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Showing 1 to 20 of 176 for “"Sinclair"”.
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Idealism in the novels of Sinclair Lewis.
Throughout his literary career Sinclair Lewis displayed idealism in his novels, though, with the exception of Arrowsmith, he became more realistic as he grew older. To trace his idealism, one may divide his literary career into three periods suggested by Geoffrey Moore in his essay "Sinclair Lewis: …
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The geochemistry and geochronology of the barby formation in the sinclair area, Southern Namibia
Volcanic and sedimentary rocks of the Sinclair Supergroup occur in the Konkiep Terrane of Southern Namibia. Three volcanic and sedimentary cycles are recognised. The Barby Formation belongs to the second cycle which consists of the Kunjas. Formation, Barby Formation and the Guperas Formation. In …
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'It was as if she had said....': May Sinclair and reading narratives of cure
May Sinclair was one of the most widely read and successful English women novelists of the first half of the twentieth century. She had interests and themes in common with many of those now considered to have been at the heart of English modernism. In terms of formal experimentation too her …
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Stratigraphy, igneous petrology and evolution of the Sinclair Group in southern South West Africa
… several geological units of the Late Precambrian Sinclair Group, and to the formulation of a petrogenetic scheme and geotectonic model of evolution. In the area studied, the oldest exposed unit of the Group is the hybrid and heterogeneous Haremub granite which is overlain by the predominantly …
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An Exploratory Study of Principals' and Teachers' Perceptions of School Work Conditions in Sinclair County, Georgia
<p>This quantitative study investigated principals’ (n = 16) and teachers’ (n = 362) perceptions of five work conditions domains: Professional Development, Facilities and Resources, Leadership, Empowerment, and Use of Time. This quantitative study used two instruments: principal work conditions …
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Sacrifice as a Narrative Strategy: The Construction and Destruction of the Self in May Sinclair, Mary Butts, and H. D.
… narratives of the early twentieth century by May Sinclair, Mary Butts, and H. D. (Hilda Doolittle). I argue that sacrifice is used as a narrative strategy for negotiating the relationship between self and other, not only on a thematic level, but also in terms of narrative strategy. These shifts …
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Liminal entities : transition and the 'space between' in the short fiction of Katherine Mansfield, Dorothy Richardson, May Sinclair, and Virginia Woolf
… whilst the stories of Dorothy Richardson and May Sinclair are virtually absent from serious critical discussion. Only Katherine Mansfield has received due attention, though rarely in relation to her women contemporaries.Since the early 1990s, however, there has been a renaissance of interest in …
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Three studies on managers' disclosure decisions
… staggered acquisitions of television stations by Sinclair Broadcast Group, I find a significant increase in firms' ex ante expected crash risk subsequent to the entry of Sinclair to the local market. Further analyses show that the relation between Sinclair acquisitions and firms' expected crash …
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Three studies on managers' disclosure decisions
… staggered acquisitions of television stations by Sinclair Broadcast Group, I find a significant increase in firms' ex ante expected crash risk subsequent to the entry of Sinclair to the local market. Further analyses show that the relation between Sinclair acquisitions and firms' expected crash …
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Baby Boomer Living: Designing a Modern Continuing Care Retirement Community
… ideal senior living prototype for the 234 acre Sinclair Ranch in Chinese Camp, California.</p> <p>In culmination of research, academic literature review, survey analysis, and case study review, key trending planning and design elements have emerged to develop a state-of-the-art CCRC intended to …
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Proterozoic crustal evolution of the Awasib Mountain terrain, southern Namibia, with speical reference to the volcanic Haiber flats formation
… Complex (NMC), and the younger with the Sinclair Sequence.
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Midwestern Americanism: Fiction of the 'Middle Border,' 1900-1930
… critically received; in 1930, Midwestern author Sinclair Lewis became the first American author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. This thesis considers this period to ask how popular Midwestern authors thought about and portrayed their region at a time when Midwestern writing was popular …
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Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage: the superficial or the profound?
… Richardson’s contemporaries: Virginia Woolf, May Sinclair, and Katherine Mansfield. Their reviews and comments of Pilgrimage are interesting to analyse as they reveal very different responses. Woolf and Mansfield suggest that the volumes are superficial and fail to achieve the aims that Richardson …
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Spoken discourse in the E.L.T. classroom : a system of analysis and a description
… The thesis, supervised by Professor John M. Sinclair, proposes a system of analysis for the structure of spoken discourse in the E.F.L. classroom, and offers a description of the discourse structure of an informal E.F.L. lesson. Certain changes needed to be made to the model put forward by …
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Writing and Teaching Curriculum With Relationships in Our Place: A Critical Meta-analysis of Saskatchewan Core French Curricula's Cultural Indicators
… culturally appropriate curricula. Senator Murray Sinclair said Indigenous children must be able to answer the following questions: Where do I come from; where am I going; why am I here; and who am I? (Sinclair, 2016). I framed my research along Senator Sinclair’s four questions as I studied the …
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Howells, Dickinson, Lewis: An exercise in reading the interracial canon
… Anna Dickinson (1868), and Kingsblood Royal by Sinclair Lewis (1947). These readings are accomplished within the context of the "interracial canon", a set of writings dealing with the expression of various aspects of interracial relationships. The interracial canon, as well as its specialized …
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“The Majority They Don't Like Answering”: Classroom Discourse In Kenyan Primary Schools
… 1 particularly reviewed the work of Flanders, Sinclair and Coulthard, Barnes, Wragg and Brown, and Hardman. Underpinning my study was a theoretical framework of how children learn, which was drawn from the ideas of Vygotsky, Bruner, Piaget, Edwards and Mercer. A strand within this framework was …
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Sustainable ecological and recreational management of sandy beach systems
… and have been presented at conferences, being Sinclair-Hannocks and Keane (1992) at the Sydney Sister City Environmental Summit; Sinclair-Hannocks (1993) at the World Leisure and Recreation Association Congress; and Tsang and Sinclair-Hannocks (1993) at the Local Government and Environment …
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