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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"Culture / History"”.
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Tayeb Salih: Culture, History, Memory
Each episode, especially the long narratives, is a comment on the period in the life of the Arab nation during which it was written. Salih's main narrator is constantly engaged in recollection, reorganization, and interpretation of the past. What he remembers and what he forgets, what he …
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Hpv Vaccine Acceptance Among Southern Black College Students: The Influence of Culture, History, and Health Beliefs
<p>Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination has the potential to significantly reduce HPV-associated outcomes if measures are taken to promote acceptance and uptake. The purpose of the study was to explore historical and cultural influences and health beliefs on HPV vaccine acceptance among Black …
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The Mississippian Occupation of The Upper Kaskaskia Valley: Problems in Culture History and Economic Organization (Illinois, Ceramics)
… only minor use of fish and waterfowl. Maize agriculture was practiced at both sites, but no remains of beans or squash were recovered. Gathering seems to have been focused on nuts. Little use was made of starchy seeds. Mississippian campsites were located in the uplands adjacent to the Kaskaskia …
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A Functional Analysis of Recorded Pre-Contact Archaeological Sites on Lopez Island, Washington
… record will remain an isolated piece of culture history until the data gaps identified in this thesis are addressed so that its historic context can be better integrated into the culture history of the Salish Sea.
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HAIGHT-ASHBURY AND ITS CONTRIBUTION TO THE COUNTERCULTURE MOVEMENT
… was the epicenter of the American Counterculture Movement in the mid to late sixties. The social, cultural, and political impact of this movement is vast and widely known. This thesis provides a themed historical narrative of the Haight-Ashbury, specifically about its role in the …
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Alternative Education: Does Anyone Know We're Here? An Interpretive Ethnography of the Lived Experiences of African-American Males at a Midwest Alternative School
… biographical experiences of these students with culture, history, and social structure. Stories, experiences, and perceptions of schooling from the perspective of African American male students who have been labeled behavior problem students. The grand question asks who are you and what is life …
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Klipfonteinrand 2 : a sign of the times
… of Klipfonteinrand 1, in order to complete the culture history of the area, in the light of the fact that the upper stratigraphic horizons of Klipfonteinrand 1 was disturbed.
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Behind the Exhibit: Exploring the Processes of Indigenous Rights Representation at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
… The study shows how museums can change their history of racist and inaccurate representation of Indigenous people. Through extensive and “deep collaboration” between Indigenous partners and museum staff, Indigenous culture, history, and rights can be portrayed more accurately, ethically, and …
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Battle Mound: Exploring Space, Place, and History of a Red River Caddo Community in Southwest Arkansas
… intrasite behavioral practices, and Caddo culture history. Results show that an examination at multiple scales of resolution can inform about the spatial organization and settlement patterning of Caddo communities and how these underlying principles that define space have endured or been …
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Syncwalk : a framework for locative audio composition
… not just by our immediate sensory input: culture, history, and other contextual cues complete our experience. With the advent of sensor-rich, highly-connected objects, our ability to interpret and refine these contextual elements, and therefore our experience of space, grows ever sharper. …
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Cultural Resources in the United States: What Messages Are We Sending
… information on and provoking interest in culture, history and archaeology. The types of messages that are more compelling are short, concise and capture the receiver's attention. Motivations for preservation included a personal connection, or interest in an object or site, the threat of …
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Comparing United States Counternarcotics Strategies in Colombia, Afghanistan, and Mexico
… three case studies present different blends of culture, history, US relations, and narcoterrorism. US counternarcotics strategies involve eradication, interdiction, alternative development, and integrating host nation law enforcement with military capabilities. All of these have been used at …
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The St. Francis Dam Disaster: An Experiential Memorial Landscape
… the role of memorials as spatial expressions of culture, history, memory, life, and death. Memorials have traditionally been monumental in form, but there is a growing shift in landscape architecture towards designing experiential memorial landscapes that allow for healing, reflection, and active …
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Sense of Place, Place Attachment, and Rootedness in Four West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana Bars
… of American geography as containers of material culture and collective history that influence and are influenced by the people that spend time in those places and utilizes them as the laboratory for collecting empirical data on people-place relationships. Applying ethnographic research tools and …
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Land, Labor, and Reform: Hill Carter, Slavery, and Agricultural Improvement at Shirley Plantation, 1816-1866
… at Shirley occupy an important place in Virginia history. Few scholars, however, have analyzed their roles adequately. Previous studies' overwhelming concentration on the architectural and material culture history of the plantation has left Carter's role as one of Virginia's preeminent …
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Scales of Interaction across the South China Sea between 6000 and 4000 BP. A chaîne opératoire approach to the Neolithic stone adzes of the Min River Delta, Pearl River Delta and Taiwan.
… speakers: the spread of Neolithic material cultures, food production, rice farming, animal domestication, etc. The assumed underlying cause was the migration of agriculturalists that started in China c.9000 years ago, passed through Taiwan and the Philippines c.4000 years ago, and eventually …
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Before we teach it, We Have to learn it": Wisconsin Act 31 compliance within public teacher preparation programs
… for the purpose of addressing American Indian history, culture, and sovereignty within K-12 schools as a response to treaty rights issues in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Yet, in the 21st century there remain issues with compliance throughout not only K-12 schools but also institutions of …
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Understanding international student recruitment as export marketing behaviour in higher education institutions
… primarily in the form of competition and culture. Competitive forces act upon the recruitment of international students creating tensions in their practice as actors in institutions attempt to respond to markets. However, their reactions are different due to their internal culture, …
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The 'Future Generation': National Identity among Young People in Wales
… that feature prominently in the literature: culture, history and land/territory. It also examines more recent research on national identity, exploring how it is understood among young people. The focus here is on national identity as the outcome of a process of interaction with life in an …
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Sex, aesthetics, and modernity in the British romance of Italy, 1870-1914
… of nineteenth-century discourses about travel, culture, history, and art that were linked to discourses of race and evolutionism. Anchoring my analysis in the categories of space, sex, and genre, I illuminate the relations between politics and form and contend that the intra-European distinction …
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