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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"Pastime"”.
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REMEMBERING THE NATION’S PASTIME: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL AND PUBLIC HISTORY
This study explores what happens when baseball and public history collide at physical sites. It specifically examines corporate and vernacular exhibits and tours at six Major League ballparks and exhibits at the National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum. I study these primary sources within the …
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From pastime to purpose : design for the elevation of creative hobbies
… meaningful alternatives to today's most popular pastimes (watching TV and surfing the web) and secondly, by offering more equitable avenues to finding purpose.
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It’s A Business, Remember? How a History of Major League Blunders Killed the National Pastime, and On Baseball’s Future as a Cultural Artifact and Global Sport
<p>This thesis explores the evolving dynamics of baseball in the context of the sport's struggle to maintain viewership and participation amidst the rise of alternative forms of entertainment and changing media consumption habits. The study adopts an Interactionist Theory lens to analyze how sport …
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Beyond the Sports Page: Baseball, The Cuban Revolution, and Rochester, New York Newspapers, 1954-1960
… both nations laid claim to the same national pastime: the sport of baseball. Since the 1860s, America's game of choice had been played passionately by Cubans, helping facilitate their social assimilation into the U.S. economic sphere. There was arguably a cultural sporting bridge between the …
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An Investigation into Machine Learning Techniques for Designing Dynamic Difficulty Agents in Real-Time Games
<p>Video games are an incredibly popular pastime enjoyed by people of all ages world wide. Many different kinds of games exist, but most games feature some elements of the player overcoming some challenge, usually through gameplay. These challenges are insurmountable for some people and may turn …
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The Insignificance of Feature Frequency in Classifying Gender of Twitter Tweets
… With social media being such a popular online pastime, a tremendous amount of information becomes available from the posts that users put on social media sites. This information has the potential to reveal details about the social media users, such as the relationship between characteristics of …
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From Dachau to the dugout: Black America's diamond-lined response to racism
… within baseball, otherwise known as America's pastime. That the exclusion of black men from the professional baseball diamonds in the days of Jim Crow occurred should not be surprising to most. It was the method by which one Andrew 'Rube' Foster chose to organize the early Negro Leagues' …
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Benefit or Burden: Providing Access and Engagement with Wales’s Garden and Park Heritage
… practice of garden landscape visiting, from a pastime for the cognoscenti to an essential element of national heritage tourism that has helped in saving and cherishing places of cultural importance, while promoting public health and wellbeing. However, there is still a dearth of information on …
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The politics of consumerism : understanding the role of consumption in the political economy
… would be nominated as the predominant leisure pastime of the current period. Since the well-being of a society is measured along material co-ordinates, high rates of consumption are taken as signs of an overall prosperity wherein individuals are not only economically empowered but also endowed …
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Pigeon breeder's disease: the clinical spectrum and humoral response; an investigation of the nature and extent of extrinsic allergic alveolitis due to pigeon-derived antigens among pigeon fanciers continuing to pursue the pastime, with particular reference to early clinical and humoral-mediated responses following exposure
This thesis examines the relationships between the clinical manifestations of Pigeon Breeder's Disease among active pigeon fanciers, and the associated humoral responses to pigeon -derived antigens. Clinical data was obtained in questionnaire format from a large scale field study interviewing 100 …
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Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Ever-Evolving Art of Self-Reliant Reading
… reading--almost unarguably Emerson's favorite pastime--can contribute to this canonical Emersonian idea. By delineating a passage in Emerson's journal which purports to entail the "secret" to self-reliance, I suggest that a key aspect of generating self-reliance is making your "supposed …
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Exploring problematic online gaming: A qualitative approach
… Games (MMORPGs), has become a very popular pastime and often is the subject of scrutiny in the literature regarding problematic play. This study aimed to develop a better understanding of problematic online gaming by recruiting and interviewing MMORPG players who potentially played at …
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Collaborative Storytelling: Composition Pedagogy and Communal Benefits of Narrative Innovation
… teaching composition. Often considered a nerdy pastime, participants ridiculed for playing pretend and caring about imaginary characters, TTRPGs have nonetheless entered a sort of renaissance in recent years. While video games have slowly become more incorporated into pedagogy by teaching …
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Les pas perdus: Images of Feet and Shoes in Surrealist Art
… literary texts were based on their favorite pastime: flânerie or wandering the streets of Paris. Images of feet can play a role in Bataille's aim of flattening moral hierarchies, specifically the binary hierarchy of elevated/base that is figured in the horizontal orientation of the human …
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Assessing the impact of a public library's print collection: a case study of two public libraries in Cape Town
… participants all considered reading an important pastime. The reading experiences described by the participants in this study at the two libraries were similar, as were the benefits gained from leisure reading. This study mirrors the results of studies performed in the United States of America …
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"My dere chylde take hede how Trystram doo you tell": Hunting in English Literature, 1486-1603
<p>Hunting was a widely known and practiced pastime in early modern England.Aristocratic hunting was a complex practice that required knowledge of specific procedures and vocabulary, regardless of the prey being pursued. As such, hunting was an assertion of status in society and of one’s identity …
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Deliberation in Practice: Deliberative Theory, News Media, and Political Conversation
… Political conversation is disproportionately the pastime of the elite, and discussion across lines of difference, an essential element of deliberation, is extremely rare. Contrary to the assumptions of deliberative theory, conversation produces an increase in the belief that citizens are motivated …
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