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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Grenada"”.
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School Principals' Work in Grenada
… dissertation explores school principals’ work in Grenada, a former British colony in the Caribbean. The dearth of perspectives of school leadership in/on the Global South, broader tensions in the field around standards, frameworks, and expectations around the principalship, and, particularly in …
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A People’s Uprising: The Grenada Revolution and its Origins Among the Public
… of the Cold War, the small island country of Grenada, located in the Eastern Caribbean, underwent a revolution that launched the nation into the middle of the global conflict. On March 13, 1979, the country’s small yet prominent leftist political party, the New Jewel Movement, overthrew …
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Eliminating the Thorn in the United States’ Side: Media Propaganda and the Grenada Experiment
… the media propaganda surrounding the 1979 Grenada Revolution and the subsequent 1983 US invasion.
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Works for Caribbean Orchestra: Compositions Reflecting the Music of Grenada and the African Caribbean Diaspora
In this thesis, the music and history of Grenada and the African Caribbean diaspora provided inspiration for compositions featuring a seventeen piece orchestra with an emphasis on form, structure, harmony, rhythm, melody and dynamics. This research includes four original musical compositions, …
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Petrology, Provenance, and Depositional Setting of the Lower Tallahatta Formation (Meridian Sand) in Grenada County, Mississippi
… United States. Five stratigraphic sections in Grenada County were measured and described. Twenty-one sand and sandstone samples, and 2 mud samples were collected from all sections. Textural analyses were performed on all 23 samples to determine their lithologic properties. Petrographic …
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Cenozoic stratigraphic and tectonic history of the Grenada and Tobago basins as determined from marine seismic data, wells, and onland geology
… stratigraphic and tectonic evolution of the Grenada and Tobago basins using multi-channel seismic data collected in May, 2004, (BOLIVAR cruise), along with GULFREX seismic data collected by Gulf Oil Company in 1975. These reflection data, combined with UTIG OBS refraction data also collected …
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The development of teacher education in the Caribbean, with special reference to Antigua, Grenada and the United States Virgin Islands
… of the study is the succession of chapters on Grenada, Antigua and the U.S. Virgin Islands. There are many points of similarity and contrast to be gained from the comparative approach, and an attempt is made to carry through such an objective. Various factors are brought under scrutiny, in …
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The Relationships Between Student Diligence, Student Support Systems, Other Related Variables and Student Academic Outcomes in High Schools in Grenada
… Ministry of Education on the Caribbean Island of Grenada has been seeking to find ways to improve students' academic performance. The Ministry's emphasis has been on finding ways to make students more responsible for their education and at the same time trying to examine the level of educator …
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The decline of sugar production and the rise of cocoa production in Grenada 1870-1917: the changing fortunes of a cocoa peasantry
Post-emancipation Grenada poses a unique situation in the agricultural milieu of the Caribbean. Grenada not only defied the norms of a mono-cultural existence, but experienced relative prosperity during a time of general depression. The colony's prosperity between 1870-1917 can be attributed to the …
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Strategic sustainability and industrial ecology in an island context, with considerations for a green economy roadmap: a study in the tourist accommodation sector, Grenada.
… researched in the tourist accommodation sector-Grenada. It is shown that in an island context, defined as an isolated system with scarce resources, (Deschenes and Chertow 2004) the challenges of sustainability, especially for businesses such as the tourist accommodation sector, are exacerbated. …
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The Ladle and the Knife: Power Projection and Force Deployment under Reagan
… missile shield policy, and 1983 invasion of Grenada gave the president confidence and political cover that allowed him to withdraw U.S. Marines from Beirut in early 1984. Analysts and commentators focus on his muscular power projection like defense spending, SDI, and the invasion of Grenada, …
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Sedimentology of the Squantum ‘Tillite’, Boston Basin, USA: Modern Analogues and Implications for the Paleoclimate during the Gaskiers Glaciation (c. 580 Ma)
… Using the Lesser Antilles Arc and the adjacent Grenada Basin in the Caribbean Sea as a modern depositional analogue for the Avalonian-Cadomian Terranes, this study further reveals that debris flow facies types (diamicts) comparable to those of the Avalonian-Cadomian Terranes are produced at this …
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Studies of mercury in water, sediment, and fish in Mississippi: Concentrations, speciation, cycling, and isotopic composition
… in a total of 202 fish from Enid, Sardis and Grenada Lakes; Enid and Grenada have fish consumption advisories due to Hg. In addition, total-Hg and methylmercury (MeHg) levels were determined in the inflow and outflows from Enid and Sardis Lakes and in bottom sediment and suspended solids in …
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The Defense Intelligence Agency: An in-depth study of the development of the intelligence agency
… in the campaigns: Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, Grenada, and Desert Storm are some examples. Today DIA, as a powerful intelligence agency, plays a significant role in the intelligence community.
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God's Gonna Trouble the Water
"God's Gonna Trouble the Water," is a noir set in Grenada, MS in the 1930s. This novel explores the issues of race, gender, and class via the protagonist, a thirtysomething black woman who despite her low status in the socioeconomic hierarchy of this small southern town is able to navigate the …
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The United States in the Commonwealth Caribbean : an assessment of America's predominance in the region
… the four Windward Islands of Dominica, St Lucia, Grenada, St Vincent and the Grenadines; the Leeward Islands of Montserrat, Antigua and Barbuda, St Kitts and Nevis; and Belize in Central America.
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The United States in the Commonwealth Caribbean : an assessment of America's predominance in the region
… the four Windward Islands of Dominica, St Lucia, Grenada, St Vincent and the Grenadines; the Leeward Islands of Montserrat, Antigua and Barbuda, St Kitts and Nevis; and Belize in Central America.
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