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The Literary Reception of Bishop Colenso: Arnold, Kingsley, Newman and Others
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Your own personal Jesus : individualized religious sectarianism in the mid-victorian novel.
… and George Eliot; two not as well known, Charles Kingsley and Charlotte Yonge. The nineteenth century, in particular the century's central decades, was a time of great religious debate and division. Theological and popular elements within the Anglican Church sought to pull it in two different …
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’Only a Woman’: women travel writers and imperialism
… I focus on the travels and writings of Mary Kingsley, who travelled in West Africa in the 1890s, wrote two books about her travels, and became a well-known figure on her return because of her support of trade and her criticisms of the British Crown Colony system. Rather than celebrate an …
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Post-war British working-class fiction with special reference to the novels of John Braine, Alan Sillitoe, Stan Barstow, David Storey and Barry Hines
… Arnold Wesker, Shelagh Delaney, John Wain and Kingsley Amis; and working-class novelists like John Braine, Stan Barstow, David Storey, Alan Sillitoe and Barry Hines from the 1950s and 1960s. Some of the main issues dealt with in the course of this study are language, form, community, …
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Urban Industry and Literary Work: The Construction of Authorship in the Victorian Social -Problem Novel, 1845--1866
… Elizabeth Gaskell, Alton Locke (1850) by Charles Kingsley, Hard Times (1854) by Charles Dickens, and Felix Holt (1866) George Eliot. Individual chapters analyze writers' attempts to project narrative into the heart of urban scenes and labor conflicts. This dissertation accordingly reframes …
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Discourse and Psyche: Three Women's Texts of Empire
… writers of the late nineteenth century---Mary Kingsley, Olive Schreiner, and Flora Annie Steel---construct portraits of the colonized that reflect the particular fears and desires generated by the writers' historically and socially specific gendered subject positions within late Victorian …
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In the Footsteps of: The Challenge of Recreating and Reflecting on the Writings and Achievements of Historic Women Travellers.
… end nineteenth centuries: Isabela Godin, Mary Kingsley, Kate Marsden and Isabella Bird. Recreating their journeys enabled reflection on their achievements and experiences at a time when their aspirations were disdained, they struggled to find sympathetic publishers, and had to use various …
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The Convergence of British and American Methodism in the South Pacific
… from the appointment of its founder, Rev. Dr Kingsley Ridgway, in November 1945 until its most recent National Conference, in September 2015. In addition to the domestic history of the denomination, the development of missions in Papua New Guinea, Bougainville, the Solomon Islands and New …
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The Convergence of British and American Methodism in the South Pacific
… from the appointment of its founder, Rev. Dr Kingsley Ridgway, in November 1945 until its most recent National Conference, in September 2015. In addition to the domestic history of the denomination, the development of missions in Papua New Guinea, Bougainville, the Solomon Islands and New …
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A Study of Omaha Social Settlements
… of cities and industries. Rusk in, Carlyle, and Kingsley in stirring words told of the abject misery and squalor of East London and of the responsibility that the more favored individuals had toward their less fortunate fellow creatures. Several Oxford students began personal investigations of …
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'Scarecrows of Chivalry': The Literature of Post -Imperial English Masculinity
… English horizons. Similarly, in the works of Kingsley Amis and John Wain the male protagonists confront the crucial task of re-establishing their masculinity in a devolving England no longer able to venerate cosmopolitan gentility, making visible the necessary entanglement of new-fangled …
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<p>MFA Creative Writing: Poetry Thesis</p>
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Through the Eyes of Our Neighbors: A collaborative model for cultural, educational, and community organizations to meaningfully address homelessness in San Francisco
<p>Abstract</p> <p>The following paper proposes a collaborative model in which an arts institution, a community organization, and a university come together to present a dual photography and architecture/ design exhibition, along with a series of public programs and education initiatives, to raise …
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Growing up with autism: Experiences of adults on the spectrum and associations with depression
The purpose of this study was to investigate the lived experiences of adults with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and factors potentially associated with symptoms of depression. While depression is a commonly occurring comorbid disorder for individuals with ASD, the current body of research …
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Effect of pretreatment on the breakdown of lignocellulosic matrix in barley straw as feedstock for biofuel production
Lignocellulosic biomass is composed of cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin and extraneous compounds (waxes, fats, gums, starches, alkaloids, resins, tannins, essential oils, silica, carbonates, oxalates, etc). The sugars within the complex carbohydrates (cellulose and hemicellulose) can be accessed …
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The effects of nutrients and hydrology on periphyton and phytoplankton in Fraser River tributaries, British Columbia
Physical and chemical variables were measured in riffle zones of 20 Fraser River tributaries, British Columbia, to examine which factors explain variation in algal biomass and taxonomic composition. July epilithic periphyton chlorophyll a was weakly correlated with TN, while October periphyton was …
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From being different to making a difference: developing the role of clinical health psychological services in the public health arena
Psychological therapists have a key role in providing care and transforming services in the NHS (National Health Service). I have always wanted to make a difference to those using, and working in, the NHS and from the onset of my professional career I have given the majority of my working life to …
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