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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Old South."”.
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Gaslight, Progress, and the Old South, 1801-1865
… recent interest in the efforts of antebellum southerners to modernize their society, the role of gaslight technology in the southern campaign to modernize on their own terms has remained wholly neglected in the scholarly literature. Most scholars of lighting technology are aware that in 1802, …
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A Plantation Mistress of the Old South: The Life of Ann Barnes Archer of Mississippi
<p>In 1834, at the age of sixteen, southerner Ann Barnes married Richard Thompson Archer, a successful planter twenty-one years her senior. Over the course of their thirty- two years of marriage, the Archers raised ten children and acquired over five hundred slaves. Their family and bondpersons …
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New Voices in the Old South: Latino Immigrant Students' Experiences at one Georgia Middle School
This research study investigated the experiences of Latino immigrant students as they negotiated and developed their academic identities at one Georgia middle school in Athens, Georgia, U.S.A. Seventy-five students took part in the survey portion of the research study, while six students …
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A Lost Cause Found: Vestiges of Old South Memory in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia
This dissertation examines issues of neo-Confederate collective memory, heritage, and geographical imagination within the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. I analyze a whole range of material cultural practices throughout the entire region centered on the memory of the Civil War including monuments, …
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The relationship between socioeconomic status and neuropsychological performance in 7-10 year-old South African children
… to specific neurocognitive systems. However, in South Africa there is a lack of local research focusing specifically on the link between SES and children's neuropsychological performance. The aim of the current study, therefore, was to investigate the relationship between SES and …
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"Bound Together . . . By Blood and Soul": Donald Davidson's Strategic Retreat into the Myth of Life in the Old South
… stubborn because of his refusal to let go of the Southern past and in his insistence that his writings be based on and in the regional concerns that he saw as fundamental to all Southern literature. In many ways, Davidson's loyalty to the Agrarian and Fugitive causes, which are best defined in …
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From Lost Cause to Female Empowerment: The Texas Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1896-1966
… considered characteristic of the antebellum South, such as self-sacrifice and obedience. Over time, the organization also came to function as a transition vehicle in enlarging and empowering white Texas women's lives. As time passed and more veterans died, the organization turned to …
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Yellow cake
In 1981 Sizwe Magona a 17-year old South African goes into exile in Europe. He is assigned to work with Graves Kumalo, prominent member of the ANC and responsible for investigating the apartheid government's nuclear weapons' programme. At that time, Kumalo meets Slimkop de Vriess, nuclear scientist …
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Memory, time and place in The Ballad of Rosalind Ballingall
… surrounding the disappearance of the twenty-year-old University of Cape Town drama student into the Knysna forests in 1969. In search of answers to this unsolved case, the film follows Rosalind's footsteps, from the bohemian city streets of Cape Town in the sixties to the Knysna forests, drawing …
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Framing the Future: Women's Media and Activism in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Texas
… working within the constraints of a patriarchal Old South culture. Drawing on discourse analysis and Karlyn Kohrs Campbell’s feminist rhetorical theory, this study recovers largely forgotten voices to demonstrate how ordinary women effected significant historical change. It also examines why …
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The Wind Goes On: 'Gone with the Wind' and the Imagined Geographies of the American South
… collective memory on the construction of the Old South, Civil War, and Lost Cause in the American imagination from 1936 to 2016. By utilizing the concept of prosthetic memory in conjunction with older, still-existing forms of collective cultural memory, Gone with the Wind is framed as a newly …
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Ouma : performing the myth of the self
… or meaning. The second section, Myth of the Old; Myth of the New, considers the myth of the old South Africa, the myth of the new South Africa, and the different strategies of self-narration that occur in the one and in the other. The third section, Rupture, proposes that there is a powerful …
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Plant City, Florida, 1885-1940: A Study In Southern Urban Development
… Florida as a railroad town developing on the Southwest Florida frontier from 1885-1940. The study chronicles the town's origins and economic, political, and social development in relationship to the broader historical theories of southern urban development, specifically those put forward in …
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Archaeological and Historical Investigations of the Robert Newsom Farmstead (23CY497), Callaway County, Missouri
… focused on large commercial plantations in the Old South. Yet a majority of slaveholders and nearly half of the enslaved lived in smaller slaveholding houses and family farms (Burke 2010:4). This study helps redress the dearth of research on small slaveholdings through study of the Robert Newsom …
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An eye for vulgarity : how MoMA saw color through Wild Bill's lens
… on the Modernist and universal (rather than Southern) nature of the images, the photographs can be read as being replete with the mythology of the Old South- its decay, vulgarity, and even horror. Through this act of manipulation, the images in the Guide appealed in a voyeuristic way to an …
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Maternal Melodrama and Modern Horror: Genre Hybridity in Southern Film
… establishes the groundwork for a new genre of Southern film – a hybrid genre that I call Southern maternal horror. By integrating key elements from the genres of maternal melodrama and modern horror into Southern narratives, Southern maternal horror uses the central ambivalence found in both …
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Exertion therapy for the mentally subnormal child.
… by means of the Vineland Social Maturity Scale, Old South African Individual Scale, and Goodenough Draw-A-Man. Test. Highly significant improvements were recorded for the dynamic physical exertion therapy condition. Changes due to the static physical exertion therapy were less significant. The …
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The dead rise the dead and walk among the living: An examination of the haunting South, queerness, and grotesqueries in Truman Capote's "Other Voices, Other Rooms" and "Local Color"
… of queerness, grotesqueries, and the haunting South. Throughout this reading of Truman Capote’s Other Voices, Other Rooms and Local Color I want to think through the ways in which images and moments in the text can be queer and grotesque while also lending themselves to the images and eruptions …
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Occupying the Pedestal: Gender Issues in Ellen Gilchrist
… the struggles of women living in a postmodern South. This dissertation explores Gilchrist's representations of southern women as they transition from the old South to modernity. Gilchrist's work depicts women who attempt to break off the pedestal of white Southern womanhood, but never quite do, …
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