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Showing 1 to 20 of 93 for “"Culture and Identity"”.
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Culture and identity in Scottish children's fiction
British Children’s Literature has a long and distinguished history. In fact it could be argued that in the late seventeenth and increasingly in the eighteenth century, Britain took the lead in developing a new kind of literature especially designed for children. The Puritans were the first to …
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Landscape, culture, and identity : redefining the borderlands
The proposal seeks to develop and foster new understandings of this border through using built form as a vehicle for re-orienting, disorienting our physical and psychological understandings of borders. The physical intervention creates a release from the current condition which the fence embodies, …
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Egypt’s encounter with the West: Race, Culture and Identity
… the processes involved in interpreting ethnic identity in the ancient world. Specifically, it focuses on the various “Libyan” groups currently found in Egyptological literature who are attested in ancient Egyptian sources from the dawn of Egyptian civilization. Set within the broader …
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Moroccan Immigrants in Granada, Spain: Negotiating language, culture, and identity
… involved characterizing where, when, and how languages are used, utilizing constructs that characterize language use as stable and domain-specific, which references static social categories or bounded ethnolinguistic identities. These long-standing constructs in sociolinguistics are …
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We Humans: Nature, Culture, and Identity in the Anthropocene Age
… shaping the geology, hydrology, atmosphere, and climate of planet Earth. Crutzen proposed the inauguration of a new geological epoch termed the “Anthropocene,” which denoted the human domination of the biosphere. Since then, a number of geologists and Earth systems scientists have joined …
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We Humans: Nature, Culture, and Identity in the Anthropocene Age
… shaping the geology, hydrology, atmosphere, and climate of planet Earth. Crutzen proposed the inauguration of a new geological epoch termed the “Anthropocene,” which denoted the human domination of the biosphere. Since then, a number of geologists and Earth systems scientists have joined …
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Charro Days: History, Culture, and Identity on the U.S.-Mexico Border
… between the citizens of Brownsville, Texas and Matamoros, Tamaulipas along the Rio Grande. It began in 1938 to boost the economy and the spirits of the community suffering from the Great Depression and aftermath of a category 5 hurricane. In my thesis, I explain Brownsville’s history and …
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Organizational Culture and Identity: A Case Study from the Australian Football League
… that was undertaken between January 2000 and December 2004 into the organizational culture and identity of Fremantle Football Club, a professional sporting organization that competes in an elite national football competition, the Australian Football League. The thesis began with a review …
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Culture and Identity: A Portraiture-Based Study of Oromo Family Child Care Providers
… within Washington State’s Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS) - Early Achievers. I conducted a portraiture-based study using qualitative methods to investigate how Oromo family child care providers narrate their stories and experiences. By exploring different parts of their …
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Creative Responses to Maltese Culture and Identity: Case Study and Portfolio of Compositions
… is to explore the relationship between place, identity and musical practice. The study is inspired by Malta’s history and culture. This work presents a portfolio of seven musical compositions with a written component that highlights the historical and socio-cultural issues that had a bearing on …
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DOIN’ IT FOR THE CULTURE: DEFINING BLACKNESS, CULTURE, AND IDENTITY ON BLACK TWITTER
… dissertation broadly explores the intersections and tensions among race, social media usage, identity, and culture. More specifically, its purpose is to examine how Black Twitter users interact on Twitter through the portals of three trending hashtags from 2015: #BlackExperience, …
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Translations of culture and identity : a study of Internet use in the Haitian community
… chasm; diverse people of diverse backgrounds, cultures and countries utilize computers and their inherent technologies. One of the communities that use the Internet is the Haitian community. A detailed study on what the Haitian community - citizens and those of the Diaspora - finds in the …
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Language, culture, and identity negotiation: perspectives of adolescent Japanese sojourner students in the Midwest, USA
… qualitative research highlights the voices and lived experiences of adolescent Japanese sojourner students and their mothers residing in the Midwest. The central goals of this research are to understand what adolescent Japanese sojourner students’ school experiences in the U.S. are …
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Representations of the East in the poetry of Bryon: A Study in Culture and Identity
… on two textual loci, namely, the concepts of 'culture' and 'identity'. These concepts form the basis of a close reading of both the texts themselves, and the manner in which Byron's personal and textual personas shape the narrative and are in turn influenced by their social context. An …
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Representations of the East in the poetry of Byron : a study in culture and identity
… on two textual loci, namely, the concepts of 'culture' and 'identity'. These concepts form the basis of a close reading of both the texts themselves, and the manner in which Byron's personal and textual personas shape the narrative and are in turn influenced by their social context. An …
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An investigation into the interrogation of Afrikaner culture and identity in the work of selected artists
Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Technology: Fine Art, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2015.
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¿De Dónde Eres?: The Construction of U.S. and Immigrant Culture and Identity in the ESL Adult Education Setting
In this study, I investigated how lessons and interactions in an ESL classroom setting construct U.S. and immigrant cultural identities through narratives and counter-narratives, and how these narratives and counter-narratives reproduced and questioned relations of power along the lines of race, …
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