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Babe Ruth: American Hero.
<p><em>Babe Ruth, American Hero</em>is a one-person play that chronicles the life of sport's greatest legend and first superstar. The manuscript and performance represent over a year of research, writing and rehearsing. The process to produce a first draft of a manuscript began by researching …
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A Critical Study of Ruth Suckow's Fiction
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-03T20:52:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6004001.pdf: 11663252 bytes, checksum: c275128ae755dff40b29e71ac58a199c (MD5) Previous issue date: 1960
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Ruth Miller and the poetics of literary maternity
Ruth Miller's poetry was written between 1940 and the year of her death in 1969, and is published in three volumes, Floating Island (1965), Selected Poems (1968), and Ruth Miller: Poems Prose Plays (1990). In this thesis, I modify the concept of literary maternity suggested by Joan Metelerkamp in …
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Reading Ruth : towards a postmodernist, literary and womanist analysis
This dissertation examines the book of Ruth from a postmodemist, literary and womanist perspective. The main methodology is postmodemist literary criticism, but it employs intertextual and autobiographical approaches as well. Chapter 1 is an exploration of the plot of Ruth and reveals that in order …
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Absorbing the Worlds of Others: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s Adapted Screenplays
… adapter and screenwriter, the screenplays of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala are largely overlooked in adaptation studies. This is likely, in part, because her life and career are characterised by the paradox of being an outsider on the inside: whether that be as a European writing in and about India, as …
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Regulation of leukocyte adhesion to endothelium / by Jennifer Ruth Gamble.
Shows that the cytokine tumour necrosis factor [alpha] (TNF-[alpha]) enhances the adhesion of neutrophils to the endothelium by an action both on the neutrophil and on the endothelial cell.
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The poetry of Ruth Miller : the Word and her words
This dissertation analyses a selection of Ruth Miller's poetry collected in Floating Island (1965), Selected Poems (1968) and previously uncollected poems included in the posthumous collection, Ruth Miller: Poems, Prose, Plays (1990) edited by Lionel Abrahams. It extends and argues against the most …
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Reflexões sobre o romance moderno Água Funda (1946), de Ruth Guimarães
… objetivo a análise da obra Água Funda (1946), de Ruth Guimarães, único romance publicado pela escritora, com o objetivo de analisar sua construção e o estudo de sua recepção. A escritora Ruth Guimarães foi uma das primeiras mulheres negras a ocupar espaço no campo da literatura brasileira. O …
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A Case Study of an Artist-in-Residence: Ruth Slenczynska, Concert Pianist
… and describe the process of transition in Ruth Slenczynska's musical career from concert pianist to artist-in-residence and the factors that kept her in the position for twenty-three years.
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"Disinheritance" : identity constructions in the prose works and archives of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
… by the Jewish refugee transnational writer, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. This research offers new analytical pathways to scrutinise her prose work through privileged access to her bequeathed literary archive at the British Library. The thesis addresses how her creative life’s chronology, and …
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Transiti, Dilatazioni Mnestiche e Identità in The Road to Fez di Ruth Knafo Setton
… definizione dell’identità transnazionale di Ruth Knafo Setton e fondamentale risulterà lo studio di Diane Matza, specialista di letteratura sefardita americana e responsabile di un autentico recupero critico volto a dimostrare la ricchezza di una tradizione per molto tempo trascurata. Nel …
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Negotiating femininity, ethnicity and history : representations of Ruth First in South African struggle narratives
… the prism of representations of activist writer Ruth First (1925-1982) forms the focus of this thesis. Ignored in South African canonical histories during the apartheid era, Ruth First is frequently portrayed as an icon of the struggle in current accounts about the past. The dissertation is …
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Envisioning basketball: a socio-biographical investigation of Ruth Wilson - one of western Canada's sporting pioneers
… the sporting contributions of Vancouverite Ruth Wilson, whose involvements in the sport of women’s basketball from the mid 1930s through the 1960s was significant. Though several studies have highlighted the importance of women’s basketball in a North American context (Hall, 2002; Cahn, …
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Daughters of Ruth : enterprising black women in insurance in the New South, 1890s to 1930s
The dissertation explores the imbricated nature of race, gender, and class in the field of insurance within the political economy of the New South. It considers how enterprising black women navigated tensions between New South rhetoric and Jim Crow reality as well as sexism and racism within the …
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Public-private partnership in the transfer of technology to human service programs by Ruth A. Bruer
The purpose of this dissertation is to describe the transfer of a specific technology to a program intended to benefit a segment of the older population. The study interprets the implications of this transfer process for human service programs responsive to the public interest. This provides a …
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Political Mavens: Ruth Underhill, Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin, Gene Weltfish, Ella Deloria, and the Politics of Culture
… locus of this masters thesis, 'Political Mavens: Ruth Underhill, Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin, Gene Weltfish, Ella Deloria, and the Politics of Culture,' centers on how female anthropologists shaped political discourses in the twentieth century. The anthropologist has long been considered the …
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Rhetoric of argument in Elizabeth Gaskell's "Mary Barton" and "Ruth"
Gaskell's two social novels, Mary Barton and Ruth, were significant contributors to the nineteenth-century argumentative discourse, and as such, the novels' rhetorical attributes, which include logos, pathos, and ethos, define them as arguments for political and social reform. Since scholarship has …
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On Distinguishing the Meaningless from the Meaningful: An Evolutionary Game Theoretic Approach to Ruth Millikan\'s Teleosemantics
… While one might say that, within the context of Ruth Millikan\'s teleosemantics, it is a term\'s having a proper function that distinguishes it from a meaningless utterance, I propose that the distinction can be made with reference to the history of the term. Using evolutionary game theory, I …
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Protecting Systems of Nature and Gender: Ecofeminism in Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal Summer and Ruth Ozeki's All Over Creation
… of Barbara Kingsolver’s Prodigal Summer and Ruth Ozeki’s All Over Creation. In this thesis, I consider the authors’ use of scientific evidence to engage readers with their rhetorical goals of protecting the systems of nature and gender. In the first chapter, I define the history of …
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