton Island, were used to test the method. The mineralized zone, outlined by diamond drilling, is covered by approximately 50 feet of glacial till. The Ag, Be, Co, Cr, Mo, Ni, Pb and Zn contents of mineral soil (B1), organic soil (A1) (humus), …
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Écologie du crabe des neiges (Chionoecetes opilio) juvénile au large des côtes nord-ouest du Cap Breton, et ses interactions avec la morue (Gradus morhua) et la raie (Raja radiata)
La présente étude a porté essentiellement sur l’écologie des larves du crabe des neiges, Chionoecetes opilio dans la baie des Chaleurs. Cette espèce est l’objet d’une exploitation commerciale importante sur la côte est du Canada depuis 1968… Ce travail vise à décrire les particularités du cycle …
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Minority language television - social, political and cultural implications
… for the provision of minority language media in Breton and Welsh. It takes as points of reference firstly the state, and secondly the minorities in question - the Breton and the Welsh - and shows how a certain policy area in this case broadcasting, can become a focus for minority demands. The …
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The poetics of hermeticism: Andre Breton's shift towards the occult in the War years
André Breton, leader of the Surrealist movement, which he had founded with others in 1924 in the wake of the First World War, left Nazi-occupied France in 1941. Sailing from Marseilles, with an enforced three week stop in Martinique while waiting for onward passage, he chose to carry the spirit of …
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Identification et distribution spatio-temporelle des épibiontes retrouvés sur l'exosquelette du crabe des neiges (chionoecetes opilio) dans le sud du Golfe du Saint-Laurent et sur le Plateau Néo-écossais
… Bight, au large de la côte est de l'île du Cap-Breton. Dans l'ensemble, les hydrozoaires, les bryozoaires, les polychètes et les balanes du gland représentent les salissures les plus fréquemment observées. Plus de vingt familles taxonomiques ont été identifiées, dont quatre considérées comme des …
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Parental choice of minority language education in language shift situations in Brittany and Scotland
… variety of minority languages, specifically Breton and Gaelic. The thesis considers parental choice in terms of their socioeconomic profile, their language background and their patterns of language use. It is anticipated that this will contribute to explaining how educationally-based …
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SURREALIST CASTLE CULTURE: GOTHIC TRACES IN SURREALIST AESTHETICS
… novel is found within Surrealist leader André Breton's essay “Limits Not Frontiers of Surrealism” (1936). In this text the “castle problem” is introduced. Briefly put, Breton urged the Surrealists to find a modern equivalent to the Gothic castle; a place where marvellous events were bound to …
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Paraprofessionals at alternative schools: Professional development needs for inclusive settings
… have little training to do so effectively (Breton, 2010; Giangreco, 2013). The purpose of this study was to examine the classroom management responsibilities and professional development needs of paraprofessionals working with secondary students with disabilities in inclusive settings at …
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