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Showing 1 to 20 of 198 for “"On the Road"”.
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Perspectives on the road: narratives of motoring in Britain
This thesis is a study of the travel writing inspired by automobile journeys in Britain in the period 1896 to 1930 and the new modes of subjectivity afforded by the motor car. In permitting greater access to the countryside away from railway stations, motorists were able to gain fresh perspectives …
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On the Road to Samaria: Urban Religious Congregations as Resource Brokers
Concentrated poverty is an increasing problem in urban U.S. neighborhoods leading to social isolation and marginalization from mainstream institutions. Conventional thought has argued that the urban poor lack resources necessary for social and economic mobility due to constrained social networks …
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Starting Ireland on the Road to Industry: Henry Ford in Cork
Henry Ford’s innovations revolutionised personal transport and manufacturing processes in the early twentieth century. Following his accomplishments in the United States, Ford, the son of an immigrant Irishman, conscious of Ireland’s backwardness, was keen to assist with the industrial development …
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A Specific Elsewhere: Locating Masculinity in Jack Kerouac's On The Road
In travelling across the postwar United States, Jack Kerouac hoped to revive what he perceived as the lost essence of America. Kerouac’s travels – many of which were shared with his friend Neal Cassady – represented a resistance to the postwar social ideal, an exchange in spatial systems that …
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Net neutrality repeal : another rock on the road of a suffering music genre
In December 2017, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to reverse Net Neutrality laws, which prohibited Internet service providers from blocking content, throttling speeds or charging more for faster Internet. Repealing that regulation will have multiple effects in all industries that …
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On the Road to Meikle Seggie: Richard Demarco's Edinburgh Arts Journeys 1972-80
This thesis sets out to critically examine Richard Demarco’s experimental summer school, Edinburgh Arts, between the years 1972 and 1980. The thesis makes a number of claims, the most important of which is the uniqueness of the journeys themselves as a pedagogical undertaking. These summer schools, …
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Transitions out of crime: intentions, changes and obstacles on the road towards desistance
Desistance from crime is not just the cessation of criminal activity itself, but a process of acquiring roles, identities, and virtues; of developing new social ties, and of inhabiting new spaces. Such a framing of desistance is undoubtedly affected by structural, cultural and gender issues. This …
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Finding the balance : the Ukrainian experience on the road to freedom and development
The theme of this study is freedom and development. One of the crucial points is the relation of freedom and development to different degrees of regulation and to the provision of substantive rights in a given society. The importance of formal and informal institutions as constraints on individual …
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From Bench to Bedside: Putting Practical Ethics on the Road in Rural North Carolina
Spectacular achievements in diagnostic and therapeutic medical technology, beginning in the mid-20th century, opened the door to both medical progress and the inherent moral ambiguities and potential harms co-existing with that progress. Technologies like CPR and mechanical ventilation created new …
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<em>On the Road</em> from Melville to Postmodernism: The Case for Kerouac's Canonization.
<p>With the publication of <em>On the Road</em> in 1957, Jack Kerouac became a cultural phenomenon. Crowned the "King" of the Beat Generation, Kerouac embodied the restlessness of Cold War-era America. What no one realized at the time, however, was that the movement that he supposedly led went …
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Is South Africa on the road to achieving sustainable agriculture? : An environmental law perspective
The appearance and development of the concept of sustainable agriculture in international legal discourse has taken place in a period of human history characterised by elevated understanding of the complex relationship between humanity and its surrounding environment.
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Rastas on the road to healing: plant-human mobilities in Cape Town, South Africa
Drawing on two months of deep ethnographic fieldwork consisting of informal conversations, recorded life history interviews, and participant observation, this dissertation employs a central theme of mobility to trace the processes through which individuals first come to engage with Rastafari and …
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Former foster youth in the college setting: Bridging the gaps on the road to success
… in America graduate with a bachelor's degree. The goal of this phenomenological research was to use student voices to identify or better understand promising practices that support the success of former foster youth. Two California State University (CSU) campuses were chosen as research sites …
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ON THE ROAD: STRUGGLING, SEARCHING AND OPPORTUNITIES YOUNG ASIANS IN MISSOULA SEEK THEIR CULTURAL IDENTITIES
Where are you from? When do you use ¡°we?¡± The answers to these two questions are easy for people from a single cultural background, but may not be so simple for those young Asians who have grown up and lived in the U.S. but aren¡¯t sure where they belong. This project includes two stories of two …
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ON THE ROAD: STRUGGLING, SEARCHING AND OPPORTUNITIES YOUNG ASIANS IN MISSOULA SEEK THEIR CULTURAL IDENTITIES
Where are you from? When do you use ¡°we?¡± The answers to these two questions are easy for people from a single cultural background, but may not be so simple for those young Asians who have grown up and lived in the U.S. but aren¡¯t sure where they belong. This project includes two stories of two …
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Making homes on the road: Transient mobility, domesticity, and culture in the United States, 1870s-1930s
“Making Home on the Road,” charts the illicit mobility of transient workers, popularly known as hobos, across the United States from the 1870s through 1930s. On top of, inside, and underneath freight and passenger trains, men, women, and others moved about the nation as a matter of work, escape, …
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On the road again: Using native plants in lieu of non-native turfgrasses on midwestern highway roadsides
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-20 without embargo terms
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Positive Excellence: An Exploration of the Potential Impact of Positive Psychology on the Road to Excellence and Expertise
The search to understand the origins and development of human excellence and expertise reaches back to ancient times. The introduction of empirical research methods has created much new knowledge in these areas, but the majority of investigations and the resultant findings have focused on physical …
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Chalga To The Max! Musical Speech And Speech About Music On The Road Between Bulgaria And Modern Europe
This dissertation explores a discourse of democratic modernity in EU-member Bulgaria, which revolves around a hybrid popular music called chalga. I argue that chalga does not function as the name of a defined music genre. Rather, Bulgarians use it as a self-reflexive voice of ambivalence regarding …
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