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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Coon"”.
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A Lithologic Report on the Coon Creek Tongue Ripley Formation, in Tennesse
… report, a lithologic analysis of a sample of the Coon Creek tongue in southwestern Tennesse is given. The sediment is a olive gray siltstone, well sorted, with roundness values for the grains ranging from angular to subrounded. Quartz, biotite, and glauconite were the principal minerals observed. …
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History, identity and meaning : Cape Town's Coon Carnival in the 1960s and 1970s
Little has been written about the Coon Carnival since its inception in the late nineteenth century. This thesis helps remedy the general neglect of popular, "Coloured", working class history during the apartheid years. attempts to situate Cape Town's New Year Carnival within the international …
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The Coon Carnival in the 1940's: An expression of culture within a changing political environment
The 1940's saw tremendous change in the state of the world starting with the Second World War and culminating with the formation of several new independent nation states such as Pakistan, India and Israel. The growing nationalist trend became more apparent over the following decades as African …
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The Impacts of Local Stress Fields and Host Rock Heterogeneity on Magma Transport and Extrusion at Stratovolcanoes
… investigates the Oligocene age Summer Coon volcano (Colorado, USA) through field-based methods to infer the parameters the govern magma transport and eruption at stratovolcanoes.
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In an expert's hands: Issues of self and personality as reflected in hair choices
… personality, ability and images of his/her body (Coon, 1992). This micro-ethnography included 21 female participants obtained from an expert hair stylist's clientele. These participants were either interviewed, completed personality questionnaires and/or completed follow-up and member check …
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The Anti-Black Hero: Black Masculinity Media Representation as Seen in Netflix Series Luke Cage and Fox Series Empire
… of the Black Brute, the Thug, and the modern day Coon stereotypical images on current television narrowly defines Black masculinity as a monolithic experience. Young Black boys, are often unable to see themselves as those who are portrayed on television. The images they see on screen are sometimes …
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Ordering Strategies for Sparse Matrices in Chemical Process Simulation
… of times. A new version of the MNC orderings of Coon (1989), known as NMNC, is presented which runs in linear time and produces orderings which are amenable to solution using frontal methods. Iterative algorithms based on a combinatorial optimization formulation of the reordering problem also …
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Coping with Behavioral Symptoms of Dementia: Educating Caregivers to Lower Stress
… across living environments (Buckwalter, 1987 & Coon et al, 2012). The purpose of this scholarly project is to conduct a review of the literature to understand the use of the PLST as a method to lower stress in caregivers of patients with dementia 1) develop and implement a pilot PLST education …
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Estrategia de marketing digital para la marca Co’coon basada en un modelo de inteligencia de negocio
… y distribución no solo de su marca propia Co’coon sino marcas blancas, llegando al mercado nacional con una amplia oferta de productos en su portafolio que los ha llevado a expandirse en el mercado internacional llegando a más de 10 países, gracias a la innovación y tecnología de sus fibras …
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"""I been to hear the highest kind of opera grand"": blues, ""good music,"" and the performance of race on record, 1920-1921"
… behavior, comedy, Prohibition, youth, coon songs, violence, ragtime, mental pathology, and more. Of all the recordings these women made, Mamie Smith’s “Crazy Blues” has received the most scholarly attention, but its status in the blues canon has served to camouflage the influence of …
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Non-specific objects in the pseudopassive : the syntax and semantics of English pseudo-incorporated pseudopassives
… Inuktitut, Nez Perce, among others (Dayal 2003, Coon to appear, Ball 2005, Wharram 2003, Deal 2007). The researchers who identified such nominals in these languages have referred to them as pseudo-incorporated, and claim that pseudo-incorporated NPs are interpreted not as individuals (type e) but …
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A Comparative Study of Point Systems and Subjective Systems Used in Evaluating Vocal Solo Music Performances At the District Level of Competition
This research examined one area of music competition, the district vocal solos, and described the two methods presently being used in the United States for evaluations. The two methods were compared and contrasted to determine if the inconsistencies in judges' ratings could be reduced through the …
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Complementation in Chol (Mayan) : a theory of split ergativity :
The central claim of this dissertation is that aspect-based split ergativity does not mark a split in how Case is assigned, but rather, a split in sentence structure. Specifically, I argue that the contexts in which we find the appearance of a nonergative pattern in an otherwise ergative …
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Exploratory research into the effect of the perceived employee-organisation relationship on role innovation
… Motivation Scale as developed by Amabile, Conti, Coon, Lazenby and Herron (1996). Few significant relationships were found, however those indicated through correlation proved statistically robust through ANOVA, regression analysis and the Kruder-Wallis test for non- parametric means. The role …
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The design and analysis of a servo-driven velocity indicator
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Examining beliefs about the causes of unemployment and poverty: An analysis of the causal models from the research literature
The dissertation discusses findings of a study of the causal models of explanations of unemployment and poverty that have been developed in the research literature. The data used to examine the models are from the 1985 Edmonton Area Study Survey, University of Alberta (N=415), and the 1980 Beliefs …
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The Impact of Service Learning on Leadership Skills of Students who are Gifted and Talented in the Middle School
This investigation relates to the impact of service learning on leadership skills of students who are gifted in the middle school while the students plan the project in-school and execute their goals out-of-school for their yearlong service learning project called Community Problem-Solving, or …
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Can we get there from here? Ecosystem based governance in the Bay of Fundy/Gulf of Maine region
<p>Decades, even centuries, of resource extraction and exploitation by humans have taken a toll on the Bay of Fundy/Gulf of Maine ecosystems. The very real threats posed by population growth and coastal development, climate change, habitat loss, overharvesting, chemical pollution, nutrient …
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From Dichotomy to Continuum: Linking the Recruitment and Retention of Science Teachers
High schools throughout the United States, especially those serving high poverty and high minority communities, struggle to find qualified science teachers to fill vacancies, a situation that has been further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. This science teacher shortage is caused by a …
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The Sisters of Charity in Nineteenth-Century America: Civil War Nurses and Philanthropic Pioneers
This thesis seeks to answer the following question: What was the legacy of the Sisters of Charity in the history of philanthropy, women’s history, medicine and nursing? The Sisters of Charity was a Catholic religious order that provided volunteer nurses, and became highly visible, during the …
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