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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Rural America"”.
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Scrambling for Care: Autism in Rural America
… takes a look at the barriers to autism care in rural America, and the potential and limitations of telehealth to expand access to services.
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Listening to Voices of Latinx Immigrants in Rural America
… their transitions from their native countries to rural Arkansas. Using purposeful criterion-based sampling, the population of interest was five Latinx immigrant students and families who migrated from their native countries to the state of Arkansas. The analytic strategy included a single-case …
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Age, period, and cohort effects on trust of government in rural America.
… natural surprise was offered as to the impact of rural communities and working-class voters on the outcome. While much research has been done on racial, gender, and individual economic-based tensions, little research has addressed the underlying macro-level economic shifts in rural communities …
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Caught in the Crosswinds: Rural America could be renewable energy’s nemesis—or its savior
… from the fossil fuels that still provide most of America’s electricity. In most states, county and local boards have to approve renewable energy projects. But despite the local economic benefits that renewable energy projects can bring, communities around the country have started saying no to wind …
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Going Mobile in Rural America: The Community Effect Rural Trailer Parks on Child and Youth Development
A mobile home park offers lower-income rural families access to the American dream of owning a stand-alone-home. Yet little is known empirically about what is emerging as an increasingly common rural residential form. The dissertation answers whether, for children and youth of working-poor rural …
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Feminism from the farm: rural and farm women’s authorship and the future of rural America, 1920-1929
… the rhetoric of predominantly white U.S. rural and farm women from the 1920s and argues that their public arguments crafted a particular idea of feminism that is both grounded in and enabled by their experiences as rural and farm women. Turning to women’s rhetorical practices as they …
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SOCIAL SUPPORT AND HIV/AIDS IN RURAL AMERICA: THE ROLE OF SOCIAL RELATIONS IN OPTIMIZING CARE FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS.
Social support for people living with HIV in rural America remains a considerably understudied aspect of HIV/AIDS prevention. People living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA) require extensive support in order to remain in care, and reduce their viral suppression, and other disease complications. Without …
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Ruralia: Death and Dissonance in the Undergrowth
Ruralia [noun]: rural America in its totality, including its inhabitants, natural spaces, agrarian culture, economic decline, out migration flows, decaying infrastructure, conservative politics, and all other characteristics, both specific and general.
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The Relationship Between Agricultural Background, Practical Experience and Experiential Education in Colleges of Agriculture and The Success and Satisfaction of Graduates
… opportunities for sons and daughters of rural America, are finding their clientele to be rapidly changing. A continual decline in the number of Americans living on farms and in rural communities, coupled with
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American Anxiety: Stories
… deals with anxiety felt by people in small-town, rural America in the twenty-first century. Ranging from an old woman afraid of change to a veteran returning home to a people’s militia occupying a property, these stories reveal an often-overlooked perspective of the country. The author uses these …
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Equipping Members at New Salem Baptist Church of Rural Newton County, Missouri, for Outreach
… members of a local church for outreach in a rural community. Chapter 1 introduces New Salem Baptist Church and the context of the approved project. Chapter 2 presents a biblical and theological support for outreach as God’s plan to reach the nations in the Old and New Testaments. Chapter 3 …
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Just Passing Through
… hyper-masculine attitudes that pervade rural America. The novel also explores the economic effects of the 2008 Recession, racism and misogyny, Greek mythology, and the opioid crisis.
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Effects of tourism-related cooperatives on community development in Appalachia
… forces working to diminish the ability for the rural Appalachian to make a living (Appalachian Regional Commission, 1993). Many rural development professionals interested in cultivating new options are including the concept of the cooperative as a tool for economic development. However, there is …
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Basque Assimilation Across Four Generations: Experiences in a Rural Community
<p>The first "Basko" came to the American West in the early 20th century with hopes of securing a future through sheep ranching. Most planned to return home with the money they had made to start their families. However, some stayed after finding a good way to make a living and starting a …
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The School On Cemetery Road
… Road, a realistic picture of a small school in rural America, the reader meets and becomes involved with a variety of characters as well as their backgrounds, fears, dreams, successes and failures. This book brings together ordinary perople in an ordinary, almost bankrupt rural school. After …
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Defining the Boundaries: Family Farmers, Migrant Labor, Industrial Agriculture, and the State in the Rural Midwest, 1898--1938
… new relationships and conflicts it engendered. Rural Michigan offers an excellent place for analyzing how one part of the rural Midwest experienced many of the social and economics changes historians usually associate solely with urban industrial America. By focusing on industrialization, class …
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A Visual Rhetorical Analysis of the Hillbilly Stereotype
… on the visual archetypal construction of the rural hillbilly in twentieth-century mass media and in twenty first century internet memes, and it makes a case for the argumentative components of the archetype. Beginning with an analysis of early twentieth-century postcards, this study …
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Rural occupational transitions: transportation, identity, and new geographies
… why have some commercial drivers chosen to call rural America home when any place near a highway should suffice? Through the use of semi-structured interviews, this thesis attempts to explore whether rural truck drivers have any historical or geographical ties to the rural areas that they have …
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Rural Planning and Zoning Adoption in the United States
… However, the 2000 Census considers one-fifth of America's population to be rural. To adequately plan for this portion of the American population requires an understanding of the strengths and barriers to planning in rural areas. Such an understanding is noticeably absent from current planning …
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A theoretical model for education production and an empirical test of the relative importance of school and nonschool inputs
The importance of public education in rural development has received increasing attention by local and state policy makers as competition for new industry has intensified throughout rural America. Uncertainty about the relationships of public and private inputs to education output, however, …
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