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Showing 1 to 20 of 86 for “"Patchwork"”.
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Patchwork
Patchwork is a fictional story told by a female character from her perspective as a child and as an adult. Its set in Zambia over two periods in time, the late seventies and the start of the millennium. It's the story of family ties and how a child can get caught up in the consequences of the …
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Fragments and Borders: (re)constructing Korean womanhood through patchwork
… histories of Korean women told through Korean patchwork, theorising patchwork as a radical form to reimagine (material) histories of Korean women and women of the Korean diaspora. As an amalgam of different pieces that unifies once separated fragments, patchwork is identified as a material …
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Conformed to This World? The Cultural Patchwork of New Evangelicals
Are evangelical Christians conforming to the cultural patterns of the secular world? This is the question that motivates my dissertation. Despite media representations of orthodox Protestants as monolithically conservative and reactionary, many scholars have noted that an "evangelical megashift" is …
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The Craft of Violence: A Posthuman Patchwork of Technological Interrelations
Most often, we encounter our first definitions of violence, abuse, and harm when we enter the work force, through some form of training or maybe posters. All of these definitions are created by other humans. Most of these definitions are created by lawyers or specialists. Most people take these …
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PATCHWORK METROPOLIS. Un modello teorico per il progetto dei territori contemporanei
… the urban form called “De Tapijtmetropool” or “Patchwork Metropolis” . The analyses of his work has been the methodological pretext to further investigate the different declinations of the figure of the patchwork in the urban discipline from its origins, mainly related with the work of “The …
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Carbon Emission Policy In The United States: State Patchwork Vs. National Policy
… rise or fall. The findings show the U.S. has a patchwork of climate policies with varying abilities to cut emissions. States often function as "policy laboratories" for implementing new regulations that might serve as models for federal action (Pew 2005). The project concludes that a single, …
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Patchwork jacket and loincloth: An ethnographic study of the Bauls of Bengal
This dissertation is an ethnographic study of the Bauls of Bengal, a specific group of people who are mendicant religious musicians and whose religious beliefs and practices are expressed in their songs. Since Rabindranath Tagore called the attention of the public to the richness of the Baul songs …
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Possibilities for patchwork eportfolios? Critical dialogues and reflexivity as strategic acts of interruption
As a stratified social space Higher Education’s linguistic ‘habitus’ (Bourdieu, 1991) or ‘everyday use’ of literacy valorises and legitimates essayist literacy and its monologic addressivity, a discursive arena where, “it is the tutor’s voice that predominates, determining what the task is and how …
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Life scraps/a patchwork quilt: Vignettes from the lives of Brenda and Jim
This qualitative inquiry explores the process of the social construction of disability and the meanings assigned to the disability by a mother and/with a son with cerebral palsy. Using the interpretative biographical methodology, vignettes were written in a journal by the mother. Applying the …
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Patchwork places : regional and historical variations in suburban poverty in the United States
The majority share of metropolitan poverty in the United States has shifted from cities to suburbs through the effects of employment losses and the movement of lower-income populations. However, varied histories of suburban development, class and racial/ethnic divisions within and among suburbs, …
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Mending the seams of an Urban Patchwork Quilt : achieving an 'Ordered Chaos' in temple towns of Southern India
… the city of Mylapore to display its rich urban patchwork with dignity and elegance.
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Beginn und Ende: Zugehörigkeit zu Unternehmerfamilie und Gesellschafterkreis – Der Einfluss von Patchwork-Konstellationen auf Familienunternehmen und deren rechtliche Gestaltung
… nutzbar zu machen. Es wird verdeutlicht, wie Patchwork-Unternehmerfamilien ihre rechtlichen Verhältnisse in Bezug auf das Unternehmen organisieren und dieses damit gleichzeitig stärken können.
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A Patchwork Quilt: A Qualitative Case Study Examining Mentoring, Coaching, and Teacher Induction in the Western Québec School Board
… teaching and learning. Conceptualized as a patchwork quilt, this thesis by article reports on a qualitative case study that examined the Teacher Induction Program (TIP) implemented in 2009 in the Western Québec School Board (WQSB). Each manuscript or fabric block highlights a different …
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Patchwork Families: A Grounded Theory of How Video Interaction Guidance Facilitates Foster-carers’ Relationships With Children in Their Care
… theory that developed from this analysis, The Patchwork Explanatory Model, elucidated the complexity of the lives of the foster-carers through identification of relational factors that affected effective interactions between them and the children in their care. These include; the child’s …
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The Multicolored Patchwork Portraiture of an Effective Veteran High School Special Education Teacher Amidst the Tempest of the High Stakes Testing Movement
This single-subject study used the art and science of portraiture to illuminate a veteran special education teacher who is meeting the needs of her students with disabilities. This qualitative study was not done for the purposes of generalization but rather to show how this remarkable and effective …
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A Genealogy of Frankenstein's Creation: Appropriation, Hypermediacy, and Distributed Cognition in Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl, Victor Erice's Spirit of the Beehive, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
… Condon's Gods and Monsters, Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl, and some of the scholarly literature around the Frankenstein narrative, the construction of gender, and the discourse of post- humanity, this paper explores the mechanisms through which these artifacts draw attention to their …
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Material matters : color, pattern, cognition, and perception in quilts from the Winedale Collection
… and ignorant. Myth and convention hold that patchwork quilts materialized from scraps of cloth and an unconscious or automatic kind of labor. In fact, quilts issued from deliberate engagement with color and pattern—work that was difficult, intellectual, and often solitary. The ability to …
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Hawaiian Quilt Art: Continuity and Change
… modern contemporary quilts. Hawaiian Fiber Arts, patchwork quilts, traditional appliqued quilts, flag quilts, contemporary quilts, and contemporary/sashiko quilts are presented. The time period studied in this thesis spans approximately 200 years. Data have been collected from archives, historical …
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Dragon of Skyros : a study on the cultures of the ninth century through creative fiction
… Neoptolemus' story meets and brings together the patchwork of stor
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