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Olive Schreiner : women, nature, culture
This dissertation locates Olive Schreiner as a nineteenth-century colonial woman writer who challenges the traditional association of men with culture, and women with nature. In Schreiner's writing the oppression of women is situated within an understanding of the social construction of "woman" as …
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"The dream ends there": transnational feminist negotiations in Pauline E. Hopkins and Olive Schreiner
… and the white South African writer, Olive Schreiner (1855-1920). Although Hopkins and Schreiner wrote at the same time, inhabited settler-colonial contexts (the United States and South Africa) that can in many respects be seen as similar, and shared an investment in gender and race …
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The Reed Trio: Analysis of Works by Ibert, Francaix and Schreiner with a Representative Repertoire List
… that are stylistically contrasting. Martin Schreiner's Anatomy and Variations of the Sirens' Song (1997) represents a contemporary composition that is reflective of modern compositional trends. The analyses are accompanied by performance considerations, a brief biography of each composer, a …
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Race, gender and empire: transnational and transracial feminism in the first novels of Pauline Hopkins and Olive Schreiner
White South African author Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) and African American author Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930) are well-known and celebrated literary figures in their own right, but are seldom read side by side. Furthermore, these authors and their works are traditionally placed on …
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The contribution of Judge Oliver Deneys Schreiner to the development of South African Tax Law : a mark that cannot be erased
Oliver Deneys Schreiner made a remarkable contribution to the development of South African tax law during his career on the bench. Not only did he make a substantial contribution to the development of South African tax law, but in my view he also a played a humble and selfless and indeed noteworthy …
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The relations between Sir Alfred Milner and W.P. Schreiner's Ministry, 1898-1900
… examination of the relations between Milner and Schreiner, but found it necessary to extend the subject to include Milner's relations with the ministry as a whole, as well as Schreiner's relations with Hofmeyr. Schreiner rarely expressed his private opinion on matters of importance, so that it is …
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The unhealed wound : Olive Schreiner's expressive art
… this paper I discuss the relation between Olive Schreiner's social context and the form of her fictional writing. It is not intended as an interpretation of her work but rather represents a preliminary sketch of the social and political discourses which structured her environment. I suggest that …
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Examining The Longitudinal Impact Of Assets And Income On Immigrant Health Behaviors
… & Leake, 2000), the assets effects model: Schreiner & Sherraden, 2007; Sherraden, 1991), and acculturation models and using generalized linear, latent, and mixed models: GLLAMM), the study constructs longitudinal models to establish the determinants of health behaviors: recreational …
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Hemispheric Effects of Response Hand and Concurrent Auditory and Visual Information Processing on Task Performance
<p>Previous research (cf. Wickens, Mountford & Schreiner, 1981; Wickens & Sandry, 1982) has suggested that performance is facilitated by maintaining "integrity" between the hemisphere of information input, processing, and motor response. This task-hemispheric integrity has been found to exist …
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LIKE THIS AND LIKE THAT: BLACK MIDDLE-CLASS COLLEGIANS IN WHITE SPACES
… white institution, using the thriving quotient (Schreiner, 2010) as an operationalized definition of campus climate. Data about middle-class Black students’ perceived ability to thrive academically, interpersonally, and personally were collected through document and video analysis, campus …
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The demand for African technicians : a case study
… great consistency in industrializing countries (Schreiner, 1967; 1961 Education Panel, 1963, 1966) and has certainly been the case in the United States (United States Department of Labour, 1963, 1964, 1965). Francis Wilson has written that 11 the signature tune of South Africa's economic history …
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Discourse and Psyche: Three Women's Texts of Empire
… late nineteenth century---Mary Kingsley, Olive Schreiner, and Flora Annie Steel---construct portraits of the colonized that reflect the particular fears and desires generated by the writers' historically and socially specific gendered subject positions within late Victorian society."
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Thriving through relationships : exploring the influence of interactions on college student success for living-learning community students.
… bifurcated into social and academic areas. Schreiner (2010a) supplements this with a more holistic depiction: thriving, or optimal functioning related to academic engagement and performance, interpersonal relationships, and intrapersonal well-being. As campus residential settings are primed …
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Literature and the littoral in South Africa: reading the tides of history
… by prominent South African authors such as Olive Schreiner, Nadine Gordimer, Peter Abrahams, Zoë Wicomb, Lewis Nkosi, and Yvette Christiansë, and a poetry collection by Douglas Livingstone. In these texts, the littoral is presented as a space which is governed by the spatial politics of that era, …
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A study of politics in the Cape Colony from January 1908 to May 1910
… her most able politicians, J.H. Hofmeyr and W.P. Schreiner. There are a fair number of secondary works which handle this period. The biographies of the two men mentioned above are examples. But no secondary work has dealt with the period as a subject in itself. It has always been related to a …
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Writing the New Life: Literary Form in the Spiritual Imagination of Middle-Class Ethical Socialism, 1880–1900
… reality. In Chapter Two, novelist Olive Schreiner is seen to construct a holistic philosophy from the combination of Emersonian Transcendentalism and Darwinian materialism, formally reflected in the socialistically popular allegories of Dreams (1890). The third chapter argues that social …
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Stellenwert der radikalen Lymphadenektomie in der chirurgischen Behandlung des nichtkleinzelligen Bronchialkarzinoms
The extent of lymphadenectomy as an integral part of curative surgery has been the subject of debate. In some countries, mediastinal lymphadenectomy is a religion, whereas in other countries it is totally ignored and not performed. No sufficient data are available to asses whether mediastinal …
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