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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Juarez"”.
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Envisioning transboundary cooperation zones : en la Frontera de Cd. Juarez-EI Paso/
… the same time are dislocated. El Paso and Ciudad Juarez stretch along the Grand River/Rio Bravo, which mainly through history has delineated the border or la linea between these pair cities. This element stands for a political and militarized boundary that inconsistently also represents a symbolic …
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Extending Herman and Chomsky's propaganda model to criminal justice agencies in the El Paso-Juarez borderland
<p>Why would the Clinton Administration pursue two completely contradictory policies, Operation Hold the Line and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFT A), and how did the Clinton Administration and the Border Patrol discuss this contradiction. This thesis will argue that these statements …
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Depopulation and Education in a Mexican Migrant Town: Schools in Villa Juarez, San Luis Potosi, 1942-2000
… of agrarian communities, such as Villa Juarez, San Luis Potosi, Mexico. National educational policies have led to new challenges in agrarian societies as they undergo not only ideological exchanges but the movement of populations that have led to international and national demographic …
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Trade Liberalization and the Environment: A Study of NAFTA's Impact in El Paso, Texas and Juarez, Mexico
This thesis seeks to promote a clearer understanding of relationships between trade liberalization and environmental quality in a free trade zone along an international border, between countries unevenly matched in development and infrastructure. Specifically, it examines whether theories of …
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Um olhar sobre a preservação e conservação do acervo da Biblioteca Pública Estadual Juarez da Gama Batista na Cidade de João Pessoa - PB
… and conservation of the collection of Juarez da Gama Batista State Library. It is characterized as a descriptive and exploratory research, with quantitative and qualitative approaches to the realization of the analysis. The studied universe was formed by three employees of the mentioned …
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Spanish Language of Heritage: A Study of the Extent of Its Development at a Chicago Public School
… that Chicago Public Schools allowed at Benito Juarez Community Academy's Spanish Heritage Language Program will make it difficult for the program's success to be reproduced with students in the Spanish language program.
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Examination of the Relationship Between Caesarean Section Births and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
… Caesarean section births (Amiri et al., 2012; Juarez et al., 2008). The current study examined the relationship between C-section birth and self-reported symptoms of ADHD by college students on the Internal Restlessness Scale (Weyandt et al., 2003). Results of the study indicate a significant …
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Femicide in Mexico: From Malinche to Modern Women
… poor family, she worked at a local shoe store in Juarez to raise money for college (Valdez 7). Wanting to see her daughter attain her dream of receiving higher education, Olga's mother. Irma. also worked several jobs, including selling hamburgers and hotdogs in front of her house, selling used …
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Cultural influences on coping with parent-child conflict
… students in El Paso, TX (n = 196) and Ciudad Juarez, MX (n = 199). Self-report measures were used to assess traditional family attitudes, general levels of parent-child conflict, threat appraisals, coping styles, and psychological distress. As predicted, familism moderated the relation between …
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Born of Coatlicue: Literary Inscriptions of Women in Violence from the Mexican Revolution to the Drug War
… (2011) by Monica Lavin, Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders (2005) by Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Ciudad final (2007) by Kama Gutier, If I Die in Juarez (2008) by Stella Pope Duarte, La reina del sur (2002) by Arturo Perez-Reverte, Perra brava (2010) by Orfa Alarcon, La reina del pacifico y otras …
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Language, gender, and identity construction: sociolinguistic dynamics in the borderlands
… women on the U.S.-Mexico border of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and El Paso, Texas. My results show stylistic variation through the use of different, specific discourse markers in both Spanish and English, English borrowings and code-switching, other lexical elements from popular Spanish, and …
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From groundwater to the atmosphere: using RELAMPAGO observations and modeling to understand changes in the hydrologic cycle of southeastern South America
… site and an experimental alfalfa site in Marcos Juarez, Argentina reveal that soy has lower evapotranspiration and specific humidity, higher sensible heat, higher outgoing shortwave radiation and soil temperature compared to alfalfa. Additionally, the water table is shallower below soy. The …
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Intelligence versus impulse: William H Seward and the threat of war with France over Mexico, 1861--1867
… focussing on the efforts of President Benito Juarez and his Minister in Washington, Don Matias Romero.</p><p>Finally, a case is made for Seward's prescience. An avowed expansionist, Seward saw the growing power of the U.S. in economic rather than military terms. Seward can be seen as the …
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Reações de impulso em mecanismo articulado plano com folga nas articulações
The dynamic performance of a four-bar plane linkage with clearance in one of the revolutes is investigated. Impulsive reactians at the joints were evaluated during impact and free flight modes. External and inertia loads are accounted for. The analysis was applied to a similar linkage witha out …
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Ouvindo os clientes do núcleo de engenharia e arquitetura de Porto Alegre do Banco do Brasil S.A.
Este trabalho estuda a aplicação parcial do modelo de excelência em prestação de serviços proposto por SILVA (1997) no núcleo de engenharia e arquitetura do Banco do Brasil S.A. em Porto Alegre (NUCEN Porto Alegre). O foco do estudo é o bloco “Ouvindo clientes, especialistas e planos” do modelo …
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Characteristics of Perceived Social Networks of Middle-Aged and Older Kenyan Women with and without HIV: A Multilevel Modeling Study
Background: Aging with HIV may pose challenges in African settings, where resources are limited and older women often rely on social networks for assistance. We compared the social networks of middle-aged and older Kenyan women with and without HIV recruited from two populations: the Mombasa …
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The Immigrants in the Central Coast of California Need Motivation to Attend Classes and Learn English as Their Second Language
<p>This field project shows that the immigrant community that works in the fields from the Central Coast of California need the motivation to attend adult school to learn English as their second language. A six-week courses is included.</p>
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Examining the MOVE Program: Exploring program impact and perceptions of the concept of leadership
<p>This thesis explored the ways in which co-curricular programming affected students' development through a case study of the Mountains, Ocean, Valley Experience (MOVE) program at University of the Pacific. This study assessed the learning outcomes related to the MOVE program based on the student …
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Teaching limited English proficient students: an analysis of curricular and instructional comments made by in-service, content-area teachers in a middle school
The purpose of this study was to analyze what a group of In-Service, Content- Area teachers in a middle school were saying to their Limited English Proficient (LEP) students as part of the curriculum and instruction, and lo categorize the comments along the lines of scientific curriculum inquiry …
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