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Showing 1 to 20 of 153 for “"Horton"”.
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James Edwin Horton, Jr.: Scottsboro Judge.
… a Southerner. The decision of Judge James Edwin Horton, Jr., to overturn the guilty verdict of a jury, thereby decreeing a new trial for a Negro accused of raping a Southern white woman, required not only personal courage, but deep love and understanding of the South. This example of courage and …
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Charles Horton Cooley and the Social Gospel influence
<p>Charles Horton Cooley was one of the fundamental American intellectuals of the early twentieth century, primarily due to his social theories that involved the connection between individuals and society. This thesis demonstrates this connection with the influence of the Social Gospel movement as …
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Stratigraphy of the Horton Group in parts of Nova Scotia
Thesis. (Ph.D.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, 1956.
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The female anuran reproductive system in relation to reproductive mode / by Philippa Horton
Offprints of the author's articles inserted
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Self-similarity of Random Aggregation Trees in Hyperbolic Spaces
… We use a self-similarity framework based on the Horton-Strahler orders of tree branches and Tokunaga indices that describe aggregation of different orders. The main object of study is the nearest-neighbor aggregation in a hyperbolic metric. Extensive numerical experiments are used to formulate …
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Historical Study of the Highlander Method: Honing Leadership for Social Justice.
… and delves into participant assessment of Myles Horton as a charismatic leader. Although a variety of sources mention Highlander School or Myles Horton, little material exists that examines the relationship, if any, between the pedagogy or methodology used at Highlander and the leadership that …
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Stratigraphic response to Cordilleran processes along the south central Andean margin
… Bulletin with coauthors Ryan McKenzie, Brian Horton, Chelsea Mackaman-Lofland, and Daniel Stockli. Chapter 2 integrates field measurements with a large detrital geochronology datasets to establish a lithostratigraphic and chronostratigraphic record of Neogene Andean flat-slab subduction. …
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Introversion and the Use of Parasocial Interaction to Satisfy Belongingness Needs
… personalities from television or other media (Horton & Wohl, 1956). Research has shown that parasocial relationships may be potent supplements to real relationships in sating the need to belong (Derrick, Gabriel, & Tippin, 2008). Furthermore, the Compensatory Paradigm of Parasocial Interaction …
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Educating for freedom: the Highlander Folk School in the Civil Rights Movement, 1954 to 1964
… in the mid-1950’s by Septima Clark and Myles Horton of the Highlander Folk School. Horton and Clark developed a successful curriculum structure for adult literacy and citizenship education that they implemented on Johns Island off the coast of South Carolina. The popularity of the schools …
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A Curriculum of Place: Who Are We? Southerners Beneath the Red Clay and the Black Dirt
… 2001, 2004, 2007), education and social change (Horton & Freire,1990), critical race theory (Delgado & Stefancic, 2001), critical white studies (Delgado & Stefancic, 1997), Black womanist perspectives of race, class, and gender (hooks, 2000a, 2000b, 2009), interrelatedness and education …
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The Origins and Development of the Verwood-Type Pottery Industry
… post-medieval pottery production in the Horton and East Worth areas using thin section petrography and chemical analysis via pXRF. This study shows future research in the area should seek to maximise archaeological site investigations in the Cranborne, Horton, Alderholt and Verwood …
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Propagation and monitoring of freshwater mussels released into the Clinch and Powell rivers, Virginia and Tennessee
… had low catchability. Mussels released at Horton Ford, Clinch River, exhibited significantly faster growth. Horton Ford is the most suitable site, while environmental conditions at Fugate Ford, Powell River, are deemed unsuitable for mussel restoration and recovery. To facilitate the …
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Dance and Sport
… in the dance training system of Lester Horton. Similarities in corporeal and intellectual practices of athletes and dancers are also explored as they manifest in cross-training, somatics, dance and sports medicine, higher education, and collaboration. The culmination of my research is …
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Velocity-ion temperature gradient driven modes and angular momentum transport in magnetically confined plasmas
… version of the three-field nonlinear Hamaguchi-Horton equations. The equations are altered to include a zeroth-order parallel velocity inhomogeneity along the radially-analogous coordinate, resulting in a nonlinear system that describes the evolution of the velocity-ion temperature …
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Faith in Action: The First Citizenship School on Johns Island, South Carolina.
… Islanders, Esau Jenkins, Septima Clark, Myles Horton, Bernice Robinson, and the Highlander Folk School all collaborated to create this school. Why and how this success was reached is the main scope of this manuscript. Emphasis is also placed on the school's impact upon the modern Civil Rights …
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Surviving Reality: Survivor & Parasocial Interaction
Parasocial interaction is the name that Horton & Wohl coined to describe a viewer's attachmentent toward onscreen persona that they had never physically interacted with (1956). A. Rubin, Perse, & Powell (1985) continued the research and created the Parasocial Interaction Scale. The scale has become …
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Educating for social change: The history of the Mississippi Freedom Schools, 1932-1964
… political context. My analysis begins with Myles Horton, a radical educator in Tennessee who first articulated his notion of education for social change in the late 1920s, and it concludes in 1964 during the height of the Civil Rights Movement. This historical analysis examines the following key …
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Fractal and Multifractal Analysis of Runoff Time Series and Stream Networks in Agricultural Watersheds
… using the box-counting technique and the Horton ratios of the network. Daily runoff rate exhibited strong long-term dependence and scale invariance over certain time scales. The same fractal dimensions and Hurst exponents were obtained for the sub-watersheds within each watershed. Runoff …
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Sedimentology of the Mid-Visean limestones of the southern part of the Askrigg Block, North Yorkshire
… the Raven Ray Formation and finally, the Horton Limestone.<br/><br/>Each of these formations has been described in great detail, noting the variations in thickness and the various rock-types contained therein. This data has been used to identify sixteen rock-types which occur in at least …
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An analysis of selected improvisations by Andrew Hill and the development of progressive jazz piano, 1959-2005
… of his former collaborators: trumpeters Ron Horton and Charles Tolliver, multi-reedist Greg Tardy and bassist Scott Colley. This contribution, I hope, will help to increase Hill’s prominence as a significant jazz figure and shed some light on this underrepresented artist.
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