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Porter James McCumber : evolution of a senator
… been written about the early life and career of Porter James McCumber, who served North Dakota in the United States Senate from 1899-1922. Contributing to the lack of written material about the man is the fact that there are very few sources available concerning his social and political life. He …
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The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts
The following manuscript is a collection of linked stories that follows a family from Jamaica and Trinidad to the U.S. and back. The collection focuses on two sisters' episodic journey through their sexual awakenings, their mother's illness, their father's violence and absence. In the process, the …
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The postharvest physiology of Chinese cabbage cv. 'Yuki' / by Kerry Porter.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 174-201)
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An Examination of Setting in Six Selected Short Novels of Katherine Anne Porter
… will examine various aspects of Katherine Anne Porter's use of setting in six selected short novels.</p>
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Rodgers and Hart and Cole Porter: a study of Pal Joey and Kiss me, Kate
Call number: LD2668 .R4 MUSC 1987 G84
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Rodgers and Hart and Cole Porter: a study of Pal Joey and Kiss me, Kate
Call number: LD2668 .R4 MUSC 1987 G84
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The Mis/Alignments of Land Use Controls with Perceived Local Preferences in Porter County, Indiana
… well land use controls in the Chicago exurb of Porter County, Indiana are misaligned or aligned with local preferences. The researcher conducted in-depth interviews with 10 planners, 21 developers, 21 realtors, and 51 residents to garner detailed responses from across the development process …
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The Familiar Foreign Country: Reading Mexico in Cormac McCarthy, Jack Kerouac, and Katherine Anne Porter
… McCarthy, Jack Kerouac, and Katherine Anne Porter-in order to analyze representations of Otherness in modernism and postmodernism. I seek to destabilize the dividing line between these periods as well as to show how representation in postmodernity has become more problematic due in large …
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Reordering The Old Order : a woman's response to Porter's Miranda stories.
In Katherine Anne Porter's collection of short stories The Old Order, a young female character, Miranda, progresses through steps of maturity and self-realization. This same character appears in many of Porter's later works as a more mature woman. Because Miranda has played a central role in many …
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The Fragile "Bonds of Whiteness": Relationships Between Native White Southerners and Foreigners in Porter, Mccullers, and O'Connor
<p>This thesis will focus on Katherine Anne Porter's 'Noon Wine,' Carson McCullers' The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, and Flannery O'Connor's 'The Displaced Person.' In each work, the author constructs dynamics between the native, white Southerner and the white foreigner (of Swedish, Grecian, and …
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Geochemistry of a pristine fynbos ecosystem in the Harold Porter National Botanical Gardens and Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve
… soil and rock samples were taken from the Harold Porter National Botanical Gardens and the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve in order to investigate interactions between the various nutrient pools in a pristine fynbos ecosystem. Physical variables (pH, EC, temperature, DO, alkalinity) were measured in …
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The canon of memory and rhetoric as a way of knowing in selected Miranda stories of Katherine Anne Porter
As Katherine Anne Porter notes in many of her essays and interviews, memory informs her fiction to such an extent that it becomes a controlling metaphor. Although numerous critics point to Porter's use of memory and its importance in her fiction, they acknowledge her usage of memory as a creative …
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Freedom At The Freak Show: Carnivalesque Imagery In The Fiction Of Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor And Katherine Anne Porter
… Welty, Flannery O’Connor, and Katherine Anne Porter, arguing that all of these authors employ Mikhail Bakhtin’s idea of the carnivalesque as a reaction to and against the expectations put on them as women who are pressured to conform to the Southern ideal. In the first chapter, I argue that …
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Análisis entorno estratégico Modelo Pestel – 5 Fuerzas de Matriz Ifa – Matriz Foda – Modelo Vrio Porter- Matriz Ifa – Matriz Foda – Modelo Vrio aplicado a la EPS Coomeva 2017.
… Análisis de las cinco fuerzas de Michael Porter. Análisis interno de la empresa IFA y externo del sector EFAS. Análisis de la Misión y Visión de la EPS actual y propuesta de mejora. La EPS Coomeva, hace parte del grupo Coomeva con 22 años de trayectoria en el sector asegurador de servicios …
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Environmental regulations and market competitiveness: some empirical evidence from electric utilities
… market competitiveness or profitability. The Porter hypothesis therefore presents an interesting paradigm that through regulatory impetus, firms can be motivated to pursue innovation and strengthen it's market performance. However, opponents of the Porter hypothesis argue that increasing the …
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Preference of selected Virginia citizens for information and education in personal financial management
… The quantitative data used were collected by Porter (1990) by a mail survey. The Porter database (N=506) was sorted to identify those respondents (n=50) with addresses located in the Central District of the Virginia Cooperative Extension Service. The resulting Central District database was …
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