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Showing 1 to 20 of 155 for “"Hooks"”.
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Quantifying Acacia defences : understanding the role of hooks, spines and architecture
… as a result of differences in thorn type (hooks versus spines) and branching architecture. This study aims to develop methods for quantifying the effectiveness of defences, thereby allowing for comparisons between individuals and localities. Measurements of a range of thorn and branching …
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ESL ABE, VESL, and bell hooks' Democratic education: a case study of four experienced ESL instructors
… literacy in learners' lives while exploring bell hooks' and Paulo Freire's definitions of emancipatory education that lays a foundation for self-actualization where full participation in a democracy would help workers not feel like machines. He argues that the ESL classroom should be a site of …
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bell hooks' "enactment of non-domination" in the "practice of speaking in a loving and caring manner": an autoethnography of a Saudi "widow's son"
… the author reached college age. He employs bell hooks’ “marginality as a site of resistance” (p. 276) which can be an effective position for self-advocacy. His mother, a Bedouin, has had the perspectives of an outsider—an illiterate widow—and an insider — a Saudi woman with all the Islamic …
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The Clemente Course in the Humanities and critical pedagogy : a comparative analysis of Earl Shorris and bell hooks on poverty, racism, imperialism and patriarchy
… However, a comparison between Shorris' and bell hooks' theories of oppression reveals significant similarities between his "surround of force" and her "capitalist imperialist white supremacist patriarchy," with implications for liberal studies and critical pedagogy.
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An application for automatically translating dynamic web content
… improvements will include automated accessors. hooks for integration with caching applications, and improved translation generation and display.
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Ecology and conservation of albatrosses and petrels at sea off Brazil
… between benefits and the incidental mortality in hooks is negative for albatrosses and some petrels. Information on bycatch rates of seabirds in the Brazilian domestic pelagic longline fishery from 2001 to 2007 in the Exclusive Economic Zone and adjacent international waters of the southwestern …
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In Context
… related to the work. The feminist writers bell hooks, Jane Tompkins, and Hélène Cixous are cited as influential to the initial exploration of my content. Artists discussed include Louise Bourgeois, Kiki Smith, Annette Messager, and Robert Rauschenberg. It is further shown how poetry and prose …
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Putting Women Back on Top?: (Re)constituting Power and Audience in The Vagina Monologues
… second persona, third persona, and bell hooks' rhetorical options—to determine if the play's content encourages the dialogue Ensler desires.
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Population Characteristics and Sampling Methods of Catfish for the James and Big Sioux Rivers
… > l m and with complex woody debris. Sea-circle hooks caught 70 catfish compared to 136 catfish that were caught on O'Shaughnessy style hooks and 122 catfish caught on modified circle hooks. The best sampling gears for collecting channel catfish in South Dakota rivers were soybean baited hoop …
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Sweetness is Not a Guarantee: Disrupting Picture Book Depictions of Black Children as Comestible
… by Shane Evans, and finally one written by bell hooks and illustrated by Shane Evans. The primary aim of the research is to interrogate how complementary elements of picture book illustration and design facilitate the consumption of “sweet” Black children in contemporary youth literature by Black …
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Feminisms at the Door: Gender and Sex at a Women's College
… gender, sexuality, and race intersect (bell hooks and Kimberle Crenshaw); and the workings of dominant gender and sexual norms (Judith Butler). As the College prepared to `go coed,' the prospect of introducing male bodies into this environment generated rich discourses about sexual …
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The Lorenz System Near the Loss of the Foliation Condition
… side to the other. Secondly, the development of hooks in the Poincar e return map that marks the loss of the foliation condition. To investigate both these phenomena, we make extensive use of the continuation of orbit segments formulated by two-point boundary value problems. To explain the …
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Curriculum and Resistance: Exploring Possibilities for Transformative Teaching
… pedagogies of Paulo Freire, Henry Giroux, bell hooks, and Maxine Greene formed the theoretical framework used for identifying traits of transformative teaching. Based on this framework, as well as how their own teaching practices demonstrated the presence or absence of the traits of …
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Navigating Identity Through Education in Literature and in the Classroom
… of writers such as Paulo Freire, bell hooks, Kate Chopin Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Erin Gruwell, the thesis seeks to answer how education impacts the self and how it intersects with systems of oppression. Furthermore, I explore the role of education in fostering critical …
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Exploring Community Creation: Conversations of Young Black Women
… community with each other – or, in bell hooks' (2000) terms, a Sisterhood. This act of women talking – black women, no less – to each other goes against the grain, it is a revolutionary act that they have been conditioned against precisely because of its revolutionary nature and because …
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Upstairs-Downstairs: The Life of Women in England's Country Homes During the Regency Era, 1775-1837
… women are examined using diaries, letters, and hooks written by them as well as about them. England went through dramatic changes during this fifty-year period due to population growth, the shift from small family farms to large manorial farms, the move from an agricultural to an industrial …
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Enhancement of Shaft Capacity of Cast-in-Place Piles Using a Hook System
… foundations by utilizing passive inclusions (Hooks) that will be mobilized if movement occurs in pile system. An extensive experimental program was developed to study the shaft bearing capacity of cast-in-place piles with and without hook system in soft clay and sand. First phase of the …
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A shared-memory multiprocessor system using the raw tiled architecture
… of dedicated hardware and user-enabled software hooks, with one notable exception, Alewife, combining basic hardware with software support for corner cases. Here, the focus is moved to placing as much support for basic cases into software as possible. The system is designed to minimise custom …
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Empoderamento infantojuvenil: estéticas dos corpos negros na educação
… aporte teórico as autoras Nilma Lino Gomes, Bell Hooks, e os professores e filósofos Molefi Kete Asante, Renato Noguera, dentre outros. Este trabalho de conclusão de curso encontra-se dividido em três partes: Memorial, Guia Afrocentrado de Arte-Educação e Artigos.
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