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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"National Geographic"”.
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Fashioning Brazil: Globalization and the Representation of Brazilian Dress in National Geographic
… a popular ‘scientific’ and educational journal, National Geographic, since its founding in 1888, has positioned itself as a voice of authority within mainstream American print media, offering what purports to be an unprejudiced ‘window onto the world’. Previous scholarship has been quick to call …
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CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF COLOMBIAN IDENTITIES AND HUMANATURE IN NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE (1903-1952)
… of Colombian identities and humanature in National Geographic Magazine between 1903 and 1952 create social knowledge and power in the context of the U.S.-Colombia relations. The investigation is based on the analysis of nine in-depth articles, including 214 pages of written text, 200 …
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MEDYA VE MODERNLESME: 1945–1960 DÖNEMİNDE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC DERGİSİ’NDE TÜRKİYE’NİN SUNUMU
… konusu İkinci Dünya Savası sonrası dönemde National Geographic Dergisi'nde Türkiye'nin sunumudur. Bu dönemde gerek Amerika'daki sosyal bilimler alanında, gerekse Amerika'nın dıs politikasında önemli degisiklikler olmustur. Az gelismis ya da gelismekte olan diye nitelendirdikleri ülkelerin …
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Desarrollo de una página web periodística para generar valor gastronómico: "Sabores de la Calle"
… en diferentes países. Según un artículo de National Geographic, el Perú se encuentra dentro de los 10 mejores destinos gastronómicos a nivel mundial (National Geographic, 2024). En nuestro país la gastronomía peruana ha ido ganando popularidad y salir a comer se ha vuelto más que una …
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Design and control of an animatronic Aardvark
… in the filming of a wildlife documentary for National Geographic. The animatron was required to walk, move its head, and have as many facial movements as possible. These requirements were met by using hobby servos to produce the movements, and control was achieved with a Motorola based micro …
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Geotourism in the Crown of the Continent: Developing and Testing the Geotourism Survey Instrument
… market segment of sustainable tourism defined by National Geographic as “tourism that sustains or enhances the geographical character of place- its environment, culture, aesthetics, heritage, and the well-being of its residents” (Stokes, Cook, & Drew, 2003). The purpose of this study was to take …
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Geotourism in the Crown of the Continent: Developing and Testing the Geotourism Survey Instrument
… market segment of sustainable tourism defined by National Geographic as “tourism that sustains or enhances the geographical character of place- its environment, culture, aesthetics, heritage, and the well-being of its residents” (Stokes, Cook, & Drew, 2003). The purpose of this study was to take …
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"Women of Vision" : how females lead photojournalism departments in a male-dominated field
… Post, Star Tribune, Columbia Daily Tribune, National Geographic magazine and the Associated Press. On a theoretical level, this study helps to illustrate why considering gender is still relevant in contemporary journalism studies based on the past and present experiences of the women in both …
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Eco-Theatre and New Media: Devising Toward Transnational Balance
… facilitating connections of thought beyond national geographic boundaries. Rising to the challenge, seeking a global, even playing ground in a liminal age of shifting, invisible borders, this dissertation addresses the current need for re-envisioning of our positionality as artists, and as …
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Geographic Literacy and World Knowledge Among Undergraduate College Students
… of the world, various surveys assessing geographic knowledge have demonstrated the geographic ignorance of people in the U.S. The purpose of this study is to assess the level of geographic literacy among undergraduate college students and to investigate factors that may influence …
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Competitive balance in complex professional sports leagues
… Win dispersion is significantly associated with national geographic and economic characteristics as well as league structure. Time-series analysis is undertaken to study changes over time in competitive balance in the top divisions of the Norwegian and English football leagues. The results are …
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How "global" are global history teachers? Secondary social studies teachers' understandings of global awareness and global education
… awareness of American students. (Roper for National Geographic Foundation, 2006; Harvard University, 2004; Holm and Farber, 2002; Clarke, 2004). Global history teachers play a key role in the dissemination of global content that may contribute to increasing global awareness of students. Yet …
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The relation of home economics teachers' professional identification and personal characteristics to job satisfaction
… Association was randomized by ZIP Code to assure national geographic coverage. Multiple instruments were used to measure the variables in the study. The short-form of the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (Weiss, et al., 1967) measured extrinsic and intrinsic job satisfaction. Hall's …
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Transparencies: New Zealand from 1953 to 1974 through the slide photography of Gladys Cunningham
… from this period, including The Weekly News, National Geographic and New Zealand Holiday, and to commercial slides, postcards and travel marketing texts. I analyse the near absence of Maori within Gladys’s slides and travel journalism, suggesting that their omissions represent a lack of …
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An Examination of the Media's Framing of the Illegal Street Racing Issue
… in two southern California newspapers and two nationally circulated magazines over a three-year time period. Specifically, this study examined the way in which this issue was framed in daily issues of the San Diego Union and Los Angeles Times, as well as in monthly issues of Car and Driver and …
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The nonprofit board servant leader : a quantitative analysis of servant leadership behavior in nonprofit board presidents from the perception of nonprofit chief staff officers using Liden's global servant leadership scale
… of organization focus, annual budget size, and geographic scope of the organization's mission, and demographic characteristics of nonprofit board presidents including age, tenure, length of volunteer involvement, and gender identity. The study addresses gaps in the current literature by …
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Exportación de pajillas biodegradables a Costa Rica
… de plástico ya se ha convertido en basura (National Geographic, 2017) y el tiempo de descomposición del plástico demora entre 50 a 500 años (GreenPeace España, 2017). Dentro de los plásticos más inofensivos se encuentra el de los sorbetes de plástico, su uso dura de 15 a 20 minutos y las …
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Contested Subjects: The Configuration of Conjoined Twins in Contemporary World Literature and Screen Media
… of a common identity, for example based on nationalism, ethnicity, race, class, gender, sexuality, disability, or religion. Chapter one provides a historical case study of nineteenth-century, black, enslaved conjoined twins Millie and Christine McKoy. Through the analysis of freak show …
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Overcoming Global Ignorance: Developing Geographic Literacy in a World Regional Geography Course
The most recent Roper Survey (2006), a study of geographic literacy among 18-to 24-year-olds, found that despite constant coverage of the war in Iraq since 2003, 63% of Americans surveyed could not find Iraq on a map. Similar shortcomings abound in the poll, pointing to what must be considered a …
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The Great Dance : myth, history and identity in documentary film representation of the Bushmen, 1925-2000
… The Hunters (1958) by John Marshall; the 1974 National Geographic Society film Bushmen of the Kalahari; John Marshall's 1980 film N!ai: The Story of a !Kung Woman; and the South African films People of the Great Sandface (1984) by Paul John Myburgh and The Great Dance (2000) by Craig and Damon …
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