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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Nineteen twenties"”.
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Hispanic Migration to Northeastern Colorado During the Nineteen Twenties: Influences of Sugar Beet Agriculture
<p>Growing beets to process into sugar was a large and important industry in 1920s Northeastern CO. The infrastructure to support the sugar beet industry was built and expanded in the first decades of the 1900s. Beyond infrastructure requirements the sugar beet industry relied on seasonal low …
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An examination of the anti-foreign attitude in the United States between 1919 and 1929, based upon the periodical literature of the time
… of anti-foreign feeling in America during the nineteen-twenties and to determine reasons for these attitudes by examining articles in periodical literature of the time. Over two hundred sixtyfive articles from twenty-six different periodicals, as well as government documents and some of the …
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Partying Like It's 1925: A Comparison and Contrast of Fitzgerald's <em>The Great Gatsby</em> and Azuela's <em>The Underdogs</em>
… between two iconic novels published during the nineteen-twenties: <em>The Great Gatsby</em> (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald and <em>The Underdogs</em> by Mariano Azuela (originally published in 1915, re-written and redistributed in the 1920s, and then given a final version in 1925 that was …
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Forces of Prejudice in Oregon 1920-1925
<p>Historical events in Oregon during the nineteen twenties were unique in national politics and unusually significant in the history of the Catholic Church in the United States. The social, political, and religious life of the people of Oregon during this period was dominated thoroughly by the …
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Fiction and the Reaction to Photography: Literalism, the Law and the Conditions and the Control of Reading from the Invention of Photography to the 1920s
… but also some American fiction from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the 1920s. I contend that late nineteenth- to early twentieth-century fiction creates an opposition between photography and the law in order to discipline its readers in certain kinds of reading practice. I see …
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Writers and Fighters: a comparative study of the Irish literary revival (1900 - 1922) with the revolutionary Chinese May Fourth literary era (1915 - 1927)
… Chinese intellectuals, particularly during the nineteen-twenties. More specifically, through archival research, the author showed that: (ii) Yeats appeared more frequently in Chinese newspaper accounts than other Irish writers such as Wilde, Joyce, Shaw or Beckett and thus was well known by …
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Future tense : an analysis of science fiction as secular apocalyptic literature
… order, a new heaven and a new earth. Since the nineteenth century, the Western world has seen itself in a constant state of crisis in terms of the rapid secularisation, industrialisation and urbanisation, and it would seem that the notion of an apocalypse is still relevant. But religious visions …
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Uphill All the Way: The Fortunes of Progressivism, 1919-1929
… during the unfavorable political climate of the Twenties. The Era of Normalcy itself was a much more chaotic and contested political period - marked by strikes, race riots, agrarian unrest, cultural conflict, government scandals, and economic depression - than the popular imagination often …
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Intertextualität in linguistischen Fachaufsätzen des Englischen und Deutschen
… of "dialogicity" developed as early as the nineteen twenties by Russian literary theorist and philosopher Michail Bachtin. This concept, which also became known under the term "dialogism", is part of an ideology-critical approach, with which the author opposes the "monological", i.e. …
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The development and evaluation of an outline of a course in physical science for eleventh and twelfth year students
… served by the schools, not until the early nineteen twenties did the poorer student come in for this share in attention and concern. The educational trend of that decade might be compared to a pendulum, which, having been started at the peak of its swing, rushes past the central point to …
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A study of Indian Pentecostal Church membership with reference to a model of religious change
… plantations of Natal in the latter half of the nineteenth century. The early chapters of the thesis examine the background of these people, including the circumstances surrounding their emigration from India, most often due to famine, and the harsh conditions they endured on the estates in Natal …