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Showing 1 to 20 of 442 for “"Daughters"”.
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Adult Daughters
<p>Adult Daughters explores the complexities of the human experience through short and long-form fiction.</p>
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Shiahrazad's Daughters
<p>The following project is the fruition of a number of long-standing interests developed both in undergraduate and graduate studies. While pursuing my undergraduate degree in Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, I focused primarily upon Literature and Women’s …
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Glorified Daughters: The Glorification of Daughters on Roman Epitaphs
… looks at over 3,000 inscriptions of unmarried daughters, under the age of 20, during the Roman Empire. It discusses the formulaic ways in which daughters were described on their tombstones based on their age and the Roman virtues valued at the time. It primarily focuses on descriptors, …
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Daughters of Shanghai
Daughters of Shanghai is an historical fiction novel set in China between 1937 and 2014. It is centered around resilient Lucy Lau who struggles to survive war, natural disaster, betrayal, and grief while raising four generations of daughters. She believes that honor comes before duty, and family …
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Daughters of the Dreaming
This thesis advances a new look and hopefully a new understanding of a complex of issues often glossed 'the problem of women'. My ethnographic focus is the ritual life of Aboriginal women in Central Australia during the late 1970's, while my analysis raises the conceptual issue of how we should …
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Daughters of the Dreaming
This thesis advances a new look and hopefully a new understanding of a complex of issues often glossed 'the problem of women'. My ethnographic focus is the ritual life of Aboriginal women in Central Australia during the late 1970's, while my analysis raises the conceptual issue of how we should …
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Daughters of the Sun (Excerpted)
… thousands of times.” So begins my novel, <em>Daughters of the Sun,</em> the story of Jesus’s twin sister, Alleluia. Using the narrative framework seen in Salman Rushdie’s <em>Midnight’s Children, </em>Alleluia tells her story over one night in an appropriated apartment facing a church. She …
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Differential removal of daughters among A1 sires
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Dairy, 1966
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The poets’ daughters: Dora Wordsworth and Sara Coleridge
… were lifelong friends. They were also the daughters of best friends: William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the two poetic geniuses who shaped the Romantic Age. Living in the shadow of their fathers’ extraordinary fame brought Sara and Dora great privilege, but at a terrible cost. …
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Daughters of Eve : violence against women in Pakistan
The purpose of this study was to conduct extensive research on domestic violence against women in Pakistan and to present the results in a comprehensive document. Some of the issues investigated through fieldwork and covered here include the social and cultural reasons for violence against women, …
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Family Business Daughters: The Ties that Bind and Divide
… contradictions experienced by family business daughters, and to investigate how they responded to these tensions. For this project, I interviewed twelve second and third generation family business daughters from eleven different family businesses. I utilized research procedures similar to …
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Female parent-coach experiences coaching daughters in youth sport
FEMALE PARENT-COACH EXPERIENCES COACHING DAUGHTERS IN YOUTH SPORTByCassandra J. Coble The purposes of this study were to examine the experiences of mothers who enter the role of parent-coach. Using Eccles Expectancy Value Model of Achievement-Related Choices (1991, 1998, 2004) and Model of Parental …
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Immigrant Mothers--American Daughters: Context and Meaning of Relationships
… post WWII mothers in mid and late life and adult daughters. Five contextual factors were examined: (1) perceptions of minority group status; (2) beliefs of having power, privilege, and prestige; (3) ethnic community involvement; (4) language and communication practices; and (5) expectations of …
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Navigating the Cathexis: Mothers and Daughters and End of Life
… flow of energy that moves between mothers and daughters as they navigate the meaning, significance and context of their connection as a mother is at the end of her life. Strongly informed by a feminist epistemology, this study draws on multiple conversations with five mothers and adult daughter …
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Examining Adolescent Daughters' and their Parents' Implicit Math-Gender Stereotypes
… factor. In the present research I examined daughters and parents implicit math-gender stereotypes during an important developmental period for career-related decisions: late adolescence. Participants (N=415) included adolescent girls (N=185, Mage=17) and at least one parent (N=230, Mage …
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Determination of radon and radon daughters in underground uranium mines
Includes bibliographical references.
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Maternal role in daughters' sexual health development in Khomas region: Namibia
… Hence, this study explored maternal role on daughters‟ sexual health development in Khomas region, Namibia. In addressing this phenomenon, the study was carried out in four phases namely; needs assessment, programme development, programme implementation and programme evaluation. The findings …
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‘Invaded by Daughters of Eve’: Women Playing American Football, 1890-1960
This thesis examines the history of women playing American football in the United States in the period 1890-1960, a sport that from its very beginning was a means for men to demonstrate their manliness and masculinity. The thesis is primarily a media study which uses an extensive range of newspaper …
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