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Showing 1 to 20 of 79 for “"Jungle"”.
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The Jungle Tide: “Collapse” in Early Mediaeval Sri Lanka
This thesis reassesses the Early Mediaeval “collapse” of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, through explicit reference to the archaeological record. The study of Anuradhapura’s terminal period has been dominated by a reliance upon textual sources, resulting in a monocausal and politically charged narrative …
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It's a jungle out there : zoo public relations and marketing
<p>This study was investigated the public relations and marketing strategy and tactics used by Micke Grove Zoo in the last five years. A case study methodology was used to answer the three research questions. The research analyzed the Zoo's past and current marketing and public relations strategy …
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Beyond Jungle Fever: an Exploratory Study of Interracial Couples' Communication Patterns
This thesis is an exploratory study of African American/Anglo interracial couples and how they incorporate communication strategies to define themselves, interact with society, and manage relationships with family, peers, and strangers. As the bulk of interracial literature focuses on quantitative …
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The development of Australian Army jungle warfare doctrine and training, 1941-1945
… examines the development of Australian Army jungle warfare doctrine and training during the Second World War. The Australian Army transformed itself from a military force ill-prepared for conflict of any type in 1939 into one of the most professional, experienced and highly trained forces in …
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“Man-Cub They Call Me”: Mowgli’s Constructed Childhood in Kipling’s Jungle Books
… article approaches Rudyard Kipling’s <em>The Jungle Books</em> and its protagonist, Mowgli, through the perspective of childhood studies. While other scholars have concentrated on the imperial implications of Mowgli’s childhood, I argue that more facets of Mowgli’s childhood, especially body, …
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The mascot and the refugee : survival strategies for the new urban jungle
As humans rebuild the world to suit our needs, many of our fellow creatures simply get out of the way-but others try their luck alongside us. Austin, Texas is home to two notable urban wildlife populations. In the early 1980s, one and a half million Mexican Free-tailed Bats moved into a bridge in …
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The Effect of Jungle Light Spectrum on the Fearfulness of Commercial Broiler Chickens
… and a light spectrum that simulates light in the jungle canopy. Four commercial broiler houses were utilized for the trial each with 19,200 birds. The source flocks were equally distributed within and between the houses. Birds were tested for fearfulness using several behavioral tests at 34 to 36 …
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The jungle in the clearing : space, form and democracy in America, 1940-1949
Combining aesthetic theory with theories of the public sphere, this dissertation examines the brief appearance of a publicly empathetic civic realm in the United States during the 1940s. The argument begins with a reevaluation of the debate over monumentality initiated in modernist architectural …
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From the jungle : Iban performance practice, migration and identity : a practice-based PhD based on four-years of research, culminating in this thesis and a performance piece, From the jungle, May 2012
… the Iban practices have migrated from the jungle, to urban areas, and globally, and inevitably the identity of these practices has developed as the locations have changed, much like the women performing them. My father is Iban and my mother white New Zealander, and I grew up in both Sarawak …
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"A Walk Through the Jungle at Twilight": How Parents Experience a Transition to Adolescence
This study examined how parents experienced their first child's transition to adolescence. A multiple-case qualitative research design was chosen to examine parents' experiences. Family systems theory and family stress and coping theory provided a theoretical starting point. Participants were …
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The Fantasy of an Anglo-Indian Man: Imperialism and Colonialism in Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Books
… most well-known two short story collections, The Jungle Book (1894) and The Second Jungle Book (1895). This paper explores the allegory of colonialism and imperialism in the short stories about the main character, Mowgli, the boy who was raised by wolves in the jungle, through the different animal …
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Radicalism in America's "Industrial Jungle": Metaphors of the Primitive and the Industrial in Activist Texts
Scholars often view political texts as mere propaganda, characterized by rigid ideologies rather than the nuance of literature. This text argues the opposite through a study of post-1945 American radical movements. Far from generating simple propaganda, social movements create rhetoric and imagery …
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A Comparative Analysis of Upton Sinclair's <em>The Jungle</em> and Emile Zola's <em>Germinal</em>.
… to demonstrate that Upton Sinclair's The Jungle was modeled upon Emile Zola's Germinal. A comparative analysis of their novels is the method by which the latter statement is substantiated. A close reading of these works unveils their overlappings in terms of characterization, theme and …
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Application of remote sensing to diamond placer exploration in a tropical jungle environment, Caroni River, Venezuela
Includes bibliographical references (pages 144-167).
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A jungle of shadows : interpenetrations of the anagogical and the grotesque in the short stories of Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor (1925-64) has become established in critical thought both as a "Christian" writer and a writer of the "grotesque". Indeed, to be true to the nature of her art, neither designation can be easily discarded. It is the premise of this study that O'Connor's mature, post-l 952 work, …
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Product and program management : battling the strangler trees of system and social complexity in the software market jungle
An exploration of Software Product and Program Management as recently emergent roles in the information technology sector is presented. The exploration is presented in six sections divided into two major parts. The first part, in four sections, explores Product Management from a primarily …
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“Soon it will be a concrete jungle”: Perceptions and Projected Impacts of ‘El Proyecto Techos de Esperanza’ in Bastimentos, Panamá
El Proyecto Techos de Esperanza is a state implemented resettlement initiative advertised by Panama’s Ministry of Housing to provide homes for underserved communities across the country. This study focuses on one development site on Isla Bastimentos, located in Panamá’s Bocas del Toro region, where …
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