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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Pocahontas"”.
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Pocahontas reclaimed: the Powhatans' theatrical rebuttal to Disney's revisionist myth
… compares the content of play <em>The One Called Pocahontas</em> to the Walt Disney film <em>Pocahontas</em>. The author examined the accepted history of the Powhatan woman known as Pocahontas in relation to the "infotainment" provided by both the play and the movie. The study examines the …
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Insights Into the Stratigraphic Evolution of the Early Pennsylvanian Pocahontas Basin, Virginia
… strata of the Breathitt Group within the Pocahontas Basin, southwestern Virginia, define a southeasterly thickening clastic wedge deposited in continental to marginal marine environments influenced by recurring, high-magnitude relative sea-level fluctuations and low-frequency changes in …
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Investigation of coal bumps in the Pocahontas No. 3 seam, Buchanan County, Virginia
… position of the deep mines operating in the Pocahontas No. 3 seam in Buchanan County, Virginia. Unstable ground movements occurring within a panel of pillars removed using continuous mining equipment were detected using the microseismic monitoring system developed by the U. S. Bureau of …
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Analysis of red spruce (Picea rubens) regeneration in Pocahontas, Randolph, and Tucker counties, West Virginia
Three red spruce communities in the Central Appalachians of West Virginia were accessed temporally over a period of 10 to 11 years and by forest zones (i.e. hardwood, ecotone, red spruce zones). These communities experienced an increasing density of red spruce over time across all forest zones. Red …
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An Historical Coal Mining Community and Its School: A Study of Pocahontas High School, 1908-1991
Pocahontas High School, the smallest of four Tazewell County high schools, is presently located in the historic town of Pocahontas, Virginia. From the school's establishment in 1908 until 1955, the high school was located at the top of Water Street within the town limits. In 1955, students were …
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Making and Breaking Big Rural: Science and Technology Construct the Coalfield
… a rural industrial space such as the Pocahontas Coalfield in Southern West Virginia/Southwest Virginia. It examines the ramifications of this single sector rural space, and of automation and coalfield technology, on its inhabitants, especially on their capacity for democratic practice. …
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Sequence Stratigraphy and Architecture of Lower Pennsylvanian Strata, Southern West Virginia: Potential for Carbon Sequestration and Enhanced Coal-Bed Methane Recovery in the Pocahontas Basin
… capacity within coals of the lower Pennsylvanian Pocahontas and Bottom Creek formations in the Bradshaw CBM field indicates that 19 million tons of carbon dioxide can be sequestered. Sequestration of carbon dioxide within the Bradshaw CBM field has the potential to increase coal-bed methane …
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West Virginia House: A Union of Two Vernaculars
… the Civil War. The building is a house in rural Pocahontas County.
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"Unique By Nature, Traditional By Choice": Music Initiatives and Social Change in a Rural Appalachian Community
In Pocahontas County, West Virginia, a cherished musical heritage exists alongside a continuously changing population, and music initiatives demonstrate the tension between preserving local traditions and embracing diversity. Employing practice theory, concepts of globalization, and an applied …
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Organizational and Risk Characteristics of Emerging Public-Private Partnership Models
… The four cases identified for study include, the Pocahontas Parkway in Virginia, SR-125 in California representing the Greenfield model and the Chicago Skyway and Indiana Toll road under the Brownfield model. An analytical template comprised of a project finance structure, risk matrix for each of …
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Examining Teachers’ Practices and Perspectives of Family Engagement in a Rural High School Setting
… interviews with four participants from the “Pocahontas High School” located in North Georgia. The significance of the study, a literature review, methodology, and findings of this study were also provided in detail.</p>
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Subsurface study of the Lee formation in Buchanan County, Virginia
… intormally. The lower member containing the Pocahontas coals and distinguished by a predominance of conglomerate and orthoquartzitic sandstone may be the approximate equivalent or the Pocahontas Group of West Virginia. The upper member is characterized by “dirty” sandstone. siltstone, shale, …
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A calorimetric study of the immersion of bituminous coal in liquids
… the heat and kinetics of immersion of Pocahontas No. 3 coal in water, methanol, a series of n-alkanes, and several cyclic and heterocyclic hydrocarbons. Results indicate that the heat of immersion is sensitive to the carbon chain length of the wetting liquid and its ability to hydrogen …
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A natureza no desenho animado ensinando sobre homem, mulher, raça, etnia e outras coisas mais...
… O Rei Leão, Rei LeãoII- o reino de Simba, Pocahontas− o encontro de dois mundos e Tarzan. Um filme é produzido pela Dreamworks: FormiguinhaZ. A escolha desses filmes deveu-se aos cenários naturais e aos seus enredos, que têm sempre como personagens determinados animais ou povos, nesse caso …
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Response to parameter variation of a one-inch diameter hydrocyclone for pyritic sulfur removal
… simulated for the purposes of this experiment. Pocahontas 113 coal served as the "light" coal, the Hagy seam was selected as the "medium" coal, and coal from the Cortes area of New Mexico was chosen as the "heavy" coal. By optimizing the 1.0" diameter hydrocyc1one for these three coals, it would …
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Historical Study of Burke's Garden High School: 1915 to 1960
… Coal Mining Community and Its School: A Study of Pocahontas High School 1908-1991,</i> by Thomas Brewster (2000) and <i>A Coal Camp and Its Classroom: A Historical Study of a Virginia Coal Camp and Its School 1888-1987,</i> by Terry Mullins (1996). The two schools in these studies were both …
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Effectiveness of Contemporary Public-Private Partnerships for Large Scale Infrastructure in the United States
… State Route 91 Express Lanes, Dulles Greenway, Pocahontas Parkway, and failed I-81 Improvement proposals. Application of the original framework to the case studies led to several refinements. The changes provide more comprehensive appraisal mechanisms and improve the applicability and …
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The areal geology of the Blacksburg region
… seaboard, with East Radford, Virginia, the Pocahontas Coal Fields and other points west to the Mississippi Valley. The main line at the Virginian Railway traverses the entire region from east to west, following the North Fork of the Roanoke River from Ironto to Ellett and from there westward …
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