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Showing 1 to 20 of 95 for “"Contemporary Issues"”.
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A study to assess the status of the teaching of contemporary issues in secondary social studies classrooms in selected school divisions in the state of Virginia
This study assesses the status of the teaching of contemporary issues in secondary social studies classrooms in four southwest Virginia school divisions. One hundred and sixteen secondary teachers in these school divisions were surveyed concerning their attitudes toward contemporary issues and the …
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The thief and the beauty queen
… narrative voices. The plot tackles timeless and contemporary issues, such as child crime, social media challenges, and working-class economic hardship. As a New Realism novel that tackles controversial topics, my story distinguishes itself from what critics of children's literature have called …
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Mapping and Analysing the Voluntary Youth Work Sector in Wales
… while also analysing how the sector tackles contemporary issues impacting young people and considering sustainability and the challenges faced. A cross sectional research design was adopted with three research stages. First scoping the sector using publicly available data, establishing the …
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Parental Attributions and Misperceptions of Child Problem Behavior: An Etiological Review Through a Lens of Cultural Competence
… more accurate parental perceptions. Finally, contemporary issues with addressing this topic in the field are discussed, with implications for its impact on clinical assessment.</p>
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Characterising intra- and inter-limb gait stability using minimum foot clearance
… gait stability and tripping induced falls are contemporary issues related to elderly populations, where characterising MFC variability from one stride to the next can provide important links between these issues.
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Naming the discipline: A comparison of three landscape architecture programs in Beijing, China
… e.g. their various attitudes to the past, contemporary issues in China, and their educational practices. Three Master of Landscape Architecture programs have been chosen in Beijing (Tsinghua University, Peking University, and Beijing Forestry University) to investigate educators’ thinking …
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Inexorable Burden: Rhetoric and Togetherness
… as a theoretical springboard to reassess more contemporary issues in rhetoric and technical communication. The technical communication topics this dissertation covers include criticisms of expediency as a motive in technical communication; the changing landscape of instruction manual …
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‘Current Regimes’ a play and critical analysis
… theatrical story telling whilst examining two contemporary issues: the linguistics of Exhumations and Gay Rights. The critical analysis examines the craft of playwriting with ‘Current Regimes’ as case study. It discusses the diverging theatrical traditions contributing to the writing process …
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Illegal Gambling and Its Operation via the Darknet and Bitcoin: An Application of Routine Activity Theory
… with policy recommendations to remedy the contemporary issues of online gambling.</p>
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Voces Silenciadas: Victimización Infantil en La Literatura y El Cine Contemporáneos
… transformation. Bridging literature, cinema, and contemporary issues deepens the understanding of victim experiences and advances their visibility and protection.
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Environmental complement to Rice and its School of Architecture
… the world gives economic, social and political issues an immediacy invaluable to a clear study of methods and values.(UNFORMATTED TABLE OR EQUATION FOLLOWS)$$\vbox{\halign{#\hfil&&\enspace#\hfil\cr e.g.,\quad&The Cooper Union&---Admission policies\cr&Harvard&---Architect and democratic …
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Tissage Du Métissage: Construction Et Création Des Personnages Et Textes Métisses Dans La Littérature Contemporaine Francophone
… project explores the concept of Métissage in contemporary French literature (métissage is a French term that contains all the following English meanings: diversity, hybridity, mixed-race, multiracialism, multiculturalism). Over the past 20 years racial diversity has been at the center of many …
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Transit-oriented development and the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail : shaping urban design patterns in northern New Jersey
… design and planning strategies address many contemporary issues, such as the role of the automobile in the city, the impact of increased densities, and the marketable pedestrian networks. By looking at the different urban development experiences of three different cities along the light rail, …
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Lin Tongqi : an oral history
… culture study, the relationships between eternal issues and contemporary issues, as well as a brief discussion on the issues facing contemporary China, and the future of Chinese society.
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Self Creation and Social Critique: Kierkegaard, Arendt, and Castoriadis on Thinking and Discourse
… to the three main thinkers and some central contemporary issues that are particularly illustrative of the focal problems, I devote the three middle chapters to an examination of the public space and indirect communication as found in the work of, respectively, Cornelius Castoriadis, Hannah …
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Fifty Years on the Fringe: Murray Bookchin and the American Revolutionary Tradition, 1921-1971
… American Old Left, and the New Left. Writing for Contemporary Issues, a left wing journal edited by Josef Weber, Bookchin became an important part of the schismatic Left, a loose conglomeration of Marxist and Materialists who were both anti-Liberal and anti-Soviet. Bookchin worked with Weber until …
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Fifty Years on the Fringe: Murray Bookchin and the American Revolutionary Tradition, 1921-1971
… American Old Left, and the New Left. Writing for Contemporary Issues, a left wing journal edited by Josef Weber, Bookchin became an important part of the schismatic Left, a loose conglomeration of Marxist and Materialists who were both anti-Liberal and anti-Soviet. Bookchin worked with Weber until …
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Defining the line between center and periphery: the foreign criminal as symbol of sovereignty in contemporary China
… and others on China's rhetorical strategies in issues of contested sovereignty, I will show how the Chinese media uses its portrayal of select foreign criminals as political symbols to fuel the government's ""memory project"" regarding China’s relationship with Western countries. By examining …
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Computing with matter, shapes, and forces : toward material and structural primacy in architecture
… thesis is motivated by my interest in addressing contemporary issues in architecture and design through historic inquiry. Taking a critical approach toward technology, a slow computation methodology will be proposed as a means of working between traditional architectural media: drawing and masonry …
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