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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Porch"”.
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Texas Timber-Frame Porch
… the chaos of modern life. This culminated in a porch outside of downtown Austin, Texas. The program began with an entrance foyer, kitchen, wine cellar, a humidor, a library, a bar, a locker room, restrooms, and storage. The form became a long, gradually curving hallway responding to the shape of …
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Extendable housing in Dracut, Massachusetts (or the bedroom that came in from the porch).
Thesis. 1977. M.Arch.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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Blissymbolics as an Augmentative Communication Tool for Adults with Expressive Aphasia
… to respond to the Verbal Subtest items of the Porch Index of Communicative Ability, using spontaneous oral speech versus Blissymbolics plus spontaneous oral speech?</li> <li>Will there by any statistically significant difference in the ability of subjects to respond to the Graphic Subtest items …
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"Love is Lak de Sea": Figurative Language in Zora Neale Hurston's <em>Their Eyes Were Watching God</em>.
… when the author places special importance on the porch and the “lies” told there. Other significant examples of figurative language include the kiss and the bloom. Hurston also uses the seasons in a symbolic manner to reflect the main character’s state of mind through winter, spring, and …
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The ecology and management of the oriental cockroach Blatta orientalis L. (Orthoptera:Blattidae) in the urban environment
… at Roanoke apartment buildings were caught at porches, the primary cockroach harborage sites. In a mark-recapture study at four apartment buildings, 50% of the resighted oriental cockroaches remained at one porch, 36% moved along one side of a building, 13% moved between the front and back of a …
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George Herbert and Aristocratic Identity
… Chapter 2 explores ""The Church-Porch"" as Herbert's early attempt to gain public notice and to solidify his class community around notions of civility and honor. Chapter 3 looks at Herbert's The Country Parson and the context of the priestly occupation in Stuart England. This …
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The Capital Sculpture of Wells Cathedral, c. 1184-1210
… location within the nave, transepts, and north porch. Utilizing Michael Camille’s post/anti-iconographical approach, this project examines the Wells figural capitals in five case studies: labour, Old and New Testament Scenes, animals and beast fables, busts, and monsters and hybrids. Each group …
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A QUANTITATIVE STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ATHLETIC SPENDING AND INSTITUTIONAL ENROLLMENT MEASURES IN FCS ATHLETIC INSTITUTIONS
… are quick to argue that athletics act as a front porch for universities, are a fundamental part of collegiate life, and that increased athletic funding will lead to enrollment increases and higher quality applicant pools. Critics of athletic spending, on the other hand, argue that money spent on …
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Black School Leader Truth: How Black School Leader Epistemology Influences Liberatory Mindset Development in Their Staff
… study used qualitative research methods of front-porch pedagogy (McTighe & Haywood, 2018) through observations and interviews with BSLs and staff in one urban school. The study explored BSLs’ interpretations of the liberatory mindset, how it impacted staff selection, and ultimately guided …
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Perceptions of Out-of-School Reading Motivation for Female Middle School Students
<p>Literacy engagement and motivation to read is lacking in middle school reading classrooms. Educators struggle with the challenge of motivating students to read and actively engage with text both inside and outside of school. Research indicates that female and male middle school students have …
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Hard Luck Baby
… as well, be sitting crossed-legged on a front porch as she rocks in her chair recalling events from her life. She speaks about love, loss, rejection, disappointment, growth, friendship, fight, and forgiveness. At its close, Hard Luck Baby is an elderly woman giving stern-faced lessons to anyone …
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Targeting collaborative referencing in aphasia: evidence from a mixed methods treatment study
… independent raters using the adapted PICA scale (Porch Index of Communicative Ability; Porch, 1971); the conversation probes were analyzed for the changes in non-content conversational synchrony (Gupta, 2012) and content-conversational synchrony (e.g., Hengst et al., 2016). Results from the …
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The Ancient Art of Smile-Making
… has crippled a quaint future of back porch comforts. Being well-read or holding open doors won’t pay for student loans, and there is no such thing as stars in our crowns anymore. For many regions of Kentucky, there is this conflict within the graying of small town communities. My …
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In a Garden of Lions: a Creative Rendering Inspired by the Three Metamorphoses of Friedrich Nietzsche
… even the colors and smells of that roof-top porch in Toronto where I read it all the way through still arise in the forefront of my mind every time I think of this text. Since then, I have been captivated with the writings and philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, and have sought to understand …
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A qualitative analysis of how therapists experience the therapeutic relationship with adults who were adopted as infants
… prevalence in the general population (Kennedy Porch, 2007). Few studies concentrate on adult adoptees, and those that do mainly focus on adjustment and the search for / reunion with the birth family rather than on therapy research. In particular, there seems to be a lack of empirical and …
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Twelve Hearts of Clay and Selected Stories
… included here, was also published, in Front Porch Flash Fiction, a local anthology from Sink/Swim Press. "An Epic Masterpiece, TBD" veers into the realm of the absurd and "Grace" is my attempt at straightforward realism. "The Dragon's Daughter" is a modern retelling of a medieval folktale. I …
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A feminist anthropological study on women's mediumship in Florida
Throughout history women have faced (and continue to face) marginalization in religious settings, exhibited through such power plays as control over their bodies (rules for dress and behavior in church and home) and prohibitions from formal leadership positions. It is now the role of feminist …
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Barriers and Bridges: Caregiver and Early Childhood Educator Relationships and Communications
… events, meeting the teacher at the open house, porch visits prior to the start of school, newsletters, the annual art show, and weekly posts on the private classroom social media platforms to bring the classroom to the parents. Barriers that were shared by participants include lack of …
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Konstruktionen av det heliga. Altarna i det medeltida Lunds stift
… for side-altars in different parts (e. g.: nave, porch,chapel and tower) of the churches. The second part discusses the function, i.e. in relation to the main-altar, of side-altars placed in both eastern corners of the nave, a common thing through the middle -ages, and in upper levels of towers in …
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