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Showing 1 to 20 of 134 for “"Seventies"”.
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Surviving the Seventies: How Ten East Texan Women Labored for Their Families
… a university with limited degrees for women. The seventies were also a time of social, cultural, and political upheaval marked by a deep recession in which quality jobs were harder to find and layoffs were common. This oral history project seeks to document the experiences of East Texan women …
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Amending the American flag : artistic liberties in the nineteen sixties and seventies
… With the Civil Rights Movement, the sixties and seventies brought widespread change as artists explored issues of personal and group identity in a culturally diverse nation. The following chapters consider the artists Jasper Johns, Wayne Eagleboy, Massimo Vignelli, and Faith Ringgold, who used …
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“The Seventies Meet the Twenties”: Charlotte Wolff as writer, public figure and “period piece”
Between 1969 and 1980 Dr Charlotte Wolff (1897-1986) wrote a memoir, a novel and an autobiography – alongside two psychologically focused works which challenged assumptions regarding gender and sexuality. In this period she also made the difficult decision to visit Berlin, the city which had once …
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The Role of Women in Magazine Fiction as They Appeared in the Seventies and Eighties
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When The Counterculture Picked Up A Southern Twang: A Cultural Analysis Of Late Sixties And Early Seventies Country Rock Movement
… movement in the late sixties and early seventies. Country rock is a hybrid music genre emerged during this period. Musicians active in the country-rock movement were mostly counterculture hippies, and they adopted country music to serve their own ends. There is no unified ideological …
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Silent, no more: The 1974 Kanawha County textbook controversy and the rise of conservatism in America
… upsurge of grassroots, community activism in the seventies, the White Backlash associated with the campaigns of George Wallace, the New Right, and the New Christian Right. The thesis shows how the Kanawha County protestors' words and actions paralleled that of aforementioned conservative …
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The April revolution and the contribution of education to changing 'Portuguese realities'
… in Portugal during the decade of the seventies. Rather than present an exhaustive account of the educational events that took place during the decade, the thesis attempts, firstly, to disentangle the complex web of occurrences in the field of education, and,secondly, ·to present an …
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The case of church schools in Malta
… being given to the events which happened in the seventies and eighties. To give a clearer picture on what constitutes a church school and how these have developed over the years, a number of chapters have been devoted to introduce the church schools. Chapter 1 gives a historical background of …
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A study into the rationale, design and evaluation of a specific decision support system in compensation planning
… development of DSS has taken place since the mid-seventies, in such areas as applications, conceptual clarification of goals and characteristics, and developmental methodology, there are still certain areas which remain relatively unexplored.
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An appraisal of the Carmichael Residential Instruction Project, student perceptions
… University have been met through the mid-to-late seventies, the relative differences in effectiveness between the Carmichael Project and the larger university in meeting the objectives claimed for the Carmichael Project, and the extent to which Ball State students of the mid-to-late seventies …
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A Comparison of the Perception of Two Groups of Elementary School Principals Concerning the Exercise of the Leadership Role in Effecting Change
<p>The society of the seventies has been affected by the many substantial and rapid changes that have taken place in recent years. Initially, the changes were in technology, science, and communications. These changes were enthusiastically welcomed, because they made life easier and more enjoyable. …
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"Bitten-off things protruding" : the limitations of South African English poetry post-1948
… to date, has not been subjected. In the nineteen-seventies and -eighties, several anthologies of South African English poetry were published which, despite their differing foci, attested to the strength, innovation, and international stature of the work. Their editors made claims which emphasised …
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The Roots of State Intervention in The Contemporary Brazilian Economy
… the beginnings of the present crisis in the late seventies and early eighties.
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A Design Methodology for Adaptive Open-Seas Course-Keeping Control of Containerships (Adaptive, Steering, Ship)
During the seventies, the greatly increased price of fuel oil and substantial over-capacity in available tonnage of the world's merchant shipping have combined to cause a major problem for the maritime industry. This has stimulated an increasing interest in research on autopilots for ships. Much of …
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Split
Set in the seventies and eighties of Apartheid South Africa, Split tells the story of a middleclass Afrikaans family who –driven by disillusionment and unrealised personal ideals - frequently move house to start afresh somewhere else. In the process, both the family’s mother and father end up with …
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Siron Franco: pinturas em série
… his career, from the beginning, in the seventies, up to his latest works, reflecting his vast trajectory and allowing a vision of his painting as a whole. From the work and the documentation existent on the author, we tried to identify his ceative process, his chief iconographic elements …
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Kontroverses Erbe und Innovation : die Novelle Die Reisebegegnung von Anna Seghers im literaturpolitischen Kontext der DDR der siebziger Jahre
… writing in the German Democratic Republic in the seventies. While it therefore situates the novella within the context of literary politics, it also tries to show how Anna Seghers expanded the boundaries of literary political debates, which focused on the concepts of cultural heritage and social …
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The Effects of Monetary and Fiscal Policy for a Small Open Economy With Flexible Exchange Rates
… by Casas, Argy and Salop, and Sachs in the seventies and eighties have added new elements to the traditional Mundell-Fleming framework such as a labor market with a wage indexation structure, and the distinction between producer prices and consumer prices. In these newer models, in …
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Seismic behavior of bridge pier column lap splices
… design methods which were implemented in the mid-seventies. Bridges constructed in accordance with the new design methods have performed well in recent earthquakes. However, the large number of older bridges that are still in service, particularly freeway overpasses designed and constructed in the …
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"""Happ'ly-ever-aftering"": Changing social and industry conventions in Hollywood musical adaptations, 1960-75"
… of Broadway musicals from the 1960s and early seventies. Though generally considered beyond the “Golden Age” of film, this period produced some of the most enduring and well-loved film musicals of any decade. Furthermore, they can all be seen as products of their time. The 1960s were a highly …
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