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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Lawrence, Kansas"”.
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Reformers Revealed: American Indian Progressives at Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas, 1884-1909
Haskell Institute opened in1884, an early example of federal off-reservation boarding schools for American Indian youth. The goal was assimilation: strip away traditional languages, spiritual beliefs, tribal customs, even family ties, and replace them with inculcation into the values of Western …
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Down and Out on the Kaw: An Examination of Emergency Shelters in Lawrence, Kansas.
… streets and in the social service agencies of Lawrence, Kansas. I formally interviewed 31 people made up of shelter employees, board members, and homeless clients of the Lawrence Community Shelter and the Salvation Army emergency shelter. Eight people defined themselves as homeless, six were …
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Behavior-Based Simulation Approach for the Capacity and Traffic Operational Characteristic Study of Four-Way-Stop-Controlled Intersections
… data were collected at six FWSC intersections in Lawrence, Kansas. Then, the necessary traffic data were extracted from the videotapes using data processing programs. With the collected data, a driver behavior based simulation approach was presented to estimate the 95th percentile queue length, …
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Walking and the Reinvention of Space
… in capitalist societies--suburban Iowa Street in Lawrence, Kansas, and a nature park built upon an inoperative coal mine in Newcastle England--this thesis attends to space as it both constrains and enables agency in different spatial milieus.
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Cogeneration as related to phosphorus incineration
… is employed. The author is employed by the Lawrence, Kansas, division of FMC Corporation as a chemical process engineer. Results of this study will be useful to the corporation as a possible project for three other sister plants involved with the same phosphorus/phosphate process. These …
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"The More Natives the Merrier": Indigenous Urbanism in Lawrence, KS
This study examines Indigenous urbanism in Lawrence, Kansas, focusing on perceptions and processes of space production. This paper aims to explore the relationship between the Indigenous community and Western planning processes and identify avenues for greater inclusion. Through semi-structured …
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Calling the President a Liar: Women, Reagan, and the Bomb in "The Day After"
… scenes are the ones in which the people of Lawrence, Kansas experience the devastating effects of nuclear bombs. However, I argue that the quieter scenes demand examination. Through observing the moments in which average Midwestern families interact, it becomes clear that director Nicholas …
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Optimization of ligament parameters on a subject-specific computational human knee model in a dynamic knee simulator using design of experiments
… testing was performed at the University of Kansas Experimental Joint Biomechanics Research Laboratory (Lawrence, Kansas) in the Kansas Knee Simulator (KKS) under various loading profiles while the kinematics of the knee was recorded. A model of the knee in the KKS was created using …
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From Pop Culture to Nuclear Debate: The Impact of The Day After in Lawrence and Kansas City
… is based and subsequent coverage was focused - Lawrence, Kansas and Kansas City. Ultimately, the movie had limited political influence due to muddled messaging within the film and intense debate between pro-nuclear and anti-nuclear organizations, but the film clearly influenced the culture of …
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The Building of the University of Kansas
… account of the building of a University at Lawrence, Kansas, has been written from the point of view of an architect. Of special interest to an architect are such problems as the selection of a site for the University, the sites for the buildings, the types of construction, the materials, …
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Henry Albach, editor and agitator, 1914-1918
… two minorities in turn-of-the-century Lawrence, Kansas: the German-Americans and the Democrats. The son of a German immigrant who had fled Germany after the failure of the democratic revolution of 1848, Albach felt close ties to both the German people and to the Democratic party. …
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Modification of Driver Behavior Based on Information from Pedestrian Countdown Timers
… to safety. Pedestrian CDTs have been in use in Lawrence, Kansas for at least three years, and so any novelty effect should have passed, allowing for an accurate analysis of the long-term effects of the devices on traffic. Four intersections along an arterial corridor in Lawrence were studied - …
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Spatial habitat variation in a Great Plains river: effects on the fish assemblage and food web structure
… in fish assemblage and food web structure in the Kansas River, USA in relation to habitat changes. Fishes were collected at ten sites throughout the Kansas River for assessing assemblage structure in summer 2007 using fish community metrics and at 3 sites in 2006 for food web structure using …
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"Believe Me!" : An Ethnography of Persuasive Interaction at the Farmers' Market
… to purchase products. By analyzing the Downtown Lawrence Farmers' Market in Lawrence, Kansas, I provide a richer understanding of interpersonal relationships and the persuasive dynamics that occur between farmers and customers. Using ethnographic methods, I interviewed 36 participants, conducted …
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Building bodies, (un)making empire: gender, sport, and colonialism in the United States, 1880-1930
… off-reservation Indian boarding school in Lawrence, Kansas. Specifically, my evidence shows that Native women who attended Haskell participated in athletics as a way to define their Native identity while accommodating the demands of white womanhood and domesticity. Drawing on student …
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"The forgotten years" of America’s Civil Rights Movement : the University of Kansas, 1939-1961
… 15, 1948, an interracial group of University of Kansas students "sat-in" at Brick's Cafe, a student cafe near campus. The sit-in was the end of a civil rights reform movement in Lawrence. At times a liberal movement, at others, a radical one, students and faculty used World War II's democratic …
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Ella Deloria: a biographical sketch and literary analysis
… education instructor at Haskell Institute in Lawrence, Kansas. While she was there, she was contacted by Boas who offered her a position as a research specialist in linguistics and ethnology with Columbia University. During the 1930s, 1940s, and early 1950s, she recorded and translated …