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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"El Paso Texas"”.
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¡El Barrio Unido Jamás Será Vencido!:” Neighborhood Grassroots Activism and Community Preservation in El Paso, Texas
… twentieth century urban revitalization. South El Paso, Texas, a one square mile neighborhood along the U.S.-México border, functioned as a city within a city. For over a century, the ethnic Mexican population created a vibrant community and developed an emotional ownership of the Southside. …
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Trade Liberalization and the Environment: A Study of NAFTA's Impact in El Paso, Texas and Juarez, Mexico
… seeks to promote a clearer understanding of relationships between trade liberalization and environmental quality in a free trade zone along an international border, between countries unevenly matched in development and infrastructure. Specifically, it examines whether theories of environmental …
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A case analysis of energy savings performance contract projects and photovoltaic energy at Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas
… purview of National Renewal Energy Laboratory (NREL) for Energy Savings Performance Contracts (ESPCs). This project will assess the ability for the Department of Defense to incorporate emerging technologies in alternative energy to supplement or replace existing power sources for DoD installations …
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El Pronombre Formal en Clases Mixtas de Español Médico: Un Reto para Estudiantes de Herencia Hispana
La enseñanza de las formas de tratamiento en el Español médico incluye el conocimiento metalingüístico de las formas gramaticales, así como el conocimiento de las reglas subjetivas sociolingüísticas de la comunidad de habla. Este trabajo de disertación analiza el proceso de aprendizaje de las …
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The Verging Cities
… a collection of poems about the sister cities of El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua México. It is divided into four sections. The first takes place mostly in a domestic sphere exploring the relationship between the speaker and Angel. The second explores the violence of the cities from …
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Particle Class Balance for Apportioning Aerosol Mass
Computer-controlled scanning electron microscopy (CCSEM) has been known as a powerful tool to characterize individual particles including various size parameters and major elemental composition in a short analysis time. To exploit CCSEM as a source apportionment receptor modeling technique, it is …
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Intergenerational Spanish Language Transmission: Attitudes, Motivations and Linguistic Practices in 2 Mexican American Communities
… attitudes, and linguistic practices related to the intergenerational transmission of Spanish in two Mexican American communities, and is the first qualitative Midwest/Southwest comparison of two communities on different ends of the bilingualism spectrum: El Paso, Texas and the …
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Language, gender, and identity construction: sociolinguistic dynamics in the borderlands
… U.S.-Mexico border of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and El Paso, Texas. My results show stylistic variation through the use of different, specific discourse markers in both Spanish and English, English borrowings and code-switching, other lexical elements from popular Spanish, and specific patterns of …
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Student Perceptions of Their Decision to Enroll in Agricultural Education
… continue to enroll in Agricultural Education, beliefs around participation in Agricultural Education, and identify student’s future ambitions for their educational and career goals. The following research objectives were developed to guide the study: (a) describe the demographics of students …
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U.S. Forest Service policy in northern New Mexico : a case study of the Hassell Report--1967-2000
… landgrant activists made national headlines and elicited highlevel interest in the land management practices of the United States Forest Service (USFS) in northern New Mexico.' These actions were instrumental in convening the Mexican-American Conference in El Paso, Texas in October 21, 1967. …
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The cost-effectiveness of two program delivery systems for drop-out prevention in the elementary school
… was to determine the cost-effectiveness of two delivery systems for drop-out prevention in the elementary school. The first program involved a self-contained, homogeneous classroom composed of fifth and sixth grade, at-risk, over-age students and known as the Program for Academic Skills and …
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Women's lives in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands and their experiences with the 'capacitar practices' for transforming trauma: an embodied enquiry.
… particularly drawing on the concept of interrelatedness, has been implemented. This research took place in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands with 14 female co-researchers (Mexican, Mexican-American, Mayan, White American) who live in the twin cities of El Paso (Texas, U.S.) and Ciudad Juárez …
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A house on the border
… the author's experiences working at a migrant shelter on the U.S./Mexico border.</p>