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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Passport"”.
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"""Passport Please"": The United States Passport and the Documentation of Individual Identity, 1845--1930"
This dissertation uses the emergence of the passport in the United States to explore the social and cultural origins, development and deployment of the documentation of individual identity in the United States from the 1840s to the 1930s. Specifically this history asks how did a piece of paper come …
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Passport stamps: traveling through memory and place
<p>Modeled after the works of Naomi Shahib Nye, Philip Graham, Kiese Laymon, and Melissa Febos, as well as others featured in “Best American Travel Essays,” this collection is focused on the impact of the context of time on place. How does the context of someone’s personal growth affect how they …
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The development of a health communication passport for stroke
… has recommended the introduction of a Stroke Passport. However, the perspectives of stakeholders on the purpose, design, format, and content of a stroke passport are not yet known. Moreover, given that a Stroke Passport can be categorised as a complex intervention, characterised by multiple …
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Personal Writing in the Composition Classroom: Passport to Success in an Academic Landscape
Since its origin as a separate discipline in the early 1960s, Composition has been on shaky ground within the academic community. Its methods and results are constantly called into question, especially the use of personal writing as a legitimate form of academic writing. The purpose of this thesis …
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Formative Feedback Passport: A Tool to Engage Students in Reflecting on and Incorporating Mid-Point Feedback
… historically inadequate. The formative feedback passport (FF tool) was developed and implemented in the Internal Medicine (IM) clerkship at UT Southwestern to address these concerns. OBJECTIVE: This dissertation examines the FF tool's role in facilitating an optimal formative feedback process. …
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Hip-hop is my passport! Using hip-hop and digital literacies to understand global citizenship education
Hip-hop has exploded around the world among youth. It is not simply an American source of entertainment; it is a global cultural movement that provides a voice for youth worldwide who have not been able to express their "cultural world" through mainstream media. The emerging field of critical …
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The writing behaviors of selected fifth-grade students considered at-risk for failing the Literacy Passport Test
… are considered at-risk for failing the Literacy Passport Test at the sixth-grade level. This study examines the writing behaviors and the characteristics of the papers written by four fifth-grade students identified by the Virginia Department of Education as at-risk for failing the Literacy …
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The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) passport and the facilitation of the Free Movement of Persons
… community through the ECOWAS introduced a common passport. The passport was established and adopted as one of the numerous initiatives formulated under the organisation for the purposes of facilitating the movement of people within the sub-region. Although the ECOWAS passport has been celebrated …
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Positive health: The passport approach to improving continuity of care for low income South African chronic disease sufferers
Research Problem: The South African health system faces numerous challenges associated with its status as a middle-income developing nation. Wasteful expenditure and poor clinical outcomes arise from inefficient inter-organizational communication of patient information and the lack of a centralized …
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Factors motivating black male students to pass the Virginia Literacy Passport Test after failing several administrations and being labeled "ungraded"
… trials while trying to pass Virginia's Literacy Passport Test (LPT), a behavioral record, and a summary which includes graphic illustrations of grades and attendance. Three interview instruments were developed to gather data from the students, their parents, and the teachers who had helped with …
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Europa som nation : En ny stil i nationalismens genre
The vantage point for this thesis is the passport as it was understood and used in the European Union from 1999 to 2001, as a requirement to cross the external borders of the EU and as a symbol of a united Europe free from a spectacular nationalism of the member states. According to nationalism, …
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The psychological well-being of missionary kids
… mission field to the culture designated by their passport. Past literature addressing MK well-being was reviewed and it was determined attachment with parents, experiences of trauma, cultural adaptation, and social support were prominent factors in MK adjustment and well-being. Multiple regression …
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Fear of peace? : Australian government responses to the peace movement 1949-1959
… the imposition of travel controls, most notably passport bans.
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Towards an Improved Framework of E-Government Implementation in Chaotic Environment; Proposed Social Collaboration Model: Case study of Libya
… and successfully implemented an online e-passport service. An extensive literature review carried out in relation to e-government implementation to help understanding lesions learned and factors behind such success then to utilise the knowledge for further services implementations. …
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The international tax consequences arising on the death of South African individuals owning Greek or Portuguese property and Greeks or Portuguese owning South African property
… There are currently approximately 45,000 Greek passport holding South African residents and approximately 300,000 Portuguese passport holding South Africans. The question asked by many is: "are South Africans who have Greek or Portuguese heritage subject to taxes on death in excess of the South …
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The casino in the communist city
… and luxury. Accessible only to foreign passport holders, casinos in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly known required by law to be housed in 5-star hotels as one room establishments, tucked away on Entering a casino in HCMC is akin to crossing a border: passports are checked and photocopied and …
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British travellers in Switzerland 1814-1860
… but complementary sources. The first comprised passport and other registers. These indicated not only the numbers of British visitors to the Continent in general, and to Switzerland in particular, but also furnished a range of information about the travellers themselves and their tours. …
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Initial Investigations of Possible Historic Chinese Habitation of Site 24SA0122 (Poacher Gulch)
… explorations undertaken by a joint team of Passport in Time volunteers from the Lolo National Forest and students from the University of Montana in the fall of 2006 were inconclusive. Future study of the area is planned for 2007, again as a joint venture between the University of Montana and …
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