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Pioneers of modern art in Malta
… painting and sculpture. In the process, the main pioneers who brought about this cultural change are identified and their output is analysed in terms of their individual and group efforts. Modem Art in Malta cannot be studied in isolation and reference is made to what was happening on the European …
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ITALIAN PIONEERS: Colonial propaganda and geographic explorations
Scholarship in the field of Italian geographic explorations has mainly focused on expeditions that took place before fascism. This thesis analyses the relationship between fascism and geographic explorations, through a biographical reconstruction of three great figures of explorers who were active …
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Shepherd's Wanted: Wester Ross Pioneers to Patagonia, 1880-1930
Erected on the central reservation of a dual carriageway into the southernmost Chilean city of Punta Arenas the bronze sculpture of a shepherd gives testimony to the founding wealth of the region. The shepherd, his horse, two collie dogs and a small flock of sheep represent the importance of the …
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A King and a Prince Among Pioneers: Edward and John A. Creighton
The excitement and interest which the pioneers of Nineteenth Century America inspire in us is in pro-portion to their willingness to gamble, and their ability to win. The colloquial definition of the noun "gamble" is "a transaction involving risk." If one accepts this definition, Edward Creighton's …
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California Pioneers in Speech Pathology: 1915 through 1951, Looking Back for the Future
… through 1951; describe composite portraitures of pioneers in the field within the state; and examine the role of leadership in the development and change of speech pathology in California. Due to the nature of this research, the historical method of research was utilized. The fundamental goal of …
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The Sisters of Charity in Nineteenth-Century America: Civil War Nurses and Philanthropic Pioneers
This thesis seeks to answer the following question: What was the legacy of the Sisters of Charity in the history of philanthropy, women’s history, medicine and nursing? The Sisters of Charity was a Catholic religious order that provided volunteer nurses, and became highly visible, during the …
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The American Indian as a Souvenir: Antiquarianism, Exoticism, and Sentimentalism in Cooper's "The Pioneers"
… had already published the first three novels—The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, and The Prairie—and was yet to publish the remaining two novels of his Leather-Stocking Tales, in which he had already discovered a costume more exotic than that of any European peasant or judge: the American …
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Envisioning basketball: a socio-biographical investigation of Ruth Wilson - one of western Canada's sporting pioneers
The history of women’s basketball in Canada has been influenced by key individuals who have challenged systemic barriers and social mores demanding appropriate female behaviors and activities. In this study I examine the sporting contributions of Vancouverite Ruth Wilson, whose involvements in the …
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The Rathole Archipelago : industrial pioneers in a hammershop of hell, reflections of the I.W.W. in fiction.
The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of an early twentieth-century labor union in the United States, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), on the lives of two fictional heroes: Janet Bumpus in Winston Churchill's The Dwelling Place of Light (1917) and Waclaw Krasinski in W. E. …
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Pioneers in Twentieth Century Mormon Media: Oral Histories of Latter-day Saint Electronic and Public Relations Professionals
… Saints, and a one-hour documentary film, Pioneers in Mormon Media, which gives a brief history of the development of modern mass communications and its use by the Church. This qualitative study investigates who has been involved in Church media, what projects have been accomplished and …
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The Once and future pioneers? : the role of voluntary organizations in innovation in the personal social services
This thesis explores the innovative capacity of voluntary organizations in the field of the personal social services. It commences with a full literature review, which concludes that the wealth of research upon innovation in the organization studies field has not addressed this topic, whilst the …
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Cornelius P. Lott and his Contribution to the Temporal Salvation of the Latter-day Saint Pioneers Through the Care of Livestock
This thesis combines two studies: the role of livestock in the temporal salvation of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Mormon exodus of 1846 and Cornelius P. Lott's contribution in the care of cattle and sheep during that time period. At Winter Quarters, the Church and its …
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Setting the white bear right: Willa Cather's use of folk narratives in ``O Pioneers!,'' ``My \'Antonia,'' and ``Shadows on the Rock''
… Willa Cather's Use of Folk Narratives in O Pioneers!, My A'ntonia, and Shadows on the Rock"" examines Cather's incorporation of Marchen, legends, myths, and personal experience narratives in three novels concerning the immigrant experience in North America. Cather uses these folk narratives …
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Innovation strategies of New Technology-Based Firms for managing crises: reconciling short-term survival and long-term success. The case of gene therapy pioneers
New Technology-Based Firms (NTBFs) are pioneers in innovation and play a key role in creating and disrupting high-tech industries. However, these firms usually lack product revenues and are initially very reliant on external investments to innovate and to survive. This renders them particularly …
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Dislocating the Body and Transcending the Imperial Eye (I): The role of Abaphantsi, through iiZangoma, as pioneers for transformative research methodologies and organic intellectualism
In this study, I establish myself as both researcher and respondent and I use the literal and figurative interpretations of the word ‘body' to discuss how canonical epistemological paradigms, through their construction of indigenous knowledge systems, construct African bodies and how this impacts …
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Certain aspects of pioneer life as presented in the modern novel
… to follow. Nevertheless, when we speak of the pioneers in American history, we are really speaking of three different types of men who have only a little in common.</p> <p>All pioneers leave behind them settled communities and highly civilized life and push out into an unknown and. unsettled …
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Oklahoma Women Preachers, Pioneers, and Pentecostals: An Analysis of the Elements of Collective and Individual Ethos Within the Selected Writings of Women Preachers of the International Pentecostal Holiness Church
In this dissertation, I argue that ethos is generative as James Corder defines it. I seek to show that women preachers of the International Pentecostal Holiness Church who spent a significant amount of their careers in Oklahoma generated an ethos in their autobiographical texts and transcribed, …
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