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Showing 1 to 20 of 96 for “"Grandmother"”.
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Ousie Annes : memories of my late grandmother. cooking up an anarchive
… will encompass the memory of my late maternal grandmother and expand on the knowledge of Basotho culture through its relationship with food. The practical work for this study showcases a body of artwork that considers the relationship between food practices, memories of my grandmother and my …
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Imagining sittee : constructions of homelands and grandmother narratives in Arab American literature
This report examines the use of grandmother figures in the construction of imagined communities in Arab American literature. Through the lens of diaspora studies, it argues that grandmother figures become integral in the creation of an Arab American imagined community based on two main tropes: a …
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Lived experiences of becoming and being a young maternal grandmother: An interpretative phenomenological analysis
… grandparenthood made in the 1980s. Maternal grandmothers have been reported to be the most involved grandparent in the lives of their grandchildren. Further, there is likelihood that the transition to young maternal grandmotherhood is a consequence of young motherhood (of mother and/or …
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The shape of shadows
… able. It is focused on her need to know her grandmother, and to understand her father's suicide and be reconciled to it. The narrator/protagonist, Catrina, artist and poet, writes a poem raising questions about her family: her grandfather who 'wears his face like blank feathers, night in his …
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Blood as a Binding Agent in Cormac McCarthy's _The Crossing_
… and his connections to nature and his maternal grandmother. His link to nature begins with an encounter with a wolf pack and continues with an attempt to return a she-wolf to her homeland. The connection to his grandmother provides him with the means to do so when he crosses the border from New …
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Perspectives of African American Grandmothers as Primary Caregivers: Informally Educating Their Grandchildren to Promote School Success
… of African American primary caregiver grandmothers about informally educating their grandchildren to promote school success. Attention was focused on the role the African American primary caregiver grandmother plays in promoting the school success of her grandchild at home. The study …
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The Last Patron of Tintern Abbey: The Family and Piety of Roger Bigod
… that his attention to the burial place of his grandmother and great grandmother at Tintern Abbey provided for a tangible synthesis of both religious and filial expressions of piety.
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Five Ekmousikés for Solo Piano
… piano, dedicated to and to be premiered by my grandmother, Dr. Janet Bass Smith. Each movement in this work is programmatically tied to a piece of extra-musical art by Dr. Smith, consisting of three oil paintings and two poems. Chronologically, the movements are ordered “Sunset on Barren River …
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With the Light Caught Between
… stunning. On their seventeenth birthday, their grandmother gives them a gift that will take them to a fantastical world. Despite their ignorance of the world’s existence, their grandmother insists it’s their birthplace, and the only way they can travel there is by going together. As Henry pushes …
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Birthday
… Serbian man, and a Syrian boy who lives with his grandmother. Their lives are interconnected through montage, giving the illusion that they are one family. Toronto becomes a space that seems to embrace the characters, while at the same time separating them through the hardships of immigration.
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The Exile's War
… ancient technique called writing hidden by his grandmother, Maggaline. Jealous of the power Katchan has, the village Elder seeks to destroy him. After escaping the Elder, Katchan must leave his home and traverse a dangerous and mysterious wasteland that will lead him directly into an ancient …
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A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO WORKING WITH THE ARTS AND THE AGING
… this concept of Creative Aging with my maternal grandmother. An inspiration to me my whole life, my grandmother assisted me in gaining a deeper understanding about the creative wants, needs and desires of seniors. My Creative Pulse field project focused on her artistic achievements with over …
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A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO WORKING WITH THE ARTS AND THE AGING
… this concept of Creative Aging with my maternal grandmother. An inspiration to me my whole life, my grandmother assisted me in gaining a deeper understanding about the creative wants, needs and desires of seniors. My Creative Pulse field project focused on her artistic achievements with over …
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Tennessee waltz
… of three characters, a mother, daughter, and grandmother. These stories raise a series of questions: What is absolute? What is right and wrong? What are God and heaven? What is beauty? What is love? Centered around the death of the grandfather, Tennessee Waltz addresses these questions and …
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In The Middle
… and is also reminded of her deceased Chinese grandmother, whom she was care-giver to before she died and whose stories about life in China and the US parallel the woman´s own life during the post-Katrina months of vulnerability and change.
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Dating, Dancing, and Riding in Cars: A Scrapbook Archive of Teen Culture in the 1930s
… artifacts from a scrapbook created by my great-grandmother, Mary Jane Logan, during the years that she attended Appalachian State Teachers College (1933-1935) in North Carolina. A middle-class teen, Jane went to parties, attended school athletic events, dated around, rode in automobiles, and …
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Hambo buza unyoko: on future Real conditionals
… to my mother Lizzie Maduna (née Moloi), my late grandmother Elizabeth Masesi Moloi (née Dlamini), my late great aunt, Goguse Letta Ntshangase (née Moloi), I re-envision how the women in my family performed futurity. Although these women lived through colonial and apartheid oppression, these …
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Adolescent Mexican Mothers: Within-Group Variations in Socioemotional Well-Being and Social Support
… US acculturation and Mexican enculturation), (b) grandmother (i.e., the mother of the focal adolescent mother) and partner (i.e., the biological father of adolescents' babies) support, and (c) socioemotional well-being. Fifty Mexican descent adolescent mothers were audio-taped during an interview …
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Go through the waves : a novel
… of three generations of women. There is the grandmother, Gwyn Thomas, who continuously builds statues to communicate with unseen people, and who drowns in her search for them. Then there is Jane Evans who volunteers in the Korean War, and returns traumatised and haunted by the soldier who she …
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