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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Dillard"”.
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Kaleidoscope
… major influences: Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Annie Dillard, and Leslie Feinberg.</p>
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Waiting for the Miraculous: An Essay on Patience in American Literature
… decades—Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, Annie Dillard, and Teju Cole. The way in which these authors portray object relations denotes a form of patience in which one’s personal longings, contained in physical things, aspire for universal understanding.</p>
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Dashiki Project Theatre: black identity and beyond
At a cast party following a Dillard University theatre production in 1965, Guy West, a senior in theatre, stated that one of his dreams was to perform in his own theatre. These remarks by West proved to be the inspiration that began New Orleans' Dashiki Project Theatre. Prior to 1965, Free Southern …
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Pedagogical implications of Black English
… include linguists Geneva Smitherman and J. L. Dillard. Chapter three shows the importance of teacher attitudes and explains the need for teacher training in Black English. For chapter four, teachers were interviewed about their views on Black English. The major finding from the interviews was …
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Prevalence of Tobacco Use among African-American College Students
… A convenience sample of 576 undergraduates at Dillard University of New Orleans completed a Harvard College Alcohol Study survey. Forty six percent (n=269) completed the survey. Ninetyone percent were African American, and 13% of them were ever-smokers. Chi Square analysis was used to test for …
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Ease the résistance : the role of narrative and other-referencing in attenuating psychological reactance to persuasive diabetes messages
… theory (Brehm, 1966; Brehm & Brehm, 1981; Dillard & Shen, 2005) explains that persuasion may fail by inducing threats to individuals' perceived autonomy; this study provides evidence of pathways through this resistance to enhance message persuasiveness. A 2 (narrative) x 2 …
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a people blessed, a land teeming
… draws upon insights from Kim Addonizio, Annie Dillard, Richard Hugo, Ted Kooser, Brad Leithauser, and James Longenbach to explore necessary considerations when writing historical persona poetry and when working with form. It addresses the use of the poetic tools of lineation, white space, …
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The contributions of Floyd Leslie Sandle to black educational theatre in Louisiana
… the segregated town of Magnolia, Mississippi, to Dillard University where his passion for theatre was nurtured by Dr. Sheppard Randolph Edmonds, Sandle made significant strides in the dvelopment of Black Educational Theatre in Louisiana. Through his unique approach of presenting plays to the …
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Not Peace But the Sword: Violence in Contemporary American Catholic Literature
… Percy, Tim Gautreaux, Alice McDermott, Annie Dillard, David Foster Wallace, and Christopher Beha.</p>
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The Rhythms and Rituals of a Sacred Epistolary: Expressing my Experiences in Holistic and Embodied Ways
… the improvisational move—tarrying.</p> <p>I join Dillard (2006), who argued “our methodological choices are spiritual choices, interrelated, and whole” (p.86). Therefore, I offer three interlinked manuscripts to present this work rooted in Black women's onto-epistemologies, concerned with Black …
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African American Women Elementary School Principals: Impact of Race and Gender on Suspension Practices
… silent, as both a gendered and racialized group (Dillard, 1995). This study attempted to expand the majority of research literature on educational leadership, which has primarily focused on the experiences of White men and women (Bell & Chase, 1993). In addition, this study contributes to …
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A Mixed-Method Examination of Primary Care Physician Message Strategies to Correct Patient-Held Health Misinformation: An Application of Goals-Plans-Action Theory
… 2021). Guided by goals-plans-action theory (Dillard, 1990), which explains the communicative process of creating and implementing influence messages, the purpose of this dissertation was to: (a) uncover primary care physician goals, plans, and action when correcting patient-held health …
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The spatial ecology of the Eastern box turtle (Terrapene carolina carolina) in a fragmented landscape in Southeast Tennessee, Hamilton County
The landscape throughout the range of the Eastern Box turtle (Terrapene carolina carolina) has been altered significantly since the late 1880s by habitat fragmentation. In this study, the spatial ecology and seasonal movement patterns of the Eastern Box turtle in contrasting habitat types are …
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Mechanisms of bacterial CRISPR immunity and a phage counter-defense
Bacteriophages are constantly evolving to overcome their bacterial hosts. To counteract these attacks, bacteria developed multiple defense systems. One critical line of defense is the adaptive immune system CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats). Upon infection, the …
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Development and Characterization of a Recombinant Vesicular Stomatitis Virus (rVSV) for the Treatment of Glioblastoma
<p>Background: Over the past 30 years, little has changed in the treatment modalities and prognosis of patients suffering from Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the most common and by far the most devastating adult primary malignant brain tumor. Conventional therapies provide only a marginal increase …
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An Examination Of A Social And Emotional Learning Program And Implications For Diversity Development
<p>This paper evaluated the Second Step program used by the Galaxy school district and many of the surrounding school districts in the area as the sole social and emotional learning program for elementary and middle/junior high school students. Research was conducted to discover whether or not the …
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