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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Family Traditions"”.
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Family traditions
Family Traditions tells the story of young adults who have grown up as Wiccans. Because Wicca remains a new and small religion, the vast majority of its followers converted from Christianity or other faiths, and the number of people who have been raised as Wiccans is vanishingly small. These …
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Butlers of the Mohawk Valley: Family Traditions and the Establishment of British Empire in Colonial New York
… of ancestral connection to the Butler-Ormonde family, a fountain of Anglo-Irish leaders for centuries. It is manifest in Walter Butler’s career on the garrisons of the New York frontier, at Fort Hunter and Oswego. It is manifest in the type of wealth the Butlers amassed and the traditions …
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La Cultura Que No Cambia
… of generations of altar making that occur in my family. By collecting stories and photographs of altars, I can observe and create work based on how the legacies can change through generations or stay the same. The memory of my ancestors and family traditions is strengthened. Growing up seeing …
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Appalachian couples' perspectives of their family life: a qualitative analysis
The Appalachian family can be considered part of an ethnic group. This is due to the culture's unique, identifiable sociohistorical context, physical boundaries, family traditions, and cultural values. This qualitative study examined ten Appalachian couples' perceptions of their family life. …
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Tamales with chopsticks : enriching the experience of the multicultural family
… and resources that can enrich the multicultural family's experience. The findings of this study will reveal valuable insights and strategies for intentional parenting and help multicultural families maximize their strengths and minimize their challenges.</p> <p>Data was collected from three …
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"Untitled"
… person’s recognition of the event may vary. When family members recall a childhood event, they can have a plethora of viewpoints and interpretations all depending on the time passed and roles played along with previous life experiences.</p> <p>For centuries,history was recorded orally through …
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Generations: a tapestry of literacy traditions in an African-American family
… and practices used by one African-American family, consisting most immediately of three active generations of family participants. The study considered how the family negotiated and enacted literacy by analyzing the narratives shared about literacy experiences and examining home literacy …
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Relationship Narratives: Appalachian Women's Experiences with Familial Process of Reentry
… be difficult in the most ideal of situations and family support has been shown to be nearly essential to avoid re-incarceration (Bahr, Armstrong, Gibbs, Harris and Fisher, 2005; Visher and Travis, 2003). This study is a first attempt to delve into the nature of relationships between women in …
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Exploring the Impact on Students of Western Universities on Foreign Soil: A Case Study of Qatar
… while attending the universities with their own family traditions and religious beliefs. Individual student interviews, a focus group, and administrator interviews were the primary methods of data collection, and a cross case analysis was conducted to discover patterns that cut across the …
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"Over the Horizon of the Years": Laura Ingalls Wilder and the Little House Books
… in the horizon ahead.</p><p>The first essay, "Family Folklore in Little House in the Big Woods," explores family traditions in folklore and their relationship to the general structure of Little House in the Big Woods, which Wilder wrote to preserve the stories her father told her when she was a …
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Patterns of Identity: hand block printed and resist-dyed textiles of rural Rajasthan
… of the region’s everyday rural textile and dress traditions, communicating information about its wearers and demonstrating the craftsmanship of its makers, today block printed textiles are produced primarily for export and tourist markets. In the space of just a few decades the growing effects of …