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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Jewett"”.
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Sarah Orne Jewett : Transcendence in Nature
Sarah Orne Jewett wrote about people and things “just as they are” (Silverthorne 35) . Her father had given her this advice and, in a way, she made it her mission in life to acquaint people with each other. Despite her simple language and seemingly simple characters her work is full of wisdom and …
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Lines in Hales-Jewett cubes and other combinatorial results
In Chapter 1, we are concerned with the number of lines a set S <;;;; [n]d of a given size can contain. Here, a line in [n]d means a 'geometric line ', i.e. a set { x(ll, ... , x(n)} of n elements of [n]d such that for each 1 :::; i :::; d, the sequence x?), ... , x~n) is either strictly increasing …
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Selected Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett: A Critical Edition With Commentary
Sarah Orne Jewett once wrote, "I wish some body would invent private telegraphs so we could talk with people at a distance. But perhaps this is a foolish wish for our thoughts would wander frightfully" (Letter 15). This attitude may seem surprising from an author who was such a prolific letter …
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The universality of the sounds and silences in the works of Sarah Orne Jewett
… to offer evidence that the works of Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) have universal application and appeal. Specifically, the thesis explores Jewett's uses of silences, non-verbal communication (gesture), and symbolic sounds in nature as her means of creating in the reader a sense of union with his …
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Unveiling Jewett's hidden voice: discovering the aborted future of Dunnet Landing in The Country of the Pointed Firs
… scholarship addresses a deeper significance to Jewett‟s female characters than was previously attributed in canonical history. Jewett imbues her women with complexity, but intentionally avoids portraying her females as disproportionately heroic. Indeed, a pervading recurrence of abortions and …
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Private Voices Teaching Public Values in the Fiction of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary Wilkins Freeman, and Sarah Orne Jewett
… the thesis maintains that Stowe, Freeman, and Jewett utilized literary realism to publicize alternative theologies and progressive communities.
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The effects of body fat percentage on inter-vertebral spinal mobility control from hyperextension spinal orthoses
… main designs of hyperextension spinal orthoses(Jewett and CASH) in retaining the spine in a hyperextended position whilst wornby normal-body-mass and obese participants. This, however, was preceded bytwo preliminary studies where: 1) X-ray practices were optimised to produce spinalimage of …
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Exhaustivity, continuity, and strong additivity in topological Riesz spaces.
… that the Vitali-Hahn-Saks Theorem and the Brooks-Jewett Theorem cannot be extended to submeasures or to the setting of Banach lattices.
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Connecting to the Feminine and to the Inner Self in Sarah Orne Jewett's <em>The Country of the Pointed Firs</em>.
<p>In Dunnet Landing, Jewett creates a feminine world that is characterized by its depth and its moral and emotional significance. There is a foundation in the real world of human feeling, and while there is much grief and sorrow in this community, there are also possibilities for happiness. The …
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Sickly Sentimentalism: Sympathy and Pathology in American Women's Literature, 1866-1900
… Victor, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Sarah Orne Jewett, and E.D.E.N. Southworth mobilized sentimental style and sympathetic affect to challenge the medical trend of treating female sentiment as a sickness. At the level of narrative, this challenge took the form of deviating from the domestic and …
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Women's Career Development: The Lived Experience of Canadian University Women Presidents
… considerable change from 1974, when Pauline Jewett became the first woman president to lead a co-educational Canadian university, progress for women climbing the educational leadership ladder to the office of the university president in Canada has been slow. The purpose of this qualitative …
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"The ""Full Bloom of Rosy Health"": Fitness and Feminism in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction"
… literature; and turn-of-the-century works by Jewett, Chopin and London, I argue that from 1820 to 1915, men and women authors in both ""serious"" and ""popular"" American novels progressively depicted female characters as healthy, robust and even athletic---thus reflecting and promoting …
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Messages for Girls: Looking at the Representation of Women's Short Fiction in American Literature High School Anthologies
… the textbooks. This group consisted of Sarah Ome Jewett, Kate Chopin, Willa Gather, Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, Shirley Jackson, and Flannery O'Connor. The researcher then studied each writer and analyzed the short stories that were included in the Laurens County School System's adopted …
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I felt like the enemy and the savior all at once': English teacher identity in a methods course wiki
This study explores the identity constructions of two cohorts of preservice teachers enrolled in English methods courses during a semester of field experience. This research employs a qualitative methodology and documents the nature of participants responses posted to online wiki forum. Data …
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Cosponsorship Networks in the U.S. Congress: Measuring the Success of Female Legislators
<p>Previous scholarship has demonstrated that minority group members in the United States Congress generally are more supportive and collaborative within and beyond their respective groups compared to their majority group counterparts (Craig et al., 2015; Rouse, Swers and Parrott, 2013). In some …
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American Women Writers, Visual Vocabularies, and the Lives of Literary Regionalism
… own. The writers in my dissertation--Sarah Orne Jewett, Willa Cather, and Ann Petry--ground literary regionalism in the politics of writing places, but draw also from the arts of life writing circulating in the late nineteenth-century literary marketplace: through slave narratives, suffragist …
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An investigation into the theoretical foundations of library cataloguing and a critical analysis of the cataloguing of the South African national bibliography, 1981-1983
… done by cataloguing experts such as Panizzi, Jewett and Cutter. These principles are shown to be either principles of access or of bibliographical description, and they still form the basis for the construction of modern catalogues according to the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd edition …
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Extremal problems in the cube and the grid and other combinatorial results
… a problem in Ramsey Theory related to the Hales-Jewett theorem. We prove that for any 2-colouring of [3]^n there exists a monochromatic combinatorial line whose active coordinate set is an interval, provided that n is large. This disproves a conjecture of Conlon and Kamćev. In Chapter 7, we give …
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Η χειρουργική αντιμετώπιση των ασταθών διατροχαντηρίων καταγμάτων με τη μέθοδο βλαισοποίησης κατά Dimon - Hughston: Συγκριτική μελέτη
… and good in 52. The type of material used was, Jewett nail in 62 patients, Smith Petersen nail combined with Mc Laughlin plate in 35 and sliding screw of Richards's in 6. Ideal osteosynthesis that is good reduction, satisfactory orientation of nail and correct distance of nail tip from the head …
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