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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"History narrative"”.
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Silence Descends: Lynchings and Their Aftermath in Lafayette and Union Counties, Mississippi
… his death is not acknowledged in the local history narrative, nor is it memorialized with a marker. Elwood Higginbottom was lynched in neighboring Lafayette County in 1935 and, despite a silence that has persisted for decades, has recently been memorialized. The process of memorializing …
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An exploration of the applicability of Linda Aronson's flashback theory as a framework for the practice of screenwriting
… the script using Linda Aronson's flashback narrative structures. The central focus of this thesis is to explore the applicability of Aronson's theoretical frameworks first circulated in Screen writing Updated in 2000 through the various stages of script development. The Introduction examines …
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Understanding career criminal kidnapping: a study of offending dynamics, subcultural tolerance and policing in Malaysia
… out, the research is based on a series of life history, narrative interviews, conducted with Alohan in a secure location. These are supplemented by semistructured interviews with: officers from Royal Malaysian Customs; officers from the Specialist Police Kidnap Unit of the Royal Malaysian …
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The Blues Is Alright: Blues Music as a Root for Cultural Tourism and Public History
… played a role in music tourism, and how public history is used in different ways to accomplish a similar goal. For cities with ties to blues history, blues music tourism can become a source for financial stability as well as a teaching opportunity in the form of public history. Beyond a push to …
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Examining Institutional History Narratives Through a Critical Whiteness Framework
… institutions (PWIs) are experiencing a racial history crisis. This crisis is occurring partially in response to current events including the multiple deaths of Black men and women at the hands of White police officers: Michael Brown in 2014, Breonna Taylor in 2020, and George Floyd also in …
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Portraits and Landscapes in Family Narrative
… in how individual perspectives affect family narratives and constructions of family history. Narrative exists chiefly in story form, but it also exists in people's mind, helping them to understand material culture, customs, and other forms of folk expression. These folk ideas define us and …
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What Spins Away
… primary relationships is both the result of his history with that older missing brother, and his own misconceptions about the meaning of that history. On a formal level, the novel explores the ability of traditional narrative structures to carry postmodern themes. The theme, in this case, is the …
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If You Can't Find Me in the School Room: Oral Histories of African American Educators and Students During the Albany Movement
I have recognized that a sense of belonging and recognition of community spirit are key to the education and liberation of African Americans. I hope we will learn from the experience of my participants during the Albany Movement. I hope that educators and students build allies with parents, …
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Making a difference? Understanding the working lives of learning disability nurses; 30 years of learning disability nursing in England
… Phenomenology, and the study design utilised narrative interviewing techniques based on an adapted model of the Biographic Narrative Interpretive Method (Wengraf 2001) in order to explore the career choices, experiences and beliefs, and values about learning disability nursing. Twenty in-depth …
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A study of how a sangoma makes sense of her ‘sangomahood’ through narrative
… discourse of ‘sangomahood’. It focuses on the narrative of a female sangoma in South Africa and how she experiences her ‘sangomahood’ and gives meaning to it in her specific cultural context. By qualitatively exploring her narrative an attempt was made to understand and illuminate the …
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Syrian Refugee Storytelling and the ‘Survivor-Witness-Messenger’: Knowledge and Violence in Displacement Narratives
… approach to the study of Syrian refugee narratives (in original oral history interviews, memoirs and news media), the thesis carries out a discourse analysis of a variety of texts to examine how subjectivities and global relations of power are discursively produced and cited. Following …
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Survivors narratives of intimate partner violence in Cape Town, South Africa: A life history approach
… is one of a few studies that have used life history methods with women to explore their life contexts and experiences of IPV. Purposive sampling was used to recruit a sample of 11 women based in a Cape Town women’s shelter for abused women and children. Two semi-structured qualitative life …
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Rainbow in the Clouds: Oral Histories of Black Homosexual Male Graduates' Experience of Schooling in Augusta, Georgia
… South. Methodologically, I draw upon the oral history work of Cynthia Stokes Brown (1988), Patricia Leavy (2011), and Donald Ritchie (2003) to capture and archive the authentic voices of my participants in order to construct meaning from their experiences. It is my contention that the culture …